Compare the relationship of incivility and ethics in the workplace.

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Define civility in nursing practice.
Evaluate the importance of leadership and accountability in maintaining a civil and ethical work environment.
Compare the relationship of incivility and ethics in the workplace.

Windshield Survey Template and Instructions

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Note: Content adapted from the Work Group for Community Health and Development: Community Tool Box’s “Windshield and Walking Surveys.”

Windshield and walking surveys are useful ways to assess specific aspects of a community or neighborhood and help give you a sense of the community.

Conduct your survey at the time that works best for your schedule, but keep in mind that to truly understand the people who live within the community (or neighborhood), you may wish to do the survey more than once, and at different times of the day or different days of the week. For the purposes of this course, you are not required to do the survey more than once. Windshield Survey Template and Instructions.

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Please be mindful of your personal safety. If there is a known issue with hostility between specific groups, it may not be safe for some people to survey particular neighborhoods. Do not knowingly put yourself in harm’s way.

Preparation
Get familiar with the survey questions and know what you will be looking for.
Use a checklist to be sure you have covered all the questions and observed all the areas you want to.
Be as inconspicuous as possible. Not only do people act differently when they know they are being observed, they may also become suspicious or hostile.
Be sure you carry identification.
Take notes along the way. You can also take photos with a camera or cell phone to help you remember what you have seen.
Always pay attention to your safety. Be aware of the neighborhood and the situation. Windshield Survey Template and Instructions

Observation
Use the spaces between the questions below for your notes. You can write more complete observations once you return home.

Housing: What is the age and condition of housing in the community or neighborhood? Are the houses and apartments kept up, or are they run-down and in need of repair? Are the yards neat or overgrown? Windshield Survey Template and Instructions

Other Buildings: Are other buildings mostly or fully occupied? Are public and commercial buildings accessible by people with disabilities? Windshield Survey Template and Instructions

Parks and Public Spaces: Are parks and other public spaces well maintained? Are they used by a variety of people? Are there sports facilities such as baseball fields, basketball courts, and soccer fields?

Critical Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are summaries of best evidence, ideally from rigorous systematic reviews, which are then delineated as recommendations for practice. CPGs are a big help for busy clinicians – IF the CPG is based on evidence that is reliable and valid! This post will provide a “How To” of the questions to ask when you are conducting a critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines. Explanations of why the specific questions are important to ask are included.

Bridging the Gap: Digitized Health Records

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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can be adopted on various platforms such as cloud-based or enterprise-based architectures. The cloud-computing architecture has become the latest solution for computer services and resources. Experts in the healthcare industry believe that this platform can be integrated with EHRs to improve the quality of care, health care services, and research (Kuo, 2011). A description of EHRs implementation on a cloud-based platform is presented. It will discuss the implementation, use, security, and regulations on cloud-based EHR systems.

Value, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder

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1. Value, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. A 1909 S VBD penny is considered one of the most valuable U.S. coins because of the small number that were minted. One penny can fetch several thousand dollars, depending on the buyer. Yet the actual value of the coin, if it were to be spent, is only one cent. It could easily be put into distribution at a convenience store, passed from hand to hand, without anyone who touches it even knowing its value. What does this say about the value of something?

2. Gas prices are often talked about as having an impact on how much people drive. Yet if you ask most people, they will say most of their travel – to work, to school, to shopping locations, to see family – cannot be curbed more than slightly. Similarly, most people are not going to cancel a vacation because gasoline for their vehicle will cost them 38% more than the prior year. These being acceptable facts, explain why gasoline costs are even discussed in the media – especially to the extent they are – and whether you have ever altered your behavior on those costs. Include in your answer your views on why gas prices seem to go up almost the same instant that news outlets announce oil barrel prices are set to increase in the near future, yet they don’t ever seem to drop back down to the pre-hike rate even though oil prices decrease.

3. Define the true cost of something. Is it what the store is selling it for; or what it cost to make it, ship it, and sell it; or what you are willing to pay for it? In your answer consider the example of an artist who creates a sculpture made out of $2,000 worth of nickels. Because the art is made up of $2,000 of actual money (40,000 coins) does that mean it’s worth that? What if the artist was willing to sell it for $800? Or what if he was only willing to sell it for $41,000? How does that affect the cost of the art piece?

4. In recent years, more and more Americans have begun to evade jury duty, creating a serious problem in some courts, which have been forced to postpone trials because an adequate number of jurors were not available.

A. What is the cost to a citizen of serving as a juror?

B. For whom will the net cost be very low or even negative? For whom will the net cost be very high, perhaps even prohibitively high?

C. Can you think of any simple system for reducing the average cost to citizens of jury service?

D. What consequences would you predict if we moved to a completely volunteer jury system, under which the courts paid jurors a daily wage sufficient to obtain the services of as many qualified jurors as the court required?

E. Many citizens who faithfully answer every summons to jury duty have complained of their treatment at the hands of court officials who behave as if the time of jurors had no value whatsoever. For example, prospective jurors may be required to sit for days in a waiting room without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom. What is the cost to court officials of behaving inconsiderately toward jury candidates?

Maintaining a customer database requires protecting the confidentiality of the information.

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Implementing a Marketing Database

Every company gathers information on customer preferences and buying history in order to improve their long-term customer relationships. Maintaining a customer database requires protecting the confidentiality of the information.

Consider the following scenario:

Sara is the marketing manager of a small human resource (HR) consultancy firm. She wants to address improving customer relations and understanding and managing consumer behavior.

She would like to implement a process of using a database to assist her company in its marketing efforts. She is also concerned about online privacy versus off-line privacy.

Now, respond to the following:

How would you address Sara’s concern about the level of privacy in an online versus off-line database?

What are ways in which she might be able to use the database for better understanding consumer behavior and building customer relationships? Provide at least five such ways.

Write your initial response in 300 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Thoroughly describe Human Relations standard from section 3 of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists

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Thoroughly describe Human Relations standard from section 3 of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, and, keeping in mind working in international settings or with non-Western clients and organizations, evaluate its relevance when considering the following case study:

458 children were living in a refuge for abandoned boys and girls in Mexico. The refuge was dilapidated and filthy, and the children were subjected to various abuses.

· http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-mexico-abuse-idUSKBN0FL06A20140716 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-starts-moving-children-squalid-shelter-211107482.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

nursing leadership chapter 4

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nursing leadership chapter 41.Develop a personal philosophy of professional nursing.
2. Identify which of the following behaviors may be (a) ethical but illegal, (b) legal but unethical, (c) illegal and unethical, and (d) legal and ethical.
a. Working in a clinic that performs terminations of pregnancies
b. Respecting the wishes of a client suffering from ALS that he be permitted to die with dignity and not placed on ?breathing machines?
c. Respecting the health surrogate?s wishes regarding termination of life support of his friend
d. Observing a coworker take out two tablets of oxycodone as ordered for pain management for her patient but keeping one for herself, administering only one tablet to the patient
3. Differentiate among the following: deontological theories, utilitarianism, and principalism.
4. what doyou think about health-care professionals disclosing information to clients about a poor prognosis, even though the information may cause severe distress.
What do they think about health-care professionals disclosing information to clients against family wishes?
5. Genetic counseling is not a new concept. Health-care practitioners have encouraged this practice for more than two decades for individuals considered high risk for genetic disorders. Geneticists create pedigrees for families known to carry genetic diseases to help them make choices regarding potential children. The Human Genome Project has identified every human gene and where certain genetic malformations occur, with the idea of developing ways to prevent and eventually eliminate genetic disorders. Now that science has the ability to use these technologies to alter the genetic composition of human offspring, many parents-to-be believe that these advances should be available to ?design? their babies.
a) Do you believe that it is ethical to offer this information to prospective parents? Explain your response.
textbook: Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management 5th
Diane K. Whitehead; Sally A. Weiss; Ruth M. Tappen
978-0-8036-2208-1 Davis Company, F. A.

· Identify three kinds of technology in an organization

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ORIGINAL Work ONLY

In a persuasive essay, link organizational technology, value, and strategy. You may use a real-life organization you have

researched (or worked for) in order to illustrate your argument. Cite at least one article to support your essay’s main ideas. Use section headers to share your findings, and persuade readers on the following topics:

· Identify three kinds of technology in an organization.

· Explain how different types of technology create different competencies.

· Describe how technology impacts organizational culture.

· Explain how technology can help organizational effectiveness.

· Relate how technology can propel an organization’s global expansion strategies.

Your essay should be two pages in length, not including the title page or reference page. You are required to cite at least one article. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying in-text citations in the proper APA format.

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Unit 6 – Final ProjectAssignmen

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Unit 6 – Final ProjectAssignmen

For this unit, you will be making an oral presentation of your final project. Your final paper must have a minimum of 8 scholarly resources (peer-reviewed journal articles) in addition to the text book.

The final oral presentation will be made using PowerPoint or a similar software application. You may use the presenting capabilities of PowerPoint to record your presentation or you may use another application such as Screencast-o-matic, or Adobe Captivate, or iMovie. Note that presentations that do not have the oral component will automatically receive a D. In order to fully develop your topic, your presentation will comprise 12-15 slides.

You must upload the videos to YouTube or Vimeo and then share the URL for the assignment. You may find the instructions at this site helpful. https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/10263-powerpoint-upload-youtube.html

Please ensure that you follow standard APA formatting. Your presentation must have a cover page and a reference page. Be sure your presentation is organized, clear, and grammatically correct.

You will submit your Unit #6 Final Project Activity to the grade book.

In your final project, you will research a topic of your choice or analyze an organization (perform a case study) and apply the principles of change to that topic.

Potential topics

Choice #1:

Perform a case study – select a real world organization that is facing organizational challenges. Research those challenges, describe those challenges, and diagnose them by presenting one or more relevant, integrated OD interventions that could help the organization successfully adapt to those challenges using either internal consultants, external consultants, or both internal and external consultants.

Choice # 2

Alternatively, you may research an organizational development trend and explain how that change will impact organizations. Ensure that you incorporate the concepts that you have learned from the textbook and your other readings in a thorough manner.

If you have any questions about the topic, please consult with your instructor.

Some ideas might be:

Trends in Organizational Development

Applying Organizational Development to Non-Profit organizations

Training and Development in Organizational Development

Crisis management and organizational development

Whole systems transformation in organizational development

The continuing impact of