The American Dream is the belief that prosperity and success are available to all Americans who work hard and are self-determined. The American Dream was a catalyst for the rapid economic and social development of the United States. Most Americans define the American Dream as earning a college degree, owning their own home, taking vacations and experiencing upward social mobility. Due to changes in social structures such as the economy and corporate America, some argue the American Dream is no longer available to all Americans. On the other hand, others still believe anyone can climb the social ladder and experience social mobility. Think about whether you agree or disagree with the idea that social mobility is achievable for most Americans. Write an essay expressing your opinion about social mobility and the American Dream. Be sure to explain the sociological terms structural mobility and life chances in your response. Integrate these terms and concepts to discuss whether the American Dream is achievable for most Americans.
Bloodstain Analysis: Word Document Deli
Create different bloodstain patterns and analyze the patterns using these instructions and the following materials:
•Mixture of blood substitute (evaporated milk, water and tomato paste)
•Newspaper
•Yardstick or tape measure
•Dropper
•One ceramic tile
•One piece of cardboard
•One piece of glass or a mirror
•One piece of raw wood
•One plastic knife
•A camera (phone camera is fine)
Experiment 1:
Student will lay out the different surfaces such as glass, tile, cardboard, and wood on the ground. Using a dropper filled with the blood solution, the student will drip blood onto the surface at a distance of 12 inches and at 36 inches at a 90-degree angle. Use the yardstick or tape measure to determine the distances from the floor to the dropper.
Experiment 2:
Student will lay a newspaper on the ground. Dip a plastic knife into the blood solution. Walk slowly on the newspaper and let the blood drip off the knife. Change the newspaper, dip the knife in the blood again, and walk at a fast speed on the newspaper while letting the blood drip off the knife.
Assignment:
Photograph the bloodstains with and without scale. Use a ruler, yardstick, or measuring tape to show the size of the bloodstain.
•Analyze the bloodstains created in Experiment 1 and explain the findings of the different surfaces and distances in regards to stain size, shape, and pattern.
•Analyze the bloodstains created in Experiment 2 and explain the direction of travel and measure the angle of impact of one bloodstain of choice.
•Perform the experiment and report your findings in a Word document. Import the photos into your document and write your findings and experiences underneath each photo. The document should be 3 to 5 pages and include 2 peer-reviewed resources.
Adolescence and hiv prevala
Research and develop a picot question for the rate and increasing number of adolescence with hiv.Week 2: Refinement of a Nursing Concern into an Evidence-based Practice Proposal Using the Research Process
Purpose
This assignment provides the opportunity for the student to continue work on a previously identified area or phenomenon of interest related to their MSN specialty track. Week Two’s assignment builds upon the identified area of interest by developing an overview of the evidence-based practice (EBP) project and the PCIOT/PICo question. This assignment initiates the evidence-based practice proposal that is continued throughout the entire course with each assignment adding components of the research process.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO#1 Integrate evidence-based practice and research to support advancement of holistic nursing care in diverse healthcare settings. PO 1
CO#2 Integrate knowledge related to evidence-based practice and person-centered care to improve healthcare outcomes. PO 2, 5
CO#4 Develop knowledge related to research and evidence-based practice as a basis for designing and critiquing research studies. PO 1, 2, 3, 5
Due Date: Sunday 11:59 PM MT at the end of Week Two
Total Points Possible: 150 points
Requirements
Description of the Assignment
This assignment builds on the identification of a nursing concern from NR 500 and the application of a nursing theory to the selected concern from NR 501. For this course, the selected concern and nursing theory then serve as a foundation to the identification of PICOT/PICo. Identification of the literature search strategy is also required. The purpose of the MSN project proposal is to translate evidence currently found in the literature into practice within the chosen specialty track. Due to the research complexity, time involvement, and implications regarding human subjects, drug studies are not acceptable areas of interest for a MSN project.
Criteria for Content
1. Overview of Selected Evidenced-based Practice Project: This section provides a foundation to the MSN EBP scholarly project. It should contain the following elements:
• Explain the relationship between research and evidenced-based practice (EBP)
• Distinguish how EBP is different from research
• Explain the contribution of EBP to professional nursing
• Identify your MSN Program Specialty Track and practice focus
• Explain how EBP promotes change within your future practice setting
2. Identification of the Nursing Concern to be Improved: This section provides a comprehensive discussion of the selected nursing concern. It should contain the following elements:
• Explain the selected nursing concern in detail
• Identify how frequently the selected concern occurs within your specialty track setting
• Identify the stakeholders impacted by the concern
• Identify the consequences of the selected concern
• Identify your proposed solution to the selected concern
• Identify a purpose statement for this EBP proposal
3. PICOT/PICo question and Literature Search Process: This section identifies the PICOT/PICo question that will used for this EBP proposal. The literature search parameters will also be identified. It should contain the following elements:
• Identify the question in correct format with all required elements
o PICOT for quantitative research approach
o PICo for qualitative research approach
• Identify how the expected outcome will be useful to your future practice setting
• Discuss the purpose of conducting a literature review and the contribution it will provide to this EBP proposal
• Identify the steps used to conduct a literature review for this EBP proposal by including:
o The specific library databases used
o The key search terms and phrases used
o The minor (additional) search terms and phrases used
o Identify any specialty organization that is relevant to this EBP proposal
4. Theoretical Framework: This section presents the theoretical framework that will used in this EBP project. It should contain the following section:
• Explain the theoretical framework to be used in this EBP proposal
• Describe how the identified theoretical framework is applied to this EBP proposal
Preparing the Assignment
Criteria for Format and Special Instructions
1. The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) should be at least 5, but no more than 8 pages. Points will be lost for not meeting these length requirements.
2. Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.
3. A minimum of 6 (six) appropriate research-based scholarly references must be used. Required textbook for this course, dictionary and Chamberlain College of Nursing lesson information may NOT be used as scholarly references for this assignment. For additional assistance regarding scholarly nursing references, please see “What is a scholarly source” located in the Course Resources tab. Be aware that information from .com websites may be incorrect and should be avoided. References are current – within a 5-year time frame unless a valid rationale is provided and the instructor has approved them prior to submission of the assignment.
4. Ideas and information from scholarly, peer reviewed, nursing sources must be cited and referenced correctly.
5. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.
We Can, but Dare We?
Research, compose, and type a scholarly paper based on the scenario described below, and
choose a conclusion scenario to discuss within the body of your paper. Reflect on lessons
learned in this class about technology, privacy concerns, and legal and ethical issues and
addressed each of these concepts in the paper, reflecting on the use of smartphones and social
media in healthcare. Consider the consequences of such a scenario. Do not limit your review of
the literature to the nursing discipline only because other health professionals are using the
technology, and you may need to apply critical thinking skills to its applications in this scenario.
SCENARIO
You are a nurse in the emergency room, working the Friday 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, and your evening has
been filled with the usual mix of drunken belligerent teens, wailing babies, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, falls, fractures, and the routine, regular congestive heart
failure (CHF) patients. Your best friend is texting you from the concert that you had to miss tonight
because you were scheduled to work, and you respond to her between care of patients, jealous that she
is there and you are not. “What a jerk to torture me like this!” you think to yourself.
It is now 2 a.m., and the medics radio once again, notifying you of an incoming motor vehicle accident
victim, ETA of 5 minutes. You sigh and opt to use the restroom, rather than getting that much‐needed
cup of coffee, and prepare a room for your next patient. The medics roll in and begin to fill you in. The
patient is a 28‐year‐old male, a passenger on a bus that was involved in a crash, leaving the vehicle
overturned after rolling over an embankment. There were several fatalities among the bus passengers,
and “this victim has remained unconscious, though his vitals are currently” . . . and as you start to focus
on the patient, you take a second look. Can it be? It is! The lead singer, Jerod, from the band “Blue
Lizards,” who you have adored since you first heard his voice! The band had just left the concert that
you had missed last evening when the accident occurred. You quickly text your best friend . . . “Can you
believe?” and she responds with “Yeah, right. PROVE IT.” So you quickly snap a picture with your
smartphone, when alone with the patient, and send it to her. Can’t hurt, right? Celebrities are “public
property,” and that’s a part of their life, right? Just for good measure, you snap a few more pictures of
the unconscious singer in various stages of undress and then a shot of his home address, phone number,
and demographic information from his electronic health record. You sit your phone down on the
bedside table for a minute as you continue your assessment of the patient.
At 7:00 a.m., you drag your tired body home and straight to bed after a long but eventful night.
What happens next? Choose an ending to the scenario, and construct your paper based on those
reflections:
1. You are the following nurse on the day shift and discover the night nurse’s phone on the bedside
table. While trying to figure out to whom it belongs, you open the phone and see the photographs taken the night before. Holy moly! What a find, and nobody could trace you to the
photos.
2. You receive a call from the gossip paper the Gossip Gazette, offering you $20,000 for the photos
you have taken (courtesy of your best friend). Your identity would never be revealed, and you
desperately need a new car and are behind on some bills.
3. You go on Facebook, on your day off, and talk about the night you had at work and how you
didn’t really feel as bad having to miss the concert, because you actually got to meet Jerod in
person and even “Got his number!” You then post a picture of Jerod on Facebook and
Instagram, figuring that most of your contacts would never recognize him anyway. It’s your day
off and your personal time, so no harm, no foul, right?
4. You receive a message the next morning from a peer at work that there is a big investigation
being conducted at work due to a HIPAA violation and that it involved a celebrity who had been
admitted to the hospital. The word is that legal action is being taken against the hospital due to
some photos that were sold to the Gossip Gazette. Knowing that the photo you sent is safe with
your best friend, you reach for your smartphone, but it is nowhere to be found.
Change management
Choose a listed company that has undergone change process and examine whether the change process was successful or not. If change was successful state how it was managed to achieve the desired outcomes. If it was not successful, outline a change model that the company would have used.
law and ethics
• Question 1: Describe the difference between the law and ethics.
• Question 8: Explain what happened in the 1968 Supreme Court’s re-interpretation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regarding public employees’ limited speech protections.
• Question 3: Explain why laws exist that do not impose a duty to rescue.
• Question 6: Discuss the differences in utilitarianism and values ethics in making a decision.
cancer management
1. Discuss general principles of cancer management in the aging adult.
2. Discuss the causes and management of the aging adult with anemia.
3. The clinical presentation, management and treatment modalities of common infectious diseases in the older adult.
Please answer separately.
transformational leadership
Find an article on transformational leadership and its use in nursing/health care. Briefly summarize the article and discuss how an individual in your practice setting uses this leadership style. Include a reference or link to the article that you have summarized.
Grant Proposal
This is a team assignment. In this assignment, your team will demonstrate its knowledge of health information and communication technologies that provide accessible and quality health care to diverse populations (underrepresented minorities, English as a second language [ESL], incarcerated, elderly, homeless) and communities (inner city, rural, medically underserved) by writing a proposal no longer than 8 pages.
A wealthy benefactor has established a new center, The FNP Breakthrough Foundation, and as a first step will fund two innovative FNP projects that provide accessible health care to a population in need. This foundation was formed from the benefactor’s fortune with his wife, an RN. Their sizable wealth was made in the technology sector. The goal of the foundation is to harness the power of technology to bring health care to communities in need. The foundation modeled this call for proposals from the Robert Wood Johnson’s Pioneer Program Area that funds “innovators whose bold ideas push beyond conventional thinking to explore solutions at the cutting edge of health and healthcare.” The call for Step 1—brief proposals—has been issued today.
Netflix SWOT Analysis Summary
Netflix SWOT Analysis Summary
Abstract
There are many ethical issues that may arise when managers develop a system of organization within a diverse workforce. One of the most important areas of concern is the inclusion of diversity that respects every employee’s input, including differences in perspective and the ways that these differences may improve the team member approach. In the 21st century, these ideas have become increasingly important at every level of business management. Managers have a central role in leading the team together in a shared purpose of social responsibility and strengthening the reputation of the company as a whole. This approach provides a more cohesive system of meaning that can lead to higher rewards as each person is encouraged to share ideas from diverse points of view. At Netflix, which is rapidly becoming a very important international enterprise as they expand their business concerns to many regions of the globe, these objectives are central for the position of managers.
Netflix SWOT Analysis Summary
Netflix is an American multinational corporation that offers a subscription-based video-on-demand service for customers to bypass the waiting period for watching television shows and films, as well as produces original programming of its own. Beginning as a company focused on DVD rentals, the company deviated in order to capitalize on the boom of streaming media. The company is now worth more than $19 billion in assets and has a total equity of nearly $4 billion (Canady, 2017), creating great financial and economic strength for the company. There has been a consumer move away from traditional programming in favor of viewing shows in totality whenever possible rather than dealing with advertisements and the like. Its primary strengths are in numbers and its connectivity, which creates ease of use for consumers. Its connection system includes several devices like computers, laptops, mobile phones, televisions and tablets, all aimed at increase ease to access of its content; this creates an increasing loyal consumer base as well.
Although Netflix is a multinational corporation that services customers’ media programming needs worldwide, one of its major weaknesses is market regulations within other countries that limit its profitability and ability to reach more consumers. High programming costs, censorship and other sociocultural factors, as well as high global unemployment and inflation that weaken its reach and impact. As most companies hope to do, Netflix has looked into international expansion, yet the conditions and regulations of various countries makes that difficult. There are significantly more risks of loss than gain when it comes to expanding for Netflix, especially into European markets. New laws on higher Value Added Tax (VAT) impact consumers, whose subscription costs would likely go up as Netflix must pay a tax to distribute its services. Different nation’s laws and regulations great limit its profitability. In recent years, the company has lost more than hundreds of millions of dollars (Frey, 2015). Netflix is also weakened by declining memberships of its DVD section, which appears to be needless as consumers have access to its main platform of programming without the use of an addiction electronic device.
Netflix is currently the United States’ top streaming service with more than 100 million subscribers. Despite its success, there are still opportunities for growth which can enable it to stave off media competition and increase its values amongst much larger conglomerate challengers like Hulu, Amazon, Disney and 21st Century Fox. One opportunity is for Netflix to use its cultural power and media platform to speak out against the recent repeal of net neutrality rules, which the company had long opposed (Feldman, 2017). The repeal was made official in June 2018 and as Netflix continues to speak out against it in addition to the general public’s dismay, it shows the public that the company is committed to corporate social responsibility and free use of the Internet. Although it drives its bottom line ultimately, it also makes the service continually available to its customers who value the service greatly. Another opportunity is introducing new types of content, like podcasts, to present a new form of storytelling to the consumer. Podcasts like Serial have been making waves among media consumers and it is a way to increase subscribers, especially if paired with shows that are on true crime, many of which Netflix. Netflix can add to the conversation and create more of it as well as the first programming producer to do so (for free with subscriptions). This also makes Netflix a formidable competitor with Stitcher and Apple’s podcasts.
Netflix also faces significant threats to its streaming services, particularly from competitors such as traditional television, DVR, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and more, as well as decreased offerings from media distributors. At its outset, Netflix was the only company offering this service compared to its competitors now, creating for it a period of long-term financial and economic growth. Netflix gave consumers a new way to consume movies and television on demand when they wanted it, including the option to watch an entire season (or season’s) worth of television, otherwise known as “binge-watching.” Now, Netflix has inadvertently created an on-demand subscription model that the likes of Hulu and Amazon have created their own of. Netflix is no longer unique to the industry, especially considering that some of its competitors have their own original programming as Netflix does itself. All of these companies are vying for the attention of streaming services, making the most significant threat to Netflix.
Netflix’s media content offerings also create a threat to its business in the coming years. With major media conglomerates like Disney and Fox merging, there is the possibility of new streaming services to enter the market, which means that film and TV studios may withhold their intellectual property rights from Netflix to host their won programming. Netflix’s original programming, though, makes up a small portion of its offerings and it relies on making deals with publishers to offer media to consumers. If rivals continue to enter the market and Netflix loses programming, many subscribers will be forced to choose—if Netflix’s prices increase or change in any way, they may get left behind.
The ways in which Netflix could turn its opportunities and weaknesses into strengths is through adapting and continuing to satisfy consumers. In a very media-heavy and technological age, consumers have a plethora of options to choose from—and be overwhelmed by. Creating options and inclusiveness, as well as standing up for what the company believes in like net neutrality, consumers will become interested in and foster a sense of loyalty to the company.
References
Canady, V. (2017). Netflix series prompts need for conversation, information. Mental Health Weekly, 27(17), 4-6.
Feldman, B. (2017). Without net neutrality, what happens to my Netflix? New York Magazine.
Frey, M. (2015). Netflix Crit in the Twenty-First Century. Film Criticism, 40(1), 119-188.