Final Issues Analysis

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Description The MHA 608 course has focused on the development of healthcare administrators who are poised to deal with not only current issues in the healthcare arena, but also to develop visionary leaders who can handle future issues in healthcare administration. This final paper requires a comparative analysis of multiple hospital or health systems in their applicability as it relates to various issues encountered by the healthcare administrator. o Access the following website: WhyNotTheBest.org. This site was created and is 11/23/2019 Writers Hub – Freelance Writing https://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/506651#instructions 5 / 8 maintained by The Commonwealth Fund, which is a private foundation focused on development of high performance health systems. It is a free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality. It is used by organizations to compare their performance against peers and competitors on a range of benchmarks over various periods of time. The link for the site is: (http://www.whynotthebest.org/) o Select a minimum of 3 hospitals (from the left menu box – “Compare Hospitals”) in your home state and at 3 hospitals in least 2-3 other states in order to make comparisons. It is recommended that your choice of the other 2-3 states be states that have similar characteristics (i.e. demographics or population) as your home state. Your selections are not required to be neighboring states. o Once the list appears based on your selected state (under the matching hospitals menu), click on the arrow icon next to the hospital to add them to the box on the right (“add to report”). Do not leave this page until all of your hospitals and states have been selected. Your choices will not be saved. Look back to the left menu box and select your next state and hospitals until all of your choices have been selected. o Once all selections have been made, click on “View Report.” You must click on the site terms of agreement in order to proceed. You will also need to give your report a name. Any name will suffice. Click on “View Report” again. You may get a popup menu that asks again for the agreement to the terms of use. Please read this information. It also illustrates how to cite your report. You will need this citation information for the reference page of your report. o Your report will be displayed. Click on the “change category” link in order to produce reports on the following characteristics. Patient Experience Mortality Rates Readmission Rates Health Information Technology o It is recommended that you print the chart reports from each category. If you desire, you can create a free account to save your reports. However, if you do not create the account before you do the report, you will lose your report. It may be more feasible just to print out your reports. 22 o If you select hospitals that do not have enough to measure the four required characteristics, it is advised that you select other hospitals. The purpose of the assignment is to compare facilities. o After reviewing the reports from each state, students will develop a comparative analysis paper. The paper will explore the four (4) required areas of comparison; describe the findings, and present ideas for improving the data findings. o Requirements: The body of the paper should be between a minimum of 8 p 11/23/2019 Writers Hub – Freelance Writing https://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/506651#instructions 6/8 not to exceed 12 pages (3500-4000 words), typed and double-spaced in Times Roman font using APA standard. The page length requirement does not include the title page and reference pages. Format for the paper: Title page Introduction – This section of the paper should describe the states selected and rationale for their selection. Comparative Analysis – This discussion should give a narrative of the results of the comparisons for each state based on the specified characteristics. Reflections – Discuss your personal and professional reflections on the findings. (What do you think about the results? How might you explain any differences?) This discussion should be supported by references from the assigned readings and external sources. Conclusions – Discuss how the selected hospitals might improve their scores on each of the characteristics. This discussion should be based on concepts and principles learned from the MHA 608 course. Christian Worldview – This section of the paper should also address how your Christian worldview perspective impacts or frames your ideas and discussions related to the issues presented in the paper. Reference page – APA format. Resources for APA formatting are included on the Graduate Online Student

Social Networks

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Social networks don’t necessarily have to exist online. Actually, social networks existed way before the internet. Even without Facebook, Wikipedia and twitter, social networks existed within societies that could regulate the flow of information, change the meaning of information and influence behavior. Describe these “old school” networks and what happened to them as a result of new media networks. Argue your point of view and explain the positive and negative effects of social networking on society. Guidelines: Your paper should must be backed by research. You must reference at least two sources (use in-text citations). You must include at least one direct quote from two different sources You should synthesize ideas from your research to support your thesis. You should include a Works Cited page and in-text citations following MLA guidelines. Length of paper = 800 – 1,000 words Final copy of the argumentative paper: Due by December 2, 2019. APPLY FOR THIS CASE

The Public and Personal Challenges of Leadership Experiences

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Hello again, Please use these sources for the argumentative essay: John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address Jan. 20, 1961; Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a Dream”; and Abraham Lincoln, “Second. Inaugural address March 4, 1865, to the challenges of personal leadership experienced by Robert in Carver’s “Cathedral” or Lt. Jimmy Cross in O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.”  The assignment is to be submitted by Turn In so please check well for no plagiarism.

Investigation of Bloodstains

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Description You are a member of a homicide investigation team. Team members have sent you digital images of a recent death case. As a trained and certified bloodstain pattern analyst, you have been provided with the following images for interpretation of bloodstain patterns found at the crime scene. View the images: Crime Scene Based upon your review of the aforementioned photographs, you recommended to your supervisor that there might be additional evidence at the scene. Upon arrival, you participate as a member of a crime scene processing team, and you have used luminol to enhance bloodstain evidence at a crime scene. View the images of enhanced bloodstain evidence: Crime Scene After Applying Luminol At the office, your supervisor asks you to write a report for the lead detective on this case. Based on your analysis and interpretation of the bloodstain patterns in the above pictures, create a 4- to 5-page report in a Microsoft Word document addressing the following: Your initial review of the crime scene photographs. Your analysis on the bloodstain patterns in the pictures provided. Your interpretation of the bloodstains. Your interpretation of bloodstains developed with fluorescence. Determine if the bloodstains are passive, spatter, or altered. Sub-categorize the bloodstains, such as clotted, diluted, dried, diffused, etc. Methodology used to search the scene for bloodstains and use of chemicals for visualization of bloodstains. Methodology used for processing and collection of the various bloodstains. Summary of the data obtained from the photographs. Your hypothesis and the scenario

Disaster Mitigation

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Disaster Research Respondents Class: EDMG502 Overview: Begin each assignment by going through the material in the Lessons. Review any prior feedback that has been provided to you by the instructor. Review the APA manual or other Resource material as the instructor may indicate. Ensure that you do not make any repeat errors in your papers. Your papers will be heavily discounted or returned for resubmission if you do not show an effort to improve your work. Reading: Read the assignment material for the week. This week, the reading assignment is: From the ‘Resources’ section, read Parts II and III–Chapters 10 – 20 of “What is a Disaster” by Perry & Quarantelli (eds.). Assignment: Provide an approximate 1500-word document analyzing important concepts in the readings. Ensure your apply the discussion tenets from the contributors to you work including the work of Barton, Boin, Buckle, Smith, Stallings, Perry, and Quarantelli. Assume that you are writing for an uninformed reader that knows nothing about the topic and has not read what you read. Provide an introduction that gives the background of the resource that you are reviewing, so the reader will understand what they’re reading and why. Include the following topics in the discussion: – Discuss the relationship between disaster and stress including the difference between individual and collective stress, and why is it important? – Discuss Stallings theses; analyze and discuss how various contributors add and detract from his work? Which criticisms are valid and which not? – Provide an analysis of the discussions throughout the readings (Barton, Boin, Buckle, Smith, Stallings, Perry, and Quarantelli). – Discuss how Stallings work inform the future research that is still required? What would be the value of that research? DO NOT list out the topics or questions and answer them. They are not meant to be all-inclusive, and your reader will not understand the context. Rather, give an overview of the author’s entire body of work, using the topics as guidelines. Ensure that you meet or exceed the 1500-word target, and that your paper meets APA presentation requirements. Save the Microsoft Word document as [yourlastnameWkX] (e.g. SmithWk6) and upload the paper to the assignment. Scroll down and hit ‘submit’.

Gender and Cinema

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Gender and Cinema – Choose a film with a strong gender aspect. Films like Fire and Dostana have also confronted queer or LGBTQ themes. What has been written about it? What was the public response. This paper is going to be about the feminist role in the Indian movie (Lagaan). please make sure to watch the movie with subtitles and have a clear thesis in the essay that will make a clear and compelling argument.

End Tax Return Project

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Final Semester-End Tax Return Project  You will need to take the information in these Financial Statements and prepare a Corporate Tax return. All the information that is needed to complete the return is contained in these financial statements and footnotes. If you are going to work in groups please let me know. If you are working in a group please hand in ONE assignment per group, including the names of each member of the group clearly included on the assignment. No exceptions for late projections. Here are some check figures from the Form 1120: Line 11 – Total Income: 1,570,821 Line 27 – Total deductions: 1,110,627 Line 30 – Taxable Income: 430,694

White Collar Crime and Organized Crime research articles

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1. Summarize each article in 450 words or more —meaning, no less than 450 words per article summary (summary titles & reference information is not included in the 450-word requirement). You will NOT receive partial credit for partial work. Partial work is a failed requirement. You get zero credit for failed requirements. 2. Each summary should include a discussion of the goal of the article (what the researchers were trying to do find – what are the article hypotheses?), the literature review (past research), the research methods (the steps taken to conduct the research study –data, population, sampling type, statistical techniques – ANOVA, ANCOVA, Logistic regression, etc.), the results (what they found), and the discussion/conclusions of the research article (were the findings consistent with the hypotheses?, why what they found is important to the particular field of study, etc.). It is tremendously important to discuss the policy implications/directions for future research/limitations of each article. It is recommended that you outline each article with all of the components you are responsible for providing (see page 3). 3. All pertinent Journal, Article, & Author information (article title, author name(s), journal name, date, journal volume #, issue #, page #s) must be provided in the REFERENCE page. 4. Each article summary should be well written and in NO way mirror the abstract. This WILL result in severe penalties. In other words, paraphrase—read the article and summarize the information using your own words, do not just copy and paste. 5. Do NOT use any quotes—you must paraphrase the information from each article (use your own words). If you use quotes (even if they are properly cited) you will be severely penalized. 6. You will only need ONE cover page for the entire assignment, with your name, the class name, and the date. 1 7. Each subsequent research article summary should be separated from the last by using the “Insert” and “Page Break” feature provided by your word processor (“Insert” function using Microsoft Word). 8. A “peer reviewed” journal article is not a magazine article. Do NOT get the two confused. A general rule of thumb is that peer-reviewed academic journal articles are usually over 10 pages in length, they do not have pictures/ads (aside from tables), and they all start with an “abstract.” 9. You need to provide a cover page and only use: (a) double-spacing, (b) Times New Roman font, (c) 12 font size, and (d) 1” margins. 10. APA Format is required. 11. I will NOT accept any paper that exceeds 20% replication (this is essentially reserved for references). Be absolutely sure you are paraphrasing. 12. I do NOT want to know your opinion on the research article summaries. This is a research project, not an opinion piece. You will be penalized 25 points on every article that includes your opinion. 13. You are required to submit your paper in WORD (or a word processor) format. Do NOT submit your paper in PDF (or any other non-WORD) format. Failure to meet this requirement will result in a 25-point penalty. 14. There will be a 25-point penalty if you submit the incorrect file. Make sure you are submitting your final product. 15. If you need an extension on your research paper, you must request a research paper extension. There is a 10-point daily penalty for late research papers (2 days maximum). Receiving a research paper extension does NOT preclude a research paper from being penalized, it is simply giving you permission to submit a late paper. If a student does NOT request and/or receive a research paper extension, and they subsequently submit a late research paper, that research paper will NOT be graded, and the student will earn a failing grade. A research paper extension request must be in writing (email will suffice). Being granted a research paper extension request must also be in writing.

Appropriate and inappropriate behavior that we can judge from the outside

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Aristotle stressed that virtues led to excellence in human behaviour.

This implies that there is appropriate and inappropriate behaviour that we can judge from the outside, as part of the social context. But implicit in this idea is the perspective that we can understand what life calls for (a sense of purpose), that change is progressive, and that most experiences can be predicted. Do you think that everyday life has a purpose? If so, what is that purpose and how do you know it? If not, what guides your sense of excellence, of better rather than worse in human behaviour? In either case, what do you think are the indicators of virtue that suggest a person is excellent (or on their way to excellence)? Quotation and or paraphrase with explanation from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is required for students seeking a top grade.

Criminal Injustice today in America

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This project will allow you to exhibit your mastery of the information learned in the class and explore a topic of interest in more depth. While you can build on work that you have already completed in the class, these assignments should contain original content (i.e. no copy and pastes of earlier papers/work/etc.). This paper should bring new information to light and not be a summary or repetitive discussion of what we’ve learned/discussed in class. Complete a traditional research paper on a topic that you would consider a “criminal injustice” in today’s American criminal justice system. The topic should be something that is currently affecting policing, courts, and/or corrections and could be considered “unjust.” The two books we’ve read in class No Place on the Corner and Punishment Without Crimeare two examples of criminal injustice (from the perspective of the authors). The first author claimed that the use of stop-and-frisk is unjust based on racial and social inequality. The second author claimed that the overcharging of misdemeanors unfairly disadvantage certain groups and lead to more economic and social inequality. (You may not use either of these topics for this paper because we have already discussed them in class. However, they are examples that can help you as your brainstorm.) The paper should be 1,500 –2,000 words (approximately 6-8 pages) with 1-inch margins all the way around, written in Times New Roman 12 point font. Again, no information from the previous assignments in this class or others should be cut and pasted into this paper. All work needs to be original. (Note: This paper is essentially a review of the literature on a given topic, which you will use to formulate your own argument. You do not need to collect your own data in the form of surveys, experiments, etc.) Your paper should include the following: A clear introduction with a strong thesis statement A section outlining your topic and why it could be considered an injustice. o This should focus on issues of inequality that might stem from race, gender, socioeconomic status, etc. This is where the sociological reasoning should be clear. Clear information on how this issue is related to today’s criminal justice system in America. The paper is not about crime generally. It’s about the criminal justice system (policing, courts, and/or corrections). Two to three clear and identifiable main points that are well-supported. A discussion of the impact this issue has on society and/or specific groups in society. A clear conclusion that wraps up your main ideas. All papers will be graded on the following: Quality of information and discussion;  Originality of information and discussion; Relationship to the class and focus on the American criminal justice system; Sociological approach;  Effectiveuse of at least five scholarly resources from outside the class, which are correctly cited in-text and included in a reference page using APA or ASA citation; Grammar and overall quality of work.