Initiate and agree on a strategic planning process .

1) Initiate and agree on a strategic planning process 2) Identify organizational mandates 3) Clarify organizational mission and values 4) Assess the external and internal environments to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats 5) Identify the strategic issues facing the organization 6) Formulate strategies to manage the issues 7) Review and adopt the strategies or strategic plan 8) Establish an effective organizational vision 9) Develop an effective implementation process 10) Reassess the strategies and the strategic planning process Each of these steps should be discussed in about 1/2 page in length. For each of the steps listed above you should discuss the most important aspects for each step that you should understand as someone that would implement a strategic plan for an organization.

Write an essay developing Mentions the purpose of the memorandum.

Developing Student demonstrates fluency in some but not all of the following areas in the field: tools, technology, and methods. Beginning Student does not demonstrate fluency in one or more of the following areas: tools, technology, and methods. Student may use appropriate tools, technology, and methods, but does not demonstrate fluency. Did not attempt Did not attempt. Quick feedback: 1468 characters left enter detailed feedback Introduction 5 % Exemplary Clearly states the purpose of the memorandum and includes all key information. Accomplished Mentions the purpose of the memorandum and includes a few important pieces of information. Developing Mentions the purpose of the memorandum. Beginning Offers a lead in to the memorandum but includes no important information. Did not attempt Did not attempt. Quick feedback: 1435 characters left enter detailed feedback Discussion 50 % Exemplary Addresses the topic with clarity; Clearly states the reason for the project and provides research to support the importance. An explanation as to how the requested information will be utilized is provided. Accomplished Addresses the topic with clarity; States the reason for the project with minimal research to support the importance of the project. An explanation as to how the requested information will be utilized is provided. Developing Addresses the topic; minimal research provided; sometimes digresses from topic of focus. A basic explanation is provided as to how the requested information will be utilized Beginning Provides little to no clarity in formulating conclusions and/or organization. No explanation is offered as to how the requested information will be utilized. Did not attempt Did not attempt.c Quick feedback: enter detailed feedback Summary 5 % Exemplary All important information is re-stated. Accomplished Most important information is re-stated. Developing Some important information is re-stated. Beginning No important information is stated.

What strategies can you use in the future in order to help you form more accurate assumptions about others, based on your experience of being on the receiving end of stereotyping?

Response must illustrate critical thinking, insight, and be communicated in a reflective manner.Instructions:Bias simply refers to our preferred way of viewing things and is the result of many factors including personality and our environment (e.g. how we are raised, culture, observation, experience, etc.) – it literally influences how we see “everything.” Bias is so deeply rooted in how we perceive the world that it affects how we see ourselves and others. It also influences assumptions we make about other people and how we treat them. Bias is evident in so many different areas of our lives such as: who we choose to be friends with; who we date/ marry; who we team up with for group projects; who we hire and promote in the workplace; whose ideas we listen to; etc.Unfortunately, one of the results of personal bias is that it can often lead to stereotypes toward others. Although stereotypes in and of themselves do not necessarily have to be negative, our rigid biases can lead to negative and inaccurate stereotypes and thus impact how we treat others and interact with them.Reflect on how stereotypes have impacted your own life. Identify a specific experience when someone held a stereotype towards “you” that was inaccurate. How did this experience make you feel? Where do you feel their stereotype came from? Were you able to correct this person’s inaccurate assumption about you? What did you learn from this experience? What strategies can you use in the future in order to help you form more accurate assumptions about others, based on your experience of being on the receiving end of stereotyping? How will this help you within your professional practice within the workplace?

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How should you have responded (from a legal/patient safety/license protection perspective) in response to each of these statements?

Safe Harbor Read this scenario then answer the questions that follow.You, the RN, arrive early on your regular orthopedic unit. Your Charge Nurse comes to you and says that you need to go to the cardiac step-down unit. You protest, but she says she has no control over the situation and that you at least need to go to the step-down unit and see what is going on. You arrive at the step-down unit. The House Supervisor is present with the unit Charge Nurse. You are told that the unit is very understaffed that day and that you must take patients. You protest that you have worked only orthopedics for the past 10 years- that you do not know the current cardiac drugs and side effects, the current treatments and post-treatment care and that you have never had to read the type of cardiac monitoring strips that are generated on all the patients on this unit. The House Supervisor tells you to not worry. She explains as follows:There are monitoring techs who are responsible for reading the strips.You have access to a PDR and Pharmacy if you have questions about the drugs.A nurse with recent experience on this floor will be able to go around with you to orient you for about two hours. (That nurse must return to his regular floor in two hours.)]You again express concerns that you are not qualified to take this assignment. The House Supervisor takes you aside and says, “We need you to step up and help out here. We need team players in situations like this. If you refuse, I’m going to have to discuss your refusal with the Director of Nursing and your unit manager — it may not be good for your career here at this hospital. Besides, do you think you are the first nurse who ever had to take patients in a less than perfect circumstance? The patients are worse off if you refuse.”Reluctantly, you accept the assignment. About 5 hours into the 12-hour shift, you mis-titrate a cardiac drug. The patient codes, never regains consciousness and is transferred to ICU. The patient dies 3 hours after being transferred.Two weeks later, you are called to Human Resources. Your unit manager, the House Supervisor, and an HR representative are there. You are told that you are being reported to the state’s Board of Nursing due to the negative outcome of your patient.1). Was this a situation in which you should have claimed Safe Harbor?2). How should you have responded (from a legal/patient safety/license protection perspective) in response to each of these statements?“You will get a two-hour orientation.”“The monitor tech will be responsible for reading the strips.”“You need to be a team player or you may suffer employment consequences.”Then respond to two or more of your colleagues’ responses by asking each colleague at least two probing questions.

What are the social and political effects of the inability to register to vote, to vote at all?

Your initial Discussion post should address everything asked and be a minimum 300 words, which is about 1/3 of a page on a normally formatted Word document. (This is a total word count for your original posting, addressing all questions asked, not 300 words for each question.) When addressing the discussion questions, remember to do all of the following: 1) enter your responses directly in the text box provided inside the discussion tool – do not attached separate documents or other files; 2) write in complete sentences, in essay/paragraph form, using proper punctuation and mechanics; 3) you do not have to cite or quote from any text for this last discussion assignment; however, when asked, you must use specific examples from the film; and 4) number your responses so that they correspond to the numbered questions (also, no need to restate the questions).After contributing your own post, you must also respond to two of your colleagues’ posts. These responses do not have to be a min. 300 words; however, as per the grading rubric for this assignment, they should be “substantive” replies “expanding the level of discussion,” totaling around 100 words each. Do not just write a sentence or two of agreement, approval; rather, give some thoughtful, substantive feedback.Another reminder: As with any in-class, written assignment: YOU CANNOT COPY/PAST MATERIAL FROM THE INTERNET TO USE AS ANSWERS TO YOUR LONG-ANSWER QUIZ QUESTIONS OR YOUR DISCUSSION POSTINGS. THIS IS PLAGIARISM, WHETHER YOU INTEND IT OR NOT.TOPIC: “Selma”Watch the film Selma (dir. Ava DuVernay, 2014). As you watch it, pay attention to the particular scenes I’ve identified, which correspond to the questions below. Then respond to each of questions, referring to examples from the film: At the beginning of the film (after the opening Nobel Prize award scene and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church), Oprah Winfrey’s character Annie Lee Cooper (who was an actual civil-rights activist in Selma) attempts to register to vote. What tactics were used in this scene by the city official to deny African-Americans the right to vote? Besides the obvious, on-the-spot obstacles the official placed before Annie Lee Cooper, what potentially devastating economic/financial threat made against this woman?The very next scene shows MLK visiting LBJ in the president’s office. The two are respectfully but uncomfortably at odds with one another. What were MKL’s major concerns and what, specifically, did he want in terms of legislation and the backing of the president? What was the major point of disagreement between MLK and LBJ? And what are some of the other tactics MLK describes that the southern power structures are using to deny African-Americans the right to vote – and the consequences?At about the 56 min. mark, after the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson and the subsequent speech by MLK in the church, there is a scene in a living room in which the civil-rights leaders are discussing the situation and planning their next moves. Identify at least four obstacles to voting that the men discuss. What are the social and political effects of the inability to register to vote, to vote at all? The Southern White power structure maintain this rigid system of denying blacks the right to vote, inventing all kinds of laws (or excuses) to prevent blacks from voting. This was even more important than issues such as desegregation or interracial marriage. Why? One of the keys to MLK’s success was in transforming civil and voting rights from a regional (Southern) and racial (Black) problem into an American problem. How did he do this? What were some of his strategies and tactics, particularly in raising the consciousness of, or else political stakes for, George Wallace, LBJ, and the larger American public? How did they play out so effectively – and visibly – that fateful day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

Why do you think that almost all societies produce such origins stories?

If you write your posts in a word processor (e.g. Microsoft Word), please copy the entry and paste it into the blog editor. The blog does not accept attachments.Using one (1) of the three source readings from “Origins of the World” (Sources, 1-1 or 1-2), describe how one of the societies imagined the origins of the world and humankind. Using specific examples from the text: what does the story tell us about what was important to this society and what it valued? Why do you think that almost all societies produce such origins stories? What do they tell us about us as human beings?