What makes one phrasing of an idea clearer than another?

Here is the prompt for the upcoming ePortfolio project: Final ePortfolio Prompt F19.pdf In my experience, students tend to be pretty confused about what exactly this assignment is looking for.  While I can sketch it in general terms (as I’m going to below), I often get the sense that I don’t really get to see where students’ ideas about the ePortfolio run into problems until the drafts actually come in.  I thiiiink the way I’m going to do this is to have this assignment in two parts – one this week to get you thinking about the upcoming assignment beforehand and ask clarifying questions right now, and another part next week once you actually start making said ePortfolio. For this week’s assignment, and definitely after you read the prompt linked above as well as the description of what I’m looking for below, ask one to two questions that you’d like answered about the ePortfolio project.  They can be simple technical questions or more complicated questions about what I’m looking for or mean by something, but I want to try to address your concerns a bit early on, since we have less face-to-face time to iron out difficulties with an assignment that, if I’m being honest, a lot of students tend to have trouble understanding. A description of the project, the ePortfolio, which we’ll be working on for the last two weeks of class (note: you do not need to submit the ePortfolio itself in response to this assignment.  This is preliminary work): first off, the ePortfolio works through Canvas’ ePortfolio system.  My expectation is that it will have four properly labeled subsections, and each of which will contain one major document.  Three of those documents you will already have completed: you will have a section for your completed CP paper, a section for your completed AP paper, and a section for your Week 1 Self-Assessment.  You do not have to modify those papers from whatever versions you submitted for a final grade, you just have to upload a readable version to each properly labeled section.  Readable in the case means, at bare minimum, that it’s a .doc/.docx/.pdf version.  No google docs or other file formats will be allowed.  You are also permitted, though making sure the formatting for those papers is correct would be a pain, to submit it as the webpage of your ePortfolio itself.  Not a requirement, but you can.  You are also permitted to spend extra time making your ePortfolio ‘pretty,’ though this isn’t something that in my opinion tends to affect how I grade your project particularly much.  Still, I will explain its contribution in a bit. The main part of the ePortfolio assignment, and the primary contributor to your grade, is the Reflective Introduction aspect of the ePortolio assignment.  This essay, the most important section of your ePortfolio, I do want to be on the ePortfolio page itself rather than as a separate downloadable document, since its formatting isn’t so important this time but its readability definitely is.  In that essay, you will essentially engage in another research project, except the subject matter of this research project is your own past work from this course.  Essentially, you are looking through your past work and considering skills you’ve worked on (and maybe improved?), issues you’ve had, things you’ve learned, etc.  This isn’t intended to be some sort of ‘inspirational’ story about how ‘I was such a bad writer and now I’m a brilliant writer thank you Prof. Carter please give me an A.’  Rather, it’s intended to be a reflection on your work, things you’ve learned, difficulties you’ve had, etc.  But instead of just telling me a story, you’re demonstrating this story to me via evidence and analysis of that evidence.  And that evidence is through citations from your previous writings! Note that in citing for this project, I’m not requiring footnotes or a formal bibliography, because I already have access to the specific papers in question and it’s fairly easy to explain which assignment.  If you’re quoting from draft 2 of your CP, for instance, you can just write something like, “This is from page 4 of my second CP draft, where I write that, ‘…..blah blah blah.'”  That’s good enough for me.  One thing I’m especially (but not only) looking to see is an analysis of changes between drafts.  This can include a relevant comment from a peer or me if there is one.  But essentially, one thing that looks good is to quote from two similar paragraphs or sections of two different drafts of an essay, and talk about a change or several changes you made to (hopefully) improve your work. The above, citing multiple versions of a draft to show changes, is for the “Revision” section of your AP paper.  What I consider the most important part of the essay, even if just by a slight margin.  But there are three other parts of the essay you also have to cover, and you definitely cannot skip any.  For me, the second most important section is the ‘Process’ section.  Essentially, this is where you cover coming from the idea stage up through the completion of your first draft of your paper.  People often just want to tell a story here without citing anything, which I consider to be a mistake.  Instead, successful papers often show me notes from their research process, or outlines, bullet pointed notes to themselves, mind maps, etc.  You can tell me a bit of a story here too, especially if it’s likely novel and not something that just applies to everyone.  And yes, if there’s something coronavirus specific or online-education-specific you want to address, here’s the place to do it.  It’s possible that also affected the revision section, but I’m suspicious process it a better section for it. The last two sections, and these I emphasize a little less but again definitely need to be there, are Multi-modality and Transfer.  Multi-modality is essentially you reviewing how all those citations and inputting of images into your essays went.  Students often view this section as a ‘slam dunk,’ where they can write how images helped them clarify ideas that were easier to demonstrate and explain in pictures/charts/graphs than in words, and how it helped something something their writing, and that’s cool.  I’ve also seen it dozens of times.  This should perhaps be one, maybe two paragraphs.  I don’t want to see multiple pages, or even the bulk of your essay, about multi-modality.  It’s just not necessary to do that much with it. The last section is Transfer.  It’s not the least important section for me, but it’s perhaps the part students have the most trouble with: this is where you try, for example, to figure out in what other contexts you’ve used/will use the skills you’ve worked on in this course, and demonstrate to me in some meaningful way that fact and why you think what you’ve learned in this class will stay with you.  Probably the easiest way to do this, if you have such an example, is to take another essay/assignment from another class where you used skills from this class (researching, or example) to complete said assignment.  If such an assignment doesn’t exist, you may need to think a bit harder about how these skills might be useful to you in the near or further future.  For further help on this topic, consult the prompt’s relative extension of guiding questions on the Transfer section.  Again, please make sure you’ve fully read the prompt before asking for clarification! As far as grading the ePortfolio project is concerned, the bulk of your grade comes from your Reflective Introduction essay (the essay I was just talking about).  I should note that, while I try to grade generously and fairly, you have to do your part of at least making a good faith effort on all sections for that to happen.  If you skip a section, don’t actually cite anything from your previous papers, or just very shallowly consider anything you’ve done in the class and never think more deeply about the choices you’ve made in your writing or why you made them, then that will unavoidably be reflected in your grade.  The rest of your ePortfolio doesn’t tend to contribute much to your paper unless it’s missing something major.  If its sections are improperly labeled or I can’t access the necessary information, that may affect your grade.  A beautiful, masterfully made ePortolio might improve your grade by a ‘+’ over your essay grade, but I tend to suggest that that effort could have been better spent just improving your essay. A note on citations (by the way, you can take screenshots of your previous writing, especially if you want to preserve formatting or just the general ‘look’ of your past essays.  I think it looks neat!  But please limit those screenshots to just the relevant words/sentences/paragraphs.  Whole-page screenshots are usually a waste except in very specific circumstances, and you essay should not include entire other multi-page assignments!) – It’s not enough to tell me, especially in the Revision section, that a change you made to your paper makes your paper ‘better.’  Better doesn’t tell me anything.  Consider, rather, why you made the change.  Why does your change make the paper better?  For example, how does it alter your reader’s perception of your paper?  How does it help support the structure of your argument?  What makes one phrasing of an idea clearer than another?  You can use ideas like having better grammar or formatting, but explain what the change meant and why you did it.  This is the kind of explanation that makes a more shallow paper into a more thoughtful one, and thoughtful at the end of the day (with proper references and citations!) is what we’re looking for.

Should you Do nothing because the terminal in question is working properly and then look at the next terminal on the list? Why or why not?

As one of the radiology managers, you are required to take the managerial “on-call” on the weekends. One weekend, you receive a call saying one of the radiology computer systems is not functioning. Since you are the “business owner” of the system (responsible for its use, PM, and repair), you use your remote access from home to view the equipment at the hospital. After fixing the reported problem, you decide to view other computers on your network to see if they are having the same issues but haven’t been reported yet. During your investigation you discover an on-site radiology staff member viewing medical records that radiology doesn’t usually need to access. Why is each of the three options are good or bad options? Answer all three questions following the writing guidelines. Should you Do nothing because the terminal in question is working properly and then look at the next terminal on the list? Why or why not? Log onto PACS to see if the records accessed have radiology studies and if the employee needs to access them? Why or why not? Call the hospital to speak with the employee in question and ask what he or she is doing? Why or why not?

How do you feel about the decision to reassign this employee instead of terminating her? What decision would you make and why?

You are a new manager that has just completed your department’s transition from a film system to a PACS. The majority of the staff has made the transition smoothly; however, there are several that just can’t get the new procedures and techniques correct. You also have several staff members that excel in the new environment. All of the department staff (technical and clerical) received need-to-know education from the vendor, and this education is documented. Three to four months after the transition, your PACS Administrator comes to you with a problem. One of your stellar employees, a clerk named Karen, has some unusual activity in the Audit Log and the RIS. Karen has worked in the department for ten years. She often catches other employee’s mistakes and brings them to your attention. She runs reports from the RIS that shows her completed work and her accomplishments. You have only known her for less than one year, but she presents herself as a competent employee and a leader within the clerical department. One of her main job duties is to ensure all exams are dictated in a timely fashion. If an exam is not done and wasn’t cancelled, she was to place the cancelation paperwork in the RIS to remove it from the list of pending exams. Because of the unusual activity in the Audit Log and the RIS, an audit was performed. It showed that Karen has cancelled several exams in the RIS for exams that have images in PACS. The reason she placed in the medical record for the cancellation was “No images” or “Exam not found.” The manager asked her about her cancelling exams and asked her to provide a list of exams that she cancelled from the current day. She provided two names, neither of which showed up on the audit. The manager then ran a more complete audit and discovered that Karen had cancelled those exams correctly. The manager expanded the search. Over the previous six months, Karen had cancelled several hundred exams. The other clerks, in comparison, have only cancelled 10-20 exams in the same time period. This didn’t raise a big concern, since part of her job was to cancel exams that were not done. However, over 30 exams had diagnostic quality images on PACS, which did raise a big concern. There are now over 30 exams that need an explanation. These exams were cancelled for the following reasons: “Not done” “Not found” “No images” The manager asked her about the cancelled exams and she stated that someone else must have logged on, using her password that she gave them, and cancelled the exams. The manager reminded her that sharing passwords is a violation of hospital policy. She then stated that someone must have stolen it, and was trying to blame her. The manager reset every radiology password on PACS and in the RIS to remove any excuse going forward. A memo published about protecting access to computer systems and accountability for actions. The manager then ran another audit of user activity from PACS and RIS. Exams were cancelled during Karen’s work hours at Karen’s work station. Other users had concurrent activity in other parts of the building showing that they couldn’t have cancelled the exams. The manager expanding the search by running a list of exams cancelled before implementation of the PACS. He gave the list to a different clerk to pull all the charts/jackets on the list and placed them in his office. An inspection of the first 20 jackets revealed that exams were cancelled; however, films did actually exist. The manager then informed his superior of the investigation and preliminary concerns and continued the investigation. The majority of the exams were found exactly where they were supposed to be, in the film jacket. When asked about the exams Karen stated she was following prior management’s instructions to cancel exams if they weren’t done. She stated that the instructions included cancelling exams to avoid Medical/Medicare fraud for inappropriate billing practices. Her process was to look for exams or ask the technical staff if the exam was good enough to submit for a reading. She also blamed the radiologists, stating they told her to cancel exams that were not of diagnostic quality. None of these excuses held up to scrutiny. The audit log demonstrated that she had cancelled exams without viewing them in PACS. She cancelled exams after several other staff had viewed the exam—including Emergency Department (ED) physicians to treat them. The log showed her cancelling CT exams stating “no films” and they could have been reprinted from the scanner. The log showed her looking at exams and still cancelling them. The manager recommended to his immediate supervisor that Karen be terminated for poor work performance and willful tampering and falsification of medical records. She had canceled over $300,000 worth of exams and delayed treatment to numerous patients. At least one surgery had to be delayed because the exam had to be repeated. This one employee harmed the reputation of the whole department and caused strife for other employees. The manager’s immediate supervisor, unfortunately, did not support the termination of this employee. Instead, this employee was reassigned different duties within the department. Evaluate the two questions and answer them following the writing guidelines. Questions: How do you feel about the decision to reassign this employee instead of terminating her? What decision would you make and why?

Write an essay on how is each of the following issues addressed in the organization?

Assignment 2 Due Date: Sunday, August 23, 2020 Instructions For this assignment, you will either review an organization for which you currently work, or find a case study to review. Write an essay, using proper APA formatting on the following: How is each of the following issues addressed in the organization? Do you have any suggestions for improvements? Restrictive covenants such as non-competition, non-solicitation provision Access and use of technology resources Access and use of confidential and proprietary information Transfer of intellectual property work product Performance evaluation Discrimination Health and Safety Standards  Evaluation Assignment 2 will be marked in its entirety out of 100. The following rubric indicates the criteria students are to adhere to, and their relative weights to the assignment overall. (See Rubric for the breakdown of how marks are awarded)

Write a paper in which you assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.

In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for Assignment 1. Using the corporation you chose from Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness, examine the industry in which the entity operates. Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the company: Company website. Public filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database. Strayer University’s online databases. The Nexis Uni database, Other miscellaneous sources. Note: the company’s annual report will often provide insights that other resources may not include. Requirements Write a paper in which you do the following: Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates. Considering the five forces of competition, choose two forces of competition that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these forces in the recent past. With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer. Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies. Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to locate quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.  Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses.

How do you do prepare for inspections (JCAHO, state health departments, etc…)?

How do you handle complaints from customers (internal and external)? How do you orient new employees (technical and clerical) to the department? How do you motivate employees? How do you discipline employees? How do you do performance evaluations? What is your process for purchasing new equipment? How do you do prepare for inspections (JCAHO, state health departments, etc…)? Combine all of the data collected from each manager/director and summarize it. Use each question as a subject heading Include suggestions for improving any of the processes used by the managers/directors.