As nurse, you have been asked to serve as a consultant to suggest a new Quality (Performance) Improvement process for ONE of the areas of deficiency. Write some brief steps (suggestions) for improvement as you contemplate accepting the consulting opportunity.

Review the story at the link below before posting to the discussion:

Rau, J. (2015). Half of nation’s hospitals fail again to escape Medicare’s readmission penalties. Kaiser Health News. Retrieved from http://khn.org/news/half-of-nations-hospitals-fail-again-to-escape-medicares-readmission-penalties/ (Links to an external site.)

After you have finished, consider how you would respond to the following situation:

Your local hospital has received notice from CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) regarding their readmission rates.

  1. As nurse, you have been asked to serve as a consultant to suggest a new Quality (Performance) Improvement process for ONE of the areas of deficiency. Write some brief steps (suggestions) for improvement as you contemplate accepting the consulting opportunity.
  2. Share practice improvements utilized from your own clinical nursing experiences that have led to enhanced patient outcomes.

Evaluate the existing capacity of refunding or reorganizing existing debt organizations.

You are to preparing for a challenging City Council Meeting. You need to be able to give the other council members and mayor an accurate “city of affairs” to make sure significant cuts can be made in the appropriate areas, and other critical areas can continue to be funded. Using your local cities 2015-2016 budgets, analyze the financial plan to respond to the following questions in a two- to three-page paper:

  1. Based on the review of your city’s Financial Plan: What is the fastest-growing category of expenditures during the planning period? Justify the answer with examples.
  2. What percentage of your city’s revenue comes from the general property tax? How much is this tax growing in each year of the financial plan? Justify the answer with examples.
  3. Evaluate the existing capacity of refunding or reorganizing existing debt organizations.
  4. Analyze the various funding alternatives that can be used to support debt obligations.

Describe the survey or poll and then describe the interval shown. How does knowing the interval, rather than just the main result, impact your view of the results?

Look in the newspapers, magazines, and other news sources for results of a survey or poll that show the confidence interval, usually shows as a +/- some amount.  Describe the survey or poll and then describe the interval shown.  How does knowing the interval, rather than just the main result, impact your view of the results?

What is the difference between a point estimate and a confidence interval?

Discuss how your organization utilizes Web Analytics to help improve organizational communication and productivity.

Research an area of Business Intelligence and Analytics of interest or is relevant in your industry. Areas can include topics identified in the textbook, such as:

  • Business Intelligence and Analytics
  • Foundations and Technologies for Decision Making
  • Business Reporting, Visual Analytics, and Business Performance Management
  • Web Analytics, Web Mining, and Social Analytics
  • Model-Based Decision Making
  • Automated Decision Systems and Expert Systems
  • Knowledge Management and Collaborative Systems
  • Big Data and Future Directions for Business
  • Business Analytics: Emerging Trends and Future Impacts

The introduction establishes the scope, context, and significance of the research topic by summarizing an understanding and background about the topic. State the purpose of the work in the form of the research problem.

Identify several sub-topics. For example: if the topic is Web Analytics, Web Mining, or Social Analytics, a few of the sub-topics might be Search Engines, Web Crawler, or Document Indexing. Discuss how your organization utilizes Web Analytics to help improve organizational communication and productivity.

Prepare a report and make a presentation comparing and contrasting the cities you have selected from the region.

Prepare a report and make a presentation comparing and contrasting the cities you have selected from the region. The focus of the report is how the management of your human talent will affect the ability to be successful in that region. You will need to discuss a variety of issues in order to conduct a thorough analysis. The following is a list of the possible issues. These are ONLY suggestions. You probably will not be able to cover everything. It is your prerogative to present the issues you believe are MOST RELEVANT for the given region. Basically, give us a well justified decision regarding the location you have selected from an HR perspective.

Sequential pattern mining is a topic of data mining concerned with finding statistically relevant patterns between data examples where the values are delivered in a sequence. Discuss what is sequential data?

1) Sequential pattern mining is a topic of data mining concerned with finding statistically relevant patterns between data examples where the values are delivered in a sequence. Discuss what is sequential data? What is sequential pattern mining? Explain difference between classification and clustering in data mining.

2) Consider the mean of a cluster of objects from a binary transaction data set. What are the minimum and maximum values of the components of the mean? What is the interpretation of components of the cluster mean? Which components most accurately characterize the objects in the cluster?

Consumer needs and wants are what drive marketers to succeed in selling their products or services through a variety of methods. Describe the process from consumer need through purchase behavior.

Consumer needs and wants are what drive marketers to succeed in selling their products or services through a variety of methods. Describe the process from consumer need through purchase behavior. Then, discuss how each of the following items impacts the process of decision-making. For each item, support your discussion with a personal example of purchasing a product or service.

  • The type of decision in the decision-making process (i.e., high involvement versus low involvement)
  • Motivation and values
  • The power of attitudes
  • The type of message
  • Issues related to purchase and post-purchase activities
  • The family and culture

Part 2, Cultures and Marketing: Our behavior as consumers is dramatically influenced by our culture. Refer back to the Marketing Pitfalls section 14.6 (Chapter 14).

  • Find a similar example of an unsuccessful market entry by a global product and provide the details in your paper.
  • Describe the reason why it was a failure as related to consumer behavior, culture, and/or subculture.
  • Explain how you would more effectively market the global product in that country.

The Final Project Paper:

Propose a theory or model that could be used to support implementation of the strategic plan for this organization. Explain why this theory or model is best.

Research a health care organization or network that spans several states with in the United States (United Healthcare, Vanguard, Banner Health, etc.). Assess the readiness of the health care organization or network you chose in regard to meeting the health care needs of citizens in the next decade.

Prepare a paper that presents your assessment and proposes a strategic plan to ensure readiness. Include the following:

  1. Describe the health care organization or network.
  2. Describe the organization’s overall readiness based on your findings.
  3. Prepare a strategic plan to address issues pertaining to network growth, nurse staffing, resource management, and patient satisfaction.
  4. Identify any current or potential issues within the organizational culture and discuss how these issues may affect aspects of the strategic plan.
  5. Propose a theory or model that could be used to support implementation of the strategic plan for this organization. Explain why this theory or model is best.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Describe and analyze a human resource/organizational problem(s) and recommend an organizational development strategy (ies).

You have been hired as a consultant (to your current organization, previous organization, or a fictional organization). Describe and analyze a human resource/organizational problem(s) and recommend an organizational development strategy (ies). Provide a rationale as to why you think this approach will help. This will require a practitioner analysis of the organizational problem of interest and an academic literature review of similar organizational problems and organizational development strategy (ies) that you believe will be most beneficial in solving the problem. Also, provide an evaluation plan for the proposed intervention(s). The plan should have the following headings: Problem Identification Description of the organization Context of the problem: How do you know it’s a problem? Specifically what is the problem (select from list below)? Turnover Job Satisfaction Diversity Performance Appraisals Downsizing Training & Development Needs Assessment and Diagnosis Data collection Data analysis Proposed Organization Development Interventions/Strategy(ies) Required resources Timeline Anticipated resistance Potential benefit(s), i.e. cost savings Suggested Evaluation Approach

Describe the value the new product or service will provide to customers and describe the need it will meet.

In Phase 2, your team will work together to develop a detailed description and implementation plan for the innovation you selected to pursue in Module 3. Each team member must research and describe a product development or management process, methodology, or model that could be utilized to implement the innovation. The group should select and use one of these models for developing its own implementation plan. For this assignment, write a paper of 2,000-3,000 words that addresses the following: 1. Finalize the name and include a one- or two-sentence description of the innovation. 2. Describe the value the new product or service will provide to customers and describe the need it will meet. 3. Utilizing the model selected by the team, create the detailed implementation plan for the innovation. Make sure the plan accounts for contingencies/risks in the implementation process and includes realistic timeframe and budgeting considerations. 4. Use graphics such as organizational charts, process maps, and/or budget tables as appropriate to increase the readability and professional appeal of the plan. 5. Include in-text citations from at least two secondary sources. Each person on the team must contribute an article from the research that was completed on product development or management processes, methodologies, and/or models.