Assume you are a hospital HIM Manager and you need to work toward part of the new strategic plan that indicates that your department will use benchmarking to improve coding production.

Hughes, Gwen. “Using Benchmarking for Performance Improvement (AHIMA Practice Brief).” Journal of AHIMA 74, no.2 (2003): 64A-D (Please see the attached article).

  1. Assume you are a hospital HIM Manager and you need to work toward part of the new strategic plan that indicates that your department will use benchmarking to improve coding production.
  2. Based on the concepts of successful benchmarking described in the article, describe how you will embrace, adopt, and implement benchmarking for your coding production.
  3. You may complete this assignment in a list or table type of format (rather than a research paper format) as long as you include thorough information and description of the steps you plan to take

What advice does the Registrar’s website offer about the purpose and importance of making a will?

1. To increase your knowledge of wills and trusts, review the case located at https://www.coloradosupremecourt.com/PDF/UPL_Cases/gresham,lathronea,15sa52102115.pdf. Then, answer the following question. What did the Respondent do wrong and what were the consequences she faced? Explain.

2. Now, to increase your research skills in probate matters, visit http://registers.maryland.gov/main/ and answer the following questions: (Provide the exact link to the information you find.)

a. If the decedent dies intestate, how will the estate be distributed?
b. What is the probate fee charged if the estate is small and less than $200?
c. How does an individual find out if an estate has been opened?
d. Does the Registrar of Wills issue death certificates or birth certificates?
e. What advice does the Registrar’s website offer about the purpose and importance of making a will?

Develop a formula to quantify the merits of each applicant based on the factors provided. Justify why you gave heavier weight to some factors over others.

Background: Judith and Eric Sultan own a business providing HR decision-making expertise to employers across the nation. The name of their business is HRM Analysis Services. Their business is located in Phoenix and has grown exponentially since 2005. Up to this point they have not had their own employees, but instead hired established consultants (often called management analysts) to work on a project-by-project basis.

They want to hire three full-time management analysts to work in three different locations: San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Miami. The analysts would scout out work in their designated regions and manage the contracting and oversight of contractual consultants.

Judith and Eric plan to keep ownership of the company, but want to step away from the day-to-day as soon as the business is working well enough without them.

The focus of this assignment is to assist Judith and Eric with the selection of three Management Analysts by coming up with a weighted formula of important selection factors. The Job Applicants Table shows the applicants who applied for the position. See What Management Analysts Do for a description of the position.

Your task is to:

1. Develop a formula to quantify the merits of each applicant based on the factors provided. Justify why you gave heavier weight to some factors over others.

2. Develop your own visual/graphic showing how each applicant fared.

3. Discuss your visual/graphic in essay format.

4. Recommend 6-8 applicants to proceed to a panel interview phase.

5. Critique the process of identifying best candidates to proceed in a selection process by using a custom-designed formula applied to each candidate.

Identify the various elements of art (and/or architecture) and explain how they are used in this work.

Prepare an analysis of a painting, sculpture, or building. Provide a copy of the image that you are analyzing. Be sure that you:

1) Identify the various elements of art (and/or architecture) and explain how they are used in this work.

2) Explain the principles of art and the way in which they are used in this work.

3) Explain the iconography, if any, used in the work.

Then interpret the work.

1) What does it mean?

2) how does the artist convey this meaning using the elements and principles of art and the specific iconography, if any, that is represented?

Discuss what you think “Islamic revival” might mean in the context of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of 5 new nation-states in Central Asia.

Discuss what you think “Islamic revival” might mean in the context of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of 5 new nation-states in Central Asia.

What were the continuities and differences with the Soviet era?

Describe what that person did, the approximate time that this person lived, what makes their contribution important, and criticisms of their work or theoretical position.

First, click this link and read or listen to this resource on the History of Psychology. Next select one individual mentioned in the article and write an essay reflecting upon that person’s life and contributions to the field of psychology. Describe what that person did, the approximate time that this person lived, what makes their contribution important, and criticisms of their work or theoretical position. Be sure to include appropriate references and citations in your response.

Explain the desire for change, why is it important to incorporate this specific behavioral change.

For this assignment, the student will take on the task of using behaviorism to assess and change a personal behavior utilizing the  tenants of either classical conditioning, operant conditioning or both.

Create a 12  slide PowerPoint presentation that provides an overview of the behavioral change.

Use the following guidelines to complete your presentation:

  1. Include a title, introduction, discussion, and reference slide (four slides minimum).
  2. Provide an overview of the definition of behavior and create an operational definition for the behavior the student wishes to change (consider using  the “Dead Man Test” to help define the behavior).
  3. Explain the desire for change, why is it important to incorporate this specific behavioral change.
  4. Track the behavior for three or more days documenting; how often the behavior occurs as well as the antecedents for the behavior and the  consequences.
  5. Explain the behavioral intervention, how will the student increase a desired behavior or decrease a maladaptive one?
  6. Track  the results of the behavioral change with the intervention in place,  how often does the behavior occur each day, how often did the reward or  punishment occur?
  7. Use a graph to compare the observation period from the experimental period.
  8. Document the results of the experiment; did change occur, what was the cause?

Behaviors  may include, but are not limited to: tardiness, smoking, drinking,  gambling, compulsive eating, social media addiction, interrupting, nail-biting, swearing, eating fast food, compulsive shopping, speaking with your mouth full, biting pens, or biting nails. You could also choose to  start a new habit: taking vitamins, applying sunscreen before going  outside, putting money in savings, exercise, etc.

Procrastination is NOT an appropriate behavior to choose for this assignment! You must choose something measurable!

Reflect on your experiences as a member of a clinical team. What makes a team effective or ineffective in terms of achieving expected outcomes for the patients?

Module 3 Discussion What makes a team? Reflect on your experiences as a member of a clinical team. What makes a team effective or ineffective in terms of achieving expected outcomes for the patients? (Saunders, 2014) Submission Instructions: Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.

Post a description of the issue you selected. Explain how a needs assessment would benefit this issue and contribute to social change.

Before you open a new business in your community, you want to make sure that you will draw customers before you invest your money. How would you determine if people in your community will be interested in your idea? Large corporations conduct various types of research activities before deciding to establish a business presence in a community. They conduct research to determine if there are enough qualified employees who could work at their business. They examine the level of income of residents to determine if people could afford their services. They also conduct focus group interviews and surveys to determine if people are interested in their services.

Like large corporations, human and social services professionals should investigate the need for a program prior to implementation. Needs assessment is an initial step in program development. Just like the resources of a large corporation, human and social services resources (e.g., clinical skills, funds, and time) need to be protected. Thus, program planners should strive to initiate programs that are clearly needed.

The first phase of a needs assessment is pre-assessment. During this phase, program planners seek to discover the specific needs of their client populations. Imagine that in your community, you have observed that there are an increasing number of unaccompanied minors from Central American countries, or that there have been an increased number of heat-related fatalities among the aging population. It appears that there may be unmet service needs in your community, and a needs assessment can tell you more information about those needs and help inform your planning to meet them. The initial pre-assessment steps consist of planning who you need to target and how you will effectively gather the data and/or use existing data to inform your planning decisions.

In this Discussion, you consider human and social services issues that might benefit from needs assessments and begin the initial steps of implementing one for an issue of your choice.

Select an issue relevant to your professional interests that you believe would benefit from a needs assessment. Consider how you might go about implementing a needs assessment for this issue. Use the following questions to guide your thinking:

  • Why do you believe a needs assessment is necessary?
  • What is the target population you hope to gather data about?
  • Are there existing data sources that you can use?
  • Do you need to collect new data? If so, what methods will you use to collect it?                                                                                                           Post a description of the issue you selected. Explain how a needs assessment would benefit this issue and contribute to social change. Then explain the preliminary steps you might take to implement a needs assessment in this area. Include the type of sampling you would use to find key stakeholders and why this type of sampling is appropriate.