What is the purpose of performance appraisals? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the four major appraisal methods currently in use? What if an employee’s work is not very quantifiable; how should a manager work to provide a fair appraisal? Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. Evaluate their discussions…
Provide a definition for both reliability and validity in relation to measurement and data collection in research. Select a nursing research article and describe how the researcher evaluated and reported the reliability and validity for the measurement instrument(s). Discuss two factors that may compromise the reliability of a measurement instrument. Can an instrument be valid…
For this discussion, you will: Select a particular patient care issue in your practice area that you would like to research at some point in your career. (TOPIC- Pediatric home health care. In the home setting there is only one nurse available, so apart from calling 911, the nurse is essentially on her own.) Use that…
Consultation is a core competency of advance nursing practice. Answer the following in a 2 pages Word document: Differentiate consultation from supervision? Give an example on how you have seen the consultation competency practiced in your current nursing area. Explain if the practice followed the graduate competency criteria. Are consultation and collaboration synonymous? Defend your…
In your medical office, you may have to create or revise an opening and closing procedure manual for your entire staff. You need to delegate some employees to pull or file charts at the end of the workday. You also need to delegate employees to scan lab reports, referrals, authorization forms, or other correspondence in…
Participate in the “Public Health Nurses” . Your response should be 200-300 words and will be graded based on the rubric provided below. (Quality of Content and Organization Information clearly relates to the main topic and includes several supporting details and/or examples in a well-organized way.
write 3 pages on physical, emotional and sexual abuse incorporating the victim in the article. This is a research paper so this paper has to have statistics on physical, emotional and sexual abuse in the united states. body of this paper also needs to have: the cause of the abuse the consequences what are the…
Your manager has asked you to help prepare a response to the COO’s assertion that electronic medical records (EMR) technology is not critical for the health care organization. Write a 700-1000 word proposal that discusses the research-based benefits of using EMR technology. Include the following in your proposal: Describe why EMR technology is critical to…
Moebius Syndrome-Psychological aspects essay assignment In Chapter 3, Ritzer describes how higher education is striving for greater efficiency and is becoming what he terms a McUniversity. Think about your own educational experience, and the choices you have made when it comes to education. Drawing on Ritzer’s description of the McUniversity in particular, analyze your experience…
1. Change can be difficult to implement. Now that you are almost finished with your change project, if you were to implement your project in your clinical practice, what type of resistance do you expect from staff? List at least three ways that you can lessen the resistance you may encounter to help ensure the…
Create a 7- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that addresses the following: Identify the purpose. Identify the challenges of being a manager. Set the criteria. Explain the goals you want to achieve as a manager. Weight the criteria. Explain the goals in order of importance as a manager. Seek alternatives. Analyze alternative tools a manager can…
Imagine that you have been sent to the newly discovered planet of Utaboopia that is inhabited by a population of humans. After learning how to communicate with them you find that they do not have any type of taboo language within their culture. Write a scientific article for the Utaboopians explaining what taboo language is…