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Due Week 3 and worth 120 points

Imagine that you are a member of a team assigned by the police chief in your hometown to revise the organization’s strategic communication plan. Your assignment is to utilize strategic approach that you have learned so far to develop your city’s police department’s strategic communication plan.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Outline the approach that you would use to conduct research and interpret the situational analysis for your hometown.
2. Determine the main goals and objectives of your proposed communication plan. Predict the target group of your communication plan.
3. Propose the general communication strategies of your proposed plan. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Develop the first four (4) main steps of your city’s police department’s strategic communication plan. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources as references, such as journal articles, newspapers, magazines, and publications from law enforcement associations. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and similar websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Compare and contrast the hierarchy of command associated with modern law enforcement agencies.
• Discuss the theoretical undertones of policing strategies (i.e., community policing, patrol patterns).
• Discuss ideological and practical positions and debate controversial issues in policing.\Examine the requirements of local and federal agency training requirements.
• Use technology and information resources to research advanced issues in law enforcement.
• Write clearly and concisely about advanced issues in law enforcement using proper grammar and mechanics.

Identify a relatively new product category, for example, tablet-sized phones (tablets). Then evaluate the brands among different companies competing in this category. Next, pick one of the companies and analyze how its brand coexists with the other products in the product line and in the overall product portfolio of the company. In the context of this company:

• Analyze the use of single branding, family branding, and brand extension.
• Discuss ten characteristics that you would use for effective brand name creation.
• Suggest the appropriate strategy—in terms of product, price, promotion, and place—for the product selected.
• Analyze three packaging strategies followed by the company (of the selected product) and the corresponding benefits to the consumer.

Build on the business problem identified in Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 1. Discuss with your team then prepare and submit your individual report.

 

Write a 500-700-word paper that addresses the following questions:

• What are the key business objectives?
• What are the questions that must be researched?
• What are the hypotheses and variables that must be considered?
• What ethical considerations must you take into account?
• Define the purpose of the research.
• Use 2-3 references.

Read this article on gender equity at Harvard’s Business School. Then, comment on it in a post of at least 200 words. Is Harvard doing enough to address apparent gender inequity? If not, what should be done? Do not forget to also post substantive comments to at least two classmates. Refer to the text in your response and include at least one outside reference.

We examined two very important topics in finance this week; Capital Budgeting and Dividend Policy.

 

 

Critically reflect on the importance of selecting the right projects in which to invest capital.

 

Do we always select those projects that have the highest return on investment?

 

What other factors play into capital budgeting decisions?

 

 

We also looked at dividend policy.

 

What incentive is there for a company to pay dividends?

 

What signals does dividend policy provide to investors?

1. What is the ASCII character that comes before uppercase A?
2. What is a function that evaluates to True or False, that tells you whether or not three times a number plus one is even? Try it on a couple numbers.

Cultural differences and personality differences can impact cooperation. Team building is an important aspect of communication. Consider some aspects of culture and personality that may impact how people work together.

Research the importance of teamwork and the impact of personal and cultural differences on team building using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet.

Situation:

After you helped your company, Labolg, prepare for expansion into other countries, the chief operating officer (COO) approaches you and tells you that she feels the differences among team members is negatively affecting production. She asks if you have any ideas for productive ways to work with the differences in their organization.

Analyze the situation and prepare a recommendation for the COO. State any assumptions you make about the nature of differences in the team.

Write a two- to three-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

Communicating with parents/families about the assessment process requires ongoing effort, support, and collaboration. As you have been learning, parents/families should be partners throughout the assessment process; with the professional ensuring that everyone fully understands the purposes of assessment, what is being assessed, and how this information can be utilized to support the child’s development and learning.

 

In Part 4 of your Child Observation Project, you developed a Portfolio Plan that specified additional assessment data that you would need in order to develop a holistic picture of the development and learning of the child whom you selected for your Child Observation Project. For Part 5 of your Project, you will develop a hypothetical Reporting Plan for sharing the results of the data gathered in the Portfolio Plan.

 

Note: You are not required to implement this plan.

 

Plan

• Review the Portfolio Plan that you developed during Week 4.
• Review pages 201–204 of your course text and think about the strategies presented regarding conducting effective parent conferences and how you can use this information to develop a plan for communicating the results of your Portfolio Plan to parents and family members.
• Download and print the Reporting Plan.

Implement

• Complete the Reporting Plan.

Reflect on the development of the Reporting Plan and what you have learned this week about effective communication and collaboration. With this in mind, complete the following:

• What did you learn from developing your Portfolio Plan that will assist you in communicating and collaborating with parents/family members about assessment results?
• Imagine yourself in the role of the parent/family member during a portfolio conference. What specific communication techniques do you feel would be effective and received well?

 

• Recorded intake of protein, carbohydrates, and lipids
  • Which foods in your recorded daily intake provide protein? Which provide carbohydrates? Which provide lipids?
  • Review how your recorded protein, carbohydrate, and lipid intake compares with the recommendations of the dietary reference intake. If your recorded protein-carbohydrate-fat intake was too high or too low, which foods might you add or remove to achieve your goal and keep other nutrients in balance?
  • Is the protein in each food you ate complete or incomplete, combining to become complementary? Why is this important?
  • How much of your daily recommended protein, carbohydrates, and lipid intake did you achieve? If your macro nutrient intake is insufficient or excessive, what might you do to bring it into the recommended range? Provide specific recommendations.
• Macro nutrient intake ranges
  • Is macro nutrient intake within the recommended range important? What are the effects of too much or too little of a macro nutrient? What happens if you consistently eat too little protein? What happens if you eat too few carbohydrates? What happens if you eat too few lipids?
• Fiber intake ranges
  • • Does your fiber total meet 100% of the recommendation for you, as calculated at i Profile?
    • Does your diet meet the minimum number of servings of foods from each fiber-containing group? If not, which of the fiber-containing groups–fruits and vegetables–fell short of the recommended intake?
    • • Which specific foods provide the most fiber in your meals? Which provide the least? Identify trends in your food choices that might affect your fiber intakes.
    • Dietary modifications
      • What changes might you make to increase the fiber in your diet?
      • How might insufficient or excessive amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, or fiber contribute to health or illness? Provide examples.
      • What have you learned about your diet?

 

For this Application Assignment, you are to write a 4- to 5-page paper on the issues of data quality, patient safety, and access to health care. Reflect on your own practices and review your readings and the media programs about how information technology improves patient safety and quality of care.

Conduct additional research using the Walden Library. Then, addressing the following:

• Describe strategies that are used to ensure the accuracy and safety of data entered into information systems used in nursing practice.
• Explain the importance of data integrity for health care institutions.
• Summarize how information technology contributes to patient safety and to access to health care.

 

 

 

Using Information Technology to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Nursing Care – due by Day 7 of Week 5

 

 

 

For this Application Assignment, write a 3-4 page paper reflecting on what you have learned about the issues of data quality, patient safety, and access to health care in relation to information technology. Use the headings below for each section. Use a minimum of five references from the professional nursing literature in the assigned course readings and other references in the Walden Library. If they are relevant, you may use one or two professional web sites in addition to the literature references.

 

Begin this paper with a brief paragraph that provides an overview of the assignment and its purpose. There is no separate heading for this paragraph; the heading for this paragraph is the same as the title of the paper. This paragraph will be about 2-3 sentences. The last sentence in this paragraph is a sentence that begins “The purpose of this paper is to ¨. This paragraph is worth 20 points.

 

 

 

Data accuracy and safety – 60 points

 

 

 

Describe at least two strategies that are used to ensure the accuracy and safety of data entered into information systems used in nursing practice. This section is 2 paragraphs.

 

 

 

Data integrity – 40 points

 

 

 

Explain the importance of data integrity to healthcare institutions.