Write a couple of paragraphs on the following

ï‚· What was the decision?

ï‚· Was it correct?

ï‚· How did it effect the organization?

ï‚· Is this what you would have done?

Individual Project

Unit: Selection & Onboarding

Due Date: Wed, 10/18/17

Grading Type: Numeric

Points Possible: 100

Points Earned: 0

Deliverable Length: Part 1: 750–1,000 words; Part 2: See assignment details

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Assignment Description

Respond to the following scenario with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use research to reinforce your ideas.

Part 1

Additional Information: The warehouse personnel will benefit from a good onboarding program, which includes orientation training. The board of directors and vice president (VP) of human resources would like to review your plan for onboarding these new hires.

Using Bloomberg Businessweek B-School Connection resources, research employee orientation programs, and develop an onboarding plan for the management team that covers the following:

• Discuss the activities involved in a one day onboarding program for employee orientation including the following:
  • The schedule of activities for one day including the time allotted for each training module.
  • A description of each training module.
  • The type of activity or media that will be used for each training module.
  • How you will determine the effectiveness of the onboarding program..
• The content of the onboarding program may included the following examples:
  • Overview and introduction of the corporation and its industry.
  • Employee Code of Conduct
  • Policies Regarding Federal Regulations, Contracts, and Intellectual Property
  • Benefits
  • Safety
  • Organizational culture
  • Other topics deemed necessary for employees.

Provide a reference list at the end of your presentation of at least 5 Bloomberg Businessweek B-School Connection articles, and include in-text citations for the articles in APA format.

Part 2

Using Bloomberg Businessweek B-School Connection resources, please submit the following:

• A completed Bloomberg Businessweek B-School Connection Career Assessment
• The following 5 completed Bloomberg Businessweek B-School Connection Worksheets:
  • A History of You
  • Bio Builder
  • Top 5 Influencers
  • Build Experience
  • Take A Taste

Required Readings

Ma, C., Shang, J., & Bott, M. J. (2015). Linking unit collaboration and nursing leadership to nurse outcomes and quality of care. Journal of Nursing Administration, 45(9), 435–442. DOI: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000229

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2014). 2014 clinical quality measures. Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/2014_ClinicalQualityMeasures.html

Click on one of the main categories of quality indicators.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.). AHRQuality indicators. Retrieved September 22, 2015, from http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/

Click on one of the main categories of quality indicators.

Jean Watson states that “caring is the essence of nursing.” Compassion, wisdom, loving kindness, caring, and knowledge, all concepts of Watson’s Caring Theory, are what nurses are all about. Watson’s Caring Theory incorporates arts and humanities as well as science.

Delivering the kind of care Watson describes hinges on nurses practicing to the fullest extent of their education and training and on their taking the lead to improve health care safety and quality and patient outcomes (2010). Think about how you incorporate science into your everyday practice. Right now, for example, you may use your understanding of pharmacotherapy when safely administering medications. In the future, do you see yourself applying your research expertise by collecting or using clinical data to improve patient outcomes at your place of work or in the larger community?

Post a 3-paragraph response (of at least 350 words) to one of the following options. Be sure to use evidence from the readings and include in-text citations. Utilize essay-level writing practice and skills, including the use of transitional material and organizational frames. Use the writing resources and the Assignment Rubric to develop your post.

Reflect on your readings from this week, and then address one of the following options:

OPTION 1

According to Ma, Shang, & Bott (2015), it is critical that contemporary nurses have strong leadership and collaboration skills to improve health care. Reflect on the expertise that you expect to acquire with your education at Walden. Envision yourself taking the lead to improve patient care in your practice setting. Describe the knowledge and skillsneeded to achieve your professional goals.

OR

OPTION 2

Use the website, http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/ , found in the Learning Resources to do the following:

• Provide a brief definition of quality indicators.
• Choose a particular indicator that either is being addressed or you would like to see addressed at your place of employment (or previous place of employment), and explain your reasons. Describe both the issue and your involvement in it. Alternatively, discuss your leadership’s role and your role in utilizing the indicator to improve health care.

Welcome to Part 2 of this assignment!

Nurses use Quality Indicators (QIs) for several purposes. QIs highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigation, and track changes over time. Current Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) QIs include Prevention Quality Indicators, Inpatient Quality Indicators, Patient Safety Indicators, and Pediatric Quality Indicators (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.).

Identify and describe one QI. Think about the ways in which following and measuring this crucial health data improve effectiveness and efficiency in your nursing practice.

This assignment takes you back to the Walden Library. The Library is an invaluable resource for discovering nursing and health care–related databases and professional articles. Continue to practice and refine your writing skills. Learn how to use APA in-text citations and references. Use the Grammarly program—it is an invaluable writing tool to enhance your work.

Assignment

Use the Walden Writing Center guidelines titled “Writing a Paper” and “Scholarly Writing: Overview” to do the following:

• Draft a 2- to 3-page paper to describe your selected QI in general, and then describe how this QI has the potential to improve the quality, safety, and outcomes of your patients and their families.
• Describe the current data available and leadership’s goal for improvement.
• Draft a solution using 2 sources from professional and scholarly literature to support your proposal.

Research Project

Due date:
16-Sep-2017

Task

In this assessment you are required to –

– Select a topic from the list given below and conduct research (based on literature, at least three recent research papers) on any major aspect of this chosen topic and prepare a summary report with brief supportive descriptions to post on the forum/blog. In your posting you should provide information about the topic (discuss the topic, associated challenges & problems, describe the relevant technologies, applications of the technologies, clarify vague areas, research questions etc.)
– Provide constructive feedback for (at least two) cohort colleagues and receive feedback from (at least two) cohort colleagues on your own report and make refinements accordingly.
– Raise questions about the information provided by other students (this must be done in an adequately professional manner)
– Respond to questions raised about your own information and that of other students
– Contribute to discussions in general

Note that the aim of this task is:
1. to build an understanding and perspective of current hot topics in Information Security; and
2. to build generic skills including, but not limited to:

– a capacity for teamwork and collaboration;
– an ability for critical thinking, analysis and problem solving;
– information technology literacy;
– a capacity for lifelong learning and an appreciation of its necessity.

As such, the more you contribute to the development of these topics and related discussion the more likely you will score well in this task.

Topics Set
1. Cyberterrorism
2. Biometrics for authentication: past. present and future
3. Web Browser Attacks
4. Recent trends in malware
5. Anomaly-based intrusion detection systems
6. Quantum cryptography
7. Privacy and security issues associated with Big Data
8. Smart device security
9. Internet of Things (IOT): Security issues and solutions
10. Threats to wireless networks and countermeasures
11. Security and privacy issues associated with social media
12. Security and privacy issues in cloud computing

Your submission:
You are required to prepare and submit a report on your topic to address the following issues (Length of the report: 2500~3000 words, excluding references):

a. Provide your published (to the forum/blog) research report on the chosen topic with brief supportive descriptions about the challenges, problems, relevant technologies, applications of the technologies, clarification on vague areas and research questions.
b. Summarize the issues discussed in the forum (at least two peers). Discuss how your own posts contributed to this knowledge and discuss whether or not the summary presented by your peers is accurate.
c. Identify any important issue/s that you believe were not addressed, or not addressed adequately in the discussions. Discuss why you view this issue/these issues as important.
d. Discuss the impact of the above mentioned issues and their application/impact in the real world.
e. Reflect on what you believe to be the most important lesson you have learnt as a result of these discussions.
f. Provide references (at least three) using APA referencing system including in text citations.

Rationale

Depending on the topic selected, this assessment item relates to a number of key learning outcomes of your subject.

Its also provides an opportunity for you to :

– demonstrate factual knowledge, understanding and application of state-of-art information security;
– demonstrates an understanding of what constitutes authoritative and valid evidence
– demonstrate ability to identify, locate, critique, integrate and apply information from various topics and ;
– apply valid and applicable knowledge and understanding to a practical situation;
– analyse current data to construct and communicate new knowledge
– demonstrate ability to work in a team, sharing knowledge.

Presentation

While there is no prescribed format for this report, the following should be included in the report:

• Executive Summary or Abstract (Provide a brief overview, your involvement/contribution, major findings and conclusion)
• Table of Content
• Introduction
• Copy of your published (to the forum/blog) research report (see marking criteria for details)
• Summary of discussion in the forum (see marking criteria for details)
• Any important issue/s that you believe were not addressed, or not addressed adequately in the discussions. (see marking criteria for details)
• Impact of the above mentioned issues and their application/impact in the real world.
• Reflection on what you believe to be the most important lesson you have learnt as a result of these discussions.
• Conclusion
• References (You must cite references to all material that you have used as sources for the content of your work. Follow the referencing guidelines for APA 6 as specified in Referencing Guides.)

Glossary (Preferable)
A glossary should assist the reader in understanding any technical terms used in the report. Use a generally accepted source for the definition of the terms and include appropriate references.

Appendices (Preferable)
You can attach any supporting material such as printouts of particular items of evidence, feedback from your cohort colleagues etc.

Submit the assignment in ONE word or pdf file via Turnitin. Please do not submit *.zip or *.rar or multiple files.

Requirements

Your submission must be in a form readable by Microsoft Word format.
• A cover page (outside the page limit) must be included and should contain relevant identifying information (Name, Student ID#, Subject Code, Session, Assessment No.)
• Your discussion postings are considered part of your assignment submission and are thus subject to Faculty regulations for academic misconduct (including plagiarism). As such, any text adapted from any source must be clearly labelled and referenced. You should clearly indicate the start and end of any such text.
• Your discussion postings will be required to complete your assignment but do not directly form part of the assessment of the assignment. As such, no formal feedback will be provided regarding your discussions.

You made an agreement with your parents (or spouse, partner, relative, or friend) that you would submit a report at this time describing the progress you have made toward your educational goal (employment, certificate, or degree).

Your Task. In memo format (several templates can be found in Word) write a progress report that fulfills your promise to describe your progress toward your educational goal. Address your progress report to your parents, spouse, partner, relative, or friend. In your memo (a) describe your goal; (b) summarize the work you have completed thus far; (c) discuss thoroughly the work currently in progress, including your successes and anticipated obstacles; and (d) forecast your future activities in relation to your scheduled completion date.

The memo should be in narrative form. You will be assessed on your ability to organize your information, your ability to get your message across, and your grasp of the English language. Keep in mind that business writing is purposeful, concise, audience oriented, and usually informative.

This memo should be formatted as follows:

• Left and right margins should be 1.25”
• Font should be Arial 12 pt.
• Standard spacing (double space guidewords and single space body of memo)
• Length should be no more than 2 pages
• Headings/subheadings should be used as appropriate to the memo content
• YOU HAVE TO WRITE ON YOUR OWN, NO COPY.