A team of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers from the CDC arrives in Rhode Island, homework help

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Hello!  I have the follow questions that need answered.  Do you think you can help?  

A team of Epidemic
Intelligence Service officers from the CDC arrives in Rhode Island to assist
the state health department with investigation and control of an outbreak of
measles.  The team is asked to include
the entire state in the investigation; thus, the case definition for measles in
this outbreak is any resident of Rhode Island meeting the clinical case
definition (you can find it at the CDC web site if you want to see it) who
either has a positive laboratory test for measles IgM antibody or is a contact
of someone with a positive test. 
Individuals meeting the clinical case definition who did not have
laboratory confirmation and were not contacts were classified as “possible
cases”. 

The team members
arrive in Rhode Island on March 1st. 
They discover 13 individuals who met the clinical/laboratory case
definition with dates of rash onset in February.  Ten of these 13 are Rhode Island residents,
the other three are residents of neighboring states who were seen and treated
at Brown University Medical Center in Providence, RI.  Nine of these 10 were still ill as of March
1.  The tenth, the probable index case
for the outbreak, was a teenager who had traveled to Europe and returned three
days prior to her rash onset.  She had
recovered from her illness by the time the investigative team arrived.

During March, 31
additional Rhode Island residents were discovered who met the clinical case
definition for measles, with rash onsets after March 1st.  Twenty-three of these had laboratory
confirmation and 6 others were contacts of those who had.  An extensive statewide record-checking and
vaccination program was undertaken throughout March, focusing on those schools,
communities, and other settings where cases had occurred.  Only two of the cases had rash onset in the
last week of March.

For
the purposes of this exercise, use one million for the Rhode Island state
resident population.

 Note:  remember to express all rates (incidence is a rate) per unit of population and per unit of
time.  Prevalence (a ratio) needs only to
be expressed per unit of population.

1) 
What
was the prevalence of measles in Rhode Island as of March 1st?

2) 
What
was the incidence of measles in Rhode Island for March? 

3) 
What
would the incidence be if possible cases were included?

4) 
If all
but two of the February cases, and seven of the March (confirmed) cases had
recovered by March 24, what would the prevalence have been as of that date?

5) 
Fill in the blanks
on the following table using the formula for determining prevalence, incidence
and duration (1 point each).  Complete
all answers in blue.

Prevalence and Incidence of Selected Diseases

Disease

Prevalence per 100,000

Incidence per 100,000 per year

Years Duration

Epilepsy

30.8

12.2

Multiple
Sclerosis

  56

  5.0

Parkinson’s
Disease

157

7.85

Motor Neuron Disease

  7

  1.7

Central Nervous
System

17.3

3.99

Neoplasms

10

2

6) 
Observing the data in
the table above, what interpretation can you give?  What applications do you find there for the clinical
practitioner?  For the
epidemiologist?  (5 points)?

In a city of
100,000 people, there were last year 1000 deaths and 1500 live births (none
were multiple births), of which 1200 infants survived to see their first
birthday.  Three mothers died in
childbirth.

Calculate: 

7) 
infant mortality
ratio (you will often hear this called an “infant mortality rate”, but it is
really not) (2 points): 

8) 
crude death rate (2
points): 

14) crude
birth rate (2 points): 

15) 
What possible
conclusions could you draw from these rates, about the overall health status of
people in this city (5 points)?

Thank you,

Mindy

Complete the following homework scenario, Business & Finance Assignment Help

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This exercise should be done in “EXCEL SPREADSEET”.
  • Bob and Lisa are both married, working adults. They both plan for retirement and consider the $2,000 annual contribution a must.

    First, consider Lisa’s savings. She began working at age 20 and began making an annual contribution of $2,000 at the first of the year beginning with her first year. She makes 13 contributions. She worked until she was 32 and then left full time work to have children and be a stay at home mom. She left her IRA invested and plans to begin drawing from her IRA when she is 65.

    Bob started his IRA at age 32. The first 12 years of his working career, he used his discretionary income to buy a home, upgrade the family cars, take vacations, and pursue his golfing hobby. At age 32, he made his first $2,000 contribution to an IRA, and contributed $2,000 every year up until age 65, a total of 33 years / contributions. He plans to retire at age 65 and make withdrawals from his IRA.

    Both IRA accounts grow at a 7% annual rate. Do not consider any tax effect.

  • Write a two to three (2-3) paragraph summary in which you:
    • Create a chart summarizing the details of the investment for both Bob and Lisa.
    • Explain the results in terms of time value of money.

attached is one exemple on how to creat the chart with formula.

The born free generation

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Create a power point presentation about the “born free generation” the time after black segregation. Focus on the promises made to the born free generation and were not fulfilled. divide the issues in the following categories;

1. Social promises 3 of them and explain why they were not fulfilled? (1 or 3 slides no more than 3) with images

a. Example 1: why was not fulfilled

b. Example 2: why was not fulfilled

c. Example 3: why was not fulfilled

2. Economic promises 3 of them and explain why they were not fulfilled? (1 or 3 slides no more than 3) with images

a. Example 1: why was not fulfilled

b. Example 2: why was not fulfilled

c. Example 3: why was not fulfilled

Note: use in-text citations in the speaker notes only. and the actual bullet point contents need to be short sentences. the speaker notes need to be in details.

list all references used

references need to be from scholar articles not just any website.

You don’t need to have a introduction slide. start from the first example and end with the last example then add the reference slide.

Informatics and Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators

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Prepare an 8-10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.

Introduction

The American Nursing Association (ANA) established the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) in 1998 to track and report on quality indicators heavily influenced by nursing action.

NDNQI® was established as a standardized approach to evaluating nursing performance in relation to patient outcomes. It provides a database and quality measurement program to track clinical performance and to compare nursing quality measures against other hospital data at the national, regional, and state levels. Nursing-sensitive quality indicators help establish evidence-based practice guidelines in the inpatient and outpatient settings to enhance quality care outcomes and initiate quality improvement educational programs, outreach, and protocol development.

The quality indicators the NDNQI® monitors are organized into three categories: structure, process, and outcome. Theorist Avedis Donabedian first identified these categories. Donabedian’s theory of quality health care focused on the links between quality outcomes and the structures and processes of care (Grove, Gray, Jay, Jay, & Burns, 2015).

Nurses needs to be knowledgeable about the indicators their workplaces monitor. Some nurses deliver direct patient care that leads to a monitored outcome. Other nurses may be involved in data collection and analysis. In addition, monitoring organizations, including managed care entities, exist to gather data from individual organizations to analyze overall industry quality. All of these roles are important to advance quality and safety outcomes.

The focus of Assessment 4 is on how informatics support monitoring of nursing-sensitive quality indicator data. You will develop an 8–10 minute audio (or video) training module to orient new nurses in a workplace to a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator critical to the organization. Your recording will address how data are collected and disseminated across the organization along with the nurses’ role in supporting accurate reporting and high quality results.

Reference

Grove, S. K., Gray, J. R., Jay, G.W., Jay, H. M., & Burns, N. (2015). Understanding nursing research: Building an evidence-based practice (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

Preparation

This assessment requires you to prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (with optional video) for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. To successfully prepare for your assessment, you will need to complete the following preparatory activities:

  • Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see as important to a selected type of health care system.
  • Conduct independent research on the most current information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality indicator.
  • Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar with quality monitoring and how technology can help to collect and report quality indicator data. You do not need to submit the transcript of your conversation, but do integrate what you learned from the interview into the audio tutorial. Consider these questions for your interview:
    • What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a database?
    • What challenges have you experienced?
    • How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the quality improvement monitoring results?
    • What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have in entering the data? For example, do staff members enter the information into an electronic medical record for extraction? Or do they enter it into another system? How effective is this process?
  • Complete the Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Video Examplar.

Instructions

For this assessment, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your Council has identified that newly hired nurses would benefit from comprehensive training on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. The Council would like the training to address how this information is collected and disseminated across the organization. It would also like the training to describe the role nurses have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.

The Council indicates a recording is preferable to a written fact sheet due to the popularity of audio blogs. In this way, new hires can listen to the tutorial on their own time using their phone or other device.

As a result of this need, you offer to create an audio tutorial orienting new hires to these topics. You know that you will need a script to guide your audio recording. You also plan to incorporate into your script the insights you learned from conducting an interview with an authority on quality monitoring and the use of technology to collect and report quality indicator data.

You determine that you will cover the following topics in your audio tutorial script:

Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator
  • What is the NDNQI®?
  • What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?
  • Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in your tutorial?
  • Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?
    • Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on quality of care and patient safety.
  • Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular quality indicator when providing patient care?
Collection and Distribution of Quality Indicator Data
  • According to your interview and other resources, how does your organization collect data on this quality indicator?
  • How does the organization disseminate aggregate data?
  • What role do nurses play in supporting accurate reporting and high-quality results?
    • As an example, consider the importance of accurately entering data regarding nursing interventions.

After completing your script, practice delivering your tutorial several times before recording it.

Additional Requirements
  • Audio communication: Deliver a professional, effective audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.
  • Length: 8–10 minute audio recording. Use Kaltura to upload your recording to the courseroom, or provide a working link your instructor can access.
  • References: Cite a minimum of three scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
  • APA: Submit along with the recording a separate Reference page that follows APA style and formatting guidelines. For an APA refresher, consult the APA Style and Format page on Campus.

Answer four questions about supply chain management.

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Answer each question THOROUGHLY. Spelling, grammar and style are important. Creativity and reflection are key to successfully answering these questions. Specific examples are expected.

  1. You are asked to report to a conference room where an important customer meeting is being held. You walk in, and the president of your largest customer is there. Your CEO introduces you as the Manager of Supply Chain Operations and asks you to describe your supply management philosophies. What do you say?
  2. Discuss the importance of supplier performance in end customer satisfaction.
  3. You are the CEO of your own toy company. Your business is expanding and you realize that it is time to hire a supply chain manager. What quantitative and qualitative traits would you look for in hiring for this important position? Write the job description that includes these traits.
  4. How has technology affected the role of the supply chain professional? Is it a positive or negative change? Be specific.

Emerging threats and countermeasures

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In this scenario, hackers launch cyber attacks that affect several parts of the nation’s financial infrastructure over the course of several weeks. Specifically, sensitive credit card processing facilities are hacked and numbers are released to the Internet, causing 120 million cards to be cancelled; automated teller machines (ATMs) fail nearly simultaneously across the nation; major companies report payroll checks are not being received by workers; and several large pension and mutual fund companies have computer malfunctions so severe that they are unable to operate for more than a week. Identify the countermeasures that need to be implemented to prevent these cyber attacks from occurring in the future.

Start a discussion thread and discuss what type(s) of countermeasures need to be implemented to prevent the cyber attack described above from occurring in the future. Be specific in recommending countermeasures for this scenario.

You must do this following:

1) Create a new thread. As indicated above, discuss what type(s) of countermeasures need to be implemented to prevent the cyber attack described above from occurring in the future. Be specific in recommending countermeasures for this scenario.

2) Select AT LEAST 3 other students’ threads and post substantive comments on those threads. Your comments should extend the conversation started with the thread.

ALL original posts and comments must be substantive. (I’m looking for about a paragraph – not just “I agree.”)

Career Connection: Values and Strategy paper, business and finance homework help

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Choose an organization according to the following:

  • Current employer
  • Most recent or former employer
  • Place of business that you have patronized or have been familiar with over a long period of time.
    • Avoid choosing an organization that is so large that historical data would be difficult to apply. Firms in the Russell 2000® index may fit well, whereas firms in the Dow 30 Industrial index probably do not.
  • The organization can be a start-up that you or a significant other may create in the future. For a start-up, focus on an entrepreneurial idea that is of substantive interest, so this project leaves you with a product you may leverage in the future.

Write a 1,050-word paper in which you address the following:

  • Identify the major components of the strategic management process.
  • Discuss how these components work together to create value for the organization.
  • Evaluate the company’s mission statement, vision statement, motivation strategy, innovation strategy, and people strategy. If the organization does not have one or more of these, how does that affect the organization and its people?
  • Explain the role of ethics and corporate social responsibility in strategic planning. How does this direct their strategy? How does the organization’s vison and mission align with your own values and vision? If you are currently working for the organization, how does your role influence this and vice versa?

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

LOG502: Sesson Long Project 4

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Module 4 – SLP

Technology and Logistics/Logistics Design Alternatives

Welcome to the fourth – and final – SLP assignment of the course. For this paper, take a look at how Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company uses information and technology advances in its logistics operations and write a 4-page paper in which you respond to the following questions:

1) How does Goodyear Tire and Rubber use IT to be more effective and efficient in its logistical operations? Give specific examples.

2) How Goodyear’s logistical system be improved? Now that you have researched the organization for weeks, what stands out the most as their key logistics advantage over their competitors? Where are they weaker?

SLP Assignment Expectations

Research the organization with information you can find on the internet or other resources you find on your own. The paper should be 4 pages in length and have a cover sheet and a reference page. Clarity of presentation is important, as well as your ability to apply the topics to the logistics area of your selected firm. Use at least 3 different sources of information and annotate your sources of information appropriately on your references page and within the text as necessary. You will be assessed on how well you demonstrate your knowledge of the topic as it applies to your selected firm. Submit your assignment for grading by the end of this module.

Emotional Disorders,,,

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Discussion—Emotional Disorders

Psychological disorders of childhood and adolescence are organized into various categories. One of these categories is emotional disorders. This category includes mood-related, depressive, and anxiety-related disorders.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research emotional disorders.

Click here to download and review four cases related to emotional disorders.

Then, complete the following:

  • Analyze the cases described in the provided document carefully, with a focus on the symptoms demonstrated by each child or adolescent.
  • Select two cases from the list in the document.
  • Identify which emotional disorder is the most likely diagnosis for each case you have selected. The list of possible disorders is below:
    • Major depressive disorder
    • Bipolar disorder
    • Generalized anxiety disorder
    • Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
    • Separation anxiety disorder
    • Panic disorder
  • Do the following to explain your chosen diagnoses:
    • Describe each chosen diagnosis by listing the symptoms and criteria required for that diagnosis and possible causes of that diagnosis.
    • Evaluate how the selected cases illustrate those criteria and why that individual has developed that disorder.

Write your initial response in 350–500 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources, including in-text citations and full references. Incorporate information from at least two academic sources to support your statements or ideas. Academic sources could include your textbook, required readings for this module, academic journal articles found in the AU online library, and the American Psychiatric Association Web site at the following:

By Saturday, July 12, 2014, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, July 16, 2014, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. Provide a statement of clarification, a point of view with rationale, challenge a point of discussion, or draw a relationship between one or more points of the discussion. Consider commenting on the following:

  • Explain whether you agree with the peers’ analysis of the cases and recommendations for treatment. Provide reasons in support of your comments.
  • Share additional information learned about the selected diagnosis while conducting the research.
  • Provide interesting resources, Web sites, or references for academic research articles you found during your research. Summarize the researched information for your peers.

business case paper

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Business Case Research Paper

A Business Case Definition: Documentation detailing the requirements to move an idea from conceptualization to project initiation.

For this assignment, I want you to compare and contrast a Business Case and a Business Plan. Include definitions and applications. Also please explore business case templates attached below. Define business case but do not use the definition in the template for business case. There are examples of Business Case Templates attached below. There are also some links provided. Please review other web sites of relevance and indicate those you use.

state why the details in the business case template are there and how this represents the corpus of data that would be submitted to obtain funding and project approval to get a project started. The paper should be from 4 to 6 pages in length. Select a business case template that you like and tell me why you selected that business case template. I want you to reference at least three different business case templates and select the one you believe to be the best. Include the one, or URL for it, with your paper. You should reference the others that you evaluated to come to your conclusion.

NB: link to business case template

https://www.projectmanagementdocs.com/template/pro…