Essays on Evaluations

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Use this form to develop your Individual Success Plan (ISP) for NRS-490, the Professional Capstone and Practicum course. An individual success plan maps out what you, the RN-to-BSN student, needs to accomplish in order to be successful as you work through this course and complete your overall program of study. You will also share this with your mentor at the beginning and end of this course so that he or she will know what you need to accomplish. Application-based learning assignments are listed in the course syllabus with a Practice Portfolio Statement requirement element noted within the assignment itself. ...

Some of the competing issues in determining the follow-up period in prevention evaluations include how long an intervention or program has been implemented changes should be expected and the possibility of the changes diminishing or disappearing with time. The rule om appropriate follow-up times is that evaluation should look to the underlying theory for guidance and to be ideal, a follow-up time should involve the follow-up data being gathered at different intervals (Lab, 2016). Process evaluations are prevalent even though they do not provide information on project goals’ success due to several reasons. The first reason according to Lab ( ...

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Significance p. 4 Trend Drivers and Patterns p. 5 Impact on the Hospitality Industry p. 7 Subway: A Case Study p. 7 Impact on Future Professional Development p. 9 Conclusion p. 10 References p. 11 Chemicals in the food chain and the relevance to the hospitality industry. 1.0 Introduction: In the past, the process of a food chain was simple; foods were eaten as they were produces due to lack of preservation techniques. While it was considered to be important, food was categorized as just a commodity (Gauther, 2012). As industrialization increased, farmers became more distant from consumers and ...

Introduction

Managing change within an organization can be a challenging endeavor. Generally, the larger and longer existing an organization and its practices have been, the harder it would be to implement a proposed set of changes. In this paper, the author assumes the role of a consultant team leader who is working on a client organization’s planned organizational change management. The objective of the present paper is to be able to discuss the different theoretical and operational issues involved in the lead up to the planned change management scenarios.

Main Theoretical Perspectives on Leadership and their Relevance to Organizational Change

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Human Genome Evolution and Disease

Genome evolution is one of the key aspects that have helped determine the overall position of human beings from a scientific perspective, as it focuses more on providing scientists with an understanding of the changes occurring within the human body (Tomkins, 2016, p.261). The study of genome evolution has focused more on evaluating the changes in structure, otherwise referred to as a sequence, and size of the human gene within a given period. The study provides scientists with a better understanding of the changes occurring within the human body as well as some of the changes that human beings ...

Medical technology is fast changing the healthcare setting along with the varying practice patterns of physicians. Integrating technology in healthcare is crucial for the health of individuals and optimal life quality in several regions. A majority of research suggest that the current medicine practices are integrally reliant on technology. The occurrence is possibly centered on the interpretations that the healthcare practitioners utilize a broad scope of technology in the diagnosis, treatment and assessment of their patients’ care. The current technology in healthcare is highly innovative, highly efficient, and in most situations, very expensive (Evans, 2010). Additionally, there are the ...

In geospatial technologies, usability engineering is used to deliberate on the patterns within data sets while also proposing possible hypothesis through which such patterns came to exist. Usability engineering is in itself an analytical tool for studying complex geographical data with the aim of understanding the reasons behind the existence of specific geographical systems. Usability engineering is largely concerned with the application of computer systems with the aim of enhancing the analysis of complex geospatial datasets. It also seeks to improve the human-computer interactive platforms to ensure that the reliability of the decoded information and simulate possible situations that ...

There are various guidelines in the United States of America that decide how tests may be used in legal cases. The three main systems are statutory, case law, and the one that corresponds to the American Psychological Association. Even though these three have the same principles and main points, they differ on their approach and the stipulations that they set for practitioners. The more legal aspects of these procedures respond to either statute or case law. Mental health standards vary from state to state, including the competency to be applicable for capital punishment. There are federal statutes that must ...

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Incidence Stage III and IV pressure ulcers is a serious health issue that is difficult to cure. It requires the constant attention of the health care providers. During the III stage, the patient experiences the loss of tissue, subcutaneous can also be visible. Also, during this stage, the ulcer may involve certain undermining or tunneling. Stage IV is characterized by tissue loss, where a bone or muscle is already exposed. Also, at this stage the wound includes tunneling. The incidence of III and IV stage pressure ulcers vary due to the type of the health care facility, yet it ...

Introduction

The degree that digital terrorism is a threat to people’s safety is amongst the most challenging of themes in the twenty first century. To a limited extent, this is a result of terminological question . More far reaching originations of digital terrorism as any type of online terrorist action obviously have a tendency to be connected with a higher evaluated likelihood of the risk's emergence than accomplish more prohibitive records (Cassim, 2012). In the meantime, as itemized further underneath, contending risk evaluations stay regardless of the fact that we limit our centre to smaller understandings of this idea (portrayed, ...

LASA: Evaluation of a Forensic Psychological Report

Abstract This is a research report that provides information about a case and a review that has been analyzed in relation to the conventions and standards in psychological reporting for parole boards. The findings show that there are some limitation and inappropriate levels and measures that have been used. The research could be improved and made more relevant, reliable and understandable. There are some things relating to cultural sensitivity issues like language and consent as well as local community variables that were not put in place. Furthermore, some challenges in the subject under review suggests that there could be ...

U.S. Senator, Missouri

2011-Present

Personal Background Martial Status: Married to Abigail Blunt Education: B.A. History, Southwest Baptist University (1970) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt M.A. History, Missouri State University (1972) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Previous Experience: Clerk of Greene County, Missouri (1972-1984) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Missouri Secretary of State (1985-1992) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt President, Southwest Baptist University (1993-1996) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt U.S. House of Representatives (1996-2010) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt

Committee Assignments:

Appropriations Committee 2011- present https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Commerce. Science, and Transportation Committee 2011-2016 https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Rules and Administration Committee 2011- present (became chairman 2015) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Joint Committee on the Library 2015- present https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Joint Committee on Printing 2015-present (vice chairman) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Committee on Armed Services 2013-2014 https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt

Sponsored Legislation

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Individuals who are arrested, are sent to a correctional facility for housing. Once they have been admitted into the doors of that facility, they are put through a process. The process can take several days to complete and will help to facility understand that inmate. Once the inmate has completed the lengthy intake process, they will be classified into the system. On the first day of intake, an inmate will be fingerprinted, picture taken, and identification will be revealed and put into the prison database. The inmate will get an identification tag with their assigned ID number. Mental and ...

Variables that Influence Psychological Well-Being following Significant Weight Loss Submitted by

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Introduction

The goal of therapies addressing weight loss is to decrease the risks for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, but also to ultimately increase positive feelings of well-being from physical improvements. Significant weight loss is accompanied by both positive and negative emotions and if the decrease in body mass is accompanying by negative feelings, maintenance is difficult. Therefore, psychological aspects to weight loss programs are an important consideration when determining the success of the therapy. Previous research concerning the psychological aspects of significant weight loss has made ...

Part One

The main purpose of the article is “to assess the concept of grade inflation in higher education institutions in an effort to determine its prevalence, causes, and strategies that can be implemented to curtail it” (Tucker & Courts, 2010, p. 45). The researchers used “A literature review of the problem, as well as several strategies, are presented as possible solutions to restraining the problem of escalating grades in the college classroom” to achieve their objective (Tucker & Courts, 2010, p. 45). The authors established that “The problem of grade inflation has been a topic of concern for over a century and ...

Working in this new environment was a good experience because it helped me greatly. It was important that I could use what I had learned to make better progress as well as change my environment. I was supposed to collect the financial deposits, record them then put them in the bank. It was an aspect that required discipline, patience, and care because I was taking care of other people’s time and money in this place. I needed to have the trust of everyone in the company because it was a chance to experience something new while working there ...

Introduction

The use of physical restraints in the care of psychiatry in-patients has been prevalent for centuries. However, in recent years there has been a call among nurse practitioners to reduce and altogether eliminate the process which is in contrast to the goals and ethical practices of the nursing professions which states that all human beings have the right to autonomy and the right to be treated with dignity. After examining the existing research on the use of restraints, it is proposed that a reduction in restraints is beneficial to patients and improves quality of care. This paper will present ...

In dealing with the Lot in Life, it will be best to see if Jane is indeed experiencing issues with alalia. From the case study, there do not appear to be any issues related to an aggravated pregnancy that is often according to NICHCY (2011), a common aspect of the development of alalia. Jane is at the age where alalia tends to show signs. Moreover, she does also appear to be showing what Hawk (1999) discusses as signs of backlog in the development of speech and it will be essential and necessary to assess her problem(s) with a ...

Literature review

The global developments in social, political, economic and technology sphere crucially affect organizational survival in the society. These new changes demand that organizations’ management must oblige to developing new management techniques so that their organizations can cope up with harder competition and more demanding market conditions. To large extents, organizations need to raise the performance of their employees through the power of communication (Erogluer, 2011). From the beginning, written and spoken language is considered the way to share meanings and messages for human societies. Often, the most common means of communication for most organizations is face-to-face communication. Communication is ...

Introduction

Over the years, health care organizations have developed performance management systems that evaluate various strategic plans geared at promoting staff performance as a way to ensure high-quality patient care (Giannini, 2015). This management system is achieved through the performance appraisal system, a structured formal evaluation system that examines the accomplishments and weaknesses of the staffs and initiates plan for skills development and improvement (Vaghela, 2015). In this paper, we evaluate three performance appraisal methods that could be used in a health care organization. Next, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the performance appraisal method. Also, the paper analyzes ...

Literature review

The global developments in social, political, economic and technology sphere crucially affect organizational survival in the society. These new changes demand that organizations’ management must oblige to developing new management techniques so that their organizations can cope up with harder competition and more demanding market conditions. To large extents, organizations need to raise the performance of their employees through the power of communication (Erogluer, 2011). From the beginning, written and spoken language is considered the way to share meanings and messages for human societies. Often, the most common means of communication for most organizations is face-to-face communication. Communication is ...

The issue is whether the student based teacher evaluation is gender biased. Gender bias is a common social vice that is described as the subjective perception that some people are better positioned to perform some task based on their masculinity of their femininity. For instance, most societies hold that boys or men are better at academics, rationality and in most cases possess socially unruly behavior while their female counterparts are socially interactive, more disciplined and better in arts and languages (Templeton, 2016). With such gender-based bias ingrained in the society, the fundamental question is whether students are affected by ...

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Part One The educational establishment has a traditional vision of education and leadership, thus, the vision towards students and their needs is quite specific. The entire framework is quite standard, as the students are perceived only as individuals that have to learn what the teachers tell them. It is possible to claim that the learning process is one-dimensional and it requires revisiting especially in terms of communication and articulation of clear goals. The educational system has to broaden their thinking ability and allow education to be specific to each individual student. We are accommodating students from diverse backgrounds and ...

Introduction

Over the years, health care organizations have developed performance management systems that evaluate various strategic plans geared at promoting staff performance as a way to ensure high-quality patient care (Giannini, 2015). This management system is achieved through performance appraisal system, a structured formal evaluation system that examines the accomplishments and weaknesses of the staffs and initiates plan for skills development and improvement (Vaghela, 2015). In this paper, we evaluate three performance appraisal methods that could be used in a health care organization. Next, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the performance appraisal method. Also, the paper analyzes legal ...

Inductive Thematic Analysis

Introduction Drug crimes are increasingly becoming a major concern on both local and global fronts. Current research (Braun and Clarke, 2012) suggests that the thematic analysis of important data sources such as sentencing remarks would facilitate the efficacy of available strategies in these crimes. The purpose of this assignment is to analyse the themes that comprise the societal understanding of the occurrence and penalties of drug-related crime. The researcher uses information from seven courtroom sentencing remarks from Adelaide, Southern Australia. This inductive thematic analysis identifies overarching themes that are evident across all seven documents. The themes include “gender and ...

11.1 The perspectives of individuals about food safety activities and operations may be different. This differential gap may be widened by whether an individual works within a local government organization that deals directly with food safety activities or not. According to Figure 11.1 local government organizations innately include food safety activities and operations as an example, they often involve a systematic procedure of registration, compliance assessment (e.g. business inspections and sampling), education, and prosecution. For non-compliant parties, for example, they are often prosecuted for violating the food safety codes. This applies to both local governments in Australia, New Zealand, ...

Research Essay

As we live our lives, we tend to encounter various challenges every day. Our own thinking brings some of these challenges while other challenges are brought by the paradigms created by the society. Since the world has all kinds of people, we are likely to encounter the rich, poor, unhealthy, and healthy people in our daily interactions. These interactions are sometimes challenging, as we tend to question ourselves on how much we can do to help the world’s poor and the unhealthy people. This challenge presents itself in two ways. In one way, we personally feel that it ...

Mental Illness Among Criminals

The prison systems have been over populated by many criminals in our country. The increasing rate of prisoners who have been diagnosed with mental illness is increasing. Many criminals have either been diagnosed with mental illness before being arrested and put into prison or they were diagnosed with mental issues after being incarcerated. The inmates with mental illness while committing crimes may have done so because of their illness. The people who were incarcerated and then diagnosed could have had mental problems because of the prisons system they are now living in. It can cause inmates to become depressed, ...

The performance quality is affected by social behaviors. The paper was carried to come up an answer of how daily social skills, social behaviors during ensemble practice, and the evaluation of music ensemble performance. 64 out of 68 female music majors responded to performance questionnaires created for the study entire. To assess the causal model of the relationship among social skills, social behaviors during ensemble practice, and the evaluation of group performance, it works employed structural equation modeling. The scores for social skills, styles of handling interpersonal conflicts, and leadership, the scores and social behaviors during ensemble practice revealed ...

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Introduction

There is a morale problem among staff members in Smiley Hospital that stems from incongruence in its jobs organization and performance evaluation system. Various aspects of management will be examined to find out what decisions and actions can be done to resolve the situation. They are goal setting, planning, motivation, mentoring, directing, leading and decision-making.

Managing in a Hospital

Because of the urgency of its mission, a hospital has one of the most stressful environments. Management’s role is to organize and supervise staff so that they can handle stress and perform effectively. High quality of service is required in ...

In the Article Swann (1997) indicates that people have not only the strong need to be approved, to be positively evaluated but also the need for self-confirmation or self-verification. Also, the author of the article notes that researchers are more likely to pay attention and to study the need for high self-esteem but often forget about the need for self-verification. The need for self-verification is unconscious desire to see that responses of other people about a person comply with this person`s self-conception, self-view. Also, an individual can perceive inadequately actions of his/her partner to keep own self-view stable. ...

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Problem Description The Japanese IT joint-venture company has a large overseas office where 80% of its employees are locally hired. It has been observed since the start of the century that many young employees are leaving the company in disproportionate numbers in just after 3 years. The HR manager suspected that the reasons for leaving are rooted in the nature of these young people as members of a distinct generation called Generation X or Millennials (Bersin). In the exit interviews, it was discovered that these young people believe that they are not being compensated fairly based ...

The importance of accountability in the health care industry

The core of accountability is answerability, which means bearing the responsibility to answer questions that pertain to the decisions and actions made (Brinkerhoff, 2003, p.11). This constitutes procedures or processes by which one subscribes to and is obliged to provide a justification as one is held responsible for his/her action by another entity who has interest in the actions. Given the nature of the word, two questions arise in the discussion of accountability: 1. what was done, and 2. why was it done. Sanction is another term that is closely linked to accountablity, and this denotes penalties in relation ...

Impacts of Outsourcing Internal Audit Fuction Author NameInstitution Name

Abstract This research finds out the effects outsourcing internal audit and extent of external auditors’ dependence on the work done by the internal audit team. We explore if outsourcing the internal audit function affects reliability on internal audit job already done and the use of assistant’s position for internal audit. We determine if internal audit outsourcing, the role of internal audit in systems consulting, affects external auditors’ dependence on internal audit. Results show that involvement in consultancy activities relating to the financial reporting system affects the extent of reliance on the work of the internal audit. When internal ...

Service Management Report 3

Introduction 3 McDonald’s Service Management 3 Motivation 3 Leadership 5 Learning and leadership management 5 Human resource management 6 Culture and diversity 7 Information technology 7 Communication 8 Apple’ Service Management 9 Agility to allow innovation into completely new areas 10 Build and enforce a performance culture... 12

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Service Management Report Introduction This report aims at demonstrating the manner in which organizations provide services to their clients and how their approaches differ with each other. For purposes of this paper, two business organizations will be analyzed. These are the McDonalds Corporation, a fast food restaurant and Apple, a ...

Individual Report

The initial idea presented in the group report of robot Chef and intelligent kitchen equipment has been very innovative as they follow the latest trend of a human computer interface (HCI). The origination of design idea has a very humble origin as it focuses on solving the problems of cooking meals for friends thereby allowing the host to have a free time to entertain the guest. The group report presents the final product as the smart pan. According to the group report, the initial ideas led to the final product. The task undertaken for evaluating the final product came ...

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) for Project Management

Literature Review The PMBoK is a guide for project management, wherein all the contents constitute a body of knowledge for project managers to follow and use. This document is the product of the work of the Project Management Institute (PMI). It is said that the practices mentioned therein are applicable to most projects most of the time, and that experts have concurred about their utility and value. This means that the direct application of the processes, tools, and techniques can improve the chances of success of a project. PMBoK is process-driven, meaning that it is made out of several ...

Tata Steel UK – Port Talbot

Introduction This paper entails a critical analytical review of a business entity which operates in the United Kingdom and which has recently encountered operational difficulties that have necessitated the formulation of a solution from a strategic management stand point. The business entity which will be evaluated in this paper is Tata Steel, which has vast interests across the United Kingdom as well as in other parts of the globe. The paper will analyze the problems that the entity currently faces as well as propose viable solutions that will lead to the resolution of these operating issues going forward.

Tata Steel UK Background

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L Brands: Corporate Governance L Brands: Corporate Governance

Overview

L Brands is a world-renowned lingerie, personal care and beauty products company ("About Us," n.d.). Offering flagship brands including, primarily, Victoria's Secret, PINK, Bath & Body Works, La Senza and Henri Bendel, L Brands has U.S., Canada and U.K. as focal operation markets and extends her global presence in around 700 locations by franchised partnerships ("About Us"). The company's central message is personal branding and sexy lifestyle. The business lines, functions and activities, based on brand offerings of L Brands, are reported by specific corporate governance structure and mechanisms detailed below.

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Introduction

Throughout the nation, the use of teacher evaluations has become increasingly popular. Since educators are partially responsible for the development of younger generations, teacher evaluations were created in order to measure a teacher’s performance. After the creation of teacher evaluations, there has been members of the educational realm that have disagreed with it. While some believe that formative feedback is the best way to analyze a teacher’s performance, others believe that it is unfair to give a teacher evaluation based on their student’s performance. This is due to the fact that teachers do not have control ...

Abstract

Hurricane Katrina touched ground in Louisiana in August 2005. The resulting lack of coordination in a catastrophe of this size by federal agencies led to large numbers of evaluations, reports, and recommendations for improvement. Particularly under fire was the FEMA organization tasked with management of the disaster operations. The inability to coordinate local, state, and federal resources lead to billions of dollars in waste and additional loss of life secondary to lack of food, water, and shelter. Government policies and restrictions in addition to complicated definitions of responsibility delayed relief for the stricken areas by as much as a ...

English as a Second Language international Logic Model

Logic model Explanation of the model The ESLi (English as Second Language international program) has a mission of improving the English language competency of international students while preparing the students for learning in universities in North America. Consequentially, the model offers a pathway program to fast track entry into universities. Upon completion of the model’s training student’s grammar, reading, listening, speaking and pronunciations, reading and composition skills are improved and entry into universities is guaranteed.

Resources

The resources that will be needed for the English as Second Language international program comprises of finances, teaching resources such as learning ...

English as a Second Language international Logic Model

Logic model Explanation of the model The ESLi (English as Second Language international program) has a mission of improving the English language competency of international students while preparing the students for learning in universities in North America. Consequentially, the model offers a pathway program to fast track entry into universities. Upon completion of the model’s training student’s grammar, reading, listening, speaking and pronunciations, reading and composition skills are improved and entry into universities is guaranteed.

Resources

The resources that will be needed for the English as Second Language international program comprises of finances, teaching resources such as learning ...

Instruction Design

Instructional Design Introduction The designation, development, and delivery of instructions follow a procedural process termed as instructional design (ID). It is an evaluation of the learning requirement and systematic improvement of teaching. An effective instructional design harbors various strategic plans to deliver learning experiences. The design facilitates the increment and enhancement of learning, creates a reliable and effective model of acquiring knowledge, as well as motivates the learners to engage each other and foster fast and deep studies. One significant purpose of instructional design is identifying the instruction outcomes. Essentially, the instructions must deliver their aims by making educational ...

Trying to Do More Good than Harm in Policy and Practice

Trying to Do More Good than Harm in Policy and Practice The central thesis of this article looks to survey research and evaluation assessment of a systematic high proportion in order to give reason and resolution to the uncertainties towards the effects of policies and practices, through a public and professional prompt of reason and truth against conflicting opinions. Ultimately these uncertainties are composed by the commonality of professionals generally “doing more harm than good when they intervene in the lives of other people, whereas their policies and practices should be informed by rigorous, transparent, up-to-date evaluations (Chalmers, 2003). ...

Introduction

The discovery of heat loss is a crucial factor in infrastructure maintenance. It is this, essential to map the temperature of the inhabited areas within the Northeastern region of the United States. This is achievable by use of an aerial thermal imagery. The camera having high-resolution facilitates to check the surface temperature of the area.

How to Obtain Thermal Imagery

Aircraft mission planning is attainable via the remote sensing program. Perpendicular photographs are captured through aiming the camera facing the earth surface. The features and objects on the ground can sometimes be challenging to recognize from the manner they are displayed on the photos1

Information Necessary

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