Strategic & Salary and Benefits Career

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Preparing a Strategic Career Plan

Graduation and certification are the beginning of your career as an NP. Whether you are looking for that dream job or you have decided to open your own practice as an independent NP, you need a plan to get there. Before the Web and social media, job hunting was relatively simple. Job hunters perused the classifieds, made cold calls, and many times just showed up with a resume in hand. There has been a dramatic change in the last decade in how people find and get jobs, and NPs are no exception. For those seeking employment now, there is a wealth of resources available from mega employment websites to specialty blogs. Finding a job as an NP may not be a big challenge, but landing the position that you have passionately prepared for and pursued is going to take some work. A well-crafted cover letter and resume may be necessary items, but it may not be enough to get you exactly where you want to be. With so many opportunities and career trajectories available to NPs today, you need to focus and get serious about what you want to do and where you want to do it.

Directions

In this Assignment, you will develop your own strategic career plan for starting your new career as an NP. There are many steps that need to be accomplished. Use the following guidelines to design your career plan. You do not need to include references. This is a plan that you may layout how you wish. Be creative, and really think about what you desire as a nurse practitioner. As everyone will have different goals, there are no right or wrong answers in this plan.

Determinant of Health Issue

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Using the ASTDD definition of “issue brief,” write an issue brief for your assigned determinant of health from the perspective of a supplier, demander, or provider. You should write this as if you were a subject matter expert for a fictitious organization. Based on Chapter 4 in your textbook, the issue brief should be focused on as many steps in the development as possible.

Be sure to include a description of your organization similar to the “About the Policy Center” paragraph on page 6 of the NMCOHPC brief.

5 pages

no plagiarism

reference must not be more than 5 years

Diet and Cancer

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Overview:

Nutrition Research Paper (100 points):You will write a short paper (4+ pages of writing) about a nutrition topic from the list provided in Blackboard. Your paper should contain at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles as sources. Your paper should explain & discuss the major points of each reference. For research articles, discuss the research design, major findings, and major conclusions. Include your own evaluation of the information in these articles: What, in your opinion, is the significance of the information or findings in your 3 articles?

Nutrition Topic Ideas: any essential nutrient (a vitamin or mineral, or a carbohydrate, protein, or fat), a health risk (or risks) of poor vitamin D status, calcium & bone health, folate & pregnancy, diet and cancer risk, diet & blood pressure, health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, pros and cons of vegetarianism (or meat eating), organic foods and nutrition, health effects of sugar, health effects of caffeine (or coffee), health benefits of nut consumption, the Mediterranean Diet, DASH Diet, diet and dementia risk, health benefits of a phytochemical (find one to write about), health effects of a sweetener (pick one), health effects of dietary fiber, health effects of probiotics, energy metabolism, vitamin D and stress fractures, Creatine supplements for athletes, female athlete triad, energy drinks, effects of breakfast consumption for children, obesity prevention in children, nutrition requirements of athletes (such as body builders or endurance athletes), and many more! Find a nutrition topic that interests you!

Use of Interface Terminologies

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Read the attached article:

How Interface Terminology Makes Standardized Health Information Possible

Using the information presented in the attached article along with your other readings this week, and any additional research you would like to perform, develop a PowerPoint presentation (4-6 slides) about the use of Interface terminologies. Be sure to include notes with your slides to add additional information. In addition to your content slides, make sure to add a title slide and a reference slide! Follow the RUBRIC attached!

Guidelines

Length: 4 – 6 slides

Format: Follow the correct APA Style and include all required components.

Determinants of Health

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Below you will find your assigned health disparity for your assignments this quarter. I would suggest that, in addition to your chapter reading, that you also review pp. 4-8 and 21-33 of your text. In addition, below is an excellent resource from WHO:

Assigned topic : Nutrition

In your research on your assigned determinant of health, you have undoubtedly come across information that leads to more questions. This is your opportunity to post at least one of those questions and your peers will attempt to answer it or lead you to additional information. Your questions can be on a specific point, potential policy recommendation, or another pertinent concern.350 words reference must not be more than 5 years

Marketing Strategy For Scarlet Hospital

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Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

  1. Based on the textbook’s summary of Timothy’s philosophy of continually striving for excellence, determine whether or not Scarlet Hospital was prepared to compete with the establishment in Salem even before the highway improvement mandated such an upgrade in delivery health care services.
  2. Examine the potential lessons that the Stopping Outshopping case could teach health care executives about complacency.
  3. Evaluate the potential value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces analysis and SWOT Analysis for effective decision-making, in its ability to help Scarlet Hospital protect its market share and thus decrease the chance of losing patients to other institutions in Salem.
  4. Appraise the value of the Balanced Scorecard model in its ability to help Scarlet Hospital executives reinforce its defensive marketing strategy.
  5. Propose a one-page offensive marketing strategy (i.e. communication, branding, innovation, etc.) that Scarlet Hospital should deploy in order to turn the table on Salem-based health care providers and improve its competitive marketing position.
  6. Use at least five quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Developing a Balanced Scorecard

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LaTonya Busby

RE: Discussion – Week 8

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Developing a Balanced Scorecard

Balanced scorecards (BSC) are used by many international organizations either alone or in combination with other techniques to measure performances and manage strategies (Yilmaz, & Antmen, 2019). Mitigating problems within an organization can be facilitated by using a balanced scorecard to develop goals. The scorecard uses numeric data to highlight areas that are doing well or may need to be revised. The measures of performance from the BSC can be used to provides employees and leaders with insight to look more closer at current processes. The strategies surrounding the BSC include financial, customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth (Panggabean, & Jermias, 2020).

As it relates to my project, I would create the BSC by obtaining data from financial summaries, customer satisfaction surveys, employee feedback, and past reviews from JCAHO. The BSC framework allows organizations to monitor, measure, and track the alignment of financial and nonfinancial performance aligned with their strategies and visions (Dhamayantie, 2018). This information will be used to compare and contrast from previous years to provide a baseline. The organizational goals will then be developed and established based on this information to improve customer service, the delivery of patient care, and set new financial goals. The BSC is meant to improve communication within the organization, increase visibility, and improve compliance. From a business mindset, the ultimate goal and focus of the BSC is to grow the organization through improvements which in return will increase the amount of revenue. To evaluate the effectiveness of the BSC, I would monitor progress at least quarterly to look for improvements and to see if additional changes should be made.

Cancer Caregivers

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Course Project: Developing a Strategic Plan

In Week 6, you began to develop a summary of the issue you are addressing through your Course Project. This week, you continue to refine the summary and engage in a SWOT analysis related to the identified unmet need.

Section 1: Summary of the Issue

As introduced in Week 6,continue to develop, write, and refine a 2- to 3-page summary of the issue you are addressing through the creation of a strategic plan. (Refer to Week 6 for the preparatory instructions as necessary).

To complete:

Create a 2- to 3-page summary of the issue, in which you identify and/or describe:

  • The unmet need and how it is evident in the specific group, unit, or organization
  • The mission, vision, and values of the group, unit, or organization
  • Background, including:
    • Data from historical analysis and forecasting
    • Evidence from the literature
    • What has been attempted in the past by various individuals and groups to address this need
    • Which stakeholders should be included in the strategic planning process
  • Initial vision for addressing this need at the institutional or systems level, including at least one strategic goal
  • Broader issues to be considered

DISTINGUISH BETWEEN “WILDNESS” AND “WILDERNESS”? ACCORDING TO LEWIS

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Week 2: E-response to Lewis, Simpson, and Alone

For this week’s e-response, please read the pieces by Michael Lewis 

Actionsand Sherry Simpson,Actions watch the Season 1, Episode 1 of Alone (Links to an external site.), and respond to the following questions:

1.  In American Wilderness: A New History, Michael Lewis argues that “wilderness is simultaneously a real thing and a human construction.”  What does he mean by this?  How does he distinguish between “wildness” and “wilderness”? According to Lewis, how have (western) ideas of wilderness have changed over time?

2. Both Sherry Simpson and the contestants in Alone have chosen to live on their own in the wilderness for a period of time.  What similarities and differences do you find between their experiences?  How do they narrate their relationship with nature?  What connections do you see between these relationships and the history that Lewis described?  Cite specific examples from both text and film to support your answers.

3.  Select a specific scene that stood out to you in both Simpson’s essay and Alone.  What happened in these scenes?  What is your reaction to them?

4.  Each of these pieces use Humanities-based approaches to consider human relationships with nature.  Lewis primarily relied upon environmental history, Simpson engaged in nature writing, and Alone used documentary film (the reality TV-esque version).  Which of these approaches did you find most effective and why?

Your e-response must be at least 400 words in length (total, all answers combined).  It may be longer if you wish.  Thank you!

-Natural and Unnatural Categories

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Week 2: Small Group Discussion–Natural and Unnatural Categories – Natural/Unnatural Categories 1

For this week’s Small Group Discussion, I’d like you to consider the words “natural” and “unnatural.”

For full credit, you must make two posts:

1.  In your own words, how would you define “natural” and “unnatural”?  Specifically, where would you draw the line between natural and unnatural?  Why?  As part of your answer, please include an image, film clip, poem, or piece of art that represents one of these words for you.  Explain why you have selected this representation. Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

2.  Respond to a fellow student in this small group (i.e. what other thoughts, ideas, and/or questions did their definitions inspire for you?).  This response must be at least 200 words in length.

As always, please make sure that your responses are respectful of others in your group.