Day: March 22, 2018

Strategic Financial Analysis

Using the Microsoft Excel workbook provided for this topic on LearnOnline, change the data to reflect your company’s results for the last three years. Your assignment needs to analyse:
1. Profitability using a Modified DuPont analysis
2. Investment management using Working Capital ratios
3. Financial management using Debt and Long-term solvency ratios
4. Sustainable growth rate for your company
5. Cash flow analysis
Please note that Chapter 5 of the textbook has detailed lists of the different ratios available for different types of analysis. Please also read the instructions contained in the Excel workbook. It is necessary to provide an interpretation of the calculated ratios so that your audience has a clear understanding of the implications of these results on their investment decision making.
Please research on this company and answer these questions in the summary. please put every reference otherwise no marks will be given.

Six Sigma Greenbelt Process

LVMH case study

1. What are the major elements of LVMH’s competitive strategy in the branded luxury products industry? How well do the pieces fit together? Is the strategy evolving? 2. How have LVMH’s corporate strategy choices strengthened or weakened its competitive position in the branded luxury products industry? 3. Is LVMH’s international strategy best characterized as a multidomestic strategy, global strategy, or transnational strategy? 4. Does it make good strategic sense for LVMH to compete in all of its current segments? Which of its product lines — Wine and Spirits, Fashion and Leather Goods, Perfumes and Cosmetics, Watches and Jewelry, Selective Retailing, and Other — do you think is/are most important to LVMH’s future growth and profitability? Should one or more of these current segments be discontinued? Why? 5. What is your assessment of LVMH’s financial performance over the 2012 – 2015 period? 6. What strategic issues confront LVMH in 2016? What market or internal circumstances should most concern CEO Bernard Arnault and his company’s senior leadership team? 7. What recommendations would you make to Arnault to address the strategic issues confronting LVMH in 2016 in order to sustain its impressive growth in revenues and profitability?

Nursing situation

Each discussion board group will select a nursing situation that a member has personally, experienced. The nursing situation will be related to one of various regions of the body studied during the semester. Each group will develop a presentation of the nursing situation. The presentation should include the nursing situation, how you came to know the patient as a caring person through the multiple ways of knowing, and provide at least two nursing interventions. The PowerPoint presentation should no more than 15 slides (including title and reference slides). Do not copy information from the internet, use your own words to outline the essential ideas you want to convey. The presentation will be presented by a representative from each group on Blackboard collaborate (see class schedule). The entire class is expected to attend the Blackboard collaborate session and learn from their colleagues.

Please see rubric for this assignment

Mr. Smith got admitted to step down unit, 6 weeks ago. According to his wife, Mr. Smith got food poisoned while on vacation in Colombia .They brought him back to the United States but within a two weeks his condition had deteriorated tremendously. Mr. Smith was experiencing weakness and tingling in his extremities then he became completely paralyzed. He could no longer speak but he could hear and understand everything. He couldn’t move any part of his body so he needed someone to turn him, bathe him etc. He got diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome which was a complete shock to nurses and family members. Mr. Smith was placed on a ventilator because he was having difficulty breathing and also he was placed on a feeding tube. His family members were very wealthy and very demanding and wanted nurses to stay in his room at all time. At the step down unit every nurses have only four patients because it is a critical floor. As a registered nurse, I believe that every patient deserve the same attention and care. We usually turned patients every two hours as per hospital policy however Mr. Smith’s family required that we turned him every 15 minutes.

Everyone on the unit was complaining about Mr. Smith because it was too much work and too demanding. Also, family members were very rude to nurses and were never satisfied with anything. However, on the other hand when I looked at his wife and kids I saw fear, pain and desperation. This family was in a lot of pain, they just wanted comfort and reassurance.  I often heard them saying to each other “we are going to get through this, this is not going to beat us” I could only feel pain and sympathy for them. Mrs. Smith on the other hand, seems like a very nice person even though he could not talk he was always smiling. How would a caring nurse do in this situation?

Identify one of the Essential Questions the poet explored in the poem

To what degree can an individual’s choices and actions influence the direction of his or her life?
Why is it important to be responsible to others on a personal, local, global, and digital level?
What does it mean to be successful, and what role does failure play?
How does an individual’s perspective of, and response to, a crisis define him or her?
Select three poetic techniques (e.g., tone, mood, figurative language, sound devices, poetic structure, imagery, diction) and examine how the poet used them to enhance the theme.

Hospitalized Patient and Collaborative Care Presentation

Hospitalized Patient and Collaborative Care Presentation
SDV 101 – Introduction to Health Professions
Syllabus
Introduction:
You will research your assigned career for the next two weeks and submit a written assignment on how your assigned career cares for the case study patient. You are detailing the information found on your hospitalized patient investigation and will upload your information onto the Discussion Board thread in Bb. The research and information you create will be focused on a single discipline and that disciplines role in the collaboration with other health professionals as well as the treatment of this individual.
Case:
A 65-year old female is transferred to your facility for evaluation prior to hip replacement surgery. Her medical history reveals a history of smoking (1 pack/day for 30 years) and is significant for hypertension and diabetes, both controlled with medication. Her medical history is also significant because she has been prone to heterotopic bone formation (the presence of bone where bone does not normally exist). The primary care physician is concerned that the risk of more heterotopic bone growth will negatively impact the success of the joint replacement surgery. The physician orders treatment for the heterotopic bone growth prior to the joint replacement surgery.
Health Professionals Involved with Collaborative Care:
Here are some questions/hints to get you started.
Nursing ( RN) – What are aspects to be included in your care plan? What education would you provide based on disease, diet and glucose? At what point in the comprehensive care of this patient would nursing care occur (pre-, mid-, post-surgery)?
Radiography (Registered Technologist in Radiography (RT), CT, MRI) – What images may be required in this treatment and why? Include pre-treatment, mid-treatment and post-treatment images.
Phlebotomy and Medical Lab Technician – What types of blood work, blood values might be needed and why? At what point in the comprehensive care of this patient would phlebotomy and MLT be needed (pre-, mid-, or post-surgery)?
Radiation Oncology – What is your role in the treatment of heterotopic bone growth? At what point in the comprehensive care of this patient would radiation therapy occur (pre-, mid-, or post-surgery)?
Dental Hygiene – What is the dental hygienists’ involvement in joint replacement surgery? Is the dental hygienist involvement with treatment of heterotopic bone growth? Diabetes? Smoking? At what point in the comprehensive care of this patient would dental hygiene care occur (pre-, mid-, or post-surgery)?
Assignment Guidelines:
Written (Due by April 5th):
1. Please see the attached rubric for grading method.
2. Paper is typed, double-spaced, and font-size ranges between 10-12 points. Margins are set at 1 inch. Appropriate length is 1-2 [ages.
3. Please be mindful of your grammar and spelling. If you have difficulty with this area, please visit the Writing Center. You WILL lose points for grammar and spelling. A healthcare professional must be able to write well.
4. Any reference format is acceptable. However, the proper writing rules for the chosen format apply whether using MLA, APA, etc.
5. Research using professional sources for information.
a. Acceptable Sources:
1. National Institutes of health
2. John Hopkins
3. Professional journals
b. Unacceptable Sources:
1. Roanoke Times
2. Yahoo
3. Wikipedia

6. List your references on one separate page.

Reading Research Literature – Week 5

Title: RRL

Name: [replace this text with your name]

The following questions pertain to:

Velayutham, S. G., Chandra, S. R., Bharath, S., & Shankar, R. G. (2017). Quantitative balance and gait measurement in patients with frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer diseases: A pilot study. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 39(2), 176-182. doi:10.4103/0253-7176.203132

• What is the purpose of this research?

• What is the research question (or questions)? This may be implicit or explicit.

• Give a complete description of the research design of this study.

• What is the population (sample) for this study?

• Was the sample approach adequate for the research design that was selected and explain why.

• Describe the data collection procedure.

• How were the data analyzed after collection?

• Discuss the limitations found in the study.

• Discuss the authors’ conclusions. Do you feel these conclusions are based on the data that they collected?

• How does this advance knowledge in the field?

The following questions pertain to:

Pals, R. S., Hansen, U. M., Johansen, C. B., Hansen, C. S., Jørgensen, M. E., Fleischer, J., & Willaing, I. (2015). Making sense of a new technology in clinical practice: a qualitative study of patient and physician perspectives. BMC Health Services Research, 15(1), 1-10. doi:10.1186/s12913-015-1071-1

• What is the purpose of this research?

• What is the research question (or questions)? This may be implicit or explicit.

• Give a complete description of the research design of this study.

• What is the population (sample) for this study?

• Was the sample approach adequate for the research design that was selected and explain why.

• Describe the data collection procedure.

• How were the data analyzed?

• Discuss the limitations found in the study?

• Discuss the authors’ conclusions. Do you feel these conclusions are based on the data that they collected?

• How does this advance knowledge in the field.

False Confessions & Mental Impairment

This is a full research paper that includes a clear introduction and thesis statement, analysis and conclusion. You must rely on the published scholarly literature (IMPORTANT)
Start off the paper by giving the example of Edgar Ellen Poe’s short story “The Tell Tale hearts” – use the confession of the protagonist and relate to the topic of this research paper and then get into the paper by touching upon the thesis etc.
You must talk about how mental impairment leads to false confessions, why people give false confessions,
The paper MUST integrate the systemic issues into your paper. Such issues contribute to every case, whether the accused is wrongfully convicted or not.
Canadian cases must also be referenced and used as examples. One American case can be used – the Stephen Avery case.
Conclude the paper with recommendations on what the Justice system can do to have mentally ill individuals confessions removed or not count. And give any other recommendations USING SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
The paper MUST CONSISTENTLY BE REFERENCED WITH SCHOLARLY ARTICLES.