Day: January 2, 2020

Discuss social determinants of health. What are they and how do they contribute to the development of disease? Describe the chain of infection. What are some ways community health nurses can break this chain? Provide specific examples.

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook

For teacher inquiry, reflection, and growth to be successful, early childhood programs must support the conditions for mentoring and professional development. After reading the text, with special attention to Table 8.5 Reflecting on Conditions Conducive to Reflective Supervision and Professional Learning.

 

Explain how you might respond if you were a coach working with a program with observable growth opportunities in the ability to support professional learning, reflection, and mentoring. Using the text and one outside source, address the following in your initial post

You must respond to both A and B; and C or D:

1. Discuss what you perceive to be the two most important conditions a program can have to support professional learning. Provide a rational to support your selection.
2. Identify and explain the two conditions that you perceive are most likely to derail a supportive professional learning environment
3. Discuss the potential benefits and/or disadvantages of first working with the supervisor, administrator, or program manager to increase his or her skills in reflective supervision prior to working with an entire staff.
4. Describe one program setting with which you are familiar to share with your peers (i.e., Head Start, family childcare, for-profit preschool, etc.) and the best choices for coaching for increasing the learning potential at this type of program.

A critical part of the mentoring process is creating a visible action plan that captures a group’s theory of change. After reading the chapter, focus on the section titled Make Your Project Visible and use Table 8.3 (do not confuse this with Figure 8.3); reflect on how to put a mentoring plan into action. In one-page minimum, address the following questions:

 

• How might making a mentoring project’s available resources (e.g., the assets that include time, money, partners, research, and available mentoring expertise) visible allow for thoughtful review by a planning team before, during, and after the project?

• How would identifying a mentoring project’s activities and processes (e.g., observing documenting, reflecting, analysis, application, feedback, goal-setting, and modeling) allow for adjustment before, during, and after a project?

• How does identifying the expected outcomes for both children and adults involved in a mentoring project increase the chance that the outcomes will be met?

• As you reflect on this course, identify and briefly discuss a theme/idea that resonates with you as a leader who is invested in supporting the learning and development of the adults and children involved in early childhood education.

 If you were to choose a method or combination of methods to assess the viability of a capital project, what method(s) would you chose and why? Your answer should be in your own words.

2. In your own words, describe the four primary methods for assessing the viability of capital projects.

3. If you were the CEO of your organization and were faced with a cash-rich scenario, would you use the cash to issue dividends or buy back stock? What impact would your decision have on earnings per share? Justify and defend your choice with sound reasoning. Your answer should be in your own words.

4. What are the three elements of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital formula? Which of the elements are impacted by taxes? Your answer should be in your own words.

5. When using the Internal Rate of Return method to assess capital projects, what is a common pitfall that might occur if an organization consistently chooses projects with the highest IRR? Your response should be in your own words.

6. What are the five key ways free cash flow is used? How does this relate to an organization s financial plan?

7. If you had started your own business and were contemplating expansion, would you choose to finance your expansion with debt or equity? Justify and defend your choice with sound reasoning. Your answer should be in your own words.

8. What are the key strengths and weaknesses of the Internal Rate of Return method of assessing capital projects? Your answer should be in your own words.

9. Which capital evaluation methods take into consideration the time value of money? What is the time value of money an important element of the capital budgeting process? Your response should be in your own words.

Meet requirements

no plagiarism 

meet deadline 

You are a manager of a large retail outlet and have been employed with the organization for four years. The retail outlet employs approximately one hundred employees and has a number of management roles (Several Assistant Managers, several Managers, two Senior Manager, and a Director). For the last two years, you have been an Assistant Manager and have received what would be considered fair compensation for your role.

Over the last year, you have been asked to take on many of the responsibilities of a Manager, as one of the Senior Managers left the company and your Manager has essentially taken on that role. Your additional duties have caused you some stress and you would like to ask for either a promotion to a management position or, at minimum, additional compensation. You’ve previously expressed your frustrations to your Manager, but have been told that the company simply doesn’t have the ability to make any changes at this time. You have decided to approach your Manager again and ask for a meeting with the management team to discuss your future with the company.

Although you would prefer to take the promotion along with an accompanying pay raise, you are willing to accept a modest pay raise. If neither is agreed to, you have decided to begin looking for work at another organization. A friend of yours has let you know that she would be interested in talking with you about the possibility of taking a management position with her organization. Because of your time with your current company, you would prefer to stay there if possible. As you are a very shrewd negotiator, you have decided to use the Negotiation Planning Guide (Table 4.2) on Page 98 of your text.

Additional information that is useful in answering this question: 1. Your current salary is $44,000 per year. 2. The average salary for a Manager is $54,000 per year and also includes an additional week of Paid Time Off.

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the issues in the upcoming negotiation?
2. Based on a review of all the issues, what is the “bargaining mix”? (Which issues do you need to cover? Which issues are connected to the other issues?)
3. What are your interests?
4. What is your resistance point – what is your walkaway?
5. What is your alternative?
6. Define your targets and asking price – where will you start and what are your goals?
7. Who are your constituents and what do they want you to do?
8. Who are the opposing negotiators and what do they want?
9. What overall strategy do you want to select?
10. What protocol needs to be followed in conducting the negotiation?

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write between 650-700 words using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.  

Getting Organized and Putting the Pieces Together

The police and citizens often have different viewpoints about community policing. Community policing can be very labor intensive and the police of often have numerous different types of pressure on them from a variety of locations within the jurisdiction.

For this week’s assignment you are to evaluate how a police agency should deal with the multitude of different types of requests for service that they have and still be able to engage in a robust community-policing effort. Assess how a well-functioning community-oriented policing program can lessen the stress on law enforcement manpower. Determine how the police and citizen groups can effectively communicate with each other.

Write a 2 page APA style paper.  Only the body of the paper will count toward the word requirement (title page and references are in addition to the 2 pages)

In your paper, cite at least 2-3 references using the APA style guide format for in-text citation.

Job Search

A well-developed resume remains an essential element of successfully obtaining a job.  

This is a multi-part assignment.

Part 1: Conduct resarch and write a 1 page paper. Instructions include:

• Online Job Search – Conduct an online job search and identify a position you might be interested in applying for.  
• In your paper, discuss your online search and how you went about finding the position.
• Also, describe the job and how your background matches the requirements of the position. (Minimum length of 1 page).

[Notes:  If you’re in the military and have no plans of discharging in the near future, focus on a civilian job that you would like to transition into following your military career.  If your circumstances do not allow you to work, consider volunteer activities within your community that you would like to be a part of.]

Part 2:  Develop and write a 1-2 page resume.

• Write a 1-2 page resume, designed to compete for the position you researched and chose in Part 1 of this assignment. 
• Your finished product (research and resume) should be a total of 2-3 pages in length.

Include a title sheet.