WEEK 10
Reflection #2
Complete this week’s assigned readings, chapters 70, 72, 74. After completing the readings, post a short reflection, approximately 1 paragraph in length, discussing your thoughts and opinions about one or several of the specific topics covered in the textbook readings pertaining to health policy and politics. Identify which one MSN Essential most relates to your selected topic in your discussion.
Each of your responses should be no more than three pages double spaced.
1. Researchers at the School of Education have been funded to design a state-of- the-art measurement system to improve our understanding of undergraduate student experiences and outcomes. The research is currently designing survey questionnaires and other instruments to field with a sample of undergraduates in the Fall. Based on the readings and class discussions, what types of things would sociologists, economists, psychologists and historians want to ask undergraduate students about? In what ways would information from this study help the university improve undergraduate education? How might the focus of the survey we field next year be similar or different than one researchers might have deployed in the beginning of the twentieth century? Please be sure to cite class readings in your response.
2.How has racial segregation and growing economic inequality contributed to inequalities in educational conditions and outcomes? Cite research and scholarship covered in class from at least three of the four disciplines (i.e., economics, history, psychology, sociology) in your response.
3.This course has analyzed the ways in which four different disciplines consider education policy and practice. Imagine that you are teaching in a school and have been asked to help to develop policies to address important school issues, including a high drop out rate and a large immigrant population. Choose one of those two issues and discuss how each of the disciplines might think about school policies. Your answer should draw on the lecture themes.
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Composition deals with the overall readability and meaning of the project. As noted by Kirk (2016), the topic of composition is divided into project-level and chart-level options.
Use only the figures listed below from the book companion site. Do not use any figure from the text. Visit the book companion site and only select two figures from the list provided.
For the two figures, include the figure number and the title from the book companion site.
Provide the responses to the following for each figure separately. List the figure number and title and the responses to each item listed below. Then, list the second figure number and title and the response to each item listed below.
1. How are the choices and deployment of these composition properties suitable to the figure? Why do these choices work for this figure? What are some changes you think would enhance the visual?
2. Provide a different visual design choice for the figure and describe the reasons for the new composition. Provide pros and cons to the new design choices.
Page: 278 | Figure: 10.1 -“City of Anarchy” by Simon Scarr (South China Morning Post)
Page: 279 | Figure: 10.2 – “Filmographics” by Andy Kirk and Matt Knott
Page: 281 | Figure: 10.3 -“ER Wait Watcher: Which Emergency Room Will See You the Fastest?” by Lena Groeger, Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ProPublica)
Page: 281 | Figure: 10.4 – “Rain Patterns” by Jane Pong (South China Morning Post)
Page: 282 | Figure: 10.5 -“On Broadway” by Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur, and Lev Manovich
Page: 283 | Figure: 10.6 -“The 200+ Beer Brands of SAB and AB InBev” by Maarten Lambrechts for Mediafin
Page: 284 | Figure: 10.8 – “Kasich Could Be The GOPs Moderate Backstop” by FiveThirtyEight
Page: 286 | Figure: 10.9 – “Coral Cities” by Craig Taylor, Data Visualisation Design Manager at Ito World
Page: 288 | Figure: 10.11 – “Doping under the microscope” by S. Scarr and W. Foo (Reuters Graphics)
Page: 289 | Figure: 10.12 – “Losing Ground” by Bob Marshall, The Lens, Brian Jacobs and Al Shaw (ProPublica)
Page: 290 | Figure: 10.13 – “The Worst Board Games Ever Invented” by FiveThirtyEight
Reference: Kirk, A. (2016). Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (p. 50). SAGE Publications.
“Ten Sessions” on This American Life. This podcast is about an adult describing her
treatment for trauma related to sexual assault.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/682/ten-sessions
To receive extra credit respond to the following questions about the podcast you listened to Answers can be up to four sentences:
1. Which podcast did you listen to?
2. What was the most interesting part of the treatment to you?
3. What is one thing the client learned in treatment?
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Design a Pay for Performance Plan based on efficiency, equity, and compliance. Explore four major goals that are Pay for Performance Based.
Your plan should be at least three pages long, and include two scholarly external resources.
reply to the students’ response and not the question in 150 words minimum and provide 1 reference. Respond to the students response as though you are talking to them, use name
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Please share three relevant things you have learned last week about your project , and cite sources (maybe documents or data), people or things you met or talked to, to gather information. Thanks.
students response
Three relevant factors to the development of my business plan for a Natural Food Broker within the convenience channel that I have learned this week and had not anticipated:
Because the food broker industry is difficult to measure because companies tend to be small, private, and regional (Salmans, 1982, para 4). I had to pivot and look at the driving factors of the food and retail industries, along with consumer trends which drive the demand for food brokers. Th scope of this is a bigger than initially anticipated.
As I was writing the initial plan, I was entirely focused on the C-store as the customer, and entirely missed the Brand as the actual customer, so I had to go back and re-rewrite some of my plan with this in mind. Although, the C-store customer is a relevant factor, the initial customer is the supplier and that is how a food broker generates revenue.
I met with a reputable natural food broker that has been operating for almost 5 years in the foodservice channel. I interviewed John Hein with The Advance Natural Group to understand how the financials work or pass through from the supplier to the broker. One big call out he made was that there are often times the Supplier does not pay on time. This may have a significant impact on the amount of on-hand cash that is necessary to keep operating month to month. Paying employees is a major function and greatest expenses a food broker has. He was able to identify about a third of suppliers pay behind schedule and that a solid contract proves to have some effectiveness when attempting to collect.
Salmans, S. (1982, April 23). Food industrys middlemen. The New York Times. Retrieved
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I want you to assume that I am the CEO of the company. Prepare a memo to me advising me on what I should do concerning the situation. I don’t think you can do this in less than a page and a half or so. I have no requirements as to format. However, I do want you to tell me where you got the material for your answer. You can use any source you wish, from the text book, to the internet.
See attached for additional information.
Assignment Content
Purpose of Assignment
The materials covered this week distinguish between the different costing methods and provide needed tools for decision making. This case study focuses on determining equivalent units in a production business setting.
Assignment Steps
Scenario: Davis Skaros has recently been promoted to production manager. He has just started to receive various managerial reports, including the production cost report you prepared. It showed his department had 2,000 equivalent units in ending inventory. His department has had a history of not keeping enough inventory on hand to meet demand. He has come to you, very angry, and wants to know why you credited him with only 2,000 units when he knows he had at least twice that many on hand.
Prepare a maximum 700-word informal memo:
1.) Respectfully explain to Mr. Skaros why his production cost report showed only 2,000 equivalent units in ending inventory.
2.) Using a professional tone, explain to him clearly why your report is accurate.
3.) Please include an example to help explain to him what equivalent units are and how they differ from completed units in inventory.
You may use bullet points in the memo to help guide your explanation.
Please use a reference page and in-text citing in APA format when outside sources are used.
I’ve included 2 slideshows to help with this assignment.
reply to the students’ response and not the question in 150 words minimum and provide 1 reference. Respond to the students response as though you are talking to them, use name
question
Please share three relevant things you have learned last week about your project , and cite sources (maybe documents or data), people or things you met or talked to, to gather information. Thanks.
students response
One of the concerns I have was diving in to the potential real estate markets to find potential sites for development. I spoke with a friend of mine Sam Collins about what my potential options would be. He suggested Camarillo, CA as a great potential market. There is lot of adult facilities, senior living, and memory facilities in the area. They city is not a stringent on getting licensing and getting documentation done. He mentioned to me that pricing is still somewhat fair for an acquisition.
I sat with an accountant, David Zadeh, to describe the M&A background on what potential costs would be. One issue that continuously arises is securing a loan to acquire the real estate and for development. The plan laid out with David was potentially one route of acquiring the real estate developing and then doing a sale leaseback to gain back all the capital contributed to the project. That way that leaves us with a focus on the people and not worrying about underlying debt. The drawback is that you won’t own the real estate and you have a landlord to deal with afterwards.
A concern that arose was finding the right staff. We spoke with several colleagues of my brother who are family medicine doctors and some neurologists. We spoke with my wife and her colleagues who are nurses and nurse practitioners that will be required for daily needs. After our review, we had to maintain our labor around 30-40% potentially, however with the way that costs have arose through this proforma. The MD’s will be the x-factor in deciding how many we bring on board because they have a significant cost compared to nurses and nurse practitioners. The nurses and nurse practitioners are close to half the amount of labor payroll. There is a method used by the urgent care space where they have one MD on staff and the rest are all nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
Resources:
Sam Collins, Real Estate Agent, CALBRE
David Zadeh, Business Consultant
Dr. Daniel Aminpour MD, Dr, Shawn Banafshein, MD, Mrs. Lina Aminpour RN, Mrs. Jacqueline Farnam, FNP
