...vomiting. Eventually the nausea ceased but his stomach was still upset. The following day he called Dr. Martin, his primary health care physician. Betty, the doctor’s nurse assisted him over the phone and after the professor explained his condition she told him that Dr. Martin cannot see to him because of his packed schedule. The professor asked for a referral to go to the HealthCheck Clinic but the nurse declined claiming that Dr. Martin is not willing to send him there and was instead prescribed with medicine for the diarrhea. The prescription was placed in the pharmacy for the professor to pick up. Unsatisfied, the professor called up Candy, the director of the Employee Benefits Office, but Wendy picked up and relayed everything to Candy who then expressed her surprise and distress over the situation. She too did not understand that the request for a referral was denied as the professor asked for it. The professor picked up the medicine from the pharmacy, drove home, took a pill, and went to bed. The following day the diarrhea was under control but the gastric discomfort was still a problem. He decided to go to work but in the afternoon he gave up and went home. He called Dr. Martin’s office and once again Betty answered the phone. She informed him that the doctor is out all afternoon and still claimed that the doctor refuses to refer him to HealthCheck. Betty believed that Dr. Martin would want the professor to go to the emergency room. Beyond irritated, the professor decided...
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...Case Study, Stage 4: IT, Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Considerations for Proposed EHR Technology Solution Part 1 KAREO EHR is the proposed solution for UMUC family clinic. It’s benefits include being free for initial start-up, provides secure cloud-based technology and meets the highest standards for maintaining data confidentiality and secure sharing of information (Kareo, n/d). The recommended hardware for UMUC were 1 Desktop Macintosh: Intel or PowerPC G5 with 2GB or more of RAM, 3 iPad Air laptop for examination rooms, 5 Mbps or greater, Firefox 28 or higher on Mac OS X, Apple iOS 5/6 Communications will come from local phone and internet provider (e.g. Verizon or Comcast) both of the options provide high speed service. KAREO also offers Dr. Martin and his staff with a support staff for any issues pertaining to the program. It will also be vital that Dr. Martin, Vivian and Manuella are up to speed and trained equally on the hardware and software. With all member of this team being trained, it will ensure that it can improve the patient visit process currently at the clinic, in addition to the investment of patient check-in kiosk which can alleviate the 1-2 wait times also allowing the nurses to spend more time prepping rooms, attending to patients and less time at the front desk....
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...University of Phoenix Material Case Study—Memorial Health System CPOE Implementation Memorial Health System is an eight-hospital integrated health care system in the Midwestern United States. The health system has two downtown flagship tertiary care hospitals, each licensed for more than 700 beds, located in the two major metropolitan areas served by the system. The remaining six hospitals are community-based facilities, ranging in size from 200 to 400 beds. These hospitals are located in the suburban and rural areas served by Memorial Health System. Four years ago, the system’s board of directors approved a multi-million-dollar initiative to install an enterprise-wide clinician provider order entry (CPOE) system intended to dramatically reduce medical errors. Today, the system is far from fully implemented, and, in fact, has been removed from all but one of the two tertiary care facilities, where it remains in pilot adopter status. At the time, the board approved the CPOE initiative, the project was championed by Fred Dryer, the CEO, and was closely supported by Joe Roberts, the chief information officer (CIO) of the health system. Even during its proposal and evaluation by the board, the project was considered controversial by some of the health system’s stakeholders. For example, many of its physicians, who are community-based independent providers, were adamantly opposed to the CPOE system. They worried that their workload would increase because CPOE systems replace...
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...Biography of Andrew Jackson Young Jr. Who was Andrew Young Jr.? Most people immediately associate him with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and the Civil Rights Movement. I chose to write about Andrew Young because of his strong feelings about the rights of black Americans. He felt that everyone, black or white, should have equal rights. Andrew fought along the side of Martin Luther King, Jr. and continued the work after King's death. The Civil Rights Movement required many dedicated and determined souls. Andrew Young, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of peace who believed in using love vice hate to settle disagreements. He accomplished many wonderful things to help Martin Luther King's Dream live on. Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born March 12, 1932, in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the depths of the Great Depression and Jim Crow segregation. His grandfather had been a successful businessman who had operated a drugstore, a pool hall, and a saloon. His father, Andrew Young Sr. was a dentist and his mother Daisy Fuller Young was a school teacher. The Young’s were among the elite of the city’s black population, which was largely poor and uneducated. Dr. Young Sr. could have afforded to live in a well-to-do white neighborhood, but no one would sell to him.(African American pg 104) .His parents were always very supportive of Andrew and his brother Walter. His parents always taught them the importance of religion and education and to treat others with respect...
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...close friends helps in understanding the person and factors that led to the situation they face. Thus, in this aspect, this constitutes the Bowen Systems Theory, which has the sole purpose of assisting the psychiatric examination and assessment of patients (Bowen, Rawlins, & Martin, 2010). To understand the theory, the discussion further leads to the diagnostics and treatments available through this theory. Additionally, there are various journals written on the subject that provide a critical analysis of the Bowen theory. Thus, there is an illustration of the journal presented. Understanding the Topic Murray Bowen was an American Psychiatrist who studied and taught psychiatry as a professor in the Georgetown University. He was a bright fellow who designed and developed the initial prototype of the current Bowen system theory. However, he worked in conjunction with other professors and psychiatrist who assisted him in pioneering the theory. He began his interest while at the Menniger Clinic in Topeka, Kansa, where he was studying psychiatry in the period 1946 to 1954 (Murray, 2010). It was while at the place that he read various biology topics and aspects of evolution. Through this extensive study, the effect was a cause in the change of his perception of human functioning....
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...IT Project Implementation Failures Debra Carr HCS/483 August 7, 2014 James Thames IT Project Implementation Failures The typical information technology (IT) implementation begins once the health care organization has the IT system in place in the building and continues through the first weeks that the IT system is in real time use by the employees. The implementation process must be carefully planned, organized, announced to all employees, and followed closely throughout the following weeks while the IT system is installed. It is important for the management team to announce the IT project. The reason for the project, why the project is being implemented now, and the benefits of the project need to be communicated to all the employees. The CEO or COO should make the initial announcement so that all the employees understand that the project is approved at the top level. The CEO needs to display confidence and pride concerning the entire process. Once the instillation begins and throughout the process, the CEO should continue to update the employees on the progress of the project and any problems that are encountered. He should talk about his vision of the successful completion of the project and how it will benefit both the employees and the health care company. The senior executive should announce the establishment of an Implementation Team which will plan, manage, budget, and coordinate the IT project. The goals and objectives must be established. This...
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... The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. Anyone watching a television on this important evening knew that everything had changed. Barak Hussein Obama had just been elected the 45th President of the United States of America, and he represented the first African American to ever win this office. To many the election was a fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream for social and political equality for African Americans. Still others, including the newly elected President, reached back to Lincoln. President Obama would also, invoke the founding fathers, giving credit to the social experiment that democracy is and thus hinting to the efforts of Washington and others. The days that followed the Obama election would be filled with symbolism leading to the concert on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, and the day of service, called by the President, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the day before inauguration. The election of President Obama seemed to have brought full circle the experiment of democracy. The dreams of the founding fathers were present, the echo of Lincoln’s consequential Presidency were present, and certainly the dreams and speeches of Dr. King were front and center in this cultural moment. Yet the cultural moment represented so much more than a continuum of ideas and dreams of significant men. This moment was one of the first major societal changes in a generation. Perhaps not Ironically, the election of Barak Obama had ripple effects...
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... Dr. Scott Morris is the founder and director of the Church Health Center in Memphis Tennessee; America’s largest faith-based clinic. Dr. Morris is also the associate minister at St. John's United Methodist Church in Memphis. Dr. Morris’s ministries provide health care for the working poor and uninsured in Memphis and promote both a healthy physical body and a healthy spiritual body. Dr. Morris as a pastor and a medical doctor has written a new book, Health Care You Can Live With: Discover Wholeness in Body and Spirit in which be provides a unique view of the church and the medical industry and how they can each be a place of healing. He is a firm believer that health care through the government will not work, but has proven through his Church Health Center in Memphis that there is a real way for health care to work. See figure 1 in the appendix for a picture of Dr. Morris. Focus on the Leader The GOOD Dr. Morris’s leadership of the Church health Center in Memphis is outstanding. When the governments’ health care program is incapable of functioning effectively, from Dr. Morris’s book, Health Care You Can Live With, (see Figure 2 in the appendix for a view of the book’s cover), we have learned that his nonprofit health care center is treating 55,000 patients a year with only a 13 million dollar budget. This is equivalent to 100 million dollars a year that the government would spend for the same services provided by Dr. Morris’s...
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...Preface : 1. Why was the Supreme Court case, Plessy Vs. Ferguson, important? Plessy v. Ferguson accomplished the ?separated but equal?. 2. What was the impact of Plessy Vs. Ferguson on the lives of African Americans and minority groups such as Hispanic, Japanese, and Chinese? The separated but equal gave more rights to the people making it spread also to other races. Chapter 1 Rosa parks Rosa parks was a lady born from Louise McCauley. She is famous for her bravery on not refusing her seat after a long day at work. As the driver asked her to get up and she denied because she said she didn?t had to give a white passenger her seat for them to be Comfortable. After that she was arrested but recognize...
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...Diploma, Business and Management, Group A- LI CHOR KUE, (VIVIAN) Student number: 21003934 Tutor: Miss. Alison Bailey Date: 16 November 2010 Due date of submission: 30 November 2010 Business and Management (BAM) Nationwide Case study Part B Essay Nationwide have decided that home-working and flexible working opportunities are necessary for their business to be competitive. a) It is assumed that individuals will often have a preference for home-working because of achieving what is referred to as work-life balance. However, what factors are suggested in the case that may go against this idea, and demonstrating your understanding of the theories, discuss the reasons that this way of working may not suit all individuals. b) Managing a team of people in this kind of situation requires specialist skills from manager. Using examples from the case discuss the particular challenges managers face, and what the theories add to our understanding. a) Homeworking is paid work tasks carried out at home on a permanent basis. Generally speaking, it is a contractual arrangement which allows an individual to work at home- a kind of virtual team. It is one of the flexible employment options where workers are in electronic contact with a central office. Work-life balance is about people having a measure of control over when, where and how they work. “It is achieved when an individual's right to a fulfilled life inside and outside paid work is accepted and respected as the norm...
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...communicate their expectations to students. It is a comprehensive, systematic method of classroom management. It was developed on the basis of four concepts: “(a) behavior is a choice, (b) every student has a right to learn in an environment that is free from disruption, (c) every teacher has the right to teach without disruption from students, and (d) no child should engage in behavior that is not in the child's best interest.” (Canter & Canter, 1976) These guidelines are expressed and supported by a discipline plan. The discipline plan includes positive and negative consequences for behavior in the classroom. Teachers will assert the rules and enforce them with progressive consequences during the day. One important element is that in most cases, the slate is clean each day. Students begin each day on the same level and only lose privileges when rules are broken. This method is widely used in classrooms across the country. (Fox, 1990). Another approach to classroom management is called Discipline with Dignity. This approach is a flexible program for effective school and classroom management that teaches responsible thinking, cooperation, mutual respect and shared decision-making. This approach...
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...San José State University Lucas College and Graduate School of Business Department of Marketing and Decision Sciences Summer Session, June 2 to July 3, 2014 Course Number: Title: Section: Semester: Year: Instructor: Office Location: Telephone: Email: Office Hours: Class Days/Time: Classroom: Prerequisites: BUS2 190-01/30275 Quantitative Business Analysis 01 Summer 2014 Dr. Yudhi Ahuja, Ph.D. BT-752 (408) 924-3507 Yudhi.Ahuja@sjsu.edu Walk in: Before and After the Class Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. BBC 224 MATH 71 (or 70) / BUS 90 Course Web Site This course syllabus may be found on my faculty web page accessible at p://www.cob.sjsu.edu/ahuja_y or at https://sjsu.instructure.com/login. Major assignment handouts, sample workbooks, etc. are made available in https://sjsu.instructure.com/login. You are responsible for regularly checking the Calendar and Course News in Canvas to keep up with ongoing developments during the course. Course Description .Quantitative models and optimization systems used in problemsolving. Studies of decision criteria, statistical decision making, linear programming, inventory control, Project Scheduling/Management Theory, PERT/CPM, simulation, and other techniques used in management. Course Goals and Student Learning Objectives. The course will emphasize basic principles of mathematical modeling, computational algorithms and spreadsheet computer solutions of optimization, decision analysis, simulation and network based methods applied...
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...Mathematics learning performance and Mathematics learning difficulties in China Ningning Zhao Promotor: Prof. Dr. Martin Valcke Co-promoter: Prof. Dr. Annemie Desoete Proefschrift ingediend tot het behalen van de academische graad van Doctor in de Pedagogische Wetenschappen 2011 This Ph.D research project was funded by Ghent University BOF Research Grant (BOF07/DOS/056) Acknowledgements There is still a long and indistinct way and I will keep on going to explore the unknown. 路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。 - Qu Yuan (340-278 BC) This dissertation would not have been possible unless so many persons contributed to it. The first person I should give my gratitude is Prof. dr. Cong Lixin in Beijing Normal University. It is she who recommanded me to my promoter - Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. Based on the cooperation contact between the two universities, I have the opportunity to start my journey in Ghent University. The fantasty journey started from Year 2007 gudided by the Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. I am heartily thankful to my promoter Prof. dr. Martin Valcke and my co-promotor Prof. dr. Annemie Desoete, whose encouragement, supervision and support from the preliminary to the concluding level enabled me to carry on the research project. My deepest gratitude is to Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. I am not a smart student who always give him so much revision work. It is extremely fortunate for me to have a promoter who is characterized by energy...
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...It is often expected that students who are from lower socioeconomic neighbourhoods are also African American, which is in turn associated with poor performance in schools. Studies have shown that teachers do not expect as much from their African American students (CITE), so will not challenge them as much (CITE), or are more likely to report them to the administrative offices for behaviour problems (CITE). This is particularly true of students who use AAE. By contrast, the use of SAE is associated with positive personality characteristics (CITE), success, and higher intelligence (CITE). Parents and adults in the African American community often express concern that if a child does not learn to speak the standard, they are less likely to get the economic benefits associated with SAE. Teachers often have negative attitudes towards students who speak AAE (Rickford, 1999: 283). In fact, 40% of teachers in a survey by Taylor (1973: 183) did not believe that AAE has structure or usefulness. Their opinions and knowledge...
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...For the exclusive use of B. Bai, 2015. 9-914-509 JANUARY 6, 2014 ROBERT J. DOLAN BENSON P. SHAPIRO ALISA ZALOSH StepSmart Fitness Introduction Ben Cooper opened his laptop and settled in for a weekend of work. It was Friday, September 7, 2012, ten weeks since he’d been unexpectedly promoted to district sales director for the New England region of StepSmart Fitness. On Monday, Cooper was to attend his first quarterly sales meeting with Caitlin Sheridan, the company’s newly appointed regional vice president of sales for the Northeast, and provide a detailed update on his ailing district. Cooper recalled his last conversation with Sheridan from ten days earlier: Ben, I know you’ve had a lot thrown at you these last few months as a result of the reorganization, with no help or information from your predecessor. I’m in the same boat here at the regional level. There’s been a lot of upheaval across the company since Mark Wallace became our CEO six months ago. Wallace hopes that we can improve our sales efforts in faltering districts and regions with high-performing talent like you in place; he is confident that sales revenue, morale, and productivity will soon improve. I was impressed by your success as a salesperson in New York, and enjoyed collaborating with you on the treadmill product last year. Despite your lack of managerial experience, I wanted you on my team because I felt you’d be able to quickly assess what’s wrong with the New England district...
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