...THE ACADEMY OF NORTHERN EXCELLENCE REDFINE YOUR SELF BY BECOMING YOUR POTENTIAL ASSIGNMENT II- FEASIBILITY STUDY FEBRUARY 29, 2016 Page |1 *** From here on out, The Academy of Northern Excellence will be abbreviated to “TANE” *** Table of Contents Page Number Executive Summary 2 Potential Market 3 Local Competitors 6 Product and/or Service Offering 9 Pricing strategy 10 Promotion Strategy and Budget 11 Distribution Plans 12 Cost/Profitability Analysis and Pro Forma Financial Statements 13 Future Plans 14 Appendix 15 Page |2 Executive summary My name is Jan Barbier, I have a degree in Kinesiology and certificate in personal training and I am currently a student in Respiratory Therapy and Exercise Physiology. TANE is a business concept that is targeted to both high-performance athletes and to those individuals that may suffer from more than one risk factor. My expected business outcome is to provide Yellowknife with my expertise in improving ones physical capabilities and to improve one’s quality of life by working to eliminating ones identified risk factor. I am hoping to open TANE in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories once I have graduated in this coming summer. I have been saving money for this very project, so I will not require any loans or financing from any third parties. I plan on working as a full-time respiratory therapist, while having TANE as an extra source of income. This...
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...feel the time is right for New Look. 2.0 Environmental Analysis Health clubs are service facilities that are intended to provide physical health care exercises with the help of specialized equipment. It normally serves both male and female customers but in some cases customized for specific genders depending on market needs. Normally, the environment is made casual to provide customers comfortable experience that helps them perform bodybuilding and other exercises with ease. According to a 2009 report by the International Health, Racquet & Sports club Association (IHRSA), the total number of gym memberships in the US is roughly 45.3 million, and about 64.9 million visitors in about 29,750 health clubs . As more Americans are becoming more health conscience, and doctors constantly advocating more for daily physically activity, fitness clubs will continually be in growing demand. The state that has the highest percentage of fitness membership, Colorado, is the ideal location for New Look: Fitness, Health, and Wellness Club. With 22% of its population already interested in bettering their lives, this company will thrive over other gyms that offer the normal gym perks. 3.0 Services Overview New Look will provide most of the typical gym activities, but the focus for this fitness center is personal health awareness. Therefore, New Look will also offer more specialized instruction with either physical trainers, physiologists, and/or nutritionist to help members better understand...
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...comprehensive support program the four major components will include mental support, medical support, nutritional support and healthy life style assistance. Mental support will include personal, one on one counseling, group therapy with a psychologist and other members in the program. Nutritional support will begin with regular sessions, meeting with the nutritionist and registered dieticians. Health care or medical support will be provided by the patient’s Primary Care Physician, Bariatric Surgeon, nursing staff, surgical team and hospital staff after surgery. Office staff and local business will also lend a hand to support the patients in their community. 2 Physical activity and life style changes will be guided by Exercise Physiologists, personal trainers and community gyms. Obesity is the #1 health issue in our country today with so any Americans suffering from morbid obesity. There are multiple health risks associated with obesity that can improve with any of the surgical treatments offered where there is successful weight loss. Treating the obese patient and reducing the weight offers not only physical health benefits, but will reduce the patient’s health care costs and give them a better quality of life. Implementing a dynamic “Total Support System” from the beginning, when the patient first discovers the desire to lose weight and work toward a healthier lifestyle is necessary for success. “Nurses partner with...
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...term healthy baby; 7lbs 8oz. Denies any problems at birth. Childhood Illnesses: The patient reports having had chicken pox. Immunizations: Patient claims to be up to date on all immunizations. Last flu shot (Fall of 2014) He denies any international travel or related immunizations. Family Health History: None Social History/Health Maintenance Activities: A.A. is married and lives with his wife. Retired engineer. Inactive lifestyle. Has a daughter that lives in Kansas. * Tobacco * Quit smoking 10 years ago. 2 pk/day x 50 years * Alcohol * Patient reports no alcohol use. * Diet * Patient reports a “regular diet”, “orders take-out often and drinks 4-6 diet cokes each day. * Exercise * Patient reports no regular exercise. * Colon * Patient denies any colon problems. He reports having a “normal” BM once daily or every other day. * Dental * Patient reports annual dental appointments. No complaints. * Skin * A.A. reports no regular dermatology appointments. He reports wearing sunscreen with prolonged sun exposure. * Eyes * Patient claims to have “good” vision. He does not report wearing glasses/contacts. Reports having last eye appointment last year. * Safety * Patient reports wearing seatbelt when in an automobile and...
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...school of thought ran simultaneously and imparted shared characteristics to the psychoanalytic and Gestalt developments, additionally contrasted discriminating ways. The behavioural viewpoint's primary influencers were Ivan Pavlov, Edward Lee Thorndike, John B. Watson, and B.F. Skinner. In the second a large portion of the twentieth century, behaviourism was to a great extent overshadowed as a consequence of the cognitive upheaval. While behaviourism and cognitive schools of mental thought may not concur hypothetically, they have supplemented one another in commonsense remedial applications like cognitive behavioural treatment, which has been utilized as a part of the treatment of pathologies, for example, fears, PTSD. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov was generally known for portraying the sensation now known as traditional moulding in his trials with canines. In the 1890s, Pavlov recognized that puppies had a tendency to salivate before nourishment was really conveyed to their mouths, and set out to explore what created this to happen. He completed a long arrangement of analyses in which he controlled the boosts happening before the presentation of sustenance, accordingly building the fundamental laws of "contingent reflex," or the reflex reaction, which just happened "restrictively" in view of past scholarly encounters. As Pavlov's work got to be known in the West, especially through the compositions of John B. Watson, the thought of "moulding" as a programmed type of...
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...Behaviorism and Its Effect on the Understanding of Learning AIU Online Abstract This paper focuses on a brief summary on the history of behaviorism, starting with experiments conducted by Franklin Henry Giddings and Ivan Pavlov, a sociologist and a physiologist whom established the groundwork for behaviorism, particularly in America. In addition, this paper also explains the main components of behaviorism, which are classical conditioning and operant conditioning, connectionism, and the contiguity theory. It moves forward to explain four experiments that are popular through the study of behaviorism: the reason behind conditioned salivation in Ivan Pavlov’s dogs, conditioned responses in humans through Watson’s little Albert experiment, Thorndike’s research with cats and a puzzle box to demonstrate the law of effect through the use of reinforcements, and B.F. Skinner’s experiment with rats to prove how an organism learns through operant conditioning. Finally, this paper examines how, according to behaviorists, there are three principles of learning new and intricate behaviors, known as shaping, chaining, and fading. Behaviorism and Its Effect on the Understanding of Learning Behaviorism suggests that an organism learns from its environment. It is the result of the association between a stimulus and a response. An organism learns new behavior through classical or operant conditioning. It is a theory that does not base its ideals on emotions or prior knowledge. Some say behaviorism...
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...Occupational Stress and How to Deal with It Heather L. DuSoleil English 333 December 12, 2012 Executive Summary Occupational Stress is a substantial problem to workers and employees all over the world. Occupational stress is considered an “epidemic” and it is costing employers over $200 billion dollars a year. With that being said, there is a lot that bosses and managers should be educating not only themselves about, but also their employees about. This proposal is to give people the tools that they need to help them solve the problem of occupational stress. Keywords: Stress, Occupational Stress, Epidemic, Tips, Acute Distress, Acute Episodic Distress, Chronic Distress, Eustress, and Distress. Statement of Need Teaching employees how to deal with occupational stress will help reduce costs to employers, reduce work accidents, and make employees and workplaces a lot healthier and safer. When people are not stressed their environment is a much less hostile place. That makes customers more at ease and co-workers get along much better. Employers spend more than $200 billion dollars a year on absenteeism, accidents, sickness, and burnt out employees. That number can be greatly reduced by making sure that employees have many ways of dispelling occupational stress both at work and in their personal lives. By implementing a plan to reduce occupational stress and the effects it has on employees the business world will...
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...Clinical Notes The Visible Human Project p. 7 Homeostasis and Disease p. 13 An Introduction to Studying the Human Body This textbook will serve as an introduction to the inner workings of your body, providing information about both its structure and its function. Many of the students who use this book are preparing for careers in health-related fields—but regardless of your career choice, you will find the information within these pages relevant to your future. You do, after all, live in a human body! Being human, you most likely have a seemingly insatiable curiosity—and few subjects arouse so much curiosity as our own bodies. The study of anatomy and physiology will provide answers to many questions regarding the functioning of your body in both health and disease. Although we will be focusing on the human body, the principles we will learn apply to other living things as well. Our world contains an enormous diversity of living organisms that vary widely in appearance and lifestyle. One aim of biology—the science of life—is to discover the unity and the patterns that underlie this diversity, and thereby shed light on what we have in common with other living things. Animals can be classified according to their shared characteristics, and birds, fish, and humans are members of a group called the vertebrates, characterized by a segmented vertebral column. The shared characteristics and organizational patterns provide useful clues about how these animals have evolved over time...
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...The future of the discipline of nursing depends on social and political factors as well as research and theory development. The use of theories by clinical nurses with varying levels of clinical expertise is rapidly increasing. In the past, the nursing profession has relied on the authority of educators, sociologists, psychologists, physiologists and anthropologists to provide answers to nursing problems. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze a clinical-related practical concern that will impact the nursing professional environment. The United States is lagging behind other nations of the world in fully integrating midwifery into its health care system. “While midwives deliver only 6% of the approximately 220,000 babies in the United States each year, midwives in other countries attend up to 80% of their countries births.” (Bowers, 2000). In our ever-changing fast paced health care system, many woman feel that they receive little personnel attention during pregnancy and childbirth from their healthcare provider. Despite the high quality of care that midwives provide to expectant mothers, American women have few opportunities to use the service of midwives. Barriers to Midwifery care in the United States include physician opposition, public perception as substandard care, state and federal regulations, lacking of training programs, lack of acceptance among third-party payers and our political and economic environment However, midwifery has gained a foothold...
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...All business managers with employees at some point in the business life cycle select, retain, and motivate employees. Where many managers go wrong is that they don’t look at the unique personalities and behaviours of certain employees, they must understand that different employees will be best suited into different positions and that these employees will all be best retained and motivated in different ways. The dictionary defines management as “the act or art of managing: the conducting or supervising of something (as a business)” (dictionary.com). Although this helps define a manager it is far from helping to define a good manager. Good managers have strong qualities in different aspects of the management system and they do great jobs selecting, retaining, and motivating different employees of different personalities. An organization consists of one or more employees who perform various different tasks within the organization. The relationships between the employees working and the tasks performed must be structured so that the organization can achieve its strategic goals in an efficient and effective manner with a motivated and engaged workforce. There are many different ways for a manager to ensure and promote a motivated and engaged workforce, this starts with the selection process and ensuring that the proper employees are selected for the positions in which they best belong. There are many ways to distribute work among employees and ensuring that work is distributed effectively...
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...injuries. The aim of the research is to develop occupational injuries measures to prevent accidents at the plant. You must systematically analyze and summarize their reasons. Analysis of the causes of injury allows them to share the organizational, technical, physiological and sanitary. Organizational: violation of legislation on health and safety , requirements , guidelines , rules and regulations , lack of or poor briefing , failure measures for safety, untimely repair or replacement of faulty and outdated equipment. Specifications: non-compliance of safety or fault of production equipment, tools and protective, equipment design flaws. Psychophysiological: erroneous actions of the employee as a result of fatigue, excessive severity and intensity of work, monotony of work, disease state negligence. Sanitation: excessive levels of noise, vibration, adverse weather conditions, the high content in the air of the working area of hazardous substances, the presence of different radiation above the allowable values, insufficient or inefficient lighting violation of the rules of personal hygiene. Research Methods occupational injuries: The statistical method is based on the analysis of statistical data on injuries that accumulated in the company or in the industry for several years. Data from this analysis are contained in the acts of the form N-1 and the records of companies. The statistical method allows all accidents and causes of injuries grouped by gender, age, occupation...
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...CHAPTER 4 WUNDT AND GERMAN PSYCHOLOGY The book which I here present to the public is an attempt to mark out a new domain of science. —Wilhelm Wundt, 1874 PREVIEW AND CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Chapters 2 and 3 describe the context out of which modern psychology emerged in the nineteenth century. Philosophers, interested in the same fundamental questions about the human mind and behavior that occupy psychologists today, began to speculate about the need to examine these issues scientifically. At least one nineteenth-century British philosopher, John Stuart Mill, even proposed the development of a scientific psychology. Meanwhile, physiologists and physicians in Europe made great strides in furthering our understanding of the physiology of the nervous system and, in particular, of the brain. This chapter examines how this experimental physiology combined with philosophical inquiry to create a new experimental psychology in Germany in the late nineteenth century. The chapter opens with a brief discussion of some aspects of German education that made it attractive to American students, and then continues with a look at how Gustav Fechner’s psychophysics provided a standardized set of methods for studying sensory thresholds. The creation of the ‘‘New Psychology’’ and its first laboratory by Leipzig’s Wilhelm Wundt forms the focus of the middle of the chapter. The chapter ends with consideration of three other important German psychologists, Hermann Ebbinghaus, G. E. Muller, and Oswald...
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...Course Project Anise Hutcherson Approaches to Disease Management in Managed Care DeVry University `12/11/15 Table of Contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………….. Page 3 2. Background…………………………………………………………….. Page 4 3. The Challenges and Problems Associated with Disease Management…….. Page 6 4. Review of the Research and Literature…………………………………… Page 8 5. Challenges/Problems Analysis with Disease Management……………….... Page 9 6. Recommend Solutions of Improvements in Disease Management…………..Page 10 7. Implementation of Solutions in Disease Management in Managed Care Industry..Page 11 8. Justification………………………………………………………………… Page 12 9. Summary and Conclusion…………………………………………………...Page 14 10. Works Cited-References………………………………………………….. Page 16 Introduction It is very well known how most physicians or healthcare facilities and organizations handle diseases in our society in my opinion. Managed care for diseases are mostly not focused on, it is for large populations. But typically physicians do try to focus on individuals however once you throw MCO in the mix it becomes similar to a farmer caring for cattle which I hate to say. And I am very much passionate about this subject because of my experience in the very arena. Before I had a stable job with wonderful health insurance, I relied on government paid insurance for a minute and during that time I was diagnosed with Lupus which is a autoimmune disease with no cure. However...
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...Organization and Leadership Analysis Garry Simmons Western Governors University Table of Contents Organization Overview……………………………………………………………………… 3 Organization Description……………………………………………………………………. 3 Leadership Practices………………………………………………………………………… 4 Relationship Between Leadership and Organizational Culture……………………………... 5 SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………………………………... 7 Organizational Strengths……………………………………………………………………. 7 Organizational Weaknesses…………………………………………………………………. 8 Organizational Opportunities………………………………………………………………... 9 Organizational Threats……………………………………………………………………….10 Leadership Evaluation………………………………………………………………………..11 Leadership Strengths…………………………………………………………………………11 Leadership Weaknesses……………………………………………………………………... 13 Recommendations for Leadership Development……………………………………………. 14 References Organization Overview This organization and leadership analysis will include an in depth review of leadership practices and the relationship between leadership and organizational culture. I will perform a SWOT analysis of my selected organization as well as a leadership evaluation of the leader I have selected to analyze and I will provide my own recommendations for leadership development. The organization I have selected is a pain management clinic and the leader I have selected is the Medical Director. My goals are to improve on my own leadership style by learning and implementing a management style as well as techniques...
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...CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate CSEC AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May/June 2008 CXC 07/G/SYLL 06 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council © 2010, Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher. Correspondence related to the syllabus should be addressed to: The Pro-Registrar Caribbean Examinations Council Caenwood Centre 37 Arnold Road, Kingston 5, Jamaica, W.I. Telephone: (876) 630-5200 Facsimile Number: (876) 967-4972 E-mail address: cxcwzo@cxc.org Website: www.cxc.org Copyright © 2006, by Caribbean Examinations Council The Garrison, St Michael BB11158, Barbados CXC 07/G/SYLL 06 Content RATIONALE ........................................................................................................................................... 1 AIMS ........................................................................................................................................................ 1 CAREER CHOICES ............................................................................................................................... 2 SUGGESTED RESOURCES ...............................................................................................
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