...Brand New Day apologies for the technical difficulties preventing the webinar timely start. of the webinar. Brief summary to review and clarify topics discussed. We appreciate your attendance. After introduction of all participants, BND provided details regarding an appeal request made by BND member managed under CFC; appeal rights were not sent to the member. Conifer explained all claims in question were reviewed by a medical professional; hence denial using code DMR (not medically indicated), however a Notice of Denial of Payment was not issued to member AND provider per regulation. Email communication is to recount recounting conversation with Conifer employee in Claims department “members do not receive denial letter from claims” only...
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...Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development Office of Technology Transfer Response to Presidential Memorandum: Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research in Support of High-Growth Businesses 1. Executive Summary. Every year, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers develop dozens of new health care-related technologies and other inventions that benefit VA’s patients, other Veterans, and all Americans. VA’s Technology Transfer Program (TTP) translates the results of VA employees’ discoveries into practice. The program educates VA inventors on their rights and obligations; evaluates inventions; obtains patents; and helps commercialize new products. VA’s program is different from other Federal technology transfer programs, because it is highly decentralized. More than 100 VA medical centers (VAMC) conduct research, and all are Federal Laboratories. In addition, 124 VAMCs have formal affiliations with academic institutions and hospitals, and many full- and part-time VA employees also have academic appointments or are employed at an affiliated academic institution or hospital. Because of these arrangements, most VA inventions are jointly owned by VA and its academic affiliates, making technology transfer a collaborative effort. In order to fulfill the goals of the President’s Memorandum dated October 28, 2011, requiring all Federal departments and agencies to accelerate technology transfer and support private sector...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022 BSA/375 Monday, February 4, 2013 Mark Fairbanks Service Request SR-rm-022 Company Overview Riordan Manufacturing originated from a small research and development company called Riordan Plastics, Inc. that had its beginning in 1991 (Apollo Group, Inc., 2012). Its founder was a chemistry professor named Dr. Riordan, who acquired patents for processing polymers into plastic substrates that resisted breaking under extreme tension (Apollo Group, Inc., 2012). In 1992, Dr. Riordan acquired capital to expand his company and renamed it Riordan Manufacturing. By 2000, Riordan Manufacturing was so successful it grew into a global manufacturer that became a leader in plastic products (Apollo Group, Inc., 2012). Some of the products it produces are plastic beverage containers, plastic fan parts, and customized plastic parts. It has facilities in four locations: (1) Georgia, (2) Michigan, (3) California, and (4) China. Dr. Riordan prides himself on giving his customers quality service. This has led to loyal customers in the following industries consisting of automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, appliance manufacturers, and beverage makers and bottlers (Apollo Group, Inc., 2012). Riordan Manufacturer’s revenue is roughly about 46 million annually (Apollo Group, Inc., 2012). The company manages a global personnel consisting of 550 individuals. Employees are encouraged to be innovative and develop strong work...
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...Branch Operations Supervisor Job Description Kathy Probst Introduction to Personal Administration Instructor Guevara June 16, 2014 The ability for a company to make a job seem to be an exciting and future position for a potential employee means they have to make the package be a good one. When a person applies for a position they are looking for the total package that fits right with their needs and wants as well as giving them a place to grow with a strong company. Employees look at the total package from health care to vacation time and everything in between. I have also had some friends looking for the benefit of childcare right at their company where they will be working as a bonus to being able to visit your child during your lunch time. These are all benefits that go into making a good draw for an employee to look at when deciding where they want to be employed. So what makes a job seem attractive? Is it the salary, or is it the benefits? Well, I would say it is both. They both play a major role in the factors that draw a person into a company for an interview. Remember that employees want to have as much benefit from the company as they do liking what they do. Health benefits, health club benefits, daycare benefits, vacation or paid time off (PTO) days, room for advancement, pay grades that help them to increase their pay rate, good work ethic, and strong company with a good future. These are some of the things that employee’s look for...
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...Name: Latifat Ajose-Adebara Location: Kennet Way. L3 Unit 301 – Promote Personal Development in Care Settings. The numbers in the bracket after each question relate to the assessment criteria in the standards. 1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of your own work role (1.1). Ans: • Personal Care Support: This involves assisting individuals with their daily personal hygiene and care routines, which can include bathing, grooming, oral care, and dressing. Medication Administration: It involves managing and administering medication to individuals according to their care plans and understanding of medication management protocols, and the ability to recognise and report any adverse reactions or side effects. Mobility Support: Supporting...
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...TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS (TNA) THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGISTS® The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists Strategic Priorities 2010 - 2014 Name of document and version: Training Needs Analysis (TNA), Version 1 Prepared by: Kelly Menzel - Educational Development Manager Sharon Messina - Director, Education and Research Submitted to: Endorsed by College Council, 21 July 2011 ABN 37 000 029 863 Copyright for this publication rests with The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists ® The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists Level 9, 51 Druitt Street Sydney NSW 2000, Australia Email: ranzcr@ranzcr.edu.au Website: www.ranzcr.edu.au Telephone: + 61 2 9268 9777 Facsimile: + 61 2 9268 9799 2 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………….3 2. WHAT IS A TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS? ………………………...……4 3. BENEFITS OF UNDERTAKING A TNA……………………………………..6 4. INITIAL QUESTIONS ………………………………………………………..6 5. METHODOLOGY………………………………………………………………8 6. TRAINING NEEDS IDENTIFIED……………………………………………11 7. RECOMMENDATIONS………………………………………………………18 8. CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………...22 9. REFERENCES………………………………………………………………..24 10. BIBLOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………….26 11. APPENDIX 1…………………………………………………………………..27 12. APPENDIX 2…………………………………………………………………..28 13. APPENDIX 3…………………………………………………………………..36 Education and Research Portfolio Training Needs Analysis 22 July 2011 Page 2 1) INTRODUCTION This training...
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...Competitor analysis: Website & Thought leadership Report by Rashmi Singh (PGDM No: 10098) Work carried out at Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, Karnataka Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement of Summer Internship Programme Under the Supervision of Mr. Ashish Shetty, Marketing Lead, Insurance ISU, TCS, Bangalore SDM Institute for Management Development Mysore, Karnataka, India (June 2011) SDM IMD INSTITUTE CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Ms. Rashmi Singh, undergoing PGDM program 2010-12 at this institute has successfully completed the Summer Internship Programme on the project titled ―Competitor Analysis: Website and Thought Leadership‖ at TCS, Bangalore, from April 01, 2011 to May 31, 2011 as a partial requirement for completion of his PGDM curriculum. Prof. Govinda Sharma Internal Faculty Guide SDM IMD, Mysore. Date: 24/06/2011 Place: Mysore Summer Internship Project Page 2 SDM IMD Acknowledgement I take this opportunity to extend my sincere gratitude to our guides at Tata Consultancy Services, Mr. Ashish Shetty and Ms. Varsha Nair who spent a lot of time mentoring and guiding us. The insurance ISU was a completely new arena for us. We stumbled a few times, yet they have been very patient and supportive with us, always encouraging us to give our best. I also thank the Academic relationship manager, TCS, Mr. Chandra Koduru, for helping us with the joining formalities and induction program. I would also like to thank Prof. N. R. Govinda Sharma...
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...Data Collection Analysis: ITT Technical Institute Keller Graduate School of Management Training and Development HR592 Professor Robert Graver February 23, 2014 Table of Contents Overview of the Organization…..………………………………………………………………3 Executive Summary …………..………………………………………………………...…...…3,4 Analysis of Data Collected & Identified Training Need…………………………………..…4,5,6 Recommendations………………………………………………………………………………...7 Training or Intervention Strategy to Address the Needs…………………………………………8 Cost benefit analysis……………………………………………………………………………8,9 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….10 References………………………………………………………………………………………..11 The ITT Technical Institutes is a leading private college system focused on technology-oriented programs of study. The seven schools of study at the ITT Technical Institutes [i.e., the School of Information Technology, the School of Drafting and Design, the School of Electronics Technology, the School of Business, the School of Criminal Justice, the School of Health Sciences and the Breckinridge School of Nursing] teach skills and knowledge that can be used to pursue employment opportunities in today’s world. There are over 140 ITT Technical Institutes in 38 states. ITT Technical Institutes predominantly offer career-focused, degree programs to over 70,000 students. The ITT Technical Institutes have been actively involved in the higher education community in the United States since 1969. Executive Summary ITT Technical Institute...
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...An Interview with Management Professionals Management refers essentially to the method of getting things done in an effective and efficient way, through and in conjunction with other people. Management activities comprise of planning, staffing, organizing, and leading an organization. All of these tasks support each other and doing all effectively will ultimately help to achieve an organization’s goals and operational effectiveness. The main purpose of this interview report is to gain more insight into the management process. The experiences of these management professionals will better equip me to improve my own management skills and overall effectiveness. Effective management is one of the most important factors in driving and maintaining an efficient workplace, regardless of the specified industry. My interviewees are Patricia Brown, an employment manager with New York Presbyterian Hospital and Therica Reid, a human resources manager with T-Mobile. Both interviews appear below in their entirety: 1. How long have you been in management? Patricia: “I have been in management a little over three years”. Therica: “I have been in management for approximately five years”. 2. What was your first job in management? Patricia: “My first job in management is my current job as an employment manager at New York Presbyterian Hospital”. Therica: “My first management job was as a staff support supervisor in a financial institution. 3. How did you get into management? Patricia:...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 Student Name BSA 375 10/14/2013 Gaya P. Agrawal Hugh McCauley, the COO of Riordan Manufacturing has submitted service request SR-rm-022. In the request, he wants to integrate the variety of HR tools into a single integrated application for all of the plant locations. He wants to take advantage of the more sophisticated, state of the art information systems technology in the human resources department. To this end, Hugh McCauley has submitted service request SR-rm-022, and from that he is expecting a definition of the business requirements for the development of an HR system to support the request objective. He is also expecting a detailed system design and a project implementation plan required to complete the project. He wants this completed in six months so that the new system can be implanted and utilized in the second quarter of the next year. Riordan Manufacturing started its existence in 1991 as a company called Riordan plastics and its founder, Dr. Riordan, acquired patents for “processing polymers into plastic substrates that resisted breaking under extreme tension. In 1992, Dr. Riordan acquired capital to expand his company and renamed it Riordan Manufacturing. By 2000...
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...1. Primary research vs Secondary research 104 Primary data are data freshly gathered for a specific purpose or for a specific research Project. Primary research is research that's tailored to a company's particular needs. By customizing tried-and-true approaches — focus groups, surveys, field tests, interviews or observation — you can gain information about your target market. Primary research delivers more specific results than secondary research, which is an especially important consideration when you're launching a new product or service. In addition, primary research is usually based on statistical methodologies that involve sampling as little as 1 percent of a target market. This tiny sample can give an accurate representation of a particular market. But professional primary research can be pricey Secondary data are data that were collected for another purpose and already exist somewhere. You can find much of this kind of information in local libraries or on the Web, but books and business publications, as well as magazines and newspapers, are also great sources Although secondary research is less expensive and fast than primary research, it's not as accurate, or as useful, as specific and customized research. 2. Consumer Buying Behavioral vs Business Buying Behavioral A colleague at your place of employment says to you that when it comes to the decision-making process within his company on a major capital equipment purchase, it's a frustrating experience...
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...Research Proposal UDB301 – Research Methods Due Date: 30/05/2014 Name: Dylan Black Student Number: N8304271 Course Code and Major – UD40 – Spatial Science Email: Dylan.Black@connect.qut.edu.au Due Date: 30/05/2014 Name: Dylan Black Student Number: N8304271 Course Code and Major – UD40 – Spatial Science Email: Dylan.Black@connect.qut.edu.au The Change Galileo Will Make to RTK Surveying This study is focused on what will change with the construction and implementation of a new Global Navigation Satellite System called Galileo. The new Galileo system will bring many changes to many different sectors however the change to Real Time Kinematic Surveying and surveyors is the main purpose of this report. Understanding how current systems work and how Real Time Kinematic surveying is undertaken will help in understanding how things will change and what is to be expected with a new system. This study is important as many surveyors and surveying businesses will need to prepare for the influx of new technology as well as assess what they will be able to use the new system for. Key Words: GNSS, Galileo, RTK, GPS, Surveying Contents 1.0 Introduction 3 1.1 Image 1 – Galileo Constellation 3 2.0 Literature Review: 4 2.1 History: 4 2.2 Why we launch satellites: 4 2.3 What satellites do? 4 2.4 How do satellites and RTK work: 5 2.41 Diagram 1 – RTK Set Up 6 2.5 Current systems in place: 6 2.6 Problems with current systems: 7 2.7 Why is Europe...
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... grantees have made it a priority to sustain operation programs once their federal funding expires. TIF grantees have also found, often belatedly and unexpectedly, that effective stakeholder engagement and communication are challenging and essential to the success of their pay programs. Stakeholder engagement helps to create buy-in and initial acceptance of the TIF plan. It allows different voices and perspectives to be heard and recognized as new approaches to compensation develop. Communication provides the synergy to broaden buy-in and sustain support for the program. This paper describes the ways in which TIF grantees have approached stakeholder engagement. It is based on data from multiple sources, including TIF program monitoring reports, Center for Educator 1 For example, New Leaders for New Schools. Compensation Reform (CECR) technical assistance notes, grantees’ internal and external evaluations, and interviews with...
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...Nurse Educator Nurse Educator Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 209-213 Copyright ! 2009 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Wikis and Blogs Tools for Online Interaction Jane S. Grassley, PhD, RN Robin Bartoletti, MS Online education requires nursing faculty to learn teaching strategies that encourage students’ interaction with the course content, their peers, the faculty, and the technology. The Web 2.0 technologies of wikis and blogs can help faculty direct online learning activities that encourage peer support, collaboration, and dialogue. The authors discuss these tools and how they were used to engage students in a nursing research course. ince the mid-1990s, increasing numbers of people have come to rely on the Internet as a convenient source of information and education. In nursing, the growing need for convenient and nontraditional learning strategies fostered a proliferation of Web-based nursing education programs. Since teaching online requires faculty to use strategies that differ from those used in face-to-face classrooms, nurse researchers have investigated characteristics of online education environments that facilitate students’ engagement with learning.1-3 Thurmond concluded,3(p237) ‘‘Good teaching practices are deeply rooted in the concept of interaction.’’ MancusoMurphy4(p257) identified interaction among faculty and students as ‘‘the core element of an effective online environment.’’ Researchers determined that peer support, collaboration, and...
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...Disabilities Professor Hopkins Fall 2013 Introduction For our final paper I chose to research trisomy 21 or as it is known clinically, Down syndrome (DS). The primary reason I chose this low incidence disability is because I will make the transition from a regular education teacher to a special education teacher in the spring and I am already familiar with other low incidence disabilities. I realize that with my new role in a self-contained classroom it is important for me to understand the term Down syndrome and then see how the definition and behavioral traits impact the student, the teacher and the other students in an educational setting. This research paper will provide clinical and anecdotal information on DS with real-life observation of a student with Down syndrome. History of Disorder According to the National Down Syndrome Society (2013), during the early nineteenth century, John Langdon Down, an English physician, published an accurate description of a person with Down syndrome. It was this scholarly wok, published in 1866, that earned Down the recognition as the “father” of the syndrome. Although other people had previously recognized the characteristics of the syndrome, it was Down who described the condition as a distinct and separate entity. The United States Department of Health and Human Services Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines Down syndrome as, “a genetic disorder that includes a combination of birth defects, including some degree...
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