In this part of the assignment, you will begin to explore what so many of us need to do in the workplace: understand a problem, find out what might work best as a solution, and consider whether the solution(that has–according to the research -typically worked for others)will be easy or difficult to implement.

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Part 1: Reviewing the literature and identifying evidence-based practice(1,000 words)In this part of the assignment, you will begin to explore what so many of us need to do in the workplace: understand a problem, find out what might work best as a solution, and consider whether the solution(that has–according to the research -typically worked for others)will be easy or difficult to implement.

Scenario: You have been appointed the research manager within an organisation relevant to your field of study. You’ve essentially been asked to a)identify a problem the organisation needs to deal with, b) document what evidence-based information as been found (i.e. through peer-reviewed journals/reports) relevant to best-practice and c) report what enablers and barriers might be involved that make implementing best-practice easy or difficult by the organisation.References are not included in the word count. Referencing Style can be Harvard or APA. Please attach a cover sheet with your name and student number, word count and what referencing style you have used.In this scenario, the ‘organisation’could be a not-for-profit group, a clinical setting, a government department, a committee within your local council –for example –so don’t feel restricted. Use the assignment to engage with a problem/solution relevant to your interests. Get the sense of what it is to become your own detectiveas an actual researcher, getting to the bottom of a problem, learning what works and what can be done about it, as well as understanding why it might be easy or difficult translating theory into practice.The encouragement is to make this assignment useful, relevant and interesting for your own benefit.Example:(A)Workers within the palliative care unit of a particular Melbourne Hospital felt there seemed to be some miscommunication between doctors and their patients and carers.Research showed that patients and carers automatically assumed the doctor would naturally tell them everything they needed to know, whereas doctors assumed if patients and their carers needed to know everything they would ask (!). (B) Best-practice emphasised the importance of improving communication and practical pathways for achieving it.(C) It seemed easy and logical to provide flyers and information pamphlets in the waiting rooms to up-skill patients and carers about communication tips and hints, but uncertain how to create a culture of communication change within the medical community.

In this second part of the assignment, you will begin to explore what is involved when considering ethics and ethical implications as part of a research project.When working on research projects, successful ethics applications naturally play a large part in not only gaining approval for the project, but also anticipating and trouble-shooting any problems that might arise when conducting the study. It’s also a really helpful way to work out the appropriate research protocol, so getting it ‘right’ is critical. Scenario: You have been asked to help complete an ethics application for an organisation or group so they can begin a research project. Select one of the following options (topics) as the subject of your assignment(they are all based on actual projects):1. Evaluating a self-empowerment program aimed at reducing re-offending at the Youth Unit of Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison. 2. Conducting a survey among staff and patient families in theIntensive Care Unit at the Alfred Hospital, aimed at improving patient experiences.3. Evaluating outcomes from programs aimed at reducing domestic violence with participants from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities at various inner city community health centres, facilitated by staff from the Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health, Richmond.4. Monitoring and evaluating Aboriginal tobacco control by conducting a survey aimed at identifying smoking rates in remote Indigenous towns, as requested by the Lowitja Institute. 5. Evaluating outcomes from peer-education programs aimed at increasing safe sex education and practices among youth aged between 18-26 years.As the ethics advis or, you will need to a) identify key ethical implications associated with the proposed research based on associated/similar studies, b) relate these issues to the relevant items in the ethics application form, and c) suggest effective strategies for addressing them so that the ethics application will be approved for the project to go ahead.Resources:Information relating to these initiatives will be posted as sub-folders in the Assessment tab to help you get some background and make a start on your assignment. Reading literature on similar studies and topics and referencing them will be important for this assignment. Reporting and findings will help you identify the key ethical issues, as well as recognising how they were addressed in the various studies, to inform your decision-making. To meet the assessment criteria effectively, best to draw on actual findings rather than drawing on intuition –although your intuition might be a helpful guide regarding where to begin searching the literature.For simplicity, we will assume all projects only requirea low-risk ethics application. In reality, many of these would be considered high-risk, and the government NEAF application would require completion, as well as any host organisation’s ethics committee involvement. Given the word count, however, it makes sense to limit this appropriately. Similarly, it makes sense to draw on projects that have clear ethical issues rather than those which are more subtle (which typically attract the low-risk ethics application) to allow you to demonstrate your critical thinking

Why did Ebert write in his book Individualisation at work (2012) that ‘the self not only negotiates the social order, but the very process of negotiating defines its very nature and existence’ (p. 27)? What does it mean for his conception of socialisation?

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Read The Required Sources and answer the 3 multiple choice quizzes below.

Question 1:

Why did Ebert write in his book Individualisation at work (2012) that ‘the self not only negotiates the social order, but the very process of negotiating defines its very nature and existence’ (p. 27)? What does it mean for his conception of socialisation?

Select one answer:

  1. In the fragmented, pluralised and fast changing normative infrastructure of contemporary societies, individuals must be guided by an internalised form of control more than external systemic imperatives beyond the control of those individuals; people in earlier societies did not have to keep adjusting to social change and could rely on external forces to provide normative guidance. Socialisation here refers to the continuous, intensifying processes of individualisation in which a hyper-differentiating society is engaged by a uniquely modern self exercising flexible learning and adaptation through negotiation.
  2. The first characteristic of normative individualisation is that, in a society where the pace of change has stepped up beyond that which people in earlier societies had to keep adjusting to, a continuous exercise of flexible learning and adaptation guided by external systemic imperatives beyond the control of individuals becomes fundamental. Socialisation here refers to the continuous, intensifying processes of individualisation in which a hyper-differentiating society is engaged by a self exercising lifelong learning and adaptation through negotiation.
  3. ‘Identity’, which is the modern concept of self as opposed to the traditional concept of ‘social character’, reveals what actually remains the same (indicated in its Latin root idem, meaning the same) – the self as given at birth – in a society that nowadays appears to be more fragile, fragmented, pluralised or even paradoxical. ‘Identity’ defines the very nature and existence of the self because it alone is active, autonomous and self-defining in its negotiation. Socialisation here refers to the epic moment of individualisation in which a hyper-differentiating society tries to impose its normative construct of ‘social character’ onto the more natural, essential and authentic ‘Identity’.
  4. The ‘I’, which is the true self given at birth, has to negotiate the social order via the ‘Me’, which is the false, socially constructed self, or ‘tabula rasa’; the ‘I’ defines the very nature and existence of the self because it alone is active, autonomous and self-defining in its negotiation. Socialisation here refers to the epic moment of individualisation in which a hyper-differentiating society tries to impose its normative construct of ‘Me’ onto the more natural, essential and authentic ‘I’.

Question 2:

Why did Camhi name her 1993 article ‘Stealing Femininity’, as indicated by the main point of her argument?

Select one answer:

  1. Camhi’s concern in this article is with early modern cases of hysteria. This is a medical condition that is distinguished by daydreaming and split states of consciousness. It left patients prone to compulsive theft. Here ‘Stealing Femininity’ means thatall the women who stole (both ordinary thieves and true female hysterics) were ‘stealing femininity’ from normal women, by hiding behind the woman’s reputation of being weak willed and prone to kleptomania.
  2. Camhi’s concern in this article is with early modern reports of women stealing items like silk or lace, which represent femininity as a display that covers up for the ‘unaccountable’ anatomical difference of the woman’s body from the man’s. Here ‘Stealing Femininity’ means that the women were stealing signs of themselves, with the appropriated goods offering a mirror of femininity and a fantasy of self-possession.
  3. Camhi’s concern in this article is with early modern male doctors – psychiatrists like Freud, Dubuisson and Clerambault – representing femininity as a masquerade, or a display that covers up her shameful lack of a penis. Here ‘Stealing Femininity’ means that the men were ‘stealing femininity’ in putting their false accounts of penis envy in the place of woman’s true identity (e.g. Berthe Pappenheim as feminist and social worker).
  4. Camhi’s concern in this article is with early modern cases of kleptomania. This is a medical condition that is distinguished from ordinary theft by the wish to steal being compulsive, and the stolen goods having no use value. The truly pathological were only a small minority of those who stole; yet there were many women at that time who indulged in shoplifting. Here ‘Stealing Femininity’ means that these women – the ordinary thieves – were ‘stealing femininity’ from women (both normal women and true female kleptomaniacs), by hiding behind the woman’s reputation of being weak willed and prone to hysteria.

Question 3:

What point was made regarding the objects of consumption becoming feminised in post-WWII modernity (the pink cars, fridges etc characteristic of the 1950s) made by the lecturer, citing Penny Sparke, As Long As It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995)?

Select one answer:

  1. It reflected the modernist ideology that feminine ‘taste’ was trashy, useless, outmoded and conservative, and belonged in the trivial sphere of popular consumption
  2. It reflected the post-WWII ideology that women belonged in the home, and was part of a patriarchal strategy to persuade women to give up their war jobs to the returning male soldiers.
  3. It reflected the post-WWII ideology of emphasising gender difference and was part of a capitalist strategy to persuade the primary consumers of this time – men – to buy certain objects for their women on top of what they might need to buy for themselves or the family in general.
  4. It reflected the expanding power of the female consumer, and was part of a manufacturing strategy to appeal to feminine ‘taste’ (which the rise of the department store had helped to rehabilitate culturally in the post-WWII period).

Draw from ANA ethical/ practice codes & standards, medical/ nursing specialty organizations positions, and the California Nursing Practice Act as relevant.

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Instructions for Litigation Paper

  1. Find a litigated case study that involves nursing malpractice or negligence. Be sure that you have full citation of the case (e.g. Smith vs St. Elsewhere Hospital, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio) from a reputable source (e.g. nursing journal)
  2. Write a summary of the case
  3. Explain what aspects of nursing ethics and state/ federal law were violated
  4. Draw from ANA ethical/ practice codes & standards, medical/ nursing specialty organizations positions, and the California Nursing Practice Act as relevant.
  5. Explain how Bentham/ Mills/ Kant would feel about the case
  6. Note the relationship of consequences (both ethical and legal) with the above codes and laws.
  7. Include documentation

Rubric for Review of Litigation/ Case Paper

  1. a) Description of a legal case, including ethical and legal criteria
  1. b) Identification of applicable legal and ethical codes and their violations

c)Citation of theoretical/ didactic material in text and on reference page according to APA standards

Compute net paid days worked for a full-time employee in the Laboratory and in Medical Records.

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Study the “Calculating Inventory Turnover” portion of the chapter closely, whereby the cost of goods sold divided by the average inventory equals the inventory turnover.

Required

Compute two inventory turnover calculations as follows:1. Use the LIFO information in the previous assignment to first compute the average inventory and then to compute the inventory turnover. 2. Use the FIFO information in the previous assignment to first compute the average inventory and then to compute the inventory turnover.

Practice Exercise 8–I: Depreciation Concept

Assume that MHS purchased equipment for $600,000 cash on April 1 (the first day of its fiscal year). This equipment has an expected life of 10 years. The salvage value is 10% of cost. No equipment was traded in on this purchase.

Required

  1. Compute the straight-line depreciation for this purchase. 2. Compute the double-declining balance depreciation for this purchase.

Assume that MHS purchased two additional pieces of equipment on April 1 (the first day of its fiscal year), as follows:1. The laboratory equipment cost $300,000 and has an expected life of = years. The salvage value is 5% of cost. No equipment was traded in on this purchase. 2. The radiology equipment cost $800,000 and has an expected life of 7 years. The salvage value is 10% of cost. No equipment was traded in on this purchase.

Set up a purchase scenario of your own and compute the depreciation with and without salvage value.

The Metropolis Health System managers are also working on their budgets for next year. Each manager must annualize his or her staffing plan, and thus must convert staff net paid days worked to a factor. Each manager has the MHS worksheet, which shows 9 holidays, 7 sick days, 15 vacation days, and 3 education days, equaling 34 paid days per year not worked.

The Laboratory is fully staffed 7 days per week and the 34 paid days per year not worked is applicable for the lab. The Medical Records department is also fully staffed 7 days per week. However, Medical Records is an outsourced department so the employee benefits are somewhat different. The Medical Records employees receive 9 holidays plus 21 personal leave days, which can be used for any purpose.

Required

  1. Compute net paid days worked for a full-time employee in the Laboratory and in Medical Records. 2. Convert net paid days worked to a factor for the Laboratory and for Medical Records so these MHS managers can annualize their staffing plans.

Metropolis Health System (MHS) uses a basic work week of 40 hours throughout the system. Thus, one full-time employee works 40 hours per week. MHS also uses a standard 24-hour scheduling system of three 8-hour shifts. The Director of Nursing needs to compute the staffing requirements to fill the Operating Room (OR) positions. Since MHS is a trauma center, the OR is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At present, staffing is identical for all 7 days of the week, although the Director of Nursing is questioning the efficiency of this method.

The Operating Room department is staffed with two nursing supervisors on the day shift and one nursing supervisor apiece on the evening and night shifts. There are two technicians on the day shift, two technicians on the evening shift, and one technician on the night shift. There are three RNs on the day shift, two RNs on the evening shift, and one RN plus one LPN on the night shift. In addition, there is one aide plus one clerical worker on the day shift only.

Required

  1. Set up a staffing requirements worksheet, using the format in Exhibit 9–4. 2. Compute the number of FTEs required to fill the Operating Room staffing positions.