How should EMS hazardous material incident training in Allegheny County be improved?”)

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a)  Final Project Proposal

  • Your Proposal must be an APA-formatted and referenced MS Word document attachment.
  • Your Proposal must include five sections as indicated in the Course Final Project Requirements and Guidelines and below.
    • Your Final Project Proposal should be a 1-2 page long, APA-formatted outline. The outline should include five sections/elements:

1.Title Page (course number, your name, instructor’s name, and an anticipated title)

  • Your Research Question or Policy Question (bellow) can serve verbatim as the title of you paper)

2.Problem Background (1-2 paragraphs; you should APA-utilize literature here, showing how other authors see the problem (poor training, possible causes and consequences)

3.Research Question OR  Policy Question (e.g., “How should EMS hazardous material incident training in Allegheny County be improved?”)

4.Hypothesis or Proposition (“EMS hazardous material incident training in Allegheny County should be improved by doing X, conducting Y, and authorizing Z”) you need to prove/support analytically or reject/disprove/declare infeasible bacause X, Y and Z). This in essence becomes your thesis.

5.Tentative Literature/Resources List (at least 8-10 peer-reviewed resources in addition to other resources). Wikipedia IS NOT an authorized or authoritative source.

  • Government (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) resources at any level — local, state or federal, or media resources — newspapers, TV, radio, printed or electronic — can be utilized but they are not peer-reviewed resources.
    • For example, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, International Security, or the course textbooks, are peer-reviewed resources.

b)  The Final version of your Project which is a refined paper is due by the end of Week 8  and will be submitted under Week 8 Assignments.

c)  The Final version of your Final Project will be submitted to Turn It In upon submission.  Do not plagiarize

Applicatoin of Queuing Theory

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Applicatoin of Queuing Theory

Lab Overview

Scenario/Summary

In the realm of business, organizations in most cases will look for ways to improve the customer experience when services and products provided; however, sometimes we have to wait for such services for longer periods of time we do not desire. Although not perfect, organizations will use techniques based on queuing theories to measure wait times in which customers have to wait in order to be helped or serviced, and based on the measurements, management and leadership attempt to make decisions to improve or reduce these waiting times. In this Lab, you will have an opportunity to learn about and use common queuing models and their results to make decisions. To get started, complete all steps below.

After you are done, you will submit your completed Lab.

Deliverables

After completing the steps from the Lab Instructions, turn in one Microsoft Word and one Microsoft Excel file.

Rename both assignment files as Week_3_Lab_StudentName.docx and Week_3_Lab_StudentName.xlsx.

Lab Resources

This Lab will use the following Lab Resources:

  • Microsoft Office Word and Excel 2016

Go to Course Resources, Lab Resources, and click the Virtual Lab Citrix button.

Options for accessing Microsoft Word and Excel 2016

  1. Use a personal copy on your PC available via the Software Store on the Course Resources page.
  2. You can use the Citrix environment to run both the Word and Excel 2016 application programs.

Lab Steps

Step 1: Download Lab Instructions and Start the Lab

Download the Week 3 Lab Instructions and Grading Rubric document (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Download the data files to be used in the lab:

  • Q.xlsx (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
  • FamilyHomePrices.xlsx (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Step 2: Complete and Submit Files

After completing the steps from the Lab Instructions, turn in one Microsoft Word and one Microsoft Excel file.

Be sure you have renamed both assignment files as

Week_3_Lab_StudentName.docx; and

Week_3_Lab_StudentName.xlsx.

Explain which method or instrument you would use to gather data. Describe the sample size appropriate for the population and how you would select participants.

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Data collection is an important part of both quantitative and qualitative research. Although the actual approach to gathering information may vary, for either research design, researchers need to plan in advance how the data will be gathered, reported, and stored, and they need to ensure that their methods are both reliable and valid. As nurses review research when considering a new evidence-based practice, it is important to be familiar with sound collection practices in order to ascertain the credibility of the data presented.

Consider the following scenario:

Nurses and other health care professionals are often interested in assessing patient satisfaction with health care services. Imagine that you are a nurse working in a suburban primary care setting that serves 10,000 patients annually. Your organization is very interested in understanding the patient’s point of view to help determine areas of care that can be improved. With this focus in mind, consider how you would create a survey to assess patient satisfaction with the services your organization provides. You may wish to consider variables such as the ease of accessing care, patient wait time, friendliness of the staff, or the likelihood that a patient would recommend your organization to others.

For this Discussion, you generate questions and an overall plan for data collection that would be appropriate for a patient satisfaction survey in relation to the above scenario.

To prepare:

  • Consider the guidelines for generating questions presented in this week’s Learning Resources.
  • Review the scenario and formulate at least five questions that you could use to evaluate patient satisfaction.
  • Reflect on the different methods or instruments that can be used for gathering data described in Chapter 13 and Chapter 22 of the course text. Which methods or instruments would work well for the scenario?
  • Determine an appropriate sample size for the scenario.

Post on or before Day 3 the questions that you created for gathering information about patient satisfaction based on the above scenario. Explain which method or instrument you would use to gather data. Describe the sample size appropriate for the population and how you would select participants. Provide a rationale for your choices, and explain how you can ensure high standard of reliability and validity

acquire data somehow (audio/visual recordings of conversations, interviews of specific speakers/populations, corpus, literary text, informal text [think emails/text messages], etc.). You are welcome to work with the language(s) and dialect(s) of your choice, just be sure to explain and translate when necessary

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This paper should be a “pilot research” on some topic discussed in class and/or in the readings. It may be a theoretical elaboration on the real-life experience you narrate in the first paper, or it may be on an unrelated topic. Scholarly apparatus is required. What does this all mean? Topic Choosing: It would behoove you to choose a topic that is based in and expands upon one of the topics/lectures/themes from the course. This will help with selecting papers for references/citations. 1. Linguistic Phenomenon – This will likely be the most common paper topic.

You should acquire data somehow (audio/visual recordings of conversations, interviews of specific speakers/populations, corpus, literary text, informal text [think emails/text messages], etc.). You are welcome to work with the language(s) and dialect(s) of your choice, just be sure to explain and translate when necessary. A language “phenomenon” is a quirk or oddity in the language that is not immediately obvious. Your job is to isolate this phenomenon, describe how/why/where it occurs, and to make an argument as to its significance and pragmatic meaning.

2. Language Experiment – Conduct your own language experiment using the resources that you have. This could be a language survey given to native and/or non-native speakers, a discourse-based experiment, a test of some kind, or some other variant. Be sure to work on multiple drafts of the experiment before issuing it so that the experiment definitely reflects the research question you have in mind. Based on the results of this experiment, write a research report that discusses the hypothesis, thesis, and original findings.

3. Expansion of Paper #1 – This is not mutually exclusive from the topics above. If this is the route you choose, be sure to incorporate actual data (see above) that expands upon the topic in your first paper. Keep in mind that what you write in your expansion should be entirely new; no copying and pasting from the previous paper. You should have plenty to work with considering you will now have articles/theories to cite and authentic language samples to analyze.

4. Other – if your topic does not fit into these categories, please run it past Brandon or Trevor to see if it is suitable for this paper. Scholarly Apparatus: This refers to using citations. Since this is not a “writing intensive” or “W” course, we are not picky about the particular style, be it APA or MLA. That being said, we have a slight preference for APA, as this is most common in the humanities. Citing sources is necessary in this paper in order to 1) provide suitable background for the academic framework you support the arguments you make. Correctly citing sources is not strictly an exercise in academic writing; it is also necessary to avoid plagiarism. Grading: (see rubric) Formatting: Let’s say 12-point Times New Roman (or similar) font. Note: Paper must be between 1750-2500 words (about 7-10 pages). Papers in excess of 2500 words will be shredded (not really). Word count does not include your language data, but it does include all other components. When papers are too short, the total paper grade is reduced by a mathematical formula whereby 10% too short = 10% off, etc.