Week 5 Assignment: Engagement Survey and Action Work Plan

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Resource: Employee Engagement Survey Results

Imagine your health care organization conducted an employee engagement survey and received the results.

Create a 3- to 4-page annual Action Work Plan. Your plan should:

Define SMART goals, objectives, and strategies.
Identify desired results.
Define how success will be measured.
Identify, analyze, and delegate tasks.
List the tactics that will be used.
Create a timeline of events.
List expenses and create a budget.

Your plan is not limited to the above list.

Cite at least 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Biology creative writing case :controlling the outbreak

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Instruction Details: https://online.smc.edu/courses/29945/assignments/465379

It is the year 2045 and you are working on a space station outpost on Mars.  The members of the outpost are falling sick in the neighboring living pods with a virus. You are the only person who has taken Biology and survived the 2020 pandemic. You are placed in charge of controlling the outbreak.

Begin your paper with an Introduction. Describe the virus (use COVID 19 as your potential virus in this case). Be sure to describe it scientifically. Do your research to find information about the virus itself. What viral family does it belong to, what are other viruses that are in the same family. What are the known proteins on it’s surface etc. What is known and what is not known. 

(1) Out line the  steps you would take to control the spread of the virus. You must provide a minimum of 5 steps. These are the rules you would put in place for the inhabitants of both the contaminated pods and the non contaminated pods. Remember you must consider how to treat the sick, how to control the spread to other pods, how the pods will obtain and share food/essentials without contamination etc. , consider what you will direct your scientists to work on, changes in ventilation of the pods etc. Think deeply about this. You can have more than 5. You must explain your rational for each step you wish to be adopted and used by the inhabitants and your rationale must be based upon science.

(2) Run a BLAST using COVID 19 as your virus (as you did in your DNA Lab) and find the virus’s DNA for the spike protein. This will be used to make your vaccine.  Copy and paste the genome for the spike protein inside your paper to show you know how to do a BLAST. (see your Canvas Page  ” COVID19 Resources and Literature ” to help in your research and the knowledge from your DNA lab on how to perform a BLAST. Here is a pdf copy of the power pointPreview the document to help with the BLAST as well ). Certainly, you can choose a different protein if you like ( the Michigan link inside the pdf might be helpful to find a different interesting protein to target, you must show the protein is part of the virus’s DNA through the BLAST). Be sure to include what it is and its function and how you intend to use it (ie-as a target for a vaccine, as a target for a drug molecule to block etc.). You can get innovative and creative here if you wish. (Who knows, you may find a new way to target this virus!) Make sure you include your computer’s time in your screen shot to show it is your work and not an image copy.

(3) Design a method and rules for the inhabitants to safely interact with each other again. The rules that would apply to interactions once the virus has been controlled and there are carriers shedding the virus, yet the work in the pods must now resume while your science team makes the vaccine from your spike protein DNA (this will take a year to make). Clearly outline how this will occur without further outbreaks in the pods. College level work. Must be a plan that includes interactions, protections, essentials/food all things surrounding return to normal functions with carriers.

At least (minimum) one full page of work is expected. There is no page maximum inside your one pdf.  12 point font size. You can include 1-3 images if you choose to do so (be sure to reference where you obtained the image). Format for readability. College level detail is expected. Justifications and rationale for your choices is expected. Ultimately, you will have written a working document that will serve as a functioning plan to be sent out to all the inhabitants. Be complete in your work.

Be sure to add references when outside materials and work is used. You can add a reference page to hold your references.  Do not plagiarize work you did not create. Cite! Use any conventional reference style you are comfortable and familiar with (you can not make up your own reference style). See below for links on common reference styles if you are unsure. 

Week 4 Benchmark AssignmentMulti-Generational Workforce

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Imagine that you manage a department in a health care organization of your choosing. The organization recently merged with another, layoffs occurred, and departments are now being consolidated. Your department now has employees whose ages span four generations, three different cultural groups are represented, and conflict is brewing between them. The conflict is affecting performance, shift scheduling, and cooperation with other departments.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word directive to address these conflicts. Do the following in your directive:

Assess the situation that your department is facing.
Create clear and reasonable expectations and goals to achieve cohesion, cooperation, and communication in your department.
Lay out a strategy to overcome these conflicts and improve workplace performance.
Explain how success will be measured based on your strategy and goals.
Consider using tables, matrices, or other visuals.
Evaluate what leadership traits you need to incorporate in order to lead your diverse department.

Create a 10-minute, 5- to 9-slide voice-over presentation using either Microsoft PowerPoint or websites like Google Slides, Adobe Slate, or Prezi that presents your directive to the human resources manager and chief operating manager.

Cite at least 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Week 3 Assignment: Health Care Learning from Other Sectors

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Identify industries outside of health care that have deployed innovative management techniques, operational practices, or technology to improve their workforce.

Identify best practices and determine which could be implemented to improve the workforce for a specific health care service, facility, or other health sector-related occupation.

Write a 350- to 525-word article that explains how a specific management technique, operational practice, or technology can be used to improve a specific health care workforce.

Publish the article on your own social media account (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.) or post it on a health care message board of your choice.

Include a citation of the article in your assignment.

Cite at least 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.