lean manufacture, just-in-time approach, total quality management, and total productive maintenance.

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Write 9 pages thesis on the topic lean manufacture, just-in-time approach, total quality management, and total productive maintenance. The key competitive factor has become speed. All else being equal, the faster a business responds to its customers, the more profitable it is. The shorter the lead-time in which a manufacturer can supply its products, the higher the probability that it will survive. High-velocity manufacturing is a common goal for all manufacturing businesses. In high-velocity manufacturing, everything is moving. Machines, people, funds, and materials are constantly moving. Therefore, inventories in storage or on the shop floor are moving inventories rather than sitting inventories. Inventories are stocked only for a very short time and will move to other locations only moments after being stocked. The conditions of high-velocity manufacturing include flow manufacturing, line balancing, level schedule, and linearity.

As we have mentioned before, JIT improves the manufacturing system gradually rather than drastically, as in business process reengineering (BPR). This gradual continuous improvement is defined by APICS Dictionary as “one less at a time”: a process of gradually reducing the lot size of the number of items in the manufacturing pipeline to expose, prioritize, and eliminate waste. “One less at a Just-In-Time Manufacturing

time” is a constant, step-by-step methodology for making JIT work in any manufacturing environment. JIT is a never-ending series of small, controlled steps, not one great leap forward. In the JIT philosophy, not the same product is produced over and over again. instead, the same process is used repeatedly to produce different products.

Reducing inventory forces the setup times to decrease for more frequently the products have to be produced to maintain a lower inventory level. In order to have shorter setup times, processes must be designed to be more flexible and workers must be trained to do multiple jobs. The need for shorter setup times also demands that the number of items is fewer.

Discuss the mmpi-2 minnesota multiphasic personality inventory.

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Write a 5 pages paper on the mmpi-2 minnesota multiphasic personality inventory. The major intention of this tool is to assess persons suspected to be having issues with their mental stability, or other mentally related clinical issues.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is an instrument that is protected. This means that only trained psychologists administer it. The test is not administered online. The administration of the MMPI does not call for direct professional participation, but the clinical interview taken before a psychological testing requires the proficiency of a qualified psychologist. The psychologist also interprets the report after the test results are released. Psychologists combine the results of the test with other tools and assess the diagnosis.

The administration of the MMPI is in two forms. People take the test either individually or in groups. The scores of the test are recorded manually or by a computer (Butcher & Perry, 2008).

&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp. The older MMPI-2 has 567 questions that have true/false choices. The other is the newer MMPI-2-RF, which has 338 items with true /false choices too. The newer MMPI-2-RF is more efficient as it saves half the time that that the MMPI-2 uses. Despite its inefficiency compared to the MMPI-2-RF, the MMPI-2 is still the most used test. This is because of many psychologists are familiar with it and its wide research base.

The MMPI-2 relies on 10 clinical scales to specify various anomalous psychological conditions. It has four scales, which assess an individual’s attitude towards taking the test, and authenticate the accuracy and honesty of the answers. Psychologists mostly refer to each clinical and validity scale by number. This is because the names given to these scales are not exact measures of the overlapping symptoms.

Discuss information security challenges and technologies.

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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on information security challenges and technologies. At the present, the majority of business organizations rely on data and information to carry out their daily tasks. In fact, these data and information are extensively shared in almost all the business communication processes amongst associates, workers, clients, and other stakeholders. On the other hand, the technical potential of web-based technology such as the emergence of the Internet has offered an excellent opportunity to business organizations for collecting, sharing, and distributing data and information, with relative easiness. In spite of a number of security initiatives, customers and business organizations are still worried about the security of data and information. In this scenario, these issues create the need for organizations to manage information security in a proper and effective manner. In order to ensure information security, organizations integrate a task to look after customers and governmental proprietary data and details by guaranteeing observance with the laws and regulations. Basically, information security is the set of rules and regulations, tools, techniques, and measures that organizations follow in order to ensure the security of their organizational resources (Northern Illinois University, 2007. Sipior & Ward, 2008. Grimaila, 2004). This paper discusses challenges for information security and also discusses the solutions to deal with these challenges.

At the present, there have emerged a wide variety of security issues that make information security a real challenge. In this scenario, one of the most important issues of information hacking. In their daily lives, people often face or see this kind of security issue. Additionally, people all around the world with negative intentions steal someone’s personal information with the intention of making illegal use of it. This&nbsp.personal information can comprise several sensitive and private things, for instance, computer passwords, email passwords, social security numbers, credit card numbers,s and a number of others.

Identify a researchable problem in long term care using practical examples and citing from literature.

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I will pay for the following article Identify a researchable problem in long term care using practical examples and citing from literature. The problem refers to whether a patient’s DNR status should deny them emergency treatment. The work is to be 2 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Whether a patients DNR status should deny them emergency treatment? A patient’s Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) status is meant to prohibit the health careprofessionals including doctors and nurses to attempt any emergency treatment like cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) even if physical health status becomes dangerous and the heart rate dwindles. Like euthanasia and prohibition of blood transfusion for Jehovah’s witnesses, the DNR request has also attracted much controversy in the healthcare field. It is not just a request, but a legal order on behalf of the patient to stop the medical personnel from performing an emergency procedure like CPR on him/her even if cardiac arrest is likely otherwise. A DNR does not become an obstacle in the way of most medical treatments like dialysis, surgery, chemotherapy etc. However, any emergency procedure which would consist of intubation or CPR is not allowed and patients with DNR status are denied that.

Though each state in the US has differing rules and regulations, both CPR and advanced life support are not performed if there is an explicit DNR request confirmed by law. It is considered important that “a full discussion of the DNR order should be undertaken” (Norman, 2010) before advancing to surgery. But the way things are done is different in the prehospital settings and in many US states, a DNR order is not followed during the period when a patient is being transferred to the hospital from the site of trauma. Prehospital medical personnel in such cases starts resuscitation measures and does not deny a patient proper cardiac life support based on intubation and CPR. In contrast to Canada and US where DNRs are respected in healthcare setups by doctors and nurses, it is claimed by a Jordanian medical student that there is no concept of DNRs in Jordan and rest of the Middle East and also the family is denied the right to observe resuscitation in the OR. It is always tried to save a patient’s life even if emergency measures taken antagonize the patient’s will (Yousef, cited in Jimenez, 2009). There are some conditions specified by the US law when a patient’s DNR status should not deny them emergency treatment. This is when, among other conditions, there is sufficient evidence suggesting cancellation of the DNR order. Also, when a patient him/herself wishes for resuscitative or emergency measures or he/she is not in a state to make a conscious decision and it is requested by a family member to initiate emergency procedures, the DNR form is ignored (New York Department of Health, 1999). However, if a patient shows a DNR personally or a family member presents it and it is absolutely valid, no chest compressions or ventilation procedures are allowed. Even if the patient is choking on something and breathing stops consequently, a DNR form suggests that still “ventilation should not be assisted” (New York Department of Health, 1999).

Concluding, DNR documents are not respected worldwide on equal basis because in the Middle East and most of Asia, physicians and nurses attempt to save the patients’ lives regardless of their personal wishes or legal orders. Full responsibility is on the doctor’s shoulders to operate in a patient’s best interests and CPR or intubation is included whenever necessary because saving a life is considered most important. More importance is attached to DNRs in the US and Canada where patients are denied emergency treatments if a valid DNR form is presented.

References:

Jimenez, M. (2009, Aug 19). Mideast med-school camp: divided by conflict, united by profession. THE GLOBE AND MAIL. Retrieved from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/mideast-med-school-camp-divided-by-conflict-united-by-profession/article4282750/

New York Department of Health. (1999). Frequently Asked Questions re: DNR’s. Retrieved from http://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/ems/policy/99-10.htm

Norman, G.V. (2010, Oct 22). Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders during Anesthesia and Urgent Procedures. Retrieved from http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/dnrau.