Week 7 Case Study

Terminating Employees

 You are a nurse manager for the birthing center in a hospital.Marcia Concord is a nurse in your department, and for the past several months you noticed Marcia’s high incidence of absenteeism by calling off. Prior to April she was verbally warned about her absenteeism and given counseling. On April 20, 2016, she was given a written warning.May, 2016 she missed work 3 days stating she misread her schedule. On June 2, 7, 12 and 23 she was over an hour late for her shift. On July 7th she was found sleeping in an empty bed for 4 hours while on her shift. On August 20th she reported her car stopped on the freeway and was unable to come to work, 10 minutes prior to start of the shift.September 7 and 23 she reported the same car stopped on the freeway and was unable to come to work.October 29 she called in with a cold, October 30 she called in with the flu and said she was not coming to work.

 

You did provide this nurse as with every nurse, the expectations, job description, and performance criteria.The hospital feels above 6 absences in a 12-month period is considered unacceptable.You called Marcia Concord for a termination meeting, but first you must prepare a script for your termination conversation with her.

 

Follow the guidelines provided in Chapter 19, and write a script for Maria Concord termination conversation you will have with her. You can incorporate a table into your paper as well.

 

Assignment Guidelines

·Respond in a Word document.

·Your response should be at least 1-2 pages, double-spaced, with Times New Roman 12 point font.

·Use APA style writing when crafting your response. Do add your title and reference(s) pages

 

Week 8 Case study

” Safe, High-Quality Patient Care”

 

. It should be from 8-10 double-spaced pages APA format. The subject of your course paper should meet the following criteria:
a.    It must be about any aspect of health care management or health care leadership. .
b.   It should have a thesis statement rather than just being descriptive.
c.   Identify the pros and cons of the issue.
d.   Use at least four references from academic journals.
e.   Explain your position on this issue and how you arrived at it. Describe the process.

Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen: Humanitarian Crisis: Economic impact of refugees fleeing war in Europe and the Middle East, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solution(s) to the problem.

Write: This Final Argumentative Essay will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the following items in separate sections with new headings for each:

• Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph and conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solution(s) to the problem. For guidance on how to construct a good introduction paragraph, please review the Introduction Paragraph Guideline from the Ashford Writing Center.
• Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence. Show why this is a societal problem, and provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
• Construct an argument supporting your proposed solution(s). Be sure to consider multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution. Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
• Interpret statistical data from at least three, peer-reviewed scholarly sources. Do this by discussing the validity, reliability, and any biases; identifying the strengths and weaknesses of these sources; and pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources. Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution. Be sure to provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution, and explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. It’s important to consider all of society.
• Develop a conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review the Conclusion Paragraph Guideline from the Ashford Writing Center.

The Final Argumentative Essay

• Must be 3,300 – 3,900 words in length (approximately between 10 – 12 pages; excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
  • Running header with page numbers
• Must include in-text citations from at least 10 scholarly sources. Be sure to integrate your research rather than simply inserting it.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined here and here.
• Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. Reference list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Source Document Requirements:
  • Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
  • Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, etc. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed soluation within the argument.
  • Where print documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.
  • Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.
  • Religious texts must not be used.

Good Critical Thinking Tips:

• Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
• Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
• Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
• Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.

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ALSO SEE FINAL PAPER EXAMPLE