Explain what is driving your interest in your business research topic.

This SLP will span the first 5 modules of the course.  You will start thinking about a topic for your Doctoral Study and how you might go about conducting the study.  Don’t worry that the topic you choose at this early date will obligate you to keep that topic when it comes time to begin your research.  It can, and probably will change and evolve as you grow in your understanding and knowledge throughout the doctoral program.
Here we provide the big picture of what you will put together throughout the course.  Note that the “deliverables” are listed for each module.
In thinking about a possible topic for your Doctoral Study, consider the following questions:
Module 1:  What business phenomenon do I want to know more about? Drill down a little—what do I want to know, specifically? Why do I want to know this? What skills do I have that I bring to my doctoral study research on this topic? Do I have any biases or pre-conceived ideas about what I might find if I studied this phenomenon? How sure am I? Finally, is this phenomenon sufficiently interesting and complex that it requires doctoral-level research? (2-3 pages)
Write up a 4-page mini-proposal for the Doctoral Study you are thinking about doing at this point in time.
What is the tentative title of your study?
Explain what is driving your interest in your business research topic.
Define the business problem you have identified that your research might address or help resolve.
What puzzle about your area of interest do you want to solve?
Propose a set of RQ’s (5-10) which you will eventually reduce to 1 or 2.
Although this a less formal document than a case study, it is expected that you follow APA convention at the doctoral level. Also, although you are asked for your opinion, remember that it is good practice to avoid writing in the first person. Instead, focus on stating the facts as you perceive them to be while writing in the third person—and cite supporting sources.
Required Reading:
Yin, R. K. (2017). Case study research and applications: Design and methods (6th ed.). Sage Publications.
NOTE: This book is required for the course and must be purchased. It is not available in the Trident Online Library, but can be purchased or rented from Amazon. Any edition (6th or prior) is acceptable.
Flyvbjerg, B. (2006). Five misunderstandings about case-study research. Qualitative Inquiry, 12(2), 219-245. Available in the Trident Online Library Sage Research Methods database.
Stage 1: Assessing Appropriateness and Usefulness (pp. 11-18),
Stage 2: Ensuring Accuracy of Results (pp. 19-36), and
Stage 3: Preparation (pp. 37-48) in:
Gagnon, Y. (2010). The case study as research method: A practical handbook. Les Presses de l’Université du Québec. Available in the Trident Online Library EBSCO ebook Collection.
Baxter, P., & Jack, S. (2008). Qualitative case study methodology: Study design and implementation for novice researchers. The Qualitative Report, 13(4), 544-559. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1573&context=tqr
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. (1979). The Belmont report: Ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research. http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.html

Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.

Assessment 2 Instructions: Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan
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For this assessment, you can use a supplied template to conduct a root-cause analysis. The completed assessment will be a scholarly paper focusing on a quality or safety issue pertaining to medication administration in a health care setting of your choice as well as a safety improvement plan.
As patient safety concerns continue to be addressed in the health care settings, nurses can play an active role in implementing safety improvement measures and plans. Often root-cause analyses are conducted and safety improvement plans are created to address sentinel or adverse events such as medication errors, patient falls, wrong-site surgery events, and hospital-acquired infections. Performing a root-cause analysis offers a systematic approach for identifying causes of problems, including process and system-check failures. Once the causes of failures have been determined, a safety improvement plan can be developed to prevent recurrences. The baccalaureate nurse’s role as a leader is to create safety improvement plans as well as disseminate vital information to staff nurses and other health care professionals to protect patients and improve outcomes.
As you prepare for this assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Quality and Safety Improvement Plan Knowledge Base activity and to review the various assessment resources, all of which will help you build your knowledge of key concepts and terms related to quality and safety improvement. The terms and concepts will be helpful as you prepare your Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan. Activities are not graded and demonstrate course engagement.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.
Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address a safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration. ;
Create a viable, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.
Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
Identify existing organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve a safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
Communicate in writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
Professional Context
Nursing practice is governed by health care policies and procedures as well as state and national regulations developed to prevent problems. It is critical for nurses to participate in gathering and analyzing data to determine causes of patient safety issues, in solving problems, and in implementing quality improvements.
Scenario
For this assessment, you may choose from the following options as the subject of a root-cause analysis and safety improvement plan:
The specific safety concern identified in your previous assessment pertaining to medication administration safety concerns.
The readings, case studies, or a personal experience in which a sentinel event occurred surrounding an issue or concern with medication administration.
Instructions
The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to analyze a root cause of a specific safety concern in a health care setting. You will create a plan to improve the safety of patients related to the concern of medication administration safety based on the results of your analysis, using the literature and professional best practices as well as the existing resources at your chosen health care setting to provide a rationale for your plan.
Use the Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan [DOCX] template to help you to stay organized and concise. This will guide you step-by-step through the root cause analysis process.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.
Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration.
Create a feasible, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Identify organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve your plan for safe medication administration.
Communicate in writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your Assessment 2 will focus on safe medication administration.
Assessment 2 Example [PDF].
Additional Requirements
Length of submission: Use the provided Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan template to create a 4–6 page root cause analysis and safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
APA formatting: Format references and citations according to current APA style.

Prepare an evaluation (5-7 pages) of an existing QI initiative to determine if the initiative is effective.

Prepare an evaluation (5-7 pages) of an existing QI initiative to determine if the initiative is effective.
Introduction
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—various groups talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care. As a result, they must develop their skills in reviewing and evaluating performance reports. They also need to be able to communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives effectively. Patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes mandate collaboration among nursing staff members to ensure the integration of their perspectives in all quality care initiatives.
Overview
In the first assessment, you analyzed an adverse event or a near miss, and outlined a QI initiative to address it. This assessment will give you practice and the confidence to evaluate a quality care initiative in much the same way you might in your health care setting to help determine if the initiative is effective.
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—each group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives. The nursing staff’s perspective and the need to collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.
Instructions
Imagine you have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing QI initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you, or you may use the hospice information provided in the Vila Health: Data Analysis activity in this assessment. The purpose of the report is to assess whether the specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.
In your report, you will:
Analyze a current QI initiative in a health care setting.
Identify what prompted implementation of the QI initiative.
Evaluate problems that arose during the initiative or problems that were not addressed.
Evaluate the success of a current QI initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.
Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions used in the QI initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
Ensure your analysis conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Be sure to address all of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation [DOCX] document for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Length of submission: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages, not including the title page and References section.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of four sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source material is defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.
Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work life quality.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions utilized in a quality improvement initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

What are the perspectives of interprofessional team members involved in the initiative?

Guiding Questions
Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a prewriting exercise, an outlining tool, or a final check to ensure you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.
Remember, you are analyzing a current QI initiative that is already in place. You are not creating a new QI initiative (Assessment 3).
Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
What prompted the implementation of the quality improvement initiative?
What problems were not addressed?
What problems arose from the initiative?
Evaluate the success of a current quality initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.
What benchmarks or outcome measures were used to evaluate success? Consider requirements for national, state, or accreditation standards.
What was most successful?
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
How does the interprofessional team contribute to the success of the QI initiative?
What are the perspectives of interprofessional team members involved in the initiative?
Who did you talk to? From what other professions? How did their input impact your analysis?
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
What process or protocol changes would you recommend?
What added technologies would improve quality outcomes?
What outcome measures are missing, or could be added?
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Is your analysis logically structured?
Is your analysis 5–7 double-spaced pages (not including title page and reference list)?
Is your writing clear and free from errors?
Does your analysis include both a title page and reference list?
Did you use a minimum of four sources? Were they published within the last five years?
Are they cited in current APA format throughout the analysis?

Explain how the strategic plan provides focus and direction for Stevens District Hospital.

Assignment Content

Imagine the following: Now that you have completed your review of the Stevens District Hospital Strategic-Planning Scenario in previous weeks’ assignments, you have been asked to give a presentation to the hospital’s governing board. This board is comprised of the hospital’s president, 4 business leaders from the community, and 3 medical staff leaders.

Assignment Preparation
Use components from your previous weeks’ assignments for this assignment and update them with faculty feedback you received.

Assignment Directions
Create a 12- to 16-slide presentation, including detailed speaker notes, for the hospital’s governing board in which you summarize your analysis and goals created. In your presentation:
Provide an overview of the market.
State the mission statement and vision statement for Stevens District Hospital.
Provide the SWOT analysis.
Summarize the strategic goals created for Stevens District Hospital, including the rationale for the goals.
Describe itemized resources that may be needed.
Explain how the strategic plan provides focus and direction for Stevens District Hospital.

Cite references to support your presentation.

Format your citations and references according to APA guidelines.

What can public school teachers do to respect all students’ beliefs and still maintain their own Christian integrity?

Essay: Gender Identity
Assignment
Explain how beliefs about the diversity of sexual orientation, the stages of clarification people go through, and gender discrimination issues have changed over the last several decades and continue to change. How have these changes caused challenges to public school teachers who strongly adhere to the Bible’s teachings? What can public school teachers do to respect all students’ beliefs and still maintain their own Christian integrity? This assignment should be written according to APA guidelines, 500 to 600 words. Refer to your text and 1-3 outside resources for this assignment. Include a references page for your sources.

Explain how miscommunication impacted the communication process and explain what could have been changed to alleviate the miscommunication.

Overview
Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of communication for humans for both fictional and nonfictional stories. In the professional world, stories are often used to share information with your coworkers and management. Effectively communicating a story in a professional environment requires you to know how to identify and assess the major elements of the communication process, the failures in the communication process, and the goals and purposes of communication.
Scenario
You are the manager of a team of writers within a company of about 100 people. Your supervisor asks you to attend a meeting with the vice president to gather the vice president’s requirements for a new initiative while your supervisor is on vacation.
During the meeting, you take handwritten notes so as not to forget important information for your supervisor. Your method of note-taking involves jotting down individual words to remind yourself of the meeting’s major topics and writing down some of your immediate observations. Some observations in your notes include that the vice president doesn’t have the education needed to oversee the project and that highly technical terminology should be avoided. This means that your project communications will need to be written using plain language instead of technical jargon so that everyone can be on the same page. You intend to explain these points in further detail when you can talk to your supervisor.
After you attend the meeting with the vice president, you send an email meeting invitation to your supervisor for when they are back in the office. This email to your supervisor includes the proposed date and time of the meeting, the subject “Meeting to Discuss New Initiative,” and a single attachment containing a digital scan of your notes. Your supervisor accepts the meeting invitation a couple hours later with no additional comments.
Later, when your supervisor has returned, you begin the informational meeting by telling them the three items that the vice president wants to see by the next morning. Your supervisor is agitated when they hear this because they do not have the time to get all of these items completed by tomorrow. They ask why you did not tell them earlier that the vice president was expecting work to be done by the next day. You are frustrated because you thought you were doing your supervisor a favor by respecting their vacation time and saving this conversation for when they were back at work. On top of that, it makes you angry that you are getting in trouble after doing your supervisor a favor by attending this meeting, since interfacing with executives and gathering requirements is not part of your job description. You respond to your supervisor by saying “Didn’t you read my notes attached to the meeting email? All of this was listed in there.”
Your supervisor becomes even more upset, declaring that they did see the notes, but that they found them to be rude and unprofessional. Your supervisor then tells you that while the vice president doesn’t have a formal education on the project’s subject matter, they have worked at the organization for years and have significant work experience that makes them qualified to spearhead the new initiative. At this point, you try to explain the original intentions behind your notes and provide your supervisor some background information about the meeting, including why this initiative is important to the vice president, what the vice president’s vision is for the initiative, and how the vice president is willing to help make this initiative successful. Your supervisor is not interested in these details, however, and they declare that “the only thing that matters now is meeting the deadlines.”
Prompt
Review the above scenario. Write a short response that addresses the following rubric criteria:
Describe the communication goal and your rationale for why this is the goal.
Describe the communication purpose and your rationale for why this is the purpose.
Justify how communication theories could be applied to the scenario, and clearly identify specific theories in your explanation.
Explain how miscommunication impacted the communication process and explain what could have been changed to alleviate the miscommunication.
Guidelines for Submission
Submit this assignment as a 250- to 500-word Microsoft Word document. You are not required to use outside sources, but if you do, you must cite them in APA format.

Identify and describe three strategies a team leader could use to ensure the effectiveness of their team and why those are important to foster.

Scenario
Your VP has asked you to create a new team for a new product or service the company is introducing. You will be building a team to support the product/service, which will consist of 5–7 members, which you will lead. In this assignment, you will complete the first step in the process of creating an effective team: planning. You will determine the roles needed on the team, describe these roles, choose the tasks assigned to each role, and identify the skills team members need to complete those tasks.
Instructions
Create a 1–2-page plan for your team that meets the following requirements:
State your team’s purpose. This purpose should make clear the team’s shared goal, what the team does, for whom, and why.
Example: We produce financial reports so our customers can receive timely, quality investment information.
Explain the specific roles you will need and what each will be responsible for. Describe the responsibilities of the role, including the types of tasks the team member performs. Remember to include yourself as the team leader. Your team can be no larger than 5–7 people.
As an example, you as leader might opt to have a Business Analyst (BA) as a member of the team.
The Business Analyst would run reports, present an analysis of the data, and share findings with the leader and/or team.
The Business Analyst would work with the team leader to provide data and analysis about the new product or service.
What are the skills and/or traits you have identified each role will require and why are those critical?
Continuing with the Business Analyst example: The analyst must have strong analytical ability and be great at using creativity, reasoning, and past experiences to identify and solve problems effectively.
A trait that is important for this role includes being detail-oriented and focused.
Additionally, technical literacy is important as the BA must be proficient with basic computer skills.
The BA must possess the ability to work well in one or more groups and bring out the best in others (teamwork skill) and outcomes.
Identify and describe three strategies a team leader could use to ensure the effectiveness of their team and why those are important to foster.

What educational information should the nurse provide to the patient regarding emergency contraception treatment and the side effects?

Discussion post
Maternal and child
Case Study: A 16-year-old arrived at a local family planning clinic with pregnancy concerns due to unprotected intercourse. This encounter occurred two nights prior, and she believes she may be fertile but wants information regarding the “morning-after pill”.
What additional information should the nurse obtain during the assessment?
What educational information should the nurse provide to the patient regarding emergency contraception treatment and the side effects?

In 100 words, please explain in your own words why Cybersecurity is important to people, businesses, and governments.

In 100 words, please explain in your own words why Cybersecurity is important to people, businesses, and governments.
In 100 words, please express your opinion about the importance and necessity of assessing threats, knowing vulnerabilities, and gathering cyber threat intelligence.
In 100 words, please 2reply.

Please check plagiarism.