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Accounting

Discussion 6 – Non-Value-Added

Identify a non-value-added activity at three different publicly traded organizations. Explain how each organization might be able to eliminate the non-value-added activity identified. Please make sure not to select organizations that are similar to prior posts.

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Approximately 250 words

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Accounting

Discussion 5 – Reduction of Manufacturing Costs

Manufacturing Costs: Pick a product and identify four direct materials that are used to create the product, identify at least two types of labor, Identify at least three types of overhead costs, and discuss how the company should be able to do to lower each cost.

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Approximately 250 words

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Accounting

Discussion 4 – American and Foreign Company Joint adventure

An American company is considering entering into a joint venture with a firm in another country (please select another country of your choice). Describe what cultural and accounting practice differences each party should consider and explain why.
No identical company/country can be used for this discussion. It is important to review prior posts first. No credit can be given for using the same company/country.

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Approximately 250 words

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Accounting

Discussion 3 – LabCorp

Select a publicly traded company and access the company’s most recent annual report (select the “Investors” menu item). Locate the notes to the financial statements and identify the information topics disclosed in these footnotes and explain the reasons for disclosure.

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Approximately 250 words

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Nursing

Global Health, Culture and Health Policy for the Advanced Practice Nurse

Papers must be typed, double-spaced, Times-New-Roman, 12-point font and one-inch margins.
Papers should be 3 pages long
Writing should use formal language and correct spelling and punctuation
Topics reflected upon may include any information covered in class or in the reading assignment for the week
Papers may take 1 or 2 topics and examine them deeply, or more topics examined in less detail
When writing, consider the following:
What have we studied that is interesting?
What new things have you learned?
How has your learning affected the preconceptions or misconceptions you brought with you into class?
How does your learning affect your view of the world and the universe?
Will what you have learned change your professional behavior in the future?

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Approximately 250 words

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American Literature

Modern World Literature m2A

Write a 2-page literary analysis of one of the short stories from the assigned readings for Module 02, explaining how the author used characteristics of modernist literature or dystopian elements to create the dominant theme of the short story. You should include two of the terms used in your Module 02 literary terms exercise, and highlight the unique elements utilized in either modernist or dystopian fiction from your reading this week. Consider the following:
What was the main theme of your chosen story? (This is the main idea or message of the story). Examples of theme might be man vs. technology, man vs. nature, love, death, coming of age, freedom, the hero or heroine’s quest, etc.
If you chose a dystopian story, what vision of the future did the reading reflect?
Which of the literary terms or characteristics of modernist fiction did you find in your chosen story? (See your lesson content and literary terms in Module 02 for more on these).
Focus as much as you can on how this short story exemplified the genre you have selected. You will also find it helpful to research the selected work online and in our library. You may use more than one article for your paper. Research includes at least one outside library article on the work selected.
Your paper must be written in APA format. Use the APA template from the Course Guide to complete this assignment. You should have an APA cover page; two full pages of essay text with in-text citations, quotes, and lines from the readings; and a reference page.
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
“Araby” by James Joyce
“A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
Yiu, A. (2003). Three-dimensional reading: Stories of time and space in Japanese modernist fiction, 1911-1932. University of Hawaii Press.
“Hell in a Bottle” by Yumeno Kyusaku
Haddon, M. (2003). The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Continue reading this week; no assignments on this work until Module 3 (Next 50 pages recommended) (Cloud Library edition)
Literary Terms 2
Dadaism
A philosophy that rejected any s form of authority and created works which focused on mocking the establishment in art, music, and literature.
Anti-hero
A leading character, male or female, without positive attributes and status found in classic drama.
Nihilism
Total rejection of belief in anything; felt life was “meaningless”.
Surrealism
A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind (e.g., irrational juxtaposition of images).
Stream of Consciousness
In fiction, the technique designed to represent a character’s inner thoughts, which flow in a stream without grammatical structure, punctuation or apparent coherence.
Utopian
A kind of fiction that imagines perfect social, moral, and physical worlds for the characters or citizens.
Didactic
A kind of fiction that is designed to present or demonstrate a moral, religious, political, or other belief or position.
Modernism
A movement that represented a radical break with conventions of the past, including religion, art, literature, and science.
Dystopian
A kind of fiction that illustrates the negative consequences of a so-called perfect society, usually created by technological advances leading to totalitarianism.
Primitivism
A recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.

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Approximately 250 words

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Nursing

QSEN Competency

In 2012, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) convened a panel of experts in the field of quality and safety education and graduate-level practice and representatives of key stakeholder organizations to review the existing Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) graduate competencies and AACN’s recently revised Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing (2011).
Their goal was to determine the competencies that graduate-prepared nurses must possess to meet contemporary care standards.
All MSN-prepared nurses should be competent in the following OSEN areas.
• Quality improvement
• Safety
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Patient-centered care
• Evidence-based practice
• Informatics
For this discussion, please choose a QSEN competency that impacts your role (nursing administration).
Please discuss the following:
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• Describe the graduate-level QSEN competency and how this competency specifically impacts your role.
• Specifically describe how you, a graduate-prepared nurse, will address this competency compared to how an undergraduate nurse would.
Note :This is my very last Capstone class, they are looking for me to write very high quality papers…

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Approximately 250 words

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Nursing

440 Discussion 8 # 1

Module 8 Overview
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Introduction
BSN440 was designed to give students a very brief overview of the case management role in healthcare. During the course there was discussion on quality outcomes, technology, care delivery and community needs.
Patient Advocacy is another option for many professionals who want to help patients navigate the healthcare system. These individuals act on the behalf of patients and/or their families in communicating with doctors and hospitals, clarifying options for diagnostic tests or treatment choices, and assuring that patient wishes are carried out when they may not be able to do so themselves. The patient advocate can be a spokesperson for the family.
Learning Outcomes
After completing this module, you will be able to:
Reflect on course content and describe knowledge gained.
Discuss the role of the professional nurse in case management models.
Describe differing case management models based on acuity.
Reading & Resources
Explore the Patient Advocate Foundation site for patient resources and services.
Explore Patient Advocate Certification Board site. One can become board certified as a patient advocate.
Learning Activities
Discussion: Participate in Discussion 8.
Evaluations: Complete the Student Course Evaluation.
Last modified: Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 1:17 PM Discussion 8 Question 1
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Have you or have you known a close friend or relative who has used case management services in the acute, primary, or home care settings? Briefly describe the process. Reflect on the learning in this course. Would you change any of the process based on your learning in this course? Why or why not? Include a minimum of 2 scholarly references to support your answer.
See the Nursing Syllabus Standards & Policies Document for Discussion Participation Guidelines & Grading Criteria.

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Approximately 250 words

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History

Module 12 – Descending into the Twentieth Century: The Great War and Revolutions, 1914-1920

What were the Causes, and what was the Trigger of World War 1?
What were the Causes, and what was the Trigger of World War 1? Moreover, were the causes justified reasons for war? Lastly, do historians, and you agree on why the war happened in the first place?
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To set the stage, start by viewing the following documentary (35:32 min) and include the causes listed and reasoning discussed in your reply – see: History of World Civilizations – Causes of World War I: https://youtu.be/qq8A_8gUc3Y
Please use the docu-presentation, your eBook, or a reputable academic source of your choice (you will need to name at least two historians with differing opinions for your last section of the question.
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Write your assessment in essay format, with in-text citations and works cited section. The essay should be about 300 words in total(if over the word count that is fine need a detailed and eneging response). Please review and follow my instructions with examples of Originality, Citation, and Format(Citation sources are provided).

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Approximately 250 words

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History

Module 14 – Into the Fire Again: World War II, 1939-1945

From the Eugenics to the Holocaust – discuss the cumulative radicalization of a deadly idea by the Nazis in the late 1930s and during WWII.
From the Eugenics to the Holocaust – discuss the cumulative radicalization of a deadly idea by the Nazis in the late 1930s and during WWII.
Please visit the special traveling exhibition – Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (that was in New York City a few years ago).
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/deadly-medicine/overview/index.php?content=overview_56k%20(Links%20to%20an%20external%20site.)Links%20to%20an%20external%20site.
Choose two artifacts from the three given periods to describe the issue and practice; then, utilize and cite in your work relevant sections from your textbook dealing with the period and Nazi practices during WWII (include and cite the source document that’s in the chapter “The Nazi Death Camps”).
If the website does not open (requires ‘flash’), then use the article based on it, and make your selection from it: a number of these same artifacts are presented and analyzed by the following author – utilize the text with inserted visual material from the article: In the Name of Public Health – Nazi Racial Hygiene by Susan Bachrach in the New England Journal of Medicine, July 29, 2004, 351;5, pp. 417-420.
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/deadly-medicine/related/naziracialhygiene.pdf
In your 250-word assignment(if over the word count that is fine need a detailed and eneging response), state the names of artifacts and the title of the source document; in your write-up, include answers to the: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How and, of course, have at least four historical dates for what you are addressing.
Use and cite your textbook as you go, and when you use other sources (textbook, website, video, publication), make sure you use less than 20% of the total words count of your paper, and cite your courses properly *
As a general overview and intro to the topic, watch: Roots of Nazi Ideology by Yad Vashem (11 min):
Roots of Nazi Ideology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvCkw87FLZk Roots of Nazi Ideology
With related online material: https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-videos/video-toolbox/hevt-nazi-ideology.html. (Citation sources are provided).

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Approximately 250 words