No directly quoted material may be used in this project paper.Project 3: Preparing for a Speech Before a Security Professional OrganizationScenario: You are the Corporate Security Director for a Fortune 500 company and a recognized leader in the security profession. You accept an invitation to speak at the ASIS International Seminar and Exhibits about the various security operational and other challenges with which organizations are confronted in protecting assets and possible solutions. Because of your expertise, you are asked to discuss in detail a security director's various professional responsibilities in today’s world, including loss prevention, investigation, administrative, and managerial functions and the critical skills required of a security director to fully succeed in accomplishing the protective mission. You are also asked to address the importance for a security director to develop strong working relationships with various internal and external entities and provide examples how these associations will promote a successful security operation.

Writing Assignment: After conducting the appropriate academic research using at least three different sources, write a speech that comprehensively addresses the following:(1) Provide a “welcome” statement and a strong introduction describing to the audience the purpose of your speech.(2) Identify and discuss the current operational and other challenges confronting security directors and possible solutions to those challenges.(3) Identify and discuss in detail a security director's various professional responsibilities in today’s world, including loss prevention, investigation, administrative, and managerial functions.(4) Identify and discuss the critical skills required of a security director to fully succeed in protecting an organization’s assets.(5) Identify and discuss the significance in establishing strong internal and external relationships to meet security operational objectives and provide examples of the individuals and groups with whom partnerships must be forged.(6) Provide concluding remarks that summarize your presentation and close your speech with an invitation for the audience to participate in a question/answer discussion session.

Note: One or more of your research sources may include interviews with properly documented private sector security professionals in a position to respond to the types of questions required to ascertain the information to write this speech. Students will identify these individuals and their titles to the course instructor one week before the project due date. Also, in organizing your written speech, you should consider using short sub-titles (e.g., Operational and Other Challenges and Solutions; Loss Prevention Role; Investigation Role; etc.) for distinct areas cited above so you do not inadvertently omit a project requirement.

Format RequirementsPaper must be double spaced, 11 or 12 pt font and 1”margins all around.All APA 7th edition format requirements must be followed (cover page, in text citations, reference page). Refer to APA/UMGC - learning resources found in the content page of this course.You must have resources to support your thoughts/opinions/information. These must be cited both in text as well as at the end of the document. Your paper should not contain direct quotes, sourced material must be paraphrased.
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Prior to beginning the discussion, read Chapter 1 of the course text for a tangible understanding of strategic methods. Read the UPS Holiday Season Fiasco: A Failure of Strategic Planning (Links to an external site.) article.Strategic planning is crucial to an organization’s sustainability. According to Abraham (2012), how does strategic planning differ from strategic management, and where does planning fit in the development of a strategy? According to research, how should an organization’s strategy influence the business model?After you have read the UPS Holiday Season Fiasco: A Failure of Strategic Planning (Links to an external site.) article, describe the problems in UPS and FedEx’s strategic planning process. Supporting your findings, how did the fear of losing market share affect the implementation and management of their organizational strategies? Research UPS and FedEx and describe the strategic changes made since the 2013 event. Based on the strategic models described in the course text, what type of strategy supports growth and sustainability during an ever-expanding or changing demand?

Guided Response: You must support your post with at least two scholarly resources in addition to the text to defend your positions and findings.

Link:  />Chapter 1: attached
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For this assessment, you will develop a 3-5 page paper that examines a safety quality issue pertaining to medication administration in a health care setting. You will analyze the issue and examine potential evidence-based and best-practice solutions from the literature as well as the role of nurses and other stakeholders in addressing the issue.

Health care organizations and professionals strive to create safe environments for patients; however, due to the complexity of the health care system, maintaining safety can be a challenge. Since nurses comprise the largest group of health care professionals, a great deal of responsibility falls in the hands of practicing nurses.

Quality improvement (QI) measures and safety improvement plans are effective interventions to reduce medical errors and sentinel events such as medication errors, falls, infections, and deaths.

A 2000 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report indicated that almost one million people are harmed annually in the United States, (Kohn et al., 2000) and 210,000-440,000 die as a result of medical errors (Allen, 2013).The role of the baccalaureate nurse includes identifying and explaining specific patient risk factors, incorporating evidence-based solutions to improving patient safety and coordinating care.

A solid foundation of knowledge and understanding of safety organizations such as Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (OSEN), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and The Joint Commission and its National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) program is vital to practicing nurses with regard to providing and promoting safe and effective patient care.

You are encouraged to complete the Identifying Safety Risks and Solutions activity. This activity offers an opportunity to review a case study and practice identifying safety risks and possible solutions. We have found that learners who complete course activities and review resources are more successful with first submissions. Completing course activities is also a way to demonstrate course engagement.

Demonstration of ProficiencyBy 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. O Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.

• Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks. O Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.

• Competency 4: Explain the nurse's role in coordinating care to enhance quality and reduce costs. O Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs. O Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration.

• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care. O Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contain few errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
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Identify and develop your thesis statement and your resolution of your chosen issue. Remember that this is just your initial version of the thesis statement for the Capstone Paper; expect that it will evolve after receiving feedback from your instructor and classmates and as you conduct more research on solutions for your chosen issue.

Your initial post should be 300 words. Support your work with at least one scholarly resource.

NOTE: The chosen social issue is "Overcrowding in Correctional Institutions"
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Develop a phased implementation plan that goes with the recommendations on the powerpoint

Create a balanced scorecard to measure the success of your strategy with graphs, percentages etc.

OBJECTIVE: Conduct a thorough analysis of a company that becomes the basis for a strategic recommendation. You will formally present the results of your analysis to class members (who will play the role of the Board of Directors) and elicit their approval for your recommendations. They will ask relevant questions and challenge some of the ideas presented, just as any board would do.

PURPOSE: Understand the complex issues facing executives and business owners, the diversity of factors they need to consider, and the difficulty in knowing whether they have made the right decision or are implementing it correctly.

NOTES

1. Do not focus on the questions at the end of the case. Based on your strategic analysis, determine the critical success factors, alternatives, and your recommendations, including an implementation plan and measurement criteria.

1. Although you should use the material at the time of the case as discussed in the text, you must address all elements of the rubric. If your case has limited financial information, you will need to gather data from external sources in order to perform the required financial analysis, including a trend analysis comparing the company to the industry and/or key competitors.
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Analyze the influence of patient factors on pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes

Analyze the impact of changes in pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes on patient drug therapies

Evaluate drug therapy plans for cardiovascular disorders

LM is an 89-year-old female resident of a long-term care facility who has been experiencing multiple falls, some resulting in injuries such as bruising and skin tears. Over the last 6 months, her ambulation status has declined from independent to wheelchair level. She complains of pain in her legs when walking more than short distances across the nursing unit.

PMH:

HTN

Alzheimer’s disease

Hypothyroidism

Osteoarthritis

Diabetes

MEDICATIONS:

Amlodipine 10 mg QD

Donepezil 10 mg QHS

Levothyroxine 0.88 mg QAM

Celecoxib 200 mg QD

Furosemide 40 mg QAM

Metformin 500mg, 1 BID

Glyburide 5mg, 1 BID

ALLERGIES: NKA

SOCIAL HISTORY:

Widowed with 2 adult children living in town, retired photographer and owner of an art supply store

VITALS: LABS:

Weight: 129 lbs TSH 2.45 Free T4 0.98

Height: 64 inches Na 135, K+ 3.8, Cl 99, CO2 25,

BP: Supine = 177/82 Glucose 101, SCr 0.9, BUN 42

HR: 78 bpm WBC 7.0, RBC 4.5, Hgb 11.9, Hct 34.1

Plt 255

Cr: 1.6 UA: Clear

eGFR: 45 ml/min

PE:

HEENT: Normocephalic, no evidence of trauma, PERRLA, EOMI, Dry mucous membranes

CV: RRR

Respiratory: Clear to auscultation bilaterally

Abdomen: Soft, non-tender, no masses or guarding

G/U: Skin intact, assisted with toileting and personal hygiene by staff

Extremities: Bilateral 2+ edema to lower extremities; skin dry, dark bruising and skin tear to right elbow and forearm

Neuro: Alert and oriented to person only. MMSE 18/30, stable over last 12 months.

PAIN ASSESSMENT:

Faces pain scale: No pain occurs at rest, upon walking, pain is moderate to severe

Requirements: 3-4 Full Pages Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages

Please be sure to include an introduction with a clear thesis statement along with a conclusion

Please be sure to carefully follow the instructions

No plagiarism & No Course Hero & No Chegg. My professor will be submitting the paper to Turnitin

Please be sure to include at least one in-text citation in each body paragraph

Please be sure to use sources that are credible or scholarly

Requirements: 3-4 Full Pages Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages
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Assessment 2: Documenting your Social Work Statement and Professional Development Plan 

Word limit/weighting: 1700 words/ 45% ) I need a good mark on this assignment so I can guarantee pass)

Task: Suppose that you are applying for a position as a graduate social worker/community worker.

Aim of this task: Synthesise learning and prepare for practice, either in field education or employment

Background steps

- Go to Seek.Com or LinkedIn and select a position that you are applying for (Suggestion: make it in the area in which you have done a placement so that you can rely on your field knowledge). 
- Access the following documents:

- Position Description/Job and Person Specifications, which should have a brief statement about the organisational context, and the sort of work expected in the role. 
- The Selection Criteria which will tell you what the selection will be based on. 
- These will give you an idea of the context and role. Insert these at the head of your paper (they are outside the word limit).

- After an initial telephone interview, you have been asked to submit a piece of written work for the next stage of the selection process. (These are the creative bits of the task). 

Assessment tasks

The request is this:

Please supply a statement of your understanding of social work in this role. It should include answers to these questions and rely on your own words built on the academic literature, properly referenced. Task: Suppose that you are applying for a position as a graduate social worker/community worker.

QuestionTipsWhat is the mission of social work?Note that you need to write in your own words, using referencesWhat is your mission as a social worker?Be mindful of the application/organisation but this is an opportunity for you to think about yourself as a social worker…own it!What does professional integrity mean to you?You may or may not declare your own philosophical position eg derived from you faith/spirituality/politics in a job search process …it may be applicable depending on the organisation…your call here but you can definitely makes statements that are consistent with wider social work thinking and valuesHow will you deal with ethical complexity in this role?Remember to draw on AASW Code of Ethics (2020), check whether the organisation has a public Code of Practice; refer to the relevant legislation in this field; also draw on the resources from this and all your topicsWhat are your plans for professional growth and development, especially in relation to social work judgment and decision-making and ethical practice?Refer to what you have learned in this topic across your degree– what did you learn about yourself and what you need to develop further?Use the Professional Development Plan Template from the AASW (link below)How will you sustain yourself in this role? Resources on their way!They will be released through Collaborate 22/05/22

Link to learning opportunities: This assessment links to Module #2: Reason and Resources in which we examine resources and start building a synthesis across the MSW. 

The task aims to assist you to:

Start building a philosophical and conceptual framework as part of your journey towards mature practice and integrity with a focus on yourself as an ethical, knowledgeable and skillful decision-maker in social work 

- Reflect on and generalise from your life and learning experiences
- Prepare for employment as a graduate social worker

Additional tips to assist with completing this task: (analysis and synthesis)

Apply concept or mind mapping

- What is the core question I am asking here?
- How do I now link it to other questions?
- I think this is a question about social work effectiveness, so
- E.g. What do I need to be and to have in order to be an effective social worker? 

Build dynamic links, not simply linear arguments… use hierarchies e.g. from general to specific 

http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm

Revisit your resources

Ask: Now that I have taken my thinking deeper – from reporting to analysing and organising is there anything else I need here to build relevance, accuracy, precision, clarity, depth, and breadth into my argument?

Arrive at a tentative conclusion

Writing up is also a thinking process based on ongoing judgment, seeing a point of view in a new light, evaluating our argument… an early/evolving draft helps you discipline and direct your thinking. Distil this into a simple proposition…maybe 3 sentences. This forms the top of your argument pyramid. This is a way of moving from a plan to research and investigate to presenting a convincing statement. It is the point at which you switch to persuasion. Note that we are developing a document to present to a prospective employer, not a conventional academic essay. 

One model is Barbra Minto’s The Pyramid Principle (2009)

The main components of pyramid theory:

- Start with ‘the answer’
- Ideas at any level must always be summaries of the ideas grouped below them
- Ideas in each group must always be the same kind of information
- Ideas in each group must be logically ordered

Work on 2nd and final drafts, including revisiting the answer statements 

Pay attention to the flow of the argument, to logic and the connections between thoughts.

Have I over relied on ‘the authorities’? Have I inserted my own personal, unsubstantiated opinions here? Does my conclusion hold up now? Do I need to revise, refine, make more explicit, clear and direct? (this should ideally be a succinct statement about how you describe yourself as a social worker) 

Ensure rigorous academic integrity When in doubt cite it!

Academic integrity governs the way in which you research and write while at University. It is founded on the principles of respect for knowledge, truth, scholarship and acting with honesty. These principles and values are the foundation of academia. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/service/library/tutorials/infoskills/glossary.html

To get more depth and understanding about the application of the principles of academic integrity and to see where you might unintentionally breach accepted practice, use FLO – 

Professional Development Plan: Self-Assess, noting and building on feedback

This is an ongoing activity that is about being able to view your own work critically, looking for clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, depth, breadth, and logicalness. It is also about being able to build on the feedback/ feedforward you receive.

This forms the basis for your Professional Development Plan which must address these questions, answered within a table, based on the template proposed by the AASW: See 

https://www.aasw.asn.au/professional-development/creating-a-cpd-plan

(Note that it asks for your membership number, insert if you are a member, otherwise leave blank.) You may add other cells if you wish.  Make it relevant to the position for which yu are applying. 

CONCLUSION: CRITICAL, REFLECTIVE, REFLEXIVE, ETHICAL THINKING SOCIAL WORKERS

Remember critical thinking is not about whinging and complaining or trotting out your favourite biases and opinions about the government, people, the world and everything! And then finding a few references to back you up. It is primarily about learning about yourself – personally and professionally. It is about gaining insight, knowledge, and skills that will contribute to you becoming a confident, compassionate professional social worker, making sound judgements and defensible decisions in collaboration with your colleagues and clients within the context of a human service underpinned by law and driven by policies. 

MODULE#2: REASON & RESOURCES

Teaching Week 729/04/22What resources are available to guide our thinking in messy situations? Reread AASW Code of Ethics 2020Teaching Week 806/05/22How do we develop phronesis? What is the place of being reasonable and values explicit?Read/watch: The Ethics CentreEthics Explainer: Consciencehttps://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-conscience/Teaching Week 913/05/22Which practice approaches will ensure that our professional judgement is knowledge based, theoretically sound, and ethically rigorous?Watch: Uni. Of Buffalo Social WorkEthical Dilemmas in Contemporary Social Work: trends and Challengeshttps://www.insocialwork.org/episode.asp?ep=24Teaching Week 1020/05/22What skills will ensure that our professional judgement is knowledge based, theoretically sound, and ethically rigorous?Read: International Federation of Social WorkersEthical Decision-making in the face of COVID-19https://www.ifsw.org/ethical-decision-making-in-the-face-of-covid-19/Teaching Week 11 27/05/22How do we connect our learning to practice? How do we sustain ourselves?The Imposter Syndrome within then Social Work Profession: Watch: Uni of Buffalo Social Work: Recognizing your true potential https://www.insocialwork.org/episode.asp?ep=237Your assessment task #2 is almost dueFrom 4-5 25/03/22 we will discuss assessment (recorded on Collaborate)Teaching Week 12 03/06/22How do we develop moral courage? How does this relate professional and personal growth?Read/watch: The Ethics CentreCourage isn’t about facing our fears; it’s about facing ourselveshttps://ethics.org.au/courage-isnt-about-facing-our-fears-its-about-facing-ourselves/ Teaching Week 13 10/06/22How do we see the golden thread through all this?This session will be pre-corded and uploaded on or before 27 May 2022 to assist with your assessment task. An announcement will be made when it is available. Your assessment task is due

Assessment 2: Documenting your Social Work Statement and Professional Development Plan 

Due: 08 June 2022

Word limit/weighting: 1700 words/ 45%

A note about this rubric: It does not address professional skills/capabilities (e.g.  such as you might find n SW skills topic; or in engineering) …it provides guidance about what we look for as evidence of following instructions and displaying high level critical thinking. It does not tell you how to do the task, those instructions are in Slow Thinking, the Assessment Hub and canvassed by students in the Discussion Forum. You can most effectively use it by applying it to your own work, preferably between the first and final drafts so that you can identify ares that require strengthening in your work.

Marking criteria Guidance for assessmentHigh Distinction85%+Distinction75%-84%Credit65%-74%Pass50%-64%Fail
A note about this rubric: It does not address professional skills/capabilities (e.g.  such as you might find n SW skills topic; or in engineering) …it provides guidance about what we look for as evidence of following instructions and displaying high level critical thinking. It does not tell you how to do the task, those instructions are in Slow Thinking, the Assessment Hub and canvassed by students in the Discussion Forum. You can most effectively use it by applying it to your own work, preferably between the first and final drafts so that you can identify ares that require strengthening in your work.

Marking criteria Guidance for assessmentHigh Distinction85%+Distinction75%-84%Credit65%-74%Pass50%-64%Fail
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