CAM AND CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE

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Write a short (50-100-word) paragraph response for each question posed below. Submit this assignment as a Microsoft Word document.

  1. Define CAM.
  2. Describe the patient who uses CAM the most.
  3. List some common misconceptions about CAM.
  4. Identify methods of including the use of CAM in patient education.
  5. Discuss the safe use of CAM.
  6. List ways in which conventional medicine and CAM can be integrated.
  7. Define ethical theories, ethical principles, and values.
  8. Provide examples of ethical issues in patient education and compliance, and describe ways in which an effective professional/patient relationship and a poor health professional/patient relationship can impact these issues.
  9. Explain what is meant by “ethical patient education practices”.
  10. Explain the purpose of informed consent.
  11. Discuss what factors determine the patient’s ability to give informed consent.
  12. Compose a sample informed consent form. .
  13. Discuss the process of communication to use with the patient and the family when obtaining informed consent.

Module 14: Discussion Forum

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Lean manufacturing is a philosophy of production that focuses on the minimization of resources used throughout the organization in the production of goods and services. Lean manufacturing involves identifying and eliminating non-value adding activities in design, production, supply-chain management, and in dealing with the customers.

Select a manufacturing business in Saudi Arabia and discuss the following:

  • What the company does.
  • Its value adding and non-value adding activities, including tools for Lean Six Sigma such as just-in-time manufacturing.
  • Any rapid change-over activities the company uses or could use.
  • The company’s employee empowerment opportunities.

Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories, which require supporting citations along with at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed references in supporting your answer.

 

Readings

Required: 

Chapter 14 & Supplement to Chapter 14 in Operations Management

Chapter 14 PowerPoint slides Click for more options Module 14 Chapter 14 PowerPoint slides – Alternative Formats – Operations Management

Antonio, B. T., & Kusumastuti, R. D. (2019). Lean operations implementation at an Indonesian shoe producer. South East Asian Journal of Management, 13(1), 92–105.

Recommended: 

Ball, P., & Lunt, P. (2020). Lean eco-efficient innovation in operations through the maintenance organisation. International Journal of Production Economics, 219, 405–415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.07.007

Obwegeser, N., T. Nielsen, D., & M. Spandet, N. (2019). Continual Process Improvement for ITIL Service Operations: A Lean Perspective. Information Systems Management, 36(2), 141–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/10580530.2019.1587576

Misconceptions Of Cam

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What are some of the misconceptions about using CAM? Throw out some examples, what have you heard and what have you read about?

Meal Dicussion

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‘The Menu’ is simply you picking 2 recipes (one you posted in ‘The Recipe’ discussion, and one from one of the recipes your classmates posted), then preparing them. The type of meal doesn’t matter, only that it’s 2 meals, one from you, one from them.

SOCW6090 WK2 Assgn 2

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Assignment: Video Role-Play: Strengths and Weaknesses of the DSM-5

Though the DSM-5 is the standard manual for mental illness diagnoses, it is not without weakness. In this Assignment, you analyze the strengths and limitations of the DSM-5 diagnostic system, and you differentiate between normal behavior and diagnosable symptoms using the concepts of dimensionality and spectrum.

To prepare: Review the concept of the dimensional approach with the DSM-5 and review the methods that the DSM-5 recommends to individualize where a person fits on a continuum of their illness in terms of subtypes, severity, and functional impairments. You will find these classifications in different parts of the manual and begin to be comfortable looking through it.

Next, imagine the following scenario:

You are a school social worker who has been asked to address a parent-teacher association meeting. Many parents in the audience have children who have been identified for special education services. They are confused about how to understand the diagnoses they are seeing. Others have worries about overdiagnosis. You have been advised that while these parents are generally well-informed, many don’t understand the dimensional or spectrum aspects. All are worried.

You will start your video with your introductory talk to the parents on these factors. After you provide your explanation, imagine that you open the meeting to questions. You will address the question noted below that is posed by a parent in the audience. Consider your audience, and practice explaining in terms a non-professional might understand. Do NOT read from the book.

Review the questions (in the Assignment instructions below) ahead of time and plan your answer before recording, as you will need to look up and integrate materials to answer the chosen question.

https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.Introduction

https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/ethics-articles/dsm-5-and-ethics-of-diagnosis/

By Day 7

Submit a 3- to 5-minute video, considering the parents as your audience, in which you do the following:

  • Briefly describe what the DSM-5 is and how it is organized. In your description, define the concepts of spectrum and dimensionality as explained by Paris and in the DSM-5 introduction.
  • Explain why social workers and mental health professionals use diagnoses and what receiving a diagnosis means (and does not mean).
  • Explain general concerns about the risks of overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis versus not diagnosing. Also explain how diagnosis is connected to services.
  • Explain other details that might help your audience understand the strengths and weaknesses of the diagnostic system.
  • Provide a response to the following parental questions:
    • My teenager’s best friend died by suicide this year. It’s been months, and she doesn’t seem over it. Her teachers tell me she should get help for depression, but I think it’s just grief. She talks about her friend all the time and gets very upset. I am worried about her. Is it normal for her to still be feeling this way? I don’t want to put her on medication for normal feelings. What is the difference between grief and depression?

Leadership Analysis Paper#1

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Leader chosen: MAHATMA GANDHI

 

Leader Analysis Paper #1

During this course, you will have the opportunity to select a leader to analyze in terms of each addressed topic.  In order to do so, you will need to identify a leader for which there is substantial information about his or her leadership style, traits and behaviors in order for you to conduct a review and analysis of his or her leadership competencies.

On Units 3, 6, 9, and 13 you will be asked to respond to various questions about your particular leader and draw correlations between your leader and what you have learned.  For this week’s paper (Leader Analysis Paper #1) you will focus on how your leader did (or did not) display aspects of Fundamentals of Leadership (Unit 1), Effective Thinking (Unit 2), and Emotional Intelligence (Unit 3). You will need to cite your conclusions with references from the week’s reading material.

Your choice of leader will need to be approved by the instructor.  If, at any point, you find that you do not have enough material to continue your evaluation of this particular leader, you may change to a different leader but only with the approval of your instructor.

For Leader Analysis Paper #1, please submit a 4-6 page (minimum, not counting title page, abstract, table of contents, or references) double-spaced paper that details the following:

1.  Who is your leader and what leadership role/s has this person had?

2.  What is your interest in this leader?  Why do you want to choose this person?

3.  What  sources have you found to support your research?  Will you have  you have sufficient materials and references to continue to assess and analyze this person and his/her leadership style, traits and behaviors throughout this course?

Note: Points 1-3 above should be addressed in 3-5 paragraphs and no more than 250 words.

4.  Citations and references to Units 1, 2, and 3 reading materials that support your choice. Specifically, how did your leader display (or not display) aspects of:

  • Fundamentals of Leadership (Unit 1, “Big Five” Leader Traits [250-375 words, one page to one-and-a-half pages]),
  • Emotional Intelligence (Unit 2, Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Management [250-375 words, one page to one-and-a-half pages]) and
  • Effective Thinking (Unit 3, Systems Thinking, Thinking in Time, Ethical Thinking, Creative Thinking, and Critical Thinking [250-375 words, one page to one-and-a-half pages).

5. Using APA format, include a title page, abstract (summary), and a table of contents. Finish with a summary conclusion and a Reference page.

Organize your paper as follows:

Title Page
Executive Summary

The executive summary is a summary of points made in your paper, and is written LAST.

Table of Contents
Introduction (~0.5 page)

The introduction includes a very brief sketch of your interest in your leader and an outline of points your reader can expect you to make about your leader’s “Big Five” traits, thinking effectiveness, and emotional intelligence

Sec. 1 – Fundamentals of Leadership (~1-1.5 pp.)

  1. How does your leader display, or not display, each of the “Big Five” leader traits?
  2. Explain your answers and illustrate  with examples.

Sec. 2  Emotional Intelligence (~1 page)

  1. How does your leader display, or fail to display, each of the five dimensions of emotional intelligence?
  2. Explain your answers and illustrate  with examples.

Sec. 3 – Effective Thinking (~ 1 page)

  1. How does your leader display, or fail to display, each of the five dimensions of effective thinking?
  2. Explain your answers and illustrate  with examples.

Summary (~0.5 pp.)

Be sure to include answers to this question in your summary: How can you apply the conclusions of your assessment and analysis to leadership roles and responsibilities in your organization?

References (separate page(s))

APA style (parenthetical references in the text [e.g., (Lewis, 2003)], included only cited works in the References, use “hanging indent” format)

Be sure to review the Grading Rubric below. 

Computer Architecture

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Viruses and other malware often exploit bugs known as buffer overflows in widely used software. One method of preventing these exploits in software running on current Windows versions is Data Execution Prevention (DEP).

investigate buffer overflows and DEP.

  • How does DEP prevent malicious      attacks via buffer overflows?
  • Is it always effective?
  • Why might a user or      administrator disable DEP?

Strategy Analysis Project Part 2

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SAP Project Part 2

MGMT

Strategy Analysis Project Part 2

Selected Company: Freeport-McMoran

The Strategic Analysis Project is designed to teach you to conduct a comprehensive strategic analysis of a publicly-owned company of your choice. In this project, you will need to apply the concepts, analytical tools and frameworks of this course to analyze the firm’s external and internal environment, evaluate its strategic options and recommend a course of action for the firm to maximize its long-term performance. In the second part of this project, you will conduct a comprehensive internal analysis of the firm and combined with your insights from your analysis in Part 1 of the project, come up with an independent assessment of the firm’s performance and strategic direction. In particular, you are being asked to (1) identify the most pressing strategic problems or challenges facing the company and (2) recommend viable solutions to these challenges.

The report for SAP Part 2 is limited to 7 pages double spaced. References and supporting analysis (including all graphs, plots and tables) should be included in the appendix and referenced throughout the report but don’t count against the page limit.

The written report should be prepared following the outline below:

  1. SWOT Analysis (no more than three pages)

3.1 Opportunities and Threats Summary

Opportunities: Based on the external analysis you had conducted in SAP Part 1, clearly identify and summarize the top three opportunities identified by the external environmental analyses.

Threats: Based on the external analysis you had conducted in SAP Part 1, clearly identify and summarize the top three threats identified by the external environmental analysis.

    1. Strength and Weaknesses
      1. Company Resources: Consider the company’s resource base in the following four categories. Quantitatively/Qualitatively assess the company’s resources across each of these categories with respect to its primary competitors.

Financial Resources: Consider the company’s current assets, borrowing capacity, and its ability to generate funds quickly either internally (e.g., move money from one business to another) or externally (e.g., additional borrowing or stock sale).

Physical Resources: Consider the company’s physical resources including building and property assets (owned or leased), its business locations, and geographic access to product markets, geographic access to supply markets, and/or plants and equipment.

Human Resources: Consider the management expertise and experience of the company’s top management team. Compare the expertise and experience of your company’s top management team (i.e., Chairman, CEO, and COO, if applicable) to those of its top three rivals.

Organizational Resources: Consider the company’s culture, reputation, brand identity, trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, other intellectual property, etc.

      1. Company Capabilities: Consider the company’s capabilities in the following four categories. Quantitative/Qualitatively assess the company’s resources across each of these categories with respect to its primary competitors.

Operations and Distribution Capabilities: Consider the company’s use and management of supply chain, distribution channels, and general logistics. For example, you might look for information on inventory costs/turnover ratios, supply chain bottlenecks, and efficiency.

Human Resource Capabilities: Consider the company’s ability to attract, retain, empower, motivate and train employees. For example, you might look for information on employee turnover, workforce training programs, salary comparisons, and education benefits.

Marketing Capabilities: Consider the company’s ability to build and promote its brand(s), customer service abilities, merchandising, etc. For example, see if you can calculate an annual Advertising Intensity ratio (advertising expenditures / divided by total sales).

Product/Technology Development: Consider the company’s ability to “see the future” of the market and/or develop new technology or products quickly. For example, see if you can calculate an R&D Intensity ratio (R&D expenditures / divided by total sales).

    1. VRIS Analysis

Consider the top three resource strengths and the top three capability strengths you have identified above. Thoroughly assess them using the VRIS framework. Your analysis should be presented in a table as follows:

Resource name Is it valuable Is it rare Is it difficult to imitate Is it difficult to substitute? Implications for competitive advantage
Resource 1 Yes, because        
Resource 2          
Resource 3          
Capability 1          
Capability 2          
Capability 3          
  1. Strategic Problems and Priorities (no more than one and a half pages)
    1. Problem Statements

Based on the summary findings of the strategic analysis, briefly list the top three strategic issues/problems/ opportunities/challenges revealed by the SWOT analysis, and the VRIS strategic assessment. Think strategically: what are the most critical and fundamental issues the company needs to grapple with to obtain and/or sustain a competitive advantage? Make sure the problem/issue statements are focused, concise, clear, and well written. Each problem statement should be communicated in one sentence and written in italics to make it easy to see. When writing each problem statement, please keep the following in mind:

BAD problem statements are not firm-specific, meaning they are generic and could be said about any company. Moreover, problems like poor profitability and limited market share are often symptoms of more fundamental issues such as poor R&D, bad customer service, failing to leverage company resources/capabilities, improper management, etc.

  • Bad Example #1: ABC Inc. needs to internationalize to increase its market share. (This statement is superficial and not firm-specific.)
  • Bad Example #2: ADAMS Division of ACME Corp needs to increase profits or sales. (This statement identifies a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself.)

GOOD examples of business-level problem statements are detailed and firm-specific:

  • Good Example #1: BETA Corp has failed to exploit its strong marketing capabilities to target college students with their digital notepad products, which convert pen-and-paper notes into digital format, resulting in severe declines in new and repeat sales from the college segment over the past five years.
  • Good Example #2: The central problem with GAMMA Inc. is that its production facilities are geared for small, niche jobs in support of its product differentiation strategy despite the fact that the industry environment—especially intense rivalry—is generally better suited to a low-cost leadership strategy.

Once listed, briefly discuss each problem statement. Use very specific information, facts, data, etc. to convey the relevance, significance, and importance of the problems/issues. Again, be as specific as possible—no vague or generic commentary here. For each statement, discuss the following: What is the magnitude of the problem? Is the problem/issue major or minor? Is the problem part of a bigger problem? Is the problem/issue “stand alone” or is it intertwined with more fundamental factors/problems/issues inside or outside the company? What happens if the problem/issue is ignored? If the problem/issue is inadequately resolved, are we talking about the end of the company as we know it or would it be a minor setback? (NOTE: the bigger the problem/issue, the more interesting and engaging the project will be.)

    1. Strategic Priority

Now look over your list of problem statements. Clearly state which of the core problem statements from the above list is the single most important problem/issue/challenge/opportunity for the company to address or resolve? Clearly explain why this is the strategic priority for the company.

By the way, if you are convinced that your company is very well run and faces no major problems (this has to be justified), focus on any future problems/issues indicated by your situation analysis. Your problem statements should discuss any future problems/issues/opportunities/challenges the company will have to deal with to maintain its competitive advantage. Remember, no company—no matter how successful—can keep doing the same thing and remain competitive. Stated differently, “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” is not a valid conclusion for the strategic plan.

  1. Strategic Options (no more than one page)

Identify as many alternative strategies as possible for fixing/addressing the strategic priority. These options should be creative and strategic, realistic and plausible, and build on firm-specific information uncovered by the situation analysis. DO NOT suggest generic or “business as usual” solutions to the problem. Also, each option MUST be mutually exclusive (this means that it is not possible to implement more than one strategy to fix the Strategic Priority). When writing each strategic response statement, please keep the following in mind:

BAD Strategic Options for the BETA Corp problem statement above:

  • Bad Option #1: BETA should reduce their marketing budget by 50 percent. (This is a bad example because it does not fix the “repeat customer” problem.)
  • Bad Option #2: BETA should expand their operations overseas. (This is a bad example because it is too generic, does not fix the repeat customer problem, and is not mutually exclusive with other responses.)

GOOD Strategic Options for the BETA Corp problem statement above:

  • Good Option #1: BETA should develop a strategic alliance with textbook publisher GOTCHA LLC to develop paper templates for students to speed note taking in class or while reading. (This is a good example in that it may fix the specified problem, builds on firm specific resources, and it suggests a firm-specific action.)

Once stated, briefly discuss each strategic option. Use quantitative information, facts, data, etc. to convey the effectiveness of your solution. Again, be as specific as possible—no vague or overly general commentary here. For each strategic response, discuss the following: How likely is the strategic response to fix/address the strategic priority? Will the strategic response fix/address other problems in addition to the strategic priority? How risky it the strategic alternative? What happens if solution fails?