Topic #1: Hedging

 

Consider the following scenario:

 

As an advanced practice nurse at a community health clinic, you often treat female (and sometimes male patients) with hormone deficiencies. One of your patients requests that you prescribe supplemental hormones. This poses the questions: How will you determine what kind of treatment to suggest? What patient factors should you consider? Are supplemental hormones the best option for the patient, or would they benefit from alternative treatments?

 

 

 

To prepare:

 

•Review Chapter 56 of the Arcangelo and Peterson text, as well as the Holloway and Makinen and Huhtaniemi  and  Hollway  articles in the Learning Resources.

 

•Review the provided scenario and reflect on whether or not you would support hormone replacement therapy.

 

•Locate and review additional articles about research on hormone replacement therapy for women and/or men. Consider the strengths and limitations of hormone replacement therapy.

 

 

 

Post  1-2 PAGES ON : A description of the strengths and limitations of hormone replacement therapy. Based on these strengths and limitations, explain why you would or why you would not support hormone replacement therapy. Explain whether you would prescribe supplemental hormones or recommend alternative treatments to patients with hormone deficiencies and why.

 

REFERENCES:

 

Arcangelo, V. P., & Peterson, A. M. (Eds.). (2013). Pharmacotherapeutics for advanced practice: A practical approach (3rd ed.). Ambler, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

 

Chapter 56, “Menopause and Menopausal Hormone Therapy” (pp. 884–895)

 

Holloway, D. (2010). Clinical update on hormone replacement therapy. British Journal of Nursing, 19(8), 496–504. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 

Mäkinen, J. I., & Huhtaniemi, I. (2011). Androgen replacement therapy in late-onset hypogonadism: Current concepts and controversies—A mini-review. Gerontology, 57(3), 193–202.  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 

 

Select a Fortune 500 international company in the service industry. Using your selected company as the basis for your research, prepare a paper that will:

• Describe the main line of business of the company.
• Name four of the countries in which the company operates.
• Explain in detail the implementation of the 4Ps marketing mix concept by the company.
• Describe any differences observed in the implementation of this concept, from one country to another.

Present your findings as a Word document of 4–5 pages that is formatted in APA style.

 

Communication in Crisis Situations

Many times, the communication that has to go out is not good news, but rather bad news. We see crisis situations all the time in businesses, and the communication about those crises must be done very carefully and by considering the intended audience.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, choose a company that went through a crisis in the past five years. Based on your research and reading, complete the following tasks:

• Discuss how they communicated their crisis situation to the public. What form of communication (verbal or written) did they use? Who was their intended audience?
• Discuss whether the company was effective in communicating their crisis while maintaining or improving their image. Describe whether there were other ways in which they could have communicated better with the audience.
• Provide an analysis of the communication strategy and what you would have done differently had you been in charge of the communication.

A company is considering creating and selling a new type of cookies. Create a report explaining the research process that should be used by the company to make this decision. Your report should answer the following questions:

• What is the research question?
• What is the proposed research?
• How would you design the research project?
• What data would you collect and how would you prepare that data?
• How would you analyze and interpret the data?
• How would you report the results?

Submit your report in a two- to three-page Word document. On a separate page, cite all sources using the APA guidelines.

Technology has changed the way we conduct business on a daily basis. A number of organizations have opted for integrating systems and sharing information with their counterparts.

Using the online library resources and the Internet, research information technology (IT) systems for supply chains.

Then respond to the following:

• As a manager, if you have to design an IT system for supply chain purposes using a cross-functional team, who would you include on your team and why?
• Explain some of the trade-offs you would consider when designing/acquiring the system. Be specific and support your reasoning with examples.

After your initial post, discuss the following:

• What trade-offs are involved in (a) sharing information with other organizations in a supply chain and (b) the acquisition of information-processing technology?
• Who needs to be involved in decisions as they pertain to technology acquisition for supply chain management?
• Name three different ways that technology has improved the ability to manage supply chains.
• Explain why integrated technology has improved the ability to manage supply chains.

 

Write your initial response in 200 to 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Assignment 1: Evaluating Bias in Research

Due Week 3 and worth 60 points

Read the article titled, “As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias,” located at http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-drug-industrys-influence-over-research-grows-so-does-the-potential-for-bias/2012/11/24/bb64d596-1264-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html.

Review the six (6) rules of critical thinking (Chapter 1) and the steps of “Doing Sociology: A Student’s Guide to Research” (Chapter 2).

Student Success Tip: As you review the steps, jot a few notes or thoughts down. Relax and prepare to write a concise and accurate essay.

Write a one to two (1-2) page essay in which you:

1. Identify the first step in the student’s guide to research.
2. Define the first step of research in your own words.
3. Identify the major assumptions and bias of the drug industry that underlie drug research.
4. Identify the personal bias that you, as a consumer, have on the drug industry’s influence over research