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1. How can communication be improved in an organization that is structured in a traditional bureaucratic form?
2. How might computerized communication be utilized to improve the effectiveness of communication in a bureaucratic organization?
3. How might computerized communication be ineffective?

Since 1963, a series of United States Supreme Court case decisions have clarified that in criminal cases, prosecutors must disclose to the defense evidence favorable to the defendant. This includes information that may be used to impeach the credibility of government witnesses, including law enforcement officers. These decisions mean that police officers who have documented histories of lying in official matters are liabilities to their agencies, and these histories may render them unable to testify credibly. 

Part 1: Please write a professional memorandum summarizing the main issues that are involved in thefollowing United States Supreme Court cases. You must have at least 2.5 pages not including your title page. Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) Giglio v. United States, 405 U. S. 150 (1972) United States v. Agurs, 427 U. S. 97 (1976). 

(1)                Read the Marzano et al. book (assigned in Module 1) in preparation for the practicum observation, and do a Web search for additional literacy strategies that can encourage literacy growth.

(2)                Identify and evaluating the effectiveness of literacy strategies used by the instructors to support reading in the classroom. Reference strategies from the Marzano et al. book and/or from Web sites utilized for this assignment.

(3)                Create a class/student profile of 1250-1500 words that describes both the class (first) and a student (second) in terms of literacy traits. Address the considerations listed above and interpret what you saw as it relates to the overall literacy and learning process.

(4)                Venn Diagram

(5)                Construct a Venn diagram that illustrates the literacy skills the student demonstrated at the onset of the lessons (intro), those that intersected (through), and those that are left to master (beyond). The time you spend with the student should facilitate this process through an investigation of the student’s prior knowledge and literacy experiences (into), a best practice activity to stimulate literacy growth (through), and an assessment of what future literacy goals should be set. As you work with your student, consider, on an individual level, how fluency, vocabulary skills, and comprehension skills impact learning, how the differences in interacting with expository and narrative text impacts this student’s understanding, whether literature motivates this student, and whether you see evidence of critical literacy in your student’s approach to text.

• What is your experience with writing using proper grammar, punctuation, or appropriate sentence structure? What are your strengths and weaknesses in these areas? Are there ways to take advantage of your strengths and overcome your weaknesses in writing? If so, what are they?
• How important do you think mechanics–such as spelling, punctuation, and proper formatting–are in writing? For example, what would writing be like if there were no such standards?
• Describe how the language you use in writing is different from the language you use in everyday speech. Provide a couple of examples.
• Explain how the differences in audience (readers) should determine differences in the tone and diction (word choice) of writing. Provide examples of what kinds of writing are most appropriate for different audiences. Think about how you communicate in class, at work, or on any social media sites with friends or family

For this week’s Discussion, you examined guidelines proposed by organizations involved in health care quality and patient safety.Whereas many of the guidelines addressed in the Discussion may be considered optional or supplementary, CMS standards (core measures) set a precedent for health care organizations throughout the United States. The “Hospital Compare” Web site presents information on quality captured for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, including core measures such as Heart Attack Process of Care Measures, Heart Failure Process of Care Measures, Pneumonia Process of Care Measures, and Surgical Care Improvement Project Process of Care Measures.

To prepare for this Application:

• Peruse the Hospital Compare Web site: http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

  Click on the link at the right, Learn More about Hospital Process of Care Measures, and read this background information.

  Then read through the Process of Care measures at:

  http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/Measures.html

• Evaluate the CMS standards (core measures).
• Compare the CMS standards with the guidelines proposed by one other organization of your choosing. (You may select the same organization you focused on in the Discussion, or choose a different one from that list.) Be sure to consider similarities and differences, as well as the strengths and limitations of each organization’s guidelines.

The Assignment

Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

• Analyze the CMS standards (core measures).
• Compare the CMS standards with the guidelines proposed by one other organization. Based on this comparison, would you recommend that a health care setting adopt this organization’s guidelines as supplementary to CMS’s? Why or why not?
• Briefly analyze the relationships among various aspects of health care quality and safety, including the creation of standards, accreditation, certification, credentialing, and continuing education. Describe the benefits and constraints associated with these approaches for promoting quality.

  Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and from additional scholarly sources as appropriate.

In our complex society, there

are many social norms (e.g., don’t chew with your mouth open, hold the door for

others, face the front of the elevator). Some norms are explicit, while others are not.

For this project your assignment is to break a social norm. Important: YOU CANNOT

CAUSE INJURY TO ANYONE OR BREAK THE LAW! (For example, if you plan

to invade someone’s personal space, do not do it in a dark parking garage.) However,

find a norm and break it. Write about your experience:

Page 1 should be a detailed description of your motivation.

What norm did you pick?

Why did you pick it?

How did you learn about

Page 2 should be a description of your experience in breaking the norm.

What happened?

What were people’s reactions?

What was your reaction?

How did you feel? How do you imagine others felt?

Explain the details of each option, including relative costs. Based on your research or experience, identify the situations where each option is a good fit and a bad fit.

Discuss the different redundant array of independent disks (RAID) levels and the protection each provides, along with a relative cost comparison.

Discuss how you would use different RAIDs in the workplace.

Note any special concerns when using each with Windows Server

According to sociologist C. Wright Mills, people often believe that their private lives can only be explained in terms of their personal successes and failures. Individuals fail to see the links between their own lives and the larger society around them. The process of interpreting your individual life in the context of your community or the society in which you live is called sociological imagination.

1. Choose 1 of the following social problems:
   • Being unemployed and the impact of unemployment on the individual and society
   • Being an alcoholic and the broader impact of alcoholism on the individual and society
   • Being a drug addict and the broader impact of drug addiction on the individual and society
   • Being an unmarried pregnant teenager and the impact that unmarried teen pregnancy has on the individual and society
   • Being a homeless person and the broader issue of poverty in society
2. Using your sociological imagination, discuss the connection between the individual experience and the social impact of the social problem that you chose.
3. 2 pages APA Style

For reasons such as security and familiarity, some consumers are still not comfortable about shopping online. Explain three ways that online retailers can offer customer support to make an online shopping experience more approachable.

Explain why an owner would decide to rent a server for an e-business site. Give an example of a situation in which a rented server would be the best option.

Response should be no less than 2-3 pages (not counting the cover page and references page), supported with credible references and submitted in a APA format.

You must submit your assignment as a Word doc attachment on the Assignments tab for the week.  Assignments submitted via email or the Messages tab will not be accepted.

Obtaining informed consent for services from clients is required of human services providers; however, it is not always an easy task. Clients typically grant consent by signing documents presented by the agency or the provider that, at minimum, explain the services that will be provided, the client rights, and information on the steps to rescind the consent.

In situations where minors or individuals under some form of guardianship are the clients, it is necessary to obtain consent from the legal guardian or authority. However, there are times when obtaining informed consent is not as simple as asking for a signature from the client or guardian. These situations require more thought by the human services providers with emphasis on balancing the client’s right to consent with other factors that might influence treatment outcomes or decisions.

In this assignment, you will review a case that illustrates the various facets of informed consent.

The Case:

Smith is a thirty-eight-year-old African American male referred for counseling by his mother to address recent incidents of aggression. Smith resides with his mother because he is not able to live on his own. Smith is unable to hold on to a job and has difficulty establishing and maintaining relationships with others. He is open to counseling but thinks his mother is overreacting to his anger outbursts because she is old and does not understand him. Recently, there have been notable conflicts between them due to Smith’s aggressive behaviors that were directed toward his mother.

Tasks:

Analyze the case and in a 2- to 3-page paper, address the following:

• What steps would you, as the counselor, take for obtaining informed consent from Smith?
• Would you, as the counselor, include his mother in the counseling sessions, if you believe it would help with Smith’s aggression problem? Why or why not?

In your answers, consider the following:

• Smith is not able to live independently.
• Smith’s aggression might put his mother at risk if he does not get counseling.
• Smith has to comprehend what is being asked of him when he provides his consent to receive counseling services.
• There might be cultural differences between you and Smith.

A human services worker needs to be competent to work with clients from different cultures. There are times when cultural differences between the human services worker and the client influence the final service. For example, suppose a human services worker promotes the cause of independence for all people while the client’s culture values strong family cohesion. In this case, the client’s values are equivalent to dependency in the eyes of the human services worker and can lead to conflict. However, if the human services worker possesses the cultural competence necessary to work with the client, he or she would be better equipped to manage this discrepancy in personally held, culture-based views. When situations such as these arise, the human services worker should be aware of the needs of the client with strong consideration of cultural influence.

When potential ethical conflicts occur due to various differences, the human services worker faces the challenge of making the appropriate ethical decision to ensure that the rights of his or her client are protected while receiving services. The assignment will explore the role of such cultural influences in ethical decisions in human services.

Tasks:

On the basis of your readings and research, address the following in about 200 words:

• Discuss the influence of culture in ethical decision making. In your answer:
  • Address the influence of culture on the individual perceptions of the human services worker and the client.
  • Focus on the potential ethical dilemmas that might arise from differences in cultural perspectives.

Part 2

Human services administrators manage agencies that employ professionals from various disciplines.

In this assignment, you will try to resolve an issue from the perspective of an administrator who is helping a psychologist in an agency. It is important to note that ethics codes might require psychologists to handle situations differently than social workers and counselors and vice versa.

Tasks:

You are the human services administrator for an agency and Shana is a human services professional in your agency. She is working with a client who was initially diagnosed with mild depression after separating from her fiancé. As Shana’s work proceeds, she realizes that her client is beginning to recover memories from a past trauma. While Shana is competent with treating depression and has worked in cases with trauma-related symptoms in the past, she has no experience treating the type of trauma identified by her client.

You are the administrator of the agency responsible for helping Shana handle this situation. Based on your knowledge and research, respond to the following questions in about 300 words:

• What would Shana do in this situation if she were a licensed professional counselor in a rural area where she was the only helping professional?
• What would Shana’s response as a licensed counselor be? Would it be similar to or different from the way she would handle the same situation if she were a social worker or a psychologist in the agency?

In your responses, consider the following:

• There are no other psychologists, counselors, social workers, or psychiatrists within a hundred-mile radius.
• Shana’s client has limited means of transportation.
• Shana has no formal training in treating the type of trauma her client is experiencing.
• Shana is a member of a professional organization, such as American Psychological Association (APA), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), or American Counseling Association (ACA).