Assignment 1: Discussion—Techniques and Tools for Managing the Data You have explored many options for managing data as well as its importance to the overall health of an organization in making well-informed decisions. Many organizations feel that they have to utilize powerful and expensive solutions, but there are also cheaper alternatives. For example, MS Excel can be a great tool to manage data and identify […]

Recall your chosen firm and industry you have been using throughout the course. For this assignment, you will identify the top three major safety and health issues in your firm, and write a policy on each, consistent with Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) standards. There is a minimum requirement of 500 words for EACH of the three job policies.    Each of the five […]

   Respond to your colleagues. Explain how their chosen national healthcare issue/stressor may also impact your work setting and what (if anything) is being done to address the national healthcare issue/stressor. At least 2 references in each peer responses!       Health care access in the United States (US) is one of the many national health care issues or stressors faced by Americans and others […]

  The purpose of this assignment is to begin revising one of the two essays that will appear in your Writing Portfolio, due next unit. This assignment should be a substantial revision of Essay #1, 2, 3, or 4. To complete this assignment, select any of the 4 essays you have written so far in this course. Then, revise that essay, focusing on at at least one of the following […]

Consider a supplier of agricultural equipment who is deciding how much of two products should be produced by his firm. You determine what the two products are. Now create a report that includes a discussion and analysis regarding how such a supplier makes such a determination in order to maximize the firm’s profits. Include in your response: A discussion of exactly what costs are associated with profit […]

Debate Assignment :  I am in the oposing policy  MN507-1: Debate healthcare reform effects on stakeholders. Overview:  In Unit 2 you chose a policy issue that interests your group.  (TREATMENT OF VETERANS AFTER DEPLOYMENT AND POST TRAUMATIC STRSS DISORDER (PTSD)  For this Assignment your group will be divided into two, with one side in favor of the policy change and the other side opposed to […]

Paper 1  Application Paper: What Makes a Top 100 Hospital? The best institutions strive for excellence. Every industry has its own definition of what excellence represents. For health care, excellence is often expressed by those that meet Six Sigma standards, win the Malcolm Baldrige award, seek ISO 9001 quality, and hospital accreditation. Visit one of the websites of one of the top 100 hospitals. http://truvenhealth.com/products/100-top […]

  Span of Control and Practical Reflection” Supervision is an important part of managing a law enforcement agency. Chapter 8 of the course textbook covers several supervision models used to effectively manage police operations. Span of Control is one of the models examined and it refers to identifying the appropriate number of employees that can be managed by any one supervisor (p. 227).  Give your […]

1 LAMP ZAP Analysis and Mitigation Overview For this final lab you will use the tools and techniques used throughout the course to analyze and mitigate and document the results of two LAMP applications. The first application you will analyze is the e-Commerce application you wrote during week 7. For the second application you will use a prototype UMUC tutoring LAMP application which you will […]

ANCOVA Analysis A recent study of student anxiety suggested that test anxiety interfered with the effects of studying skills on student test performance. Students were classified as high or low in test anxiety based on responses to an anxiety inventory, then classified as high or low in study skills based on responses to a study skill scale. An overall measure of test performance was obtained […]