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  • This cluster looks at the leadership and development of yourself and others as well as…

    Training and Assessment Program for Cluster 6 Leadership This cluster looks at the leadership and development of yourself and others as well as facilitating legislation, regulatory and National Quality Framework compliance with an education and care setting Students will need to show an understanding and demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to provide leadership and compliance in an education and care service. Students will be required to determine individual and team development needs and to facilitate the development of the work group. This includes- • Interpret the National Quality Framework • Legislation, standards and regulations relevant to the children’s service industry • Facilitate an organisation self-assessment • Facilitate the development of a quality improvement plan • Continuous improvement • Co-ordinate the service for a site visit as part of compliance • Consultation amongst staff • Choose methods of communication to suit the audience. • Stakeholder consultation • Best practice principles and emerging trends in service delivery. • Evaluate and enhance your own practice • Reflection and ongoing professional development • Undertaking research • Sourcing relevant and reliable information • Analysis of information • Facilitation techniques to encourage team development and improvement • Learning needs of the staff/ team • Learning delivery methods for adults • Coaching and mentoring adults • Monitor and evaluate workplace learning for adults • Reflect and improve own practice • Creating development plans
    Attachments:
    3951590_1_CHC50113-Training-and-Assessment-Booklet-Common-Program-Cluster-6-Part-1—2–Version-4–1-.docx

  • You are required to choose a topic from the list provided below. If you have your own topic that…

    For this assessment task, students will write a Briefing Note to the Minister recommending a policy change that improves the health of the population. You are required to choose a topic from the list provided below. If you have your own topic that you are interested in, you will need to email the Lecturer in Charge (LIC), to seek written approval. Your arguments must be supported by citing peer-reviewed academic literature, credible government and non-government organisation sources, and/or official statistical resources (e.g. ABS, AIHW, OECD and WHO) as appropriate. Assessment specifications Due date: Thursday 26 September (6.00 pm) Weighting: 35% Length: 1,200 words +/- 10% (excluding references) Purpose: To enable students to analyse and propose a policy change that improves the health of the population Learning outcomes assessed: 2 How to submit: Turnitin (via LEO); Include cover sheet with name, student number, title and word count Return of assignment: Marks and feedback will be returned to students via LEO Assessment criteria: See marking rubric below Instructions Students will need to select one health policy from the following list: 1. Safe injecting centres provide a medically supervised and safe environment for people with a drug addiction problem. What advice would you give the Ministers for Health and Justice about establishing additional safe injecting centres? 2. Advertising by the gambling industry on prime-time television has increased. What advice would you give the Minister on regulating advertising of the gambling industry to prevent potential community harm? 3. Should co-payments for medical services be introduced in order to prevent inappropriate use of medical services and reduce rising health care costs? 4. Should complementary medicine products be subjected to the same regulatory processes as conventional pharmaceutical products?
    Attachments:
    3909415_1_fwdassignmentinstructionandmaterials.zip

  • Lina Liaw is an 75-year-old woman who lives in Brisbane, and has done for the past 40 years,…

    This assessment requires students to make an oral presentation which demonstrates knowledge of and ability to apply the Clinical Reasoning Cycle (CRC) to plan nursing care of the older adult (based on a provided case study). The plan of care will be documented on a powerpoint presentation and you will explain the plan of care in your 5-minute video presentation. Due date: Wednesday 9th October 2019 by 1159 Weighting: 20% Length and/or format: 5 minute presentation; maximum of 6 powerpoint slides (5 for content and 1 for the reference list) How to submit: You are required to submit your oral presentation recording (which includes your PowerPoint slides) into the Assessment 2 dropbox located on NRSG266 LEO campus tiles. Note you do not have to submit the powerpoint slides as a separate file. Return of assignment: Feedback and grades for the assessment will be available after three weeks via the assessment 2 campus dropbox. Assessment criteria: Please see Assessment 2: Oral presentation criterion reference rubric in the unit outline and consult assessment tile in LEO for further information. 2. Detailed instructions This assessment requires you to: • Plan the nursing care of an older adult using steps 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the Clinical Reasoning Cycle (CRC) (Levett-Jones, 2018). • Base your plan of care on the first 4 steps of the CRC which are provided as part of a detailed case scenario. • In Step 4 of the CRC the client health issues have been identified and the task is to select one of these health issues and create a detailed plan of care to address the selected health issue, with an emphasis on health promotion strategies to enhance the client’s quality of life. • Document this plan of care in a 5 minute powerpoint presentation. • Using Kaltura Capture software, create and record your presentation. Detailed Instructions: 1. Read the provided case scenario which outlines the client situation using steps 1 – 4 of Levett-Jones (2018) Clinical Reasoning Cycle (CRC). 2. Select one of the identified health problems from the list provided. 3. With reference to the related nursing diagnoses, complete steps 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the CRC which focus on identifying appropriate nursing actions to address the nursing diagnoses. • CRC Step 5 – Establish the (SMART) goals of nursing care which will promote the health of the patient and enhance her quality of life. • CRC Step 6 – Identify detailed interventions and associated rationales to address the chosen problem and meet the identified goals. • CRC Step 7 – Evaluate – identify what you would expect to see if the goals of care are achieved • CRC Step 8 – Reflect – on what you have learned from this process, including what might have been done differently Note: Steps 5, 6 and 7 may be presented in a table 3. The case scenario CRC Step 1: Consider the patient situation Lina Liaw is an 75-year-old woman who lives in Brisbane, and has done for the past 40 years, since moving to Australia from Singapore to live with her long-term partner, Margie. She has never married nor had children. She has 2 younger sisters who live in Singapore. She has close relationships with her siblings and her sees her sister’s two granddaughters, both of whom live in Brisbane, every few weeks. Lina lives alone in a single-story house with a small garden in a retirement village. Lina moved to the village shortly after the death of her partner Margie 5 years ago. She knows her neighbours and some of the other residents of the retirement village but mostly keeps to herself, socialising within the retirement village only occasionally, such as the village Christmas function.
    Attachments:
    3951583_1_ASSESSMENT-2-NRSG266.docx

  • As a recent MBA graduate, you have been hired as a financial analyst by a private equity firm….

    The evaluation of the work, especially the qualitative questions depends on the organization of the material and the depth of the answers. The quantitative questions should show the computations/process not just an answer. 1. As a recent MBA graduate, you have been hired as a financial analyst by a private equity firm. Your firm along with the management of The Walt Disney Company (DIS) is investigating the possibility of taking the company private, i.e. your firm and Disney’s management will buy all of the shares. You have been assigned to address the issues found below. The information, which you provide will be used by the decision makers to determine a price per share for the stock. You will not need to determine the final stock price. You will just address the questions below. For the computations, use the information found on the Yahoo! Finance web pages and Gurufocus.com for Disney. The numbers used would be for the financials of September 29, 2018 and September 30, 2017. Other computations and issues, which require information that is more current, will be found on these webpages as well as, Morningstar.com. For discussion questions, a good source of information is found in the 2018 Annual Report for Disney, as well as recent articles concerning Disney. The link to the company’s official web site is found in the Profile page on Yahoo! Finance. Your grade for the qualitative answers depends on the quality and quantity of relevant information, as well as the quality of writing. a) Discuss Disney in the context of the forces considered in performing an environmental scan. b) Discuss the risks that Disney needs to consider in conducting its operations. c) Of the three value creation paradigms that were discussed in class, which one does Disney utilize? Explain. d) Indicate the Beneisch M-Score and the Piotroski F-Score for Disney and explain their significance. e) Using the appropriate financial metrics which were discussed in class, comment on Disney’s liquidity. Include the metrics in your discussion. f) Using the appropriate financial metrics which were discussed in class, comment on Disney’s asset management. Include the metrics in your discussion. g) Using the appropriate financial metrics which were discussed in class, comment on Disney’s debt management. Include the metrics in your discussion. h) Using the appropriate financial metrics which were discussed in class, comment on Disney’s profitability. Include the metrics in your discussion. i) Using the appropriate financial metrics which were discussed in class, comment on Disney’s market based ratios. Include the metrics in your
    Attachments:
    3905747_1_Solutions-financial-Management.docx
    3905747_2_645-solutions.pdf

  • ACTIVITY 2: ASSESSMENT Reading: The “MND Australia Fact Sheet on Multidisciplinary Teams -…

    ACTIVITY 2: ASSESSMENT Reading: The “MND Australia Fact Sheet on Multidisciplinary Teams – https://www.mndaust.asn.au/Get-informed/Information-resources/Living_better_for_longer/WEB-MND-Australia-Fact-Sheet-EB3-Multidisciplinary.aspx
    ” outlines professional groups who could make up a multidisciplinary health care team for a patient with motor neurone disease (MND). Please read this fact sheet, answer the following questions, and upload your answers as part (a) of Question 2.
    This forms part of your assessment for this unit.
    1. Identify factors that determine which healthcare professionals are required to be involved in a health care team?
    2. Who should lead the health care team?
    3. Who is the most important member of the health care team?
    please choose one and upload the answers as part (b) of question 2. This forms part of your assessment for this unit.
    You are working in a health care team on a busy rehabilitation unit. Team meetings and patient reviews are conducted weekly. There has recently been a turnover of staff in the Physiotherapy department and a new representative from physiotherapy has joined the health care team. You notice although that this new member of the team members is often absent, fails to provide patient updates and when challenged on these issues is exceptional confrontational. This behaviour is not only impacting on the effectiveness of the health care team but also on patient outcomes. You are the designated team leader and need to find a resolution.
    Discuss the following questions
    1. What are the key issues in this situation?
    2. What strategies would you employ to address this situation?
    ?
    Activity 3
    As part of this module please undertake the following activity and add it to your written assessment. Please remember that this forms part of your assessment for this unit. You are a Registered Nurse on the afternoon shift on a short-stay (24 hours) surgical ward. One other RN, an EN and three AINs are also on duty. The NUM is off sick and the other RN is acting as NUM as well as taking a patient load. The ward is full: there are 22 patients, 14 of whom went to surgery in the morning, and 8 are going on your shift. Half of these patients have intravenous access and require antibiotics at some time during yourshift.
    ACTIVITY: Using your knowledge and experience of various patient allocation models (e.g. total patient care, team nursing and task allocation), outline how you would allocate the staff to the patients. Include in your discussion your rationale for the model of allocation chosen and the scope of practice of the various staff.
    Attachments:
    3951575_1_ACTIVITY-2.docx

  • Alex, Alicia, and Juan fill orders in a fast-food restaurant. Alex incorrectly fills 20%of the…

    Alex, Alicia, and Juan fill orders in a fast-food restaurant. Alex incorrectly fills 20%of the orders he takes. Alicia incorrectly fills 12% of the orders she takes. Juan incorrectly fills 5% of the orders he takes.Alex fills 30% of all orders, Alicia fills 45%of all orders, and Juan fills 25% of all orders. An order has just been filled.
    a. What is the probability that Alicia filled the order?
    b.If the order was filled by Juan, what is the probability that it was filled correctly?
    c. Who filled the order is unknown, but the order was filled incorrectly. What arethe revised probabilities that Alex, Alicia, or Juan filled the order?
    d.Who filled the order is unknown, but the order was filled correctly. What are therevised probabilities that Alex, Alicia, or Juan filled the order?

  • Write anargumentative academic essay on one of three given topics related to management theory….

    Write anargumentative academic essay on one of three given topics related to management theory. The
    essay will be written in accordance with the guidelines for writing academic essays in the Academic Learning
    Skills (ALS) student guide “Essay Writing”.
    The argumentative essay must agree or disagree with one of the statements below:
    a) Job design only benefits employers through increased job performance; it has no benefits for
    workers.
    OR
    b) Given the pace of change strategic planning is a waste of time.
    OR
    c) The matrix structure is suitable for all organisations.
    Your essay must include:
    ? At least five reference sources including the prescribed text book, none of which are internet
    sources, e.g. websites.
    ? Correct argumentative essay structure. Refer to the Academic Learning Skills student guide “Essay
    Writing”.
    ? Harvard Australian referencing for any sources you use. Refer to the Academic Learning Skills
    student guide “Referencing”.
    ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION:
    This assignment should be submitted online in Moodle.
    The assignment MUST be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format. Other formats may not be
    readable by markers. Please be aware that any assessments submitted in other formats will be considered
    LATE and will lose marks until it is presented in Word.
    For assistance please speak to our Academic Learning Skills Coordinators. They can help you with
    Attachments:
    3951416_1_MP—AB-3—T219—Re-12-July-19.pdf

  • Demonstrate theoretical and practical implementation of leadership, team building, and…

    Assignment 3: Team Leadership Blog
    Overview
    The purpose of this task is to encourage students to expand their thinking through reading and sharing of their
    ideas in a Web 2.0 format used by many project managers.
    Timelines and Expectations
    Percentage Value of Task: 20% (30 marks)
    Due: Week 11 – Friday of the Week at 4:00 pm
    Minimum time expectation: Preparation for this task will take approximately 20 hours
    Learning Outcomes Assessed
    The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment:
    K5. Research and critique current and future issues in IT project management in a global context.
    S2. Demonstrate theoretical and practical implementation of leadership, team building, and performance
    management approaches for IT projects.
    S3. Utilise decision making and problem solving approaches to resolve and pre-empt range of problems on IT
    projects.
    A1. Construct written and verbal approaches to developing and presenting IT project
    documentation.
    Attachments:
    3951389_1_article-for-blog.pdf
    3951389_2_ITECH7401-Ass3-Team-Leadership-Blog.pdf

  • Provide two different definitions of employee voice drawing upon the research literature and…

    Research Study The topic for the research study is outlined in some detail below. The Research Study structure must contain an Introduction Section, a Discussion Section and a Conclusion Section (use of these subheadings). The Introduction Section should situate the reader in the study and make it clear what the position is that is being argued in relation to the topic. A good Introduction Section will also define key terms or concepts used and tell the reader about the sources used and the structure of the study. The Discussion Section needs to address the five questions presented below as well as presents a coherent narrative about how employee voice is or should be part of employment relations best practice in Australian workplaces. The Conclusion Section should synthesise the research literature cited in the Discussion Section into a persuasive summary of the position being argued in the research study that was discussed in brief in the Introduction Section. Students who simply answer the research study topic questions in the Discussion Section will not do as well as those who attempt to develop a coherent narrative throughout their research study. Research Study Topic Direct employee participation and employee voice have re-emerged as key features of how organizations are managing their relationship with their employees, particularly in knowledge-based industries. There is a growing interest in understanding how employee voice mechanisms compliment and/or replace more traditional forms of indirect representation involving unions. This research topic allows students to explore in some detail the research around employee voice and its application to different occupations and industry sectors in Australia. In the Discussion Section students are required to address the following questions: 1. Provide two different definitions of employee voice drawing upon the research literature and compare these two definitions. 2. Explain how the mechanisms of employee voice differs from employee representation by unions and what the trend is in Australia towards employee voice complimenting or substituting for direct representation involving unions? 3. Describe and explain what the research literature suggests is the perceived relationship between employee voice, employee attitudes at work and employee and organizational performance? 4. Explain what the research literature suggests is the best form of employee representation, direct, indirect or a mix of the two and why? Describe a type of organization or industry sector where a mix or hybrid approach to employee representation makes sense from an employer and from an employee perspective. 5. The Fair Work Act 2009 mandates the role of unions in indirect representation but is silent on direct representation mechanisms. Why might it be argued that formal voice mechanisms not involving unions should also be mandated in law to ensure all employees have a say in decision-making at work?
    Attachments:
    3951386_1_research-study.docx

  • Identify something from this week’s lesson that contradicts something you knew or thought you…

    Identify something from this week’s lesson that contradicts something you knew or thought you knew. This could be a simple fact or complex process/line of reasoning. I want you to really think about this, and pick the one that you had the strongest reaction to, seemed to challenge your thinking/worldview the most, and/or you find most controversial in regards to your own thinking. It is okay if your previous belief was an assumption, instead of what you thought was “fact.” Please write your answer using bullet points or a numbered list that matches the items below. Refer to the rubric to see how I will score your answer.
    Please do all you can to address something in this lesson, but if you did not encounter anything in this lesson that challenged your thinking, then please address something in the lesson that you remember learning at some point in your life prior to this class, and it challenged your thinking at that time. For example, if this week’s lesson detailed ecological footprint, and you learned about ecological footprint last year and it really challenged the way you thought, then address that by answering the questions below.
    For full credit, submit all of the following:
    1. Describe the item that challenged your thinking and how it contradicts what you had previously thought or known. 2. Identify why you thought the way you did before. Was it something you learned in school, a friend, the internet, etc.? 3. Do you think that your previously held position was influenced by bias in any way? Was the position based on un-i nvestigated assumptions? 4. Are you rethinking your previously held position or not, and why? What evidence changed your mind, or reinforced your previously held position?
    Attachments:
    3951363_1_Screen-Shot-2019-09-18-at-7.08.54-PM.png
    3951363_2_Rubric-.docx