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Medicine report

Review the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” focusing on the following sections: Transforming Practice, Transforming Education, and Transforming Leadership.
Write a paper of 750-1,000 words about the impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing. In your paper, include:

  1. The impact of the IOM report on nursing education.
  2. The impact of the IOM report on nursing practice, particularly in primary care, and how you would change your practice to meet the goals of the IOM report.
  3. The impact of the IOM report on the nurse’s role as a leader.

Cite a minimum of three references.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric.

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Library Research Assignment

Respond to the following scenario with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use research to reinforce your ideas.
It has been a year since the new CEO has been on the job, and the organization has seen sustainable growth. The former CEO came out of retirement to be elected the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors. At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors, the Chairwoman of the Board discussed the possible investment opportunities in the energy industry. She has asked you to prepare a case study on an energy company to establish if it is a good choice to include in the company’s investment portfolio.
Using CTU Library resources, choose a company in the energy industry and prepare a case study that addresses the following points:

  • Introduction: Including a description of the company, its industry, and its business context.
  • Organizational analysis: Including the company’s leadership, market, operations, finances, performance, and regulatory environment.
  • Critical incidents: Including any stories of the organization’s challenges or achievements. How did it overcome the challenges? How did it accomplish its achievements?
  • Investment potential: Including any of its current issues that need to be addressed or its potential goals for growth.
  • Recommendation: Including how the investment might help the organization to address its current issues or realize its potential for growth.
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Organizational Issues in Global Markets

For this discussion activity, respond to the following prompts:

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Accounting

. Analyze at least 3 (three) items on the income statement for your base company that would be important to an investor, and discuss whether your company’s performance related to these items appeared to be improving, deteriorating, or remaining stable. Justify your answer.  You have been introduced to many different financial ratios throughout this course as well as in ACC100, be sure to use Ch 13 as a reference for including important analysis and ratios to support your answer.

  1. Analyze at least 3 (three) items on the balance sheet for your base company that would be important to an investor, and discuss whether your company’s performance related to these items appeared to be improving, deteriorating, or remaining stable. Justify your answer.  You have been introduced to many different financial ratios throughout this course as well as in ACC100, be sure to use Ch 13 as a reference for including important analysis and ratios to support your answer.
  2. Analyze your base company’s investing and financing activities for the most recent year as identified in the statement of cash flows, specifically identifying the two largest investing activities and the two largest financing activities. Discuss whether you agree or disagree with the investing and financing strategies that your company appears to be employing. (You may want to refer to Ch 12)
  3. Overall comparison and summation.  If you were making a decision to invest in one of the two companies, which company would you choose?  The analysis that you explored in #2 through #4 above should be consistent with what you are presenting here.

Note:

  1. You must submit the URLs for the 10K or Financial Statements that you used to research this paper.
  2. Your analysis must include page references to relevant portions of the annual reports and/or references to the Financial Statement or Notes to the Financial Statements.
  3. Your report must also contain appropriate quotation marks for quoted material and appropriate citations for material taken from sources outside the financial statements.
  4. Your analysis is limited to 3 (three) pages, and must be typed, double-spaced and can included any amount of supporting schedules, graphs or other visual aides that you would like

 
 
Walgreens
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1618921/000114036116083198/form10k.htm  (2016)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1618921/000114036115038791/form10k.htm (2015)
 
CVS
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/64803/000006480316000074/cvs-20151231x10k.htm (2016)
 
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/64803/000006480315000008/cvs-20141231x10k.htm (2015)

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: Leadership Competencies

 
Read Chapter 9 of the text and the article, “Offshoring American Health Care: Higher Quality at Lower Costs?How does the leadership style of Dr. Devi Shetty seem to fit any of the leadership theories that were developed in Chapter 9?  Provide examples from the article in which Dr. Devi Shetty exhibited one or more of the six key leadership competencies described in Chapter 9. Refer to this week’s lecture before crafting your post. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.