Week 4 Discussion Question 1 At this point you have read about the lives of various creative people in the "Creators on Creating" textbook.  You have seen what your colleagues have written about each week in the discussion areas.  Recall the creative thinkers that you have read. Without identifying each and every one and […]

WATCH THE VIDEO  Do you believe in ghosts?   The paranormal?  Other unexplained phenomena?  (These are rhetorical questions.)  Given our conversation last week about how people "think they know the truth" this wonderful and humorous TED talk by scientist and free-lance reporter Carrie Poppy will be of interest.  View this 13 minute TED talk and […]

Journal Assignment:  Your Dosha         What Dosha do you think is dominant in your life right now? Identify your Dosha. You may want to fill out the questionnaire from: https://chopra.com/dosha-quizLinks to an external site.  You can also use the lecture notes and text to answer the following: List 3 characteristics that most strongly led you […]

 First, define the role of healthcare managers. Next, describe how each function of management is carried out by healthcare managers and give an example of a task in each function. Finally, research and explain a modern-day issue (within the last 5 years) affecting healthcare managers’ abilities to ensure high performance organizations.    DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS […]

Practice Let’s practice adding suffixes to the root words for the urinary and endocrine systems we are studying this week. Below are some suffixes that can be used for the medical terminology of most systems. Suffixes are placed at the end of a word root or word part to modify or vary the meaning. Suffixes […]

  Watch the Southside Community Services video that depicts different interview scenarios.   Identify two examples of each of the following basic interviewing skills used in the session and describe the differences in the responses of the client: Closed-ended questions Open-ended questions Clarification Paraphrasing

This assignment is the first step in a three part project. You only need to focus on part one at this point. Each step will build on earlier steps. However, it is not a matter of providing a rough draft of all or even part of the entire project here in week three. That is, […]

Semmelweis' life did not end well.  There seem to be several reasons why his discovery was not widely accepted.  Which do you think were the most important?  What might he have done differently?  How would you approach a situation in which you made medical observations that pointed toward radical change for the medical field?  

  Please make sure you have completed the Module 2 Lesson before attempting this discussion (located in Module 2 Learning Resources). Open the attached PowerPoint to "play" the Real or Fake News Game: Real or Fake News Game.pptx Real or Fake News Game.pptx – Alternative Formats Post to the discussion, and answer the following prompts: […]

How do we reduce inventory levels? 1. What would the impact be on profit from the disposal of obsolete inventory in order to improve the balance sheet?  2. How do we institute a program to prevent the buildup of obsolete inventories by disposing of slow movers on a regular basis? SupplyChainInventoryManagement-CaseStudy.pdf InstructionsFormat.doc Casestudyinformationguide.pdf HowtoWriteacaseAnalysis.docx Supply […]