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 Answer the following in one paragraph:

What is your favorite book and why? 

Please review the substantive posting requirements posted in the forum and announcements: When you post responses to your peers the response needs to be “substantive” to receive credit. Substantive posting criteria includes: Acknowledge what your peer stated (agree or disagree). Include additional information. End the post with an open-ended follow up question. This is important to encourage further discussion.

Cite and reference the article in APA format for this assignment.

**Please include one question along with post for peer to answer****

1. What competitor information categories are useful in competitor analysis? Are these categories appropriate for health care organizations? How can these information categories provide focus for information gathering and strategic decision making?
2. Why is it important to clearly define the service area? How does managed care penetration affect service area definition?

Professional Development: 

Conduct a service area competitor analysis within your community. Keep it fairly small in scope (i.e. laser hair removal business, extended care facility for ventilator-dependant patients, etc.) so that it is manageable. Begin by introducing the macro issues (general and health care) and then use this outline as an initial guide:

1. Specify the Service Category
2. Delineate the Service Area.
   1. General
   2. Economic
   3. Demographic
   4. Psychographic
   5. Health Status
3. Perform a Service Area Structure Analysis
   1. Threat of New Entrants
   2. Intensity of Rivalry
   3. Threat of Substitutes
   4. Power of Customers
   5. Power of Suppliers
4. Do a Competitor Analysis/Identify Service Category Critical Success Factors
   1. Competitor Strengths and Weaknesses
   2. Critical Success Factors
   3. Strategic Groups
   4. Map Competitors
   5. Likely Responses of Competitors
5. Identify and Map Strategic Groups
6. Provide a Synthesis.

• Using the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template document that you began to work on in Module 1 and have continued expanding throughout this course, you will develop a curriculum vitae (CV) in Part 5 based on your current education and professional background.

Note: Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

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why do you think the issues presented in this chapter persist in today’s workforce culture?

Workforce Culture Issues

Workforce culture is a significant aspect of the nursing profession. It is determined by the leadership, including the approach involved in managing the working environment. Culture is an effective strategy in nursing that either reinforces or undermines professional competence.  Cultural competence among nurses enhances communication among nurses and patients with diverse backgrounds (Rittle, 2015). A positive workforce culture enhances staff satisfaction and engagement, influences patient safety, along with attracting the right talent.

The nursing profession experiences a shortage in its workforce, an aspect that interferes with its capacity to deliver services effectively. A workforce culture that promotes career growth and supports employee roles by offering a favorable environment with the required tools is likely to thrive (Davis, White, and Stephenson, 2016). Although technical skills are valuable in nursing, nurses have people-oriented jobs. As such, opportunities for people skills in the workplace are necessary to enhance collaboration, conflict resolution, and empathy. The nursing profession is more aligned with helping people and dealing with their emotions. The hiring process should involve senior nursing staff to facilitate the mentoring of new hires such that new employees benefit from their expertise. Nursing staff with longer service terms will feel their contributions to the organization’s management or leadership is valued.

There are dynamic shifts in the demand for staff in the nursing profession. Nurses are sometimes forced to work long hours, which affects their productivity and morale. The attraction of new talent by advocating for cultural competence is becoming significant in the nursing profession. A positive workforce culture is vital for the overall success of employees, including patient experience (Davis et al., 2016). The increased turnover rates are attributed to poor leadership in the nursing profession, especially when too much focus is drawn towards patient satisfaction and not staff satisfaction. There is an increasing need among nurses to portray competence in service delivery that indicates an understanding of cultural diversity (Rittle, 2015). Therefore, the nursing profession should continually encourage staff engagement and improve their professional experience to give patients the necessary care.

            Workplace culture necessitates improvements, such as clear communication among healthcare stakeholders. A professional relationship is established among administrators, patients, and employees, which improves service delivery and maintains rapport among nursing staff. The nurses also have a convenient way to express their grievances to the administrators. Moreover, concerns about nursing shortage are easily addressed because of the transparency in making decisions and sharing information. Nurses have diverse beliefs and approaches towards patient satisfaction and safety, which healthcare organizations can support through clear and consistent engagement (Rittle, 2015). The organizational commitment to make employees feel valued improves care quality and builds a desirable workforce characterized by competence and better services.

  A workforce culture that promotes inclusion entitles nurses to valuable practice and learning. However, limited acceptance in the workplace hinders the efficiency of nurses in healthcare facilities. The discrimination based on gender, color, and sexual orientation lowers the performance of nurses due to low morale and unequal opportunities to progress in their careers. An inclusive environment in nursing promotes learning and helps attain positive patient outcomes (Davis et al., 2016). Nurses should, therefore, learn in environments that support professional practice, facilitate best patient outcomes and influence workplace culture. Moreover, positive attitudes and rewards create a positive work culture, resulting from superior management style and effective leadership.

References

 Davis, K., White, S., & Stephenson, M. (2016). The Influence of Workplace Culture on Nurses’ Learning Experiences: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Evidence. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 14(6), 274-346.

Rittle, C. (2015). Multicultural Nursing: Providing Better Employee Care. Workplace Health & Safety, 63(12), 532-538.

• Incorporate professional values, attitudes, and expectations regarding ageism when caring for the older adult.
• Outline the importance of advocating for older adults in management of their care.

Your supervisor provided some valuable feedback in response to your outline! They are excited to see the PowerPoint slideshow you are creating for your topic’s in-service training. Having developed a number of presentations for in-services, your supervisor offered the following advice:

“When developing a slideshow, it’s important to be mindful of how you layout your content. For an in-service presentation, the slides should present key points, be arranged logically, without extraneous information contributing to a cluttered look. The audience should get a lot of the content from listening to what you say, not just from reading the slides. Using the Speaker Notes feature in PowerPoint is a great way to include relevant details that you want to provide without overloading the slides.”

Your supervisor wants you to work from your outline and prepare a visually appealing PowerPoint slideshow for the in-service presentation. They said it should:

1. Have a title slide.
2. Contain 6-10 content slides pertaining to the important content areas for your presentation topic.
3. Use the Speaker Notes feature in PowerPoint to reduce the amount of text that appears on the slides. (The Speaker Notes will contain the text that will guide what you say while presenting the slides.)
4. Be written using proper spelling/grammar.
5. Cite at least 2 credible references and present the sources in APA format on a References slide.

For information about creating PowerPoint presentations or adding Speaker Notes, consult the resources below.

• Writing Guide: PowerPoints
• PowerPoint FAQ
• PowerPoint & APA: citing sources and creating reference lists in PPT presentations
• How do I add Speaker Notes to my PowerPoint presentation slides?

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• This week’s textbook reading presented various nursing theories. Which nursing theorist do you most closely identify with and why? How has this individual impacted your personal nursing philosophy?

theorist: Roy Adaption model

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 Discuss the benefits of virtualization software, as described in the text. Do you agree/disagree with these benefits, or can you think of additional benefits not already presented?  Also discuss the security concerns highlighted by server sprawl and how you would propose to solve those in your (real or hypothetical) organization. 

Minimum- 250 words, Include intex-citation,  Minimum 1 scholarly article.