During this first week, you explored the social work profession and what makes it such a unique profession. You can see that social work is as diverse as the clients that are served.

For this assignment, prepare a written response to the following:

• Identify a current social issue or problem that is of personal interest to you that you believe your role as a social worker could address.
• Visit a social work professional organization website such as the National Association of Social Workers to review what is known about the social issue/problem and the role of a social worker in addressing it.
• Prepare a short 2- to 4- paragraph reflection about your interest in the problem, and discuss what research has found about the problem so far.
• Provide a list of three current journal articles you have located in the NCU library that discuss research that has investigated your selected social issue/problem. (These are the supportive resources mentioned below in the assignment criteria.)

Total Length: 2 pages, not including title and reference pages

Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

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Assignment Content

1. Human resources departments have evolved significantly throughout modern history. The one force that has shaped human resources more than any other and has been most responsible for how the department functions today, has been the state and federal government. Human resources departments have always been highly influenced by the passage of new laws (e.g., HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act), regulatory policies (e.g., nondiscrimination/harassment or retaliation policies that are enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)), and safety protections (such as those enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)). 

   

   Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that examines the effect of legal, safety, and regulatory requirements on the human resources process. Your paper should focus on employee-related regulations established by the United States, such as the Department of Labor, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), and the Department of Homeland Security.

   Include your thoughts on the following statement:

   • “Common sense and compassion in the workplace have been replaced by litigation.”
   • Cite at least 3 references.

     Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

      

Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations.

For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work more hours in a shift, they commit more errors. How do effective leaders find a balance between the needs of the organization and the needs of ensuring quality, effective, and safe patient care?

In this Discussion, you will reflect on a national healthcare issue and examine how competing needs may impact the development of polices to address that issue. 

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and think about the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously selected for study in Module 1 (***chosen issue was “nursing shortage”***)
• Reflect on the competing needs in healthcare delivery as they pertain to the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously examined.

By Day 3 of Week 3

Post an explanation of how competing needs, such as the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients, may impact the development of policy. Then, describe any specific competing needs that may impact the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. What are the impacts, and how might policy address these competing needs? Be specific and provide examples.

Directions:  Be sure to answer both Problems 1 and 2 by clicking on the tabs at the bottom of the screen.  Answer all problems and submit to instructor at the end of module 3.

 

1.  A random sample is selected from a normal population. The population mean is μ=60 and the population standard deviation is σ=15. After a treatment is given to the members of the sample, the sample mean is M=65. The sample size is n=25.

A) The Hypothesis Test: a=0.05
Ho: μ=60
H1: μ<>60

B) SE[M]

C) Z

D) Is the sample mean sufficient to conclude that the treatment has a significant effect? Give reasons for your decision.

E) If the size of the sample was changed to n = 16, would the sample mean be sufficient to conclude that the treatment has a significant effect? Give reasons for your decision.

 

2.  There were two independent groups who took a school course by different modes. The first sample of students took the course in the online and the second sample took the course in the conventional face to face mode. Using the sample data determine if there is significant difference in the scores between the two groups.

 

A) SE[M1-M2]          

 

B) t-score       

 

C) Are the two sample means sufficient to conclude that the educational modes are significantly different?  Give reasons for your decision.

 

Since the t-score falls into the critical region (4 > 2.01) I reject the null hypothesis.  There is a significant difference between the two methods of teaching.

 

Course name: enterprise risk management

The readings this week discusses broad context of risk and investigative forensics. Part of risk management is to understand when things go wrong, we need to be able to investigate and report our findings to management. Using this research, or other research you have uncovered discuss in detail how risk and investigate techniques could work to help the organization. ERM helps to protect an organization before an attack, where as forensics investigate technique will help us after an attack – so lets discus both this week.

Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least TWO of the following: