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BSN355 Capstone Project Proposal Plan
What is the project question (PICOT)? In other words what are you ultimately trying to figure out? Address in P-I-C-O-T format first; then a narrative description.
How to prevent falls at a nursing home, nursing facility or a hospital unit.
What is the title of your project? Be specific and concise.
Fall prevention strategies in nursing practices
Who will benefit from your project?
The people that will benefit this paper are nurses and also the elderly patients.
Where are the people located that will benefit from your project?
They are located at a nursing facility or a hospital unit.
What date do you plan on implementing your project? If you plan to implement this in BSN485, please specify that here.
I plan to implement my project in at least 90 days from now. Collection of data is very important for this project.
How long will your project take? Clarify the difference as compared to the project timeframe in your PICOT question.
I will need at least 90 days to complete the project so I could collect the right data.
Budget requirements of your project (how much money will it take to implement your project)? Please note that this is a proposal; you will not fund this project.
Why did you decide to do this project?
I decided to do this project so I could share my knowledge to nursing facilities on how to prevent falls in nursing homes.
What do you need to help you complete this project? Examples may include supplies, Facility/Administration support, etc.
For me to complete this project in a very detailed manner, I would need to interview some nursing staff and residents on how to prevent falls and what is a effective way to prevent it.
Will your project have long-term effects? If so, what are they? If none. Why not?
The project will have a long term effect because hospital falls are very common with elderly patients specially if they are taking medications that has a lot of side effects.
Will the project be sustainable? If so, how will you sustain the project?
How will your project be evaluated?
The project will be sustainable by implementing and educating residents and staff.
Are there any risks associated with the project?
There are no risk associated with the project. It can be done in a safety manner.
Is there anything that may prevent your project from succeeding? If so, what?
No there is nothing that can prevent my project from succeeding.
Management and Organizational Behavior
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Management and Organizational Behavior
As living organisms modern day organizations have increasingly proven to be very dynamic. This state of affairs can be attributed to the dynamic nature of the corporate environment. Seemingly, the complexity and occurrence of the challenges that the organizations are forced to grapple with has increased significantly. These have made the corporate environment to be not only volatile but also turbulent and unpredictable. The challenges that are experiences both in the external and internal environment are wide and varied. They impact on the functioning of the organizations and greatly influence the decisions that are made at different levels. Living organizations have thus been compelled to align their functional systems to the expectations of the flexible and dynamically interactive nature of the environments within which they operate. The unpredictable nature of the work environments has transformed organizations form being mechanistic to being flexible as well as interactive. It is against this background that this paper compares the military unit and symphony organizations.
Seemingly, both organizations are complex and operate in a systemic nature. In this regard, they comprise of different parts that constantly work together for the common good of the whole. According to Quenk and Kummerow (n.d), the overall performance of such organizations can be adversely affected whenever one part is affected or is missing. The subsystems of the two organizations share intricate and augmenting relationships that can not be easily broken. In particular, the military unit is a part of the economic system of the armed forces. According to Roelofs (nd), orchestra systems on the other hand comprise of innumerous subsystems that closely depend on each other for optimal functioning.
As living organisms, both organizations benefit significantly from the resources that are found in the external environment. In the symphony organization, the resources include human labor and information. Basically, this organization depends heavily on the environment for its growth, sustenance and survival. The military unit on the other depends heavily on the civilian personnel sourced from the society to cater for its needs (Fedorox, 2001). Just like a living organisms, the organizations process the resources that they get from the environment in a bid to filter from these the beneficial aspects. The negative aspects are released to the environment while the beneficial positive aspects are employed for enhancing the growth and sustainability of the respective organizations.
Also both organizations produce end products after processing the resources that they consume from the environment. They make efforts to ensure that the end products also benefit the environment in order to enhance sustainable co existence. In this regard, it is worth appreciating that the resources that the environment provides for them need to be replenished. This can only be attained if the respective organizations give back to the environment. Essentially, the relationship that they share needs to be mutually beneficial. Failure to give back to the environment can have adverse effect on its productivity and make it difficult for the organizations to sustain their livelihoods.
Seemingly, the military system seldom releases the negative aspects in the environment. This is because of its closed nature. In this regard, it absorbs personnel, trains them and uses them for its own benefit. In contrast, the orchestra organization absorbs personnel, financial resources and other forms of resources, processes them and provides products to the environment. This implies that it is more complex and interrelates closely with different facets of the environment. Although the military unit also interacts with the environment within which it is situated, its closed nature does not allow for direct feedback form the environment. The end products of its processes benefit the army which is closely related to it as opposed to the entire complex environment which it relates with too.
Compared to the military unit, the resources that the symphony organization depends on are diverse in nature. This can be attributed to the various subsystems that these organization has. Seemingly, the subsystems require different products and operate differently when contributing to the common good. Notably, this makes them to be more complex and to have more internal as well as external relationships in order to enhance its performance and general wellbeing. Since the operations of the military unit are limited, the resources that it depends on for its survival are limited. Furthermore, it does not need to establish various relationships with its environment or it to perform optimally. This is because the respective organization is highly specialized and would not require the contributions of diverse elements found in the environment within which it is located (Capra n.d).
Because of the innumerable internal and external relationships that the symphony organization has, it is in most instances compounded by incidences of bureaucracy. This is unlike the military unit that has fewer relationships. Although they are intricate and augmenting, its system of accountability is clearer than that of the complex symphony organization. In his research, Black (2003) posits that in dynamic environments, bureaucratic organizations are unlikely to perform well. In this consideration therefore, it can be argued that the military unit is more efficient than the symphony organization. To a great extent, the operations of the military unit are predictable and defined. This is because of the fact that it bases decision making on established values, codes and policies. The operations in the symphony organization are not predetermined because of the dynamic nature of the relative interrelationships. The military unit can therefore be considered to be more of a machine than a living organism.
Unlike the unit military, the symphony organization is more likely to produce another organization. This is because it is dynamic and constantly growing and developing. Apparently, its diverse nature allows it to grow and develop accordingly. This is unlike the military unit whose operations are determined and its possibility of integrating new ways of operations is limited. In addition, the fact that the internal relationships of the symphony organization are collaborative increases their ability to be productive.
In sum, living organizations are able to adapt and co exist in a harmonic manner with the environment because of their flexibility. As identified in the study, both organizations rely on their external environments for growth, sustenance and survival. For this reason, they make unprecedented efforts to relate peacefully with their external environment. They are comprised of internal interrelationships that basically deal with processing the resources they source from the environment. However, the symphony organization is open ended and more complex than the unit military. Seemingly, is has more life than the later whose processes and operations are pre-determined. Nonetheless, the unit military is more efficient in its operations than the symphony organization.
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Midpoint Cumulative Summary
Midpoint Cumulative Summary
Trey Johnson
Georgia State University
My experiences in math haven’t always been the greatest. It’s the one subject that I’ve always struggled in and to this day still try to avoid. Since I’ve been in college I’ve taken business calculus three times in the last two years, THREE TIMES! And i still have yet to pass it. Is there such a thing as a math phobia? Because if so I definitely have it. Math would honestly be so easy if teachers would just show you the easiest and most simplified way of solving a problem and not fry our brains with so many different formulas for the same problem! I’ve honestly never gotten anything over a C in math since being in school. I’ve gotten more D’s than C’s and I think one F but you get the point. Me and math will never see eye to eye, and I’m okay with that. Less brain trauma on my end.
I have honestly never cared to be a teacher. I always believed that teachers don’t get paid enough to deal with what they deal with, like seriously. Kids are terrible people, our goal was to learn and make the teachers day harder than it needed to be, at least that’s what it felt like. I’ve gone to 6 different high schools and man the difference in education and what the teachers go through is insane. I went to school in south central LA all the way up until my sophomore year in high school. When I tell you teachers were not safe, I mean it. Teachers were getting bullied left and right. My eighth grade teacher got so fed up with our class he just never tried teaching us, he would literally just come to class and let us do whatever until the class was over because the students tortured him and never let him get any teaching out. We’d spit spit balls at each other, try to stick wet paper or tissue to the ceiling, play with our game boys or psp’s (PlayStation portable), we did everything you could possibly think We’d get away with because our teacher refused to teach. He didn’t refuse to teach because he was a terrible teacher, he just couldn’t get the chance to teach because of how terrible of students we all were. I’ve seen so many situations even in high school where the teachers were dang near bullied everyday to where they’d refuse to teach and wouldn’t care about what goes on in the class or students. The Los Angeles unified school district is a tough place to teach in, only the strong survive. The schools I’ve been to outside of Los Angeles were easier for the teachers, the students were far more obedient and wouldn’t dare to do the things they would do at my previous school. I just so happened to be the kid who always acted a fool through high school, nothing crazy just the class clown trying to always be funny.
I really can’t even think of any positive experiences in math or English. I feel like the only positive things I could possibly think of is the excitement I get when I actually understand something. I literally feel like a genius when I’m finally understanding this foreign language the teacher speaks. It’s like the best feeling, you get a math or science high and just excited to see what else you can do. The con of every high is there is always a downfall, that high runs out. It never fails every time I’m finally understanding something and then I get home to do my homework and the math problems are nothing like what I did in class. So then I just sit there staring at the problem like it’s going to blink first, mind beyond fried and then I come back to reality “I hate math”. Science is something else, there are so many good experiences I’ve had in science but that’s only if there is no math included. Once math gets involved just throw the whole subject away, I don’t want it. I absolutely hate chemistry, before I was a business marketing major my major was dental hygiene. I was taking chemistry over the winter break and this class was whooping my butt I didn’t understand anything that was going on. It was so bad that I dropped the class a couple weeks in and changed my major that same month, and now I am here prospering.