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Background:
You are a Nurse Recruiter for a large Health System. You need to make an offer for the candidate Suzy Smith as a Registered Nurse.
The Health System’s philosophy is to offer candidates a rate based on internal equity, i.e. how the candidate’s experience compares with the incumbent employees. The Manager definitely supports this philosophy and is looking to your expertise in making an acceptable offer.
Instructions:
Please use the attached resume for Suzy Smith as well as the attached RN Equity Report to determine an appropriate rate to offer Suzy Smith as a Registered Nurse.
Your submission must contain the following elements:
1. Rate to offer Suzy Smith
2. Justification for your rate – Please be specific in your justification as this is just as important as the rate you propose.

Textbook: Philips, J.M., & Gully, S.M. (2009). Strategic Staffing. (3rd Ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide Business major’s an in-depth understanding of the staffing and retention process in organizations. The staffing process begins at the job analysis phase and continues through the decision to hire. Issues regarding retention are also central to the staffing process to ensure that those hired remain with the organization. This process is essential for ensuring the organization is able to obtain and maintain a competitive advantage based on their human capital. The course covers the staffing issues practiced in all types of organizations, and is taught using a combination of online materials, discussions, and experiential exercises/applications. While this course is geared towards HR majors, this course is useful for those who are looking for advanced information on managing employees in the organization.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students should have an in-depth understanding of various features of staffing and retention, and how these theories can be used to enhance an organization’s competitive advantage. Specifically, by the end of the course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of various staffing models, the employment relationship, staffing laws and regulations, and the retention process.
2. Assess the external and legal environments influence on employee staffing and retention decisions.
3. Conduct various staffing and retention assessments.
4. Assess the effectiveness of various personnel selection techniques used for staffing and retaining employees in organizations.
5. Demonstrate an understanding for how employee staffing and retention issues influence an organization’s competitiveness.

Suzy Smith, RN, BS, BSN, CCRN

EDUCATION

JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchool of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, 2007
Cumulative GPA: 3.61/4.0

Loyola UniversityMaryland, Baltimore, MD
Bachelor of Science, Major in Biology, Minor in French, 2004
Cumulative GPA in Biology: 3.69/4.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Clinical Nurse II, Critical Care Unit, MercyMedicalCenter, Baltimore, MD, 9/2007- present
• Provide professional care to critically ill patients in an acute setting of both medical and surgical patients in a 25-bed ICU/IMC unit.
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team and patient’s family to provide quality care.
• Assess patients thoroughly and quickly, carefully identifying changes in condition.
• Generate custom patient care plans, including assessments, evaluation, implementations, interventions, outcomes, and nursing diagnoses for optimal patient progress.
• Observe appropriate infection control procedures.
• Occasionally fills the role of Charge Nurse.
• Active participant in Unit Practice Council and eMAR technology groups.
• Preceptor for students, new graduates, and new hires to the unit.
• Educate staff on eMAR and Meditech program updates.

LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION

• State of Maryland: Registered Nurse: Active
• CCRN Certification from AACN: 5/2010
• American Heart Association: BLS/ACLS Instructor, 1/2010

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, member since 2/2009

Homework Set #5: Chapter 12

Due Week 10 and worth 100 points

Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link above.

In your own words, complete the Mini-Case on Page 562 of your textbook.

Suppose you decide (as did Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg) to start a company. Your product is a software platform that integrates a wide range of media devices, including laptop computers, desktop computers, digital video recorders, and cell phones. Your initial market is the student body at your university. Once you have established your company and set up procedures for operating it, you plan to expand to other colleges in the area and eventually to go nationwide. At some point, hopefully sooner rather than later, you plan to go public with an IPO and then to buy a yacht and take off for the South Pacific to indulge in your passion for underwater photography. With these issues in mind, you need to answer for yourself, and potential investors, the following questions.

1. What is an agency relationship? When you first begin operations, assuming you are the only employee and only your money is invested in the business, would any agency conflicts exist? Explain your answer
2. If you expanded and hired additional people to help you, might that give rise to agency problems?
3. Suppose you need additional capital to expand and you sell some stock to outside investors. If you maintain enough stock to control the company, what type of agency conflict might occur?
4. Suppose your company raises funds from outside lenders. What type of agency costs might occur? How might lenders mitigate the agency costs?
5. Suppose your company is very successful and you cash out most of your stock and turn the company over to an elected board of directors. Neither you nor any other stockholders own a controlling interest (this is the situation at most public companies). List six potential managerial behaviors that can harm a firm’s value.
6. What is corporate governance? List five corporate governance provisions that are internal to a firm and are under its control.
7. What characteristics of the board of directors usually lead to effective corporate governance?
8. List three provisions in the corporate charter that affect takeovers.
9. Briefly describe the use of stock options in a compensation plan. What are some potential problems with stock options as a form of compensation?
10. What is block ownership? How does it affect corporate governance?
11. Briefly explain how regulatory agencies and legal systems affect corporate governance

Do not forget that this paper requires at least two references with accompanying citations.

Introduction and Background:
Organizations are constantly trying to make sure that their members are ethical and productive. Several different kinds of reward and punishment

systems have been developed with this goal in mind. Members are evaluated, rewarded, put on performance improvement plans, punished, etc.
Assignment Description:
The point of this assignment is to evaluate the systems of evaluation and motivation. Begin by reviewing the contents of Chapters 7 and 8 in

which the various ways of motivating good behavior are discussed. In an essay of at least 500 words pick the method that you think is best at

genuinely motivating members of an organization to improve their behavior and be productive. Pick the method that you think is least effective

at motivating behavioral improvement. Finally, discuss whether or not different people require different kinds of motivation. Be sure to

complete each of the following steps:
Describe a specific method of reward or discipline that you believe to be best in motivating ethical and productive behavior in the workplace.

How is such applied or communicated?
Discuss a specific method of reward or discipline that you believe is least effective in motivating ethical and productive behavior in the

workplace.
Discuss whether you think different people require different kinds of motivation or if one system can be applied to all. How is it possible to

know which to apply to whom?
Conclude with a discussion of what was learned in this assignment.
Assignment requirements:
APA format
A title page
One-inch margins
12-point font, double-spaced
500 Words
A reference page. A minimum of two references are expected.
If you use outside sources in researching your responses, be sure to cite them in the body of the paper and include them on the reference page.

Public Health Care System

The terms: health care and public health are often used interchangeably. Two such widely used terms are public health and health promotion.

Based on your understanding of the topic, create a report in a Microsoft Word document answering the following questions:

• Define the terms public health and health promotion.
• What are the similarities and differences between the two?
• What specific health promotion activity was provided in your community during the past one year and what was the beneficial result?
• How did Healthy People 2020 develop and what is the purpose and goals of this program?

Over the years, the public health care system has evolved due to the numerous legislative and regulatory influences. These efforts are being illustrated as legislative and regulatory pressures on the form and function of the delivery system.

Note: Click here to view a link to get a better understanding about the issues affecting the community and nation (Go to Policy and Advocacy > Congress and Federal Agencies > Legislation and Issues).

• What current legislation has had the maximum impact on the way health care is provided?
• What interest group(s) influenced the establishment of this legislation?

Mention an interest associated with a health care promotion or wellness program that, according to you, had the greatest impact on the people of the U.S. in the last three years. Provide a description of this program.

The description should include the following details:

• What were the activities actually associated with the program?
• How was it reported in the media?
• What was it about this program that had an impact on you?
• What population was involved? Why do you think the specified population was involved in the program?
• What do you think can be done by society to promote this program?

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper on the importance of health care

research in current times.

 

Use and cite at least two PEER REVIEWED articles to support and exemplify your ideas.

 

Discuss the importance of scientific research as it relates to ONE of these concepts:

• The impact of health care research on evidence-based practice

• Key components of research studies affecting rigor, validity, and

ethical considerations

• How leaders can integrate original research into a practice or health care

network setting

• The impact of original research on health care business success.

 

APA format

English
Which brings us to your essay. For this assignment you should choose one or both of these texts. I want you to look at the idea of success – personal, career, social, educational, etc. – and how effectively or ineffectively the narrators of these texts represent that. This necessitates that you, as the writer, first determine what you consider success to be and what areas of life we should use to gauge it. Is success found in self-actualization? In monetary earnings? Building a healthy, happy family? Something completely different?
You should put all of this in the context of the “real world.” Are we, as a society, doing it all wrong? Are we getting it right? Does it just depend on the person? Are the texts extremes in either direction? What should or shouldn’t we take away from Nervous Conditions and Fight Club?

Ultimately, this should be a persuasive essay where you will lay out what you consider to be the definition of success, how our society views and achieves it, and what, if anything, should be done to improve that perspective. You should supplement the texts with secondary library sources to further support your argument. (Some suggested search terms: text titles and/authors; self-actualization; success; education; anarchy; social norms; etc.)
Requirements:

3rd person
4-5 pages in length
Standard MLA or APA formatting
4-5 sources, 1-2 of which can be the above texts
You should take a persuasive approach, arguing your point through a solid thesis, concrete examples, and your analysis based on your research

How does model analysis compare to cost benefit analysis regarding transportation planning? What political elements are involved with transportation planning for cities? Would you recommend a single method of analysis or a combination of methods of analysis for transportation planning? Why? Lastly, discuss the nature of allocating funds derived from the public budget. Why is there considered to be a ‘lack of consensus’ regarding the public budgeting process?