Guidelines: Memo to POTUS
Objective:
The objective of this assignment is to write a professional memo to the
President of the United States (POTUS) addressing an issue that is important to
you. The memo should clearly analyze the issue, outline policy options,
and recommend a course of action.
Length:
2-3 pages, single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins.
Structure:
Header
To:
President of the United States
From:
[Your Name]
Date:
[Submission Date]
Subject:
[Brief description of the issue]
Introduction
(1 paragraph)
Briefly
introduce the issue.
State
the purpose of the memo.
Background
(1-2 paragraphs)
Provide
relevant background information on the issue.
Explain
why the issue is important and why it requires attention.
Analysis
(2-3 paragraphs)
Present
an analysis of the issue.
Discuss
the key factors, stakeholders, and implications.
Use
credible sources and data to support your analysis.
Policy
Options (2-3 paragraphs)
Outline
at least three policy options for addressing the issue.
Discuss
the pros and cons of each option.
Consider
political, economic, and social implications.
Recommendation
(1-2 paragraphs)
Recommend
one of the policy options.
Justify
your recommendation with clear reasoning.
Address
potential objections and how they can be mitigated.
Conclusion
(1 paragraph)
Summarize
the key points.
Restate
the importance of taking action on the issue.
References
List
all sources cited in the memo.
Use
APA or MLA citation style consistently.
Submission:
Submit
the memo as a PDF document by the specified deadline.
Total Points Possible:
Please ensure your memo is well-researched, clearly written,
and professionally formatted. If you have any questions or need further
assistance, please contact me during office hours or via email.
Assignment Evaluation Criteria:
Clarity
and Conciseness: The memo should be clear, concise, and
well-organized.
Analysis
and Insight: The analysis should be thorough, insightful, and
supported.
Policy
Options: The policy options should be well-developed, with clear
pros and cons.
Recommendation: The
recommendation should be well-justified and address potential objections.
Writing
Quality: The memo should be free of grammatical and spelling
errors.
Formatting
and Citations: Follow a memo format (per the guidelines above)
and include properly cited sources.
Author: admin
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“Addressing an Important Issue: Memo to POTUS”
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Evaluating the Katrina Response and Making Recommendations Title: “Learning from Katrina: Evaluating Governmental Policies and Recommending Strategies for Disaster Preparedness”
In this second assignment, you will apply what you learned in this course to evaluate the Katrina response and make recommendations. Fully cover the following required topics:
Evaluations: Identify the specific policies and procedures which failed during Hurricane Katrina. Address how governmental policies failed to protect the citizens of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Be sure to consider all levels of government, not just federal.
Conclusion and recommendations: Provide at least two viable strategies you would recommend to government officials and agencies to prevent the likelihood of a similar disaster preparedness failure from occurring again. Be sure that your recommendations are legal and realistic.
Comparison: Compare the Katrina response against the response to “Super Storm Sandy” in 2012. In what ways did the governments improve over Katrina?
Lessons for crisis management: Analyze how the lessons and procedures related to hurricane response can apply to other aspects of crisis management. How can these techniques be deployed in the battle against the Covid-19 virus, for instance? -
“Quick Assignment: Understanding Course Requirements and Expectations”
My instructor requires the quick assignment to be downloaded and the answers below each question in red. I have attached the syllabus and powerpoints.
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Title: Medication Management and Treatment Plans for Common Chronic Conditions
Directions: For each of the scenarios below, answer the questions below using your required learning resources, clinical practice guidelines, medscape and JNC 8. Explain the problem and explain how you would address the problem. When recommending medications, write out a complete prescription for each medication. What order would you send to a pharmacy? Include drug, dose, route, frequency, special instructions, # dispensed (days supply), refills, etc. Also state if you would continue, discontinue or taper the patient’s current medications. Use at least 3 sources for each scenario and cite sources using APA format. Sources need to be be in references as well as intext citation
Sara is a 45-year-old female presenting for her annual exam. Her blood pressure today is 160/90 HR 84 RR 16. Her height is 64 inches and her weight is 195. Her last visit to the clinic 3 months ago shows a BP of 156/92. She is currently taking ibuprofen 600 mg tid for back pain. She has no known allergies. What is the goal for her blood pressure? What medication would you prescribe to treat her blood pressure? What education would you prescribe?
Monty is a 52-year-old male following up on his labs that were drawn last week. He smokes 1 pack per day. He is currently on Lisinopril 20 mg po daily. He is allergic to penicillin. Fasting lipid profile shows total cholesterol 266, LDL cholesterol 180, HDL cholesterol 40, and Triglycerides 185. What treatment plan would you implement for Monty’s lipid profile? What is the goal Total Cholesterol (TC), HDL-C, and LDL-C level for Monty? How would you monitor the effectiveness of your treatment plan? How many risk factors for coronary artery disease does this patient have? Identify them specifically.
Beatrice is a 17-year-old female diagnosed with mild persistent asthma since age 7. During her visit today, she reports having to use her albuterol MDI 3 to 4 days per week over the past 2 months. Over the past week she has been using albuterol at least once per day. She reports being awakened by a cough three nights during the last month. She is becoming more short of breath with exercise. She also has a fluticasone MDI, which she uses “most days of the week.” Her current medications include: Flovent HFA 44 mcg, two puffs BID, Proventil HFA two puffs Q 4–6 H PRN shortness of breath, Yaz one PO daily, Propranolol 80 mg PO BID. What treatment plan would you implement for this patient? What medication changes would you make? How would you monitor the effectiveness of this plan?
Daute is a 56-year-old man seeking evaluation for increasing shortness of breath. He noticed difficulty catching his breath about 3 years ago. Physical activity increases his symptoms. He avoids activity as much as possible to prevent any SOB. His previous physician had placed him on salmeterol/fluticasone (Advair Diskus) one inhalation twice daily 2 years ago. He thinks his physician initiated the medication for the shortness of breath, but he is not entirely sure. He did not refill the prescription and has not been taking it. Pertinent history – Chronic bronchitis X 8 years with one exacerbation in last 12 months of treatment with oral antibiotics. He has a 40-pack-year smoking history. What treatment plan would you implement for this patient? What medication(s) would you prescribe? How would you monitor the effectiveness of this plan? -
Title: “Diversification Decision: Impact and Recommendations for Stakeholders”
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:
• Utilize information from industry and scholarly sources to inform problem solving and decision making
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to solve problems and make decisions that impact organizations and their stakeholders
• Communicate professionally to diverse internal and external audiences
Scenario
Your presentation to the leadership panel of your company was well received. Now you must create a presentation for a wider audience—stakeholders from inside and outside the company—and include your decisions and recommendations, which were approved by the leadership panel. Remember that your presentation must convey professionalism and be visually appealing as well as informative.
Directions
Create a presentation of your research and data findings from Project Two including your decision and rationale.
1 Construct a professional business presentation for internal and external stakeholders.
a Identify your key message to both internal and external stakeholders.
b Illustrate your key points using visualizations.
c Tell your story.
2 Specifically include the following in your presentation:
3 Communicate your decision about diversification based on your analysis of the data and research.
a Use visualizations to tell the story of the (quantitative and qualitative) data.
b Determine the likelihood of success based on the data and research collected.
c Discuss the impact that moving to the new industry will have on the organization and its internal and external stakeholders.
4 Detail your recommendations for moving forward.
a Summarize findings of the research performed.
b Include research conclusions and reasoning.
c Describe the rationale behind your recommendations.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit a Powerpoint presentation of 10 to 15 slides including speaker notes. Sources should be cited according to APA style. -
Title: Navigating the Postpartum Period: What Every New Parent Should Know As a professional providing information on the postpartum period, it is important to educate clients on the physical, emotional, and social changes that occur after childbirth
If you were a professional providing information on an area of Prenatal development, antepartum, the birth process, newborns, or postpartum (pick one), what information would you share with your client?
Remember to INFORM with detail.
at least 3 academic sources (APA format)
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“The Impact of Technology on Our Minds: A Response to “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
A 3-4 page essay summarizing and responding to a single source in MLA format (double-spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt. font, 1 inch margins).
For the essay, you have to respond to the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nichols Carr https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
This is a response writing that wants to express the content of the article you’ve read in your own words and then provide your own perspective on that article (not the whole thing). In other words, I am looking for you to stay close to the source text and include specific points with which you agree or disagree. Each paragraph you write should have some reference to the article, whether you’re quoting or paraphrasing. You’ll need to explain what is contained in the original piece and why it is important that you respond to it; then you can develop your own opinions while making specific references to the article. -
“Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Comprehensive Approach”
Power Point on Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder which I included the research paper that I already submitted earlier in the course but you are welcome to add to it. I’ve never done a power point presentation, but I need it along with the speaker notes and I’m going to try to record my voice will the slides are playing. Let me know if you need anything.
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“Applying Confidence Intervals in the Health Sciences: A Practical Demonstration”
Scenario/Summary
The highlight of this week’s lab is confidence intervals and the use of these intervals in the health sciences. There is a short reading that specifically relates confidence intervals to health sciences and then you are asked to demonstrate your knowledge of confidence intervals by applying them in a practical manner.
Instructions
Steps to Complete the Week 7 Lab
Step 1: Find these articles in the Chamberlain Library. Once you click each link, you will be logged into the Library and then click on “PDF Full Text”.
First Article: Confidence Intervals, Part 1
Links to an external site.
Second Article: Confidence Intervals, Part 2
Links to an external site.
Step 2: Consider the use of confidence intervals in health sciences with these articles as inspiration and insights.
Step 3: Using the data you collected for the Week 5 Lab (heights of 10 different people that you work with plus the 10 heights provided by your instructor), discuss your method of collection for the values that you are using in your study (systematic, convenience, cluster, stratified, simple random). What are some faults with this type of data collection? What other types of data collection could you have used, and how might this have affected your study?
Step 4: Now use the Week 6 Spreadsheet to help you with calculations for the following questions/statements.
a) Give a point estimate (mean) for the average height of all people at the place where you work. Start by putting the 20 heights you are working with into the blue Data column of the spreadsheet. What is your point estimate, and what does this mean?
b) Find a 95% confidence interval for the true mean height of all the people at your place of work. What is the interval? [see screenshot below]
c) Give a practical interpretation of the interval you found in part b, and explain carefully what the output means. (For example, you might say, “I am 95% confident that the true mean height of all of the people in my company is between 64 inches and 68 inches”).
d) Post a screenshot of your work from the t value Confidence Interval for µ from the Confidence Interval tab on the Week 6 Excel spreadsheet
Step 5: Now, change your confidence level to 99% for the same data, and post a screenshot of this table, as well.
Step 6: Compare the margins of error from the two screenshots. Would the margin of error be larger or smaller for the 99% CI? Explain your reasoning.
Step 7: Save the Week 7 Lab document with your answers and include your name in the title.
Step 8: Submit the document.
Requirements
The deliverable is a Word document with your answers to the questions posed below based on the article you find.
Required Software
Microsoft Word
Internet access to read articles
Grading
This activity will be graded based on the Week 7 Lab Rubric.
Outcomes
CO 8: Given a sample dataset, estimate and interpret the confidence intervals for population mean or proportion.
Due Date
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“The Transformation of Tessie Hutchinson in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery” Introduction: Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery,” has become a classic in American literature due to its shocking ending and thought-provoking themes. The story follows
this is a research paper on The Lottery by shirley jackson. we will have a final paper differing from this one where my prompt is “explain the single change that occurs to the protagonist during the story, taking care to specify whether this change is mainly one of fortune, luck, moral character, or knowledge. for this resesrch paper i have gathered three sources which i will use to support my claim of prompt. I have already written an introductory paragraph and have an outline or sorts for you to follow. If you think of any changes to my introductory paragraph to make it stronger please do. the essay requires MLA format, 1 intro, 6 body paragraphs, 1 conclusion, as well as 14-17 short quotes in total from both “The Lottery” and the sources I founf, 14-17 in text citations to go along with those quotes, one block quotation, one use of ellipsis in a quote, and one use of brackets in a quote. 6-8 pages minimum 1800 words.