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This week we are exploring the shared decision-making process in regard to patient-centered care. The shared decision-making process can involve two or more stakeholders. It is essential that the patient is involved in the decisions involved in his/her care to ensure optimal outcomes and accountability.

Shared decision-making is a vital component of patient-centered care. Discuss the role of shared decision-making and systems thinking play in ensuring accountability for the quality of health care and patient safety for populations with whom they work.

Based on the inserted HIM career map https://my.ahima.org/careermap and your interests and professional aspirations, identify and design an HIM consultation firm/company within a Non-traditional HIM sector.  I’m interested in Data analytics. Upon utilization of the HIM career map and the web.  Including additional primary resources as well as other helpful sources of information to assist with your research (i.e., your textbook, journal articles, professional publications, etc.), create an APA 7^th edition report of (2-3) pages.  Including a virtual recorded presentation displaying the consultation company describing the setting, the essential duties of the consultation firm/company, and summarizing your final selection. At a minimum, the following must be included in your virtual presentation and APA report:

Please create an APA-style report of 2-3 pages that includes the following:

1. Consultancy Name and Logo: Design a logo for your consulting company (10 points).
2. Non-Traditional Setting: Identify a setting for the consulting firm that does not include a traditional hospital environment (10 points).
3. Job Titles and Descriptions: Create job titles and descriptions for two additional staff members, outlining a minimum of three job functions and responsibilities for each position (10 points).
4. Mission and Vision Statements: Formulate a mission and vision statement for the consulting firm (5 points).
5. Scopes of Service: List a minimum of seven scopes of service that your firm will offer (10 points).
6. Salary and Benefits: Propose starting salaries for all staff members, along with fringe benefits (5 points).
7. Qualifications and Certifications: Outline the minimum qualifications for the positions, including any required certifications (5 points).
8. Virtual recorded presentation: Prepare to present the consulting company virtually via Panopto to a potential client that is considering granting a contract (30 points).
9. Justification for Contract Award: Explain why your consulting firm should be awarded the contract (15 points).

All assignments must be original and adhere to APA 7th edition formatting guidelines. Please refer to your APA manual and other resources for compliance.

Important: Ensure your slides are displayed during your presentation. Grant the professor access to your virtual project presentation as required

Less than 3% AI detection on Turnitin on the non-AI portion of assignment. Must be original writing-no plagiarism. All references from the last four years. In this assignment, you will take the argumentative topic and thesis you developed in your discussion board(I argued that use of social media in children under the age of 16 was damaging to their mental, emotional, and cognitive health. I cited the surgeon general’s 2023 warning.), use a generative AI tool (such as ChatGPT), and ask it to create a short argumentative essay on that topic. Then, you will summarize its main points, analyze its use of the rhetorical situation and persuasive techniques, and revise it to strengthen clarity, evidence, and overall effectiveness. This process will help you practice critical reading, effective summarization, and strategic revision.

Part 1: Generate an Essay with AI

Use your chosen topic and thesis to prompt an AI platform of your choosing to write an argumentative essay. Save or copy this essay for submission.

Part 2: Summarize the Essay- NO AI on this portion of assignment!

In no more than 200 words, summarize the AI-generated essay by stating its central argument, outlining its main supporting points, and noting any counterarguments it presents.

Part 3: Analyze the AI Essay- NO AI on this portion of assignment!

Carefully evaluate the AI-generated essay. Focus on the following areas:

Who do you believe is the intended audience for the essay? What evidence in the essay suggests this?

Is the tone appropriate for the intended audience? Explain using examples from the text.

Does the essay demonstrate authority on the topic or trustworthiness?

Assess the essay’s persuasiveness: which elements are effective, and which weaken its argument?

Part 4: Rewrite One Paragraph- NO AI on this portion of assignment!

Choose one paragraph from the AI essay and rewrite it in your own voice. Focus on improving clarity, persuasiveness, and tone. You should aim to strengthen the connection to the intended audience.

Part 5: Reflective Summary- NO AI on this portion of assignment!

How did your rewritten paragraph improve on the original?

What does this experience show you about AI’s strengths and limitations as a persuasive writer?

Overall, was the AI’s version effective? How might a human-written essay compare?

Use at least one outside source to support your reflection and cite it in APA format.

Follow the following APA requirements:

• Title Page
• The AI-generated essay
• The Summary
• The Analysis
• The rewritten paragraph
• The reflective summary
• Reference Page
• APA Requirements

• 1” inch margins
• Times New Roman 12 pt font
• Double-Spaced
• Title Page
• Reference Page and in-text citations

John Battiste

Feminist, solution-focused, and narrative therapies are all approaches that I would use with my future clients, who will be elementary-aged students and their families, particularly those living in low-income areas. This population often experiences unique stressors, so it is important to use necessary approaches that are practical, empowering, and easy to understand. Each of these therapies offers distinctive and valuable support and is backed by research.

Feminist therapy is helpful when addressing issues related to equity, power, and social challenges. Even young students can feel unheard or impacted by inequality. This approach concentrates on empowerment and helps families understand how outside factors, such as their community and economic stress, influence their experiences (Brown, 2018). It can also help caregivers in support of their children. Research shows that feminist-informed approaches can improve self-confidence and awareness of social influences on mental health (Sanyata, 2020).

Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is especially effective for this population because it is easy to understand, strengths-based, and goal-oriented. It helps students and families focus on what is already working and build from there. This is ideal in school settings, in which time is limited. Studies show that SFBT improves behavior, emotional wellness, and relationships (Gingerich & Peterson, 2013; Vermeulen-Oskam, 2024).

Narrative therapy helps students who feel defined by their struggles. It encourages them to reframe their stories in more positive and empowering ways. This can build emotional fortitude and improve both mental health and relationships (Khodayarifard, 2018).

Overall, I would use these approaches flexibly to support growth and empowerment.

References

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association.

Gingerich, W. J., & Peterson, L. T. (2013). Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy.

Khodayarifard, M. (2018). Effectiveness of narrative therapy in groups on psychological outcomes.

Sanyata, S. (2020). Feminist-informed counseling outcomes.

Vermeulen-Oskam, E. (2024). Evidence of solution-focused brief therapy effectiveness.

Overview

The project is a leadership case study analysis. You will be given a specific case study that centers on leadership strategies to form the foundation of your analysis. Using this case study, you must apply the theories and concepts from the course to interpret and formulate answers to certain guiding questions. Finally, you must create a professional presentation that presents your entire case study analysis effectively. In the presentation, you will present your findings and recommendations, including answers to all guiding questions, as a consultant would present an analysis to a company. The project is divided into three milestones.

This project will assess your mastery with respect to the following course outcomes:

• Evaluate leadership strategies for the extent to which they reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management, and further organizational goals for a given context
• Select appropriate, innovative leadership strategies for solving authentic problem scenarios
• Assess the effectiveness of and recommend modifications to leadership techniques based on employee research and performance metrics data

Prompt

Use the case study of Fortuga Artisans found in the module resources for the following prompt.

For your leadership case study analysis, you must create a professional presentation and apply the theories and concepts from the course to interpret and formulate answers to the following guiding questions:

• What are the problems and issues discussed in the case study? Illustrate each with specific examples and connect them back to course principles.
• How did or how should the organization employ leadership strategies that reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management, and further organizational goals? Defend your evaluation and choices.
• What is your assessment plan? Describe your plan based on the leadership strategies that have been employed as well as any additional strategies you recommend be employed. Include a plan for assessment that incorporates employee feedback and performance metrics data. What should be measured? How should it be measured to ensure validity and reliability? How should that data be interpreted and acted upon?

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Leadership Strategies: Evaluation – Using the case study, describe the overall leadership strategies employed. Specifically address the following:
   1. Flexibility – To what extent does the leadership strategy of the company within the case study reflect flexibility? What evidence is given for the basis of your reasoning?
   2. Sustainability – Does the leadership strategy promote sustainability? Why?
   3. Change management – Does the leadership strategy foster effective change management? Why or why not?
   4. Organizational goals – Does the leadership strategy further organizational goals? Give examples.
2. Leadership Strategies: Selection – Within the case, what are the leadership problems? Select appropriate leadership styles, approaches, and strategies for solving the problem(s) based on the following:
   1. Appropriateness – Which leadership strategies are appropriate for use in solving the problems identified within the case study? Discuss their appropriateness in terms of style, approach, and strategy.
   2. Innovation – Are the leadership strategies innovative? Why or why not?
3. Assessment Plan – Develop an assessment plan based on leadership strategies that have previously been employed and any recommended changes to be employed. This assessment plan should include the following:
   1. Effectiveness – Assess the effectiveness of the current leadership strategies based on the following:
      1. Employee research
      2. Performance metric data
   2. Recommendations – Propose an assessment plan that incorporates employee feedback and performance metrics data, addresses the data to be collected, discusses how to ensure validity and reliability, and incorporates interpretation and future actions.

Note: Principles of an effective presentation can be found at the end of this document.

Milestones

Milestone One: Problems and Issues
Submit a 2 page paper. What are the problems and issues discussed in the case study? Establish a context by providing an overview of leadership style, approach, and strategy. Then illustrate each problem in the case with specific examples and connect them to leadership style, approach, and strategy. The format should be a Word document written in APA style and cited appropriately.

Milestone Two: Leadership Strategy
In Module Six, submit a 3 page paper identifying the leadership strategies that were employed by the organization described in the case study, how they were employed, and any additional strategies that could be employed to reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management, and further organizational goals. Explain how your recommended strategies should be employed. Defend your evaluation and choices. The format should be a Word document written in APA style and cited appropriately.

Milestone Three: Assessment Plan
In Module Eight, submit a 3 page paper that describes your assessment plan based on the leadership strategies that have been employed as well as any additional strategies you have recommended be employed. Be sure to include employee feedback and performance metrics data. What should be measured? How should it be measured to ensure validity and reliability? How should that data be interpreted and acted upon? The format should be a Word document written in APA style and cited appropriately.

Final Product: Leadership Case Study Analysis: Final Professional Presentation
Submit the final leadership case study analysis. This is submitted as a professional presentation. It should be a completed product that meets all of the critical elements outlined above. – Please use the same information from the other 3 papers.

What to Submit

The final presentation must include a minimum of 14 slides , including opening and closing slides (one slide should be included as an introduction and one slide should be included as a closing slide). Any resources used to support the presentation must be properly cited in APA format. There is no requirement on the number of resources.

Please attach all papers separately as described above (should be 3) and the final is the presentation using the same information from the papers.

Prompt

Examine the case study “The People’s Bank of Bradbury” (found in the Module Two Resources folder). Describe the problems and issues therein. Discuss how the leader’s style and approach could have led to the problems experienced by the bank. Suggest possible solutions. Craft a one- to two-page response to this prompt.

What to Submit

Double-spaced Word document, 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, APA format. Page length requirements: 1 page, not including title page and references.

Instructions

This assignment contributes 30% to your final module mark.

Please ensure that you retain a duplicate of your assignment.  We are required to send samples of student work to the external examiners for moderation purposes.  It will also safeguard in the unlikely event of your work going astray.

Question 1

The ‘TellyTv’ manufacturing company want to enter the flatscreen TV market and one of the first products they will manufacture is a general purpose 1080 Full HDTV. After ‘reverse engineering’ a sample of TVs from competitors, the planning department arrived at a set of timings and sequence for the assembly process. This is shown in Table Q1(a).  It is envisaged that the plant will work a 1 x 8 hour shift 5 days a week over 48 weeks per year. Furthermore, the marketing department at ‘TellyTv’ have produced a sales forecast for the new TV’s which is given in Table Q1(b).

a) Assuming a Product layout (Long thin) arrangement, determine the following information for the 1^st quarter of production:

i. The required cycle time and the theoretical minimum number of people required to assemble the products

(5 Marks)

ii. The ‘line design’.

(5 Marks)

iii. The actual number of people required to manufacture/assemble the product based on your design and what would be the balance loss and estimated output for this arrangement?

(6 Marks)

b) If a ‘short fat’ layout is used in the 1st quarter, how many people would be required to assemble the products? What is the balance loss and potential output for this arrangement?

(6 Marks)

c) Considering the two layouts ‘short fat’ or ‘long thin’, which layout is best suited to meet the demand in 4^th quarter and why?

(12 Marks)

d) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both ‘long thin’ and ‘short fat’ layouts?

(16 Marks)

Table Q1a  Descriptions and timing of stages for assembly process

Table Q1(b) Sales forecast Year 1 

Question 2

a) Define JIT and Lean Manufacturing and contrast the similarities and differences between the two. Discuss why the ‘Traditional approach’ is more intuitive and what approaches are needed to move toward a JIT scenario?

(15 Marks)

b) Critically appraise five of the nine Just in Time (JIT) techniques e.g. reduction of set up time (SMED), TPM etc. highlighting what they are and how they would be implemented

(15 Marks)

c) Describe a tool or technique which can be used to analyse and improve the performance of manufacturing systems e.g. Rank-order clustering, Ishikawa diagrams, Value Stream Mapping Root cause analysis, Pareto Analysis etc. Explain the basic principle behind the technique, how it would be applied and any potential benefits/inhibitors to implementation.

(20 marks)

Marking Scheme for Question 2

Where appropriate students should reference the source of the material using Harvard referencing. Suggested minimum word count for the whole of Question 2 : 1500 words

Instruction

Unit 4114 Motorcycle Engineering Assignment Brief

Introduction

In the UK, motorcycling accounts for approximately 1% of the total road traffic,  with an estimated 1.5 million active motorcyclists. The industry sees the sale of over 100,000 new two-wheeled powered vehicles annually, contributing to a total turnover exceeding £5 billion. Many of these riders are passionate enthusiasts with extensive knowledge about their motorcycles who expect the supply chain network to share their passion and expertise. To meet these high expectations, the industry aims to recruit and train competent and skilled technicians. Educating technicians to a high level will enable them to handle the complex and sophisticated motorcycles prevalent on the roads today.

The aim of this unit is to develop the knowledge and understanding of motorcycle design, engineering and operation by investigating the various forms and functions  of two-wheeled vehicle design including the physical and dynamic constraints on how motorcycles operate.

Among the topics taught in this unit are: fundamentals of motorcycle engineering including frame and steering geometry, effects of lateral and longitudinal forces,  low- and high-speed dynamics, ergonomics and the effect the rider has on stability; variants in two-wheeled powered vehicle design including power 2-stroke, 4-stroke, single or multiple cylinders; and battery power and supporting systems (frames, brakes, suspension, electronic aids).

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to apply fundamental knowledge and understanding of motorcycle design including dynamic forces, propulsion technology, rider ergonomics and the design intent behind the variety  of motorcycles. Students will also develop an understanding of various elements  of motorcycle technology such as types of motive power, braking, suspension  and steering systems, and electronic systems including emissions control.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this unit a student will be able to:

LO1 Define the dynamic forces encountered by a motorcycle

LO2 Discuss the design geometry of a variety of motorcycles

LO3 Demonstrate knowledge of the motive power of motorcycles

LO4 Examine the key aspects of motorcycle engineering.

Essential Content

LO1 Define the dynamic forces encountered by a motorcycle

The motorcycle sector:

• Industry overview, regional needs, history and progression of motorcycle engineering, future advancements, careers within the sector, occupational standards within the sector, government regulations and licencing requirements, professional accreditations.

Longitudinal forces:

• Accelerating
• Braking
• Gyroscopic effect

Lateral forces:

• Low-speed cornering
• High-speed cornering
• Lean angles

Environmental and ergonomic forces:

• Effects of wind, gradient, rolling, air composition
• Effects of rider position.

LO2 Discuss the design geometry of a variety of motorcycles

Styles and types of motor cycles:

• Mopeds
• Small motorcycles
• Tourers, cruisers
• Performance, adventure/ dual purpose
• Dedicated off-road.

Steering geometry:

• Wheelbase
• Rake
• Fork offset
• Mechanical trail/normal trail.

Rider ergonomics:

• Riding position for a moped, tourer or performance bike, rearward view
• Handlebar design and controls, cockpit design, display types accessibility view and glare reduction
• Seat design and foot controls/Critical seat heights
• Clothing, regional and global variations in rider attire.

LO3 Demonstrate knowledge of the motive power of motorcycles

2-strokes and 4-strokes internal combustion (IC) engines:

• 2-stroke operation single cylinder
• 4-stroke operation single cylinder
• Multi-cylinder configurations
• Variations.

Gear boxes and clutches:

• Manual gear box
• Automatic gear box
• Manual clutches
• Automatic clutches
• Chain drive and shaft drive
• Belt drives.

Alternative motive power:

• Electrical
• Hydrogen
• Alternative fuels for ICE petroleum E ratings.

LO4 Examine the key aspects of motorcycle engineering

Suspension:

• Front fork designs, damping and adjustment
• Rear suspension design twin shock absorbers and mono-shocks
• Electronics (ABS, Rider MODES, Emissions).

Brakes, tyres and wheels:

• Brakes: disc brake, caliper design, drum brakes, anti-lock braking system (ABS)
• Wheel design and geometry
• Tyre design and function, contact patch and profile variants, tread design and compounds.

Motorcycle electronics:

• Ignition systems electronic and electromechanical
• Rider aids
• Subsidiary systems: lights, indicators
• Fuel mapping emissions.