An advertisement for a​ speed-reading course claimed that the​ "average" reading speed for people completing the course was 1000 words per minute. Shown below are the actual data for the reading speeds per minute for a sample of 24 people who completed the course. Complete parts​ (a) through​ (c) below.

a. Find the​ mean, median,​ mode, and midrange.

What is the​ mean? Choose the correct answer​ below, and, if necessary fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

A.The mean is

nothing.

​(Round to the nearest whole number as​ needed.)

B.

There is no mean.

What is the​ median? Choose the correct answer​ below, and, if necessary fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

A.The median is

nothing.

​(Round to the nearest whole number as​ needed.)

B.

There is no median.

What is the​ mode? Choose the correct answer​ below, and, if necessary fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

A.The mode is

nothing.

​(Round to the nearest whole number as​ needed.)

B.

There is no mode.

What is the​ midrange? Choose the correct answer​ below, and, if necessary fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

A.The midrange is

nothing.

​(Round to the nearest whole number as​ needed.)

B.

There is no midrange.

b. What measure of central tendency was given in the​ advertisement?

A.

Median

B.

Mean

C.

Mode

D.

Midrange

c. Which measure of central tendency is the best indicator of the​ "average" reading speed in this​ situation? Explain your answer.

A.

Either the mode or midrange would be good measures of central tendency to use because there are no outliers.

B.

The midrange would be the best measure of central tendency to use because it is most often associated with the word​ "average".

C.

Either the mean or the median would be good measures of central tendency to use because there are no outliers.

D.

The mode would be the best measure of central tendency to use because it is the value of the speed that most people achieved.

he Statement of Financial Position of Picture This, Inc., a distributor of photographic supplies, as of May 31 is given below:

PICTURE THIS, INC.

Statement of Financial Position

May 31

Assets

                                             Cash 8,000

                                             Accounts receivable 72,000

                                             Inventory 30,000

                                             Building   500,000

                                             Total assets 610,000

Liabilities and Equity

                                             Accounts payable, suppliers 90,000

                                             Notes payable                                                 15,000

                                             Share capital, no par 420,000

                                             Retained earnings   85,000

                                             Total liabilities and equity 610,000

Picture This, Inc. has not budgeted previously, and for this reason it is limiting its master budget planning horizon to just one month ahead – namely, June. The company has assembled the following budgeted data relating to June:

1. Sales are budgeted at P250,000. Of these sales, P60,000 will be for cash; the remainder will be credit sales. One-half of a month’s credit sales are collected in the month the sales are made, and the remainder is collected in the month following. All of the May 31 accounts receivable will be collected in June.
2. Purchases of inventory are expected to total P200,000 during June. These purchases will all be on account. Forty percent of all inventory purchases are paid for in the month of purchase; the remainder is paid in the following month. All of the May 31 accounts payable to suppliers will be paid during June.
3. The June 30 inventory balance is budgeted at P40,000.
4. Operating expenses for June are budgeted at P51,000, exclusive of depreciation. These expenses will be paid in cash. Depreciation is budgeted at P2,000 for the month.
5. The note payable on the May 31 statement of financial position will be paid during June. The company’s interest expense for June (on all borrowing) will be P500, which will be paid in cash.
6. New warehouse equipment costing P9,000 will be purchased for cash during June.
7. During June, the company will borrow P18,000 from its bank by giving a new note payable to the bank for that amount. The new note will be due in one year.

Required:

Prepare a cash budget for June. Support your budget with schedules showing budgeted cash receipts from sales and budgeted cash payments for inventory purchases. Submit your answer in Excel or Word format.

The long-term care center has 225 beds and provides the highest level of patient care, according to on- going Department of Health Services annual surveys. The Director of the long-term center has the overall responsibility of ensuring the continuing high level of quality outcomes while also concurrently keeping the facility as risk free as practical. You and the Director have just returned from an annual Long-Term Care Association symposium where you were both introduced to some new groundbreaking initiatives regarding the differences between risk management and quality improvement.

Earlier in the week, the Director called for a meeting of the center’s department managers, including the Quality Assurance Nurse and the Manager of Risk Management. After briefing them on the symposium talking points, your Director asks you to come up with a working plan and strategy for how the facili-
ty will use both of the concepts you have introduced to arrive at a more centralized and standardized approach. Overall, the desired outcomes focus on adopting a new approach to higher quality with fewer risk factors for the organization.

Later that week, the Manager of Risk Management, the Manager of Nursing Quality Assurance, and a representative from Human Resources met to formulate a new plan to reduce the litigation exposure while concurrently increasing the quality of patient outcomes. They set about the complex set of tasks with the expectation that you, as the Director’s designated facilitator, will be closely reviewing their final recommendations.

Provide a 250-word executive summary of the research project and recommended plan of action that you will provide to the Director.

Address the following:

Questions:

What is the necessary background information needed to complete your executive summary?Who

are the stakeholders?

How do the facility’s current Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) outcomes correspond with the current litigation prevention systems?

What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining higher quality outcomes?

What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining lower litigation adverse actions and operational impact?

What future steps must be taken to accomplish this directive?

Scenario

The long-term care center has 225 beds and provides the highest level of patient care, according to on- going Department of Health Services annual surveys. The Director of the long-term center has the overall responsibility of ensuring the continuing high level of quality outcomes while also concurrently keeping the facility as risk free as practical. You and the Director have just returned from an annual Long-Term Care Association symposium where you were both introduced to some new groundbreaking initiatives regarding the differences between risk management and quality improvement.

Earlier in the week, the Director called for a meeting of the center’s department managers, including the Quality Assurance Nurse and the Manager of Risk Management. After briefing them on the symposium talking points, your Director asks you to come up with a working plan and strategy for how the facili-
ty will use both of the concepts you have introduced to arrive at a more centralized and standardized approach. Overall, the desired outcomes focus on adopting a new approach to higher quality with fewer risk factors for the organization.

Later that week, the Manager of Risk Management, the Manager of Nursing Quality Assurance, and a representative from Human Resources met to formulate a new plan to reduce the litigation exposure while concurrently increasing the quality of patient outcomes. They set about the complex set of tasks with the expectation that you, as the Director’s designated facilitator, will be closely reviewing their final recommendations.

Provide a 250-word executive summary of the research project and recommended plan of action that you will provide to the Director.

Address the following:

Questions: 63 words for each question

What is the necessary background information needed to complete your executive summary?Who

are the stakeholders?

How do the facility’s current Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) outcomes correspond with the current litigation prevention systems?

What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining higher quality outcomes?

What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining lower litigation adverse actions and operational impact?

What future steps must be taken to accomplish this directive?

• Criterion: Calculate an independent samples t test in SPSS.
• Data: Ms Z has two groups of band students. She asks Group 1 to use her new embouchure strengthening cream before practice and asks Group 2 to practice as usual. The groups practiced for the following number of minutes:
  • Minutes of practice:
    • Group 1: 55, 44, 62, 30, 78, 50, 52.
    • Group 2: 31, 40, 53, 22, 41, 16, 33.
• Instruction: Complete the following steps:

1. Open SPSS and create a New Dataset.
2. Click the Variable View tab and type Groups in the Name column. Click on the gray box in the Values column. Value Labels window appears. Enter 1 in the Value area and enter Embouchure Cream in the Label area. Click Add. Now enter 2 in the Value area and enter No Cream in the Label area. Click Add. Click OK. The Variable View screen appears.
3. In row two, enter Minutes in the Name column.
4. Click Data View.

(Assignment continues on next page.)

5. Enter the minutes of practice data (g., 1 under Groups and 55 under Minutes; 2 under Groups and 31 under Minutes).
6. In the Toolbar, click Analyze, select Compare Means, and then select Independent-Samples t Test.
7. Select Minutes, then click Arrow to send it over to the Test Variable box.
8. Select Groups and then click Arrow to send it over to the Grouping Variable box.
1. Click Define Groups and enter 1 for Group 1 and enter 2 for Group 2. Click Continue.
10. Click OK and then copy and paste the output to the Word document.

    Problem Set 6.6: Independent Samples t Test

    Criterion: Identify IV, DV, and hypotheses and evaluate the null hypothesis for an independent samples t test.

    Data: Use the information from Problem Set 6.5.

    Instruction: Complete the following:

11.    Identify the IV and DV in the study.
12.    State the null hypothesis and the directional (one-tailed) alternative hypothesis.
13.    Can you reject the null hypothesis at α = .05? Explain why or why not.

Rationing Issues in Healthcare

The concept of rationing healthcare is dealt with on a daily basis. Healthcare rationing in the United States exists in various forms. Access to private health insurance is rationed based on price and ability to pay. Those not able to afford a health insurance policy are unable to acquire one, and sometimes, insurance companies prescreen applicants for pre-existing medical conditions and either decline to cover the applicant or apply additional price and medical coverage conditions. Access to state Medicaid programs is restricted by income and asset limits through a means test and to other federal and state eligibility regulations. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that commonly cover the bulk of the population restrict access to treatment via financial and clinical access limits.

Using the South University Online Library, find a current article (no more than two years old) on rationing issues in healthcare. The article should also be peer-reviewed.

Note: Peer-reviewed refers to articles reviewed and approved by authors' professional peers who are experts on the topic being discussed.

After reading your article, summarize its contents and the main theme discussed. Then, answer the following questions:

How is rationing defined and what criteria are offered to ration care?

Discuss and apply at least one of the major ethical theories to the issue and the ethical decision-making process to the issue.

What do you feel the impact of the issue in the article will be on the healthcare industry? What can be done to ensure rationing is done fairly?

Discuss the major codes of ethics of the stakeholders involved in the issue and how these codes will affect the decision-making process and the final decision.

Examine and discuss the impact that the issue and the final decision will have on the stakeholders involved.

Discuss any potential policy implications for the issue and the final decision.

Compile the summary and answers to the above questions in a 7- to 10-page Microsoft Word document.

Submission Details:

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Name your document SU_HSC3000_W5_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.

Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Mr. Beridon received your requests for information and returned data which you have compiled in an Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet (see document template). He also said, "We grow sod and trees at Jeemp Farms. We sell the sod mainly to home builders in the area, although we sell to some individuals who are purchasing square footages to re-sod their yard. Many home builders will purchase to sod an entire subdivision. They then may come back to us to purchase trees for the yards. It really is a package deal. For builders like that, we are a one-stop-shop. In most cases, however, we sell the trees to orchards and some individuals. The purchaser is responsible for all shipping costs related to their product." "Our production process is different for each product. For sod, we plant the seed, irrigate, cut, and roll the sod and then transport it. For the trees, we plant the root stock, graft the tree, water until a particular maturity and then dig it up and sell it. We inspect the plants as needed to make sure we are producing a quality product that is disease-free." "We have delayed purchasing some machinery that reduces time for the planting of the trees because it is a large up-front cost and we don't want to have a huge outlay of cash if our profits keep going down." "The grass does not require as much irrigation as the trees, as it is at a lower elevation than the tree acres and is closer to the creek; it gets a lot of the run off." "Historically, we have always been able to sell everything we produce. Hopefully, that will continue since Houston is expanding rapidly." Compute the product costs for the sod and trees under traditional and ABC costing using the Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper analyzing Jeemp Farms and what data and information you will consider. Include the following:

Justify whether Mr. Beridon should cut the tree portion of his company instead.

Describe other methods of analysis you could use to help you come to a decision.

There is a famous line from Shakespeare “Beware the Ides of March.” We are almost there. The topic currently is The Yield Curve. Please, for this posting go to https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield and get some data about the yield curve and use that data to answer this question. You can download a Word version of this document at the bottom of this page. The basic idea is to look at the data for the yield curve for March 1, 2018 and compare it with the yield curve for some reference date. You have these choices for a reference date: 1) your birthday (if you want to share), 2) a date that is important to your family (if you want to share), 3) a date at least 5 years ago but not more than 10 years ago (you have to tell the class what the date is), 4) your date cannot be within 2 weeks (plus or minus) of a date chosen by a previous poster. For this posting you are to do the following Describe the yield curve on March 1, 2018, it would be extra points if you make a graph of the yield curve and post it for part A. and B. Describe the yield curve on your reference date. Based on the yield curve on your reference date, what inferences can you draw about expected movements in interest rate based on their yield curve at that point it time. Fully explain these expectations. (Extra Bonus) What were the actual movements in interest rates after your reference date and how did the actual movements in interest rates compare with the expectations with the yield curve. If you don’t pursue the bonus of identifying actual movements in the interest rates following your expectations statement your classmates will be invited, as an IR statement, to compare your expectations with reality. This discussion posting is a “bit harder” than usual and I strongly suggest you read the text material about the yield curve carefully. Some interest rate analysis incorporate the yield curve into their expectations setting process for future interest rates. For most of this question there isn’t a “certainly right” answer.

The long-term care center has 225 beds and provides the highest level of patient care, according to ongoing Department of Health Services annual surveys. The Director of the long-term center has the overall responsibility of ensuring the continuing high level of quality outcomes while also concurrently keeping the facility as risk free as practical. You and the Director have just returned from an annual Long-Term Care Association symposium where you were both introduced to some new groundbreaking initiatives regarding the differences between risk management and quality improvement. Earlier in the week, the Director called for a meeting of the center’s department managers, including the Quality Assurance Nurse and the Manager of Risk Management. After briefing them on the symposium talking points, your Director asks you to come up with a working plan and strategy for how the facility will use both of the concepts you have introduced to arrive at a more centralized and standardized approach. Overall, the desired outcomes focus on adopting a new approach to higher quality with fewer risk factors for the organization. Later that week, the Manager of Risk Management, the Manager of Nursing Quality Assurance, and a representative from Human Resources met to formulate a new plan to reduce the litigation exposure while concurrently increasing the quality of patient outcomes. They set about the complex set of tasks with the expectation that you, as the Director’s designated facilitator, will be closely reviewing their final recommendations. Provide a 250-word executive summary of the research project and recommended plan of action that you will provide to the Director. Address the following: Questions: 1. What is the necessary background information needed to complete your executive summary?Who are the stakeholders? 2. How do the facility’s current Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) outcomes correspond with the current litigation prevention systems? 3. What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining higher quality outcomes? 4. What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining lower litigation adverse actions and operational impact? 5. What future steps must be taken to accomplish this directive?

Theme – Endocrine Disorder

Patient profile

Bill Hughes is a 26 year-old man who lives with his wife. He has a history of type one diabetes and is overweight. He presented to the emergency department, complaining of feeling foggy in the head and sleepy. His wife reports that he became very drowsy and confused after dinner. Bill has high blood sugar levels which were managed in the emergency department and he has been transferred to the medical ward. You are the nurse assigned to care for Bill for the afternoon shift. Following handover you go to introduce yourself to Bill you find he has tachypnoea, and his skin is flushed and dry. You can smell his breath which has an acetone scent. From his medical history you gather the following data;

Subjective data (provided by his wife)

•          Was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes mellitus 2 years ago

•          Is taking 48 U of insulin daily: 12 U of regular insulin plus 20 U of isophane (NPH) before breakfast, 8 U of regular insulin before dinner and 8 U of NPH at bedtime

•          Has a history of flu-like symptoms for 1 week with vomiting and poor appetite

•          Stopped taking insulin 2 days ago when he was unable to eat

•          Lethargic but responding appropriately

Objective data

Physical examination

•          Kussmaul breathing

•          BP 95/65, HR 93 bpm, Temp 35.6 ⁰Celsius, Resp 22 bpm

•          Acetone smell on breath

•          Skin flushed and dry+

•          GCS 14

Diagnostic studies

•          Blood glucose level: 38.5 mmol/L

•          Blood HbA1c: 9%

•          ABG’s: pH 7.24, HCO3 18 mmol/L

•          U&E’s K 4.1 mmol/L Na 154 mmol/L

•          Urinalysis - ketonuria

Q 8. Choose three medications that would be used in the treatment of Mr Hughes, outline the indication for use, mechanism of action, administration method, and nursing care required for each of these medications.                                            (150-word limit)