There are many articles and books written about the differences between managers and leaders

Leadership Styles

There are many articles and books written about the differences between managers and leaders. Leaders are visionary, influential in positive ways, value their teams, support their growth, and empower their staff. Leaders who are positive in their actions coach, delegate, and share recognition. Read the following scenarios and answer the questions given in each scenario.

Scenario A

Consider a time when you had the experience of being led by someone who was able to get you to achieve more than you thought you could. Based on what you learned about leadership styles, describe events examining how your selected leader worked by certain principles. In addition, report details of an event demonstrating how you were led to perform.

Scenario B

Now, recall a time when you were led by someone who could not motivate you. Describe events pointing out how your selected leader’s working style made subordinates feel uncomfortable .

On the basis of the Leadership Styles Scenario A, answer the following questions:

What style did the leader exhibit? Describe events pointing out how your selected leader worked by certain principles.
Report details of the scenario demonstrating how you were led to perform.
How did you improve your overall attitude and motivation based on a supportive leader?
How does working in a positive organization with supportive leadership encourage staff performance at work each day?
What leadership skills will you take from your positive experience and use when you are in a leadership position?

On the basis of the Leadership Styles Scenario B, answer the following questions:

What style did the leader exhibit? Describe events pointing out your selected leader’s leadership style.
Report details of the scenario demonstrating how you were led in his or her team.
How did the manager’s action make you feel? Explain.
Which leadership behaviors do you think your selected leader lacked?
How important is it for a leader to be trained to guide and motivate the staff members to enhance team unity, enthusiasm, and positive attitudes?

Much of the ongoing debate over scope-of-practice (SoP) laws that govern the practice of nurse practitioners (NPs) across the country focuses on the cost of and access to health care and on whether these laws legitimately promote patient safety or are simply anticompetitive restrictions on NPs’ ability to compete with physicians. After completing the following CE activity at Medscape https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/506277_1 ( sign for the free account), please answer the following questions:

Should an NP who is educationally prepared as an acute care NP work in an adult primary care setting?

Is it within the scope for an FNP to diagnose and treat uncomplicated mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and ADHD?

Are there any restrictions for the FNP to treat patients with mood disorders and to prescribe them antipsychotics or SSRIs ?

Justify the fundamental reasons that marketers should closely monitor the actions of rivals in order to proactively address developing issues, events, and circumstances. Provide one (1) example of such successful close monitoring to support your rationale.
Evaluate the value afforded by Lehmann and Winer’s Level of Competition Model as an instrument for engendering the accurate identification and understanding of competition within the health care industry. Provide at least two (2) specific examples of Lehmann and Winer’s Level of Competition Model that apply within a health care organization with which you are familiar.

Analyze the benefits afforded to health care marketers that understand the importance of establishing core values that guide health care organizations in their strategic and tactical pursuits. Determine whether you believe the relationship between core values should stay the same over time or should change over time. Provide one (1) example of such a relationship between core values to support your rationale.
Appraise the value offered by Leonard Berry’s Success Sustainability Model as a management tool for communication drivers of excellence that will yield sustained success. Provide at least two (2) specific examples of Leonard Berry’s Success Sustainability Model that apply within a health care organization with which you are familiar.

Create a comprehensive list of your current media habits–from mobile device usage, to exposure to television, radio, outdoor advertising, and the types of content you tune into routinely (e.g., sports, news, reality shows, etc.

Write a 1,050-word analysis of media use and effects within your life.

Create a comprehensive list of your current media habits–from mobile device usage, to exposure to television, radio, outdoor advertising, and the types of content you tune into routinely (e.g., sports, news, reality shows, etc.).

Summarize your usage in one to two paragraphs, including channels, content, and average length of time exposed to each on an average day.

Answer the following questions:

What are your personal goals for tuning in to the messages you are currently receiving?
Are you actively interpreting the messages you receive, or are you interpreting them with an automatic response?
Do you tend to access the same channels for the same types of content?
When is the last time you broadened your media exposures by tuning in to a new source for information?
Do your behaviors match your beliefs or do they match what advertisers want you to believe?
Discuss low level versus high level media literacy, and include one example of each.
Why is it important to gain additional control over the media to which you are exposed?
Discuss the significance and impact that media literacy has on society.

Cite at least two sources.

Format assignment according to APA guidelines.

Case Study 2

Mr. P is a 76-year-old male with cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure who has been hospitalized frequently to treat CHF symptoms. He has difficulty maintaining diet restrictions and managing his polypharmacy. He has 4+ pitting edema, moist crackles throughout lung fields, and labored breathing. He has no family other than his wife, who verbalizes sadness over his declining health and over her inability to get out of the house. She is overwhelmed with the stack of medical bills, as Mr. P always took care of the financial issues. Mr. P is despondent and asks why God has not taken him.

Question

Considering Mr. P’s condition and circumstance, write an essay of 500-750 words that includes the following:

Describe your approach to care.
Recommend a treatment plan.
Describe a method for providing both the patient and family with education and explain your rationale.

Provide a teaching

For this discussion, you will discuss the Big Five trait theory. Your initial post will be your position

For this discussion, you will discuss the Big Five trait theory. Your initial post will be your position on the extent to which the Big Five are predictive of behavior.

Use the following questions to help you develop your position statement:

Does the Big Five generalize traits or behaviors of people from different backgrounds and cultures?
Is the Big Five trait theory a way to define personality?
What are your thoughts about taking the Big Five personality test?

Okun’s Law: Worked Problems

Problem 26.1 – Unemployment rate

Problem:

Recent data for the U.S. reveal the following (all figures in millions).

Total population	307.0
Under 16 or institutionalized	69.3
Employed	139.1
Unemployed	14.6

Use the data to find the following:

The size of the labor force.

The number classified as “not in the labor force.”

The unemployment rate.

Answer:

The labor force consists of all those either employed or unemployed. The labor force in this period was 139.1 + 14.6 = 153.7 million people.

Those classified as “not in the labor force” are those individuals age 16 or older and not institutionalized who are neither employed nor unemployed. For the period given, this amounted to 307.0 – 69.3 – 139.1 – 14.6 = 84.0 million people.

The unemployment rate is found as the proportion of the labor force that is classified as unemployed. For this period, the unemployment rate was 14.6/153.7 = .095, or 9.5%.

Problem 26.2 – Okun’s law

Problem:

Suppose the natural rate of unemployment is 4.5% and the current unemployment rate is 6%.

According to Okun’s law, what is the size of the GDP gap?

If potential GDP is $1,000 billion, how much output is being lost as a result of the economy being below its potential?

Recent data for the U.S. showed an unemployment rate of 9.5%. Suppose the natural rate at the time was 4.5%. What was the size of the GDP gap?

At that time, GDP was $14,592 billion. What was potential GDP?

Answer:

The GDP gap is the difference between actual GDP and potential GDP. Okun’s law suggests a GDP gap of -2% for every 1% that the unemployment rate exceeds its natural rate. In this case, the GDP gap is (6.0 – 4.5) x -2 = -3%.

A GDP gap of -3% implies that $1,000 x .03 = $30 billion of output is being foregone.

The GDP gap was (9.5 – 4.5) x -2 = 10.0%.

By Okun’s law, actual GDP of $14,592 billion was 10.0 percent below its potential. Equivalently, actual GDP is 90% of potential GDP. Potential GDP is then found as $14,592/.90 = $16,213 billion.

Problem 26.3 – Nominal and real income

Problem:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the CPI stood at 215.9 in December 2009, while one year earlier it was 210.2.

What was the annual rate of inflation measured from December to December?

At this rate of inflation, approximately how long will it take for the price level to double?

Suppose Janice’s nominal income rose by 4% from December 2008 to December 2009 while Jeff’s increased by only 2%. By what percentage did each of their real incomes change?

Answer:

The rate of inflation is measured by the percentage increase in the value of the CPI. In this case, the rate of inflation was [(215.9 – 210.2)/210.2] x 100 = 2.7%

Using the rule of 70, the price level will double in 70/2.7 = 25.9 years.

The percentage change in real income can be approximated as the difference between the percentage change in nominal income and the percentage change in the price level. For Janice, this was 4% – 2.7% = 1.3%, while Jeff’s real income fell: 2% – 2.7% = -1.3%.

Source: http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073511447/student_view0/chapter26/worked_problems.html

Question 1 (6 marks)

Following table are the data for the Australian economy (β=1.6) in four selected years. Using Okun’s law, fill in the missing data in the table.

Year	Actual Unemployment Rate (%)	Natural Unemployment Rate (%)	Potential GDP	Real GDP
2001	(a)	5	8000	7872
2002	5	(b)	8100	8100
2003	4	4.5	(c)	8266
2004	4	5	8250	(d)

Question 2 (8 marks)

An economy is described by the following equation

Cd=14400+0.5(Y-T)-40000r, Ip=8000-20000r,

G=7800, NX=1800, T=8000

Find the numerical equation relating planned aggregate expenditure (PAE) to output (Y) and to real interest rate(r).
The real interest rate is 0.133, find short-run equilibriumoutput.
Potential output, y*, equals 40,000. What real interest rate should be Reserve Bank set to bring the economy to fullemployment?

Question 3 (6 marks)

The demand for car in a country is given by D=12 000-200P, where P is the price of a car. Supply domestic car production is S=7000+50P.

Assuming economy is closed; find the equilibrium price and production ofcars.
The economy opens to trade. The world price of cars is 18 units. Find the domestic quantities demanded and supplied, and the quantity of imports or exports. Who will favour the opening of the car market to trade, and who will opposeit?
The government imposes a tariff of one unit per car. Find the effects on domestic quantitative demanded and supplied, and on the quantity of import or export. Who will favour the imposition of the tariff and who will opposeit?

Question 4 (10 marks)

Use the following economic data to calculate private saving, public saving and national saving.

Household saving =20, business saving=40, government purchases of goods service=10, government transfers and interest payments=10, Tax collection=15, GDP=220.
GDP=600, Tax collection=120, Government transfers and interest payments=40, Consumption expenditures=450, Government budgetssurplus=10

Describe the four- phase process of identity theft and fraud as discussed in the lecture notes

After reading the lecture notes answer the following questions.

1. Describe the four- phase process of identity theft and fraud as discussed in the lecture notes.

2. Describe Phishing as discussed in the lecture notes.

3. Describe the four physical methods of identity theft as discussed in the lecture notes.

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