During an initial meeting with a service user, an advanced human services professional practitioner often conducts an assessment to determine the service user’s presenting problem or presenting needs. Conducting an assessment while also maintaining the spirit of motivational interviewing requires a delicate balance. Asking too many closed-ended questions in rapid succession may cause the service user to take on a passive role and the practitioner […]

 CM220M5-1: Develop strategies for effective problem solving using digital media.Assessment objective: Think of the power of some commercials to get us to think about buying a new product, voting for a particular candidate, or contributing to a cause. Many of these commercials combine words, images, and sound in ways that appeal to our senses and emotions in a way that words alone may not be able to do. For […]

Your team will create a virtual presentation describing a leader and analysis of the leader’s style. This narrated presentation should be composed using presentation slide software (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, etc) that highlight the main points (please do not overcrowd the slide with text; reading directly from the slide is a no-no). The recorded presentation will be upload to Canvas by the team leader (only […]

Health care providers may volunteer to be accredited by an external body. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid provide an updated list of approved accrediting organizations. For this discussion, we are focusing on the acute care hospital. Below are fourteen of the categories in The Joint Commission Standards Manual and accreditation process topics. The topics for this discussion are assigned by students’ last names. See […]

Human and social services professionals are both consumers and producers of research. While having a thorough understanding of the meaning of research for professional practice is essential, it is also important for you to have a basic understanding of how to conduct research. Surveys can be one form of research used for all areas of your practice, but they are especially useful in needs assessment. […]

 1. What is Project Initiation? 2. How do you Determine Feasibility? 3. How do you determine Costs and Benefits? 4. Define how Time is Managed within Tasks/Activities. 5. What is a WBS? 6. Describe Project Scheduling. 7. How do you Control Projects & Manage Risks? 8. How do you Manage Project Teams? 9. What is a Systems Proposal? 10. Describe the goals of Interviewing. 11. […]

In anticipation of your organization possibly moving to unionize, your director has requested that you hold a meeting for all human resources to provide an overview of the legal evolution of labor unions within the United States. Your presentation should be structured to inform and explain the legal foundation of the union movement through the years. Your director requests that you develop a PowerPoint presentation […]

You are an employee relations manager and Hector, the marketing director who supervises 18 professionals and support staff, comes to you about a concern. Hector starts out describing the work environment and states that it requires a “collaborative environment where the professionals give work direction to the support staff.” Hector indicates that Dana, a professional on his team, has started dating a person on the […]

The purpose of this article critique assignment is to examine the various liabilities that healthcare institutions face. The assignment entails the review and critique of one article of your choosing. The article should focus on healthcare liabilities and be no more than five years old. Use the following online library databases to search for your article: Academic OneFile, Health Reference Center Academic, and Health and […]

Consider the Moral Leadership in Business article, pp. 14–17 in the PDF version. With complete candor, assess your commitment to moral leadership. It is easy to say that you would always make the moral choice. Is that truly the case? Under what conditions might you be, as the article described, the businessman in the plane who said that his job is “to be a liar”? […]