Classroom Participation
Address the initial discussion question by Wednesday of each week. Participation in the discussion forum requires a minimum of three (3) substantive postings (this includes your initial post and posting to two peers) on three (3) different days. Substantive means that you add something new to the discussion supported with citation(s) and reference(s), you are not just agreeing. This is also a time to ask questions or offer information surrounding the topic addressed by your peers. Personal experience is appropriate for a substantive discussion, however should be correlated to the literature.
All discussion boards will be evaluated utilizing rubric criterion inclusive of content, analysis, collaboration, writing and APA. If you fail to post an initial discussion or initial discussion is late, you will not receive points for content and analysis, you may however post to your peers for partial credit following the guidelines above.
Initial Response
Instructions:
Discussion post for this week, please take the following descriptive information and place it with the appropriate categories listed.
• Based on the descriptive information, would this be a focused or comprehensive assessment and, if focused, what system or systems would you want to assess and why?
Descriptions
• Presents with c/o headache
• Pain is a '4' on a scale of 1-10
• Scoliosis corrected with Charleston brace, broken toe
• No cold/sinus symptoms
• Eye exam 2 years ago
• No medications, NKDA
• No hospitalizations
• No tobacco use, wine once monthly, no recreational drug use
• Single, lives alone
• Traveled to UK, Caribbean in past 3 months
• Throbbing for past 2 hours, can feel pulse in temple
• Sports-induced asthma
• No fever, no changes in vision
Categories
• Chief Complaint
• History of Present Illness
• Past Medical History
• Personal and Social History
• Review of Symptoms
Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts. To ensure that your responses are substantive, use at least two of these prompts:
• Do you agree with your peers’ assessment?
• Take an opposing view to a peer and present a logical argument supporting an alternate opinion.
• Share your thoughts on how you support their opinion and explain why.
• Present new references that support your opinions.
Sample Solution
This Global Management Project (GMP) is focused on two different international economic development methodologies, microfinance institutions (MFIs) and business incubators for economic development. This is in response to assumptions made by co-founders Mr. and Mrs. Jones (names have been substituted) and their long-standing interest in international development and poverty alleviation. The Jones’ believe that supporting formal above-board business creation and providing ongoing support through the means of a business incubator is more effective at addressing poverty than the approach taken by MFIs to support the informal market and consumption lending. They also believe that there is a market within the study abroad sector for using students and study abroad programs as a resource for international development. Based on these assumptions, the Jones’ wish to enter the study abroad industry and launch a new venture. This new venture, Global Riplz, is a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) incubator/accelerator whose mission statement is, “to establish Global Riplz as the premier solution for applied study abroad options for business students, bringing together great minds in an environment conducive to innovation while supporting local economic growth.”
As such, this GMP is being completed as a two-stage analysis for the successful strategic entry of this new venture and to answer the question, are economic incubators more or less effective than MFIs at addressing poverty through job creation? Stage one is literature review and discussion of MFIs and incubators for economic development. While, stage two of the analysis is to evaluate the external environment, the major competitors in the study abroad industry, current products offerings and to define the company’s internal environment through the development of a targeted marketing plan.