their work processes in order to eliminate any unnecessary waste. Problem Statement Employees of the City of Houston are being asked to streamline their current processes in order to do more with less and become much more efficient in their daily tasks. Employees do not currently have the skills and abilities to re-engineer their processes‚ properly identify waste‚ or understand how to utilize key performance indicators to recognize when their processes are not performing as expected. Differences
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Western Governors University NUT1 Task 2 Quality Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are becoming more widely used across the healthcare spectrum. One of the reasons for their popularity is the potential that is presented for increasing the quality of care delivered to patients by decreasing handwriting interpretation errors‚ reducing medication administration errors and eliminating lost charts. Time management is a crucial skill to have as a nurse. It allows for a smooth workflow which translates
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WGU EGT1 Task 3 Student# In this essay I will discuss a few terms and how their relationships apply between regulation and market structures‚ as well as how regulation policies affect the market. A) There were 4 particular Antitrust Laws that were enacted with the primary purpose of protecting consumers‚ striving to achieve fair competition in the market place‚ and to achieve and allocate efficiency. The 4 Antitrust Laws that are major pieces of legislation are; The Sherman
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HAT TASK 1 Karie N. Webb Western Governors University Student ID# 273217 1. Description of selected community based on the assessment. Cultural assessment: Edgecombe County is a very rural community lying in the eastern section of North Carolina. The county has a population of 52‚150 with the majority of the population being African American females with the median age group of this population being 38 years old and primary langue being English (Michelle B. Etheridge‚ MAEd‚ 2010). The
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QRT 2 - Task 2 Date In the times that we live in‚ and the times we are heading towards‚ e-commerce is an ever growing and ever important way to help a company reach its potential. Making items available online provides an incredibly convenient way for customers to browse a store’s inventory from anywhere in the world. Not only for current customers‚ but even more importantly‚ for people who may not have the ability to visit a physical store. The reasons can be plentiful that
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The relationship between marginal cost (MC) and marginal revenue (MR) is fairly easy to see‚ marginal cost is the extra cost from the production on one or more units of a particular item verses marginal revenue is the change in total revenue from the sale of one or more units of a particular item. There is a principal that explains the relationship between the two best called the MR=MC rule‚ which states “that a firm will maximize its profit (or minimize its losses) by producing the output at which
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“I’ve been waiting here for 20 minutes ” We often use the present perfect progressive to talk about actions continuing up to now‚ especially when we say how long they (the action) have lasted. But after teaching present perfect continuous to the students‚ we need to check the concept very carefully. Some students might have problems understanding present perfect continuous tense because they will be confused between using present continuous and present perfect continuous. As the present
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CAPITAL STRUCTURE: Capital structure is how a company finances its overall operations and growth by using funds from equity or debt (Investopedia‚ 2012). Of course‚ every company must determine its preference on its debt-to-equity ratio and determine which capital structure works best for them. Some approaches to analyzing capital structure are: 1. EBIT – EPS: This analyzes the impact of debt on earnings per share (EPS). Optimizing shareholder’s wealth is the optimum goal and therefore‚ this
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Labor and Employment Laws Human resource departments are responsible for effectively‚ legally‚ fairly‚ and consistently attempting to maximize an organization’s return on its human capital investment while minimizing financial risk. This is why labor laws and Civil Acts are placed in the work place and other felicities to insure the well fare of others are without risk and effective(WGU). Analysis of Situation A In every situation all bases need to be covered and all information gathered before
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Criteria 1 It is important for practitioners to identify children’s care and learning needs in a setting‚ there are many reasons for this. Firstly‚ is to promote development. Some children develop and learn faster than others and it is partly our responsibility to ensure all children’s needs are cared for no matter what stage of development they are at. We can do this by carrying out observations; these help us to identify the exact learning needs of children. They can show us clearly what stage
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