Legal IRAC

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Issue: O’Connor v. Uber

General Instructions: You are to write a paper analyzing the question of whether Uber drivers are employees or independent contractors under the meaning of the FLSA. To help you identify and apply the appropriate legal rule(s) to this issue, you have been given three primary source documents: the DOL Guidelines, IRS Guidelines, and excerpts from the Eleventh Circuit’s opinion in Scantland v. Jeffry Knight, Inc. (2013). Your paper should be double-spaced and written in clear, articulate paragraphs, with topic sentences and supporting text. Make sure that you use spell check and grammar check before you turn in your finished paper.

Introduction (1 paragraph): Introduce your reader to the problem and provide your reader with background information. To help you craft a strong introduction, make sure that it answers the following questions: Who are the plaintiffs? Who is the defendant? What is the nature of defendant’s business? Where are the parties located?

Use the IRAC model to organize and structure the rest of your paper.

? Issue (probably 1 paragraph): What is the issue you are being asked to decide?

? Rule (probably 1-2 paragraphs): You have been given three documents to help you identify and explain the rule you believe governs this case. In this section of the paper, explain the legal standard for properly classifying employees under the FLSA, the Department of Labor Guidelines, the IRS Guidelines, and the Scantland opinion.

? Application (this is the longest part of your paper, 2-3 paragraphs): Apply the legal rule(s) you have identified to the facts of the case. Do the Uber facts meet the requirements for an employee as set out by the applicable rule(s) or is the company correct in classifying drivers as independent contractors?

? Conclusion (1 paragraph): If you were deciding the case, would you find for the Uber drivers or the company? Why? Implications of the case (1 final paragraph):Why is this case significant to business and to workers? Why is it significant to the on-demand business sector that has been a growing segment of the economy? If on-demand drivers are classified as employees, what would be the impact on business? Conversely, if on-demand drivers are classified as independent contractors, what would be the impact on drivers in terms of employment benefits and the application of employment law? Does this case also raise ethical issues and, if so, what are they?

Critical Thinking Question and Engaging Patient in Shared Decision-Making Case Study

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Critical Thinking Questions

How important is it to understand the evidence related to enhancing evidence uptake?

What evidence needs to be generated to help advance our knowledge toward increasing evidence uptake?

How do individual barriers and facilitators interact with system-level barriers and facilitators of evidence uptake?

Do you think an individual can use evidence if the system does not support it in any way? Why, or why not?

engage patient in shared decision-making case study

  • Instructions
  • Using the case study provided, respond to the critical thinking questions. Each response should be original (in your own words) and a minimum of 2–3 sentences in length.
  • Case Study
  • You are a staff nurse caring for a patient in a critical care unit. The unit policy limits visitors to 10 minutes in the evening hours. You find yourself needing to frequently “bend the rules” because some families and their critically ill loved ones want to spend more time together, and they want more flexibility to visit. A systematic review of both quantitative and qualitative evidence related to visitation in critical care units came to these conclusions:

Flexible visiting hours are preferable to patients’ families.

Family members want to be close to the patient, speak to the physician every day, and have access to healthcare professionals with information to give them.

Nurses understand that flexible visiting hours can be beneficial. Still, they can impede workflow and increase workload. Nurses want to control the policy.

Hospital administrators should consider the nurses’ beliefs and attitudes when they create visiting policies.

Critical Thinking Questions

Given the evidence of visiting hours and the evidence related to the individual and system-level implementation of evidence, what are the key issues related to implementing appropriate visitation policies?

What might be key individual barriers to evidence implementation?

What are system-level barriers to evidence implementation?

What are evidence-based strategies that enhance evidence uptake at both the individual and system levels?

How might you design an evidence-implementation strategy to overcome barriers and maximize facilitators of evidence uptake?

  • Considering this case study, how important is it to understand the evidence related to enhancing evidence uptake?
  • Considering this case study, what evidence needs to be generated to help advance our knowledge toward increasing evidence uptake?
  • Considering this case study, how do individual barriers and facilitators interact with system-level barriers and facilitators of evidence uptake?
  • Considering this case study, do you think an individual can use evidence if the system does not support it in any way? Why, or why not?

Analytic Sociological Journal

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Analytic Sociological Journal 

USE PARAGRAPHS IN YOUR JOURNALS FOR STRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION, AND CLARITY   

Sociological Journal Guidelines and Instructions

the Sociological Journal offers students the opportunity to write about connections between their own lives and sociological concepts. Students write a total of THREE responses to the prompts below. Please address the entire prompt and thoroughly elaborate on the examples discussed. Your journal entries should be well organized, well-structured, and well-written. College-level writing is expected for this assignment. Make sure to use paragraph breaks in your journals.

Formatting: Please, type this assignment using Times New Roman, 12-point font, use double space, and have 1-inch margins all around. Each journal response should be between 1½-2 pages. Please include a title page and reference page/bibliography. Use the ASA (American Sociological Association) reference style. See the Quick Tips for ASA Style Guide PDF in our Canvas Shell.

Upload on Canvas as ONE document with the three journal entries clearly identified (e.g., 1, 2, 3). The document will be reviewed by Turnitin.com, so please, make sure to cite your sources.

Journal Prompts

Journal #1: The Sociological Imagination and the Coronavirus: Drawing from Chapter 1, define and describe the sociological imagination. Using the concept of the sociological imagination, discuss how our society’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic is shaping your life (remember, it is society’s response to the Coronavirus that is shaping our lives, not only the virus itself*). Please address the economy, education, media, and/or family (choose two).

Journal #2, Theory and Coronavirus: Drawing from any chapter you would like, discuss the major tenets of functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Discuss which theory you find the most helpful in understanding the spread of the Coronavirus and our society’s response to the virus? *Hint: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the three theories. Also, in most chapters, there are examples of how the theories are applied to various social issues.

Journal #3, Race-Ethnicity and Coronavirus: Drawing from Chapter 8, Chapter 14, AND a newspaper article* of your choice discuss how racial-ethnic inequality is shaping the spread of the Coronavirus itself (i.e., the epidemiology of the virus) in the U.S. You may focus on a specific U.S. city or state or the entire U.S. The newspaper article must be from a credible source like the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Fox, CNN, etc. please provide a citation of your source on your reference page/bibliography.

NUR 640 clinicals

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Comprehensive Psychotherapy Evaluation 2

Step 1: You will use the Graduate Comprehensive Psychotherapy Evaluation Template Download Graduate Comprehensive Psychotherapy Evaluation Templateto:

Compose a written comprehensive psychotherapy evaluation of a patient you have seen in the clinic.

Upload your completed comprehensive psychiatric evaluation as a Word doc. Scanned PDFs will not be accepted.

For the Comprehensive Psychotherapy Evaluation  Presentation Assignment: You will need to get it signed by your preceptor for the presentation (actual signature, not electronically typed).

Step 2: Each student will create a focused SOAP note video presentation in the next assignment. See Comprehensive Psychotherapy Evaluation Presentation 2 for more details.

SOAP is an acronym that stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan.  

S = 

Subjective data: Patient’s Chief Complaint (CC); History of the Present Illness (HPI)/ Demographics; History of the Present Illness (HPI) that includes the presenting problem and the 8 dimensions of the problem (OLDCARTS or PQRST); Review of Systems (ROS) 

O = 

Objective data: Medications; Allergies; Past medical history; Family psychiatric history; Past surgical history; Psychiatric history, Social history; Labs and screening tools; Vital signs; Physical exam, (Focused), and Mental Status Exam 

A = 

Assessment: Primary Diagnosis and two differential diagnoses including ICD-10 and DSM5 codes 

P = 

Plan: Pharmacologic and Non-pharmacologic treatment plan; diagnostic testing/screening tools, patient/family teaching, referral, and follow up 

  1. Other: Incorporate current clinical guidelines NIH Clinical GuidelinesLinks to an external site. or APA Clinical GuidelinesLinks to an external site., research articles, and the role of the PMHNP in your evaluation.   
  2. Psychiatric Assessment of Infants and ToddlersLinks to an external site. 

Psychiatric Assessment of Children and AdolescentsLinks to an external site. 

  • Reminder: It is important that you complete this assessment using your critical thinking skills.  You are expected to synthesize your clinical assessment, formulate a psychiatric diagnosis, and develop a treatment plan independently. It is not acceptable to document “my preceptor made this diagnosis.”  An example of the appropriate descriptors of the clinical evaluation is listed below.  It is not acceptable to document “within normal limits.”   

Graduate Mental Status Exam Guide Download Graduate Mental Status Exam Guide 

Successfully Capture HPI Elements in Psychiatry E/M NotesLinks to an external site.
AAPC Admin. (2013, August 1). Successfully capture HPI elements in psychiatry E/M notes. Advancing the Business of Healthcare. https://www.aapc.com/blog/25848-successfully-captu…

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Discussion questions

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The Discussion Assignment

After completing this week’s reading assignment, answer two of the following questions (one from each module), and then read and comment on at least four of your fellow students’ postings. Note that two of these questions come from last week’s reading and two from this week’s. You may answer a third questions for up to 30 points extra credit!  Please note that you MUST reference material from the textbook in each answer. Failure to do so will result in lost points. If you use additional sources you MUST reference them as well, whether direct quotes or even paraphrasing (putting in your own words). It is best practice to do this by using MLA style parenthetical citations after each quote or paraphrase. For example, if you quote or paraphrase from page 12 of the textbook it would look like this – (Volti 12).  In addition to your textbook, you are encouraged to use the FTCC Library database resources (NC Live, Issues and Controversies, Opposing Viewpoints, etc) as a source of supporting information for your posts. If you use an outside source, be sure to mention what it was and where you found it, citing the source. For information on accessing the FTCC Library databases, see the Resources in the weekly assignments folders.

(From Module 2) Technological advance has often undermined established businesses. Most recently, the growth of internet-based e-commerce has posed a threat to conventional retail firms. Can you think of other business enterprises that the Internet may damage or even destroy? Should anything be done to prevent this from happening? Explain.

(From Module 2) How do you feel about technocracy and scientific management? Think of at least one example of either concept (which, as you know, are closely related) you have witnessed or have knowledge of and tell us about it.

  1. (From Module 3) Explain the difference between the “great men and women” view of technological advance and the “social processes” view of technological advance. Which do you think is most accurate and why? Provide examples in your answer.
  2. (From Module 3) Discuss the concept of technological closure and explain what you believe this means, in your own words. Then provide at least one example of technological closure that you have witnessed in your lifetime. Elaborate on who might have been affected, both negatively and positively, by your example of technological closure.

UNLV Reading an Academic Article

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Purpose

By completing this research journal, you will be able to:

  • Critically read and annotate an academic argument
  • Summarize and analyze an academic article’s argument

Task

Step 1: For this research journal, you will first read the two sample articles on generative AI contained in this module (see links below)

Step 2: After you’ve read both articles, you will need to write short summaries for each of them. The summaries should be within 50-100 words and describe only the main points of both texts; review pages 59-61 of your textbook if you need help summarizing. Then, you will analyze the articles using the rhetorical analysis framework from “Chapter 2: Analyzing Rhetorical Situations” in your textbook and describe how they compare based on the framework. Your analysis should be at least 200 words long. Consider the following questions:

  • Author: Who are the authors of this articles? Do these authors seem like a credible or trustworthy source, why or why not? What specific evidence from the text helps you determine if the author is credible? How big of a role does the author’s credibility play in establishing each text’s trustworthiness?
  • Purpose: What is the authors’ purpose in each article? What specific evidence from the texts helps you determine the purpose? How do the texts compare in terms of their purposes?
  • Audience: Who is the audience for each article? What specific evidence from the text helps you determine who the intended audience is? What are the differences in terms of audience between the two articles?
  • Genre: These articles follow the conventions of two different genres: an academic overview (similar to a literature review) and an original research article. What do you already know about the academic research article genre? What are the typical conventions of an academic research article (who typically writes this genre, why do people write in this genre, who is the audience for this genre, what content and language is typically expected in this genre?)? Does this article “fit” with what you know about academic research article? Compare this text to the second article. What key differences do you see in terms of genre?
  • Stance: In each article, what is the author’s stance on the article topic? What specific evidence from the text helps you determine the author’s stance? How does the stance varies between the two articles, and what might explain the differences?

UTMB The nurse leader Your experience Organizational Analysis

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Part 1:

Overview: Organizational Analysis The Organization

The major assignment for this course is analysis of your organization (or an organization that you have worked for if you aren’t currently employed). In this assignment, you will report the organization’s mission, philosophy, and administrative structure. You will compare and contrast what you find with the characteristics of organizations you have learned about in the lectures and presentations and in your own investigative reading.

Complete this assignment to demonstrate your analysis of the big picture of your organization.

Objectives

– Explain how organizations function.

– Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.

– Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.

– Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations.

Part 2: Overview: Organizational Analysis The Nurse Leader

The major assignment for this course is analysis of your organization. In this assignment, you will analyze your nurse leader’s characteristics and behaviors regarding others in managing, leading, and communicating. By respectfully, but critically, critiquing these attributes of the nurse leader you have been “shadowing,” you can identify the attributes that you consider most and least effective, and most and least similar to the way you see yourself managing, leading, and communicating.

Complete this document to record your analysis of your nurse leader.

Objectives

– Explain how organizations function.

– Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.

– Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.

– Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations

Part 3:

Overview: Organizational Analysis Your Experience

During the span of this course, you have been shadowing or have interviewed a nurse leader, observing and reflecting on skills, behaviors, and strategies that the leader exhibits. You have also assessed and reflected on your leadership and management styles and skills. Now you will gather those thoughts in a more formal retrospective of your experience in the course. You may notice that the rubric for the previous assignment is similar to the rubric for this assignment. Keep in mind that the previous assignment you were presenting an analysis of the leader/manager that you shadowed and with this assignment you are presenting an analysis of the overall experience (which does include the time spent with your leader/manager).

Objectives

– Explain how organizations function

– Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management

– Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.

– Evaluate effectiveness of communications patterns using specific management situations.

RJM2 — RJM2 TASK 1: CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY

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Differentiates Cultural and Religious Customs and Practices

The learner differentiates among diverse cultural and religious customs and practices.

INTRODUCTION

Christianity and Islam are the two most followed religions in the world and have influenced the art, politics, and culture of societies around the globe for the last 1,500 years. Over the centuries, these two Abrahamic religions, which share foundational beliefs, have evolved significantly as new adherents incorporated local customs into their religious practices and as divisions occurred over conflicting beliefs and leadership disputes.

In this task, you will examine how empires as well as knowledge and culture contributed to the spread of Islam and Christianity throughout Africa and Eurasia from each religion’s place of origin in the Middle East. You will also examine similarities between the beliefs and practices of the two religions.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

A.  Analyze how different contexts contributed to the spread of Christianity from its founding until 1500 CE by doing the following:

1.  Describe one example of how empires contributed to the spread of Christianity.

2.  Describe one example of how knowledge or culture contributed to the spread of Christianity.

B.  Analyze how different contexts contributed to the spread of Islam from its founding until 1500 CE by doing the following:

1.  Describe one example of how empires contributed to the spread of Islam.

2.  Describe one example of how knowledge or culture contributed to the spread of Islam.

C.  Describe one similarity between the beliefs or practices of Christianity and Islam from their founding until 1500 CE.

Im working on a weekly discussion post

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Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: Chapter 15

Lesson

  • Minimum of 1 primary source (from artist)
  • Minimum of 1 scholarly source
  • Initial Post Instructions
  • For the initial post, select and address one of the following options:

Option 1: Choose a work to discuss from one genre that interprets a work from another genre.

Include the title, artist, and QUESTION of both works.

Examine how the artist of the second work captured the subject or story of the first.

Support your point(s) with a statement from the second artist that discusses the influence, reasoning, or interpretation of the original work on the second work.

Click below for examples

Link: Examples

  • Option 2: Choose a work that is interdisciplinary (incorporates two or more disciplines), such as Hamilton from our lesson this week.
  • Include the title and artist(s).
  • Examine the genres that are intermingled to create the work.

How effective is the blending of genres in the work?

Why do you think the artist used different disciplines in the work?

Support your point(s) with a statement from the artist and one from a critic.

Option 3: Choose a work of art from any genre that depicts or tells the story of a real life event from any time period, such as The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine on December 2, 1804 by Jacques Louis David.

Include the title and the artist and some background of the event.

What is the relationship between the work of art and the event?

Did the artist depict the event accurately?

Does the artist make changes regarding the event? If so, why do you think the artist made these changes?

  • Examine the artist’s message in the depiction.
  • Support your point(s) with a statement from the artist.
  • Follow-Up Post Instructions
  • Respond to at least one peer. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification.
  • Writing Requirements

Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)

Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside source)

APA format for in-text citations and list of references

Grading

  • This activity will be graded using the Discussion Grading Rubric. Please review the following link:
  • Link (webpage): Discussion Guidelines
  • Course Outcomes
  • CO 1: Identify the content, forms, and/or techniques of work of art (e.g., architecture, fine art, literature, and/or drama). 
  • CO 2: Analyze the content, forms, and/or techniques of a work of art (e.g., architecture, fine art, literature, and/or drama). 
  • CO 3: Explain the historical/cultural/social context in which a work was created.

couple counselling

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Karen and Dan are a married bisexual couple who engage in polyamory, or romantic and sexual relationships with other individuals, with the consent of everyone involved.  They have decided to come into couples counseling off and on throughout their relationship just as a way to ‘check in’ with each other to make sure that everyone is still content with the conditions of their relationship.

Karen has recently started showing up with significant bruising that you can see.  In one session, she has clear bruising around her neck, and it looks as if someone has tried to choke her.  You are worried that this might be a situation of domestic violence, and you privately question Karen about this while Dan is settling their bill with the office manager.

When you ask Karen about the bruises, she laughs nervously and assures you that she is not in any danger. Your immediate sense is that Karen has been the victim of intimate partner violence.  You persist in your questioning as Dan joins the conversation.

Karen and Dan seem a bit embarrassed, but admit that they are part of a fetish community in which bondage and discipline have resulted in Karen’s bruises.  She plays a submissive role to Dan’s master role, and the injuries were sustained during a consensual sexual experience.

Over time, Karen’s bruising becomes more visible, and in subsequent sessions, you notice that Dan’s tone becomes more and more demanding and domineering over Karen.  You also notice that his behavior has become physically more intimidating to her.  But, both Dan and Karen insist that they are happy with their situation and that this behavior is consensual.  Despite their assurances, you can’t help but be concerned about the boundary between consensual behavior and intimate partner violence.  

Today, Karen comes to the session in visible pain from an injury to her arm, which she sustained when Dan shoved her and she stumbled and fell.

Using the 8-step decision-making model, determine whether or not you would intervene in this situation as an example of intimate partner violence.  Document specifically how the major values described in the readings (justice, autonomy, beneficence, etc.) influence your decision.  It is most important here to ‘show your work’ in each step.  Documentation is everything in an ethical dilemma, so be thorough and thoughtful, remembering that this documentation could be subpoenaed into court proceedings.