This assignment illustrates how data analytics can be used to create strategies for sustainable organizational success while integrating the organization’s mission with societal values.

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  1. Purpose  This assignment illustrates how data analytics can be used to create strategies for sustainable organizational success while integrating the organization’s mission with societal values. You’ll apply statistical time series modeling techniques to identify patterns and develop time-dependent demand models. You’ll practice organizing and delivering a presentation to senior decision-makers. The PowerPoint presentation includes an audio component in addition to speaker notes.Resources: Microsoft Excel®, DAT565_v3_Wk6_Data_FileScenario:A city’s administration isn’t driven by the goal of maximizing revenues or profits but instead looks at improving the quality of life of its residents. Many American cities are confronted with high traffic and congestion. Finding parking spaces, whether in the street or a parking lot, can be time consuming and contribute to congestion. Some cities have rolled out data-driven parking space managementtoreduce congestion and make traffic more fluid.You’re a data analyst working for a mid-size city that has anticipated significant increments in population and car traffic. The city is evaluating whether it makes sense to invest in infrastructure to count and report the number of parking spaces available at the different parking lots downtown. This data would be collected and processed in real-time, feeding anapp that motoristscan access to find parking space availability in different parking lots throughout the city.Instructions: Work with the provided Excel database. This database has the following columns:
    • LotCode: A unique code that identifies the parking lot
    • LotCapacity: A number with the respective parking lot capacity
    • LotOccupancy: A number with the current number of cars in the parking lot
    • TimeStamp: A day/time combination indicating the moment when occupancy was measured
    • Day: The day of the week corresponding to the TimeStamp
    • Insert a new column, OccupancyRate, recording occupancy rate as a percentage with one decimal. For instance, if the current LotOccupancy is 61 and LotCapacity is 577, then the OccupancyRate would be reported as 10.6 (or 10.6%).
    • Using the OccupancyRate and Day columns, construct box plots for each day of the week. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Is the median occupancy rate approximately the same throughout the week? If not, which days have lower median occupancy rates? Which days have higher median occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?
    • Using the OccupancyRate and LotCode columns,construct box plots for each parking lot. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Do all parking lots experience approximately equal occupancy rates?Are some parking lots more frequented than others? Is this what you expected?
    • Select any 2 parking lots. For each one, prepare as catter plot showing occupancy rate against TimeStamp for the week 11/20/2016 –11/26/2016. Are occupancy rates time dependent? If so, which times seem to experience highest occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?
    • Presentation:Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation with speaker notes and audio. Your audience is the City Council members who are responsible for decidingwhether the city invests in resources to set in motion the smart parking space app.Complete the following in your presentation:
    • Outlinethe rationale and goals of the project.
    • Utilizeboxplots showing the occupancy rates for each day of the week. Include your interpretation of results.
    • Utilize box plots showing the occupancy rates for each parking lot. Include your interpretation of results.
    • Providescatter plots showing occupancy rate against time of day of your selected four parking lots. Include your interpretation of results.
    • Makea recommendation about continuing with the implementation of this project.
    • Submit your assignment.Resources
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1. The goal of understanding the concepts of culture is to make it possible for the nurse to provide culturally congruent care, this means providing care that fits the life patterns, values and set meanings of the patient. To achieve this kind of care the nurse needs to learn the defining characteristics of the patient’ culture, their health care practices and their perceptions of health care and wellbeing. In order to apply cultural concepts, one must first identify potential conflicts between the patients’ needs, their practices and their cultural values (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

To achieve a culturally competent practice Leininger suggested three different modes. Cultural care preservation where one retains relevant care values. Cultural care accommodation, where one negotiates with the patient and family for a beneficial health outcome, and Cultural care repatterning, where one has to change the patient lifestyle for a new and beneficial health care pattern (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

Specialized community interventions tailored to the people that is being served are more likely to be in accordance to the community needs and have a better chance of success. Developing these interventions is a collaboration between providers, community leaders and consumers. It is important that these approaches are designed so we can address the needs of individuals, families and the aggregates in the communities. (Andrews & Boyle, 2016)

2. To understand the factors that affect the health or illness of a group one must perform a community assessment, factors like the demographics, number of people, average age, social class and morbidity. Also, the location of the community, urban, rural, weather, diseases characteristics of the area, economic, religious, political systems. All of these factors will play a role in how people do in regards to health care, the availability of services that are convenient and culturally compatible with the patient will determine the likelihood that the patient seeks treatment or care when needed (Hunt, 2013).

Additionally. the nurse should be aware of the subcultures (aggregates that establish different rules from the mainstream group), each subculture needs to be understood in order to plan and provide care in a culturally sensitive way (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

3. In order to take care of the refugee population we have to keep in mind that these individuals left their place of origin with a conviction that their lives were in danger, so they are escaping persecution of some kind. In these cases, a thorough assessment needs to be performed before planning to provide care. Factors that need to be known to the nurse include the amount of time the family or the patient has been in the US, if they spent time in other places, camps, or rural areas, languages spoken, religious practices, ethnic identity, family roles and social support available. Once this assessment has been completed the nurse can begin to plan interventions that are culturally sensible for the family (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

Is important for refugee communities to get access to preventive care, planning dental care, mammography, pap smears, prostate and testicular exams may be a new concept for them and they may need education and assistance to get this kind of care. It is not uncommon that refugees come from cultures where they do not have access to these interventions and they may not be aware of their existence or need. Also is important to keep in mind that for many refugees is important the gender of the provider, women may have been abused or raped in their country, and may avoid healthcare completely if they cannot find a female provider, careful assessment needs to be performed in order to not aggravate an already existing trauma. Another type of trauma to keep in mind when dealing with refugees includes the mental distress and possible residual PTSD from tortures and stressed suffered when fleeing their countries (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

4. Health equality, the idea that every individual should have access to the same level of care and that all individuals must be care for without discrimination due to race, ethnicity or cultural background. (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

Diversity should be present in the healthcare workforce, having a mixture of different ethic backgrounds, sexual orientations, socioeconomic levels allow the patient to feel accepted being different, since a mix of different workers exist in the healthcare facility (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

Partnership the idea of creating a good and beneficial relationship between the providers and community members and community organizations, these partnerships include reciprocal relationships, focus on prevention education, and understanding community needs (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

Empowerment moving people of different backgrounds that share a vulnerability, having them work together to achieve the care they need results in empowerment of the individual and the community to take control of their health (Andrews & Boyle, 2016).

If we can built a healthcare system that is composed of a diverse workforce that will allow our community members to not feel threatened because of being different, that also promotes equity in health services in a community that participates in a partnership with the providers and feels empowered in their health decisions we would have successfully breach the culture barriers that many minorities face in our country.

Reference

Andrews, M. M., & Boyle, J. S. (2016).Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care. Alphen aan de Rijn, Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer.

Hunt. R. R. (2013).Introduction to Community Based Nursing(Fifth ed.). Philadelphia, PA: LWW.

Purnell, L. D. (2014).Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company.

A radical experiment in empathy.

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Watch the video Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy.

After watching the TED video and reading the section about the Sociological Imagination, take the viewpoint of an outside observer to examine your life.

First, pick one personal experience that was meaningful to you.

Second, pick a viewpoint different from your own. It can be another gender, race, nationality, or maybe someone from a different subculture. Finally, write about the three points listed below.

Write a 500 or more word paper discussing each assignment point listed below.

1.    Describe the personal experience as an outsider might describe it. (hint: depending on what you choose and the perspective you choose, this may require a little research)

2.    Describe how that experience was influenced by society structures (e.g. historical events, religion, or traditions)

3.    Finally review the four main perspectives and theorists related to those perspectives. What theory most applies to the personal experience you described and why do you think this theory applies?

Your paper must include a title sheet and at least 2 outside references.  You may use one reference from the internet but the 2nd reference must be from the Grantham University online library.  Only the body of the paper will count in your word requirement.

To help you begin your first paper, I have given you an example of a personal experience, the structure that helped to shape this event, and the theory that I would apply to it. Although what is listed below is an outline, I would like you to write in paragraph form.

Example:

Personal experience: wedding

Viewpoint: perspective of a person from the subcontinent India

1.    Description: Wedding itself was short, crowd was small, took place outside of hometown, and the bride wore white

2.    Social Structure: institution of marriage, marriage laws, and religious traditions

3.    What theory: functionalism

a.    Why this theory: functionalism supports social structure that is functional for society and marriage is functional for families and households

Genogram and Sociogram

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A genogram is similar to a family tree that is used to identify various familial patterns going back at least three generations, whereas a sociogram is a self-portrait of relationships that can reflect any point in a person’s life. These tools can be used with clients.

Create a genogram in which you focus on education, career, employment, and community service or volunteer activities for each of the members of your family, including future aspirations when applicable. Use the appropriate symbols to represent gender, whether someone is deceased, and family relationships. You should take this opportunity to interview members of your family, particularly those you have not spoken with recently, to get more information about their work life and goals. You may wish to visit the genogram website to build your own genogram or simply draw it out on paper.

Create a sociogram in which you are at the very center of the target. Place an X in the middle of that central circle and label it “ME.” Choose a time frame that is either prior to beginning your master’s program, during your masters program, or after your masters program and you are in a professional position. At the top of your sociogram, indicate which time frame you have chosen. Place people on the target based on how close you feel to them. Some may be at the edge of the page, and some may be inside your intimate circle. This is not based on the definition of your relationship with them, but rather it is based on your emotional connection to that person during the time frame you chose. Then, draw arrows from you to the person to indicate your experience of the relationship, and from the person to you indicating your perception of their relationship to you. Both the near/far relationship and the attraction to/from is important information for you to understand yourself better within your own context. You may wish to use the provided template to build your own sociogram, or print the template, fill in the sections, and scan it.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Refer to “Genogram and Sociogram Scoring Guide,” prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.