Examine service categories commonly provided by nursing homes. Determine two specific service categories that you believe are common factors of competition among nursing homes. Justify your response. Analyze the main service area factors for healthcare organizations factors. Suggest two consumer factors and two service area factors that could provide a competitive advantage to a walk-in clinic. Examine three barriers that you believe represent the most significant obstacles to an effective competitor analysis. Propose a strategy to overcome each of the three barriers that you have identified. From the e-Activity, analyze Michael Porter’s technique for a competitive analysis. Determine one factor for each of Porter’s five forces of an environmental analysis that apply to the organization that you selected.

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Topic: Choose one of the topics below and write an essay. Or you can choose a topic that interests you. Please make sure it is A&P and/or medically related. If you are unsure if a particular topic is appropriate, just ask me.
Bob improperly canned some homegrown vegetables. As a result, he contracted botulism poisoning after eating the vegetables. His symptoms included difficulty in swallowing and breathing. Eventually, he died of respiratory failure. Research and describe the effect of botulism toxin on muscle and why Bob died.
What is tetrodotoxin? How could you be exposed to tetrodotoxin? Research and then describe the effects of tetrodotoxin on the function of the nervous system, particularly the action potential. Describe how exposure to tetrodotoxin is likely to result in your death.
Describe what is occurring in the hand and wrist that results in carpal tunnel syndrome. How is it treated?
Describe why a cervical injury that results in damage to the phrenic nerve can result is death.
Research about “Mike the Chicken” that was able to live without his head for years. Tell us about Mike and how this was possible in terms of brain anatomy and physiology.
In terms of anatomy, describe how nerve deafness occurs and how a cochlear implant works.
Describe what is happening in the inner ear when someone experiences motion sickness.What nerve is involved?