Emirates National School Technology Advancement in Healthcare System PPT
Description
– high-quality analysis, each of these written work products should approximate 6 to 10 pages using 1-inch margins, double-spacing, and a 12-point font, and APA formatting. Paper must include a cover and a reference page. You should properly cite any material sourced from research.
Set the stage for formal strategic planning by Physician Care Services (Middleboro Case 3)
The leaders of Physician Care Services recognize that their complicated world is changing, and that they need a better understanding of what is going, plus a better/logical sense of direction and how to navigate success – to be defined — in the future.
They need a smart, objective voice to assess all they above – someone who they could trust to provide insightful ideas and “tell it like it is” – something they found they couldn’t due too well by themselves because they are too close their status quo. They need some help to take stock of the facts and interpret the strategic landscape for them, just laying the seeds now for a more formalized strategic planning process a month or so down the road.
Naturally, they thought of you as the ideal outside consultant to help them with this vital tasking, getting the strategic planning ball rolling in the right direction. So, here is the scope of work they have engaged you for at a high hourly rate that exceeds more than most people earn in a whole week. (No pressure, but their expectations of you are very high.)
Prepare a written analysis that includes the following.
- Your overall summary of key external environmental conditions – including competition and health sector disruptions — and forces of change strategically impacting Physician Care Services now and going-forward.
Consider anything you see as important, which might include new methods of care delivery, changes in technology, new disruptive entrants into traditional spaces, changing economics locally and beyond, and changing customer-patient demands.
Clearly explain such factors and the context on why/how they might strategically impact Physician Care Services.
- Your candid appraisal of any notable internal challenges Physician Care Services is facing – their business model, how they manage and operate, etc. — that could impact their future strategic success in the changing environment. Be diplomatic and factual, but don’t pull any punches. Again, clarity is very important so your client understands the context of your ideas and why they should consider them when they embark on formal strategic planning.
- A refinement of the above strategic factors analysis into a tight SWOT analysis.
For each of the Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat quadrants, clearly and describe your top two recommendations — for a total of 8 — that would ultimately be explored, further down the line once the formal strategic planning exercise is engaged.
For each of your 8 top recommendations, provide a clear, concise rationale on why you are targeting it as a priority, citing facts from your analysis of the case study, any additional topical research you conduct, as well as important assumptions and other judgments you have made.
- Finally, to help Physician Care Services begin to develop a better/logical sense of direction that will guide success in the future, propose a preliminary mission statement and vision statement. Explain your strategic rationale behind each proposal. This will help Physician Care Services’ leaders understand and act on your ideas as they proceed toward a full strategic planning process for the organization.
On more thing, remember that you are working for physicians here. They are highly trained and what they do requires deep expertise, precision and high quality in all respects. They will demand the same from you as their consultant. To counter their natural skepticism, they will expect clarity around both the what and the why of your thinking and proposals.
They will respect key assumptions made related to your ideas, considering the Case Study facts and other knowledge and viewpoints you offer for context and creativity. Just make sure your assumptions are well-connected, and clearly and completely explained.
Emirates National School Technology Advancement in Healthcare System PPT
In-Text Citations: The Basics
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
Reference citations in text are covered on pages 261-268 of the Publication Manual. What follows are some general guidelines for referring to the works of others in your essay.
Note: On pages 117-118, the Publication Manual suggests that authors of research papers should use the past tense or present perfect tense for signal phrases that occur in the literature review and procedure descriptions (for example, Jones (1998) found or Jones (1998) has found…). Contexts other than traditionally-structured research writing may permit the simple present tense (for example, Jones (1998) finds).
APA Citation Basics
When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, like, for example, (Jones, 1998). One complete reference for each source should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.
If you are referring to an idea from another work but NOT directly quoting the material, or making reference to an entire book, article or other work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication and not the page number in your in-text reference.
On the other hand, if you are directly quoting or borrowing from another work, you should include the page number at the end of the parenthetical citation. Use the abbreviation “p.” (for one page) or “pp.” (for multiple pages) before listing the page number(s). Use an en dash for page ranges. For example, you might write (Jones, 1998, p. 199) or (Jones, 1998, pp. 199–201). This information is reiterated below.
Regardless of how they are referenced, all sources that are cited in the text must appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.
In-text citation capitalization, quotes, and italics/underlining
* Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones.
* If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change. Exceptions apply to short words that are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs: Writing New Media, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
(Note: in your References list, only the first word of a title will be capitalized: Writing new media.)
* When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.
* Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: “Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.”
* If the title of the work is italicized in your reference list, italicize it and use title case capitalization in the text: The Closing of the American Mind; The Wizard of Oz; Friends.
* If the title of the work is not italicized in your reference list, use double quotation marks and title case capitalization (even though the reference list uses sentence case): “Multimedia Narration: Constructing Possible Worlds;” “The One Where Chandler Can’t Cry.”
SHORT QUOTATIONS
If you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author, year of publication, and page number for the reference (preceded by “p.” for a single page and “pp.” for a span of multiple pages, with the page numbers separated by an en dash).
You can introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that includes the author’s last name followed by the date of publication in parentheses.
According to Jones (1998), “students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time” (p. 199).
Jones (1998) found “students often had difficulty using APA style” (p. 199); what implications does this have for teachers?
If you do not include the author’s name in the text of the sentence, place the author’s last name, the year of publication, and the page number in parentheses after the quotation.
She stated, “Students often had difficulty using APA style” (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.
LONG QUOTATIONS
Place direct quotations that are 40 words or longer in a free-standing block of typewritten lines and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, indented 1/2 inch from the left margin, i.e., in the same place you would begin a new paragraph. Type the entire quotation on the new margin, and indent the first line of any subsequent paragraph within the quotation 1/2 inch from the new margin. Maintain double-spacing throughout, but do not add an extra blank line before or after it. The parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.
Because block quotation formatting is difficult for us to replicate in the OWL’s content management system, we have simply provided a screenshot of a generic example below.
Formatting example for block quotations in APA 7 style.
QUOTATIONS FROM SOURCES WITHOUT PAGES
Direct quotations from sources that do not contain pages should not reference a page number. Instead, you may reference another logical identifying element: a paragraph, a chapter number, a section number, a table number, or something else. Older works (like religious texts) can also incorporate special location identifiers like verse numbers. In short: pick a substitute for page numbers that makes sense for your source.
Jones (1998) found a variety of causes for student dissatisfaction with prevailing citation practices (paras. 4–5).
A meta-analysis of available literature (Jones, 1998) revealed inconsistency across large-scale studies of student learning (Table 3).
SUMMARY OR PARAPHRASE
If you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text reference and may omit the page numbers. APA guidelines, however, do encourage including a page range for a summary or paraphrase when it will help the reader find the information in a longer work.
According to Jones (1998), APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners.
APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners (Jones, 1998, p. 199).
Description
– high-quality analysis, each of these written work products should approximate 6 to 10 pages using 1-inch margins, double-spacing, and a 12-point font, and APA formatting. Paper must include a cover and a reference page. You should properly cite any material sourced from research.
Set the stage for formal strategic planning by Physician Care Services (Middleboro Case 3)
The leaders of Physician Care Services recognize that their complicated world is changing, and that they need a better understanding of what is going, plus a better/logical sense of direction and how to navigate success – to be defined — in the future.
They need a smart, objective voice to assess all they above – someone who they could trust to provide insightful ideas and “tell it like it is” – something they found they couldn’t due too well by themselves because they are too close their status quo. They need some help to take stock of the facts and interpret the strategic landscape for them, just laying the seeds now for a more formalized strategic planning process a month or so down the road.
Naturally, they thought of you as the ideal outside consultant to help them with this vital tasking, getting the strategic planning ball rolling in the right direction. So, here is the scope of work they have engaged you for at a high hourly rate that exceeds more than most people earn in a whole week. (No pressure, but their expectations of you are very high.)
Prepare a written analysis that includes the following.
- Your overall summary of key external environmental conditions – including competition and health sector disruptions — and forces of change strategically impacting Physician Care Services now and going-forward.
Consider anything you see as important, which might include new methods of care delivery, changes in technology, new disruptive entrants into traditional spaces, changing economics locally and beyond, and changing customer-patient demands.
Clearly explain such factors and the context on why/how they might strategically impact Physician Care Services.
- Your candid appraisal of any notable internal challenges Physician Care Services is facing – their business model, how they manage and operate, etc. — that could impact their future strategic success in the changing environment. Be diplomatic and factual, but don’t pull any punches. Again, clarity is very important so your client understands the context of your ideas and why they should consider them when they embark on formal strategic planning.
- A refinement of the above strategic factors analysis into a tight SWOT analysis.
For each of the Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat quadrants, clearly and describe your top two recommendations — for a total of 8 — that would ultimately be explored, further down the line once the formal strategic planning exercise is engaged.
For each of your 8 top recommendations, provide a clear, concise rationale on why you are targeting it as a priority, citing facts from your analysis of the case study, any additional topical research you conduct, as well as important assumptions and other judgments you have made.
- Finally, to help Physician Care Services begin to develop a better/logical sense of direction that will guide success in the future, propose a preliminary mission statement and vision statement. Explain your strategic rationale behind each proposal. This will help Physician Care Services’ leaders understand and act on your ideas as they proceed toward a full strategic planning process for the organization.
On more thing, remember that you are working for physicians here. They are highly trained and what they do requires deep expertise, precision and high quality in all respects. They will demand the same from you as their consultant. To counter their natural skepticism, they will expect clarity around both the what and the why of your thinking and proposals.
They will respect key assumptions made related to your ideas, considering the Case Study facts and other knowledge and viewpoints you offer for context and creativity. Just make sure your assumptions are well-connected, and clearly and completely explained.
