Friday, 9 May 2014
Industrial Hygienist
You are an Industrial Hygienist for a large New
Orleans Hospital who was evacuated to Baton Rouge after the Katrina
disaster. It is 6 weeks after the event and you have been given the
responsibility to supervise a team that will return to the
hospital, evaluate the situation and participate in a plan to
re-establish basic medical needs for the workers involved in the
recovery effort. Your team is composed of the hospital’s current
Safety Supervisor (programs and training), the Environmental
Manager (physical plant, wastes and regulatory issues), and two
technicians (versed in IH and environmental sample collection and
testing). Your offices are on the second floor of the building,
along with the surgical suites and clinical laboratory. In your
offices, there is a considerable amount of trash and debris
scattered about with ample evidence of the public’s intrusion to
the area after the event. There are muddy footprints and open
cabinets, along with testing supplies and equipment strewn about
your team’s office area. The basement and much of the first floor
were flooded to a level of about 6 feet. The main administrative
offices, emergency room operations, and cafeteria were on the first
floor. THE BOSS NEEDS….: The Incident Commander (person in-charge
of recovery) for this operation is looking to you for guidance on
the safe entry, safe clean up procedures, appropriate PPE for all
recovery workers, and a hazard assessment for the most critical
items or operations that can cause acute or chronic health effects,
illness or disease. THE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED: 1. What
recommendations and guidance would you make to the Incident
Commander to address his concerns and needs? 2. What are the main
Industrial Hygiene concerns for your team and the clean-up recovery
workers? 3. How would you organize your team? 4. What tasks would
you assign to them? 5. What PPE would you require for your team
members and the recovery workers…short term and then later in the
recovery effort? 6. What testing equipment would you require for
your team members? 7. What information would you require from the
different members of your team? 8. How would you delegate certain
duties to your team members? 9. Any other pertinent information you
feel is important and necessary.
Review Argosy's IRB Checklist
Review Argosy's IRB Checklist. Gather information on Stanley
Milgram's study on obedience and authority. Using the IRB checklist as a
guideline, what were some major concerns you had regarding the Milgram
study? How would you redesign Milgram's study to have it pass IRB
standards?
Media's influence on aggression
Media's influence on aggression Media's influence on body image
Effective treatments for chemical dependency Driving safety and
types of distractions The role of introversion/extraversion on
marital bliss or employee performance Suggestibility: do television
ads change behavior? Factors affecting career choice Effect of peer
pressure on conformity Influence of music on worker productivity
Comparison of strategies for stress reduction Factors influencing
memory for events, names, and factual information Eyewitness
testimony and the misinformation effect
Craft a research question on the topic you selected in your first discussion question post. Then locate at least five articles from peer-reviewed journals that pertain to your question that will be used to write the introduction section of your research proposal.
Submit these five citations in the form of an APA-style reference page. Under each citation, write one paragraph summarizing the main points of the article. As you read your articles, keep the following questions at hand; these will help you generate the information about each article.
What were the topic/research questions being investigated?
How was the study conducted (participants, materials, procedure, etc.)?
What did the results reveal?
How might these methodological considerations affect the research findings and the conclusions drawn from them?
How does this article fit in with your paper? How did it influence your own ideas about your paper? Based on your reading of the literature, what do you expect to find?
Include a hypothesis and a title page for your submission.
Craft a research question on the topic you selected in your first discussion question post. Then locate at least five articles from peer-reviewed journals that pertain to your question that will be used to write the introduction section of your research proposal.
Submit these five citations in the form of an APA-style reference page. Under each citation, write one paragraph summarizing the main points of the article. As you read your articles, keep the following questions at hand; these will help you generate the information about each article.
What were the topic/research questions being investigated?
How was the study conducted (participants, materials, procedure, etc.)?
What did the results reveal?
How might these methodological considerations affect the research findings and the conclusions drawn from them?
How does this article fit in with your paper? How did it influence your own ideas about your paper? Based on your reading of the literature, what do you expect to find?
Include a hypothesis and a title page for your submission.
effects of one type of sexual dysfunction that can affect both men and women.
Summarize the effects of one type of sexual dysfunction that can
affect both men and women. What are some factors that may cause this
type of dysfunction? What treatments may help individuals who experience
this type of dysfunction?
State the factors that determine gender identity.
State the factors that determine gender identity. • Explain
how a person’s masculine and feminine traits can be described using
the continuum of masculinity-femininity. • Describe three factors
in your own life that have helped determine your gender identity. •
Discuss the masculine and feminine traits that you attribute to
yourself using the continuum of masculinity-femininity.
issue that affects the organization and the public:
Consider the following scenario regarding an issue that affects
the organization and the public:
• You are the project manager at a state-supported public health care facility. Because of the success of your organization, a local organization has donated a state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging machine that is not available anywhere else in the vicinity. As the project manager, you are tasked with educating the staff and informing the public regarding this new technology.
Create a schematic or flowchart to illustrate how to incorporate teams into daily health care communication for the issue described in the scenario.
Use Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Microsoft® Paint, Microsoft® Visio®, Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel®, or a tool of your choice to create the schematic or flowchart.
Include the following:
• What team structures, functions, project goals, obstacles, and communication will be used (My part)
• How to integrate teams, planning, and training to provide a successful outcome of the selected process (My part)
• What potential communication obstacles might arise from the scenario
• Recommendations on how the team might use effective group communication strategies inside and outside the organization, including the use of social media
• Recommendations about how the team might effectively communicate inside and outside the organization, including the use of social media
• Media opportunities for this management success
Include videos, audio, photos, diagrams, or graphs as appropriate.
Cite a minimum of two sources, one from the University Library and the other from the course textbooks or Electronic Reserve Readings, to support your position.
Format your assignment, including any images, consistent with APA guidelines.
• You are the project manager at a state-supported public health care facility. Because of the success of your organization, a local organization has donated a state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging machine that is not available anywhere else in the vicinity. As the project manager, you are tasked with educating the staff and informing the public regarding this new technology.
Create a schematic or flowchart to illustrate how to incorporate teams into daily health care communication for the issue described in the scenario.
Use Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Microsoft® Paint, Microsoft® Visio®, Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel®, or a tool of your choice to create the schematic or flowchart.
Include the following:
• What team structures, functions, project goals, obstacles, and communication will be used (My part)
• How to integrate teams, planning, and training to provide a successful outcome of the selected process (My part)
• What potential communication obstacles might arise from the scenario
• Recommendations on how the team might use effective group communication strategies inside and outside the organization, including the use of social media
• Recommendations about how the team might effectively communicate inside and outside the organization, including the use of social media
• Media opportunities for this management success
Include videos, audio, photos, diagrams, or graphs as appropriate.
Cite a minimum of two sources, one from the University Library and the other from the course textbooks or Electronic Reserve Readings, to support your position.
Format your assignment, including any images, consistent with APA guidelines.
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