Assignment 4: Business Continuity Plan

The phrase “the show must go on” is perhaps more true in business than in performing arts. Organizations need to be prepared to run continuously regardless of environmental conditions.

For this assessment, imagine that you are the IT manager for the only print shop in a small town in Idaho. The shop is connected to the internet by satellite link. Orders are received via the internet as well as by walk-ins with portable storage drives or smart phones that can transfer files via Bluetooth network.

Write a four to five (4-5) business continuity plan (BCP) in which you:

1. Identify the organization’s exposure to internal and external threats.
2. Identify ways that the organization can maintain its risk.
3. Describe the foreseen security risks.
4. Assess the importance of training the shop personnel on security risks.
5. Recommend at least two (2) strategies for continually improving the quality and effectiveness of the BCP.
6. Analyze the organizational risks inherent in the execution of the BCP plan.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Assignment 3: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property
Due Week 10 and worth 300 points

Review the PharmaCARE/CompCARE scenario in Assignment 2 to complete this assignment.

Write a ten to twelve (10-12) page paper in which you:

• Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety.
• Argue for or against Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) marketing by drug companies.
• Determine who regulates compounding pharmacies under the current regulatory scheme, what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could / should have done in this scenario, and whether the FDA should be granted more power over compounding pharmacies.
• Decide whether PharmaCARE’s use of Colberian intellectual property would be ethical in accordance with:
• • Utilitarianism
  • Deontology
  • Virtue ethics
  • Ethics of care
  • Your own moral / ethical compass
• Analyze the way PharmaCARE uses U.S. law to protect its own intellectual property while co-opting intellectual property in Colberia.
• Suggest at least three (3) ways the company could compensate the people and nation of Colberia for the use of its intellectual property and the damage to its environment.
• Compare PharmaCARE’s actions with those of at least one (1) real-world company whose creativity in skirting legal technicalities led to ethical lapses and financial loss.
• Determine the success PharmaCARE and WellCo shareholders would have in suits against the companies.
• Determine whether or not PharmaCARE lives up to its brand. Support the response.
• Recommend at least three (3) changes PharmaCARE can make to be more ethical going forward.
• Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page len

This assignment is due tomorrow at 8 a.m.

Description is listed below in the attachment

Need 2 forums posts. And in the second Question (Q) I am going to need you to respond 3 times for each response that is given in the forum_5 doc.

Also I have:

7 homework Q’s

And 15 quiz Q’s

(PS) the “ctastetest” document is related to Q # 2.

Assignment 1: Discussion Question

You are the hospital safety officer. A unit nurse has sent an incident report to you about a patient fall. The patient, an 80-year-old man recovering from pneumonia, fell and broke his hip while getting up to go to the restroom.

As the safety officer you know that a broken hip often leads to death in the elderly. Falls are a preventable cause of patient death and can lead to a lawsuit against a hospital. You notify the hospital quality manager that according to your analysis 40 percent of the patient falls in the previous year occurred during the night shift.

There are eight adult units and two pediatric units in the hospital. Incidents of patient falls in a pediatric unit are rare. However, patient falls in the adult units are more frequent.

There are three eight-hour shifts in 24 hours. Last year, there were 80 falls. It is June, and already this calendar year there have been 44 falls.

You are concerned about the potential for a patient death, the potential for a lawsuit, and the hospital accreditation status.

Which of the core quality management tools will you use to analyze the problem?

Explain why you would use the tools you chose.

Is there other data you want as you work on this problem?

Why do you require other data?

By Saturday, October 19, 2013 submit your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on your classmates’ submissions and continue the discussion through Wednesday, October 23, 2013. Comment on how your classmates would address differing views.