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Module 8: Critical Thinking Assignment onefile

For this assignment, you will analyze the quality management practices and location decisions of a prominent organization in Saudi Arabia. Your chosen organization should have a significant presence in the country and operate in a sector important to the Saudi Arabian economy.

Quality Management Practices

• Trace the historical development of quality management practices within the organization, highlighting key milestones and changes over time. How has the organization’s approach to quality management evolved in response to changing market conditions, technological advancements, and regulatory requirements?

• Identify the various costs associated with quality management within the organization, including prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure costs.

Location Decisions

• Analyze the organization’s approach to location decisions, including the factors it considers and the methods it uses to evaluate potential locations.

• Explain the factor rating and center of gravity methods used by the organization in its location decision-making process. Assess the organization’s use of these methods and provide recommendations for improving its location decision-making process.

• Defend or critic the organization’s location decisions based on the impact on its overall performance, including its market share, profitability, and competitive advantage.

Directions:

• Your assignment is required to be five to six pages in length, which does not include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.

• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. Use the Saudi Digital Library to find your resources.

• Formatted according to APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University writing standards.

• It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into Turnitin prior to submitting them to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin – Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.

Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

Module 09: Critical Thinking Assignment

Tobacco Use (110 points) 3 file

Tobacco use is a major global public health challenge, causing in excess of 7 million deaths each year. Of the 7 million tobacco-related deaths worldwide, roughly 70,000 Saudis die from smoking-related diseases (Itumalla & Aldhmadi, 2020). Research a national policy focusing on a specific tobacco prevention initiative.

Based on what you learned this week, address the following substantive requirements:

Specific age groups impacted by tobacco use in Saudi Arabia.

The role of public health organizations in minimizing the use of tobacco products.

The impact of the policy on tobacco prevention and how it may minimize the adverse health risks associated with the use of tobacco products.

Any social issues concerning the implementation of policy.

Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:

Be five to six pages in length, not including the title or references pages.

Be formatted according to APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University writing guidelines.

Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of three scholarly articles. The Saudi Digital Library is an excellent source for scholarly research. One of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but the others must be external.

You are strongly encouraged to submit all assignments to the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting them to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment to the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check Student Guide.

Reference

Itumalla, R., & Aldhmadi, B. (2020). Combating tobacco use in Saudi Arabia: A review of recent initiatives. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 26(7). http://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-26-2020/volume….

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Module 09: Critical Thinking Assignment 3

Case Study: Creating a culture of safety in response to an adverse event in healthcare (110 points)

For this assignment, you will access the Saudi Digital Library to research a specific case of an adverse event that occurred in healthcare. Using the case that you have identified, you will write a research paper exploring the impact and importance of creating a safety culture in healthcare organizations.

Your research paper shall:

Describe the adverse event that you selected as your case study. Include details of the patient outcome and the contributing factors involved in the adverse event.

Evaluate the impact and importance of creating a patient safety culture in healthcare organizations.

Create an improvement plan to address the issues that were identified in your adverse event case. Your plan shall include analysis of best practices in safety culture.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

Four-to-five pages in length, not including the title or reference pages.

Formatted per APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University standards.

Provide support for your work with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these references.

Provide full APA references for the sources used on a reference page, along with appropriate in-text citations.

Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.

You are strongly encouraged to submit all assignments to the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting them to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment to the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check Student Guide.

Onefile

Please read the following article: Ye, J., Wang, Z., & Hai, J. (2022). Social Networking Service, Patient-Generated Health Data, and Population Health Informatics: National Cross-sectional Study of Patterns and Implications of Leveraging Digital Technologies to Support Mental Health and Well-being. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(4), e30898. https://doi.org/10.2196/30898

Discuss the social determinants of health identified in the study:

Describe the benefits and challenges you see in improving the health of this population.

Discuss any ethical and privacy issues you see in social networking for this patient group.

Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:

Four-to-five pages in length, not including the cover sheet and reference page.

Formatted according to APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University writing standards

Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but the other two must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these references.