Essays on Orthopaedics

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Cerebral Palsy Cerebral palsy is a physical disability that results from damage to the brain during development that negatively impacts the functional development of children14. Characteristics of cerebral palsy include an inability to control the body’s motor functioning with a potential to affect speech, learning, environmental exploration, and the skills required for independent living. In addition, these patients have delays in reaching milestones for gross motor development with problems moving such as weakness, spasticity, and impaired selective motor control27. Children born with the disability have varying levels of impairment, and while it usually develops by age three, it ...

Final Marketing Plan

Internal Strengths and Weaknesses: Management, Offerings, Marketing, Personnel, Finance, Manufacturing, and Research and Development (R & D)

b. Industry Analysis c. Competitor Analysis d. Customer Analysis 5. Market-Product Focus 8.0 a. Marketing and Product Objectives b. Target Markets c. Points of Difference d. Positioning 6. Marketing Program 10.0 a. Product Strategy b. Price Strategy (i) Breakeven Analysis c. Promotion Strategy d. Place (Distribution) Strategy 7. Financial Data and Projections 11.0 a. Past Sales Revenues b. Five-Year Projections 8. Organizational Structure 11.0 9. Implementation 12.0 10. Evaluation and Control 12.0

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Executive Summary This paper highlights the marketing plan for orthopaedic shoes. ...

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It is said that in this world, change is the only permanent thing. Indeed, changes in the nursing profession and health care industry are inevitable as a result of external and internal catalysts. Policy reforms occur because of social, economic and political pressures. Knowledge is created every day, technology evolves at a fast pace, and consumer demands change. Organisations must respond effectively by modifying their strategic goals, structures, systems, processes, and culture (Anderson & Ackerman-Anderson, 2001). As a result, the professional roles of nurses expand, clinical practices improve, the work environment benefits from redesign, and patients receive better care. For this reason, change ...

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It can be said that editors function as “gatekeepers”. By deciding which submitted works are rejected and which are passed through for publication, they could be seen as being in a position to shape cultural, political and social thinking, merely by “filtering” the total spectrum of published material from which peoples’ views and opinions are formed. Given that situation exists, how does an editor deal with it? Are the editor’s responsibilities to the readers, or to his/her employer, to a combination of the two, or to himself/herself? Surely an editor has a responsibility to all of these; the difficulty is ...