Read chapter 11 https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781284158823/cfi/6/44!/4/2/4/2/2@0:0

1. Communication may be spoken, written, formal or informal. The text describes five communication practices (e.g. face-to-face, voice mail, etc). What are the pros and cons of these practices? Provide examples.

2. What are some communication barriers (e.g. internal and external forces) described in the text? How might a healthcare administrator or leader address these communication obstacles?

3. The effective healthcare communication video described communication between workers and patients. How might a healthcare administrator use strategies from chapter eleven to improve communication between workers and patients?

 

Please respond to one of the following prompts: 

1. Are you or your immediate supervisor involved with staffing decisions (or imagine if you were)? Are you aware of how staffing forecasts are prepared in your organization? Describe an example. 

2. Do any of the reports you receive in the course of your work use trend analysis (or imagine if you did)? What do you or would you use them for? 

 

Data representation is the act displaying the visual form of your data. The process of identifying the most effective and appropriate solution for representing our data is unquestionably the most important feature of our visualization design. Working on this layer involves making decisions that cut across the artistic and scientific foundations of the field.

Here we find ourselves face-to-face with the demands of achieving that ideal harmony of form and function that was outlined in Chapter 6, Data Representation. We need to achieve the elegance of a design that aesthetically suits our intent and the functional behavior required to fulfill the effective imparting of information.

According to Kirk 2016, in order to dissect the importance of data representation, we are going to “look at it from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives.” Choose three of the storytelling techniques (Pages 161 – 209) in which data is presented and stories are being interpreted. Discuss the importance and the advantages of using these techniques. Provide an example of each technique.

 

For this assignment, I would like you to explore your creative side and design your ideal Farmers Market booth.  Conduct some background research and learn about the requirements for establishing a booth as well as what operating a booth entails.  As always, if you have any questions, feel free to post them in the General Q&A Discussion thread.

Here is your Assignment #4 instructions, grading rubric, and questions:  Farmers Market Planning  (pdf version)

Here’s the Farm Direct FAQ resource you will need to review prior to completing this assignment.

Also, here is a quick “Need Help with Assign #4?” presentation (pdf version) that I put together with some helpful ideas for designing your Farmers Market booth.  There are two YouTube videos linked within the presentation (making your display and booth set-up), which are linked below.

Making your Display  (Links to an external site.)

Booth Set-up (Links to an external site.)