verview This week you have read about several areas of financing as it relates to the health care system and some health care retail areas that may be of interests. For this assignment, put yourself in a nurse manager, director of nursing, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), or business owner role. Discuss three or more business principles as discussed in the Greg Fisher Power Point-in the learning activities (in your own words) which are needed to maintain safe, quality, patient-centered care that is fiscally sound, provide supportive data. In your discussion consider: Why have you selected the business principles? Are the business principles used at your current facility? If you feel that they are, give supportive examples. If you feel they are not give examples of how they could be implemented. Why are those specific principles important in health care? Why are those specific principles important to you? Your initial post must be posted before you can view and respond to colleagues, must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic. The goal is to make your post interesting and engaging so others will want to read/respond to it. Synthesize and summarize from your resources in order to avoid the use of direct quotes, which can often be dry and boring. No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts. Post a thoughtful response to at least two (2) other colleagues' initial postings. Responses to colleagues should be supportive and helpful (examples of an acceptable comment are: "This is interesting - in my practice, we treated or resolved (diagnosis or issue) with (x, y, z meds, theory, management principle) and according to the literature..." and add supportive reference. Avoid comments such as "I agree" or "good comment." References: Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references. Response posts: Minimum of one (1) total reference: one (1) from peer-reviewed or course materials reference per response .Textbooks:Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, Elsevier Saunders, 2021, 8th edition Read Chapters 16, 17, 31, 46, 66, 67, 69 Do not panic! There are several chapters to read; however, they are brief. Mason, Gardner, Hopkins Outlaw and O’Grady provide succinct explanations and specific examples of health care policy in action. The beginning chapters discuss the philosophy of politics, the readings then continue with media influences, disparities, the importance of EBP, and more. I think this week will be informative and thought provoking. This week I do strongly suggest that you at least skim the supplemental readings. Greg Fisher is a lecturer at the University of Washington. In this PowerPoint he discusses the top ten business principles. This presentation will help you with your discussion boards and ICP. Click here to access the presentation. Are you the weakest link? As you participate in this week’s lecture, you will be able to determine your areas of strengths and your opportunities for growth as a nurse. To access the lecture click here.

Discussion: Central Tendency and Variability Understanding descriptive statistics and their variability is a fundamental aspect of statistical analysis. On their own, descriptive statistics tell us how frequently an observation occurs, what is considered “average”, and how far data in our sample deviate from being “average.” With descriptive statistics, we are able to provide a summary of characteristics from both large and small datasets. In addition to the valuable information they provide on their own, measures of central tendency and variability become important components in many of the statistical tests that we will cover. Therefore, we can think about central tendency and variability as the cornerstone to the quantitative structure we are building. For this Discussion, you will examine central tendency and variability based on two separate variables. You will also explore the implications for positive social change based on the results of the data.To prepare for this Discussion: Review this week’s Learning Resources and the Descriptive Statistics media program. For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Categorical Variables and the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Continuous Variables, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left navigation pane. Review the Chapter 4 of the Wagner text and the examples in the SPSS software related to central tendency and variability. From the General Social Survey dataset found in this week’s Learning Resources, use the SPSS software and choose one continuous and one categorical variable Note: this dataset will be different from your Assignment dataset). As you review, consider the implications for positive social change based on the results of your data.By Day 3Post, present, and report a descriptive analysis for your variables, specifically noting the following:For your continuous variable: Report the mean, median, and mode. What might be the better measure for central tendency? (i.e., mean, median, or mode) and why? Report the standard deviation. How variable are the data? How would you describe this data? What sort of research question would this variable help answer that might inform social change?Post the following information for your categorical variable: A frequency distribution. An appropriate measure of variation. How variable are the data? How would you describe this data? What sort of research question would this variable help answer that might inform social change? Be sure to support your Main Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.