1. BP Proposal: Your Start- Up BusinessFor this class, you will be ‘starting’ a business of your choosing, so you must decide what business you are interested in and submit a proposal with a brief description for approval.The constraints in selecting your business include:Your business must NOT be a seasonal business.You cannot use a franchise.Your business cannot be an ‘Online’ business.Your business must be a for-profit business.You must have face to face interaction with your customer.You cannot change your business choice after it is approved.Be sure to select a business that you are interested in, as you will be doing research all semester on this particular industry.Submit your proposal as a short memo (business format) describing what your business will be, where you will be located and any additional details such as; will it be a home based business or storefront? Your business MUST be approved by me. BE SURE TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT AS WELL! 2. Complete Key Concept Questions in back of text chapter:2-6: Explain why a prospective business founder might want to create a feasibility study or Business Model Canvas before developing a complete business plan.2-7: How can spending time researching and writing a business plan save an entrepreneur time and money in the short and long term?2-9: Explain why the executive summary is the most important section of any business plan.

Imagine you completed an interview with a potential employer one week ago, and are anxiously awaiting the results. One afternoon, you receive a phone call from the employer and they offer you the position! While you are very excited about the opportunity, you know it is in your best interest to review the entire offer and benefits package before accepting. You graciously and politely thank the employer for contacting you, and request 48 hours to review the offer and respond. The employer agrees, and emails you a copy of the full offer description.Upon reviewing the offer description, you notice that the salary is lower than you anticipated, and the benefits package does not describe an option for dental insurance. Your son and has been visiting the dentist regularly for orthodontic work, so dental insurance is very important to you. Also, your son is now a teenager and you would like to contribute to his college fund, since he will be graduating in a few years. Any additional income you can get will be very helpful. Outside of these two issues, the job offer looks very appealing and you are excited about the opportunity to join this company.With this in mind, you decide you would like to negotiate with the employer in hopes of obtaining a higher salary and inquire about the availability of dental insurance. Before making the call, you prepare a list of talking points and strategies you will use to make the conversation go as smoothly as possible.

Case Study #1: Jasmine University School of Nursing  Faculty of Jasmine University School of Nursing have worked diligently to develop a new curriculum. Although they considered the advantages of an upper-division nursing program, they decided to continue with their 4-year integrated curriculum. The new curriculum is based in phenomenology, feminism, and humanism, with a strong emphasis on community-based nursing. However, hospital-based practice remains a feature of the curriculum. Concurrent with the introduction of the new curriculum will be a fifty percent increase in the class size from 100 to 150. For more than 35 years, university students have had on-campus classes from Monday to Wednesday, with hospital-and community-based clinical practice on Thursday and Friday, during the day. Other nursing programs in the city have had clinical experiences at other times. As they discuss phasing out the existing curriculum and introducing the redesigned one, faculty identify a significant problem with clinical placements. Currently, fourth-year students have an experience on maternal-infant units in the fall semester. In the changed curriculum, this experience is scheduled in the fall and winter semesters of the second year (75 students in each semester). Both groups have 2 days of clinical experience each week. This means that for 2 consecutive years, 100 fourth-year students and 75 second-year students require placements on the same units on the same days in the fall semester. In addition, the popularity of home births, discharges from hospital, 8–24 hours after delivery, and city-wide hospital restructuring, will lead to a 40% decrease in the number of family birthing rooms. What are the logistical considerations in this case? What options are possible to address this situation? What are the likely implications for students, faculty, and clinical agency personnel for each of the options proposed? Should faculty reconsider the design of the new curriculum? Justify whether or not they should. In what ways can faculty prevent situations such as this when a revised curriculum is being planned and implemented? Case Study #2  A national nursing accrediting body has notified you that your program is due for reaccreditation in 3 years. What steps must you take to be prepared for the accreditation team? Develop a plan of action to evaluate and document student and program outcomes, and organize the documents obtained. Based on the best evidence, choose an evaluation model and evaluation tools, develop a method to track outcome evidence, and a plan to delegate certain evaluation components. Develop a timeline and action plan. Discuss your timeline, action plan, and impact of accreditation with at least two other students. What are the evaluation obstacles facing your nursing program and what plan do you have to overcome these obstacles? Required Textbooks: Billings, D. M. & J. A. Halstead. (2012). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty (4th ed.). St. Louis: Saunders. ISBN: 9781455705511 Keating, S. B. (2011). Curriculum development and evaluation in nursing (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN: 978-0826107220 Iwasiw, C., Goldenberg, D., & Andrusyszyn, M. (2009). Curriculum development in nursing education (2nd ed.). Boston: Jones & Bartlett. ISBN: 978-0763755959