Business Analysis

Economy is a field that needs companies and business institutions to be competitive in order to face the great market races among different business entities and this raises the importance of business analysis in order to understand the business needs and work directly to achieve them without wasting time in working on the wrong problems or repeating the same done work. To discuss business analysis, it is should be first defined as a system of research which recognizes the main needs and requirements of the business, identifying problems and suggest the perfect and most suitable solutions to them. Solutions can be of many aspects such as developing the main components of the systems, improving the business processes, upgrading the business techniques to cope with the state of the art technologies in the market, achieving planned organizational change and doing the strategic plans required to reach competitive advantage in the relevant business field. This returns back with great benefits for the company and it also saves the company efforts and time. Business analysis is usually done by a business analyst who can work in technology progress and analyzing technical issues to be a technical business analysis or to develop the software of the system to be an IT business analyst and there are also other types of business analysts regarding to the kind of analysis they perform in the company. Requirement analysis is usually heavy and overlapping, however, its main task is to achieve specified strategic goals via applying some organizational changes in almost all parts of the business and its policies.        

The Importance of Nursing Interventions in Heart Failure

To define heart failure or Cognitive Heart Failure, it is important to refer to it as a condition of the heart disability of meeting the body metabolic needs via pumping the needed amount of blood to it and it is a physiologic state that occurs to human body due to changing functions of the left ventricle systolic and diastolic. The normal blood volume is very essential for the body and when it is difficult to manage it by the hear, heart failure occurs. Some diseases can cause it as intrinsic disease. Heart failure is not a disease specifically and there are some other conditions that helps its development as such conditions could share in the heart damage or weakness which leads the heart to the state of disability to pump blood. Heart muscles may be weak , ventricles may dilate and failure occurs. Not all cases of heart failure are congestive as a person may only suffer breath shortness or weakness due to heart failure but not a must to have fluid building up. Right side, left side or both heart sides could be affected by the heart failure but the left side is the most frequent begin of heart failure. A specialist nurse can be very helpful in cases of heart failure as she can provide the patient with health care that could cover any deficiencies in the medical care provided to him or her. Routine care must be allied with the nursing interventions which proved to reduce relevant death cases to chronic heart failure. Nursing interventions related to heart failure states can include contacting patients by telephones and planned home visitations in order to provide them with the best education regarding treating heart failure and how to deal with the situation as well as encouraging patients to follow a special dietary system that helps them to be cured soon and to take the needed drugs for treatment besides following a sporting exercise program suitable for their health condition. Self management is also taught via nursing interventions as a patient needs to know how to monitor his case and early detect any signs of heart failure. A nurse should be helped by the work of other members in the multidisciplinary team specially social workers and psychologists who can provide patients with psychological help when needed. A nurse can do the routine hospital interventions which include assessing the patient's heart rhythm and frequency, assessing the pallor and cyanosis skin, recording sounds of the heart as well as ensuring that the patient is receiving care in a clean safe comfortable care environment in heart failure 1 which differs in heart failure2 and 3. When the nursing interventions done specifically and carefully by a specialized nurse who is well acknowledged with the nursing role, readmission risks can be reduced in the hospital as well as reducing deaths rates specially in old aged patients. Nursing interventions in heart failure cases are very important specially when the case is still in the beginning as educating the patient to follow a diet and do some exercises can help a lot in preventing future patient complications.   

Intestinal Parasites

According to (Bundy, 1997) the world is encountering a great problem and it is apparent specifically in developing countries as it is the intestinal parasites which represents a great health problem that needs much work from researchers. Reports issued by the World Health Organization, 1999 show that yearly there are deaths caused mainly by parasitosis as well as infectious and this happens to an estimated number of three million persons every year.(WHO, 1999) Intestinal Parasites are of two main kinds which are protozoa and helminthes which are many cells containing worms such as pinworms, tapeworms and roundworms which are very common in USA. They do not have the ability of multiplying in human bodies when they are in their adult state. It is only one cell that forms the protozoa which has the ability of multiplying into human bodies which is a very serious case of developing infections into human bodies. Infections via faces specially are most common for getting infected by intestinal parasites such as getting contact which is direct with an infected person.  Such as any other health conditions, intestinal parasites have symptoms and signs that distinguish them from other diseases while parasites can spend years living in a human intestine with no clear symptoms. Symptoms can appear as diarrhea, pain in the abdomen, bloating, gas, weight loss, tiredness, tenderness, dysentery or passing a worm into one's stool. Intestinal parasites are caused by many things but there are specific things that raise the risk of having it such as going to a place that is carrying parasites, being in a poor hygiene areas, having AIDS or HIV or having an immune system which is weak.A healthcare provider when diagnoses if a patient has intestinal parasites or not asks a patient about losing weight, traveling and asks the patient to make some tests such as fecal testing, the "Scotch tape" test and x-rays in serious conditions. Intestinal parasites could be treated via many ways such as drug therapies, conventional medical treatments and alternative methods of treating will be used by a healthcare giver in order to treat the patient and this depends on each individual condition.

  

Electronic Marketing

In the past, marketing depended mainly on exporting and importing processes in order to distribute goods to as many people as possible locally and internationally through making advertising campaigns for the products in newspapers, on TV, in magazines, in streets, via post mailing and in local communities campaigns. It was difficult for some small businesses to market their products internationally as international marketing depended on traveling abroad, using telephone services which were very expensive and it could not also access to remote places of the world but this has changed today due to the revolution of communication which resulted in various aspects of marketing that depended on communications of this age such as mobiles, faxes and internet services such as e-mails for example. This essay is going to discuss what is known today with electronic marketing which has changed the lives of many people who turned to be rich through their efforts in electronic marketing.

There are many people who defined electronic marketing and some of them referred to it by email marketing because it is simply marketing a product through using the email services via sending a message to people's emails, a message that contains a commercial content aiming at a specific commercial target. The use of emails within electronic marketing is very vast and comprehensive as such commercial emails could differ in their contents, for example; some companies prefer to send emails that contain advertisements of their products, donations, sales and offers can be included in the emails. Listing and database building are very essential steps for electronic marketing as business entities give them great interest as such lists could include the current clients of a business company or the scales of interested people in a certain field that the business deals with so renewing and updating them is very important. Email marketing could be of two main types which are the direct emails or the transactional ones. There are advantages and disadvantages for email marketing just as any thing else, among the advantages are that the fast immediate reach for anyone's email which saves the company's time and efforts, it is considered a marketing strategy that is very profitable for any business, the low costs compared with the post mail, the good number of people who chose to subscribe to receive such emails and get offers in time and the fame of digital marketing among internet users who are the majority of people on earth today. Yet there are also disadvantages for such kind of marketing as the illegal marketers who force people to receive their emails and sometimes to deceive them to buy bad products or may be to steal their bank accounts, hack their computers and cause many other harms to them. Spam laws must be more strict with those people who try to deceive others via email marketing. Email marketing or electronic marketing is a very useful strategy for marketing any kind of services or products even if the business is very small but it is important to get a legal mail list and to stop bother others who are not interested with the spam emails.    

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance(QA) has been a very essential matter for all business entities, institutions, organizations and any company today that seeks success, having a good fame and reputation, be respectable by its clients and reach the global measurements of quality that ensures the services provided for customers who now trust such accreditations and certificates that ensures quality of a specific organization or institution. All fields of business now seek and look forward to having the certificates of quality such as ISO and others. There are many other important issues relevant to quality assurance such as safety ensuring, risk management and human resources care, these relevant issues must be put into consideration of management systems and administrative staff of any organization that looks forward to getting the quality assurance high levels. There are important factors and essential steps that an organization must pass before getting the accreditation and quality certificates such as being tested at many levels of quality by experts who follow certain procedures to judge the quality of an organization. To reach quality  assurance, any organization must check the quality of its assets and facilities in order to specify the shortage and put a strategy plan for doing the needed amendments and changes in these areas that need such changes. All staff members and administrators must cooperate in order to identify the shortage and put the changing plan which must be agreed by everyone and supervised while being achieved by the administrators and managers who guide individuals towards achieving the changes that ensure quality achievement. Excellence in all the company's component is a main goal that must be reached as much as possible as current condition and situation of the company is measured and analyzed so as to do the changes that lead to this excellence. The organization must follow specific steps to reach excellence beginning with setting a main goal for the organization then putting a strategic plan depends on cooperation and after that analysis must be done and changes are specified and at last after doing the changes, an evaluation process must be performed to check the validity of work and to measure the excellence level of the organization. Changes, amendments and improvements done in the business help it to promote itself, be progressed and reach high levels of competitive advantage among other rivals in the market and this ensures quality which raises the company's opportunities in success and in gaining profits besides having a good reputation in the market signed with the best service delivery for its clients. Competition forces any business entity to give great attention to details and to monitor how tasks are performed by the individuals who represent the company's human resource. Human resources must be given great interest and care in order to work in teams effectively and to have job satisfaction that enables them to provide the best services they can and to feel belonging to the organization which raises the company's chance in success and reach quality assurance in all its components.   

Outsourcing

Outsourcing is a term used in the field of business, among entities and business companies and it means to deliver business processes or a part of them to a third party to be contracted on and this process could lead to great changes in the business organization such as moving the company's main assets and staff to another company, the contracting third party. This process is meant for the company welfare as it helps increase profits of the company due to the activities of the third party in marketing and procurement. The outsourcing process could be made as to deliver responsibility to a local company or to a foreign one, off shoring is sometimes included in such a process as well as relocation from one country to another. Outsourcing and off shoring depend mainly on the savings that belong to low labor rates. Outsourcing depends sometimes on online technologies which enables businessmen to manage their work virtually such as the business of designing websites and managing them as all details of business can be managed online which saves a lot of human resources costs. You might ask a question which is why companies do such an outsourcing practice for its business? The answer is included in the fact that the company here seeks reducing costs as getting rid of taxes, costs of high energy machinery and human resources costs. United States companies are the most companies to get benefits from outsourcing as U.S rates and taxes are known to be very high. The opposite of outsourcing is insourcing which means to bring processes for the company by a third party which could be a company and it sometimes includes vertical integration. When a company has a sort of shortage in skills or experiences in a specific business part, it is said that outsourcing can help improve the status of the company regarding that part of business. Outsourcing must follow an environmental policy so as to keep environmental standards on a good acceptable level. Outsourcing has worked to level what is known as global inequalities which are related to what outsourcing lead to of industrialization and deindustrialization. 

Management Information Systems

MIS is a system that depends mainly on computers and this system is established for the purpose of providing managers with all means of managing, evaluating and organizing the company or the organization work in its departments in a computer-based easy technique. This system is designed to improve the efficient strength of the department by having a strong wide software system includes programs for databases, decision making programs, human resources management and projects management as well as being supported by a hardware system for resources and all additional process, systems and programs that help raise the organization and the department efficiency. Each MIS department within an organization has its own manager who is responsible for studying the technology systems of an organization besides identifying the obstacles that may hinder the work in the organization, analyze them, and evaluate them to find proper solutions for them with the help of suitable advanced computer applications. The importance for having MIS within organizations of all types and specialists today has been increasing these days for many reasons. There are many challenges that face the business organizations of today, all businesses have their own websites which needs management to let the company reach market competitive advantage and be well ranked among other entities. Complex decisions that modern managers have to make today requires them to be able to access wide areas containing huge amounts of information which could be facilitated by the management information systems within the organization. Business running dynamics have been changed greatly as a result of MIS which changed them a lot, for example: decentralization is a matter that helped a lot for giving managers more spaces of time to do more strategic activities by its role of operations monitoring. MIS can also reduce the load of information in the organization. There are many management levels to use MIS to provide the business organization with future support for decision making procedures, goals achieving practices and support financial accounting systems. To be effective in their work, MIS have to include the operations time frames and presentation formats and they have to be suitable for each operation. There are manual systems and operative ones for getting and developing the MIS and they can be used each one separately or to be both combined together. Each institution or an organization has its own targets, goals and missions that need to be met by those Management Information Systems as MIS which are effective provide a strong support for the delivery of the business organization outputs effectively that's why it is essential to access such systems easily within the organization at all levels that seem to be appropriate. Each institution has its own general strategy and general risk management strategy that considers MIS as a main part of that strategy and a critical one that MIS are used for reducing risk potentials and manage them. MIS helps also in the planning process of an organization but accurate control procedures must be set for ensuring accuracy and reliability of the information and so as to avoid errors or irrelevant data. Each business organization has to set a MIS strategy for its all benefits.