{"id":62,"date":"2022-11-16T00:57:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2022-12-07T19:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T19:03:38","slug":"purchasing-group-spring-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/cmst230\/purchasing-group-spring-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing Group &#8211; Spring 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Purchasing-2021.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"eportfolio_entry_238723\">Group Project 2 \u2013 Small Wins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Group Project 2 \u2013 Small Wins<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CSMT &amp;230 Small Group Communications, Green River College&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group:&nbsp;&nbsp;Purchasing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group Members:&nbsp;&nbsp;Anastaysia&nbsp;Gerasimova, Anthony Jackson, Angelina Tytarchuk, Jace Thackery,&nbsp;Mark Morgan, Usman Choudhary, Virgie Bernabe&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Problem Identification<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unhealthy living is a growing problem in our community.&nbsp;Poor health&nbsp;practices can reduce our quality of life as we&nbsp;get older and has negative effects&nbsp;on ourselves and our loved ones.&nbsp;Health-related diseases and pre-mature death are becoming more&nbsp;prevalent.&nbsp;Poor health creates a&nbsp;strain on a healthcare system which is already struggling to meet the needs of the community.&nbsp;We all learn these unhealthy habits in our youth, unaware of the possible consequences that may be in our future.&nbsp;In this report, we will explore&nbsp;four&nbsp;contributing factors to this problem, which are lack of exercise and water intake as well&nbsp;as&nbsp;eating unhealthy foods&nbsp;and&nbsp;excessive screen time on&nbsp;technology.&nbsp;We will also discuss the&nbsp;actions we are taking to counteract this issue within our community, which we are defining as&nbsp;our \u201cPurchasing Group\u201d in communications class.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Problem Analysis<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We chose this particular \u201csmall win\u201d because healthy living is&nbsp;especially important. Since Covid, we have been restricted to staying inside or sitting at a computer for&nbsp;prolonged periods&nbsp;of time, this has caused us to become very sluggish. Our group wanted to improve our exercise schedule, lesson our screen time, have a better diet, and drink more water. This matters to our group because after this project we want to continue doing these things to better ourselves as individuals, which can contribute to the overall health of&nbsp;our&nbsp;community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution Criteria<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution criteria for the Small Wins group project&nbsp;are&nbsp;that it must be the achievement of a goal or task consistent with the definition of a group from our text. That is, the project includes three or more persons interacting who both influence and are influenced by one another. (Rothwell, 2019, p. 24). The Small Wins project must include a community service&nbsp;component, with our group&nbsp;determining&nbsp;what is both our \u201ccommunity\u201d and who is being \u201cserved.\u201d However, the project must have an actionable activity that is conducted by all the members. Further, the project must be&nbsp;accomplished&nbsp;within the provided timeline of four weeks, along with required documentation and support as described in the assignment. Lastly, the project needs to be consistent with Green River College\u2019s guidelines for the safety and security of students during the COVID-19&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution&nbsp;Suggestions<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the limitations placed upon our group because of location and social regulations, our options for small wins were limited. Our primary focus for ideas revolved around being able to&nbsp;accomplish&nbsp;the tasks individually but also be able to record them to share with the group. Things like eating healthier, increasing water intake, increased exercise and so on. These seemed the most logical&nbsp;regarding&nbsp;recent events. With the limitations on social activities because of COVID-19, our time spent&nbsp;inside,&nbsp;and inaction&nbsp;had&nbsp;increased. So, we decided that our group&#8217;s \u201csmall wins\u201d would be related to increasing our physical health&nbsp;to prevent&nbsp;inactivity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution Evaluation and Selection<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We collectively had lots of health-related \u201csmall win\u201d problems. As a group, we&nbsp;voted&nbsp;to combine the&nbsp;health-related problems as our solution.&nbsp;We evaluated each sub-solution&nbsp;based on the abilities of the group. We asked the question, \u201cCan the solution be implemented with our resources?\u201d&nbsp;We&nbsp;decided to solve the&nbsp;small win by increasing our water consumption, having a healthier diet, exercise regularly, and reducing screen time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution Implementation<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For our \u201csmall wins\u201d project, we started out&nbsp;on the 18th&nbsp;of&nbsp;May&nbsp;when&nbsp;we held a meeting discussing the proposal and plan&nbsp;portion&nbsp;of the project. Together we looked over the&nbsp;documents&nbsp;and&nbsp;had a couple people turn them in. On the&nbsp;22nd&nbsp;of May,&nbsp;we&nbsp;assigned report components to each&nbsp;group member and then&nbsp;discussed the&nbsp;needed pictures for our project.&nbsp;All the pictures\/videos and report components&nbsp;were to be done by the 1st&nbsp;of June.&nbsp;We then had&nbsp;Jace Thackeray voice&nbsp;over Anthony Jacksons\u2019&nbsp;summary and comments of Usman Choudhary. After&nbsp;the voice overs,&nbsp;the video is put into place by Mark Morgan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusions<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The success of the project was contingent on everyone having clear and identifiable goals.&nbsp; As a group we&nbsp;divided the labor and put considerable effort into making our projects goals attainable and meaningful.&nbsp; The \u201cSmall Win\u201d goal was to improve the overall health of our community (Purchasing Group).&nbsp; We drank more water, ate healthier foods, exercised more, and spent less time&nbsp;on technology, which enabled us to successfully meet our goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AgenciaFAPESP. \u201cLack of Physical Exercise during COVID-19 Confinement May Lead to a Rise in Mortality.\u201d&nbsp;<em>EurekAlert!<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2021-01\/fda-lop011921.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2021-01\/fda-lop011921.phpLinks to an external site.<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Importance of a Healthy Diet and Exercise &nbsp; &#8211; &nbsp; Nursing in Practice.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Nursing in Practice<\/em>, 27 Aug. 2020,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursinginpractice.com\/clinical\/obesity-and-nutrition\/nutrition\/the-importance-of-a-healthy-diet-and-exercise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.nursinginpractice.com\/clinical\/obesity-and-nutrition\/nutrition\/the-importance-of-a-healthy-diet-and-exercise\/Links to an external site.<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group Project 2 \u2013 Small Wins Group Project 2 \u2013 Small Wins&nbsp; CSMT &amp;230 Small Group Communications, Green River College&nbsp; Group:&nbsp;&nbsp;Purchasing&nbsp; Group Members:&nbsp;&nbsp;Anastaysia&nbsp;Gerasimova, Anthony Jackson, Angelina Tytarchuk, Jace Thackery,&nbsp;Mark Morgan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-container.php","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/64"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commspeak.com\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}