“Trauma awe PTSO: A ainicall Overview”
One symptom of PTSD is that victims often re-experience the trauma in dreams, flashbacks, etc. Discuss some pros and cons to encouraging a seeker/client to re-experience the trauma emotionally during counseling in order to “face” their trauma.
The writer Annie Dillard once observed, “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.” You have completed 13 weeks now in a class learning skills to assist you in achieving your dreams and goals. If we consider that how we did the class is how we will do the future, what do you feel that says about your future? What were your strengths? (Maybe you did every assignment and showed up to every class period this semester in a timely manner—go you!) What were the places where you struggled? (Maybe every journal wasn’t a deep dive for you. You’re still a good person and now you can focus in on those lessons later!) What were the areas where you still aren’t where you need to be? (Maybe you have always had problems with self motivation— what tools do you have now to assist you in addressing the issue?)
Reflect on the questions above and write an essay which thoughtfully and fully answers this question: If how I do the class is how I do life, what does that mean and how will I use that information?
Part I.
Identify describe, and define the following terms and quote/reference where they come up in course readings. In addition explain the historic or cultural context. Answers should be a few sentences. (5 points each)
1. The Mending Apparatus
2. “James”
3. Eduardo Galeano
4. Emancipation Proclamation
5. Caged Bird
6. Bird, Charlie Parker
7. Grace
8. Harlem
9. Admonition
10. Epistolary form
PART II. ONE ESSAY, 50 points each.
Answer one of the following question complexes by constructing ONE essay. The essay should include a thesis statement and consistent references to course texts.
Using quotes and references to both texts, compare what Oliver Sacks and E.M. Forster say or show in “The Machine Stops.” Has humanity become too reliant on machines? What does the literature show about the consequences of over reliance and misuses of technology? What happens when the machine stops and how does this relate to America and the world today?
Analyze the imagery of black and white in course readings. How is the imagery of dark or light embodied in symbols like fire, knowledge, and/or the bright or dark future of humanity? How do specific colors, such as white, black, blue, or purple symbolize ideas of tragedy or hope, purity or impurities? How do any or the course texts ( poems, stories and/or essays) invert fixed stereotypes or cultural associations of light and dark?
Using references and quotes from the course texts, discuss what the readings show about the state of humanity? What diverse perspectives or aspects of being human do the readings explore and how? Why are a range of different memories, identities, and observations important for humanity?
Extra -Credit: What does Oliver Sacks mean by “Humean Casualities” as a threat to history and the future of humanity?
Instructions
You are a municipal budget analyst. Using your favorite search engine, locate the budget of a municipality that has completed a petition to file bankruptcy. Some examples include Detroit, Michigan; Stockton, California; Central Falls, Rhode Island; San Bernardino, California; Prichard, Alabama; and Vallejo, California.
Develop your case study findings and recommendations consisting of no less than two pages in which you discuss the prompts listed below.
Briefly describe the municipality’s demographics.
Evaluate the previous three-year trend of the municipality’s major revenue sources and expenditures.
Analyze the impact of the issues contributing to the municipality’s budget deficiencies.
Propose three alternative financing options.
Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.
The service unit, or output, for this department is the number of procedures performed. A static budget was prepared at the beginning of the year. Examine that budget in relation to actual experience. The relevant data are included in Table 17-18 in your course text. The department manager is pleased because the department has a favorable $120,000 cost variance. Evaluate the effectiveness claims of the manager using the budgetary variance mode described in Chapter 17. What is your analysis of the department manager’s performance? Explain your reasoning.
While reading, circle three significant images you will write about. Your post should discuss one of these images and state what it means.
While reading notice the role of poetic narrator and their voice. Who is the poetic narrator and what is their point of view (1sr, 2nd or 3rd person)? What are the issues of voice?
The forum post might comment upon why the narrator in Plath’s poem “Daddy” says “every woman adores a fascist”–do you agree? What kind of a gender statement is this?
Also. what is the meaning of the word “Admonition” and why is it the title of Plath’s poem about a bird?
What is the difference between the “Bluebird” by Bukowski and Wanda Coleman’s “Bluesbird”?
What does image of a bird represent?
Why is it so prevalent in poetry and prose?
Where does the image of “bird” come up in “Sonny’s Blues” and why?
Explain the criteria that should be used when determining the credibility of journal articles as well as websites.
Support your explanations with references to the literature or research articles that describe criteria that should be used to determine credibility.
Your identification and determination of credibility should be done within the context of your chosen scenario for this assessment. For example, if you choose to use the provided Vila Health scenario, your initial identification of resources should be of resources that will best help address the presented issue. However, if you are locating resources to help provide evidence-based care for the diagnosis/health care issue you identified in the first assessment, you may want to begin your literature and evidence search from the databases that were identified. Any of the three scenario options are acceptable. So, pick the one that most interests you.
Be sure to address the following in this assessment, which correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Study the scoring guide carefully so that you will know what is needed for a distinguished score.
Describe a quality or safety issue, or a chosen diagnosis, that could benefit from an evidence-based approach.
Explain criteria that should be considered when determining credibility of resources such as journal articles and websites.
Analyze the credibility and relevance of evidence and resources within the context of a quality or safety issue, or a chosen diagnosis.
This is where you are selecting the specific resources to help address the issue in your chosen scenario.
Identify the Evidence-Based Practice model and explain the importance of incorporating credible evidence into the EBP model used to address a quality or safety issue, or a chosen diagnosis/health care issue. Review the literature below and choose the appropriate model for your diagnosis/health care issue.
Selecting a model for evidence-based practice changes. [PDF] and Evidence-Based Practice Models help explain the various evidence-based nursing models.
Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.
Additional Requirements
Create a 1-2-page resource that will describe databases that are relevant to EBP around a diagnosis you chose and could be used to help a new hire nurse better engage in EBP.
Introduction
Evidence-based practice (EBP) integrates the best evidence available to guide optimal nursing care, with a goal to enhance safety and quality. EBP is crucial to nursing practice because it incorporates the best evidence from current literature, along with the expertise of the practicing nurse. The concern for quality care that flows from EBP generates a desired outcome. Without these factors, a nurse cannot be an effective leader. It is important to lead not only from this position but from knowledge and expertise. To gain the knowledge, you require a good understanding of how to search for scholarly resources, as well as identify which databases and websites are credible for the purposes of implementing evidence-based changes in practice.
Professional Context
As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will be responsible for providing patient-centered, competent care based on current evidence-based best practices. You will be required to do research, analysis, and dissemination of best evidence to stay abreast of these best practices. Understanding where to go to find credible sources and locate evidence, as well as which search terms to use, is the foundation of incorporation of best practices.
Scenario
You are supervising three nurses working on the medical-surgical floor of a local teaching hospital. This hospital is nationally recognized as a leader in education and has a computer lab with an online library where staff has access to medical research databases (that is, CINAHL, PubMed, Medline, and Cochrane library) and online sources of all hospital policies, procedures, and guidelines, and computers at nurse workstations that also have access to these resources. (For this scenario, use the Capella University Library to simulate the hospital’s online library.) You have given the nurses their patient assignments and you have all participated in shift report. A new nurse who just completed orientation and training a week ago approaches you and tells you that one of the assigned patients has a diagnosis he or she is very unfamiliar with. Knowing that patient-centered care based on best practices is imperative to positive patient outcomes, you want to assist this nurse to find research that can be utilized to provide the best care for this patient. Describe how you would communicate with this nurse to encourage him or her to research the diagnosis. Assume you will assist in the quest to locate evidence, then describe where you would go within the facility and what resources you would look for. These resources may include websites, journals, facility policies or guidelines, or any other sources of online information.
You may choose the diagnosis for the patient in this scenario. Choose something you would find interesting to research or that applies to a clinical problem you would be interested in addressing. Create a list of at least five sources that could be used to find evidence, with the best source listed first, and explain why the sources you chose are best to find evidence for the diagnosis you chose and the clinical scenario. You are only evaluating the sources of evidence (database, website, policy database or website, et cetera). You are not actually completing a search and selecting evidence. Consider the following examples: a nursing journal in CINAHL may not be the best source of evidence for information on how to administer medications through a central-venous catheter, whereas a hospital policy database found on a website may not be the best source of information on caring for a patient with a rare chromosomal abnormality.
Preparation
To help ensure you are prepared to complete this assessment, review the following resources related to the Capella library. These resources will provide you an overview of the types of tools, resources, and guides available in the library. This may be useful in forming a better understanding of the library to apply to the hypothetical situation laid out in the scenario of this assessment.
BSN Program Library Research Guide.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Health Sciences.
Databases A-Z: Nursing & Health Sciences.
Get Critical Search Skills.
Remember, it is also appropriate to look toward databases and resources outside of the Capella library, such as organizational policies, professional organizations, and government health care resources.
You are encouraged to complete the Evaluating the Credibility of Evidence activity. This activity offers an opportunity to practice evaluating the credibility of evidence. These skills will be necessary to complete Assessment 1 successfully and is for your own practice and self-assessment. Completing this activity is also a way to demonstrate course engagement.
Instructions
The purpose of this assessment is to understand where to find evidence that can be applied to clinical scenarios and to learn effective communication and collaboration with clinical staff during the process of evidence location. As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will not only use research for self-improvement in your clinical role, but you will also serve as a mentor to supervised nursing staff. Therefore, you will need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively to guide them toward resources to find research, as well as support them through the initial evidence location process. In doing so, nurses can gain access to evidence that can be analyzed and utilized to stay current on best practices. This allows them to provide safe, patient-centered care and improve patient outcomes.
For this assessment:
Describe your role as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse supervising clinical staff nurses with regard to communication and collaboration in locating evidence for application to a nursing practice scenario.
Compile a list of five online databases or other online sources (that is, websites, journals, facility policies or guidelines, et cetera) that can be used to research evidence to apply to this scenario and describe to which of these you would direct a nurse colleague to search for evidence.
Describe where you might go in the clinical setting to complete this research and how you would access the desired, relevant research within research databases or other online sources.
Be sure to address the following in this assessment, which correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so that you will know what is needed for a distinguished score.
Describe communication strategies to encourage nurses to research the diagnosis, as well as strategies to collaborate with the nurses to access resources.
Describe the best places to complete research and what types of resources you would want to access to find pertinent information for the diagnosis within the context of a specific health care setting.
Identify five sources of online information (medical journal databases, websites, hospital policy databases, et cetera) that could be used to locate evidence for a clinical diagnosis.
Explain why the sources of online information selected should provide the best evidence for the chosen diagnosis.
Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.
Note: While you are not selecting and evaluating specific evidence to help with the clinical diagnosis, you should still be citing the literature and best practices to support your description of your communication and collaboration approach. Additionally, it is appropriate to cite best practices related to EBP and evaluating databases to support your explanation as to why you selected the five sources of online information that you did.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Interpret findings from scholarly quantitative, qualitative, and outcomes research articles and studies.
Explain why the sources selected should provide the best evidence for the chosen diagnosis.
Competency 2: Analyze the relevance and potential effectiveness of evidence when making a decision.
Describe the best places to complete research and what types of resources one would want to access to find pertinent information for a diagnosis within the context of a specific health care setting.
Competency 4: Plan care based on the best available evidence.
Identify five sources of online information (medical journal databases, websites, hospital policy databases, et cetera) that could be used to locate evidence for a clinical diagnosis, and ensure three out of five are specific to the diagnosis.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead practice changes based on evidence.
Describe communication strategies to encourage nurses to research a diagnosis, as well as strategies to collaborate with the nurses to access resources.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
As a research based novel, how is this different from the other texts you read this semester? How is racialization, as demonstrated in Menchaca, evident in Bolivar? How is diversity, as demonstrated in Takaki and Zinn, in Bolivar? How did Bolivar’s class and color privilege him or not? What other characters (and what were their castas) were important in the revolution?
Final Paper: Group Analysis and Learning Summary
In an experiential learning model, it is essential to take time to reflect upon your learning experiences. Since these are personal observations, you are expected to make “I” statements. In this paper, you will examine your entire Task Group experience. You must provide examples to illustrate the application of these learnings. Your examples need to be based on your own reflection, feedback from others and experiences from your task group. Be specific! This paper is 4–5 pages in length and is typed, double spaced (excluding cover page, Table of Conten2t, Appendices, and Bibliography). You are not expected to include an introduction and conclusion. A minimum of three references from three different sources should be used and provided in APA format. Please use the concepts and theories that you have learned in both AHSC 230 and AHSC 232.
1. We studied 3 (three) different group theories: Tuckman, Schutz, and Gibb. Of these three theories do you consider would be the most supportive in helping group members observe what is impacting a group’s progress (pick just one). What is it about this theory that you consider to be so helpful?
2. What group member roles did you generally lean to in this group experience?(Coordinator) Give specific examples and discuss the impact these roles can have on the group; (positive and even possibly negative). Which group member roles would you like to become more skillful in applying for your next group experience? And why? Refer to Chapter 3 in your text.(Attached chapter)
3. What role, if any, did conflict play in your group? (No) Was the conflict open or more hidden? What role did your personal conflict style play in this experience?Collaborating) If there was no conflict, why do you think that was so?Refer to Chapter 8 in your text.Attached Chapter)
4. Envision a situation in an up–coming course that involves group work: What have you learned here that you believe will be very helpful in supporting your contributions to this next task group experience? What do you believe will continue to be challenging for you?(obervations/refelctions); doesn’t have to be this, make it up if you need to.
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