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We ask that you treat your statement of purpose as an opportunity to “talk” to the Admissions Committee about the reason(s) you are interested in the MIP program, and the field of international policy in general, and why this program is a good fit with your future goals.

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Statement of Purpose

Stanford : Masters in International Policy

We ask that you treat your statement of purpose as an opportunity to “talk” to the Admissions Committee about the reason(s) you are interested in the MIP program, and the field of international policy in general, and why this program is a good fit with your future goals. The Statement of Purpose should not exceed two pages in length, single-spaced.
Your reasons for applying to the proposed program at Stanford and your preparation for this field of study
Your research and study interests
Future career plans and other aspects of your background and interests which may aid the admission committee in evaluating your aptitude and motivation for graduate study
Please see the department’s website for any additional information they require in the statement of purpose.

Where are you on the Cultural Competency Staircase regarding this patient’s language and culture? How will you progress to the next level?

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Case Studies and Cultures

1. Case Scenario: Mrs. Garcia is located in Chapter 6 on page 112.
Questions:
• Where are you on the Cultural Competency Staircase regarding this patient’s language and culture? How will you progress to the next level? (Review Chapter 1 and the Staircase Model).2-3
• What knowledge do you need to have about this patient, including cultural/language needs, to provide this patient with culturally sensitive care? Beliefs about Religion, Healthcare and Healthcare professionals.
• What would you personally do to address the needs of this patient? I do speak Spanish and would have no problem explaining what is happening to the patient and offering comfort and support.
• What resources do you need, and how would you obtain them? Ensure and translator and communication between staff and daughter.
• What cultural assessment model would you plan to use to assess this patient? Not Sure Yet

2. Case Scenario 1: Ms. Vera Talsford located in Chapter 7 page 131
Questions:

• Have you considered the significance of your death? Yes and I am accepting but am living my life today to the fullest.
• Do you believe in life after death? NO
• Where are you on the Cultural Competency Staircase when caring for patients who are terminally ill? How will you progress to the next level? I feel that having worked in Hospice for many years I am proficient.
• How comfortable are you caring for this patient and discussing issues related to her and her family’s death and dying process? Extremely Comfortable
• What cultural information about the patient will you need to obtain culturally sensitive care during the EOL? Not sure yet
• What kinds of psychological, emotional, and spiritual support would you need if given a similar diagnosis? Not sure yet

 

What is the response of the staff to Milagros’s incomplete health records on her children? What assumptions underlie this response?

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Case Scenarios and Cultures

1. Case Scenario: Milagros Amaro located in Chapter 8 on page 149

Questions:

• What is the response of the staff to Milagros’s incomplete health records on her children? What assumptions underlie this response?
• How could the N.P best communicate with Reynaldo while preserving his rights to privacy and confidentiality?
• What health-related issues are essential when caring for migrant agricultural workers? Why are these health-related issues important?
• What attributes do nurses working with migrant agricultural workers need to refine to function as effective advocates for their patients?

2. Scenario 4: John located in Chapter 9 on page 172

Questions:

• How many interactions have you had with people who identify as LGBTQIA? Would you have known at the time that your patient was LGBTQIA? How might these experiences have prepared you for interactions with patients like John?
• What role do you play as a nurse when John’s family and friends become aware of his gender reassignment plans?
• What are some best practices that organizations can put in place to foster a more welcoming environment for patients who are LGBTQIA? Would you recognize when you need help to approach John’s situation because you are uncomfortable working with someone like him?
• Describe heterosexism, cissexism, homophobia, and transphobia exist? What steps should a nurse take to address these biases?
• What is the most sensitive way to elicit information about health practices that allows the LGBTQIA patient to answer questions honestly and enables the nurse to complete a practical assessment?

What are the anatomical, physiological, pathological, or epidemiological issues? Which body systems are affected? What happens at the cellular or genetic level? Which chemical or biological issues are most important?

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Week 3 Scientific and Mathematical/Analytical Perspectives of Inquiry Paper

Compose a focused paper that explains and describes your healthcare issue/topic from the scientific and mathematical/analytical perspectives of inquiry. (You will cover two perspectives in one paper.)

Address your general topic by forming and answering two levels of research questions for each inquiry.

Choose a “Level 1 Research Question/Writing Prompt” from both of the lists below to answer in the paper.
Compose a “Level 2 Research Question/Writing Prompt” for each kind of inquiry that provides detail, specificity, and focus to your inquiry, research, and writing.
State your research questions in the introduction of your paper.
Answer each research question and support your assertions with evidence (research) to form the body of your paper.
In the conclusion of the paper, briefly review the issues, research questions, answers, and insights.

Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts
SCIENTIFIC Perspective of Inquiry

What are the anatomical, physiological, pathological, or epidemiological issues?
Which body systems are affected?
What happens at the cellular or genetic level?
Which chemical or biological issues are most important?

Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts
MATHEMATICAL/ANALYTICAL Perspective of Inquiry

What are the economic issues involved?
Which economic theories or approaches best explain the issue?
What are the statistical facts related to the issue?
Which statistical processes used to study the issue provide for the best explanation or understanding?
Your paper must be five pages in length and reference four to six scholarly, peer-reviewed resources. Be sure to follow the current APA Style (e.g., spacing, font, headers, titles, abstracts, page numbering).

Write a one to one and a half-page (approximately 500-800 word) essay describing your personal philosophy and theory of teaching.

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Educational Theory and Philosophy

Review all the material in this course, focusing on the philosophies and theories of education, and then conduct your own research about the philosophy and theories that are of greatest interest to you. Write a one to one and a half-page (approximately 500-800 word) essay describing your personal philosophy and theory of teaching. You should list at least one philosophical orientation and one educational theorist, although you are not limited to one of each. To support your position as to why you align with the philosophy and theorist(s) you selected, cite at least two outside source

Explain and evaluate the relationship between HRM theory and practice; Evaluate alternative approaches to selection and assessment; Discuss the relevance and importance of learning and development to HRM; Evaluate current perspectives on diversity management;

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Human Resource Management

Knowledge and Understanding:

 Explain and evaluate the relationship between HRM theory and practice;

 Evaluate alternative approaches to selection and assessment;

 Discuss the relevance and importance of learning and development to HRM;

 Evaluate current perspectives on diversity management;

 Assess various approaches to performance management.

 

Subject-specific Skills:

 Critically evaluate the application of HRM theory to organizational practice;

 Analyze organizational practices.

 While not explaining every item in the SEC 10-K, your paper should tell a story and illustrate your mastery of accounting terms and concepts. 

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Accounting

TWO PART PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Part 1:  Written Report: SEC 10-K Analysis
Using the Internet, access the SEC 10-K annual report for a publicly-traded company of your choice.
You must select a company that is publicly traded and has inventory and accounts receivable. Most students find the SEC 10-K annual report at their company’s web site in sections such as About Us and / or Investor Relations. Look for SEC and Annual Filings (you will often find drop-down menus to click). You must research and secure the SEC 10-K Annual Report for the most recent year. Save the file to your computer for access. Do not print as the report is usually 100 pages or more. Post the name of your company, the SEC 10-K web link, and how you found the SEC 10-K in the SEC 10-K discussion for approval by your professor.
Review the company’s MD&A as well as financial statements and the accompanying footnotes. Use this information to prepare your “analytic” results. The SEC 10-K report and the materials from our class are the only resources you should use. Avoid a copy and paste approach except for the presentation of financial statements.
The content of your paper should focus on accounting issues and include words used in our accounting class, including financial accounting as well as managerial accounting.  Include details you learned this semester.
Use terms from our class along with the research and financial analysis completed for your SEC 10-K company. The use of headings will label the sections in your paper. You should present inventory turnover, days sales in inventory, days sales in accounts receivable, and other financial ratio analysis from our course, both for the current year and as they relate to changes in accounts from one year to the next. Your goal is to explain the financial statements and the information of the SEC 10-K with the knowledge you learn from our class. While not explaining every item in the SEC 10-K, your paper should tell a story and illustrate your mastery of accounting terms and concepts. No more than one page should be devoted to your company’s history and non-financial information.

Part 2:  PowerPoint Presentation
A PowerPoint presentation (no more than 10 slides) will also need to be prepared to summarize and cover the highlights of your paper.  Please post the presentation in the designated SEC 10-K discussion near the end of the semester to share with other students.  Read your classmate’s presentation and provide comments to at least one other posting.
After the discussion week, you should review your PowerPoint presentation and submit the final version in the assignment folder. This is the PowerPoint file to be graded. The PowerPoint Presentation discussion is part of participation and designed to assist you in creating your final project.  However, if you fail to participate in that discussion it may affect the ‘grade’ for your PowerPoint Presentation.  Don’t miss the easy points!

What relevant experiences or insight have led to your interest in the University of Rochester Early Medical Scholars program? Describe how Rochester’s resources: facilities, faculty, peers and research will meet your academic and personal ambitions.

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Interest in the University of Rochester Early Medical Scholars program

What relevant experiences or insight have led to your interest in the University of Rochester Early Medical Scholars program? Describe how Rochester’s resources: facilities, faculty, peers and research will meet your academic and personal ambitions.

The above are not 2 separate questions but 2 parts of the same question.

Analyze the effects of the general environment, competition, threats, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses relative to a corporation.

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External and Internal Environments

Requirements
Write a 4-6 page paper in which you do the following:

Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose.
Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
Considering the five forces of competition, choose the two that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose.
Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two forces in the recent past.
With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation.
Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.
Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
Go to the Strayer University Online Library to locate three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:

Analyze the effects of the general environment, competition, threats, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses relative to a corporation.

Discuss and provide specific strategies of how you can develop these four strengths to establish social competence, problem solving ability, autonomy and a sense of purpose to engage motivated as well as reluctant learners in meaningful learning.

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Classroom managenent Assessment 2

Refer to the doc Assess 2 – for notes on what to include… & a list of the 8 references that need to be used!

Classroom management and student engagement are significant issue for teachers, school leaders and the public. A strengths-based model for working with students in a school setting is the Positive Learning Framework (PLF).

Developing the positive learning framework offers a continuum of teacher behaviours from pre-class planning to in-class teaching, incorporating how to respond to student behaviour. Grounded in positive psychology the PLF is built on the “Circle of Courage”.

The Circle of Courage developed by Brendtro, Brokenleg and Van Bockern (2002) enables educators to shift the classroom focus of controlling problems to building strengths using the four universal needs of Belonging (Attachment), Mastery (Achievement), Independence (Autonomy) and Generosity (Altruism), identified as vital signs for health and growth.

Discuss and provide specific strategies of how you can develop these four strengths to establish social competence, problem solving ability, autonomy and a sense of purpose to engage motivated as well as reluctant learners in meaningful learning.

Supplement your writing with other theorists who have identified major needs that influence student behaviour who may include Adler (1930), Dreikurs (1957) Glasser (1990) and Kohn (1993).

Criteria for assessment:

Clearly articulated strengths based positive learning framework Circle of Courage in terms of beliefs, models/theories and strategies.

Support of ideas with relevant and high quality academic references (minimum of eight (8) different references (refer to doc assess 2).

Demonstration of reflective and critical thinking, showing an awareness of key issues in classroom management.