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Explain how you would respond to the scenario as an advanced practice nurse using evidence-based practice guidelines and applying ethical considerations.

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As an advanced practice nurse, you will run into situations where a patient’s wishes about his or her health conflict with evidence, your own experience, or a family’s wishes. This may create an ethical dilemma. What do you do when these situations occur?

The parents of a 5-year-old boy have accompanied their son for his required physical
examination before starting kindergarten. His parents are opposed to him receiving any vaccines.

Select one scenario from above, and reflect on the material presented throughout this course.

What necessary information would need to be obtained about the patient through health assessments and diagnostic tests?

Consider how you would respond as an advanced practice nurse. Review evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations applicable to the scenarios you selected.

The Lab Assignment
Write a detailed one-page narrative (not a formal paper) explaining the health assessment information required for a diagnosis of your selected patient (include the scenario number).

Explain how you would respond to the scenario as an advanced practice nurse using evidence-based practice guidelines and applying ethical considerations.

Justify your response using at least three different references from current evidence-based literature.

Why are leaders able to influence organizational culture ?

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Why are leaders able to influence organizational culture ?

What are the outcomes of each solution? Who (e.g., stakeholders) will they affect? How will each solution harm or help people?

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Potential Solutions and Impacts

Analyze the efforts being made by those in the profession to resolve the dilemma (rules, standards, codes of conduct, laws, etc.).

Consider the likely impacts of various solutions. What are the outcomes of each solution? Who (e.g., stakeholders) will they affect? How will each solution harm or help people? Explain any totally unacceptable solutions.

Demonstration of reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical abilities in applying what you are learning about ethical issues in the professions. Because you will be using your text or outside sources of information, provide in-text citations and references using APA formatting.

Why is scientific knowledge in the modern world completely objective and value-free?

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Why is scientific knowledge in the modern world completely objective and value-free?

An introduction (150 words), which sets out the work that is being examined and how it has bearing on the question listed above. The introduction should indicate to the reader the main argument that is being pursue.
In the main body of the essay (450/500).

2 discussion points/paragraphs, is expected to:
provide a summary of what the work argues.
expected to devote a significant portion to evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the work selected.

This may involve engaging to the ideas of others who have appraised the work in some form. And it may involve bringing in own thoughts and ideas, which are logically consistent and relevant.

The conclusion (150 words) of the critique needs to convey to the reader what is being communicated in the essay and it needs to make a final statement in answer to the assigned question.

The requirements of the assignment,
put forward an argument that appropriately responds to the question listed above.

write a clear and concise introduction that sets out what will argue.
structure the critique in a logical and coherent manner.
produce a conclusion that makes a final statement in answer to the assigned question.
give a title to your critique that does not simply repeat the critique question.

Evaluate the evidence on the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on biological stress markers.

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MBSR

Evaluate the evidence on the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on biological stress markers

Why Should High School Start Later?

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Why Should High School Start Later?

Examine and assess Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika’s theory of the self (ātman) and of what constitutes liberation (mokṣa).

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How convincing is Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika’s analysis of reality as an ontology of seven ‘categories of things that exist’ (padārthas)? [Feel free to address what you wish of this theory, e.g. their theory of substances and qualities/actions, their theory of universals and particularities, their theory of the relation of inherence (samavāya), viz. identity-in-difference, (and whether inherence is both coherent and sufficient to integrate their pluralistic ontology into a unified whole).]

• Examine and assess Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika’s theory of the self (ātman) and of what constitutes liberation (mokṣa).

• Examine and assess Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika’s doctrine that the effect does not exist in its cause (asatkāryavāda). You may wish to consider here their mereological arguments claiming that wholes are ontologically distinct from their parts.
• Examine and assess Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika’s theory of the realism of universals (sāmānya) and/or their theory of the realism of nonexistences (abhāva).

• Assess Nyāya’s theory of valid inference (anumāna), including whether their doctrine of the invariable concomitance/pervasion of properties solves the problem of induction.

• Assess the debate between Nyāya’s doctrine of four valid means of knowledge (pramāṇa) and the Materialist (Carvāka) School’s doctrine that perception is the only valid means of knowledge (pramāṇa).

• Does Nyāya theory of the valid means of knowledge (pramāṇa) give a satisfactory account of what knowledge is, of what establishes what knowledge is, and of. how we know that we know?

Analyze and explain your research and writing process to this point.

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Research Methodology

Write a 500-word in-class essay in which you explore your research and writing process during the first half of the semester.

During the past two months, you have been building your research and writing skills. This essay should demonstrate your ability to self-reflect and to retain information and new learning in the following areas: a) critical/analytic thinking; b) inquisitive thinking, c) research methodology; and d) original, organized, fully-developed, research-based writing.
TOPIC
We completed the Edgar Allan Poe Documentary/study, your writer research, your writer annotated bibliography, and your writer paper.

Analyze and explain your research and writing process to this point. Explore your research methodology in a fully developed manner.

 

Critically analyze the key concepts and theories of leadership in organizations, reflect on and evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses as a leader, and develop well-informed strategies to improve your own leadership practice.

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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Part 2: Reflective Journal (70% of the final grade)

The second part of your assessment is a 2,500-word reflective journal. Critically analyze the key concepts and theories of leadership in organizations, reflect on and evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses as a leader, and develop well-informed strategies to improve your own leadership practice

To prepare for this assessment, each week (1-7) you were asked to write about your learning from that week and the implications for your leadership practice in a reflective journal.

For the final summative assessment, you should choose five reflective journal entries which you feel best meet the module learning outcomes to submit.

You should draw on the group’s discussion of the case and explain how the ideas and perspectives of your peers have shaped your understanding of the situation.

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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Description of Assessment Task and Purpose:

The final assessment on this module is an individual portfolio,

In Weeks 2-7, there will be a group discussion of a case-study which will focus on key aspects of that week’s content. These discussion boards will not be assessed. However, you are strongly encouraged to take part as they will allow you to learn from others and expand your knowledge. Feedback that you receive from your peers and your Facilitator is also an important part of the learning process.

The first part of your assessment is a 1,000-word case study analysis of one of the case-studies from Weeks 2-7. The purpose of this task is to assess your knowledge of the subject area and ability to evaluate, select and apply appropriate leadership techniques and approaches for resolving complex situations and disputes (LO2).

You should draw on the group’s discussion of the case and explain how the ideas and perspectives of your peers have shaped your understanding of the situation. There is no set number of discussion posts that should be referenced in your work, but it is recommended that you refer to a minimum of three discussion posts.