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What did you learn from conducting the content analysis? Please include a comparison between the four websites you chose. Has this assignment changed how you observe travel and recreation marketing material? Explain.

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Representation in Recreation & Travel

DESCRIPTION: Why does representation in travel and recreation matter? For some people, portrayals of minorities in popular culture and media not only affect how others see them, but also how they see themselves. Representation therefore leads to a certain level of self-awareness for individuals as they grow up as children and throughout adulthood. Individually, you will critically analyze four travel or recreation websites of your choice. Please choose websites all in the same category (i.e. choose all destinations, all state parks, all summer camps, all travel brands etc).

Part 1 – Content Analysis: For each website – you will perform a content analysis (i.e. counting & analyzing images) of the different types of people and scenery you see represented. For each website, choose only one “page” or “tab” to focus. Some categories will be easier to identify than others, just do your best to pick a category for each person, activity and scene you see. Copy, paste & fill out this table for each of your chosen websites.

INSERT name of chosen website here
Category Number Description of what is happening in the picture(s) (i.e. cooking, hiking, shopping etc.)
White people
Black people
People of Color (i.e. Indigenous, Asian, Indian, racially ambiguous etc)
People with Disabilities
People of a noticeable religion (i.e. Muslim, Buddhist, Mormon)
LGBTQ+ people
Male people
Female people
Image of Scenery
Other

 

Part 2 – Critical Reflection: After performing a content analysis of all four websites, you will critically reflect on how this project influenced you and how you view representation in travel and recreation marketing material. In this reflection – provide a short discussion (i.e. 1-2 paragraphs) on each of the following bullet points (no more than one page total). In your reflection, refer back to any relevant class material.

  • What did you learn from conducting the content analysis? Please include a comparison between the four websites you chose.
  • Has this assignment changed how you observe travel and recreation marketing material? Explain.
  • Should the travel and recreation industry be more inclusive in their marketing material? Why or why not?
  • What specific advice would you give to each organization you analyzed with regards to improving their marketing material?

Develop a table describing the applications in details with respect to their use in healthcare organizations; their role in making healthcare management more efficient; list downside of their use for the staff and patients, if any. Explain what can be done to improve the user experience (1-2 points per technology type).

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Week 1: HIT Applications

Course Objective for Assignment:

Evaluate technology solutions in the health care industry to improve the quality of care, safety, and financial management decisions
In this assignment you would conduct the Internet search and list five (5) health information technology applications and their functions. Develop a table describing the applications in details with respect to their use in healthcare organizations; their role in making healthcare management more efficient; list downside of their use for the staff and patients, if any. Explain what can be done to improve the user experience (1-2 points per technology type).

Identify a clinical topic of concern that you think could benefit from a change of practice. Propose an independent nursing practice intervention as a change to current practice.

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Communication and Influence-the Power of Evidence

Carefully Read these Check-In Assignment Preparation Instructions prior to completing the Change Process PICOT questionnaire for grading.

Read through the Week 6 Assignment page in the Week 6 Module and reach out to your instructor with any questions.
Identify a clinical topic of concern that you think could benefit from a change of practice.
Propose an independent nursing practice intervention as a change to current practice.

Using the PICOT format develop each element of the PICOT (See Week 2 Illustration part of the lesson for a PICOT example from Nurse Daniel)
Avoid using topics that are broad or are not able to be implemented as an independent nursing intervention as a BSN nurse.

What did you find in the readings this week that piqued your interest, offered you something you did not know, caused you to want to know more or get a better understanding?

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Week 2 Outline

Overview
The two most important skills for reading research are being able to understand what you read and deciding whether what you read is reliable and believable. This week’s readings will start us down the path to learning this.

The vastly most important criterion of a research report is its credibility. There are a host of ways that a writer ensures a report on research is believable because being able to trust the findings or results of a research study is why we read them. We, depending on our jobs and interests, need information we can trust. We may be searching to understand a medical diagnosis, or how our car insurance rates are determined, or whether our employees believe they are valued, or how to change a process at work so that employees and vendors will buy into it, etc. We turn to books and articles that share the results of research expecting that what we read is true. This week we will learn what peer-reviewed sources are and how to find credible sources of information.

Objectives
Upon completion of this week, you will be able to:
Know how scholarly papers are written in terms of format
Know what is typically in a research report
Understand how researchers gain readers’ trust
Identify ways that research reports lose readers’ trust
Know how to write better
Start understanding how to read research report

Readings
APA Manual, Ch. 2 Paper Elements and Format (pp. 29 – 67); Ch. 4 (pp. 110-127)
Locke et al., Ch 2 – 4, pp. 23 – 78.
Articles/Videos in Resources below

Assignments

What did you find in the readings this week that piqued your interest, offered you something you did not know, caused you to want to know more or get a better understanding? You need to discuss at least 2 ideas or facts.
Write about one thing you found in the APA Manual reading this week.
Write about one thing about the credibility of research readings.
Cite your source(s) appropriately.

Analyze that position using the personal characteristics described in chapters 4 and 5 to identify characteristics that are essential to success in this position.

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Week 2 Discussion

Select a position (your own position is an option) in your organization or at an organization that you have worked for or volunteered for. In your initial posting (250-400 words) for this week:
Analyze that position using the personal characteristics described in chapters 4 and 5 to identify characteristics that are essential to success in this position. Characteristics might include personality traits, values, or aspects of emotional intelligence. Name the position and then describe the personal characteristics

From the founding of the republic, conflict between the North and the South shaped America. Discuss the origins of sectional conflict and its evolution into sectional crisis.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

From the founding of the republic, conflict between the North and the South shaped America. Discuss the origins of sectional conflict and its evolution into sectional crisis.

In answering this question, you should

1) discuss the major events affecting North-South relations from the eighteenth century to the outbreak of the Civil War;

2) examine how the economic evolution of the nation strained north-south relations; and

3) determine the Supreme Court’s role in the conflict.

Come up with a definition of neuroscience. What do you think are the kinds of jobs a neuroscientist can do? Explore by doing a quick Internet search and see what you can find out about the field, current trends and does it match what you may have thought?

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Do first

Come up with a definition of neuroscience. What do you think are the kinds of jobs a neuroscientist can do? Explore by doing a quick Internet search and see what you can find out about the field, current trends and does it match what you may have thought?

Write a three-page paper about a specific health belief system that is common to a population.

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Discussion essay

Write a three-page paper about a specific health belief system that is common to a population.

Include the origins of the health beliefs.
Discuss the health implications of the health beliefs (e.g., are they a potentially harmful?).
How will you integrate the health beliefs into your nursing care?

Describe whether or not conflict is constructive or destructive. How can good leadership affect the outcome of a conflict? What is the difference between problem resolution and negotiation and under what circumstances would you use one or the other?

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Research Paper assignment: Conflict.

Answer the following questions in your paper.
Describe whether or not conflict is constructive or destructive.
How can good leadership affect the outcome of a conflict?
What is the difference between problem resolution and negotiation and under what circumstances would you use one or the other?

After completing your assigned reading from The Gift of Fear, discuss the role that intuition plays in crisis intervention. What is your response to de Becker’s approach and understanding of crisis? How does it relate to the content you read from your textbook?

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Week 1 Discussion: Intuition and Prediction

Instructions

After completing your assigned reading from The Gift of Fear, discuss the role that intuition plays in crisis intervention. What is your response to de Becker’s approach and understanding of crisis? How does it relate to the content you read from your textbook?

  • Describe at least one approach or concept related to prediction that was covered in Chapter 3 that you think would be most relevant to someone working as a helping professional. Explain why it’s important.
  • As you formulate your response, make sure you are directly referencing content from both your textbook and The Gift of Fear.  

 

 

REFERENCES

Becker, G. D. (2010). Gift of Fear: Survival signals that protect us from violence. Little Brown & Company.

France, K. (2014). Crisis intervention: a handbook of immediate person-to-person help: Vol. Sixth edition. Charles C Thomas Publisher, Ltd.

 

Weekly Readings

  • Book: The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence
    • Chapter 1: In the Presence of Danger
    • Chapter 2: The Technology of Intuition
    • Chapter 3: The Academy of Prediction
  • Textbook: Crisis intervention: a handbook of immediate person-to-person help
  • Chapter 1: Crisis Theory and the Philosophy of Crisis Intervention