What is the difference, if any, between multiculturalism and cultural responsiveness?

Promoting Multicultural Education

As schools become more diverse, strong emphasis is being placed on multiculturalism and culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy. Use at least three of the questions to guide an original post. Comment on the posts of at least two classmates. APA citations are required only in the original response.

· What is the difference, if any, between multiculturalism and cultural responsiveness?

· Is the official curriculum in your state, district, and school multicultural enough? Explain.

· What efforts have you made as an individual to make your teaching multicultural?

· Where do your efforts and those of your school place you among James Banks’ levels of multicultural integration?  “Leveling Up” Your Instruction with the Banks Framework (Links to an external site.)

· How does UDL promote multicultural and culturally responsive teaching?

Like 600 words

I live in Illinois and work for Chicago Public Schools you can use this information if needed.

Describe how you collected data on the social and/or multiple determinants of health and/or health inequities in your analysis

For your Final Project, you will be conducting a truncated community health systems analysis on the town in which you live. Generally, these analyses typically take months to complete, and the resulting final report can easily exceed 20 pages in length. As you do not have the benefit of that time, you will be conducting a topic analysis based on existing information and conversations (i.e., phone, face-to-face, and email conversations) with those in positions of influence in your community.  To assist you in your process, explore the  Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning (Links to an external site.)  Web page. This Web page can provide many helpful tools and examples should be you become challenged on a particular requirement of this exercise.

In order to address the items in the directives for your final assignment, focus on the following requirements for your Final Project (much of this information can be pulled from previous assignments and discussions you have completed for this class):

· Greatest strengths and need areas of your community, how you assessed the areas of strength and need, and the priority for the need areas

· Strongest and weakest health participants in your community (e.g., hospitals, clinics, etc.)

· Existing community programs that likely cost the most and likely cost the least

· Most effective and least effective community health programs

· Most effective and least effective local hospital health programs

· Factors in your community that exist to support your efforts (e.g., existing health coalitions, mayors support, etc.)

· Challenges that your community faces in taking action (e.g., geographic location, population makeup, budget, etc.)

· National organizations that would likely show interest in supporting your need areas

· Describe how you collected data on the social and/or multiple determinants of health and/or health inequities in your analysis

· Include how you would approach your local health department with your findings

· Include how you would disseminate your findings to the community

· Include how you would engage community partners in your efforts

· Describe how you would utilize quality improvement tools to sustain and/or maintain any changes you implement

· Identify some areas for improvement in your Final Project

· Identify the greatest strength of your Final Project

· Identify the greatest challenge in completing your Final Project

For your community health systems analysis you will

· Identify community strengths and areas for improvement.

· Identify the status of community health needs.

· Define improvement areas to guide the community towards population-based strategies that create a healthier environment (e.g., increased physical activity, improved nutrition, reduced tobacco use and exposure, and chronic disease management).

· Prioritize community needs, and consider appropriate allocation of available resources.

The Final Project

· Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the  Writing Center (Links to an external site.) .

Describe the nurse practioner’s role in utilizing your chosen complementary and alternative medicine. Support your answer with evidence-based research.

Complementary and Alternative medicine

Discussion TopicTop of FormBottom of Form

Discussion Prompt

Define complementary and alternative medicine. Choose one example of complementary and alternative medicine. Describe the nurse practioner’s role in utilizing your chosen complementary and alternative medicine. Support your answer with evidence-based research.

Expectations

Initial Post:

APA format with intext citations

Word count minimum of 250, not including references.

References: 2 high-level scholarly references within the last 5 years in APA format.

Plagiarism free.

Turnitin receipt.

Identify the “five performance objectives” of the outlet. Critically evaluate the performance of the outlet on each objective.

Coursework Task

In this assignment, you are asked to investigate and evaluate the operations, processes, and layout of a café at your own choice. You should visit your selected outlet to complete the evaluation tasks. Please note that your selected outlet could be located anywhere in the UK or abroad.

Below are just some examples of cafés you might visit.

· Costa

· Starbucks

· Café Nero

Based on the visit, you need to write a report of 2,500(+/- 10%) words. Please include in your report the following areas.

a). Give a brief introduction to the specific outlet that you have observed. Describe its facilities, inputs/outputs, 4Vs, and the types of processes and layout. Argue whether the processes and layout are appropriate for the outlet. You should sketch out the layout/flow of the outlet.

b). Identify the “five performance objectives” of the outlet. Critically evaluate the performance of the outlet on each objective.

c). Select an important process in the outlet to evaluate their flows and steps. You should apply the process mapping technique to describe the process in detail, and state how the activities within the process relate to each other. Critically evaluate the flow of the process and try to challenge the current setting of activities, and find ways to improve the current process (e.g. based on Lean philosophy).

Use the models and frameworks from operations management to facilitate your analysis, such as 4Vs transformation model, process and layout design, process mapping, Lean operation, etc.

Post a description of the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for analysis, and explain how the healthcare issue/stressor may impact your work setting.

If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating costs? Regulation? Technology disruption?

These and many other topics are worthy of discussion. Not surprisingly, much has been said in the research, within the profession, and in the news about these topics. Whether they are issues of finance, quality, workload, or outcomes, there is no shortage of changes to be addressed.

In this Discussion, you examine a national healthcare issue and consider how that issue may impact your work setting. You also analyze how your organization has responded to this issue.

Post a description of the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for analysis, and explain how the healthcare issue/stressor may impact your work setting. Then, describe how your health system work setting has responded to the healthcare issue/stressor, including a description of what changes may have been implemented. Be specific and provide examples.

APA Format

Min 3 resources

Define TAM and the components.

Subject: Organization Leadership & Decision Making

Reference book:

Bratton, J. (2020). Organizational leadership. SAGE.

McKeen, J. D., & Smith, H. (2017). It strategy: Issues and practices. Prospect Press.

Focus is on how information and communication innovation drives change in educational settings. The key focus of the article was how technology-based leadership has driven the digital age.  Also, that the role of technology leadership incorporates with the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).In this paper, address the following key concepts:

1. Define TAM and the components.
2. Note how TAM is impacting educational settings.
3. Give an overview of the case study presented and the findings.

Journal or articles are published within the last five years.

4+ pages in length (not including title page or references)

A minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles.

The writing should be clear and concise.

describe at least two cryptocurrencies with applicable examples. Discuss some similarities and differences.

Discussion 1 – InfoTech Import in Strat Plan

The vast majority of the population associates Blockchain with cryptocurrency Bitcoin; however, there are many other uses of blockchain; such as Litecoin, Ether, and other currencies. In this discussion, please describe at least two cryptocurrencies with applicable examples. Discuss some similarities and differences.

At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial discussion thread. Be sure to use information from your readings and other sources from the UC Library. Use proper citations and references in your post.

350-400 Words

Text-Book

Title: Managing and Using Information Systems

ISBN: 9781119560562

Authors: Keri E. Pearlson, Carol S. Saunders, Dennis F. Galletta

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 2019-12-05

Week References:

Stoyanovich, & Tanz, F. E. (2019). COMING TO GRIPS WITH BLOCKCHAIN. Benefits Magazine, 56(5), 20–25.

Carson, B., Romanelli, G., Walsh, P., & Zhumaev, A. (2018). Blockchain beyond the hype: What is the strategic business value? McKinsey Quarterly, (4), 118–127.

Harris. (2018). Technology Adoption by Global Virtual Teams: Developing a Cohesive Approach. S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal (1984), 83(1), 4–.

Describe how qualitative and quantitative research results can be used to solve practice problems.

In 350-400 Words

1. Share an example of evidence-based practice from your work setting. B & C. Describe how qualitative and quantitative research results can be used to solve practice problems. This is known as translational research.

2. Refer back to last module’s discussion board item #4 in which you identified one or two potential problems that you are considering for your DNP Project.  As we move into the building blocks for evidence, try to think about what you want to improve through your DNP project.

A. State the problem that you are considering for your DNP project.

B. Find a peer-reviewed quantitative research article that addresses this problem.

C & D. State the type of research design and the associated level of evidence in the article.

E. What critical appraisal questions did you use to critique this article from Melnyk Chapter 5? Please list both the question and the answer to each question. (Use the questions that match the research design in the article).

F. How can you use this evidence from your chosen article to solve your clinical problem?

RESOURCES

Corey, G. (2020). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy, enhanced. Cengage.

Denise F. Polit, & Cheryl Tatano Beck. (2017). Nursing research : Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (Tenth edition ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

Knight, C., & Wheeler, K. (2020). Case study approach to psychotherapy for advanced practice psychiatric nurses. Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2019a). The doctor of nursing practice project (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC.

White, K. M., Dudley-Brown, S., & Terhaar, M. F. (2019). Translation of evidence into nursing and healthcare (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Week 3

In 350-400 Words

1. Consider the two research paradigms: quantitative and qualitative research and discuss the researcher’s purpose for choosing one over the other.

2. A. Describe a clinical problem under which a DNP prepared nurse could utilize one of the following qualitative research designs which include: a) ethnography, b) phenomenology, and c) grounded theory.  B. Describe why the chosen qualitative research design is appropriate for the clinical problem you have identified.

3. A, Locate a qualitative article in one of the major qualitative traditions (ethnography, phenomenology, or grounded theory) and B. briefly describe the article and C. how the research questions connects to the methodology.)

4. A. Locate a mixed method nursing research article that interest you and B. briefly describe how using both research methods in one study provides evidence for clinical practice. (Related to MO 1,3,4)

5. A. Describe the clinical/practice problem that you have chosen to focus on for your DNP Project (or are considering focusing on)      AND      B.  State your clinical/practice question using  PICOT format. Please note the PICOT must be a clinical practice question….the PICOT cannot be related to an academic problem or any issue that would occur in an academic setting and/or involves working with students.       AND                                                                                                                                                   C.1. Describe the influence that reviewing previous NKU DNP projects had on you developing your PICOT above. C.2. List the titles of at least 2 previous NKU DNP projects that you reviewed – I reviewed

RESOURCES

Corey, G. (2020). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy, enhanced. Cengage.

Denise F. Polit, & Cheryl Tatano Beck. (2017). Nursing research : Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (Tenth edition ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

Knight, C., & Wheeler, K. (2020). Case study approach to psychotherapy for advanced practice psychiatric nurses. Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2019a). The doctor of nursing practice project (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC.

White, K. M., Dudley-Brown, S., & Terhaar, M. F. (2019). Translation of evidence into nursing and healthcare (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Week 4

In 350-400 Words

1. The Melnyk (2019) describes how to access guidelines.  Review the data bases and search for one clinical practice guideline that interests you.  If your identified clinical problem and PICOT lend themselves to a clinical practice guideline, you may want to choose a clinical practice guideline related to your clinical problem and PICOT.  It may be more than possible that there is not a clinical practice guideline that is related to your identified clinical problem and PICOT…..that is more than fine……then choose a clinical practice guideline that is simply of interest to you.  A. Name the guideline. B. Name the resource (database)  which housed this practice guideline. C. State the strength of the guideline based on the validity and reliability of its recommendation. D. Answer all of the questions listed in Box 8.4 Rapid Critical Appraisal checklist on page 245 of the Melnyk text to evaluate the attributes of the guideline.

2. After listening to the AGREE II overview tutorial and tutorial/ practice, note the necessary steps to evaluate a guideline. Find one article which the authors used the AGREE II tool to evaluate a practice guideline.

[Go to the library and use a medical/health database – use the search terms “practice guidelines” and “Agree tool. There are numerous articles.]  (like this one I can find an article and send you the paper)

Summarize the following about the article you chose for discussion: A. What is the citation of the article? B. What were the findings and conclusion? C. What was the review rated? D. What was the overall assessment of the quality of the guideline? E. Did the guideline clearly present the author/s’ recommendations?

RESOURCES

Corey, G. (2020). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy, enhanced. Cengage.

Denise F. Polit, & Cheryl Tatano Beck. (2017). Nursing research : Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (Tenth edition ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

Knight, C., & Wheeler, K. (2020). Case study approach to psychotherapy for advanced practice psychiatric nurses. Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2019a). The doctor of nursing practice project (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC.

White, K. M., Dudley-Brown, S., & Terhaar, M. F. (2019). Translation of evidence into nursing and healthcare (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.

RESOURCES

Case Study Approach to Psychotherapy for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

Candice Knight & Kathleen Wheeler

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9780826195043/epubcfi/6/2[%3Bvnd.vst.idref%3Dx00_Cover]!/4/2/2%4051:81

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project

Katherine J. Moran; Rosanne Burson & Dianne Conrad

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9781284184549/epubcfi/6/2[%3Bvnd.vst.idref%3DCover]!/4/2/4%4051:35

Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, Enhanced

Gerald Corey

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9781305855953/pageid/0

Translation of Evidence Into Nursing and Healthcare, Third Edition

Kathleen M. White, PhD, RN, NEA-B; Sharon Dudley-Brown & Mary F. Terhaar

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9780826147370/epubcfi/6/2[%3Bvnd.vst.idref%3Dx00_Cover]!/4/2/2%4051:81

Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice

Denise F. Polit & Cheryl Tatano Beck

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9781496345301/epubcfi/6/2[idloc_000.xhtml-itemref]!/4[eid1]/2[eid2]%4053:10

Describe how Briana’s mother should change meal preparations to be healthier.

In this video a 12 year old girl, Briana, is struggling with morbid obesity. She weighs over 300 pounds. She has been told that being this overweight will affect her health. She also feels very self-conscious about her weight and is bullied by her classmates. Briana’s parents express concern about her health as well. When her mother is interviewed about what food she serves the family she appears to be very interested in making any necessary changes. A trip to the market to find out what she purchases for family meals reveals that she does not seem to know what would be best to prepare for Briana so she can lose weight. Briana’s mother appears to be “stuck” on buying what she thinks are healthy foods which includes canned vegetables and very little fresh fruit and vegetables.

Here is the link to the video, “A 12 Year Old’s Struggle with Morbid Obesity”

Describe how Briana’s mother should change meal preparations to be healthier. Describe strategies that might engage Briana in the process of preparing the meals.

Describe ageism and its impact on societal views of older adult clients.

Due to the increasing percentage of older adult clients in the U.S., it is imperative that healthcare providers assess and confront their own attitudes and perceptions toward older adults.

In your initial post, address the following:

1. Describe ageism and its impact on societal views of older adult clients.
2. Explain how ageism can influence the healthcare provisions of older adult clients.
3. As a healthcare provider, how can one best assess and confront attitudes, perceptions, behaviors, and biases toward older adults?