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List three to five of the most significant decisions you have made in your lifetime. To what degree did your emotions play a role in those decisions?
DQ2
Assessment Description
What is “emotional intelligence” (EQ)? How does it compare to IQ? How can your EQ help you? Is one (EQ or IQ) more valuable than the other?
Qualitative and quantitative research both provide essential information in nursing and evidence-based practice. Quantitative research is scientific, objective, and expressed in numbers, while qualitative is more subjective and descriptive. Qualitative research describes how patients feel and what is observed. Qualitative research provides a form of “truth” and proof that answers certain questions (Mateo, 2013). Observing patients and understanding how they are feeling and what they are experiencing is very important to apply to evidence-based practice. For example, evidence-based medications and treatment may be declined by a patient. Instead of listing the patient as non-compliant, qualitative research can enlighten physicians as to why they are not taking their medications. Suppose the medication is making them sick or makes them unable to function at an acceptable level. Qualitative research may show patients taking “x” medication have these reactions based on the studies. Therefore, the medication regimen can be changed or addressed differently. There are important pieces of data to be collected through qualitative research. This type of research answers the questions unable to be represented by statistics, measurements, or numbers.
Ray’s case has provided you with direct observation of a client’s history and life experiences. In the absence of this direct observation, social workers turn to assessment and interview techniques to gather essential facts about a client’s life span. Interviewing is an important social work skill—and one that requires more than simply reading a set of prescribed questions. A social worker must also demonstrate professional communication, both verbally and nonverbally, ask appropriate follow-up questions, and take notes at the same time.
For this Assignment, you practice interviewing an older adult about life events, experiences, and feelings that have shaped them. You then transform your interview notes into a narrative—that is, a life story—of the individual you interviewed. You interweave within this narrative an analysis of the life story by integrating person and the environment concepts and theories drawn from HBSE I and II.
To Prepare:
If you have not already done so, interview an older adult (age 65 or older) about their life story, using the Life Span Interview document in the Learning Resources. Take notes as you conduct the interview.
Review your notes and begin to interpret the older adult’s life story through the lens of human behavior and the social environment.
By Day 7
Submit a 3- to 5-page paper in which you provide a narrative analysis of the Life Span Interview you completed. The paper should:
Provide a chronological history of the individual’s major life experiences.
Identify specific biological, psychological, and sociological influences that shaped the individual’s experience.
Analyze the individual’s experiences by applying theory and concepts learned throughout both HBSE courses.
Be sure to include the ways in which power, privilege, and oppression shaped their experience (e.g., race and ethnicity, gender, religion, ability, sexual orientation, etc.).
Provide your reflection of the experience, both in interviewing the individual and analyzing their narrative.
Explain what you learned and how you will apply this learning to future social work practice.
Use the Learning Resources to support your narrative analysis. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.
Week 10 Life Span Interview
Below are some questions to start the conversation with your interviewee. Do not hesitate to add more questions as needed.
You are encouraged to reach out to a senior center, adult living facility, or nursing home to locate an interviewee, or you may use an older friend or family member. When interviewing an individual, please consider how to show respect to an individual of this age within their cultural values.
Demographics
How do you prefer to be addressed? What is your age?
Where were you born and raised? How do you identify your ethnicity? How do you identify your gender?
Childhood and Adolescence
How many siblings do you have?
How would you describe your childhood?
Who were your friends when you were growing up? Did you maintain those friendships throughout life? Any reason why or why not?
What was your favorite thing to do for fun (movies, beach, etc.) growing up? In your young/middle adult years?
Where did you go to school? What was school like for you as a child? What were your best and worst subjects?
At what age did you leave home?
Young and Middle Adulthood
Did you marry? If so, at what age? If you have children, how many?
Were you employed? If so, where?
Where did you live?
Were you involved in the military in your young or middle adulthood? If so, how did it mold you as a person?
Later Adulthood
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Have you retired? If so, from where? How would you rate your retirement experience? (Did you return to work?)
Have you experienced any financial limitations in later adulthood?
Do you have any health issues? If so, what are they? Do these health issues place limits on your functioning?
Has religion/spirituality been a part of your life? If so, how has your religious or spiritual development changed in later adulthood?
What has been your experience with aging (physically, psychologically, socially, environmentally)?
Do you have any challenges accessing healthcare?
How would you describe your social life, friendships, and social activities?
How do you see yourself today? (e.g., as an elder, senior, older adult?)
Have you had any experiences with services not being available to you as an elder/senior/older adult?
Have you experienced age-related discrimination? Other types of discrimination?
Looking Back
What has been the happiest moment of your life?
Who is the person who has influenced your life the most?
Have you lost a loved one? If so, how has that loss affected your life?
What world events have had the most impact on you?
What are some of the most important lessons you have learned over the course of your life?
As you look back over your life, do you see any “turning points”; that is, a key event or experience that changed the course of your life or set you on a different track?
What are you most proud of?
How would you like to be remembered?
Select any example of a visualization or infographic, maybe your own work or that of others. The task is to undertake a deep, detailed ‘forensic’ like assessment of the design choices made across each of the five layers of the chosen visualization’s anatomy. In each case your assessment is only concerned with one design layer at a time. For this task, take a close look at the annotation choices: Start by identifying all the annotation features deployed, listing them under the headers of either project or chart annotation How suitable are the choices and deployment of these annotation features? If they are not, what do you think they should have been? Go through the set of ‘Influencing factors’ from the latter section of the book’s chapter to help shape your assessment and to possibly inform how you might tackle this design layer differently Also, considering the range of potential annotation features, what would you do differently or additionally? Submit a two-page document answering all of the questions above. Be sure to show the visualization first and then thoroughly answer the above questions. Ensure that there are at least two-peer reviewed sources utilized to support your work. In response to peers, add additional information to their posts noting what else could be done to enhance the graphic. Looking for minimum two pages within next 48 hours without plagiarism and quality work.
In 10-12 slides, including the title and reference slides, outline your research proposal to present to your classmates. Speaker notes are required to provide additional information for your bullet points. Please see the attached document, “PowerPoint Instructions,” for further tips.
The PowerPoint will need to include:
Given the following students’ test scores (95, 92, 90, 90, 83, 83, 83, 74, 60, and 50), identify the mean, median, mode, range, variance, and standard deviation for the sample. SPSS is strongly recommended for this assignment. Directions are attached and tutorials may be found here:
Since obtaining statistical significance is easier to obtain with a directional hypothesis (one-tailed test) than with a non-directional hypothesis (two-tailed test), why would anyone ever design a study with a nondirectional hypothesis?
Purpose
The nursing student should be able to identify seizure activity, how to educate the family and or caregiver of the pediatric patient on what to do if a seizure occurs and what medications to administer, implement safety to prevent injury and treatment of fracture. Develop education to support discharge based on assessment of data.
Competency
Prioritize nursing interventions when caring for pediatric clients with health disorders.
Scenario
A 5-year-old Gabriel is a multiracial male weighing 48 lbs with an allergy to penicillin arrives in the emergency room, no cultural considerations identified. You are handed the following notes on the patient that read:
He arrived in ER with his mother after falling out of bed after jerking movement activity as witnessed by his older brother while sleeping. Right-upper extremity appears with deformity. Mother and child speak English. Child has no significant medical history. Mother reports incontinent of urine during episode.
Your Assessment
Vital Signs: T 102.9, P 135, R 24, BP 118/60, O2 sat 100% RA
General Appearance: appears drowsy; face flushed, quiet
Neuro: oriented X3
Cardiovascular: unremarkable
Respiratory: lungs clear
Integumentary: very warm, dry
GI/GU: abdomen normal
Physician Orders
The physician discharges Gabriel from ER to home with a diagnosis of; Right ear infection, Acute Febrile Seizure and fracture of the right ulna.
Discharge orders include:
Instructions
Develop a discharge plan with three goals listed in order of priority, prior to discharge from current orders. Provide rationale for why you listed the goals in a particular order. Also, list three nursing interventions to meet each of the goals (you should have nine interventions in total). Last, give the mother the exact dosage she will need to give the child for acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and the cefuroxime when she gets home and explain why the exact dosage is important.
Format
You are required to answer one of three essay questions described below. The essay portion must be 4-5 pages in length, double-spaced, numbered, include 1-inch margins, use 12 point Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font.
Your essay must include a Works Cited page. The citation style of the Works Cited page may be either Chicago, APA, or MLA. The selected citations must be appropriate to the exam topic and the citations must support the assertions made in the exam. Your essay should also include either in-text citations or footnotes depending upon the formatting style selected (Chicago, APA, or MLA).
Your essay will include three main parts—the Thesis/Introduction, Argument, and Conclusion.
The Introduction section should clearly state the thesis within the first 1-2 paragraphs. The thesis must be relevant and appropriate to the argument and demonstrate an accurate and complete understanding of the question. This section should make it clear which question you are answering, but it should do more than restate the question by offering a brief response and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.
The Argument section (3-4 pages) should incorporate pertinent details from the assigned readings but you may also use outside readings. The section must provide relevant historical evidence to support the thesis and the key claims made in the argument as needed. It should maintain focus and avoid sidetracking. It should present your answer to the question clearly and concisely in an organized manner and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.
The Conclusion section should be in the last part of your essay exam within the last 1-2 paragraphs. It should briefly restate the thesis and summarize the main points of the argument. It should also demonstrate insight and understanding regarding the question asked and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.
A scoring rubric for the essay portion is included below. Please answer one of the following essay questions:
Answer these 3 questions, 2 or 3 paragraphs each
ONLY 1 PAGE
1. Discuss the ethical concerns with open access to original sources of qualitative data.
2. Describe any potential benefits to the academic community, as well as any limitations, for the researcher.
3. How do these concerns align with the participant protections outlined by the University Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
https://www.usw.edu/Academics/Institutional-Review-Board
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RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT /INSTRUCTIONS
Topic:
Described Relationship between Leadership Style, and Organizational Culture
Navigate to the open-access sources for qualitative data provided in this module. Identify a qualitative source of primary data (interview transcripts, etc.)
Prepare a 500-word (minimum) narrative essay, in APA format, describing the source and how it might be used to support your proposed research topic. Identify how the source might support a specific design (phenomenology, ethnography, case study, etc.).
Consider what potential secondary analysis possibilities exist for the source you identified. Submit both your narrative essay and selected data source.