Please prepare a statement of purpose that speaks to your interest as a Family Nurse practitioner

Please prepare a statement of purpose that speaks to your interest as a Family Nurse practitioner. You may choose to incorporate the following topics into your statement:

• Reasons why you are the best fit for your specific nursing specialty program and values.
• How do your pursuit of a post graduate APRN certificate and your future career plans as a nurse working in the OR Orthopedic Unit.
• How will the new advanced practice degree help you meet your career goals?
• What makes a successful practitioner in this role, and how do you see yourself in relation to those skills, qualities, experiences, etc.?

• Mission Statement: Advancing the health and well-being of individuals and communities.
• Vision: To be a catalyst for health and social justice in local, national, and global communities through education, scholarship, and social action.

Health Policy Stakeholders

Discuss the role of stakeholders in the development of health policy in general, and obesity policy in particular. Choose one stakeholder group who you believe should be involved in the development of an obesity policy and analysing the academic literature, investigate the issues relating to the engagement of this group and some methods you might use to involve them in the development of an obesity policy.

Intent: Provides students with the opportunity to analyse the health policy literature, learn the process and language of health policy and the importance and influence of the involvement of various stakeholder groups.

Conduct a critical review of different information sources relevant to Human Resources

Identify an area of HR practice for investigation
Conduct a critical review of different information sources relevant to the chosen area of HR / business practice
Research, select and review at least 3 different and credible secondary sources on the chosen area of HR.
Credible sources include:
• An article from People Management
• An Article from Personnel Today
• Information from the Harvard Review
• A CIPD report
• ACAS best practice
• Statistics from the ONS
• An Academic text books
• Google Scholar
• Internal company information, for example Turnover Stats

Select an event that is going on in the world right now. Evaluate different perspectives and the reasoning surrounding the topic

Select an event that is going on in the world right now. It could be something in the news, something you have learned about from science, technology, an academic field, or even something important and relevant that is going on in your life. It should be an issue that allows for different perspectives
• Share a source (or sources) that addresses or explains the issue/topic/event (
• Share an argument on each side of the issue or explain the two different perspectives.
• Evaluate the reasoning surrounding this topic. Address questions such as the following:
Are the competing positions clear?
Do the two positions/perspectives actually contradict each other?
Are the premises of the arguments strongly supported by evidence?
Do the arguments use good reasoning?
Are any fallacies or biases committed by either side?
Why do people hold the different positions/perspectives?
How might either (or both) sides express their perspectives more effectively?
• Evaluate the rhetoric that surrounds this topic: Address questions such as the following: Are people being civil and fair minded in how they address the issue? How might one strive for greater fairness, objectivity, and civility in how we address this kind of topic? If we did so, would society be more likely to make progress on issues such as this?

Personal reflection. Overlap between a legal and an ethical consideration

Reflect on an event from your professional life when you experienced an overlap between a legal and an ethical consideration. Include the following items in your response:

Determine the overlap between a legal and an ethical consideration in a given business situation.

Have you seen or heard of something that is legal, but feels unethical to you either in the workplace or personally? Explain.

Have you experienced something that is ethical, in your opinion, but may violate the law in the workplace or personally? Explain.

Provide a personal reflection on what you feel should come first: the law or ethics. Explain your reasoning.

Discuss and analyze Cognitive Development in the Early Years

What does it mean that Piaget’s theory is a constructivist theory?
Define assimilation and accommodation. How are they different?
The Sensorimotor Stage: 1. How can we study what infants know if they cannot talk?
a. Habituation paradigm:
i. Orienting response
ii. Habituation
iii. Dishabituation response
b. Preferential response paradigm (what is it, and how can we use it to assess visual and auditory developments during infancy)?
2. Object concept:
a. Intercessory integration
i. How do we know that infants as old as 1 month are able to understand that the way something feels corresponds to the way it looks (i.e., that a bumpy pacifier both feels bumpy in their mouth also appears to be bumpy)?
b. Object permanence
c. Representational thought
i. Why is this important for understanding cognitive development?
d. Hidden object test:
i. When do children typically pass the hidden object test?
3. Infant memory
a. Recognition:
i. How do we know that infants are capable of recognition?
1. Habituation studies.
b. Recall
i. How is recall different from recognition?
ii. Deferred imitation
iii. Describe Meltzoff’s (1988) study on deferred imitation:
iv. Separation anxiety:
1. When does it typically develop?
2. Why does it develop? What other aspects of cognitive ability allow for separation anxiety to emerge?
c. Intentional behavior

Preoperational Stage
1. Symbolic thinking
2. Pretend play
3. Centration
a. Give an example of centration
4. Decentration
a. When does decentration typically emerge?
5. Executive functions
a. Three aspects of executive functions (executive toolkits):
i. Working memory
ii. Self-regulation
iii. Cognitive flexibility
6. Number conservation task:
7. Understanding the mind:
a. Preoperational egocentrism.
b. Theory of Mind:
i. Level 1 vs level 2 visual perspective taking
ii. Diverse beliefs and desires
iii. False belief tasks

Critical evaluation on why companies are adopting triple bottom line (TBL) as a business model

Draft an executive summary on why TBL – triple bottom line is being adopted by companies as an ethical framework—a way of assuring sustainable and ethical commitments to CSR initiatives.

Address the following criteria in the executive summary:

Identify the advantages and disadvantages of adopting the TBL -triple bottom line model.

Summarize what a company may gain from adopting the TBL -triple bottom line model.

Analyze how a balanced scorecard can assist a company in measuring its TBL -triple bottom line performance.