Author: chris

Evaluate the effects of the global nursing shortage on health policy. How has the shortage affected the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals? Analyze how nursing ideas, values, and beliefs impact policy agenda. Identify when policy can dictate treatment options.

Question 1  

 

Explain inert information, activated ignorance, and activated knowledge and the differences between the three.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length.

 

Question 2  

 

Define inference and assumption, and then explain the relationship between the two. Provide two examples of inferences that you made from assumptions that you have.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length.

 

Question 3

 

Describe the movement of the person in Platos allegory of the cave. Be very specific about the various stages in this movement, and then please explain how this allegory relates to at least two intellectual standards.

Your response should be at least 500 words in length.

 

1   Identify and describe an individual’s motivations for marriage.

2   Describe the problems and benefits associated with military marriages .

 

1    Compare the positions of pro-life and pro-choice.

2    Discuss the effects of poverty on marriages and families.

 

1    Identify and describe the explanations for why spouses become involved in extramarital sex

2   Identify and describe positive stress management strategies .

 

1   How have changing family functions and structure contributed to the incidence of divorce?

2    Describe the cycle of abuse.

 

1    What is age? How do we know how old we are?

2     Describe the mental health challenges of the elderly

From your readings and research this week it should be apparent that many feel the future of Social Security is at risk.  In addition to reading chapters seven and eight, I would like you to read the following article on “Why Raise the full retirement age?”

Respond to the three questions including explanations on your positions:

1.      What are your thoughts about the future of Social Security?

2.      Should future participants be allowed to invest SSN payments into other markets and retirement plans?

3.      Should increasing the full retirement age be raised?

 

Refer to the company you selected in SLP1.  Discuss how the company facilitates the passage of its customers’ goods through customs, and helps them comply with other trade restrictions.  Make full use of relevant sources.

SLP Assignment Expectations

• Don’t write in checklist form.  Integrate the information you find into a well-constructed essay.
• You may not find specific information relating to this assignment.  In that case, you will need to “fill in the gaps,” using your understanding of the company you’re analyzing, plus the sources listed on the Background Info page.
• Style and format must comply with the Writing Style Guide.  (TUI Guide, n.d.) This is not an English course;  however, errors in spelling, grammar and style will be penalized.
• Provide citations and references.  Use of APA style is encouraged, but not required.  Please see the TUI Writing Guide, or visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL, 2015).
• There is no page requirement. Write what you need to write, neither more nor less.
• Upload your SLP before the end of the Module.

Refer to the company you selected in SLP1.

Discuss the security issues (in addition to simple customs requirements) that your company must consider when transporting customers’ goods across international borders.  Do the markets your company usually serves make these issues major or minor concerns?  Are particular customers or types of goods more problematical than others?  Explain and discuss. Make full use of resources.

SLP Assignment Expectations

• Don’t write in checklist form.  Integrate the information you find into a well-constructed essay.
• You may not find specific information relating to this assignment.  In that case, you will need to “fill in the gaps,” using your understanding of the company you’re analyzing, plus the sources listed on the Background Info page.
• Style and format must comply with the Writing Style Guide.  (TUI Guide, n.d.) This is not an English course;  however, errors in spelling, grammar and style will be penalized.
• Provide citations and references.  Use of APA style is encouraged, but not required.  Please see the TUI Writing Guide, or visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL, 2015).
• There is no page requirement. Write what you need to write, neither more nor less.
• Upload your SLP before the end of the Module.

 

Case Study:

 

Until recently, the risk of criminal prosecution for nursing practice was nonexistent unless nursing action rose to the level of criminal intent, such as the case of euthanasia leading to murder charges. However, in April 1997, three nurses at the Centura St. Anthony Hospital, outside of Denver, were indicted by a Colorado grand jury for criminally negligent homicide in the death of a newborn. Public records show that one nurse was assigned to care for the baby. A second nurse offered to assist her colleague in caring for the baby. A third nurse was a nurse practitioner in the hospital nursery. Because the baby was at risk for congenital syphilis, the physician ordered that the nurses give 150,000 units of intramuscular penicillin, which would have required five separate injections.

 

In relation to other problems the same day, the baby was subjected to a lumbar puncture, which required six painful attempts. To avoid inflicting further pain, nurse two asked the nurse practitioner whether there was another route available for the administration of the penicillin. Nurse two and the nurse practitioner searched recognized pharmacology references and determined that intravenous administration would be acceptable. The nurse practitioner had the authority to change the route and directed nurse two to administer the medication intravenously rather than intramuscularly. Unrecognized by the nurses, the pharmacy erroneously delivered the medication, prepared and ready to administer, in a dose ten times greater than was ordered—1.5 million units. As nurse two was administering the medication intravenously, the baby died. The Colorado Board of Nursing initiated disciplinary proceedings against nurse two and the nurse practitioner, but not against nurse one. The grand jury indicted all three nurses on charges of criminally negligent homicide but did not indict the pharmacist (Calfee & Plum, 1997).

 

Respond to the following:

 

• Identify what emotions are evoked as you consider the Colorado Board of Nursing case stated above?
• Should the courts take into consideration the fact that the nurses’ error occurred because they wanted to avoid causing the baby unnecessary pain? Discuss your thinking.
• Can you think of other occupations in which the consequences of unintentional errors have greater legal implications? Discuss your answer.
• How should the nursing profession respond to this frightening new legal threat?
• Which sections of the State Nurse Practice Act did the nurses violate?

 

Interview two different individuals regarding their positions in society.  Analyze their responses regarding:

 

1. Identify each person’s class, race, and gender.
2. What role has class, race, and gender played in their lives?  How do you see these stratifiers as playing a role, even if the interviewee is unaware of it?
3. Apply one of the sociological perspectives (structural-functional, social-conflict, or symbolic-interaction) to the individuals’ lives.  Why did you choose this particular perspective?  How does it explain each person’s life and life choices?
4. What are some the benefits and limitations to using interview as a research methodology?
5. Analyze each person’s components of culture (language, symbols, material objects, and behaviors) and relate them to his/her stratified position in society.

You are the manager of Acme Fireworks, a fireworks retailer who sells fireworks, puts on ground display fireworks, and large aerial display fireworks. The company started in the owner’s garage two years ago and now has 15 employees that you manage. The company started as a sole proprietorship, and the owner has never changed the entity. The owner has informed you that the company has received inquiries from several large businesses wondering if the company could create several fireworks displays on a regular basis. The owner told the inquirers that the company could fill such display orders, and a price per display was agreed upon. It was discussed that most of the cost for a fireworks display is for skilled labor, insurance, and the actual service of setting off the fireworks. No other details were discussed. The owner is anticipating that new employees will need to be hired, but he is worried that if the large orders for fireworks displays do not continue, the company will not have the funds to pay the new employees. The owner is now considering changing the business entity, but he does not know what entity to form or how to form it.

 

The owner has asked you to do the following:

 

Determine if the contracts with the businesses will be governed by common law or the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), and explain why.

Analyze whether the owner formed a contract with the businesses, and apply the five essential elements of an enforceable contract.

Explain the potential personal liability to Acme Fireworks if a spectator is injured by a stray firework from a fireworks display.

Discuss the different employment types and relationships relevant to agency law, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each type specific to Acme Fireworks.

Explain why Acme Fireworks should not operate as a sole proprietorship. Recommend a new business entity, and provide rationale to support your recommendation.

For each task, be sure to analyze the relevant law, apply the facts to the law, and make a conclusion.

 

The paper

 

Must be 8  double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.

Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought. That is, describe what your response is to the content, either positive or negative, and defend your position. If multiple options, alternatives, and/or positions are present and are being rejected, you must also defend the reasons for rejecting an option.

Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.

Must include at least five scholarly sources,

Must document all sources in APA style.

Select a community other than the one where you live, and develop a risk assessment. Address the following in 4–6 pages:

• Describe (briefly) the community and why you selected it (e.g., demographics, topography/geography, climate, criticality of CI, political issues).
• Outline the risk portfolio of the selected community (e.g., flood zones; high-value terror target).
  • How did you compile that list?
• What other risk portfolios and assessments for the community exist (e.g., local hazard mitigation plan, DHS assessments)? Explain.
• Describe the critical facility or system that you selected, and describe why it is critical to the selected community.
• What are the possible or probable outcomes of the risks that you identified as occurring as they relate to the whole community and, in greater detail, to the specific infrastructure you selected? Explain in detail.
• What are the possible or probable cascading effects at the local, regional, national, or international level should one of the risks occur and affect the critical facility or infrastructure you selected? Explain in detail.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.