1. Explain what Sipiora says about the importance of carefully understanding and accurately explaining the main literary elements that make up a story before a reader can respond and interpret the story.
2. According to Sipiora, what are some style issues to consider when interpreting Ernest Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”?
3. What issues with character does Sipiora point out? Add any issues with character that Sipiora maybe missed or did not point out. Think about the role of the Native American woman or the absence of any mention of Nick’s own mother in the story.
4. What plot issues does Sipiora discuss and why? Why is it important to analyze the plot beyond just listing the events that an author uses? While the plot of “Indian Camp” seems simple, what deeper meaning might exist beyond the events in the story?
5. Discuss what Sipiora observes are point-of-view issues. If you are not familiar with the literary term, “point-of-view,” see: https://literaryterms.net/narrator/
6. According to Sipiora, what are some of the issues with the themes in “Indian Camp”?
What metaphors does Sipiora discuss? What might the metaphors symbolize?
Best Writer
Explain what Strategic HRM is.
Explain what Strategic HRM is. Include details that describe processes involved with personnel selection and evaluation as they relate to the overall human resource management strategy.
Write a comprehensive analysis of an adverse event or near miss from your nursing experience. Integrate research and data on the event to propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative to your current organization.
Write a comprehensive analysis of an adverse event or near miss from your nursing experience. Integrate research and data on the event to propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative to your current organization.
MY TOPIC IDEA: Medication Error (Insulin, Heparin etc)
Introduction
Health care organizations strive to create a culture of safety. Despite technological advances, quality care initiatives, oversight, ongoing education and training, legislation, and regulations, medical errors continue to be made. Some are small and easily remedied with the patient unaware of the infraction. Others can be catastrophic and irreversible, altering the lives of patients and their caregivers and unleashing massive reforms and costly litigation. Many errors are attributable to ineffective interprofessional communication.
This assessment’s goal is to address a specific event in a health care setting that impacts patient safety and related organizational vulnerabilities with a quality improvement initiative to prevent future incidents.
For this assessment, you will prepare a comprehensive analysis on an adverse event or near miss that you or a peer experienced during your professional nursing career. You will integrate research and data on the event and use this information as the basis for a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal in your current organization.
The following points correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. The subbullets under each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your adverse event or near-miss analysis addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand the performance levels relating to each grading criterion.
Analyze the missed steps or protocol deviations related to an adverse event or near miss.
Describe how the event resulted from a patient’s medical management rather than from the underlying condition.
Identify and evaluate the missed steps or protocol deviations leading to the event.
Explain the extent to which the incident was preventable.
Research the impact of the same type of adverse event or near miss in other facilities.
Analyze the implications of the adverse event or near miss for all stakeholders.
Evaluate the short- and long-term effects on the stakeholders (patient, family, interprofessional team, facility, community). Analyze each stakeholder’s contribution to the event.
Analyze the interprofessional team’s responsibilities and actions. Explain what measures each interprofessional team member should have taken to create a culture of safety.
Describe any change to process or protocol implemented after the incident.
Evaluate quality improvement technologies related to the event that are required to reduce risk and increase patient safety.
Analyze the quality improvement technologies put in place to increase patient safety and prevent recurrence of the near miss or adverse event.
Determine the appropriateness of the technology application for a specific patient or situation.
Research scholarly, evidence-based literature to learn how institutions can integrate solutions to prevent similar events.
Incorporate relevant metrics of the adverse event or near-miss incident to support need for improvement.
Identify the salient data associated with the adverse event or near miss that is generated from the facility’s dashboard.
Note: Dashboard means data generated from the information technology platform that provides integrated operational, financial, clinical, and patient safety data for health care management.
Analyze what the relevant metrics show.
Explain research or data related to the adverse event or near miss that is available outside of your institution.
Compare internal data to external data. Use resources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Outline a quality improvement initiative to prevent the recurrence of an adverse event or near miss.
Explain, from an evidence-based viewpoint, how your facility now manages or should manage the process or protocol.
Evaluate how other institutions addressed similar incidents or events.
Analyze QI initiatives developed to prevent similar incidents. Explain why they are successful. Provide evidence of their success.
Propose solutions for your selected institution that can be implemented to prevent similar future adverse events or near-miss incidents.
Communicate analysis and proposed initiative in a professional, effective manner, writing content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Additional Requirements
Submission length: 5 page typed, double-spaced pages.
Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of (5) five current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans.
CURRENT literature is defined as no older than 5 YEARS unless it is a seminal work.
APA formatting: Citations and references must adhere to APA style and formatting guidelines. Consult these resources for an APA refresher:
Evidence and APA.
APA Module.
American Psychological Association. (n.d.). APA style. https://www.apastyle.org/
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to adverse events and near-miss analyses.
Analyze the missed steps or protocol deviations related to an adverse event or near miss.
Analyze the implications of the adverse event or near miss for all stakeholders.
Evaluate quality improvement technologies related to the event that are required to reduce risk and increase patient safety.
Outline an evidence-based quality improvement initiative to prevent an adverse event or near miss.
Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
Incorporate relevant metrics of the adverse event or near-miss incident to support need for improvement.
Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
Communicate analysis and proposed initiative in a professional, effective manner, writing clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Does that matter if we are keeping high professional standards for everyone?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nzS1UDANif3dWCOwAtHOSXgqYdID_Z4SDKz4XxrT-wE/edit?usp=sharing
Balancing, Week 4: Prenatal Resources Assignment
At the end of the slideshow, there is a list of resources for prenatal massage. Explore those pages, read through their blog posts and resources. Write up a summary of the information you discovered and why it was interesting or relevant to you. Even if you do not see yourself working with this population, have an open mind to explore these resources and let us know what you think.
https://wellmother.org/
http://mothermassage.net/
Balancing, Week 6: Communications Ethics Assignment
Read the attached article on broken trust. While this person’s experience may be an extreme case and not of the norm, it does highlight underlying issues that come with crossing professional boundaries.
Reflect on the quote from the article from Ben Benjamin:
“Bodywork, by its very nature, violates the normal boundary that exists between most people. Once this boundary has been crossed, it is easy to imagine that maintaining a clear separation between professional touch and personal intimacy can be confusing and difficult.”
While we can think that we could never be in this position as a therapist, is it possible that we could get too comfortable with our clients and find ourselves in a more intimate position (figurately speaking) than strictly therapist/client? Think about the first part of the quote. Massage violates the normal boundary that exists between people. It’s an event that happens in a therapeutic setting. Because of that, are we more responsible to be over cautious? Not knowing our client’s past, does that put us in a more serious position because we don’t know if they have suffered abuse before? Do we need to be more cautious with clients with a traumatic upbringing? Does that matter if we are keeping high professional standards for everyone? Take some time to think about this and write up your thoughts for submission. You can upload a document or type directly in the text box. If having tech issues please email your work to Marty at mhames@asismassage.edu then type in the text box below that you emailed your response.
Balancing, Week 7: Advanced Techniques Assignment
PDF of lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k3a60gE6Ebxq8M6ydP70LPu2QP5p7Rs0/view?usp=sharing
In the lecture, Mario goes over some types of advanced therapies and techniques that are out there in the massage world. Your job for this assignment is to explore them. Take at least 2 of the therapies mentioned and find CE courses that are offered with those techniques. Find at least 3 different resources for taking these kinds of classes. Compare the information on their websites.
Do they use a lot of buzz words to advertise their classes?
Did the way they presented what they offer interest you? Why or why not?
Do you notice a difference in pricing? Does that change your opinion on the value of the classes?
What about the social media presence behind the company, school or person? Does that make you think more of less of the classes?
Do you think they offer truly advanced techniques?
If they offer “certification”, do you think it is a worthwhile avenue to pursue?
Are you leaning towards any classes you discovered? Tell us about it.
Riding, Week 2: The Importance of Touch Assignment
For this assignment, you will choose to explore either to listen to the Dr. Linden talk or read the interview with Dr. Pert. (If you’re feeling frisky, you can do both.) Reflect on what you heard/read in terms of your experience, the lecture on emotional boundaries and write up a couple of paragraphs of what you found interesting and why. There’s no right or wrong, but please put some thought into it.
Dr. Linden’s talk Dr. Pert’s interview
Sinking, Week 6: Communications Assessment (transference)
PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mLUvdPxrodwPheBDgc-wMossgboorXEM/view?usp=sharing
Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9pM6W5jucc
After listening to the lecture and learned more about transference and reading the article here. think about your life. Have you ever experienced transference or countertransference in your life? Maybe in a work environment or some personal relationships? How did you navigate that in your life? if you don’t think you have, think about what kinds of scenarios may happen in your practice. How do you plan on dealing with that? Tell us about it.
Write a brief summary of how each of these four types of theories would explain the following phenomenon.
In-Class Assignment 2:
•Write a brief summary of how each of these four types of theories would explain the following phenomenon.
•Children today are more aggressive than children in previous generations.
•Social Learning
•Motivational
•Cognitive
•Evolutionary
Explain why it is critical for us to understand the nutritional science of animals?
Explain why it is critical for us to understand the nutritional science of animals? (You can look up a definition but put it in your own words and cite your source).
Pick one method of analysis and define why that method is important in nutritional science.
Discuss the medical model of mental illness including the definition and how it informs treatment.
Discuss the medical model of mental illness including the definition and how it informs treatment. What are its weaknesses and why might it not fully describe what is happening with people with mental illness (i.e. differences in behavior, medication resistance)? Use an example of mental illness from the video to highlight your argument.
Explain how depressants, stimulants, and inhalants impact the nervous system and behavior.
Explain how depressants, stimulants, and inhalants impact the nervous system and behavior. It will help you understand their mechanism of action as well as their various routes of administration. You will also consider the benefits and adverse consequences of these types of drugs.
Identify differences and similarities among various mental health diagnoses and begin to think about the best treatment options.
Use the information you learned about medication for mental disorders and apply it to a real case example. Identify differences and similarities among various mental health diagnoses and begin to think about the best treatment options. Refer to chapter 8 in the textbook to find DSM-5 diagnosis criteria to identify the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
Discuss possible bias in test questions and assessment results.
Discuss possible bias in test questions and assessment results. How can you avoid and/or address bias in both areas?