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For this prompt, consider how
and to what extent one of the course texts from our second unit—Through the Arc of the
Rainforest or Animal’s People—conceptualizes a fundamental connection between capitalism
and globalization, on the one hand, and the degradation of both human and environmental
health, on the other.

For this assessment, you will develop an 8-14 slide PowerPoint presentation with thorough speaker’s notes designed for a hypothetical in-service session related to the safe medication administration improvement plan you developed in Assessment 2.

As a practicing professional, you are likely to present educational in-services or training to staff pertaining to quality improvement (QI) measures of safety improvement interventions. Such in-services and training sessions should be presented in a creative and innovative manner to hold the audience’s attention and promote knowledge acquisition and skill application that changes practice for the better. The teaching sessions may include a presentation, audience participation via simulation or other interactive strategy, audiovisual media, and participant learning evaluation.

The use of in-services and/or training sessions has positive implications for nursing practice by increasing staff confidence when providing care to specific patient populations. It also allows for a safe and nonthreatening environment where staff nurses can practice their skills prior to a real patient event. Participation in learning sessions fosters a team approach, collaboration, patient safety, and greater patient satisfaction rates in the health care environment (Patel & Wright, 2018).

As you prepare to complete the assessment, consider the impact of in-service training on patient outcomes as well as practice outcomes for staff nurses. Be sure to support your thoughts on the effectiveness of educating and training staff to increase the quality of care provided to patients by examining the literature and established best practices.

You are encouraged to explore the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies Review activity before you develop the Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation. This activity will help you review your understanding of the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies—especially those related to competencies relevant to developing an effective training session and presentation. This is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates your engagement in the course.
As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will often find yourself in a position to lead and educate other nurses. This colleague-to-colleague education can take many forms, from mentoring to informal explanations on best practices to formal in-service training. In-services are an effective way to train a large group. Preparing to run an in-service may be daunting, as the facilitator must develop his or her message around the topic while designing activities to help the target audience learn and practice. By improving understanding and competence around designing and delivering in-service training, a BSN practitioner can demonstrate leadership and prove him- or herself a valuable resource to others.
For this assessment it is suggested you take one of two approaches:

Build on the work that you have done in your first two assessments and create an agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and practice new skills related to your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration, or
Locate a safety improvement plan through an external resource and create an agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and practice new skills related to the issues and improvement goals pertaining to medication administration safety.

The final deliverable for this assessment will be a PowerPoint presentation with detailed presenter’s notes representing the material you would deliver at an in-service session to raise awareness of your chosen safety improvement initiative focusing on medication administration and to explain the need for it. Additionally, you must educate the audience as to their role and importance to the success of the initiative. This includes providing examples and practice opportunities to test out new ideas or practices related to the safety improvement initiative.

Be sure that your presentation addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

List the purpose and goals of an in-service session focusing on safe medication administration for nurses.
Explain the need for and process to improve safety outcomes related to medication administration.
Explain to the audience their role and importance of making the improvement plan focusing on medication administration successful.
Create resources or activities to encourage skill development and process understanding related to a safety improvement initiative on medication administration.
Communicate with nurses in a respectful and informative way that clearly presents expectations and solicits feedback on communication strategies for future improvement.
There are various ways to structure an in-service session; below is just one example:

Part 1: Agenda and Outcomes.
Explain to your audience what they are going to learn or do, and what they are expected to take away.
Part 2: Safety Improvement Plan.
Give an overview of the current problem focusing on medication administration, the proposed plan, and what the improvement plan is trying to address.
Explain why it is important for the organization to address the current situation.
Part 3: Audience’s Role and Importance.
Discuss how the staff audience will be expected to help implement and drive the improvement plan.
Explain why they are critical to the success of the improvement plan focusing on medication administration.
Describe how their work could benefit from embracing their role in the plan.
Part 4: New Process and Skills Practice.
Explain new processes or skills.
Develop an activity that allows the staff audience to practice and ask questions about these new processes and skills.
In the notes section of your PowerPoint, brainstorm potential responses to likely questions or concerns.
Part 5: Soliciting Feedback.
Describe how you would solicit feedback from the audience on the improvement plan and the in-service.
Explain how you might integrate this feedback for future improvements.
Remember to account for activity and discussion time.

For tips on developing PowerPoint presentations, refer to:

Translate the following Euphemisms:
-A good way to deal with solving equations with parentheses is to use the distributive property.
-Dude never shows up to class.
-Toni Morrison, Noble Prize recipient for literature, passed away in 2019.
-Newton came up with his mathematical description of gravity from scratch.
-Hamilton’s ability as a duelist left much to be desired.
-A patient that acquires a staph infection will pile on to the comorbidity factors of the original illness.
-Kafka’s writing is crazy.
-Bradley was able to con the German forces by moving his troops through the forests.
-It was quickly clear that Dr. Kenny was not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Meh.

Arguably, social structure and social process theories may have a lot to say about preventing crime in the first place through economic and social interventions in communities, but do they have much to say about policing once crime is rampant in a community?
Describe what insights those theories might suggest for how to structure policing, punishment, and rehabilitation that go beyond a rational choice focus of deterrence.

Specifically use the Criminology Today text by Frank Schmalleger and a couple of other reliable sources.
Conduct a strong critical analysis of the topic and incorporate evidence from the text that is relevant to the argument. Employ a consistent thesis throughout the essay.

For assignment, you may choose a short story, lyrics, poetry, a movie, an animated series, an anime series, or a television series for your analysis. You may not choose a text that we have already discussed in class, though.
Existential analysis
Objective
In this unit, we will examine authors whose texts may be interpreted using an existential reading.
Assignment
You will then choose a text of your own and present an existential analysis of it. You will use three of the four following points to substantiate your thesis: choice, absurdity, alienation, or rebel. Your text will be your primary source. You should, however, bring in outside associations from current events, news, politics, social norms, essayists and other aspects of popular culture in order to strengthen your analysis.
Things to think about
Be sure to show how the theme of your chosen text remains relevant in universal terms. In short, how can we relate to it in 2022?

Write a Standard Level IB math IA about modeling the surface area of a milk carton. Use mathematical tools, equations, graphs and charts.

Write a story about your life, how your family, your community, and your own life experiences have shaped you to become the person you are today, with the purpose of eventually connecting it to the issues, events, and ideas in American history.
Write a five-paragraph essay (introduction, three main paragraphs, conclusion), 750-1000 words. You decide what each main paragraph is about. They can be chronological, they can focus on different aspects of your life, etc. Consider the following as you construct your essay:
Family can be just your parents and sisters and brothers or it can include extended family like grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, etc., but it can also include other people who have had such a significant role in your life that they have become your family (or you have become their family).
Your community can be the neighborhood where you grew up, the places you have lived, gone to school, worked, etc., and your friends and other people you have various relationships with in those places. But community can also be any group of people that you share something in common with who are important to you or that had an impact on your life. Types of communities could include racial/ethnic/language, gender/sexual orientation, religious, political, medical/disability, sports/recreation, art/music, other lifestyle/interests/hobbies, etc.
Your individual experiences can include anything from ordinary, everyday experiences that shaped your life over a long period of time to major life-changing one-time events that reshaped your life all at once. These can be good experiences, bad experiences, and all kinds of experiences in between. Usually, your family, your communities, and your individual experiences are all intertwined and overlapping, but sometimes they can impact your life separately.
Questions to Consider
How important is family in your life? How much do you know about your parents, grandparents, or other ancestors experiences before you were born? What roles did your immediate family and extended family play in your childhood, in your adolescence, and as an adult?
How important are the communities you belong to in your life? Which communities have shaped your identity in the most important ways? Which communities or parts of your identity have changed over time?
Which individual experiences have had the biggest impact on you? Have your day-to-day experiences been more important? Or have larger, more significant specific experiences been more important? Are your most important experiences connected to your family or communities? Or have they been separate experiences?
Rubric
Word Count & Depth- 10 points
Grammar & Mechanics- 10 points
Flow & Structure- 20 points
Content & Ideas- 60 points- Exemplary: Ends the introduction with a thesis statement/main idea that specifies how family/communities/experiences have impacted you. Fully explores and elaborates the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences in shaping your life. Meets the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Accomplished: Introduction includes a thesis statement/main idea. Explores the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences in shaping your life. Meets the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Developing: Attempts a thesis statement/main idea. Partially explores the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences. Approaches or exceeds the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Beginning: No obvious thesis statement/main idea. Does not adequately address roles of family, communities, or individual experiences. Does not meet the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement.Write a story about your life, how your family, your community, and your own life experiences have shaped you to become the person you are today, with the purpose of eventually connecting it to the issues, events, and ideas in American history.

Students must write a report (1000 words, allowing +/- 10% margin)
How does Netflix use Neuromarketing to influence it’s customers
The report title for AE2 is: ‘Report:Evidence-based research on neuromarketing – how to engage customers.’ Students are required to present different findings from scholarly articles in the field of
neuromarketing using case studies to help businesses engage with customers more
and sell products/ services. The report should include tables and figures, which
should be labeled accordingly to help the flow of the report.

Students will be assessed on the breadth of knowledge of the topic they display, and
the research skills that this manifests; their depth of understanding of the issue they
manifest e.g. through their consideration of arguments for and against their preferred
position, as well as the awareness of relevance displayed in part through what they
don’t discuss (given the word limit); and the clarity of the presentation of their work,
as manifested in e.g. the structure of their essay, and the consistent style in which
they cite other works. Students will also be assessed on their demonstration of
technical proficiency in written English; spelling, grammar and punctuation.

When managing staff resources, educational leaders should seek to assign teachers and staff to roles and responsibilities that match their professional skills, abilities, and interests in a way that will be best for student success.
For this assignment, take on the role of school principal at either an elementary or secondary school. You have several projected vacancies in various grades and subjects.
In 250-500 words, use either the “Antelope Elementary School Hiring Scenario” or the Antelope High School Hiring Scenario” to decide if you will fill these positions from your current faculty or accept outside applications to fill these projected vacancies.
Address the following as a part of your planning, rationalizing your choices specific to:
District policy and/or collective bargaining procedures, seniority requirements, union or professional association mandates
Teacher screening procedures
How well the teacher collaborates with staff and community members to maintain a sense of involvement and trust
How their actions align with the ethical principles of compassion and concern for the common goodWhen managing staff resources, educational leaders should seek to assign teachers and staff to roles and responsibilities that match their professional skills, abilities, and interests in a way that will be best for student success.
For this assignment, take on the role of school principal at either an elementary or secondary school. You have several projected vacancies in various grades and subjects.
In 250-500 words, use either the “Antelope Elementary School Hiring Scenario” or the Antelope High School Hiring Scenario” to decide if you will fill these positions from your current faculty or accept outside applications to fill these projected vacancies.
Address the following as a part of your planning, rationalizing your choices specific to:
District policy and/or collective bargaining procedures, seniority requirements, union or professional association mandates
Teacher screening procedures
How well the teacher collaborates with staff and community members to maintain a sense of involvement and trust
How their actions align with the ethical principles of compassion and concern for the common goodWhen managing staff resources, educational leaders should seek to assign teachers and staff to roles and responsibilities that match their professional skills, abilities, and interests in a way that will be best for student success.
For this assignment, take on the role of school principal at either an elementary or secondary school. You have several projected vacancies in various grades and subjects.
In 250-500 words, use either the “Antelope Elementary School Hiring Scenario” or the Antelope High School Hiring Scenario” to decide if you will fill these positions from your current faculty or accept outside applications to fill these projected vacancies.
Address the following as a part of your planning, rationalizing your choices specific to:
District policy and/or collective bargaining procedures, seniority requirements, union or professional association mandates
Teacher screening procedures
How well the teacher collaborates with staff and community members to maintain a sense of involvement and trust
How their actions align with the ethical principles of compassion and concern for the common good

Having a working knowledge of content-specifics and an ability to select talent gives the principal and the placement team a proactive approach to identifying, interviewing, hiring, and placing teachers based on the needs of the school as it relates to teaching and learning and meeting the needs of students.
Allocate at least 2 hours in the field to support the field experience.
Using district resources, review the teacher placement process in your school’s district. Focus on the legal aspects of hiring, shifting, and transferring certified staff based on quality teaching requirements and district procedures. Evaluate how the placement process aligns with the school’s mission and vision on teaching and learning. Collaboratively discuss your review of these resources with a human resources representative from the district. Then, discuss with your principal mentor the school administrator’s responsibilities related to hiring and placing teachers.
Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the principal mentor and, provided permission, seek opportunities to observe and/or assist the principal mentor.
Write a summary that addresses the following:
The setting of the school and district you reviewed (i.e., public, private, charter, and size).
District policy and/or collective bargaining procedures, seniority requirements, union or professional association mandates.
Teacher screening procedures and rationale for established procedures.
Your evaluation of the alignment between the district’s placement processes and the school’s mission and vision.
How the process you evaluated is fair and equitable and/or how the process could be improved in these areas.
Why familiarizing oneself with these policies and procedures is vital for administrators in making purposeful and legal decisions in the best interest of the school environment.
How you will apply what you have learned to your future professional practice.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.