Discuss the artifact in depth.  Explain the stereotypes or biases that you see being perpetuated in the artifact. 

Analyze: Artifact of Popular Culture
Evaluation Title: The Business of Pop Culture
We have seen throughout this course how popular culture influences our attitudes, both positively and negatively. In this final paper, you will examine an artifact in pop culture to determine its message and effect.
For this assignment, select an artifact that, in your opinion, unfairly creates a negative bias or promotes a negative stereotype about one population of society. The pop culture artifact can be a media source (song, movie, television program), a product or other tangible associated with pop culture.  Provide a link to this artifact (or an image). Explain why you have selected this artifact, and why you feel that this creates a negative bias. Describe how you would re-design or re-write the script of this artifact to change the way others would view this population.
In your paper:
Provide a specific link to pop culture artifact used for this paper or an image of the artifact. 
Discuss the artifact in depth.  Explain the stereotypes or biases that you see being perpetuated in the artifact. 
Discuss the role of popular culture in communicating harmful or incorrect stereotypes or biases.  Using the concepts, terminology, and ideas within Units 1-7, recommendations for how people can identify and correct views that are incorrect or harmful.
Re-design or re-write this artifact to change the way others could view this population without the negative bias.  Be sure to support this revised artifact with factual examples of the culture.
Specifications: 
Submit a 1200-1500 word essay addressing the questions above. 
In your essay: This is very Important
Be sure to structure your essay with an introduction paragraph that includes a thesis statement, well-organized supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion that reiterates the main points of your argument.

Your argument should be supported by reputable research cited in APA format both in the body of the paper and in your references section.

What causes people to make changes in their lives?

 In this course, you will spend time reading and applying information regarding psychological theory. It is important to understand why theory is needed. As such, please discuss why counselors need theory. Be sure to detail at least three reasons why the use of theory in counseling is important.  

The counseling process is designed to help people make positive changes in their lives. This might entail helping clients make changes in the way they think, feel, or behave. Before formally reviewing any of the theories reflect on the following questions and share your thoughts: 

1. What are your views about change?
2. What causes people to make changes in their lives?
3. What do you think leads people to be resistant to change?
4. How open to change are you inclined to be? 

What steps were crucial in the identification of the bacteria?

1. Presentation and Structure
   Introduction / Materials and Methods / Results / Discussion format used
   A clear aim is indicated
   Changes or modifications to the method (if they occur)
   The test results for the samples are presented accurately and clearly
   Identification using the key was indicated and explained
   Well-structured, with logical flow
   Appropriate use of headings
   Suitable use of font style and sizes
   Tables are formatted appropriately incl. labelling and layout

 2. Discussion
The meaning of the specific results is explained
The accuracy and repeatability of the test results critically evaluated
The pathogenicity of the sample species indicated
The significance of the identified species for the scenario indicated
Practical measures recommended that relate to the identified species
Sources of error are identified
Effects of error on the results explained
Strategies to reduce error discussed
The methodology was critically evaluated / limitations explained
Accurate information presented
Precise information presented
Relevant information presented

3. Writing Style
   Clear, concise and coherent
   Objective language used
   Correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and word use
   Each paragraph focuses on a single point
   Statements supported with appropriate references
   4. Research and Referencing
   Peer-reviewed material sourced
   Primary source material sourced
   Non-peer reviewed material used critically and sparingly
   Up-to-date sources
   Relevant sources used
   Broad coverage of authors/sources – not just given references
   Sources not simply copied; no quotes used
   Correct use of citation style
   Reference list formatted correctly

All four sections are worth 25%

The Prac Report is a scientific paper: it will have the following format:

Introduction: very brief, but include an aim (not the “educational” aim given – give one that you think most precisely addresses what was achieved)

Materials and Methods: you probably only need to just reference to the online Lab (Cakebread 2020) – check out how to reference websites.

Results: present only results – the main result is a couple of names. If you have a table, think about what you present in it. In general, you shouldn’t include data that is not directly required for explaining your results or brought up in the Discussion

Discussion: this is the section that will require your greatest focus.
A separate Conclusion is not required, but you should have at least a simple statement to indicate that you do / do not believe your aim has been achieved.
In the report you need to address two main questions:
How valid are your results what are the sources of error?
You need to analyse the procedures undertaken. The following questions may assist:
What factors could have led us undertaking the procedures with a bacteria other than the one you did?
What factors could have led to not culturing bacteria from the original sample?
What steps were crucial in the identification of the bacteria?
What factors could have altered the results you obtained?

What is the significance the significance of this finding? You need to discuss the implications of finding this species in the milk and suggest the likely specific management actions that should be taken. As part of your report, you should explore the nature and spread of specific form of mastitis, the incidence within the herd and suggested measures for control of the bacterial species you have identified.  This information needs to be supported by good strong references.

References and referencing
Basically, every substantial statement you make must either be your original creation or be referenced. Original should be indicated as such – it doesn’t happen that often!  

But what is a good reference? In general, a peer-reviewed primary source journal article is to be preferred. All reputable journals have peer-review. Primary source means this has been written by the people who actually did the original research – the article generally has a Results section.

Can I use review articles? Yes, but sparingly and in the right context. Good for overview and general statements, but not for specific facts.

Can I use other sources (web-sites/ trade newspapers/ newspaper report etc) – yes, very sparingly and only when scientific journal articles do not present that specific information.
How many references should I include? Depends on what you are saying and the quality of the references.  As a very rough guide – 5 is a minimum – 50 is probably overboard.

Style Guide: APA 7th Edition – https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/apa7

Discuss why these populations are unable to advocate for themselves, the ethical issues that must be considered when working with these groups, and how nursing advocacy would be beneficial. 

Compare vulnerable populations. Describe an example of one of these groups in the United States or from another country. Explain why the population is designated as “vulnerable.” Include the number of individuals belonging to this group and the specific challenges or issues involved. Discuss why these populations are unable to advocate for themselves, the ethical issues that must be considered when working with these groups, and how nursing advocacy would be beneficial.   

Describe how Musk has exhibited each of the Big Five personality factors. Which of these factors do you think has the most correlation with Musk’s success as a leader?

Case 2.3 Elon Musk

When he was 12, Elon Musk created and sold his first product. That video game, Blastar, was the start of Musk’s meteoric entrepreneurial career, which has seen him take on everything from electric cars to space travel to alternative energy.

Musk grew up in South Africa, the son of an engineer and a Canadian model. In grade school Musk was introverted and often bullied, but at 15 he learned how to defend himself with karate and wrestling. He moved to Canada at 17 to attend university and three years later left Canada to attend the University of Pennsylvania where he earned degrees in economics and physics. In 1995, only two days into a PhD program in energy physics at Stanford, Musk dropped out to launch his first company, Zip2, with his brother Kimbal. An online city guide, Zip2 provided content for websites of both the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Four years later, Compaq Computer Corporation bought Zip2 for $307 million.

The Musk brothers then founded X.com, an online financial services/payments company, which became PayPal. Three years later, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Now a billionaire, Musk started Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in 2002 with the intention of building reusable spacecraft for commercial space travel. A year after launching SpaceX, Musk became the cofounder, CEO, and product architect at Tesla Motors, dedicated to producing affordable, mass-market electric cars as well as battery products and solar roofs. He also launched several other side projects, including establishment of The Boring Company devoted to boring and building underground tunnels to reduce street traffic, becoming cochair of the nonprofit research organization OpenAI with the mission of advancing digital intelligence to benefit humanity, and development of the Hyperloop to create a more expedient form of transportation between cities.

But unlike his earlier ventures, both SpaceX and Tesla had considerable challenges. In 2008, Musk was nearly out of money after SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket, of which he was the chief designer, suffered three failed launches before it finally had a successful one. Meanwhile, Tesla was hitting speed bump after speed bump in the development of its vehicles, hemorrhaging money, and losing investor confidence as well as orders from customers who were unhappy with the long wait time to get their vehicles.

Musk faced these challenges the way he did as a bullied school kid: head on. “Leaders are . . . expected to work harder than those who report to them and always make sure that their needs are taken care of before yours, thus leading by example,” he said (Jackson, 2017).

At SpaceX, Musk continued to innovate, and the company accomplished a stunning number of achievements including successfully having rockets land safely back on earth after launches, transporting supplies to the International Space Station, and developing a rocket that could carry heavier payloads. By 2019, SpaceX had 6,000-plus contracts, worth $12 billion, with NASA and other commercial satellite companies. The company, which says its ultimate mission is to foster interplanetary life, is planning a cargo mission to Mars in 2022 (Space Exploration Technologies Corp., 2020).

Many credit SpaceX’s success to the unified culture at the company created by its fairly flat organizational structure and the fact that, despite its growth, the company still maintains a start-up mentality and feel.

“It’s an incredible place to work,” said one engineer. “There’s a great sense of connectedness between everyone. Everyone’s got the same goal in mind. Everyone’s working super hard to deliver a product successfully. It’s amazing when it all culminates in launch” (Mind & Machine, 2017).

Dolly Singh, the former head of human resources at SpaceX, said, “The thing that makes Elon Elon is his ability to make people believe in his vision” (Snow, 2015). Jim Cantrell, SpaceX’s first engineer, added, “He is the smartest guy I’ve ever met, period. I know that sounds overblown. But I’ve met plenty of smart people, and I don’t say that lightly. He’s absolutely, frickin’ amazing. I don’t even think he sleeps” (Feloni, 2014).

But to turn Tesla around, Musk had to roll up his shirtsleeves. The company, which was four years behind on the production of its Model 3, was under severe public scrutiny from investors and industry analysts. After missing one deadline after another, Musk restructured the organization in April 2018 and took over as the head of engineering to personally oversee efforts in that division. In a 2018 Twitter post, Musk said that to meet production goals, it was time to “divide & conquer, so I’m back to sleeping at factory.” By the end of June 2018, Tesla had met its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 cars per week, while churning out another 2,000 Model S sedans and Model X SUVs (Sage & Rodriguez, 2018).

Musk has been described as an unconventional leader, even by Silicon Valley standards. He is a prolific tweeter in which he comments on everything from building cyborg dragons, to jokes about bankruptcy, to mixing Ambien with red wine (Davies, 2018). He has graced magazine covers and goes on talk shows and appeared on animated television shows The Simpsons and South Park. His peculiar sense of humor was on dramatic display when he launched his own red Tesla Roadster sports car into space atop the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. At the same time, some of his behavioral quirks have also become liabilities.

In a public earnings call with investors and financial analysts, Musk attacked two analysts for asking what he called “bonehead” and “dry” questions that he refused to answer, resulting in Tesla’s stock value plunging 10% (Davies, 2018). When his efforts to assist in the rescue of 12 young soccer players and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand were criticized as self-aggrandizing rather than serious, Musk responded with a tweet calling one of the divers involved in the rescue “pedo guy,” insinuating he was a child molester (Levin, 2018).

In August 2018, Musk wrote on Twitter that he was considering taking Tesla private and that he had the necessary funding “secured” to do so. As a result, Tesla’s stock price immediately shot up, gaining the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which investigated and ultimately fined Musk $20 million. Less than two weeks after that episode, Musk gave an emotional interview with the New York Times, in which he alternately laughed and cried in a display that left many questioning his mental state and sent Tesla investors into sell mode with their stock (Crum, 2018).

Not long after that interview, Musk changed his mind and said Tesla would remain a public company. He followed that decision with an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast during which he smoked what was said to be a marijuana-laced cigarette (Davies, 2018).

“The reason Elon seems to attract drama is that he is so transparent, so open, in a way that can come back to bite him,” his brother and Tesla board member Kimbal Musk told the New York Times. “He doesn’t know how to do it differently. It’s just who he is” (Gelles, 2018).

After all of the drama in 2018, there were many concerns about where Tesla would go in 2019. The answer? Tesla ended 2019 on a high note, with a record stock price topping out at more than $400 per share.

“It’s been quite the turnaround for Musk since his ‘funding secured’ tweet debacle of last year,” one analyst noted. “Tesla’s stock has been one of the top performers of the second-half of the year and Musk is proof that you can take on the SEC, smoke weed on podcasts, call people pedo guy and still run a $70 billion company” (Crum, 2018).

Questions

1. Describe how Musk has exhibited each of the Big Five personality factors. Which of these factors do you think has the most correlation with Musk’s success as a leader?
2. If you were asked to design a leadership training program based on the trait approach, how could you incorporate the story of Elon Musk and his leadership? Around which of his traits would you structure your training? Are some of his leadership traits more teachable than others? Discuss.

How does the community health nurse recognize bias, stereotypes, and implicit bias within the community?

 How does the community health nurse recognize bias, stereotypes, and implicit bias within the community? How should the nurse address these concepts to ensure health promotion activities are culturally competent? Propose strategies that you can employ to reduce cultural dissonance and bias to deliver culturally competent care. Include an evidence-based article that address the cultural issue. Cite and reference the article in APA format. 

What specific branch of the U.S. government is involved in this current event?

Imagine you are a political writer with your own blog. You write about current events and what they mean for the U.S. government and its citizens. You have been asked to write a blog post of 2-3 typed pages about an event from the last 3 months involving U.S. political issues or policies.

Instructions

Step 1: Choose one of the following political issues or policies:

• the U.S. President
• congress
• administrative departments
• political activists
• judicial rulings
• a campaign
• an election

Step 2: Choose 1 reputable news source that has reported on your chosen event.

Here are some sources to choose from:

• liberal leaning news: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vox, HuffPost, Politico, CNN, Time Magazine
• conservative leaning news: National Review, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Federalist, Fox Online News, Washington Examiner
• centrist news: NPR Online News (National Public Radio), Reuters, BBC, CNBC News, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Pew Research Center
• To see ratings of news sources, visit AllSides’s Media Bias Ratings.

Step 3: Summarize your chosen current event in 1-2 paragraphs. Include what the event is, when it took place, and the political issues or policies to which it connects.

Step 4: In addition to your brief summary, answer each of the following questions:

1. What specific branch of the U.S. government is involved in this current event? (1-2 paragraphs)
    
2. Who or which groups are affected by this event? (1-2 paragraphs)
    
3. What biases or leanings exist in the media source you chose? Give examples. Were these counterbalanced in any way? (1-2 paragraphs)
    
4. What are your opinions on the issue? Use relevant facts and supporting evidence from your source(s) to support your opinion. (1-2 paragraphs)

Step 5: Cite your selected news article and any other sources.

Note: You should be conscious of your own bias and make every effort to avoid biased, opinionated, emotional, or judgmental language in this summary. That means avoiding words such as “always,” “obviously,” “clearly,” etc. 

identify a category of crime, provide a specific example of the elements of the offense from your state (or state of your choosing) and discuss the investigative approaches and choices that an investigator would most likely consider when conducting an investigation.

In at least three (3) pages, identify a category of crime, provide a specific example of the elements of the offense from your state (or state of your choosing) and discuss the investigative approaches and choices that an investigator would most likely consider when conducting an investigation.

In your paper:

(1) identify the category of crime that you will be exploring: Crimes Against Persons; Crimes Against Property; or Crimes Against Society;

(2) identify at least ONE statute from your state (or state of your choice) associated with that crime category and explain the major elements of that offense that need to be investigated and proven;

(3) discuss the type of crime scene you may encounter with that type of offense and how you would handle that crime scene – will it be a large complex scene with many witnesses, lots of physical evidence, or a small scene with no witnesses, etc; OR is this the type of crime that requires special investigation techniques like confidential informants, undercovers, surveillance, etc?

(4) discuss the type(s) of evidence you are likely to be collecting from that scene – is it mostly witness statements, or forensic evidence like DNA, fingerprints, computer evidence, etc – and how you would best handle that evidence;

(5) for the type(s) of evidence you are collecting, what are the potential challenges you may be expected to overcome? Is contamination an issue? What types of witnesses/victims to you potentially come across that would potentially cause reliability issues?

(6) do you think the type of crime you are investigating will likely lead to search warrants? If so, what would you be searching for, where would it be, and what level of evidence do you need to obtain that search warrant?

(7) for the type of investigation you have selected, discuss the clearance rate of offense in general (see reading below) and give an opinion as to if that rate can be improved or not. If you believe it can be improved, explain what additional resources or techniques would lead to improvement. If you do not believe the clearance rate can be improved, give an opinion as to why not.

NOTE: If you chose to discuss Crimes Against Society, discuss what you think the biggest challenge is associated with detecting/investigating the type of offense you selected and what types of additional resources or techniques could lead to more successful investigations of that type of crime.

READING: Lesson 16 – FBI 2018 UCR Clearance Rates – Violent Crime and Property Crime.pdf

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Submission Requirements

• APA Style elements required
• Separate Title Page with Name, class, date and topic/title
• At least three (3) pages of your writing on this topic that includes using in-text citations (NOT including title page and reference page)
• 12 point font
• Times New Roman or Arial
• Separate Reference Page – List detailed source information for all references
• You should include AT LEAST THREE (3) sources in your reference page in your final project. The class text plus two additional sources would be appropriate.

 Write a 3-4 page letter in which you analyze your leadership skills and how you would use them to lead a project requiring group collaboration. 

 Write a 3-4 page letter in which you analyze your leadership skills and how you would use them to lead a project requiring group collaboration. 

I need quality work, original work, references within 3 years, and teacher is a hard grader.

Explain the symptoms of any major adverse effects. What should clients do if they experience them?

Assignment Scenario
After graduating from nursing school and passing your boards, you accepted a position as an RN in the Progressive Cardiac Care Unit (PCCU) at Rasmussen General Hospital (RGH). In the weeks ahead, the PCCU plans to implement a new initiative where clients who had superventricular tachycardia will be sent home on an oral antidysrhythmic drug, quinidine.

Historically, clients diagnosed with superventricular tachycardia were treated first in the PCUU and then they were transferred to the hospital’s observation unit for 24 hours and then sent home. However, when surveyed about their experiences, many clients reported they did not like moving to a new unit for 24 hours, it was considered time-consuming, and inconvenient. Under RGH’s new program, PCCU nurses will be responsible for educating clients about their new medication and administering the first dose to the client before discharge instead of transferring clients to the observation unit for 24 hours.

As part of this new initiative, all PCCU nurses at RGH must be trained to properly educate these clients on all aspects of their new medication regimen. Because you have demonstrated a keen interest in pharmacology, your manager has asked you to develop the educational tools that will be used to train the nurses at RGH.

Assignment Instructions
Your manager explained that all of the PCCU nurses at RGH will be educated in small groups through a short, in-service training session. You have been asked to develop a professional-looking PowerPoint presentation that the trainers will use to guide the in-service sessions. Your PowerPoint will need to:
Be professional-looking (show current evidence-based practices), have a title slide, and 10-15 content slides.
Use the Speaker Notes feature in PowerPoint to reduce the amount of text that appears on the content slides.
The Speaker Notes for each slide will contain the text that will guide what the trainer will say while presenting the slides during the in-service.
The speaker notes should be written in full sentence format. The speak notes should show comprehension of the material, this means the speaker notes should add additional information to the notes on the slide; they should explain definitions, diagrams, and provide examples. The speaker notes should be easy to understand and follow. The speaker notes should add to the presentation and not be directly copied from the content slides. (Speaker notes should follow APA guidelines)
The Speak Notes need to be copied onto a word document and submitted through grammeraly.
The content slides themselves should be clear and easy to understand; they serve as an outline so the audience can follow along with what is being presented (Slide should follow APA guidelines)
Both slides and speaker notes should be written using proper spelling/grammar and at a level that would be appropriate for the audience.
Remember the purpose of the training is to help nurses learn about this medication so they can educate their clients about the use of a medication. With that in mind, it may be helpful to provide examples of how to explain the information to a client in an easy-to-understand way without complicated, technical terms.
Include APA formatted in-text citations on each slide as well as in the speaker notes. This assignment requires 3 scholarly references and present the sources in APA format on a References slide.
Contain content addressing the items below.
Pharmacotheraputics
State the drug name and its therapeutic category
Pharmacodynamics (how does this drug work? How does it affect the body?)
Pharmacokinetics (how is this drug absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted; why is this information important to the nurse? How can the nurse use this information to provide safe patient care?).
Discuss dosage, scheduling, route, and length of therapy.
Describe what clients can expect regarding their therapeutic response and when it should develop
Introduce non-drug measures that clients can do to enhance their therapeutic response (e.g., specific diet to follow, exercise requirements, substances to avoid, special precautions to take, etc.)
Side Effects, Adverse Effects, and Interactions
Explain the symptoms of common side effects, and what clients can do to minimize any discomfort. Ask yourself what can nurses do to prevent and/or treat some of the common side effects listed?
Explain the symptoms of any major adverse effects. What should clients do if they experience them?How can clients prevent these major adverse effects? How can nurses assess for these adverse effects? How can nurses prevent and/or treat these adverse effects?
List the major adverse drug-drug interactions and drug-food interactions that clients need to be made aware of
Follow-up Care
Provide information regarding when clients should call their doctor for advice (e.g., questions, non-urgent symptoms, unpleasant side effects, etc.)
Emphasize any symptoms for which clients should seek immediate care (e.g., when to go to the emergency center or call 911)

The following items need to be turned in to complete this assignment:
The power-point presentation with speaker notes
The word document with the speaker notes