Explain your rationale for why you selected each of the strategies, and how they align with your personal philosophy of teaching.
Discussion 2
Clinical performance evaluation is subjective and involves the judgments of the evaluator. It is filtered by the evaluator’s perspective, values, and biases. With this in mind, select three clinical evaluation strategies that you believe are fair and accurate in order to measure student learning, and determine their competency and safety in the clinical setting. Explain your rationale for why you selected each of the strategies, and how they align with your personal philosophy of teaching. Make sure the strategies that you selected include ways to evaluate students cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learning.
1. Compose at least 2-3 paragraphs all in APA format for each with proper references
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What is your position on assigning grades based on a curve (a relative scale)?
Week 8 Discussion 1
What is your position on assigning grades based on a curve (a relative scale)? Explain and defend your position.
If the salesman is fired, does he have the basis for a wrongful discharge action?
Assume that an employer’s computer-use policy permits employees to use their company-owned laptops for personal emails and web searches, provided such use does not interfere with company business. Assume further that, when members of the company’s outside sales force have their laptops collected and replaced by newer models, the IT department, in the act of inspecting the old computers and sweeping their hard drives for redistribution to clerical workers, discovers Internet pornography on a salesman’s hard drive. If, as is the case with some corporations such as Wal-Mart, the company has a policy against pornography entering its premises, should the salesman be reported to human resources and disciplined? Suppose that some of the material appears to be “kiddy porn” that violates federal law.
Does this change your answer? If the salesman is fired, does he have the basis for a wrongful discharge action? If he is prosecuted for possessing “kiddy porn,” does he have a viable Fourth/Fourteenth Amendment search-and-seizure defense? 200 words.
What new terrorist tactics do you expect to see in the future?
****ANSWER POST 250 WORDS MIN****
Discussion Questions: What new terrorist tactics do you expect to see in the future? How should U.S. counter-terrorism strategy evolve to meet these threats?
What have you learned about yourself as a reading/literacy specialist?
Topic 5 Discussion Question 1
How would you implement successful communication and involvement between families, teachers, administration, and students? Explain your strategies. How do these strategies align with the Christian worldview perspective?
Topic 5 Discussion Question 2
What have you learned about yourself as a reading/literacy specialist? What are your areas for growth? How will you continue to push yourself and grow in your practice?
Why is deterring terrorists a challenge? Do you think terrorists can be deterred?
Write a research paper addressing the following global terrorism issues:
- In week 3, we discussed the Dilemmas in the Deterrence of Terrorists (Chapter 4 in The Counter Terrorism Puzzle). Why is deterring terrorists a challenge? Do you think terrorists can be deterred? Address both sides of the argument (through diplomacy, information, military, economic, financial, intelligence and law enforcement (D.I.M.E.F.I.L.) means).
- The U.S. Government published the most recent National Strategy for Counterterrorism (NSCT) in October 2018. For this second topic you are to develop a framework for a brand-new National Strategy for Counter Terrorism of the United States. Address both domestic (homeland) components and offensive overseas elements. Make sure to address how you will balance domestic security with civil liberties at home and how you will be effective in dealing with terrorists abroad without creating even more terrorists in the process. Make sure your framework employs all elements of national power (diplomatic, informational, military, economic, intelligence, law enforcement, financial). Also describe the importance of gathering all sources of domestic and overseas intelligence for effective counter terrorism efforts. You do not need to write an entire strategy, just the outline or framework for a new NSCT; an executive summary or details of your pillars or plan of action for a comprehensive strategy.
Technical Requirements
- Your paper must be at a minimum of 5-6 pages (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit).
- Scholarly and credible references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content; however, a minimum of eight (8) scholarly sources are required to support your paper.
- Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
- Students will follow the current APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework.
- Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources. It is highly advised to utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc.
Describe specific initiatives, laws, and accreditation standards that can be leveraged to improve health care quality and enhance performance improvement.
Health care organizations (HCOs) often struggle with performance improvement and with effectively communicating performance improvement results to their internal and external stakeholders. It is equally important to communicate your successes externally for marketing and internally to continue to build on your successes. The messaging to these two groups, however, is very different.
For this project, write a paper of 3-4 pages, excluding cover page, abstract page, and reference page and discuss the following:
- Describe specific initiatives, laws, and accreditation standards that can be leveraged to improve health care quality and enhance performance improvement.
- Develop a communications strategy to achieve effective and efficient communication of performance data and performance improvement initiatives.
- Include a plan for strategic messaging in communications to employees (to effect change) and communications to the general public (for marketing purposes).
Note: Use APA style to cite at least 5 scholarly sources from the last 5 years.
Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.
Instructions
Complete this assessment in two parts.
Part 1
Define the patient, family, or population health problem that will be the focus of your capstone project. Assess the problem from a leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective and establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings related to your project.
Part 2
Connect with the patient, family, or group you’ll work with during your practicum. During this portion of your practicum, plan to spend at least 2 hours meeting with the patient, family, or group and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts of your choice. The hours you spend meeting with them should take place outside of regular work hours. Use the Practicum Focus Sheet [PDF] provided for this assessment to guide your work and interpersonal interactions. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
Capella Academic Portal
Complete the NURS-FPX4900 Volunteer Experience Form in Capella Academic Portal. Include a description of your relationship to the patient, family, or group in the Volunteer Experience comments field.
Requirements
The assessment requirements, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, note the additional requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
· Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to your practice.
8. Summarize the problem you’ll explore.
8. Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with during your practicum.
8. Provide context, data, or information that substantiates the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance to the patient, family, or population.
8. Explain why this problem is relevant to your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse.
. Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
9. Note whether the authors provide supporting evidence from the literature that’s consistent with what you see in your nursing practice.
9. Explain how you would know if the data are unreliable.
9. Describe what the literature says about barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice in addressing the problem you’ve defined.
9. Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of nursing standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
9. Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
9. Describe what the literature says about a nursing theory or conceptual framework that might frame and guide your actions during your practicum.
. Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
10. Describe research that has tested the effectiveness of these standards and/or policies in improving patient, family, or population outcomes for this problem.
10. Describe current literature on the role of nurses in policy making to improve outcomes, prevent illness, and reduce hospital readmissions.
10. Describe the effects of local, state, and federal policies or legislation on your nursing scope of practice, within the context of this problem.
. Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined.
11. Discuss research on the effectiveness of leadership strategies.
11. Define the role that you anticipate leadership must play in addressing the problem.
11. Describe collaboration and communication strategies that you anticipate will be needed to address the problem.
11. Describe the change management strategies that you anticipate will be required to address the problem.
11. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
. Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
. Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Additional Requirements
. Format: Format your paper using APA style. APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] is provided to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Be sure to include:
14. A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
14. Appropriate section headings.
. Length: Your paper should be approximately 5–7 pages in length, not including the reference page.
. Supporting evidence: Cite at least five sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old. Provide in-text citations and references in APA format.
. Proofreading: Proofread your paper, before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on its substance.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
. Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
18. Define a patient, family, or population health problem that’s relevant to personal and professional practice.
. Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.
19. Analyze evidence from peer-reviewed literature and professional sources that describes and guides nursing actions related to a defined patient, family, or population problem.
. Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.
20. Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies could affect a defined patient, family, or population problem.
. Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.
21. Propose leadership strategies to improve outcomes, patient-centered care, and the patient experience related to a defined patient, family, or population problem and document the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form.
. Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
22. Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
22. Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Do humans have an inalienable right to ownership of their body and is the patenting of individual human genes a violation of human dignity?
Case Study: Business Ethics/CSR
Patenting Genetically Engineered Life Forms (4)
In 1873, Louis Pasteur received a U.S. patent for the manufacture of a yeast that was free of disease. The first patent in the United States for a genetically engineered life form was granted in 1980 when the Supreme Court, in Diamond vs Chakrabarty, held that a human-created micro-organism was a new and useful “manufacture,” and hence patentable. Since then, more than three million genome-related patents have been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), some of which cover genetically engineered humans. The year 2007 marked the first application for a patent for an artificial, human-created life-form, a microbe.
Despite the legal status of biopatents, there is still considerable controversy about the morality of the practice. Canada does not permit patents for “higher life forms,” such as the OncoMouse. China, India, and Thailand prohibit the patenting of any animal. The European Union only permits such patents “provided the potential benefits of the ‘invention’ outweigh the ethical and moral considerations, in particular the suffering of animals.”
People who favor biopatents argue that researchers should be rewarded for their discoveries. People would not put the money and years into genetic research unless they had some mechanism for protecting their inventions and investment through patents. Those who are against it question the assumption that science will advance faster if researchers can have exclusive rights to their inventions. They also point out that the monopoly on certain products and the high royalty costs owed to patent holders may discourage product development, since the high costs would be passed on to the consumer, as is currently happening in the pharmaceutical industry. Finally, there is the question of whether it is moral to patent a part of nature or to own life forms.
Myriad Genetics currently holds a patent on two human genes that have been linked to breast cancer. Religious leaders have called for a moratorium on the patenting of life-forms because they believe to grant patents on animal or plant genomes is to usurp the “ownership rights of God.”
Choose one of the following questions:
· Question 1: Do humans have an inalienable right to ownership of their body and is the patenting of individual human genes a violation of human dignity?
· Question 2: Should companies hold patents on mammals or chimera (animals created with human DNA to make their organs harvestable and compatible with human DNA)?
Sources
1. Judith Boss. 2017. Analyzing Moral Issues. p. 488. McGraw-Hill Higher Education 6th edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
2. Judith Boss. 2020. Analyzing Moral Issues. p. 104. McGraw-Hill Higher Education 7th edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
3. Judith Boss. 2020. Analyzing Moral Issues. p. 447. McGraw-Hill Higher Education 7th edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
4. Judith Boss. 2017. Analyzing Moral Issues. p. 169. McGraw-Hill Higher Education 6th edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
Is animal experimentation morally justified if the Animal Welfare Act is not violated?
Case Study: Environmental Ethics
Animal Liberation in the Science Lab (3)
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a loose organization of radical animal-rights activists in more than 40 countries, ALF activists target science laboratories, slaughterhouses, and the fur and lumber industries. Since its founding in England in 1976, the ALF engaged in hundreds, if not thousands of reported direct actions. One of the most publicized actions in the United States took place in 1984, when five members of the ALF broke into the Experimental Head Injury Lab at the University of Pennsylvania and stole files and videotapes of experiments. The videotapes showed gruesome scenes of terrified baboons in vises with their heads being smashed by pistons while the researchers joked around. The tapes showed operations being performed on primates without regard for their pain or for standard research procedures. After taking the videotapes, the ALF ransacked the lab.
In the controversy that followed the release of the tapes to the public, Dr. Thomas Gennarelli, the director of the lab, defended the research, claiming that the animals had been properly treated. He also accused the ALF of setting back medical research. Both the university and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which gave the lab a new grant to repair the damage, supported Dr. Gennarelli. The ALF responded to the accusation by comparing the lab experiments to those conducted by Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele on Jews in concentration camps. Protesters supported the ALF by staging demonstrations on campuses and at the NIH offices. In 1985, the secretary of Health and Human Services stopped federal funding for the head injury program, and the university agreed to pay a fine for violating the Animal Welfare Act. The members of the ALF were not prosecuted for their actions.
Although the ALF defines itself as nonviolent, the FBI regards groups such as the ALF and its sister organization the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) as “violent animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists [who] now pose one of the most serious terrorist threats to the nation.” In 2006, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated the ALF a “terrorist threat.” The ALF has a policy of nonviolence toward living things, including people engaged in animal experimentation.
Choose one of the following questions:
· Question 1: Were stealing the tapes and ransacking the lab morally justified?
· Question 2: Is animal experimentation morally justified if the Animal Welfare Act is not violated?
