• Minimum of 1 scholarly source and one appropriate resource such as the textbook, math video, and/or math website

In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials and your outside reading(s).

Initial Post Instructions

Suppose that you have two sets of data. The first set is a list of all the injuries that were seen in a clinic in a month’s time. The second set contains data on the number of minutes that each patient spent in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. You can make assumptions about other information or variables that are included in each data set. 

For each data set, propose your idea of how best to represent the key information.  

1. To organize your data, would you choose to use a frequency table, a cumulative frequency table, or a relative frequency table? Why? 
2. What type of graph would you use to display the organized data from each frequency distribution? What would be shown on each of the axes for each graph? 

• APA format for in-text citations and list of references

Discuss your own culture’s pattern of communication using Purnell’s Domains of Culture as a guide. When your personal communication practices differ from what is in the scholarly literature, posit why. See the variant cultural characteristics as a guide. Speak to each one of the following points:

• Identify your cultural ancestry. If you have more than one cultural ancestry, chose the one with which you most closely associate.
• Explore the willingness of individuals in your culture to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Identify any area of discussion that would be considered taboo?
• Explore the practice and meaning of touch in your culture. Include information regarding touch between family members, friends, members of the opposite sex, and health-care providers.
• Identify personal spatial and distancing strategies used when communicating with others in your culture. Discuss differences between friends and families versus strangers.
• Discuss your culture’s use of eye contact. Include information regarding practices between family members, friends, strangers, and persons of different age groups.
• Explore the meaning of gestures and facial expressions in your culture. Do specific gestures or facial expressions have special meanings? How are emotions displayed?
• Are there acceptable ways of standing and greeting people in your culture?
• Discuss the prevailing temporal relation of your culture. Is the culture’s worldview past, present, or future-oriented? Temporality also includes punctuality. 
• Discuss the impact of your culture on your nursing and/or health care. Be specific, not something that is very general.

This is a formal post that requires correct grammar, punctuation, and APA format. You do not need to do a running head for this post, nor do you need an abstract. Use the following headings as a template and answer all questions. This post is worth 20 points (20%) of your course grade. Eighteen of the points (18%) are for thorough content in the post. The other 2 points (2%) are allotted for the correct use of APA format for at least three references and three citations in the body of the post. One citation must come from a refereed journal article, one from a textbook, and one from an Internet source.