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This forum requires the viewing of two videos: the first is an excerpt from Dr. Kilbourne’s talk “Slim Hopes” and the second is a TED Talk by Ashley Graham. 

Dr. Jean Kilbourne is a renowned speaker who has made a career of presenting on her critical analyses of the effects of advertising on the American culture (ChallengingMedia, 2006). The video is of a brief excerpt (5:10) of Kilbourne’s talk “Slim Hopes,”Links to an external site. where she aims to persuade her audience that our culture’s current obsession with weight stems in part from the powerful influence advertising has on our culture. In fact, she argues that “there is no aspect more pervasive or more persuasive than advertising.” Also, while not required, you may want to view other videos by KilbourneLinks to an external site. which discuss the media’s influence on our culture’s attitudes regarding alcohol, tobacco, and sexuality.

The second video “Plus Size? More Like My Size”Links to an external site. is from a TED Talk by Ashley Graham, a model who is a major voice in the body acceptance movement (TEDx Talks, 2015).

Also, study the chapter on persuasive presentations in our textbook. In light of the videos, the text, and your own experiences, respond to the questions below:

  • How do the speakers effectively address the appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos? 
  • How do the images and data serve to persuade? 
  • With regard to kairos and context, how may modern viewers respond to Kilbourne’s message differently than those who viewed these messages when they were first created (Kilbourne’s videos were made nearly 20 years ago)? 
  • How does seeing Ashley Graham, a modern voice, support the work Kilbourne has been doing? 
  • Finally, what is your personal reaction? Do you relate? Do you find the messages persuasive? Does the context or age of Kilbourne’s videos affect your receptiveness of her message?

Be sure to respond to your peers as well. As a reminder, connect to a scholarly source beyond the videos from Kilbourne and Graham.

References

ChallengingMedia. (2006). Slim hopes: Advertising & the obsession with thinness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7143sc_HbU

TEDx Talks. (2015). Plus size? More like my size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgawjzimjc

Nursing NUR 435 – Week 6 Assignment: Planning for Professinal Development, Part 1

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In a two-part assignment, submitted in weeks 6 and 8, you will create a job portfolio that highlights your exemplary nursing career. In Week 6, you will focus on creating a cover letter and personal statement.

Planning for Professional Development Part 1 due this week:

Step 1 Create a cover letter for your portfolio.

Imagine that you are interviewing for a nurse manager position in your institution. Write a cover letter, containing at least two-paragraphs, explaining why you want to be a nurse manager and why you are the best candidate for the position.

Review how to prepare an effective cover letter  There are many online resources to help you.  You may find GCF Learn FreeLinks to an external site. particularly useful.  You may use one of the following templates for your cover letter or develop one of your own.

Step 2 State your nursing beliefs.

Some employers ask you to include a personal statement.  To complete this section, create a separate document with the following three main headings:

  • Why I Became a Nurse
  • My Nursing Philosophy
  • My Vision for the Next Five to Ten Years

Each section should be at least one paragraph long.

Step 3 Save and submit your assignment.  You will upload two documents (a cover letter and your personal statement).

When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself in an easily accessible place and submit a copy to your instructor.

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Module 04 Discussion – Personal Mission Statement

 

Discussion Topic

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Activity Time:

Directions:

Develop and share your personal nursing mission statement. How will this guide and impact your nursing practice now and in the future?

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Nursing Assignment

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Preparing the Assignment

1. Review the elements included in PICOT questions to guide evidence-based nursing practice. 

2. Respond to the questions below using the 

PICOT Question Worksheet TemplateLinks to an external site.


 Download PICOT Question Worksheet Template
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3. Using a minimum of 3 scholarly nursing sources, current within 5 years:  

· Identify and describe one practice-related issue or concern.  You may choose to build on the practice issue you identified in NR500NP/NR501NP. 

· Explain why the issue/concern is important to nurse practitioner practice and its impact on health outcomes. 

· Describe each element of your PICOT question in one or two sentences, being sure to address all of the following: 

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P-Population and problem– What is the nursing practice concern or problem and whom does it affect? 

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I–Intervention– What evidence-based solution for the problem would you like to apply? 

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C–Comparison– What is another solution for the problem? Note that this is typically the current practice, no intervention at all, or alternative solutions.  

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O–Outcome– Very specifically, how will you know that the intervention worked? Think about how you will measure the outcome. 

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T–Time frame– What is the Timeframe involved for the EBP initiative or the target date of completion?

· Construct your PICOT question in the standard PICOT question format (narrative) and define each letter separately, such as:  

· P =  

· I =  

· C =  

· O =  

· T =  

· PICOT question written in full =

1. Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.  

2. At the graduate level, we like to see you synthesizing your ideas into your own words. No direct quotes may be used in this worksheet. 

3. Use APA formatting guidelines for references and citations.

· Using the area of interest identified in the Week 1 discussion, address the following:

· Draft a PICOT question using the standard quantitative PICOT format. 

· Identify your practice question, being sure to include the following information and describe each part of the PICOT question in detail:

· Population 

· Intervention 

· Comparison 

· Outcome 

· Time 

In ________(Population) what is the effect of ___________(Intervention) in comparison to ___________ (Comparison) on _____________ (Outcome) to be completed over __________ (Time). 

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Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan

Your Name

School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Capella University

NURS4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety

Instructor Name

Month, Year

Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan

Introduce a general summary of the issue or sentinel event that the root-cause analysis (RCA) will be exploring. Provide a brief context for the setting in which the event took place. Keep this short and general. Explain to the reader what will be discussed in the paper and this should mimic the scoring guide/the headings.


Analysis of the Root Cause

Describe the issue or sentinel event for which the RCA is being conducted. Provide a clear and concise description of the problem that instigated the RCA. Your description should include information such as:

· What happened?

· Who detected the problem/event?

· Who did the problem/event affect?

· How did it affect them?

Provide an analysis of the event and relevant findings. Look to the media simulation, case study, professional experience, or another source of context that you used for the event you described. As you are conducting your analysis and focusing on one or more root causes for your issue or sentinel event, it may be useful to ask questions such as:

· What was supposed to occur?

· Were there any steps that were not taken or did not happen as intended?

· What environmental factors (controllable and uncontrollable) had an influence?

· What equipment or resource factors had an influence?

· What human errors or factors may have contributed?

· Which communication factors may have contributed?

These questions are just intended as a starting point. After analyzing the event, make sure you explicitly state one or more root causes that led to the issue or sentinel event.

Application of Evidence-Based Strategies

Identity best practices strategies to address the safety issue or sentinel event.

· Describe what the literature states about the factors that lead to the safety issue.

· For example, interruptions during medication administration increase the risk of medication errors by specifically stated data.

· Explain how the strategies could be addressed in safety issues or sentinel events.

Improvement Plan with Evidence-Based and Best-Practice Strategies

Provide a description of a safety improvement plan that could realistically be implemented within the health care setting in which your chosen issue or sentinel event took place. This plan should contain:

· Actions, new processes or policies, and/or professional development that will be undertaken to address one or more of the root causes.

· Support these recommendations with references from the literature or professional best practices.

· A description of the goals or desired outcomes of these actions.

· A rough timeline of development and implementation for the plan.

Existing Organizational Resources

Identify existing organizational personnel and/or resources that would help improve the implementation or outcomes of the plan.

· A brief note on resources that may need to be obtained for the success of the plan.

· Consider what existing resources may be leveraged to enhance the improvement plan?

Conclusion

References

Reference page should be double spaced throughout without extra spaces between entries.

Each reference page entry should be formatted according to APA 7 guidelines with a hanging indent as is seen here.

Week 6 DQ 2

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In the video “How’s Your Social Health”, the speaker presents a tool to measure social health. Have you encountered anything similar in your studies thus far? Perhaps in a clinical setting? Why is measuring social health so important?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfCZBXQYSlw 

SOAP note CKD

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SOAP note follow up chronic kidney disease stage 2

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Part A Critically Appraising Quantitative EBP

you will complete a literature review for a quantitative article by filling out the correct column of the literature review table using the template found in the course content. Review the instructions, rubric, and example in this week's course content before completing the literature review table.

1) Discuss the fundamental meaning of quantitative research in Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (Chapter 5 & 17).

2) Utilize the strength-of-evidence pyramid adapted from (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, pg 116,Figure 4.2) and determine where qualitative and quantitative research sits within the pyramid using a compare and contrast methodology. Quick Link :

3) Attach your quantitative article with the completed literature review table to your discussion post and cite your article within your discussion and include an APA reference style at the end of your post.

Part B

1) Discuss the fundamental meaning of qualitative research in Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (Chapter 6 & 18).

2) Utilize the strength-of-evidence pyramid (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, pg 116, Figure 4.2) and determine where qualitative and quantitative research sits within the pyramid using a compare and contrast methodology.

3) Attach your qualitative article with the completed literature review table to your discussion post and cite your article in your discussion with an APA reference style at the end of your post.

Research Type

Qualitative

Quantitative

Article, Source, year

Purpose

Sample

Design and level of evidence

(Melnyk 4.2)

Variables, measurement

Results, findings

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Implications

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1.Research methods commonly used in nursing can be classified in different ways. The following is a discussion of the most common classifications. First, research methods are classified as quantitative, qualitative, or mixed. This is the most common classification.

Quantitative Research

Quantitative research involves the collection and analysis of numerical data. It is used to confirm a hypothesis. This method’s ontology can be described as objective, material, and structural. Quantitative methods rely on scientific realism justified by empirical confirmation. According to Creswell and Creswell (2023, pp. 45-46), the most common research objectives are numerical description, causal establishment and explanation, and prediction. Quantitative research relies on precise measurement using validated and structured tools. Common quantitative methods in nursing research include surveys, experiments, and observational studies. Conclusions are drawn from statistical analysis.

Qualitative Research

Qualitative research involves the construction of knowledge hypothesis and grounded theory from the data collected during fieldwork. The ontology can be described as subjective, mental, personal, and constructed. It delves into understanding human experiences, behaviors, and social phenomena. According to Creswell and Creswell (2023, p. 46), this research method involves collecting qualitative data such as in-depth interviews, participant observations, and open-ended questions. Qualitative methods in nursing research include interviews, focus groups, content analysis, and ethnographic studies. Qualitative designs include descriptive methods, narrative, phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnography, and case studies.

Mixed Methods

Mixed-methods research combines aspects of quantitative and qualitative approaches within a single study. It allows researchers to comprehensively understand a research question by collecting and analyzing numerical and contextual data. In nursing research, mixed-methods studies are often employed to explore complex healthcare issues from multiple angles.

Second, research can be classified as experimental or non-experimental. Experimental research involves the manipulation of one or more variables to determine the effect of an outcome. An example is a Randomized controlled study. On the other hand, there are non-experimental research methods that focus on the observation of phenomena as they occur. Examples include observational studies, case-control studies, and cohort studies. Finally, nursing research can be classified based on the time of data collection. When the data is collected at a single point in time, this is called cross-sectional research, while data collection for an extended period creates a longitudinal study (Butler et al., 2021).

2. Research approaches in nursing can be divided into a number of groups, each with its own specific traits and goals. Quantitative research is one of the main categories, and it entails the systematic collection and analysis of numerical data in order to establish cause-and-effect correlations or characterize patterns (Griffiths et al., 2020). Descriptive and correlational research, which are subsets of quantitative research, concentrate on describing phenomena or looking for links between variables, respectively, whereas experimental research uses controlled studies to modify variables. In nursing research, conducting large-scale surveys, evaluating the efficacy of interventions, and tracking patient outcomes are all made possible by quantitative research.

Another well-known subcategory is qualitative research, which aims to investigate people’s viewpoints and real-world experiences. Aspects of this methodology include phenomenology, which aims to comprehend a phenomenon from the perspective of the participants, grounded theory, which develops hypotheses based on actual facts, and ethnography, which explores the cultural backdrop of healthcare practices (Griffiths et al., 2020). For acquiring an understanding of the subjective facets of nursing, such as patient experiences, emotional reactions, and cultural impacts on healthcare, qualitative research is crucial.

Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, mixed-methods research provides a thorough grasp of intricate nursing phenomena. Both numerical and narrative data are gathered by researchers through surveys, experiments, observations, or in-person discussions (Griffiths et al., 2020). When a researcher wants to triangulate findings or offer a more comprehensive viewpoint on a study subject, this strategy can be quite helpful.

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are vital methodologies in nursing research because they serve a critical role in integrating and appraising current studies related to a specific healthcare condition. A systematic review employs a rigorous and organized approach to locating, selecting, and evaluating relevant research studies. These studies aim to provide a comprehensive review of the available data on a certain healthcare topic. Researchers painstakingly assemble information from multiple sources, evaluate the quality of each study, and then summarize the findings to provide a transparent and objective picture of the current state of knowledge in the subject (Griffiths et al., 2020). Meta-analysis, on the other hand, goes a step further by statistically combining the data of multiple studies to derive more solid and broadly applicable conclusions. These strategies collectively provide a substantial addition to nursing’s use of evidence-based practice by presenting a complete body of research.

Action research is a popular methodology in clinical practice and nursing education. It stands out for its inclusive teamwork style that includes both scholars and practitioners. This approach’s main objective is to pinpoint specific obstacles or problems in the healthcare setting, and then work together to develop and provide solutions. By incorporating researchers and practitioners in problem-solving, data collecting, analysis, and improvement implementation, action research emphasizes a cycle of continuous improvement (Griffiths et al., 2020). It is especially helpful in clinical practice, where it can motivate efforts to improve quality, and in nursing education, where it can trigger curriculum modifications and creative teaching methods. Action research seeks to make positive changes that enhance patient care and outcomes in the healthcare environment by concentrating on practical, real-world concerns and encouraging cooperation between researchers and practitioners.

In conclusion, there are several different types of nursing research methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, systematic reviews/meta-analyses, and action research. With the ultimate goal of advancing nursing knowledge and enhancing patient care, researchers choose the most suitable approach depending on their research objectives, ethical considerations, available resources, and the nature of the phenomenon under examination.