1) Identify and describe a leadership style in nursing (authoritarian, Laissez-fair, democratic, transformational, and transactional).
2) Research and discuss leadership issues in nursing that correlate with the selected leadership style.
3) What practical strategies would you incorporate into your personal practice to develop your leadership potential?
4) Use a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed research articles to support your paper. Sources must be current (within the last 5 years).
A mobile phone company is considering introducing a new phone. Outline the steps the company would take leading up to (and including) the introduction of the new phone to the market. What steps in the new product process would it use? What aspects of the consumer adoption process would be important?
Describe what inspires your decision for becoming an optometrist, including your preparation for training in this profession, your aptitude and motivation, the basis for your interest in optometry, and your future career goals.”
Prior to beginning work on the discussion forum, be certain to have read all the required resources for this week.
Utilize research skills to locate an appropriate scholarly program evaluation proposal. Critique the design of the program evaluation. Examine the research hypothesis.
Analyze the evaluability of the program or policy under consideration by the researcher.
Describe the research methodology employed by the researcher, and identify any ethical issues that might be salient to the study. It might be savvy to select an article based upon a design you might consider using for your Final Paper.
The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you?
Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
In a 5-paragraph essay, explain what strategies Douglass uses to learn how to read and write?
What sort of audience does Douglass anticipate for his reminiscence? How much does he assume his readers know about the conditions of slavery?
What books seem to matter most to Douglass? Why? What are his motives for want- ing to read and write? For Douglass, what is the relationship between literacy and freedom? How does he move from curiosity to anguish to “eternal wakefulness” in paragraph 6? What is the relationship between learning to read and learning to write?
Examine the nineteenth-century advertisement designed to capture a runaway slave (page 109). In what specific ways does the language of this advertisement reflect the slave owner’s attitude toward the slave? How does this language correspond to Douglass’s description of his life as a slave? Support your answer with specific examples.
Read Azar Nafisi’s excerpt from “Reading Lolita in Tehran” (page 499) and consider Nafisi’s students’ challenges in obtaining an education. What obstacles do the girls overcome to join Nafisi’s class? How do the difficulties Douglass faced in getting an education compare with those of Nafisi’s students
Watch the video links provided below. The concept of American Exceptionalism has been floating around for generations in the U.S. then and even now. Is the concept of American Exceptionalism toxic or productive? What does or does not make the U.S. inherently different from the rest of the world? Is it important or necessary to be exceptional in the eyes of the world? (Hint: Perceptions that the U.S. has to win all the time, be #1 at everything, naïve, apathetic, arrogant, entitled, spoiled, etc.)
Discuss some of the similarities and differences between Canada and the U.S. In what ways can you think of in which you prefer some aspects of Canadian lifestyle to be implemented into U.S. society? Or, if you have no preferences, state why? Anything to be hopeful about regarding the relationship between both nations? This is opinion based.
Write an essay (5-6 pages) comparing the two news stories from a sociological perspective, including:
How the media framed the male and the female accused (i.e.; Were photos used to help create a particular view? Was the language or urgency of the piece different? Is there a clear discrepancy between the two cases?) Explain this, using a sociological lens.
Think of a time when you were faced with an unethical communication situation. Describe the situation. How did you respond? What was the outcome? If you could face that situation again, what would you do differently and why?
