Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 2: Academic Resources and Strategies

New construction projects begin with a design phase, where architects blueprint the vision complete with design details. They work in collaboration with builders who use the designs to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools, and materials to bring the vision to reality. You are both architect and builder of your success. You have started to blueprint your vision in your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan. You have identified others with whom you will collaborate. Now you can begin to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools, and materials

How will you approach your studies? What types of resources are available to you, and how will you access and utilize them? Taking the opportunity to prepare these strategies, tools, and materials will help ensure you can “break ground” without incident and successfully move to the phase where you begin building your vision.

To Prepare:

  • Consider your goals for academic accomplishments while a student of the MSN program.
  • Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this module.

The Assignment:

In this Assignment, you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous Assignment to develop the second component—academic resources and strategies. To accomplish this:

  • Identify and describe at least three academic resources or strategies that can be applied to the MSN program
  • Identify and describe at least three professional resources that can be applied to success in the nursing practice in general or your specialty in particular
  • Explain how you intend to use these resources, and how they might benefit you academically and professionally.

Discussion board 250 words

 

Dr. Christina Sommers is an advocate for teaching virtue ethics.   Her article (web link reading) Teaching the Virtues focuses on a problem she sees in today’s society with the lack of virtue.

Answer the following questions:

[1] With a friend, fellow worker or family member, discuss the case of Edward Snowden, a computer specialist who had worked for the CIA but who came to believe the U.S. government overstepped its bounds in spying on the American people (and others) the way it does and so he leaked top secret U.S. documents to the news media so the public could know. The May 2014 edition of Vanity Fair calls Snowden “the most important whistle-blower of modern times … whose disclosures will reverberate for decades to come” (Vanity Fair, 2014, Barrough, Andrew, & Sullivan, p.153).

Was this action of Snowden an act of virtue as a courageous whistle blower or the act of a traitor?  What virtue or vice do you see in the actions of Edward Snowden?  How should he be treated by the American people and their government for what he did and why?

Snowden interview from Hong Kong (he’s now living in Russia): “You can’t come forward against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk … if they want to get you, they’ll get you in time.  But, at the same time, you have to make a determination about what it is that’s important to you.  … Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded … And it’s getting to the point that you don’t have to have done anything wrong; you just simply have to fallen under suspicion for something.” (For some background and then Snowden interview, click here LINK (Links to an external site.))

If you’re interested to find out what Snowden is doing today as he lives in Russia, here is a video interview with Snowden from September 2019 in Russia.  It starts out with a quick summary of what happened in 2013: LINK (Links to an external site.).

[2] Speak with a friend, fellow worker or family member and explain to them Aristotle’s idea of virtue as the “golden mean” and then ask them whether they think this theory makes sense or not and why (for a quick review of Aristotle’s view of the Good Life and how the Golden Mean works, see this video: (LINK (Links to an external site.)).  The Golden Mean is discussed in our eText on page 64.  What about you, do you agree with Aristotle’s understanding of virtue as a “golden mean” between two extremes?  Why or why not?  Give an example of a virtue that either supports or contradicts Aristotle’s Golden Mean theory.

DiscussionCJ

 

Post a clinically relevant research question using the PICOT format.  How did you arrive at this topic and question?  Why is it important?  ( “what are the new and appropriate wound care methods?”  This question’s uniqueness is to develop an evidence-based practice supported with current knowledge about a proper and new way of wound care, treatment )

Expectations

Initial Post:

  • Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
  • Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA format from within the last 5 years

Please read below for  guidelines and instructions.

See USU NUR Discussion Board Rubric for additional details and point weighting.PICOT stands for:

  • Population/ Patient Problem: Who is your patient? (Disease or Health status, age, race, sex)
  • Intervention: What do you plan to do for the patient? (Specific tests, therapies, medications)
  • Comparison: What is the alternative to your plan? (ie. No treatment, different type of treatment, etc.)
  • Outcome: What outcome do you seek? (Less symptoms, no symptoms, full health, etc.)
  • Time:  What is the time frame? (This element is not always included.)

Your PICOT question will fall under one of these types:

  • Therapy/Prevention
  • Diagnosis
  • Etiology
  • Prognosis

Use the PICOT format to break down your question into smaller parts and identify keywords:

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Patient / Population

Intervention / Indicator

Compare / Control

Outcome

Time / Type of Study or Question

Who are the relevant patients? Think about age, sex, geographic location, or specific characteristics that would be important to your question.What is the management strategy, diagnostic test, or exposure that you are interested in?Is there a control or alternative management strategy you would like to compare to the intervention or indicator?What are the patient-relevant consequences of the intervention?What time periods should be considered?  What study types are most likely to have the information you seek?  What clinical domain does your question fall under?

If you have questions, let me know

Attachment(s): 
563 PICO and determing the evidence to answer y… (346.59 KB)563 Approved Clinical Question For PICOt Develo… (65.78 KB)

 The clinic questions are very doable capstone projects. Prior students have pursued both. An interesting blog on wound care in 2020: https://www.todayswoundclinic.com/articles/how-wound-care-may-change-better-and-worse-2020

 

Measles with health indicator

 Identify 1 Leading Health Indicator from HP 2020 that is relevant to the disease (measles) process and describe the relevance (and cite accordingly) 

Requirements

Use APA format and cite from Healthy Indicator from HP 2020

Module 01 Course Project – Country Selection

 This course project requires you to select a country and develop a paper about that country’s health delivery system. You paper will include the following:

-Demographic information and vital health statistics about the country

– current health status and brief history of the current healthcare system

-Cultural, religious, social, and political factors that affect the health system

-Challenges of the current healthcare system and issues being faced.

_Future health projection based on resources needed to address the country’s healthcare issues

– Comparison of the selected country and the U.S. health system.

For this assignment, choose a country for your course project. In at least one page, explain what country you’ve selected and why.