Read the article “Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders,” which you will find in Week #1 course materials and your assigned reading for weeks #1 and #2. Then, in your original response, explain the title of the article. In your explanation cite to specific passages from you textbooks and the article. When you cite, use exact quotes and reference page number and text or article.
Day: January 10, 2020
Children can experience delayed intellectual development when they have low birth weights. How might the delay look according to Piaget? Utilize Chapter 4 of your course text for guidance and reference accordingly.This discussion question meets the following CACREP Standard: 2.F.3.c. Theories of normal and abnormal personality development. Just need 135 words Asap!
Essay in APA Format/ Font 12 Times New Roman
Summarize the article, what the author is trying to convey.
Introduce, The main idea, what is the issue? The author point of view, his opinion. And Ended by providing your opinion. With some data/ hard information.
Remember to provide reference, minimum 2 or 3.
STRICTLY NO PLAGARISM
Using the guidelines provided in this week’s chapter (and other resources as needed), create a step-by-step IT security policy for handling user accounts/rights for a student who is leaving prematurely (drops, is expelled, and so on).
You will need to consider specialized student scenarios, such as a student who works as an assistant to a faculty member or as a lab assistant in a computer lab and may have access to resources most students do not.
Write your answer using a WORD document. Do your own work. Submit here. Note your Safe Assign score. Score must be less than 25 for full credit.
You have three attempts.
Imagine you interview a performer from within sport (athlete, coach, etc.) and integrate the readings into your interview questions and paper, as you explore the role of psychological preparation in their performance.
For your interview paper, you want to gather all of your information from your interview with your athlete / performer, and integrate readings/resources and your experiences/perspectives/insights. That is the key.
Throughout your paper, you want to note the question(s) you asked your interviewee, and then integrate yours, theirs, and your references (authors’) perspectives. You can perhaps highlight what was new information for you, and them.
Imagine you asking athlete :
1) What skills are they using to deal with anxiety after, before performance?
2) How did they deal with injury and recovery psychologically?
Then write their answer and integrate references.
Please use as references only research papers (at least 3)
Quiz: Statistical Concepts
1) IQ scores tend to be fairly stable over time. This is because IQ tests have high:
a) Validity
b) Reliability
c) Measurement error
d) Cultural fairness
2) IQ scores correlate highly with academic performance. This is an example of IQ test:
a) Validity
b) Reliability
c) Discrimination
d) Parallelism
3) Knowing a test’s standard error of measurement tells us:
a) The likelihood of scoring errors
b) How test taker distractibility distorts responses
c) The likelihood that test takers will answer questions incorrectly
d) How many points test scores are likely to vary over time
4) Dr. Hathaway writes the following statement in a test report: “Jennifer’s Verbal Comprehension Index of 102 is slightly higher than her Perceptual Organization Index of 99. This difference reflects slightly stronger verbal than non-verbal skills.” This statement:
a) Accurately describes a significant VCI/POI difference
b) Is inaccurate because the score difference is non-significant
c) Is accurate because the non-significant VCI/POI difference is described as “slight.”
d) Is inaccurate because the VCI is above average, the POI is below average, and thus the difference is not “slight.”
5) Jose’s WRAT-IV Spelling score is significantly higher than his Word Reading score, at a 5% level of significance. This means that:
a) Only 5% of the population has a difference between these scores at least as large as Jose’s
b) There is a 95% chance that Jose’s Spelling score will still be higher than Word Reading if Jose is retested
c) There is a 5% chance that the Spelling/Word Reading difference is due to test error
d) Both b and c
6) Convert a WAIS-IV IQ (Mean = 100, s = 15) of 95 to a z-score:
a) -0.05
b) -0.33
c) -0.95
d) 6.33
7) A z-score of 0.5 is at what percentile?
a) 25th
b) 50th
c) 69th
d) 84th
8) Abdul obtains a score of 13 on the WAIS-IV Block Design test. If this is the only information that you have, your best estimate of his IQ would be:
a) 87
b) 113
c) 115
d) 130
9) Someone who obtains a T-score of 60 on the MMPI-II Depression scale is scoring higher than what percent of the population?
a) 60%
b) 70%
c) 80%
d) 84%
10) Factor analysis is:
a) A statistical method that shows how variables cluster, based on the correlations between them
b) A modern form of psychoanalysis
c) A way to determine if group means are significantly different
d) A way to draw causal inferences from correlations between variables
Respond of your colleagues who were assigned to a different case than you. Explain how you might apply knowledge gained from your colleagues case studies to you own practice in clinical settings as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.
NOTE: Positive comment
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The three questions this writer would as the patient are:
Did your depressive symptoms worsen after the death of your husband?
How many hours per night do you sleep on average?
Do you sleep throughout those hours of sleep or do you wake constantly?
Do you ingest any stimulants like coffee or chocolate before bed?
Do you sleep during the daytime?
The rationale behind question one is to gauge the timeline of the patients depression. She appears to have been suffering with untreated depression for a long time, however the additional symptoms of insomnia and tearfulness seemed to worsen after his death. With this information the nurse practitioner will know if her depression is in an acute state and the severity of her illness.The patient is reporting sleeplessness; however the nurse practitioner needs to gauge if the patient is participating in restful sleep. Sleep of two hours or less may only consist of REM sleep (Boland et al., 2020). If the patient is not getting restful sleep, she is not benefiting from the bodily repair that takes place during sleep (Fitzgerald et al., 2017). This can place her at an increased risk for other illnesses and heighten depressive symptoms (Uchmanowicz et al., 2019).Knowing if the patient sleeps consistently throughout those hours of sleep will provide information to the nurse about the kind and amount of sleep the patient is getting. Ingesting certain stimulants like caffeinated drinks, coffee or chocolate can affects the clients sleep by providing wakefulness (Ulke et al., 2017). If the patient is sleeping during the daytime, her circadian rhythm could have been reversed where she will need less sleep during the night time hours (Fitzgerald et al., 2017).
The people this writer would interview are:
The patients aide
The patients son
The patient aide may be able to provide more information about observed sleepiness during the daytime. In addition, she will be able to provide information on the patients dietary patterns and physical activity. The questions to the aide would be:
Does she easily nod off during the daytime?
Does she easily become fatigued?
Does she consume a well-balanced diet?
Question one would illicit answers about her getting sleep.
It appears that she in fact getting sleep but because of a revered circadian rhythm she is not able to get the sleep at the night which is the desired time. Question two will help the nurse practitioner gauge the extent of the effects that non sleep has taken on the patients life. The patient, if constantly fatigued throughout the day has a life that has been highly impacted by the lack of sleep. The aide would be able to provide a clear, picture of the patients diet. The aide would be able to reveal if the patient consumes a vast amount of sugar or caffeine which could interrupt sleep.
Questions to the son would surround the familys psychiatric history. These questions will help the nurse practitioner construct the family history of the patient and rule out or consider familial history as a cause for her symptoms.
Can you recall any maternal family members with psychiatric disorders including depression and insomnia?
Did the symptoms start after the death of the clients husband?
This would help the nurse practitioner rule out depressive symptoms as the cause of her insomnia.
Physical Examinations and Tests
Sleep Study:
Polysomnogram The sleep study or polysomnogram measures the brain waves, blood oxygen, leg movements and breathing during sleep (Meghdadi et al., 2019). The Nurse Practitioner would be able to rule out physiological reasons ad the cause for the patients insomnia.
Actigraphy: This is where a small device is worn on the wrist and it measures the persons sleep wake cycle for a specified period (Meghdadi et al., 2019). This is convenient for this client and the Nurse Practitioner would be able to monitor the clients sleep health and gauge the severity of the disruption of her sleep.The nurse practitioner could also physically examine the patients nares for septal occlusion.
Septal occlusion or deviation could lead to problems with sleeping even during sleep, this would be important for the nurse practitioner to evaluate as this could be interfering with the patients sleep.
Epworth sleepiness scale assesses the patients tendency to nod off in various situations (Meghdadi et al., 2019). For this client it would be necessary for the nurse practitioner to assess the severity of her nodding off during the day time especially at unexpected times like during eating and other activities that would put her safety at risk.
Differential Diagnosis
G47.00 Unspecified Insomnia Disorder– The patient is experiencing insomnia at nighttime that could be related to several factors. She reports staying up late to watch T.V., depressive symptoms, restless leg syndrome, sleep apnea and sleeping during the daytime. Some of these factors have not been ruled out yet as the cause of her anxiety.
G47.23 Persistent Irregular Sleep Wake type severe
F32.9 Unspecified Depressive Disorder
G25.81 Restless legs syndrome
Medications:
Trazodone 50 mg This medication would be the first choice as it offers antidepressant properties as well as promotes sleep in those diagnoses with insomnia. It is generally safe for the elderly population at low doses (Pagel et al., 2018). The Nurse Practitioner should monitor the patient and evaluate the needs to slowly increase or in some cases decrease the dose.
Rozerem 8 mg- Is a nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic that promotes sleep. The patient would benefit from his, but an added benefit would be that she would be at a diminished risk of falls as this is a concern following the use of hypnotics in the elderly. This drug is reported as one that would prevent less falls from over sedation (Pagel et al., 2018).
Lessons Learned
This writer has learned that it is important to conduct a complete evaluation of the patient and not just focus on the presenting symptoms. There are additional environmental and physiological symptoms that could be attributed to the patients insomnia. In this case the patient had several factors that could be contributing her insomnia and they needed to be ruled out. The cause of her insomnia could have been physiological from the sleep apnea or from her habits of staying up tool late at nights and sleeping during the daytime. It is also important to evaluate medications, social and economic factors before the resorting to pharmacological interventions.
References
Boland, E. M., Vittengl, J. R., Clark, L. A., Thase, M. E., & Jarrett, R. B. (2020). Is sleep disturbance linked to short- and long-term outcomes following treatments for recurrent depression? Journal of Affective Disorders, 262, 323332.
FitzGerald, J. M., ORegan, N., Adamis, D., Timmons, S., Dunne, C. P., Trzepacz, P. T., &
Meagher, D. J. (2017). Sleep-wake cycle disturbances in elderly acute general medical inpatients: Longitudinal relationship to delirium and dementia. Alzheimers & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 7, 6168.
Meghdadi, A. H., Popovic, D., Rupp, G., Smith, S., Berka, C., & Verma, A. (2019). Transcranial Impedance Changes during Sleep: A Rheoencephalography Study. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, IEEE Journal of, IEEE J. Transl. Eng. Health Med, 7, 17.
Pagel, T., Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, & Jaime M. Monti. (2018). Treating insomnia with medications. Sleep Science and Practice, (1), 1. Uchmanowicz I, Markiewicz K,
Uchmanowicz B, Kotuniuk A, & Rosiczuk J. (2019). The relationship between sleep disturbances and quality of life in elderly patients with hypertension. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 155.
Ulke, C., Sander, C., Jawinski, P., Mauche, N., Huang, J., Spada, J., Hegerl, U. (2017). Sleep disturbances and upregulation of brain arousal during daytime in depressed versus non-depressed elderly subjects. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 18(8), 633640.
Using your textbook, or based research, a general reference list in international Economics/finance, such as: Specialized Journals; General Journals; Sources of international Data; General Current information and the Internet Sources apply the learning outcomes for the week/course and lecture concepts to one of the following scenarios as applied to:
– introduction to Corporate Finance
– the Role of the Financial Manager
– the Financial Goal of the Corporation
– should Managers Look After the Interests of Their Shareholders?
Description
You may use Web resources, your textbooks or any other resources. Make sure you respond to the exercise fully; the minimum length for your answer is 1page. The exercise should be completed using Microsoft (MS) Word and submitted as a MS Word document.
Exercise:
Does the media help clarify public understanding of crime or do they oversimplify?
Have you heard any sound political solutions recently? What are they?
Below I have attached the reading
Create a 15 page curriculum evaluation that incorporates the curriculum analysis and course design you created for Assessments 1 and 2.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
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* Competency 1: Examine the development of a curriculum for a nursing program.
* Describe how evidence-based nursing concepts, theories, and best practices can be applied to improve curriculum development.
* Competency 2: Analyze factors that impact the design of a nursing curriculum.
* List criteria that are important to consider in curriculum evaluation.
* Competency 3: Select an appropriate organizing/curriculum framework for the design of nursing curriculum.
* Explain the importance of ongoing curriculum evaluation, including why it is important and for whom it is important.
* Explain how and why pilot testing can be used in curriculum evaluation.
* Identify the appropriate accreditation body for a selected curriculum and describe appropriate accreditation evaluation criteria.
* Competency 4: Select a curriculum evaluation process that facilitates continuous quality improvement.
* Provide examples of both short-term and long-term evaluations for process improvement, and explain why both types are important to curriculum development.
* Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations of a nursing education professional.
* Apply academic writing skills to incorporate faculty feedback in the creation of a complete, succinct, professionally flowing curriculum design evaluation.
* Write effectively using appropriate spelling, grammar, punctuation and mechanics, and APA style and formatting.
You will use the work you completed for Assessments 1 and 2 as parts of this assessment. Combine Assessments 1 and 2, and add a section about curriculum evaluation. The evaluation you create should flow smoothly as one cohesive document. When combining the previous assessments, make revisions based on feedback you received from faculty.
Requirements
Consider curriculum evaluation and address the following:
* Explain the importance of ongoing curriculum evaluation, why it is important, and for whom it is important.
* List criteria that are important to consider in curriculum evaluation.
* Explain how and why pilot testing can be used in curriculum evaluation.
* Provide examples of both short-term and long-term curriculum evaluations for process improvement, and explain why are both types necessary to curriculum development.
* Describe how to apply evidence-based nursing concepts, theories, and best practices to improve curriculum development.
* Identify the appropriate accreditation body for a selected curriculum and describe appropriate accreditation evaluation criteria.
* For example, a school of nursing might be accredited by CCNE or ACEN, whereas a hospital staff development program might be accredited by JCAHO, HFAP, or others.
Additional Requirements
To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements:
* Written communication: Written communication is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
* APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
* Number of resources: Cite a minimum of five resources that are not included in the Suggested Resources for this assessment.
* Length of evaluation: 15 typed double-spaced pages, excluding the title page and the reference page.
* Appendix: Included appropriate material from Assessments 1 and 2. The appendix will not be included in the page count.
* Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
