A. Complete the following using OneNote.

Note: The directions to access and use your e-portfolio can be found in the web links section below, which will take you to the “Knowledge Base article. 

1.  Create a professional mission statement (suggested length of 1 paragraph) that includes the following elements:

  a representation of your career goals, aspirations, and how you want to move forward with your career

  an overview of where you would like to focus your time and energies within the profession

a.  Reflect on how your professional mission statement will help guide you throughout your nursing career.

2.  Complete a professional summary (suggested length of 34 pages) that includes the following:

a.  Explain how the specific artifacts or completed work or both in your portfolio represent you as a learner and a healthcare professional.

b.  Discuss how the specific artifacts in your portfolio represent your professional strengths.

c.  Discuss any challenges you encountered during the progression of your program.

i.  Explain how you overcame these challenges.

d.  Explain how your coursework helped you meet each of the nine nursing program outcomes.

Note:  Refer to the attachment Nursing Conceptual Model.

e.  Analyze how you fulfilled the following roles during your program:

  scientist

  detective

  manager of the healing environment

f.  Discuss how you have grown professionally since the beginning of your program.

B.  Complete the following within the section Quality and Safety:

1.  Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of quality and safety developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.

a.  Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.

b.  Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.

i.  Explain how these artifacts support your definition from part B1.

Note:  The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.

2.  Discuss the importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) certificate for your future role as a professional nurse.

C.  Complete the following within the section Evidence-Based Practice:

1.  Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of evidence-based practice developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.

a.  Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.

b.  Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.

i.  Explain how these artifacts support your definition from part C1.

Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.

2.  Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your understanding of evidence-based practice and applied nursing research by doing the following:

a.  Discuss how you are able to evaluate current primary research and apply the concepts to your nursing practice, considering the following:

  relevancy and believability of data

  differences between quality improvement and research (places and uses of each)

  differences between primary and secondary research and resources and the implications of each in clinical practice

b.  Explain how your experience in the program helped you achieve excellence in evidence-based practice.

D.  Complete the following within the section Applied Leadership:

1.  Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of applied leadership you developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.

a.  Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.

b.  Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.

i.  Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part D1.

Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.

2.  Summarize (suggested length of 1 paragraph to 1 page) your Learning Leadership Experience task by doing the following:

a.  Discuss the importance of professional collaboration for effective nursing leadership.

E.  Complete the following within the section Community and Population Health:

1.  Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of community and population health you developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.

a.  Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.

b.  Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.

i.  Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part E1.

Note:  The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.

2.  Summarize (suggested length of 1 page) your Community and Population Health task by doing the following:

a.  Discuss what you learned during your Community Health Nursing task.

b.  Discuss how what you learned led to your community diagnosis.

c.  Discuss how your initial focus and diagnosis evolved after working with your population.

3.  Discuss the importance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) certificate for your future role as a professional nurse.

F.  Provide an appendix to your portfolio by doing the following:

1.  Include all the documents, prior assignments, and additional items that are examples of your best work to support your mastery of all sections given in parts B, C, D, and E.

2.  Include the following materials:

  the attached Nursing Conceptual Model

  a link to the current IHI Course Catalog

3.  Provide an updated professional rsum.

Note:  If you have a LinkedIn account, you can take a screenshot and include a copy with the rest of your documents.

4.  Provide professional references, using one of the following:

  a professional reference questionnaire

  a full letter of recommendation

  a list of four professional references

5.  Include a copy of your IHI certificate of completion.

6.  Include a copy of your AMNH certificate of completion.

G.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

H.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

At AUA, applicants are required to select a preferred program of study. In 250 words or less, tell us why you have chosen this major, why you would like to pursue it at AUA, and how studying in this field will support your short- and long-term goals. In formulating your response, we recommend you review information about your program of interest, available courses, learning outcomes, and more at admissions.aua.am.

As mentioned in one of the videos, we often use two means to define what a syntactic category or part of speech is in a given language: the semantic approach and the formal approach. When we are very young, we are told to define nouns as ‘people, places, and things’ and then we may ask the question, ‘But teacher, what of the word beauty?’  and then be told unsatisfactorily that this is a ‘thing’.  This is what is known as a semantic approach. We like to define categories by their meaning (by relating them to things we have understanding of). However, another approach which is probably closer to how children actually learn language is the formal approach. We look at the structural environment in which a particular word (lexical item) occurs in order to define its syntactic category. For example the teacher in the example above might say something like: ‘Ah! Good question. Normally we would look to see if we could count the item  and mark it with a plural(one cat, two cats). In the case of beauty, we cannot as it is an abstract noun. However, we can precede it with a determiner (the cat) and it can serve as the subject of a sentence (Beauty is only skin deep), thus formally we must conceive of it as being a noun.’ Of course this would confuse the fuck out of a second grader.  But also think about how when we learn other languages we often know their part of speech just by how they are used in a sentence or what morphemes they occur with. Consider how we construct syntactic categories and even parts of speech in nonsense words in poems like the Jabberwocky.

https://youtu.be/Q_Um3787fSY

If one examines the Schoolhouse Rock videos in the PowerPoint I shared in the weekly overview, one can see how they use both formal and semantic approaches to teaching parts of speech. I would like you to choose whichever of them strikes your fancy and discuss how the video uses both meaning and structure to define the part of speech defined in the cartoon, using a nonsense word you create. You should ‘like’ the one that you think is most complete.

https://youtu.be/_e24kdjdbtw
https://youtu.be/so6ETyxa2kQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuuZEey_bs&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/14fXm4FOMPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu1ciVFbecw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoBE-E8VOc&feature=youtu.be

At AUA, applicants are required to select a preferred program of study. In 250 words or less, tell us why you have chosen this major, why you would like to pursue it at AUA, and how studying in this field will support your short- and long-term goals. In formulating your response, we recommend you review information about your program of interest, available courses, learning outcomes, and more at admissions.aua.am.

Be sure to organize your paper into clear and concise paragraphs. You should read the grading rubric before starting your paper to ensure you cover all the material appropriately. Compile your paper, including all information researched, in accordance to the following guidelines:

This paper is to be in APA format with a title page, in-text citations and reference page at the end.
The length of the paper is to be a minimum of two pages and no more than four pages. This length does not include your cover or reference sheets.
Remember that APA font is Times New Roman, font size 12.

Guidelines
Topic: central line associated bloodstream infections
Step 1: Identify phenomenon of interest (central line associated bloodstream infection ) that resonates with your area of practice/expertise and describe the target population (critically ill patient ). Conduct a review of literature. The lit review should support the need for a change in the advanced practice nurse role. Thesis should be clear and concise
Describe the background and significance of the problem (central line associated bloodstream infection )
-what is the background to support this concept? why is it concern?
-who is affected by this issue? target population? critically ill patients
-what is the significance to the target population ?
-what is the significance to the discipline of nursing? how is this relevant to the advanced practice nurse role?
Step 2: situate your phenomenon of concern within a theoretical framework ( Neuman System Model by Betty Neuman). Describe the theoretical framework and demonstrate how this theory informs the phenomenon of interest. Propose a theory-driven intervention to ameliorate the phenomenon of interest. Provide a sufficient overview of the theory describing the major concepts and their relationship to each other. Connect the concepts of the phenomenon of interest(central line associated bloodstream infection) to the theoretical concepts.
Step 3: Propose a relevant, feasible intervention to address concern (central line associated bloodstream infection). Describe the theory driven intervention and its relevance to the discipline of advanced practice nursing. Reflect on potential limitations in relation to the proposed change or concerns with the theoretical framework chosen.
Step 4: Include a one page outline as an appendix. The outline demonstrates the organizational structure of your paper’s content. apa 7th. Use level headings to help guide reader.
Thank you 🙂

Required sources & using quotes

The paper requires at least one quote with citation from Metaphoric Criticism by rhetorician Sonja Foss and/or from Metaphors to Live By by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson to inform your analysis of the major writer’s (Woolf, Walker, Anzalda, Orwell, and/or Baldwin) metaphoric choices.

You must also quote several times and in various places from the assigned major author essay(s) you’ve chosen to analyze. A good rule is to include at least one quote per body paragraph. Ensure you are balancing text and your own interpretative/ academic writer’s voice.

Citations & formatting

The paper requires in-text parenthetical citations as well as a final, separate Works Cited page. I will grade on the correct MLA formatting of your paper and citations. Give the paper a creative title and include a full heading (in body of the paper). Include paginationin the upper right corner your last name and page numbers in a header.

For the highest grade, properly format the paper to MLA style: last name and page number in header; heading with all required information (include word count in your heading); creative title; body of paper with one-inch margins, 12 point font, and double-spaced; in-text parenthetical citations and Works Cited. We will review this in class.

Metaphor interpretation

The goal of this paper is to make a critical argument about a metaphor that appears in a written document. Explain how a metaphor (Shakespeares sister, a mothers garden, a wild tongue, a hanging, a glass hitting a mirror, etc.) refers to an idea about familial, social, cultural, and/or political power dynamics. You can discuss how the metaphor is representational of a particular history and/or how it may signal a change in thinking, action, or belief.

For example, the mothers garden acts for Alice Walker as a metaphor for black womens courage and creativity. It offers an alternative history of womens ability and agency to create. Your interpretation of a metaphor and how a writer uses it to create an argument will constitute your thesis. There are many metaphors running through the assigned essays. Do not feel limited by my suggestions here.

Metaphor as an element of rhetoric

The metaphors you choose to analyze here may dovetail with those themes you spoke to in your rhetorical analysis. Be attentive to connections in the papers you are creating. If you find a theme that carries through your work, or your hit upon a particular subject of interest in your reading/writing, you may see a topic for a final research project.

Choose one, two, or three writers

If you want to write a focused analysis of one metaphor in any of these readings thats fine. Or, you may choose to focus on two similar or contrasting metaphors through the works of two authors. It is often easier to choose major metaphors in a piece of writing rather than smaller, minor ones. However, a small metaphor or a line of metaphoric language may relate to an major or overarching metaphor through a writer’s essay.

Ideas for exploration

You might decide to explore humanness as portrayed through the prisoner in Orwell’s “A Hanging,” or to look closely at Baldwins father-country rage symbolized in the breaking glass against the mirror. You could focus on what it means to create a history of womens writing through the stories of women who have struggled to make art, as Woolf and Walker have done. You might look at the conversation that Walker has with her literary foremother, Virginia Woolf. You could ask, how do rage and trauma look across Orwell and Baldwins essays? What does it mean to be Chicana or Latina (Chicano/Latino; Latinx) and find ways of expression through multiple languages that represent and express multiple identities and subcultures and senses of self (Anzalda)?

Discussions 3, 4, 5, and 6 should help us figure out major and minor metaphors, as well as metaphoric language, and how the writer uses them. Use your discussion posts as material in your paper.

Powerpoint presentation
-Summary slide of the case study
-Add the author’s name (on every page – including the cover page, agenda/table of contents and reference page) so I know who has done which slide.
-Slide(s) addressing each question below (Notes should not include the words I, me, or my.
Please respond to these questions:

1-Discuss the evolution of the risk management and compliance process at Tetra Tech.  Review Exhibit 2 in the case study and analyze the components of the process as they relate to effective risk management?
2-Why do employees feel like they own the risk management and compliance process at Tetra Tech?  How has the process been ingrained into the culture at Tetra Tech?

-answer both of the questions in 4 slides and make the summary in the 5th slide.