Topics:
Substance abuse:
Opiate abuse/ dependence
Instructions:
The discussion points for this powerpoint presentation will include:
a. Role of Advanced Practice Nurse/Teaching of the Advanced Practice Nurse
Day: February 7, 2021
In this project, you will develop a detailed comparative analysis of cloud vendors and their services. A comparative analysis provides an item-by-item comparison of two or more alternatives, processes, products, or systems. In this case, you will compare the pros/cons of the cloud service providers in terms of security, ease of use, service models, services/tools they provide, pricing, technical support, cloud service providers’ infrastructure, and architecture model.
You will present your findings to the owner of the company in a narrated PowerPoint presentation with 10 to 20 slides. Use the Cloud Presentation Template.
INSTRUCTIONS: Students will be assigned in robust online discussion board related to assigned NAS Consensus Study report . Review all information on their topic including NAS content, relevant white papers, videos, tools, etc.
Discussion paper should include key concepts relevant to topic, strategies and tools, implications for practice and examples of application in practice settings, tools if applicable, recommendations for future, and references. 3 pages double spaced. APA style. Plagiarism free.
Grading rubric for discussion boards attached.
Assigned NAS Consensus Study report .
https://www.nap.edu/read/25917/chapter/2
M2 – Mindtap Video Activities
You will be watching and reflecting on 3 short videos (each video is under 2-3 minutes) that relate to the topics covered in Chapter 2. Please view the videos and submit your responses to the questions associated with each video.
Video Exercise
Sign into the online supplement to your textbook called Mindtap, go to Chapter 1 and under How do I practice what I’ve learned? click on the Video Activity tab to view the Closed Captioned Video Activity entitled Demystifying the Helping Process.
After watching the video, reflect on the following questions:
In the video we shared how an experienced therapist, Dr Allan Ivey, discusses how to ‘demystify” what is involved in the counseling process and what key skills are used.
What specific items that Dr. Ivey discussed were new to you?
How well do you understand what he means by the term “microskills”? What questions would you have of Dr. Ivey about microskills?
Did you hear discussion about informed consent and what this means? What might you added or changed?
creative commons image of a video camera Video Exercise
Sign into the online supplement to your textbook called Mindtap, go to Chapter 2 and under How do I practice what I’ve learned? click on the Video Activity tab to view the video entitled Toward Multicultural Competence: Self Disclosure and Race/Ethnicity. You may also wish to turn on the closed captioning for this video.
Multicultural competence is a goal toward which we all will be striving throughout our careers. The video clip illustrated the importance of knowledge, awareness, and skills in multicultural areas. The goal in this exercise is to help you think a bit about diversity issues, your response to these issues, and what you might actually say to the client.
After watching the video reflect on the following questions:
In the video we shared how interviewer Allen Ivey discussed gender and cultural differences with Azara Santiago-Rivera.
Note how and what he shared. What specific things that Allen did were appropriate?
How did he address her concerns?
Where might you disagree? What might you add or change?
creative commons image of a video camera Video Exercise
Sign into the online supplement to your textbook called Mindtap, go to Chapter 2 and under How do I practice what I’ve learned? click on the Video Activity tab to view the Closed Captioned Video Activity entitled Helper Studio: Erica, Understanding Challenges. You may also wish to turn on the closed captioning for this video.
After watching the video, reflect on the following questions.
What was your reaction as you listened to and watched Erica?
What did she share was her first concern about the counseling session? What was her larger concern?
What would you say next to her?
Tips for Written Assignment
Your written assignments are intended to test your understanding of important concepts and discover how to sharpen your intellectual skills of analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and application. Completing assignments also provides you with opportunities to more fully describe, explain, and analyze what you are reading, discussing, etc. to deepen your learning. The following ESC Library resources can help you complete assignments:
Empire State College Online Library Resources Center can connect you to: Journals, a self-paced Research Skills Tutorial, online Workshops to sharpen your library skills
Take a Video Tour the Empire State College Library
Get online virtual help from the Ask a Librarian or call at (800)847-3000 ext. 2222
Please read the SUNY Empire State College statement on Academic Integrity before submitting any work for this course (including discussion postings). In addition, please document your sources carefully and using APA citation style for all submissions to the course, including discussion postings.
-Locate at least five (5) peer-reviewed articles and at least three (3) texts on the political economy of USA
-Write a three (3) single-spaced essay summarizing the result of the research endeavor.
– so you have to choose 5 peer reviewed articles and 3 books
– 3 pages only, single spaced.
Prior to beginning work on the Final Paper, read Steven Strauss article, The Connection Between Education, Income Inequality, and Unemployment (Links to an external site.). In your Final Paper, you should address the following based on the information presented in the article and other research:
Describe how a country can measure its income inequality.
Evaluate the effect of income inequality on the U.S. economy, such as unemployment, economic growth, and other economic factors.
Estimate the gap between those who hold bachelors and higher (master or doctoral) degrees and those who do not.
Explain reasons why the inequality gap between educated and less-educated workers has been widening.
Evaluate whether increasing opportunities for higher education can reduce income inequality.
Analyze what else causes U.S. income inequality to widen.
Recommend how to reduce educationally based income inequality or other factors if you were a federal policy maker.
The Education and Income Inequality Final Paper
Must be eight to 10 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Centers APA Style resource (Links to an external site.).
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Students name
Course name and number
Instructors name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
Include:
– the alliance system (triple alliance and triple entente)
– imperial rivalry
– the arms race
– assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the chain of events after that
also include
– the Balkan wars
– imperialism
– nationalism
Write a story that has meaning for you. The story should describe a learning environment that was significant in your educational experience thus far. It can be from your secondary or higher education experience. This can be a most or least favorite teacher/professor or experience type of a story.
Here is the main post
Instructions
Review a research article in an area of professional/academic interest to you that utilizes statistical analysis to test empirical hypotheses. Describe for your peers what the study was testing, how the testing was accomplished, the statistical method(s) for doing so, and broadly what the findings were. More specifically, identify the meaningful p-values (probability values) and effect sizes (strength of relationships/effects) that the study obtained. Talk about what those values mean from a quantitative and qualitative standpoint. Choose one description provided by a peer and propose a future quantitative research question based on the findings from their study.
Initial Post Due Wednesday Week 5 and Peer Response Due Sunday Week 5
This assignment meets the following Course Learning Outcomes:
CLO2 – Apply probability and the Central Limit Theorem to test research hypotheses that estimate populations (PLO 2, 4, 5)
CLO4 – Recognize and apply variable conditions and analytic assumptions that support the use of specific statistical methods (PLO 4, 5)
CLO6 – Correctly implement the appropriate statistical methods to analyze research questions (PLO 4, 5)
CLO7 – Interpret statistical results and consider appropriate conclusions, implications, and limitations (PLO 4, 5, 7)
Chris responded to the main post
Discussion 5
The study that I chose to report upon, that is also an area of interest for me, centers around the concepts of how religion/spirituality impacts coping and mental health for those in the LGBTQIA+ community (referred to in the research as sexual minorities). The researchers highlight the documented connection between sexual minorities and minority stressors (discrimination, internalized prejudice) and how those stressors contribute to psychological distress, anxiety and depression. Since religious/spiritual practices can be considered both positive and negative coping mechanisms, the researchers sought to identify both coping styles and the influence they have upon mental health of sexual minority people.
The study sample included 143 sexual minority individuals, ranging in age from 18 to 77. The mean age was 38.8 with a standard deviation of 14.50, and a median of 36. The study was conducted via online survey with recruiting techniques that included advertising via social media, and other online locations where sexual minorities frequent. Participants had to agree that they were at least 18 years old, living in the US, and identified as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
The researchers hypothesized that heterosexist discrimination and internalized heterosexism would contribute to a greater level of psychological distress, and a lower state of psychological well-being. Additionally, they linked these two attributes to a hypothesized lower level of positive religious experience/coping, and higher levels of unhealthy/negative religious coping behaviors. The study used the Heterosexist Harassment, Rejection, and Discrimination Scale which is a Likert-style 14 item instrument that measures the frequency of respondents reporting experiencing harassment, rejection, and discrimination within the past year time period. Consistency for the HHRDS was .90. Internalized heterosexism was measured with an inclusive version of the Internalized Homophobia Scale (IHP) which is also a likert-style instrument with 9 questions. Positive and negative religious coping was measured using the Brief Measure of Religious Coping Styles (B-RCOPE), 14-item likert scale, and psychological distress was assessed using the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-21 (HSCL-21), a 21 item likert scale.
The researchers described the results as affirming most of their hypothesis, as they found correlation between heterosexist discrimination and internalized heterosexism being related to greater psychological distress and a lower psychological well-being. Only internalized heterosexism was related significantly to a greater positive religious coping. The data and the findings contributed to the implications for clinical practice by correlating positive religious coping with increases in psychological well-being and a reduction in internalized heterosexism.
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References
Brewster, M. E., Velez, B. L., Foster, A., Esposito, J., & Robinson, M. A. (2016). Minority stress and the moderating role of religious coping among religious and spiritual sexual minority individuals. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 63(1), 119-126. http://dx.doi.org.tcsedsystem.idm.oclc.org/10.1037/cou0000121
Critical Reading and Analysis
1000 words (max), double-spaced, 12-pt Times New Roman font
Assignment
This assignment asks you to follow a specific series of steps to enable you to present a cogent analysis and argument: you are to analyze two passages in the story closely and then tie the conclusions of that analysis to the larger work in which the passages appear. This process allows you to analyze narrowed elements of the story in order to better understand the story as a whole.
The presentation of your analysis must follow a specific structure:
A brief initial paragraph in which you introduce your passages by identifying the text and the topic under discussion. The passages are listed below. In your assignment, simply refer to the first as Passage 1 and the second as Passage 2.
A second section, a possible one paragraph or two for each section, in which you present your close reading of your chosen passages, namely, your analysis of each. In doing so may want to include quotations from your primary text to contextualize, illustrate and prove your claims. A Works Cited page is not required for this assignment.
In a final paragraph, move outwards and tie the specific results of your analysis to the larger text (the story as a whole): what role do the passages have in relation to the larger narrative? How does your close reading influence your understanding of the storys major themes and its ending?
Question: The Garden Party
The Garden Party is a bildungsroman which focuses on Lauras growing questioning of the bourgeois boundaries within which she and her siblings live and are protected. However, although she acquiesces to her mothers influence throughout, access to Lauras consciousness enables the reader to perceive the characters sensibility and capacity for empathy. It also prefigures her visit to the Scotts house and her subsequent epiphanic reaction to the dead man, but the ambiguous dialogue at the storys conclusion raises questions concerning Lauras capability to sustain the development of her emotional growth. This assignment asks you to look closely at two passages that contain evidence of Mansfields presentation of the above assertion and to analyze the ways in which it speaks to the larger themes that emerge at the storys conclusion.
Passages:
The passage beginning:
The front door bell peeled Heres the man. (page 65)
Laura only wanted to get out Forgive my hat, she said (pages 81 – 82)
A word count must be included at the end of the assignment.
Please note: you may choose to write on another theme for this question (see PowerPoint slides on The Garden Party for list of themes) but you must limit yourself to analyzing TWO passages of no more that 20 lines each and adhere to the required word limit.
