Wk 1 – Research Foundations
Assignment Content
This assignment is designed to guide your thinking about the research process and help you explore topics that may be of interest or relevant in your practice.
See examples of research problems and questions.
Complete the Attached Research Foundations Worksheet.
1. According to the OSHA construction standards, what is a competent person? Discuss two examples of competent person requirements from the construction standards.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
2. What are the four classifications of employers under OSHA’s multi-employer worksite policy? How do they relate to each other?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
3. Using the requirements for General Duty violations in Chapter 4 of the OSHA Field Operations Manual (FOM), describe a situation that could be cited as a violation of the General Duty Clause. Remember that the General Duty Clause can only be applied if there is no OSHA standard for the hazard. Explain how your citation meets the four elements listed in the FOM as necessary to prove such a violation.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length
4. Imagine that you are the safety manager on a large construction site and are notified that an OSHA inspector has arrived at the site gate, inspection warrant in-hand, requesting access. Describe the procedures you would follow to accommodate the inspector’s request and how the inspection should proceed.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Keep the questions separate.
If you have purchased the books that were listed for this course, you will have one called The Indigo Girl. It is an interesting novel set in colonial South Carolina which involves several actual historic individuals from that era; however, a bit of poetic license was taken since it is fictional. The novel also encompasses the Stono Rebellion (1739), an actual slave uprising, which took place in colonial South Carolina. If you would like to earn extra credit, you may read the book and write a 2-3 page, double spaced book report.
MN577 Unit 8 DB
The CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) is committed to increasing breastfeeding rates throughout the United States and to promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding practices toward the ultimate goal of improving the public’s health.
Discuss the CDC breastfeeding initiative and how you will support this when interacting with your pregnant and postpartum women in the primary care setting? How will you support the mom who decides to bottle feed instead?
** Need 3 scholarly references***
Please respond to BOTH discussion prompts
Discussion Prompt # 1 The goal of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project is to promote the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary for nurses to raise the level of quality and safety in healthcare. Review the following six QSEN Competencies:
1. Patient-Centered Care
2. Teamwork & Collaboration
3. Evidence-based Practice
4. Quality Improvement
5. Safety
6. Informatics
Choose one and discuss how the chosen competency was implemented in your practice site and how it influenced nursing practice. In addition, identify key organizations leading patient safety movements in the US.
Discussion Prompt # 2 Describe an error that occurred in the agency where you practice that resulted in harm to the patient and one that did not. If you cannot access information about an error, use one of the sentinel events cited in Box 23.5, Chapter 23 page 741 in the attached PDF as an example to consider. What would you suggest to prevent a reoccurrence? Decide under what circumstances you would inform the patient and family and under what circumstances you would withhold the information.
*Utilize the attached PDF for assistance in answering discussion prompts.
*Please use only professional references which includes nursing or other healthcare-related journals, professional websites, or textbooks. Thank you.
Your presentations should be about 10 minutes but not longer than 15 minutes. Your plans should be well thought out as leaders and not just I said so or I told them so they should do it.
You will also need to watch for spelling, grammar, wordy slides, too much information per slide, too many graphics, too much art. These are guidelines for a professional presentation, others will be given verbally in class as we go over presentations so make sure to take notes and write these down.
You should spend about 2 minutes per slide as a guide but not a rule. Too fast, you lose the audience, too slow, you lose the audience.
You will have class time for assistance, but you need to bring the items to class so that feedback can be provided.
Subject
3. – How would you improve cultural sensitivity within your department. There have been some unintended occurrences.
Answer all of these questions
Focusing only on school-related issues for kids between the ages of 6 and 12.
Paragraph 1 – When you were in primary/elementary school, what was the single greatest challenge for those kids? What contributed to this challenge (for example, parenting, society, laws, racism, culture, authority of teachers, etc.)?
Paragraph 2 – TODAY, what is the single greatest challenge for those kids? What contributes to this challenge?
Paragraph 3 – If the challenge has remained the same, why? If it is different, why?
Do not just opine. “Prove” to me, and everyone, that the issues you are raising were/are a significant challenge/problem facing our kids (in school). Support your opinion.
Please respond to BOTH discussion prompts
Discussion Prompt # 1 The goal of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project is to promote the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary for nurses to raise the level of quality and safety in healthcare. Review the following six QSEN Competencies:
1. Patient-Centered Care
2. Teamwork & Collaboration
3. Evidence-based Practice
4. Quality Improvement
5. Safety
6. Informatics
Choose one and discuss how the chosen competency was implemented in your practice site and how it influenced nursing practice. In addition, identify key organizations leading patient safety movements in the US.
Discussion Prompt # 2 Describe an error that occurred in the agency where you practice that resulted in harm to the patient and one that did not. If you cannot access information about an error, use one of the sentinel events cited in Box 23.5, Chapter 23 page 741 in the attached PDF as an example to consider. What would you suggest to prevent a reoccurrence? Decide under what circumstances you would inform the patient and family and under what circumstances you would withhold the information.
*Utilize the attached PDF for assistance in answering discussion prompts.
*Please use only professional references which includes nursing or other healthcare-related journals, professional websites, or textbooks. Thank you.
1.Keep a diary of your listening behaviors for a period of at least 4 waking hours. Indicate what you were doing during that time frame & the listening behaviors you engaged in.
2.You will submit a 2-page report. The first page will be the notes from your listening diary (described in point 1 above). The second page will be your responses to the following questions:
1.Identify your listening types during that time period (e.g., appreciative, evaluative).
2.Which types of listening did you use most often and least often? Why do you think thats the case?
3.Identify your general listening style (e.g., action-oriented, content-oriented). Why do you think this is your general style?
4.How would you evaluate your use of listening styles/types during this time frame? What might you change in the future to be a better listener?
NOTE: You do not need to go out in public to complete this assignment. You also listen on the phone, to TV/music/videogames, to friends/family in your home, etc.
Scenario
In addition to summarizing the key points of Assessments 2 and 3, you will provide stakeholders and/or leadership with an overview of project specifics as well as how success would be evaluatedyou will essentially be presenting a discussion of the Plan, Do, and Study parts of the PDSA cycle. Again, you will not be expected to execute the project, so you will not have any results to study. However, by carefully examining the ways in which your plan could be carried out and evaluated, you will get some of the experience of the thinking required for PDSA.
When creating your PowerPoint for this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the target audience: your interviewee’s organizational leadership. The overall goal of this assessment is to create a presentation that your interviewee could potentially give in his or her organization.
Instructions
Please follow the Capella Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX]. If you need technical information on using PowerPoint, refer to Capella University Library: PowerPoint Presentations.
Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.
Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.
Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.
Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.
Communicate the PowerPoint presentation of the interdisciplinary improvement plan to stakeholders in a professional manner, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and respectful with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.
There are various ways to structure your presentation; following is one example:
Part 1: Organizational or Patient Issue.
What is the issue that you are trying to solve or improve?
Why should the audience care about solving it?
Part 2: Relevance of an Interdisciplinary Team Approach.
Why is using an interdisciplinary team relevant, or the best approach, to addressing the issue?
How will it help to achieve improved outcomes or reach a goal?
Part 3: Interdisciplinary Plan Summary.
What is the objective?
How likely is it to work?
What will the interdisciplinary team do?
Part 4: Implementation and Resource Management.
How could the plan be implemented to ensure effective use of resources?
How could the plan be managed to ensure that resources were not wasted?
How does the plan justify the resource expenditure?
Part 5: Evaluation.
What would a successful outcome of the project look like?
What are the criteria that could be used to measure that success?
How could this be used to show the degree of success?
Again, keep in mind that your audience for this presentation is a specific group (or groups) at your interviewee’s organization and tailor your language and messaging accordingly. Remember, also, that another person will ultimately be giving the presentation. Include thorough speakers notes that flesh out the bullet points on each slide.
Attached are the two previous essays completed which the information should match.
4 references are needed.
