Are we in control of our decisions? Ted Talk

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Answer the following questions while watching this video (Links to an external site.) 

1. In the opening line of the speech, Ariel makes a joke saying, “I’ll tell you a little bit about irrational behavior. Not yours, of course – other people’s.” Describe the cognitive bias he is pointing out from the very beginning of his talk. 

2. Ariely’s first example is the image of the two tables. What irrational thinking is demonstrated by this image?

3. What happens after he takes away the red lines?

4. Ariely says, “Our intuition is really fooling us in a repeatable, predictable, consistent way, and there is almost nothing we can do about it, aside from taking a ruler and starting to measure it.” What implications does that statement have for thinking beyond measuring a table length? What does it say about what we’ll have to do to avoid being flawed or biased thinking?

5. What do people have a harder time recognizing “cognitive illusions” than recognizing “visual illusions”?

6. What does the example of the organ donors demonstrate about how we make decisions?

7. Ariely says, “But when it comes to us, we have such a feeling that we’re in the driver’s seat, such a feeling that we’re in control and we are making the decisions, that it’s very hard to even accept the idea that we actually have an illusion of making a decision, rather than an actual decision” Paraphrase and explain this statement in your own words.

8. Ariely goes on to say that some people might explain away the organ donor phenomena by saying that it is something that people don’t care about. But, he says “it’s so complex that we don’t know what to do. And because we have no idea what to do, we just pick whatever it was that was chosen for us.” What is he saying about how we make the most difficult and complex decisions in our lives?

9. What does the example of the physicians and the hip replacement surgery demonstrate about how we make decisions?

10. What do the examples of the weekend trip option, the Economist advertisement, and the Tom and Jerry images demonstrate about how people make decisions?

11. How does Ariely believe that we have done a better job dealing with our physical world than with our mental world?

12. What does he say that we need to do to “design a better mental world”?

13. Go back to the decisions and criteria that you listed in the quick write. What are some ways that you might be biased when you make those decisions? How might some of Ariely’s examples apply to you?

Robots vs human labor

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Write your Argument Paper Rough Draft using the APA Paper Template. Your paper should be 700 to 1,050 words.

Create robust body paragraphs to present your full argument by expanding on the topics in your outline.

  • Ensure each body paragraph has a topic sentence.
  • Incorporate the research you have gathered to support your argument.
  • Make your best attempt at formatting in-text citations and a reference page, which you will learn more about in Week 4. You may use the Reference and Citation Generator to help you construct your citations and references.

Create an introduction paragraph that includes your thesis statement and introduces your reader to the main topics included in your paper.

Create a conclusion paragraph to bring your paper to a close.

Ensure your paper includes the following elements prior to submission:

  • A title page
  • An introduction paragraph with a thesis statement that clearly states your argument.
  • APA-formatted level 1 headings for each main topic
  • A topic sentence to begin each body paragraph under each main topic
  • No more than three to five instances of paraphrased or directly quoted material integrated throughout the paper, followed by the appropriate APA-formatted citation
  • A conclusion paragraph
  • A reference page with a reference listing for a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources

Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice

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Assignment:

Identifying A Clinical Question

Write a 1000-1500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. There should be three main sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least five (5) sources using citations in your essay. Make sure to cite using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page in correct APA do not count towards the minimum word amount. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Identify a clinical question related to your work environment, write the question in PICOT format and perform a literature search on the identified topic.

Purpose

To enable the student to identify a clinical question related to a specified area of practice and use medical and nursing databases to find research articles that will provide evidence to validate nursing interventions regarding a specific area of nursing practice.

Review the Application Case Study for Chapter 3: Finding Relevant Evidence to Answer Clinical Questions as a guide for your literature search.

Guidelines

  1. Identify a clinical question related to your area of clinical practice and write the clinical foreground question in PICOT format utilizing the worksheet tool provided as a guide.
  2. Describe why this is a clinical problem or an opportunity for improving health outcomes in your area of clinical practice. Perform a literature search and select five research articles on your topic utilizing the databases highlighted in Chapter 3 of the textbook (Melnyk and Finout-Overholt, 2015).
  3. Identify the article that best supports nursing interventions for your topic. Explain why this article best supports your topic as you compare the article to the other four found in the literature search.

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1000 – 1500 words
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.
References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of five (5) scholarly sources are required for this assignment to support the topic.
Rubric: This assignment uses a rubric for scoring. Please review it as part of your assignment preparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level.
Format: Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or a PDF document (.pdf)
File name: Name your saved file according to your first initial, last name, and the assignment number (for example RHall Assignment 1.docx)

The Role of the RN/APRN in Policy Evaluation

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In the Module 4 Discussion, you considered how professional nurses can become involved in policy-making. A critical component of any policy design is evaluation of the results. How comfortable are you with the thought of becoming involved with such matters?

Some nurses may be hesitant to get involved with policy evaluation. The preference may be to focus on the care and well-being of their patients; some nurses may feel ill-equipped to enter the realm of policy and political activities. However, as you have examined previously, who better to advocate for patients and effective programs and policies than nurses? Already patient advocates in interactions with doctors and leadership, why not with government and regulatory agencies?

In this Discussion, you will reflect on the role of professional nurses in policy evaluation.

To Prepare:

  • In the Module 4 Discussion, you considered how professional nurses can become involved in policy-making.
  • Review the Resources and reflect on the role of professional nurses in policy evaluation.

1. Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that currently exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in the policy review. 

2. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges.

3. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities. Be specific and provide examples.

Math 201: Statistics

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(25 points) Part 3 – Confidence Intervals (Week 5): Based on the class sample, you will create a 95% confidence interval for the mean age and the proportion of males in the population of all online college students. 

Note: The goal of the project is to practice making a confidence interval for a mean and proportion with real data. Do not worry about failed assumptions tests and do not make corrections for small sample size. Use primary methods described in text and used on homework.

Using the same excel sheet as last week, answer the following in the “week 5” tab:

· For the average age, form a 95% confidence interval:

o What distribution should be used?

o What is the critical value?

o What is the error bound?

o What is the lower bound?

o What is the upper bound?

o How do we interpret the results, in context of our study?

· For the proportion of males, form a 95% confidence interval:

o What distribution should be used?

o What is the critical value?

o What is the error bound?

o What is the lower bound?

o What is the upper bound?

o How do we interpret the results, in context of our study?

 

Graph on first tab Q1 should be the average of 19 and 22 

Your graphs should have titles that relate to the data…like Ages of online students. 

week 11 question 1

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For the most part, the theories you explored in this course focused on Western cultures. Western cultures often are the baseline when conducting cross-cultural comparisons. Miao and Wang’s (2003) article examining Chinese developmental psychology provides insight into how another culture examines human development. While major developmental theorists and researchers (e.g., Gesell) influenced Chinese researchers, the topics of interest for Chinese researchers did not necessarily reflect those of Western researchers.

This course has introduced multiple perspectives and presented culturally diverse research examining all phases of human development. For this Discussion, consider what led research to be conducted to examine diverse settings and groups. Was it an attempt to broaden the population within which the findings could be applied, a reaction to a gap in the literature, or perhaps a critique of a conclusion or theory?

If you have not had an opportunity to delve into a statistics or methodology course, some of the techniques in this week’s research articles might be confusing, but the process that the researchers used should be understandable.

To prepare for this Discussion:

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the applicability of American/Western developmental psychology to Non-Western countries and cultures.

By Day 3

Post your thoughts about the applicability of American/Western developmental psychology to Non-Western countries and cultures. Explain why it is important for developmental psychology to consider cross-cultural perspectives explaining human development. Justify your post with specific examples and citations from the Learning Resources. 

readings for this week should be used in answer as reference:

 

Cole, M. (2013). Differences and deficits in psychological research in historical perspective: A commentary on the special section. Developmental Psychology, 49(1), 84–91. doi:10.1037/a0029623
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Russell, S. T. (2015). Human developmental science for social justice. Research in Human Development, 12(3–4), 274–279. doi:10.1080/15427609.2015.1068049
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Serpell, R., & Marfo, K. (2014). Some long-standing and emerging research lines in Africa. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2014(146), 1–22. doi:10.1002/cad.20070
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Stein, G. L., Cupito, A. M., Mendez, J. L., Prandoni, J., Huq, N., & Westerberg, D. (2014). Familism through a developmental lens. Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 2(4), 224–250. doi:10.1037/lat0000025
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Sternberg, R. J. (2014). The development of adaptive competence: Why cultural psychology is necessary and not just nice. Developmental Review, 34(3), 2087–224. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2014.05.004
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Walden University. (2016). Social change. Retrieved from https://www.waldenu.edu/about/social-change

WORLD Policy Analysis Center. (2015). Retrieved from http://worldpolicycenter.org/

Required Media

Evans, H. (Producer). (2016). What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? [Video file]. Retrieved August 26, 2016, from https://www.ted.com/talks/hugh_evans_what_does_it_mean_to_be_a_citizen_of_the_world
 

Week 3 Report

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Instructions

Course Project

The Week 3 assignment is considered a major assignment that might take more than one week to complete.

Using the same organization, you identified in Week 1, assess the root causes of organizational problems using OD themes. (Note: Organizational development represents all OD and change themes presented in the course and readings. Since you are looking at the organization as a whole, these themes will include those studies in previous courses such as MGT7100 and MGT7105. Use your cumulative knowledge to maximize your effectiveness in diagnosing your organization.).

Now that you have done an initial assessment and done some background research (i.e., the Week 1 paper), consider the following question: Who do you need to ask, what do you need to ask, and how will you gather the data needed to support or reject your initial assessment about the organizational problems? Because you have been studying additional OD and change concepts since your Week 1 work, be sure to consider all you have studied in the first three weeks as you frame problems.

In preparation for your Week 3 paper, design a data-gathering plan that addresses the who, what, and how questions noted in the previous paragraph. Consult your instructor for guidance as needed. Consider all levels of OD and change (individual, group, and organizational). Additionally, your paper must include two different cited resources that support the research process you are designing and conducting. For example, if you decide to use surveys, include supportive citations on why the surveys or the way you are using them is appropriate. Or if you choose to use interviews, include supportive citations that inform and support the way you are conducting the interviews. Implement as much of your plan as possible and gather some data.

Note: The course project for MGT7200 shares processes and deliverables similar to those of MGT7100 and MGT7105. However, the project in MGT7100 and MGT7105 asked you to conduct your organizational diagnosis through the lens of specific themes of individual organizational behavior and team behavior. In contrast, the MGT7200 project asks you to conduct your analysis through a broader lens, at the organization level. You are to view the organization holistically, as an open system. Being able to operate at different levels of analysis (e.g., individual level, team level, and organizational level) is an important skill for the organizational behavior expert. Additionally, your paper in this course should demonstrate doctoral-level growth and development in your data-gathering, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.

In your paper, address the following:

  • Summarize the key details about your organization (what its name is, what it does, etc.).
  • Summarize your initial assessment of organizational problems: What are the symptoms, what is the evidence, and what are the organization development themes? Include new themes that have emerged in your studies throughout the course.
  • Justify your data-gathering plan, including details about who, what, and how you will ask. Focus on the data needed to confirm whether your proposed, team level themes are the possible root causes of the organizational difficulties. For example, if you are proposing some types of organization structure theme, then you will need to collect specific data on structures. Your data-gathering plan needs to reflect doctoral-level development. You must provide at least two different cited sources that support your design and implementation of research.
  • Assess the information gleaned from implementing your data-gathering plan. What did you learn? Did your findings support or refute your initial assessment? What do your findings tell you about the symptoms of the problem versus the root causes? Use appropriate academic peer-reviewed literature to support your argument. You may also use documentation and interviews from the organization to support your perspective.
  • Summarize a self-assessment of your framing process. Why do you see the symptoms, problem, evidence, themes, or other patterns in the situation the way that you do? Do you have biases, relationships, or other factors that might influence your research and analysis in the scenario addressed in the paper?
  • Synthesize your work to date into a succinct statement of the organization’s team issues. At this point in your work, what do you think are the organization’s problems or gaps that need to be addressed? Illustrate your assessment as a model with variables.

Submission Details:

  • Complete your analysis in a 6- to 8-page Microsoft Word document.
  • Name your document SU_MGT7200_W3_ LastName_FirstInitial.doc.

mgmt 690 wk3p

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Deborah enters your office ready to discuss the project. She discusses her feedback on the plan thus far. She states that your team is doing an excellent job researching and you’ve been keeping her up-to-date on your findings. She commends you for your focus on effective management strategies because your team has been looking at every aspect of the company and considering both internal and external pros and cons. She asks that your team now apply the findings to develop a strategic framework so that the company can begin its global expansion programs. You decide that Deborah has brought up another good point and decide that the balanced scorecard would make a good part of strategic framework.

A balanced scorecard suggests that we view the organization from four perspectives (the learning & growth perspective, the business process perspective, the customer perspective, and the financial perspective). Create a 2-3 page paper that discusses the following:

  • Briefly discuss the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard and analyze what each means to your organization.
  • In addition to the balanced scorecard, provide an overview of two other strategies that would be part of your company’s strategic framework for global expansion.
  • Why is it important to combine different strategies when pursuing global expansion?

Quotation Activity – Gettysburg Address

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It is important to be able to  incorporate your sources effectively through direct quotation. For this  activity, you will use Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” to practice  writing an essay while effectively incorporating quotations to help  support your discussion.

For this activity, you will write an essay and address the following points:

  • What is a “proposition” in the sense that Lincoln uses it?
  • What does it mean to “consecrate” a place?
  • What is “hallowed” ground?
  • The “Gettysburg Address” is short but very famous. He was the  President, he could have spoken longer, and most speakers that day, in  fact, delivered much longer speeches. He wasn’t pressed for time. He had  time to prepare. A long speech was expected of him. Why do you think Lincoln kept it so short? (Hint: Where was he speaking and why? How did his “rhetorical situation” influence him?)
  • Do you see any correlations from Douglass’ work to this work?  If  so, how do you see this occurring in the text?  Be sure to quote from  Douglass if you see a correlation.

Requirements:

  • Your written paper should be two to three pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages, which you must include.
  • You must accurately insert a quote in your analysis to provide  in-text evidence from the address, and you must comment on the quote to  demonstrate you are thinking in a critical manner.
  • Your paper must be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.

Text:
The text of the “Gettysburg Address” can be accessed through the Yale Law School Avalon Project: The Gettysburg Address

Video:
This video is from PBS and notes the  events leading up to Lincoln’s drafting the Gettysburg address.   Scholars will read the address and provide analysis.  Pay close  attention to the analysis as it will help you to formulate your critical  thinking assignment this week.

Lincoln @ Gettysburg

Source: https://csuglobal.kanopystreaming.com/video/lincolngettysburg

Summary: his video presents historical context for Lincoln at Gettysburg

Quotation Activity – Student Selection (article must be approved by instructor)

It is important to be able to incorporate your sources effectively  through direct quotation. For this activity, you will select article of  your choosing with instructor approval.

Then, based on the content and focus of the essay or article, you  will compose an essay in which you effectively incorporate quotes from  that essay or article to help support your discussion and analysis.
Requirements:

  • Your written paper should be two to three pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages, which you must include.
  • You must accurately insert a quote in your analysis to provide  in-text evidence from the essay or article you selected, and you must  comment on the quote to demonstrate you are thinking in a critical  manner.
  • Your paper must be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.

Diversity and Health Assessments

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  Case study

TJ, a 32-year-old pregnant lesbian, is being seen for an annual physical exam and has been having vaginal discharge. Her pregnancy has been without complication thus far. She has been receiving prenatal care from an obstetrician. She received sperm from a local sperm bank. She is currently taking prenatal vitamins and takes over-the-counter Tylenol for aches and pains on occasion. She has a strong family history of diabetes. Gravida 1; Para 0; Abortions 0.

May 2012, Alice Randall wrote an article for The New York Times on the cultural factors that encouraged black women to maintain a weight above what is considered healthy. Randall explained—from her observations and her personal experience as a black woman—that many African-American communities and cultures consider women who are overweight to be more beautiful and desirable than women at a healthier weight. As she put it, “Many black women are fat because we want to be” (Randall, 2012).

Randall’s statements sparked a great deal of controversy and debate; however, they emphasize an underlying reality in the healthcare field: different populations, cultures, and groups have diverse beliefs and practices that impact their health. Nurses and healthcare professionals should be aware of this reality and adapt their health assessment techniques and recommendations to accommodate diversity.

Consider different socioeconomic, spiritual, lifestyle, and other cultural factors that should be taken into considerations when building a health history for patients with diverse backgrounds.

To prepare:

  • Reflect on your experiences as a nurse and on the information provided in this week’s Learning Resources on diversity issues in health assessments.
  • Reflect on the specific socioeconomic, spiritual, lifestyle, and other cultural factors related to the health of the patient assigned to you.
  • Consider how you would build a health history for the patient. What questions would you ask, and how would you frame them to be sensitive to the patient’s background, lifestyle, and culture? Develop five targeted questions you would ask the patient to build his or her health history and to assess his or her health risks.
  • Think about the challenges associated with communicating with patients from a      variety of specific populations. What strategies can you as a nurse employ to be sensitive to different cultural factors while gathering pertinent information?

Post a 3-4 page explanation of the specific socioeconomic, spiritual, lifestyle, and other cultural factors associated with the patient you were assigned.

 Explain the issues that you would need to be sensitive to when interacting with the patient, and why. 

Provide at least five targeted questions you would ask the patient to build his or her health history and to assess his or her health risks.

Ball, J. W., Dains, J. E., Flynn, J. A., Solomon, B. S., & Stewart, R. W. (2019). Seidel’s guide to physical examination: An interprofessional approach (9th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.

· Chapter 1, “The History and Interviewing Process”  (Previously read in Week 1)

This chapter highlights history and interviewing processes. The authors explore a variety of communication techniques, professionalism, and functional assessment concepts when developing relationships with patients.

· Chapter 2, “Cultural Competency”

This chapter highlights the importance of cultural awareness when conducting health assessments. The authors explore the impact of culture on health beliefs and practices.

Dains, J. E., Baumann, L. C., & Scheibel, P. (2019). Advanced health assessment and clinical diagnosis in primary care (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.

Credit Line: Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 6th Edition by Dains, J.E., Baumann, L. C., & Scheibel, P. Copyright 2019 by Mosby. Reprinted by permission of Mosby via the Copyright Clearance Center.

· Chapter 2, “Evidenced-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines”

Melton, C., Graff, C., Holmes, G., Brown, L., & Bailey, J. (2014). Health literacy and asthma management among African-American adults: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Asthma, 51(7), 703–713. doi:10.3109/02770903.2014.906605

Credit Line: Health literacy and asthma management among African-American adults: An interpretative phenomenological analysis by Melton, C., Graff, C., Holmes, G., Brown, L., & Bailey, J., in Journal of Asthma, Vol. 51/Issue 7. Copyright 2014 by Taylor & Francis, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis, Inc. via the Copyright Clearance Center.

The authors of this study discuss the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes in African American patients with asthma.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015). Cultural competence. Retrieved from https://npin.cdc.gov/pages/cultural-competence

This website discusses cultural competence as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Understanding the difference between cultural competence, awareness, and sensitivity can be obtained on this website. 

United States Department of Human & Health Services. Office of Minority Health. (n.d.). A physician’s practical guide to culturally competent care. Retrieved June 10, 2019, from https://cccm.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/

From the Office of Minority Health, this website offers CME and CEU credit and equips healthcare professionals with awareness, knowledge, and skills to better treat the increasingly diverse U.S. population they serve.

Espey , D. K., Jim, M. A., Cobb, N., Bartholomew, M., Becker, T., Haverkamp, D., & Plescia, M. (2014). Leading causes of death and all-cause mortality in American Indians and Alaska Natives. American Journal of Public Health, 104(Suppl 3), S303–S311. 

The authors of this article present patterns and trends in all-cause mortality and leading cause of death in American Indians and Alaskan Natives.

Wannasirikul, P., Termsirikulchai, L., Sujirarat, D., Benjakul, S., & Tanasugarn, C. (2016). Health literacy, medication adherence, and blood pressure level among hypertension older adults treated at primary health care centers. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 47(1), 109–120.