Explain the relationship among transformational leadership, communication, and collaboration with other teams and how this promotes excellence in nursing practice.

Describe the scenario you selected.

Describe the transformational behaviors or actions the leader exhibited. Be specific and provide examples.

Explain how these behaviors or actions produce the best care and environment for excellence in nursing practice and a healthy workplace environment that leads to quality patient outcomes.

For each behavior or action, provide an example of how excellence in nursing practice is taking place.

Explain how the leader’s behaviors and actions contribute to a healthy workplace culture.

Explain the relationship among transformational leadership, communication, and collaboration with other teams and how this promotes excellence in nursing practice.

Explain one way you might apply the theory to your social work practice.

Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman (2016) stated, “We need theories to guide our thinking and our work so that we may undertake research-informed practice” (p. 127-128). At the same time, the authors asserted, “No theory will be perfectly applicable. Perhaps you will decide that only one or two concepts make any sense to you in terms of working with clients” (p. 128). Though you may be able to apply only a few concepts in a particular theory to your work with clients, as a social worker, you should be applying evidence-based research to your work. Empirically-based developmental theories may guide you as you assess clients and their presenting problems. You may also apply developmental theories to your treatment decisions.

For this Assignment, you discuss theories of life-span development by evaluating a theory that seems especially relevant to you and your role as a social worker. Select a theory of life-span development to address in this Discussion. This may be a theory described in the resources of this course, or you may select a theory based on personal research. Locate at least one scholarly resource (not included in the course resources) that addresses the theory you selected.

Post a Discussion in which you analyze the theory of life-span development that you selected. Summarize the theory; then, identify the strengths and weaknesses of this theory, especially as it relates to social work practice. Explain one way you might apply the theory to your social work practice.

Explain how you will implement your findings in your future professional practice.

Following your observations and collaboration with your mentor teacher in your previous field experiences, select a standard that is applicable to the unit your mentor class is currently learning. Complete the “Mini-Lesson Plan Template,” which includes a description of a learning activity, instructional strategy, pre- and formative assessment questions, and a formative assessment following instruction.

If possible, administer your mini-lesson or another lesson, provided by your mentor teacher, to your mentor class as whole group instruction or to a small group of students chosen by your mentor teacher.

Use any remaining field experience time to speak with your mentor teacher and, provided permission, seek out opportunities to observe and/or assist your mentor teacher and/or work with a small group of students on instruction in the classroom.

Part 2: Reflection

Summarize and reflect on creating and implementing formative assessments. Analyze the data gained through the formative assessments. How did you collect and organize the data? Discuss how you would use the data to inform future instruction on the same topic. Why is continuous formative assessment important for student learning? How does your learning activity and assessments align to your learning objective?

Explain how you will implement your findings in your future professional practice.

Support your findings with a minimum of two scholarly resources.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Document the locations and hours you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.

Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form to LoudCloud in the last topic. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center

Explain the key points of therapeutic conversation.

Title:
Family and community Interview
A. Provide a brief overview of the family members. Complete a genogram and ecomap. Explain the key points of therapeutic conversation. Formulate key questions for additional information. Ensure your assessment addresses: • Identifying data • Developmental stage and history of family • Environmental data • Family structure • Family functions • Family stress and coping • Family composition B. Examine your selected family’s community. Review the windshield survey guidelines. Review Table 1-1 (p. 100) of Community/Public Health Nursing, Healthy People 2020, and the Community Tool Box for information about completing a windshield survey. Observe your selected family’s community by driving around the area. Consider aspects of the community that could affect residents’ health and any Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators that may be applicable to the community. Complete a windshield survey that addresses the following components: • Boundaries • Housing and zoning • Open space • Commons • Transportation • Social service centers • Stores, businesses, and industries • Street people and animals • Condition of the area • Race, culture, and ethnicity • Religion • Health indicators and morbidity • Politics • Media • Signs of decay • Crime rate • Employment rate • Schools • Environmental factors • Public services (fire, police) Read the Community Tool Box for information about completing a windshield Family can be African American Medical history: (COPD), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol. Community study: Service Planning Area 6 or SPA 6. located in the south of los Angeles County. SPA 6 consist of several small cities: Lynwood, Compton, Paramount, South Gate, and Athens. Living in Lynwood, CA.

 

Analyze data to identify insights about your writing situation.

Based on the research plan and goals you recently drafted, choose a third data collection method, use the method to collect data, and upload the data you collected by Sunday. Review the methods on the page Research Methods for Studying your Writing Situation if you need a reminder about the various auto-ethnographic data collection methods that might work well for your project. Week 3 Overview: Gathering Data You recently observed writing in the world around you and you posed questions about that writing to learn more about it. You also read about the Unit 1 Project and drafted an initial research plan for your project, identifying a writing situation, a research question(s) relevant to the situation, and research methods for collecting data related to your situation. Now you will begin researching your writing situation. You will collect textual artifacts and will use two additional research methods that will help you answer your research question. You’ll also begin to develop an initial analysis and synthesis of your data. Specifically, the course activities this week will help you to: Use research methods to collect data about your writing situation. Analyze data to identify insights about your writing situation. Synthesize (look for patterns in) data to identify insights about your writing situation. Collecting Data: Researchers’ Experiences Despite your experiences with researching for course assignments, which may suggest that research is simply coming up with an argument and then finding source material to support your position, research-in-the-wild often looks much different. Like the writing process, the research process isn’t always well-defined and can be messy, isn’t linear but is recursive. You don’t always know the answer to your research questions when you start. In fact, you may not even have a clear sense of what your research goals are when you start out. Or, you might find that what you thought you’d research is too difficult or uninteresting and instead choose to refine your research focus or question. The point is this: Effective writers learn to be comfortable with the messiness and uncertainty of research. They learn to embrace and respond to the emerging insights that research uncovers, and they are practiced at using new insights to refine, reshape, and even completely rethink their research goals. Research Methods for Studying Your Writing Researching Yourself: An Overview of Autoethnographic Research Methods What is autoethnography? To understand autoethnography, you first must understand two other terms: qualitative research and ethnography. Qualitative research is a method of research in which the researcher gains an understanding of the behavior or thinking of humans by studying them closely. Rather than using statistics, surveys, and other methods of collecting data that call for a large number of humans to respond, qualitative research relies on a much smaller sample of human participants—perhaps even just one human—to gain an understanding about human behavior or thinking. Ethnography is a way of doing qualitative research in which a researcher immerses himself/herself with members of a different culture for a period of time long enough to understand something about the other culture. For example, a researcher from the United States might want to go to another country and study the ways the people of that country raise their children. In this way, the researcher would understand something about human behavior or thinking in that culture by observing people in their real-world settings. When conducting ethnographic research, researchers will employ particular data collection methods that will give them valuable information to answer their research question. These methods will likely include a great deal of observation, along with interviewing participants and collecting artifacts that would help the researcher understand the humans living in that culture. Autoethnography is a method of researching oneself. Just as in ethnography, the researcher systematically collects and analyzes data to understand something about human behavior, but in autoethnography, the primary research participant is the researcher herself/himself. When you study one of your writing situations for the Unit 1 Project, you will be engaging in qualitative, autoethnographic research because you will be studying yourself as a writer. You will look at your thinking and behaviors through the eyes of a researcher and will collect data on yourself in order to answer your Unit 1 Project research question. Consequently, you’ll likely gain a new understanding of humans as people who use writing resourcefully to meet their needs and the needs of others. How do you do autoethnography, exactly? You’ll need to become familiar with several autoethnographic data collection methods in order to collect data that you can analyze to reach new insights about your research question. Different types of data collection methods return different types of data. Researchers must have clear goals about what they want to know and then choose methods that will return useful data for them. Research Methods (Data Collection Methods) The tabs below describe different data collection methods that may be applicable to your Unit 1 Project writing situation and research question. Collecting Relevant Textual Artifacts For this method, you locate and save artifacts—any objects that are relevant to your writing situation. For the Unit 1 Project, I require that at least three of your artifacts must be texts written by you. You may also want to collect relevant writing that has been written by others (e.g. written feedback others have given you about your writing, text messages, Facebook comments, assignment sheets, correspondence, inspirational quotes, how-to guides, etc.). This method of collecting data may include searching through digital archives, such as old email files, or looking through physical archives, such as the stack of papers you’ve kept from your high school days.

Knowing what you do about the functions of sleep and dreaming, what would be some advantages and drawbacks of such a pill from a personal standpoint?

There are many reasons that we need to sleep. It is a restorative process that helps us function. Suppose that a new “miracle pill” allows a person to function with only one hour of sleep per night. However, because a night’s sleep is so short, a person who takes the pill will never dream again. Knowing what you do about the functions of sleep and dreaming, what would be some advantages and drawbacks of such a pill from a personal standpoint? Would you take such a pill? You should offer at least one citation to support your work.

Discuss oracle cards ritual in the context of its religious community.

Focus on Wicca and Neopaganism religion and climate change. Look at women and their connection to nature, animals, and food, looking at religious or spiritual practices that support mental, spiritual and physical health. Discuss oracle cards ritual in the context of its religious community.