According to the authors of our text, “Adult and Continuing Education is simultaneously a process, a philosophical approach, a view of learning, and a committment to the learner” (p. 5). Adult learning can take place in both formal and informal venues. Discuss two venues that are appropriate for adult and continuing education. Why are these venues appropriate? Do you think adult and continuing education is important in our present world?
A 30-year-old woman comes to your office because of a persistent cough that has been bothering her for the past 3 months. Her cough is dry and is more frequent during the evenings. She also notes frequent nasal congestion, especially when she is exposed to dust and cold weather. She reports no hemoptysis, weight loss, wheezing, fever, or changes in his appetite. What additional questions would you ask to learn more about her cough? What would be included in your HPI and your subjective questioning?
How would you classify her cough based on the duration to help with the diagnosis?
What diagnostic tests do you want to include to help you with your diagnosis?
Create a differential diagnosis flow sheet for this patient and include the diagnostics as well as the pharmacological management and rationale related to the differentials. Support your discussion with evidence-based research that is no older than 5 years.
Reflect on the older adult’s comments to identify ideas of what strengths this person had that allowed him or her to achieve a sense of well-being and to value his or her accomplishments.
2. Classify identified accomplishments as work-related or people-related (debrief).
3. Identify common themes among the clinical group interviews (debrief).
4. Discuss how this communication exercise can be applied to future nursing practice.
Interview an Older Adult at your clinical site. Ask the following questions:
1. Ask the Older Adult to describe what growing up was like, what is different today from the way it was when he or she was your age, what are the important values held, and if there have been any changes in them over the years.
2. Ask this person what advice he or she would give you about how to achieve satisfaction in life and if they could change one thing about our society today, what would it be?
3. Ask the Older Adult to describe his or her most satisfying life events, and what he or she did to accomplish them.
4. Ask the Older Adult to identify his or her most meaningful life experience or accomplishment.
Wisdom of Aging Assignment and directions can be found in your Clinical Manual.
you are going to write the lost diary of Anthony Johnson. In 1619, a man called Antonio was sold in Virginia. Over the next few years, he was sold from trader to trader. At some point, Antonio changed his name to the more English friendly name Anthony Johnson. For twenty years, Anthony was a slave. But, somehow, he gained his freedom, married, and became a wealthy plantation owner with his own indentured servants. There are many accounts of Anthony Johnson using his skillful knowledge of the law to defend his rights in court and winning. However, by the 1640s and 1650s, as racial prejudices increased, Johnson’s family left Virginia for neighboring Maryland. Johnson stayed in Virginia until he died in 1667. After his death, a court retroactively decided Anthony had never been a free man and confiscated the property he left to his son. See the verdict:
By virtue of a writt granted to me from [names listed here, which are illegible] John Stringer Escheator for the countys of Northhampton and Accomack to enquire what lands Anthonio Johnson late of Accomack County either in his life tyme. . . a jury of free. . . in the said Accomack County to enquire. . . doth declare that the said Anthony Johnson lately deceased in his life tyme was seized of fifty acres of land now in the possession of Rich. Johnson in the County of Accomack aforesaid and further that the said Anthony Johnson was a negro and by consequence an alien and for that cause the said land doth escheat to this . . . . From the collections of the Library of Congress
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INSTRUCTIONS:
We know a surprising amount about the life and death of Anthony Johnson. However, much of this information comes from official records, especially court documents. These are excellent at telling us what happened to Johnson, suggesting his legal and social status, but offer few insights into what he thought and felt. We do not have any records, such as a diary or letters to family members, that would let us into this remarkable man’s personal life. That is, until now.
In this assignment, you are going to write the long lost diary of Anthony Johnson. Specifically, you will write three diary entries spread across Johnson’s entire life. Your diary entries should be no more than a page in length. The diary entries need to have historical accuracy as that is the most important part.
Dated 1 January 1621 – This diary entry is a year after Johnson was sold in Virginia. You should focus on Johnson’s experiences of arriving in the strange world of Jamestown. He does not know where he is, speak the language, and is repeatedly bought and sold.
Dated 1 January 1642 – By now, Johnson is married, has children, and has bought his freedom from his master. This diary entry finds Johnson about to start a new life in Virginia as a freeman. What are his plans and ambitions? What freedom’s can Johnson expect to enjoy as a free African in the 1640s.
Dated 1 January 1662 – In this final entry, you find Johnson trying to understand the growing racial prejudice in Virginia. His extended family has left Virginia for the more tolerant Maryland and he is afraid of what will happen to his property after his death.
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historical accuracy is the most important part.
Development of the research prospectus is an iterative that lays the foundation for your dissertation. The research prospectus will also assist your dissertation chair in providing valuable feedback to guide you in your dissertation. This assignment is the next iteration of the research prospectus.
Now that you have completed a series of assignments that have led you into the active project planning and development stage for your project, briefly describe your proposed solution to address the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and how it has changed since you first envisioned it. What led to your current perspective and direction?
1. What does it mean to ‘accept’ a premise?
2. How does a reductio ad absurdum work (logically speaking)?
3. What does it mean for a theory/explanation to be simple?
4. How do you show an argument is invalid by parity of reasoning?
5. What’s the difference between a substantial and non-substantial criticism of a premise?
6. Why does an inductive argument with a weak conclusion make the argument itself stronger?
7. We discussed two types of statistical arguments. Name them.
8. Name 2 criteria we use in evaluating the strengths/weaknesses of an abductive argument.
9. For a conditional of the form, “If X, then Y”, name what’s the sufficient condition for what and what’s the necessary condition for what.
10. What’s the difference between functional and procedural explanations?
Determine what kind of argument it is and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses.
1. Australia has suffered from several very serious droughts recently. Not too long ago, a series of droughts like this was unheard of. That was before Australia adopted daylight saving time. Now, Australia is on daylight saving time six months out of the year. The Extra hour of sunlight is slowly evaporating all of the moisture in Australia, leading to nearly perpetual drought. The government needs to abolish daylight saving time, since it’s causing such terrible droughts.
2. At the University of Prestige, psychiatrists conducted a study to determine the social factors that affect the well-being of coronary patients. There were 93 patients in the study; slightly more than 50 percent of them had bets of some kind (dogs, cats, fish, and one iguana). At the end of the year one-third of the patients who did not own pets had died, but only three animal owners had succumbed. The psychiatrists concluded that pet ownership may have a positive effect on the health of humans.
3. An investigator at Fanciepahnts Science Institute studied several thousand heroin users and learned that 70 percent of them had used marijuana before they tried heroin. He concludes that roughly 70 percent of all marijuana users will go on to try heroin.
4. Taxation of earnings from labor is on part with forced labor. Some persons find this claim obviously true: taking the earnings of n hours labor is like taking n hours from that person; it is like forcing the person to work n hours for another’s purpose. So, taxation from earnings is wrong.
5. The simplest form of the theological argument from design was once well known under the name “Paley’s Watch”. Paley’s form of it was just this: “If we found by chance a watch or other piece of intricate mechanism we should infer that it had been made by someone. But all around us we do find intricate pieces of natural mechanism, and the processes of the universe are seen to move together in complex relations; we should therefore infer that these too have a Maker—i.e. God.
1. The sharp increase in the death rate in ancient Antioch, in the year 364 CE, has been ascribed to many factors: to famine, to an influx of disease brought by soldiers returning from the Persian campaign, and to problems with the city’s water supply. It was probably the water supply: if it were food shortages, it would be unlikely that both no contemporary historian would mention it an that there would be no record of similar sufferings in the lesser towns of the area or the surrounding countryside. And if the soldiers had contracted disease in Mesopotamia, then, since they were seriously weakened by hunger and the strain of a long and arduous campaign, they would have died of disease in significant numbers. In such circumstances it is certain that Ammanius, and eyewitness, would have recorded those fatalities—so cruel after the humiliations and losses the soldiers had endured in battle—in his history. But he is silent on the point.
2. It is very unlikely that research using animals will be unnecessary or poorly done. Before an experiment using a vertebrate animal is carried out, the protocol for that experiment must be reviewed by an institutional committee that includes a veterinarian and a member of the public, and during the research the animal’s health and care are monitored regularly. Researchers need healthy animals for study in science and medicine, because unhealthy animals could lead to erroneous results. This is a powerful incentive for scientists to make certain that any animals they use are healthy and well nourished. Furthermore, research involving animals is expensive, and because funding is limited in science, only high-quality research is able to compete effectively for support.
Bonus:
Do the same thing as in Section III for the following argument. You can’t lose points, you can only gain them (so it’s in your best interest to do this no matter what).
Whatever is, is in God. But God cannot be called a contingent thing, for He exists necessarily and not contingently. Moreover, the modes of the divine nature [the creatures which depend on, or have been created by, God immediately] have followed from it necessarily and not contingently. But God is the cause of these modes not only in so far as they simply exist, but also in so far as they are considered as determined to any action. If they are not determined by God it is an impossibility and not a contingency that they should determine themselves; and, on the other hand, if they are determined by God it is an impossibility and not a contingency that they should render themselves indeterminate. Wherefore all things are determined from a necessity of the divine nature, not only to exist, but to exist and act in a certain manner, and there is nothing contingent.
“Project 5: Database Security Assessment
Start Here
Step 1: Provide an Overview for Vendors
Step 2: Provide Context for the Work
Step 3: Provide Vendor Security Standards
Step 4: Describe Defense Models
Step 5: Explore Database Defensive Methods
Step 6: Provide a Requirement Statement for System Structure
Step 7: Provide Operating System Security Components
Step 8: Write Requirements for Multiple Independent Levels of Security
Step 9: Include Access Control Concepts, Capabilities
Step 10: Include Test Plan Requirements
Step 11: Compile the RFP Document
Discussion: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
As an advanced practice nurse assisting physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders, it is important to not only understand the impact of disorders on the body, but also the impact of drug treatments on the body. The relationships between drugs and the body can be described by pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Pharmacokinetics describes what the body does to the drug through absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, whereas pharmacodynamics describes what the drug does to the body.
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When selecting drugs and determining dosages for patients, it is essential to consider individual patient factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes. These patient factors include genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, behavior (i.e., diet, nutrition, smoking, alcohol, illicit drug abuse), and/or pathophysiological changes due to disease.
For this Discussion, you reflect on a case from your past clinical experiences and consider how a patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes may alter his or her response to a drug.
• Review the Resources for this module and consider the principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
• Reflect on your experiences, observations, and/or clinical practices from the last 5 years and think about how pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic factors altered his or her anticipated response to a drug.
• Discuss the factors that might have influenced the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes, such as genetics (including pharmacogenetics), gender, ethnicity, age, behavior, and/or possible pathophysiological changes due to disease.
• Think about a personalized plan of care based on these influencing factors and patient history in your case study.
Discuss the barriers or Challenges Undocumented Students Face in College.
Prepare an overview of your research paper. What are you writing about? What is your major thesis, and what are your supporting ideas? It could be in outline format, if that helps you; other people may find writing a short paragraph stubs, summaries or a broad overview more helpful. Think of this paper as the “elevator speech” you would use to describe the longer paper.
