...Critical Thinking: Advertisements Yelena Prikhodko ITT-Technical Institute Foundational Strategies GS1115 Tim Trieu 07/10/15 Critical Thinking: Advertisements Advertisement 1: Budweiser This Budweiser Super Bowl commercial is one of my favorites. It is a continuation of a commercial run last year and depicts a small puppy that lives on a farm with his horse best friend. The puppy is young and curious, he wanders off into a truck, the door behind him closes and he is taken into the city. He is cold in the rain and lost. He wanders through the woods as his owner is searching high and wide for him. As the night gets darker and scarier, the puppy gets closer to home however he is surrounded by wolves. Unbeknownst to him, his best buddy, the horse has escaped the barn and is coming to his rescue with friends. The pup starts barking at the wolves but he is tiny. The horses arrive just in time to save him and he is reunited with his family. At the end of the commercial there is the Budweiser logo and the hashtag “ #bestbuds”. Every time I watch this ad I cry. It is just so cute, and as a dog owner pulls at my heart strings. As a human, it makes me connect with the puppy and his fear of being lost and lonely and his search for home. What draws me most to this advertisement is that there is no beer, this ad is not selling beer, it is selling the feeling that you want to have when you drink beer: family, love, friendship. Throughout the commercial, the focus is on the puppy...
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...university. One may question why there are two different levels of education to get to the same position in nursing. While an Associate’s Degree (AD) prepared nurse has the necessary skills to provide patient care, they may lack critical thinking, leadership, and professionalism. A BSN prepared nurse has gained more knowledge, which may lead to better patient outcomes. Nursing does not meet the standards of professionalism in respect to education with multiple points of entry and a lack of differentiation among educational levels with regard to acknowledgement and salary (Lane and Kohlenberg, 2010). Not as much time is spent during the ADN programs to teach critical thinking, research, professionalism and leadership. In the two year program, most of the time is focused on patient care. The competencies of the different levels of education of the Registered Nurse (RN) will be explored to show a BSN prepared nurse is more proficient in providing patient care, due to better critical thinking skills. Baccalaureate educated nurses are prepared for more complex decision making using critical thinking combined with comprehensive assessment skills, awareness of epidemiological and individual risk factors, and sensitivity to cultural diversity (Meyer, 1997). Critical thinking is a vital component of nursing. The use of critical thinking skills could be the...
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... TDifferences in Competences Between the BSN and ADN Prepared Nurses. he eThe endeavor to maintain properly trained and educated nurses dates back to the 20th th century with the inception of the Diploma program and the Baccalaureate thereafter. In their undifferentiated roles to affect positive outcomes in the multilevel entry nursing professional practice, the Bachelor of Nursing (BSN) prepared nurse is more prepared than the Associate Degree (AD) and Diploma in Nursing prepared nurses in professional competency, therefore thecompetency. The purpose of this paper is to examine the professional competencies as evident in education, evidence-based practice (EBP), critical thinking and communication. Multi-level entry and undifferentiated roles are discussed as they have a significant connection to the nursing professional competency. Undifferentiated roles Undifferentiated roles BSN, AD and Diploma prepared nurses hold the same licensure, received upon passing the minimum required technical skills for entry to the nursing practice. The test is conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). Education The first nurse training program, the Diploma, was based on the apprenticeship model, championed by Florence Nightingale. The Diploma program is hospital-based and still exists today. The wars, federal legislation legislations...
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...Critical Thinking in Society PHL/458 August 10, 2014 Describe a situation in which critical and creative thought could have been used for a better outcome. Describe why it is important to think critically and creatively in similar situations. A situation, in which critical and creative thought could have been used for a better outcome, is when investors were making decisions about the purchase of real estate. In 2006 the real estate market was giving signs of weakening where prior to that year it was booming, but investors were not thinking critically and creatively instead, they were greedy and they let greed make decisions for them. To make matters worse lenders where very aggressive in their lending protocols while no one in the government was watching. Investors continue to buy in frenzy at high prices, even paying over the listed prices for properties. Then came the market went bust and investors were stuck with nearly worthless pieces of properties. Had the investors even consider one or two worse case scenarios, their net worth could have been preserved, instead we saw how thousands of properties started going into foreclosure. This was a hard lesson to learn but today the lending rules have changed thanks to a revamp of the lending practices. By thinking critically and creatively the government has tighten the screws on a much-unsupervised system. Define free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion. Explain how we use them to form thoughts...
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...with a two year degree (AD) and one with a 4 year degree (BSN). The clinical and technical expertise of the AD and the BS nurses at the bedside are indistinguishable. There are noticeable differences for the nurses in administrative, managerial and educational positions. The competencies of the AD nurse versus BS nurse will be discussed in the following paragraphs (Moore, 2009). There have been discussions for years over the education required for professional (registered) nursing practice. The National Council of State Board of Nursing (NCSBN) is the organization that sets the standards determining what is required to license registered nurses and practical nurses. This test is called the NCSBN Nursing Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). By using computerized based information, it measures the candidate’s knowledge and skills (Friberg, 2011). The educational requirements are different for each program of study. The AD Nursing program is generally considered a two-year degree from a community college. It is based upon the associate degree requirements focused on clinical and technical skills used to provide direct care to patients and their families. Most programs have guidelines which require prerequisites and test. It can take three years to complete based on liberal art’s requirements. The programs are structured with little variation or modification from standards of care practiced in nursing school. The AD nurse is more apt to try...
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...The Blogging Styles of Yours Truly Larina Bridenstine PHI/221 8-30-2014 Dr. Steve Wyre The Blogging Styles Of Yours Truly Part One Well hello all you wonderful people out there!!! Today I want to talk about critical thinking. I know, why Larina would you want to talk about this? Well it is easy. We have way too many hot heads out there that do not use this skill enough. We have people who have road rage and don’t think. We have those over protective momma bears out there that well… they just go off on the any big bad wolf who threatens their cubs. So lets get started! Well what is critical thinking? Critical thinking is that mode of thinking - about any subject, content, or problem - in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them. (2013) In layman’s terms it means we need to really think about what we are going to say or do or say. What are some of the characteristics of a good critical thinker? Well the first one I would like to talk about is Analytical skills . This is where you can analyze and have logical support for your arguments or beliefs. For example: Johnny down the street won’t come outside to play. Well I bet if you get Betty Lou to come out and wash the car Johnny will be sure to come out. See I looked at the problem and put a logical reason to it. The second one I have for you all is communication and literacy skills...
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...strong body of knowledge that integrated in day to day practice. During the process of natural evolution, nurses had to go through a series of transformations from mere ‘nursing job’ to distinguished profession where the members not only involve in medical care of the patient ,but also in helping the patient as a person and member of a family and society to steer through difficult times. As mentioned in American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) facts sheet : Creating a more quality nursing workforce (AACN, 2012) this elegant approach is implemented nationwide through the hands of more than three million registered nurses. Professional preparedness of nurses who are working today mainly falls in to two categories; Associate degree (AD) and Baccalaureate degree(BS) prepared. Associate degree programs were the answer for nursing shortage that our country experienced in last century especially in the post second world war era. Associate degree programs are usually two years in duration. They prepare nurses to function at bedside based on the core concept of patient safety. These nurses were extremely successful in caring for patients in a setting were physicians took the entire responsibility of medical decision making. Advantage of Associate degree programs are that they prepare nurses in a short span of time and are more widely available compared to bachelor degree programs. They also come with less financial liability at the end of study process because of their shorter...
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...Law, K.Y. School of Arts and Social Sciences The Open University of Hong Kong Abstract The paper reviews the main difference between scientific investigation and non-scientific investigation and the change of the scientific principles from different approach. In the first section of the text, the author describes the definitions of scientific investigation and non-scientific investigation and the different of both researches. Furthermore, Using the example to explain the difference between the two, so that a better understanding. The second section of this study is to present three styles of scientific principles; it’s divided to positivist search, interpretive search and critical search. It’s analyze the different of the above search and described their characteristic and feature Introduction Scientific investigation is the way in which scientists and researchers use a systematic approach to answer questions about the world around the people. A scientific investigation is an empirical (measurable) study of a question using the scientific method. The main parts are listed below: (1) problem: the question people intend to answer, (2) hypothesis: the best anticipated guess to the outcome of the question, (3) experiment: study is carried out and the results are measured, (4) Results: the data/information measured during the experiment is organized in a meaningful way. Charts/graphs/tables are made, (5)discussion/analysis: the results are interpreted...
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...Critical and Creative Thinking Evelyn Bonilla PHL 458 Due January 13, 2014 Shuwn Hayes Critical and Creative Thinking Thinking critically is something teachers have asked students to do since they start school. It is something that bosses ask their employees to do and what CEOs of companies must do to stay competitive. However, critical thinking is one of the hardest skills to hone and maintain. Also, critical thinking alone does not keep a business running. Critical thinking must be paired with creative thinking to be truly successful. Think it through, if a CEO stops trying to innovate or create new policies or products then they stop evolving and become irrelevant. If you look at critical and creative thinking in the technological age, Blackberry is a prime example. For many years Blackberry had a stronghold on the “smartphone” market. It safe and secure email made it perfect for business people on the go and the full text keyboard, or “QWERTY” as its now called, made sending text messages and replying to emails so simple. However, then the iPhone was released. Blackberry did not want to change to a text screen and by the time they did; in late 2013 it was too late. Smartphones have applications, games, email, and a multitude of other features. However, companies are reluctant to create apps for the new Blackberry smartphone because Blackberry does not have the market share it once did. They may have seen that people did not immediately jump onto the...
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...provided, the sloppiness of the skills being performed, and the overall lack of standard precautions. As I completed school and began to work beside other RN’s I can see the differences, but now I look at it from a different perspective as well. I am looking at those abbreviations behind the RN. I find that I am not alone here. “The public's perception of the nurse is the individual who comes to their home to deliver care or who answers their call light in the acute care setting. While most are unaware that the initials RN do not designate the basic level of preparation, they do rate quality nursing care as one of the top ten factors in choosing a hospital (The American Nurse, 1997). The RN may have completed an AD, Diploma, BSN, Masters or even a Doctoral program. AD educators fear their graduates will lose status if they are unable to be recognized as RNs and are given the title...
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...This paper will discuss the differences in competencies in two degrees in modern nursing the Associate Degree Nurse (ADN) and the Bachelor Degree Nurse (BSN) and how they relate to patient care situations. Differences in Competencies Associate Degree Nurse In 1942, World War II created a nursing shortage in American society. The Associate Degree program was established by Dr. Mildred Montag in 1943 at the Adelphi College of Nursing. Dr. Montag felt that a shorter education program for nurses would help with this nursing shortage. She never intended for this 2 year program to replace the nursing baccalaureate program (“Mildred Montag Envisions AD Nursing Education”, 2011). Montag’s idea of and Associate Degree Nurse (ADN) was to prepare technical skills in nursing for community hospitals and other patient care setting. AD nurses were eligible to take the RN licensure examination. She intended for these ADN’s to work under the baccalaureate level nurses in these facilities (Creasia, 2011). The ADN has graduated from a collegiate school. They have been seen as competent in technical skills in nursing for bedside nurses or secondary care setting and are eligible to take the NCLEX-RN exam. Upon passing the ADN is a Registered Nurse. The ADN has been trained in standards of Clinical Nursing Practice (Creasia, 2011), Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcome identification, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation. Bachelor Degree Nurse The BSN has been...
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...something new, such as: making inferences, synthesizing information evaluating quality, thinking logically and all the strategies for critical reading; as a result makes me want to apply it every single time; therefore, makes me want to be a better reader and better yet, to be a critical reader. So, when I got to the part of critical reading and one of the points is to distinguish facts from opinions, it is true. I work in a Printing Company, and I can say that 70 percent of magazines are based on opinions while the remaining 30 are based on facts. All of the magazines have images, charts and graphs, photographs and a lot of advertisement, I probably look at thousands of print advertisements in magazines every single day, and never thought you could read an advertisement or a photograph, but like the chapter says, “Most often such ads try to convince us to buy a particular product. Sometimes, they try to convince us to have positive feelings about the company that manufactures the product or offers a service. The only way to avoid being manipulated by the ads is to learn to read the advertisement”, it is like there something hidden behind each ad, like a riddle, and me, as the reader need to solve it by asking my self several questions; “What audience does the advertisement target? Am I in that audience? If not, do I respond to the ad anyway? Once I know all the strategies and I become a critical reader and I’m able to really understand the meaning of the book, magazine or even...
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...Thinking Critically Simulation Paper This paper will frame the problems in which Credenhill Industry is experiencing, and evaluate the decisions made in focusing on framing the problems and making decisions regarding the effectiveness of the decisions made. Credenhill Industry's systematically operates a $750 million company today. They accomplished this by amalgamating the distinguishing circumstance of running a triad of subsidiaries, rejecting to go public and appointing Linda James, who is considered by colleagues as one of the leading entrepreneurs of the times. The company uses a comprehensive program to discover and guide bright green managers to fast track career opportunity in a five month. This program entails a challenge to three of the coworkers respectively overseeing one of the three subsidiaries and mentored by Linda James. The challenge began with the news of taking over controls as Store Manager of a Credenhill consumer electronics store in Dallas Texas. The sheer excitements of the brand-new position weakened as the results of long lists of ongoing problems were determined. A new store has opened up recently close by severely reducing the revenue for Credenhill. This issue produced a snowball like effect to the department store and its employees. The new store carried a bigger inventory, competitive pricing and was allegedly to pay their employee a higher salary. If this were not enough it was divulged that we were in legal trouble because of neglecting...
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...Webster also goes on to describe ethics as, “the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, (Dictornary.com). For me, I agree with Plato that, “there are absolute and eternal moral truths and principle”. I believe even if we choose to follow through with an action we know is know is morally wrong, we still ultimately know that the act is still wrong. For example if one was to steal from a store, the desire to take that object might overcome ones better judgment, but the act is not committed without the understanding that the understanding of the reproductions. The lesson plan describes several tools for critical thinking. These tools for critical thinking are: ad-hominem argument, the straw man fallacy, consistency failure and the red hearing. Ad-hominem attacks the source or individual of the argument. This can best be seen when to children get into trouble and either one points the finger, he did it! This tool is to show a group in a perceived way, the lesson plan use pro-choice, defining them as baby killers. We saw a great example of the straw man fallacy in this year presidential debates when President Obama criticized Governor Romney for wanting to cut Sesame Street’s federal financings. All the American public heard for the next couple of weeks was how Big Bird was going to be out of a job. This is a prime example of distorting the others position. I would think that this tool is probably most used in...
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...Critical Thinking & Society Omar A. Jones PHL/458 Creative Minds & Critical Thinking June 21, 2012 Aisha Simmons Critical Thinking & Society Introduction In today’s society being a critical thinker is a bonus. With all the scams and too good to be true deals out here, we need to be able to think for ourselves so that we can survive. Don’t become that sucker that P.T. Barnum was referring to. In this paper I hope to get across my points of why critical and creative thinking is necessary for people today by giving examples and definitions of some of the terms that a critical thinker may come across. Real Life Experience Recently, I acquired a new roommate, my brother. He needs a place to stay until he gets on his feet (everyone is getting hit in today’s economy in some way). Anyway, my brother and I have two totally different lifestyles. I like things done a certain way. I believe that there is a place for everything and everything has a place. My brother seems to have his own rules to live by. So, I figured that it was time for a talk so that we could come to an understanding or at least a compromise. Well, sometime while we were talking it became more of a shouting match rather than a discussion. I thought I was making some valid points, but he took it as aan attack on his maturity. So to rectify the disagreement I called in my pastor to mediate. She went about discussing my points and his points by calmly...
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