...professional educator makes a constructive effort to protect the student from conditions detrimental to learning, health, or safety. (AAE, 1994-2012).Challenging students to report inappropriate behavior, providing a positive and supportive environment that allows students to feel safe in reporting it. (COE-GCU Conceptual Framework, 2011). | Priority Ranking: 2Studies show that students who do not feel safe at school stay home. And when students aren't in school, they don't perform academically. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)’s report, Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2010, in 2007, approximately 5 percent of students ages 12–18 reported that they were afraid of attack or harm at school, compared to 3 percent of students who reported that they were afraid of attack or harm away from school. (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2010).It is important that our students feel safe so they can perform academically. | The professional educator, in exemplifying ethical relations with colleagues, accords just and equitable treatment to all members of the profession. (AAE, 1994-2012).Interact appropriately, effectively, with students and their families,...
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...student in the college of education is required to have. Throughout the students’ schooling they will be instructed to upload pertinent assignments that are attached to standards; the assignment serves as evidence. When applying for teaching positions, students can use this online collection as their portfolio, showing what they have accomplished throughout their time at Grand Canyon University. The student may even choose to share this e-portfolio on the Web. * Learner Goals: Learner goals are standards that are mandated by “…state and federal departments of education, professional education organizations and accrediting bodies” (GCU, 2012). They include professional dispositions, content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and skill, professional pedagogical knowledge and skills, data-informed decision making, performance assessment, technology integration, and field experience/clinical practice. * Professional Dispositions: Values and ethics that will have a positive effect on the teaching community. * Content knowledge: Having mastery of the concepts being taught. * Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Skill: Ability to take that mastery and effectively deliver it to one’s students. * Professional and Pedagogical Knowledge: Ability to create a meaningful learning environment for all students and collaborate with other...
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...important) you would assign this concept as an educator. State and defend your rationale. Use research to support your rationale. Comparison of overlapping statements regarding teacher ethics | Priority of specific ethical disposition/protocol and rationale | Example: “The professional educator continues to grow professionally” (AAE, 2001).“Learners will develop the values, commitments, and ethics that positively impact the educational community as well as the educator’s own professional growth.” (COE-GCU Framework, 2010). | Example: Priority ranking : 5I have ranked the issue of Professional Growth at number five because…Actually, Meninger (1986) said that… | The professional educator makes a constructive effort to protect the student from conditions detrimental to learning, health, or safety. (AAE, 1994-2012).Challenging students to report inappropriate behavior, providing a positive and supportive environment that allows students to feel safe in reporting it. (COE-GCU Conceptual Framework, 2011). | | | | | |Priority Ranking: 2Studies show that students who do not feel safe at school stay home. And when students aren't in school, they don't perform academically. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)’s report, Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2010, in 2007, approximately 5 percent of students ages 12–18 reported that they were afraid of attack or harm at school, compared to 3 percent of students who reported that they were afraid...
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... Week 1 DQ1 What comparisons can be found between the GCU Mission and Domains/CON Mission and Program Competencies (for your selected specialty track, links located in the Course Materials) with the AACN's Essentials for Master's Education for Advanced Practice Nursing (link located in the Week 1 Topic Materials)? Explain your rational. Both the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and Grand Canyon University (GCU) focus on providing students with a program that is "practice-oriented with a goal that professionals develop advanced skills and knowledge for professional roles, and those programs that are more theoretically or research directed with a goal of developing scholars for the generation of new knowledge." ("The Essentials Of Master’s Education For Advanced Practice Nursing," n.d., p. 1) The AACN and GCU both see it important for the masters prepared nurse to be culturally sensitive and understanding of others, and themselves. Thinking critically and using evidence based practice through research helps the masters prepared nurse to provide only the highest quality of care to their patients, families, and communities. Within GCU the College of Nursing (CON) also sees the AACN's essentials as part of their own recognizing that masters prepared nurses need to be able to provide health assessments that are in-depth and accommodating to the person as an individual, as a family or as a community member. Both organizations express the need to be...
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...Assessment of the Family using Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns Grand Canyon University: NRS-429-V October 06, 2013 Health Assessment of the Jackson’s Family, using the Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns. The Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns Assessment is a very useful tool in assessing and evaluating the family’s established health patterns, allowing the care provider an inside look at the overall health of a particular family and able to assist them in setting goals for better health outcome for the entire family. This paper will discuss the health habits and manner of functioning of the Jackson’s family, which consist of a mother age 41, father age 37, and 3 teenage sons, ranging in ages from 19, 16 and 14. This assessment will be conducted by asking 2 to 3 open-ended questions based on Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns. The findings of Health Patterns of the Jackson’s Family, using Gordon’s Health Assessment. The Jackson’ Family is your typical family with a mother, father and 3 children. They have some set values and beliefs, and yet have some chaotic health behaviors which can become problematic eventually in the future, especially for the mother. In evaluating and assessing this family, it is evident that it is a family in which members care for one another very much. In the Pattern of Health Perception and Assessment, this family has a routine by which they will not seek medical assistance unless in emergency needs, but do follow up annually...
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...Associates Degree in Nursing vs Baccalaureates Degree in Nursing There are several differences between the associates’ degree (ADN) and the baccalaureates degree (BSN) in nursing of which in the following I will be exploring. According to the CGU College of Nursing Philosophy (2011) “In the baccalaureate program, clients are considered to be individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.” Baccalaureate nursing practice incorporates the roles of assessing, critical thinking, communicating, providing care, teaching, and leading. Autonomy, altruism, human dignity, integrity, and social justice with unconditional regard for all people are included in this caring professional approach. The nursing role is to help provide safe and healthy environments where health is the central focus while assisting that person to live in optimal health (GCU, 2011). Nursing practice includes health promotion, disease prevention, early detection of health deviations, prompt and adequate treatment of the human response to acute and chronic illness, and compassionate care for those experiencing death. (GCU, 2011). The American Association of Colleges of Nursing Fact Sheet (9/22/2014) documents several studies that show a corresponding link between hospitals that have a larger percentage of BSN and graduate level nurses employed and lower mortality rates, fewer medication errors, and positive outcomes. Per the AACN fact sheet (9/22/2014) the facilities that employ mostly...
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...Frances C Worrall PSY-100 2/4/15 Professor Dwyer Personality Assessment Paper My top three strengths are Intuitive, Feelings, and Judging. I really didn’t understand what that meant at first, but once I study what the meant it gave me a better understanding of things. I hope that being Intuitive helps me to have better insight on my class and the needs of my other classmates. We are all her together to help each other and encourage each other. We all have feelings and we should get to know and understand what class mates are feeling are. Judging we can all be there for each other it and be like a advocate or a judge in scene to take charge and oversee and not necessarily judge others. I did it with my friend Daisy, she scored same score on Judging I scored on feelings she scored 25%, She and I have been best friends for 11 years and we think alike and how we feel the same on certain things, her top three were Feelings Judging and Extrovert . I also did it with my friend Jeff and his top three ere Extravert, intuitive and judging, he scored higher than me did on all of them on judging he scored 11% higher them we did, the other he was scored way higher than me. Jeff and I go to same church and he work at the boys and girls club where I volunteer. We do think a lot on same level when it comes too spiritually. His Top one six dimension is spiritually when I asked him to look at it. With Daisy you swear we...
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...of the community. Planning will ultimately contribute to the growth and organizational stability of a learning community. There are two Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium standards that educators must consider when developing a successful work plan. Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium standard one specifies that “a school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school community”. (GCU,2012 ISLLC pg. 18) Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium standard three specifies that “a school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by ensuring management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment”. (GCU,2012 ISLLC pg.18) These standards and their functions set the foundation for developing a strategic plan. Planning involves a base for monitoring that is in progress, along with assessing results and the impact these will have on education. This enables stakeholders to have an idea of how to facilitate a new program by utilizing a systemic approach. Stakeholders will also be able to set policies and goals...
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...Associate Degree in Nursing The Associate Degree in Nursing was designed in the 1950s by Mildred Montag in response to the nursing shortage after World War II (Creasia 2011). The program was intended for those who desired to become registered nurses in a shorter period of time and at a more economic cost. The ADN program is offered in community colleges and some four year establishments across the country. The ADN program usually takes about two to three years to complete and graduate students can become registered nurses by sitting for the NCLEX-RN. Associate degree nurses are educated with technical skills for patient care at the bedside; this includes assessing the patients, administering medications, and educating patients and their families (to name a few). They are able to work in community hospitals and long-term health care settings. Providing direct nursing care to or coordinate care for a limited number of patients in various health care settings is the primary role of the ADN, according to the Texas Board of Nursing (BON). Even thought the AND programs are the major point of entry into nursing (Creasia 2011), many ADN nurses are inadequately prepared for the leadership roles that are required in today’s nursing industry. Associate degree nursing programs lack strategies to promote personal identity in their graduates (Mbewe, Jones 2015) therefore those individuals are not confident to see themselves as nurses without a proper internship program that will teach them...
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...practices and procedures. While the Associates degree prepares nurses on clinical skills, BSN objective’s target leadership, nursing research, and management. This gained knowledge allows for nurses to make better decisions, plan and manage outcomes (AACN, 2014). Nurses are able to better understand complex processes, therefore able to adjust as needed to get the best possible outcome. It is this combination of knowledge and skills used to advance the work of a nurse at the Bachelor’s level. Competencies of an Associate’s Degree in Nursing The two year Associates Degree in Nursing was created by Mildred Montag. Her revolution helped with a nursing shortage during World War II by creating another level of nurse known as the “technical” nurse (GCU, 2016). Associate degree programs provided the sufficient knowledge and skills necessary to pass NCLUX and provide safe entry level patient care (AACN, 2014). The ADN Nurse demonstrates competences in...
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...Heritage Assessment Latasha Rice, WCC- RN Grand Canyon University: NRS 429v Date: 8/31/2012 What is a heritage assessment? A heritage assessment is a subpart to the overall nursing assessment. Assessing a patient’s heritage allows the nurse to obtain more information about a patient’s culture, including beliefs about health and values, this is important to providing cultural health care. One’s heritage includes information about their cultural beliefs and practices of the family and ethno religious community (Jarvis, C., 2012). Through a heritage assessment the nurse can obtain a vast amount of information about the patient/ family, including but not limited to, where ancestors were born, how many siblings they have, if the family originated in another country, how often time is spent with family, religion, if the patient prefers the company of people with the same values and religion or ethnic background, what type of foods the patient prepares, and the patient’s native language. This paper will discuss what the author learned from completing a heritage assessment tool, the usefulness of a heritage assessment tool when assessing a patient/ family/ community as a whole. This paper will also compare the health traditions of three different families (and cultures) to include, health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration, while identifying common traditions based on the author’s heritage. What the families ascribe their traditions to will also be discussed...
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...Running head: CULTURAL DIVERSITIES ACKNOWLEDGE THRU HERITAGE Cultural Diversities Acknowledge Thru Heritage Assessment Tool Denise Streater GCU Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Hortense Turner March 23, 2012 Cultural Diversities Acknowledge Thru Heritage Assessment Tool Cultural diversities have facilitated challenges with in health care. To educate our clients there must be recognition of traditional heritage practices. The Heritage Assessment Tool has been devised to discover cultural characteristics of individuals, families along with communities. This tool allows one to understand and respect the role of cultural awareness in health and illness. There is a framework for evaluation of physical, mental and spiritual values and beliefs in which outlines health maintenance, protection, and restoration. The difference in values and beliefs grants an impact on wellness, disease and death in selected cultures. Upon assessing heritages there has been an overview of religion, ethnic background, language and an identification of support systems. Information has been gathered to present cultural lifestyles, traditions and health practices in a nonsterotypical manner. Utilizing the Heritage assessment tool this paper will reflect the cultural heritage of three different cultural practices .The three cultural diverse backgrounds, which will be discussed, are Hispanics, Filipinos (Asians) and Southern Afro Americans in which the later describes the writer’s heritage...
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...PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT In my effort to succeed as a student at GCU, I found my intelligence to play a vital role in making this idea a success in my educational endeavors. The use of my Intrapersonal, spiritual/emotional and personality type of intelligence will help me in determining different areas of interpersonal intelligence. The theories of Jung and Gardner have made a great impact in the life of scholars. The theory of Jung reflects an individual’s attitude toward the external world distinguished by the direction of general interest. (Jung, 1971). Jung’s theories indicate the 16 personality types of learning styles. These styles are generated from the combinations of 8 different...
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...Different Cultures and Their Health Traditions The Heritage Assessment Tool is a valuable tool that can be used by health care professionals to help them become aware of the client’s ethnic, religious and cultural background in relation to their views on health, illness and diseases. As defined by Winkelman, culture, is an element of ethnicity, consists of shared patterns of values and behaviors that characterize a particular group (as cited in Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p.32) Assessing these culturally diverse individuals and being aware of traditional health practices will improve the quality of care given to them. In this paper the writer will discuss the Hispanic, Haitian, and Filipino cultural backgrounds and how their heritage, as well as what their beliefs and values, affect their views on heath maintenance, protection, and restoration. Heritage Assessment Usefulness In assessing one’s heritage, cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds and preferences, and how it may directly relate to the person’s views on health and illness, the healthcare professional will be able to understand the individual as a whole and be able to tend to their needs better rather than just focusing on the illness itself. Being culturally competent means providing health care based on the understanding of the total context of the client’s complex situation through knowledge, attitude, and skills (CGU, 2011). The heritage assessment tool provides a good basis for the patient and health care professional...
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...differences between them. Allen Gerace GCU: NRS-430V October 2, 2011 In 1965, there was a bold stance exhibited by the American Nurses Association (ANA) prompting the publishing of a paper focusing on their position which stated, that the baccalaureate degree should be the minimum level of education for entry into nursing practice (ANA, 1965). Taylor (2008) acknowledged that “by taking this initiative, the ANA was attempting to move nursing education away from hospital based, diploma programs of the day into colleges and universities, thus changing the education of nurses for an apprenticeship to science-based practice”. (p. 611) Currently there are several paths to becoming a registered nurse. Associate Degree Nurse usually receives their degree in a two year or community college setting. Diploma Nurse obtains their education through a hospital-based program. And finally, A Bachelor degree in Nursing is a four-year degree given in a University. This paper will focus on the associate-degree level and the baccalaureate-degree level in nursing and the competency differences between them. The associate degree program for a registered nurse became favorable and has come to be first choice as an attractive option for those who desire a quicker program time and a reduced tuition cost to becoming a registered nurse. The ADN program is focused mainly on basic competencies that include all age related assessments, subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous...
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