...Informative and Persuasive Essay Western Governors University LAE1 Informative and Persuasive Essay “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul” (Addison, 1839, p. 76). The pull to become a masterpiece was both exhilarating and unnerving. I knew it was time to continue furthering my education, but the fact that I had a full time job and a busy schedule gave me an excuse to keep putting it off. Year after year, I churned out more and more excuses; the truth was, the factors to consider when choosing an online university were many and overwhelming, and I was afraid to start. I finally launched into research mode and began searching in earnest for “the perfect fit.” After much courting and wooing by several universities offering online programs, three major factors influenced my decision to become a Western Governors University (WGU) student. These are an excellent online support system, a unique competence based approach to learning, and affordability. I urge you to carefully consider these factors; you too will be convinced that WGU is the choice to make. WGU offers an excellent and unique support system to students. The availability of online education promises the ease and flexibility of independent learning. In addition, this is coupled with the availability of qualified human resources to help you stay on track. Truthfully, not many of us are disciplined enough to...
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...One of the steps for my admission into the Bachelor of Science in nursing was to pass the language competency. I studied decades ago, and all my education was in French. I can speak, understand and read English however writing is not my forte. Writing the dreaded essay in English for the admission language competency was the most important moment in my English literacy development because it made me realize the difference between talking and writing also that through my career I did not develop any writing skills and that furthermore to pursue my dream I would have to acquire this skill. I was relieved when I heard that I would not have to write an essay as part of my admission process at Western Governors University. I did not expect to be required to write one at the English test on that Saturday morning. The last time I passed it, some twenty years ago, it was almost too easy; just some very basic questions with very short answers. To top it off, I had no interest or knowledge on the subject. I knew I needed to learn how to write essays and I was willing to learn. I was sweating, looking at the clock and I could not begin to...
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...Therapeutic communication in its fundamental concept is providing a best treatment for patient based on patient-centre service. On the video case scenario, it is known that the woman is experiencing cerebrovascular attack. CVA or popularly known as stroke, needs a complex care as it involves plenty of communication barriers between patient and healthcare professionals, such as weakness, numbness, vision, and particularly, speech abnormalities (Grear & Bushnell, 2013). As stroke involves difficult communication, healthcare professionals need advanced skills of communication. For the purpose of the essay requirement, I will review how healthcare professional is conducting session with a patient from the therapeutic communication perspective. A patient is recently assigned to a hospital through emergency department. When paramedic team performs clinical handover to a nurse, he describes that the patient is 35 years old, 28 weeks pregnant and has history of hypertension. The nurse learns that she has difficulty in communication and gives a simple guideline. This is where the essence of therapeutic communication plays a great role. Anytime she shakes her head means affirmation and nodding means negation. Afterward, the nurse describes that there will be some other healthcare professionals visiting her. The first healthcare worker coming in after nurse is the radiographer. His intention is to inform and ask a consensual agreement of CT scan to the patient’s brain. The scanning procedure...
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...formulating a health care plan for an individual or family. Nurses therefore have an important role in health promotion and by using the principles of Gordon’s functional health pattern it can assist in developing a diagnosis and nursing care plan. The functional health patterns serve as a framework that is adaptable to all models of care that can be used as a tool for nursing diagnosis for individuals or communities. It is based on the assumption that health and wellbeing is the result of harmony between the body and the environment (Crisp & Taylor 2009, p. 257). The eleven functional health patterns, was used by the nursing student as the basis for an interview conducted with Daphne Trigg. The aim was to identify the functional and dysfunctional patterns in her everyday life. Daphne Trigg is a sixty seven year old woman who lives in the northern rural area of Adelaide. Collection of basic information and sequences of behaviour were captured and these patterns are also used by health professionals to form client data bases, structure assessments and make diagnoses (Gordon 1994, p. 69). This essay will incorporate discussion of relevant literature and aims to gather ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ (Crisp & Taylor 2009, p. 260) data as this provides an informative awareness of the interviewee’s overall health. Topics covered are the eleven functional health patterns. They consist of Health Perception–health management patterns, Nutritional–metabolic pattern, Elimination pattern,...
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...stimulate the immune system to develop immunity to the harmful pathogen (Phac-aspc.gc.ca, 2014). Vaccination plays an important role within society of protecting humans and eradicating harmful diseases (Vaccines.gov, 2015). This essay will identify and...
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...2 years ago, so before I left for school I lived with my mother and step dad. My sister is 20 and attends The University of Cincinnati. I’m more of a friends person then a family person, I’m just not really close to family that much. I don’t really have a special talent, I played softball and tennis in high school, and was in a couple of clubs one that I cared for a lot was called SGORR. Student Group On Race Relations, we met up after school and talked about racism and went into 4th-7th grade class rooms and did activities with the students that dealt with discrimination, and racism and that was really fun to do. I like kids and I like to travel haven’t really had the chance to but in the future hopefully I will. My intended major is nursing, my mother is a nurse so it was just inevitable for me to be one too. My senior English class was called social issues and was more of a discussion class which I was really comfortable about. I really enjoyed the class, the conversations got pretty deep and seeing other aspects and hearing other people’s opinions on...
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...message is made. The receiver should be open to feedback both positive and negative, and be able to determine the difference between the two. Communication is critical when sending and receiving messages. How a message is created and received determines how others view it. Framing is the essence of targeting a communication to a specific audience (Raffoni, 2009, p. 3). Messages are informative and persuasive. A message is a form of communication between the receiver and sender that articulates the sender’s thoughts and opinions. Messages explain information and are generally used to inform, persuade or seek action from the receiver. Once a message is received the receiver should be able to fully comprehend the message and determine the intent of the message. Persuasion messages are sent with the intent to alter the receiver’s thoughts, and opinions. Action Messages encourage the receiver to perform specifically. This essay will further describe three messages and the response to one message as it relates to communication feedback. Business Related Message #1 Gwen, the new Director of Nursing of a Home Health agency, sent an e-mail one week ago in preparation for individual case conferences. The message read: “I would like to schedule a meeting for the week of October 4, 2010 from 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. to discuss my coming on board and any concerns you may have”. Thank you in Advance. In this scenario, Gwen serves as the sender in this communication process, and I as the recipient...
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...Choice, Sports, Stem Cell Research, Steroids, Terrorism, Violence, War on Drugs, more... Business - Advertising, Business, Buy Web Sites, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Sell Websites Education - ADHD, Learning, Philosophy of Education, Privatization, Public Schools, School Violence, School Vouchers, Teaching, Technology and Education, Test and Testing, Writing English Composition Essays - Analitical, Autobiographical, Argument, Cause/Effect, Classification, Compare/Contrast, Comparison, Conversation, Creative+Writing, Critical, Deductive, Definition, Descriptive, Description, Dialog, Division, Exploratory, Expository, Informative, Interview, Inquiry, Journalistic, Narration, Observation. Personal Narrative, Place, Profile, Process, Proposal English Literature and Literary Analysis - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A & P, Antigone, Apocalypse Now, Araby, The Awakening, Barn Burning, Beowulf, Beloved, Bible, Birthmark, Blade Runner, The Bluest Eye, Candide, Canterbury Tales, Catcher in the Rye, Cathedral, Chrysanthemums, A Clockwork Orange, The Color Purple, Comparing Literary Works, Crime and Punishment, Death of a Salesman, Death in Venice, Desiree's Baby, A Doll's House, Dr. Faustus, Epic of Gilgamesh, Everyday Use, A Farewell to Arms, Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Glass Menagerie, Gulliver's Travels, The Handmaid's Tale, Heart of Darkness, The Iliad, Invisible Man, Jane Eyre, The Joy Luck Club, The Lottery, ...
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...INTRODUCTION This essay is a critique based on a pilot study carried out on ‘patient stories of living with a pressure ulcer’ and I will be using Caldwell, K. et al. (2005) as a structured research framework to carryout the evaluation on this study. First and foremost a definition of what research, (nursing research in particular) and research critique entails will give a greater understanding of what this essay aims at addressing. On one hand, Polit and Beck (2006, p4), defined research as a systematic inquiry that uses disciplined methods to answer questions or solve problems, while on the other hand they define nursing research as a systematic inquiry designed to develop knowledge about issues of importance to nurses, including nursing practice, nursing education and nursing administration. The importance of having research carried out in the nursing field can only be emphasised as it is the key element in generating and guaranteeing evidence to guide nursing practice and improvements to care and quality of life of both clients and service users as claimed by Polit and Beck (2006, p4). However once the research is undertaken and published, great emphasis is placed in finding out or identifying the strengths and weaknesses through critique. Polgar and Thomas (2000), point out that critiquing research entails identifying the strengths and weaknesses of research publications to ensure that patients/clients receive assessments and treatment based on the best available evidence...
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...subject of her experience with multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis, abbreviated as MS, is a neurodegenerative disease in which one’s nerves are essentially attacked, slowly paralyzing limbs and eroding control over bodily functions. At the time of publication of the essay, 1986, MS was still a relatively unknown condition by the public. In this sense, Mairs’ essay was groundbreaking, giving the public a true glimpse of what life is like with someone with physical disabilities, or crippled as Mairs would put it. While the essay does serve as a way for others struggling with physical disabilities to relate and feel empowered by Mairs’ positive message, Mairs’ effectively conveys what life is truly like for someone with MS through explaining processes, comparing and contrasting, and the use of ethos. To give readers a better idea of what MS really is and how it impacts one’s day-to-day life, Mairs explains several processes throughout her essay relating to her disease and life. She makes this strategy evident right off the bat, as can be found in the first paragraph of her essay. She introduces the essay by describing the process of her using the bathroom one day and how that sequence of events led to her writing the essay. At first glance, her experience seems to be a rather average process of finishing up in a bathroom stall. She describes herself tucking her shirt into her jeans and zippering them, flushing the toilet, picking up her backpack and unlatching the door, just as anyone...
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...Evidence Based Practice. Research Methods. Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), the skill of using correct research methods, the importance of making informative decisions based on the best EBP within the health care industry as well as an example of EBP in regards to infection control and hand washing procedures will be key issues discussed throughout this essay. The health profession is continually developing and adapting in its implementation to health care techniques and skills due to changing world health conditions. It is therefore imperative that research be constantly conducted to analyse new research relating to health care to ensure health care practitioners are using techniques derived from the most current evidence (Aveyard & Sharpe, 2009). Evidence Based Practice can be defined as, “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the health care of patients” (Sackett, Richardson, Rosenberg, & Haynes, as cited in Craig & Smyth 2007). The basis of EBP is that decisions are made by assessing not only the information at hand, but also integrating clinical experience, the most current evidence available, critical thinking and keeping in mind the patient’s best interest and preferences (Aveyard & Sharpe, 2009). Evidence based practice was developed because of the commitment of health care practitioners to social research and science (Mullen, as cited in Liamputtong...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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...will appreciate those core classes that the college made us take. By taking the required core classes in college, you pay for your degree while getting extra education that can help you in the future. You can figure out if you have different interests before paying for a complete degree. Also, core classes can help you to understand and achieve more in your daily college classes to get your degree. Every day you have to use the skills of talking to people, and sometimes you even have to write to people. Having a job, you have to communicate with your co-workers, your boss, and maybe even outside sources. For example, if you were working on a construction site and you had to give instructions to your co-workers, you would want to be very informative and descriptive with what you needed them to do, or whatever you were supposed to build could come out completely wrong. Core classes in college such as speech and English can help you greatly in this department just as Sara Rajan talks about in her discussion over the core courses that can help you throughout life: For instance, public speaking courses offered at Stanford University focus on various elements for giving an effective speech, such as improving both formal and informal communication skills, learning to effectively compose a persuasive speech, and learning to clearly articulate your ideas. These skills are not only necessary for success in college, but in your prospective career as well. (Rajan) As it says in the information...
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...During my senior year at James Clemens High School, I participated in the Medical Academy internship program. In our semester course, we would travel 2 days a week to different hospitals and health care facilities to shadow nurses and get different experiences. Mrs. Collins, the teacher for this course, was a former registered nurse and challenged her students on a daily basis. We had various forms of assignments during this course, but the main assignments were long-form experience writings. I have chosen to write this essay based on my long-form experience writing assignment from one my shadowing days at Huntsville Hospital. This was my most memorable piece of writing because I was so impressed by the nurse constituent that I followed for...
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