...Six Caps Case Study University of Phoenix Undergraduate Nursing Studies Introduction In the words of Albert Einstein, “the world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Today more and more nurses have to change their thinking process to ensure clients receive quality care. Therefore, clinical judgments cannot be based on speculation but on outcome, directed thinking. As the client health status changes, the nurse must be able recognize, assess, and evaluate all the presenting information to make an outcome decision that is best for the client and client’s family. To make appropriate decisions require nurses to put on their thinking caps. Edward de Bono’s six thinking caps integrates knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation allowing the nurse to make quality, outcome based decision. The purpose of this paper will focus on a case study using six thinking caps to critically analyze and make clinical decisions in promoting client safety and quality care. White Cap Thinking Looking at the case study with the White, Ms. Marianne first presented with a severe headache. The nurse uses her knowledge base about hemorrhagic stroke to decide what additional information is needed. Since information cannot be obtained from the patient, the nurse ask the patient’s family questions about the patient’s health problems, family health problems, medical history, medication regimen...
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...University of Phoenix Material Questions for Critical Thinking Caps Worksheet Read the description of the six caps and the “Case Study for Six Caps” on p. 175 of Professional Nursing. Answer the following questions individually. Then, discuss your answers in your Learning Team forum online. After you have discussed each question and achieved a consensus, compile a group response, which will be submitted as a Learning Team assignment. White cap: What pieces of information are needed to assist the family in making a decision regarding Marianne’s care? In this situation the family is at odds on what to do about Marianne. The husband wants to do everything possible to keep her alive, whereas the children think that surgery shouldn’t be an option because even if she was to make it through the surgery, there is no guarantee that she will be functional. Since Marianne doesn’t have an advanced directive, the family needs to know what all of their options are and the outcomes of each option. For example, the types of surgeries that can be done and the probability of Marianne being once again functional, maybe the types of non-surgical interventions such as medications or just not doing anything at all and just letting Marianne pass. It already seems that Marianne is far gone since her pupils are dilated and non-reactive. A more conducive testing of her brain activity could help them make the decision on whether or not to proceed with the surgery or not. The family as a whole...
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...Glassdoor : Rating of 4/5 with . “ Great place to work”. Where 50% of candidate received the interview offer by applying online and rest half by recruitment event on campus. New Era Cap has a employee driven corporate culture. Company has a casual work environment that fosters creativity and it was voted as one of the best place to work at by the employees in Glassdoor website, with a rating of four stars. New Era Cap is committed to employee development and has Individual Development program tailored to needs of an individual. Health and safety of employee is a prime concern for New Era Cap and hence actively involves employees in health and safety committees and decision-making processes that positively influenced their work environment. They are re-accredited in 2010 for Fair Labor Association (FLA), which represents the highest the highest level of commitment to the standards for workplace code of conduct implementation, monitoring and remediation. Questions http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-New-Era-Cap-EI_IE27773.11,22.htm * believes culture of innovation that champions creative and critical thinking. * Committed to invest in the employee development with Indviudal development program * HEALTH & WELLNESS * • Blue Cross Medical Insurance Plan * • 24/7 Health Advocate Service * • Met Life Dental Plan * • VSP Vision Plan * • Flexible Spending Accounts * • Health Savings Accounts ...
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...Week One Review Questions Student’s Name GLG 101 Due Date Teacher’s NAme Chapter 1: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 3 & 5 3. How do you think the principle of uniformitarianism accounts for occasional catastrophic events such as meteorite impacts, huge volcanic eruptions, or great earthquakes? Uniformitarianism is a theory that states that past events are happening today and will happen in the future. What we do today has an effect on the geologic formation and structure and can lead to natural disasters. 5. In what ways do geologic processes affect your daily life? Daily life can be interrupted by flooding, tornadoes, earthquakes and wildfires destroying communities and resources that provide stability. Chapter 2: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 1 & 3 1. When astronauts brought back rock samples from the Moon, the minerals present were mostly the same as those found on Earth. Can you think of reasons why this might be so? Would you expect minerals on Mars or Venus to be the same, or at least very similar, to those on Earth? Moon and Earth are close neighbors so some of the similarities are to be expected. Mars, Venus and Earth are inner planets and similar because they are small and made up of solid rock like materials. 3. Which of the following materials are minerals, and why (or why not)? Water; beach sand; diamond; wood; vitamin pill; gold nugget; fishbone; emerald. Water is not a mineral because it is a liquid. Beach sand...
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...Question 1 Behaviourism is primarily concerned with observable and measurable aspects of human behaviour rather than thinking for oneself. People have no free will – a persons environment determines their behaviour. Behaviourism has allowed for research that investigates the depth of the mind Question 2 Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) - Can be used to show the importance of language and listening in teaching as a social construct eg learners are able to solve problems without direct instruction by drawing upon informal knowledge of everyday situations and through dialogue. CGI may be used as an approach to for eg teach Maths with the main focus on the practice of listening to learners mathematical thinking and using it as a basis for instruction Scaffolding - Builds learning bridges Requires the teacher to provide learners with the opportunity to extend their current skils and knowledge The teacher must engage the learners interest, simplify task so that they are manageable and motivate learners to follow the instructional goal The teacher must also look for discrepancies between learners efforts and the solution Scaffolding is a teaching strategy that can be used to help the teacher understand the learners way of thinking. Knowing how a learner thinks gives the teacher an advantage in predicting ho the learner will react to questions in the assessment process. Scaffolding provides a temporary, supportive and adjustable framework for a learner...
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...Question 6 (b) The curriculum in the new South African (post 1994) has changed greatly. They were several reasons for curriculum changes in South Africa after 1994, firstly it was globalisation and the post 1994 government wanted to get rid of apartheid legacy on our educational system. This essay will analyse curriculum development with the focus on three influential educationists namely, Tyler, Stenhouse and Freire. Many teachers interpret curriculum differently, but the views they hold on curriculum development can in fact be traced to the theoretical grounding set by Tyler (whose influence in South African Education is the greatest), Stenhouse and Freire. This educationist has some similarities views about curriculum development and also some major different thinking about curriculum development. Tyler proposed a technical or objective approach to curriculum development that view curriculum as a product. He has well defined goals and designed curriculum to reach this goals. Tyler’s approach is packed into four steps; set objectives, decide on the content to be taught, select how teaching will be organised and determine how the assessment and evaluation will be done. According to Tyler, if you follow the recipe you will achieve the set objectives. Tyler’s approach is true in our curriculum; CAPS set out clear content what should teacher teach. CAPS outline the plan, what to teach from each grade and year plan schedule for each grade. One of tyler’s critic, Stenhouse. Stenhouse...
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...Summary Paper Teresa Nabors Southern Nazarene University Nursing Attributes, Leadership and Critical Thinking As many have found over the years, nursing is not a profession cut out for just anyone. The average person cannot juggle twenty things at once, expertly handle emergencies that would send anyone else in a panic frenzy, and all the while remain calm and composed, as an experienced nurse does on a daily basis. What many do not know is that this smooth performance is driven by the nursing attributes, skills, and concepts that are necessary components integrated in the nursing profession of great nurses today. I believe the values of critical thinking, flexibility, strong communication skills, emotional stability, interpersonal communication and advocacy are the hallmark ingredients that distinguish the great nurses from the rest. Nursing is about going beyond the task given and a successful nurse encompasses a degree of these core attributes, as well as understanding the essential knowledge of the necessary concepts of leadership and critical thinking. This paper will discuss the attributes and concepts that I think are necessary in setting nursing apart from just any profession and will reflect on the values and practices that I believe makes me the nurse that I am today . Being a nurse can be tremendously rewarding to the soul, but it also demands much of those who pursue it. Nursing is a highly honored, trusted profession that has been steeped in rich values...
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...success comes from applying practical skills and where thinking is used mostly to solve practical problems. I am also likely to be attracted to very practical jobs and careers. The personal ethical lens direct me academic behavior because I’m a person who likes putting my personal course of action on paper it is a good guide to show me that I am on the right track with my likes and dislikes. I valve the social that is achieved through loyalty and consistency in dealings among people in my circle. As far as my role in academic behavior believe it or not ethics plays an important part in the critical thinking process. Ethics are literally morals that people hold in even when no one watching us. It also influence the way you will think on a subject depending on what you believe. In decision making your personal ethics prevent you from making a ‘the end justifies the means ‘type of things, regardless of having a good alternative. My results of my career plan building activity involved responding to a series of questions to a related to identifying competencies, the ideal work environment, and reasoning aptitude. The most recent activity dealt with the reasoning. On the understanding of my results, I fell in the medium profile manage indicating I am best suited for careers that use both cognitive abilities and practical skills. The results revealed that my individual thinking styles canters on logical and practical thinking, which I find myself using most of time instead of other...
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...The Differences In Competences Between Nurses Prepared At Associate Level And Baccalaureate Degree. Grand Canyon University: <NRS430V> <1/29/15> The title is no longer in the header after page one but is centered here but not in all caps. Baccalaureate degree program and associate degree program is both educational pathways for registered nurse licensure. There are several differences in nurses prepared at associate degree level versus the baccalaureate degree level in nursing. Some of these differences include but are not limited to limited to the following, curriculum, education, and patients care. You need a clear purpose statement in your introduction that tells the reader what the paper is about. There are distinct differences between the 72 AND credits 125 BSN credits required in each of the nursing programs’ curriculum. The baccalaureate curriculum has a different focus, emphasizing evidenced-based, clinical practice and leadership. Additional courses are offered in BSN curriculum, such as research, statistics, critical thinking, and public health/community health. In addition, the additional units prepare the BSN nurse to pursue graduate study, leading to an advanced degree in nursing (AACN 2008). One might think, “Well I want to be a bedside nurse and not a manager”. The BSN nurse can and does provide excellent direct patient care. In fact research shows they use evidence-based...
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...Critical Thinking Caps Worksheet Angela Martin, Bridget Frey, Heidi Abraham, Jennifer Shaver, Natalie Amenhauser, Nicole Hale (Team B) NUR/391 Professional Nursing Practice April 14, 2014 Sharon Little-Stoetzel University of Phoenix Material Questions for Critical Thinking Caps Worksheet Read the description of the six caps and the “Case Study for Six Caps” on p. 175 of Professional Nursing. Answer the following questions individually. Then, discuss your answers in your Learning Team forum online. After you have discussed each question and achieved a consensus, compile a group response, which will be submitted as a Learning Team assignment. White cap: What pieces of information are needed to assist the family in making a decision regarding Marianne’s care? The information provided explains that Marianne, 79, was admitted to the emergency department yesterday with a sever headache. She became unresponsive and a CT scan of her brain revealed she had a hemorrhagic stroke. Her pupils are dilated and unresponsive to light. She is breathing only with a respirator. The piece of information to assist the family in decision-making is the fact that her pupils are dilated and she is unresponsive breathing only with a respirator device. The surgeon cannot guarantee quality of life even with the clot removed (Black, p. 175, 2010). We know that Marianne’s children and husband are involved in the decision making regarding her care and have differing...
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...Composition Pedagogy, Race, and the African American Student: An Annotated Bibliography Bernstein, Susan Naomi. “Writing and White Privilege: Beyond Basic Skills.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 4.1 (2004): 128-31. Evaluating the relationship between white, middle-class privilege and both standardized testing and standard conventions of writing, Bernstein offers a classroom strategy for underprivileged students (either from racial or class position or both) to counter the negative effects of academic standards in relegating them to remedial positions in order to acquire basic writing skills before being granted access to the university at large. Encouraging her students to explore their previous educational experiences related to both testing and writing through a workshop format, as well as to evaluate their own imaginative writing and the reading of creative texts, Bernstein found that these can be used as means of critical resistance to their remedial designations. Ultimately, though, she concludes that it is not the student’s responsibility alone to resist relegation but also educators as well, who need to address and seek to resolve the conditions that produce “basic writers” even before their arrival at the university, and this, according to the author, will produce an awareness and restructuring of white privilege in determining academic success. Campbell, Kermit E. “ ‘Real Niggaz’s Don’t Die’: African...
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...Business Brief Portal Corporation has two plants located in Utah, one in Ogden and the other in Sandy. The company produces laser printers. (Datar & Schoenebeck, 2014, p. 111) Currently, the company is operating under normal capacity at a rate of 240 days annually. In 2012, Portal Corporation is forecasting to produce 120,000 units of laser printers which will exceed the company’s normal production usage capacity to 300 days per year. This will require the company to pay overtime for their workers thus it will increase the variable costs per unit for Ogden by $5.00 per unit and Sandy by $10.00 per unit. The question here is how we spread the 120,000 units between Ogden and Sandy? Analysis When looking at the income statement of both locations, we found that Sandy is more profitable than Ogden. Sandy which has $1,872,000.00 appears to have less fixed costs than Ogden at $4,200,000.00. Therefore, the breakeven point for Sandy is the point that there is no profit or loss is 9,600 units comparing to Ogden of 20,000 units. In essence, Ogden has to produce more units than Sandy in order to breakeven. Fixed Costs are irrelevant when deciding which plant to reach maximum production capacity but, the contribution margin per unit analysis indicates that Ogden is more profitable than Sandy. This has happened because Ogden’s variable costs per unit are $110 whereas Sandy’s is at $125. Also, additional cost per unit for Ogden is only $5.00 and Sandy’s is $10.00 per...
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...was once completely frozen during the Neoproterozoic period roughly 580-750 million years ago to research glacial deposits. Inherently they found thick deposits of calcium carbonates (cap carbonates) overlaying glaciers suggesting the snowball earth (Hoffman). It is evident in scientific debate that not everyone is able to accept the idea of a frozen Earth as other researchers such as Andrew Knoll and Martin Kennedy have rejected the idea as they pose other solutions for cap carbonate deposits. This is a perfect example of the progress of science as a whole; scientists are constantly making new observations to develop solutions which are then accepted, rejected, and retested by others. The snowball earth hypothesis and controversy together reveals the significance of innovation and scientific debate to the progress of science. The snowball earth hypothesis was first introduced by Joseph Kirschvink after years of other scientists finding peculiar continuous layers of limestone (calcium carbonate rock) or dolostone (magnesian calcium carbonate rock) within other layers of rocks near the equator. These limestone or dolostone layers are called “cap carbonates”, and they form on top of sedimentary rock after major glaciation periods (Hoffman). Therefore, scientists can use observations of cap carbonates to date the time and duration of glaciation periods. Kirschvink suggested that a snowball earth could...
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...The Ohio State University Autumn 2010 Economics 201 – Principles of Macroeconomics TR 2:00 – 3:18, 100 Independence Hall Please do not make travel plans that conflict with final exam date and time. Alternative arrangements are extremely difficult FINAL EXAM: Thursday, December 9, 1:30, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 1: Thursday, October 7, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 2: Tuesday, October 26, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 3: Tuesday, November 16, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture Textbook: Required: Principles of Microeconomics, 18e, McConnell, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0077354230 (or loose leaf - cheaper: 00773441678). Study Guide: Highly recommend student study guide: 0077341678. Instructor: Alan Osman, 411 Arps Hall, Phone: 247-0092, E-mail: osman.1@osu.edu Instructor Resume: Brief resume on Carmen Instructor SEI: Student Evaluation of Instruction for various courses taught by the instructor, 2007-2010, available on Carmen Office Hours: TR: 4:00-5:00 (no appointment needed), other times by appointment. Communicating With the Instructor: In this day of instant communication, the urge to communicate with the instructor at any time of day or night and expect an immediate response is very tempting. Please note that if the information you seek by emailing this instructor is available on this syllabus, on Carmen, or was provided in class, or available from the course TA, the inquiry may not receive priority, if at...
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...[pic] Introduction to American Business College of Adult Professional Studies Course Number: BUS105 Syllabus Course Overview Introduction to American Business will take you on a journey of understanding the science of business. Even though new business applications are emerging some foundational principles remain unchanged. This course will include both basic business applications and new emerging trends. As you read the material and interact with classmates you will gain a greater understanding of entrepreneurship, quality of life, revenue, profit and loss, risk taking, production and return on investment. The course will highlight the importance of finance, the role of a financial manager, where to get long term funding and how to finance large capital. The financial principles that are taught will have applications to you personally. You will learn about controlling your assets, building a capital account and planning for your retirement. American business is an ever-changing science. Today’s businesses are challenged with global competition and faster technological changes; these changes will have a direct impact on you as a manager. The information and learning activities presented in the course will help you to examine up-and-coming business strategies that influence traditional management. You will learn about management approaches that are more customer-driven than they were a decade ago. You will understand and study the necessity of developing...
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