Assume you are a nurse manager on a unit where a new nursing documentation system is to be implemented. You want to ensure that the system will be usable and acceptable for the nurses impacted. You realize a nurse leader must be on the implementation team.

To Prepare:

• Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and reflect on the scenario presented.
• Consider the benefits and challenges associated with involving a nurse leader on an implementation team for health information technology.

The Assignment: (2-3 pages)

In preparation of filling this role, develop a 2- to 3-page role description for a graduate-level nurse to guide his/her participation on the implementation team. The role description should be based on the SDLC stages and tasks and should clearly define how this individual will participate in and impact each of the following steps:

• Planning and requirements definition
• Analysis
• Design of the new system
• Implementation
• Post-implementation support

Case Study, Chapter 15, Collective Bargaining and the Professional Nurse

A nurse manager is concerned about a competing hospital in town that is publically hearing a lot about collective bargaining and the steps that the nurses have been taking to start a union. The nurse manager’s organization is aggressively providing in-depth education to all employees about collective bargaining in order to answer numerous questions that have arisen recently.

1. What are reasons that nurses want to join a union?

2. What are the reasons that nurses do not want to join a union?

3. What are the common union organizing strategies? 

Culture is the glue that holds a society together—it is what encourages the members of that society to cooperate with each other as much as possible. We learn culture through socialization, the lifelong social experience. From birth we are taught how to be members of our society.

The most common agents of socialization are our family, peers, school, and media. The family, for example, influences a child’s development by such things as the way the parents hold the baby, look at it, talk to it, and respond to its needs. We take on typical gender roles from the beginning as girls are given pink clothes while boys are given blue. Family socialization is reinforced or modified by experiences at school and with peers, by the mass media, and by interaction with others. Socialization, the lifelong social experience through which we learn culture, is vital to becoming members of a society.

In this assessment, we look at the sociological concepts of culture and socialization and how they impact our behavior and attitudes.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Examine how theory and sociological concepts apply to everyday life. 
  • Identify gender-specific childhood clothing and/or toys.
• Competency 2: Explain the basic tools of sociological inquiry. 
  • Summarize gender socialization sources. 
  • Explain the validity and helpfulness of gender socialization sources.
• Competency 4: Analyze the influence of culture on both the individual and society. 
  • Describe the impact of gender-specific messages towards one’s self.
  • Analyze how gender-specific messages of childhood clothing and/or toys reflect larger societal expectations.
• Competency 6: Compose text that articulates meaning relevant to its purpose and audience. 
  • Develop text using organization, structure, and transitions that demonstrate understanding of cohesion between main and subtopics. 

For this assessment, you analyze how gender is created by society, specifically looking at children’s toys and/or clothing. The purpose of this assessment is twofold: 

• It helps you to start thinking about the impact of socialization on your life as a starting point.
• This first analysis will be used again for Assessment 6.

It also requires you to locate and evaluate resources on socialization and these resources may be used in Assessment 6.

Deliverable

Write an essay in which you complete all of the following:

PART 1

Examine the toys and clothing you had as a child.

• Describe the clothing and toys from your childhood and identify which were gender-specific.

PART 2  

Examine your experience with gender socialization.

• Describe the message your toys and clothing sent you about gender. ​​​​​​
• Analyze how gender-specific messages that arise from childhood clothing and toys reflect larger societal expectations.
• Reflect on the impact these messages had on you. Describe how you feel about your experience with gender socialization.

PART 3

Analyze and then include outside sources.

• Your analysis should also include information from two additional outside resources regarding gender socialization—one from a popular source and one from a scholarly source. A critical component of this assessment involves evaluating these outside resources.
• Summarize your outside articles (one scholarly and one popular) and explain how they helped you better understand your experience with gender socialization.
• Explain the validity (quality) of each source and how helpful each was. What conclusions can you draw about the difference in these types of sources (popular versus scholarly)?

Additional Requirements  

• Written communication: Develop text using organization, structure, and transitions that demonstrate understanding of cohesion between main and subtopics. Written communication needs to be free of errors that detract from the overall message. Write in a professional style using references and correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
• Sources: Cite at least three scholarly sources.
• Length: 4–5 pages, not including title and reference pages.
• Format: Include a title page and reference page. Use in-text citations to cite your sources. [Example: Writing becomes better as the child matures (Britton, Thomas, & Miller, 1996).]
• Font and size: Times New Roman, 12-point.

Professional Practice Paper

Role is family Nurse Practitioner. paper is included that have the question needed to be answered

Based on the AP role of the person that you interviewed in W1 Project, in a 3- to 5-page paper (excluding the title page, references, and appendices) describe the role, the type of organization, and address all the interview questions, and include:

• List the type of organization. For example: Primary care office, ED, Specialty, cardiology GI etc.
• List the type of and how many clients it serves. FP would see all ages. Research in your area the number of visits in a local office per year or # of visits seen local ED, specialty office etc. 
• the professional fit for advanced nursing role. “Fit” refers to the Qualifications in order to be an AP provider at that agency/organization. What license, credentialing (accrediting agency, and other expectations NPI, CMS)?
• Include a brief job description
• Discuss board of nursing NPA or scope of practice of the state. Include what the NPA in the state allows and restrictions.

Instructions
As we learned in Week 1, there is a difference between being educated and simply trained. The purpose of education is not only to determine what someone can do, but also what kind of person they become as a result of their education. Studies in the humanities will advance the communication skills, empathy, self-awareness, judgment, and professionalism of students, and they help students with becoming skilled at the social and cultural context of working with people.

In addition, studying the humanities can help students in the following ways:

• Literature can introduce students to life situations with which they may not be familiar.
• Drama can teach oral communication.
• Philosophy can teach skills of analysis and argument.
• Art, literature, drama. and music are expressions of human creativity, and taking part in some form of artistic activity, either as reader or viewer, is part of what makes us human.

For this assignment, choose a work of art that made an impression on you during this course. Then, address the following:

• Include an image of or link to the work.
• Identify the artist, the title, date completed, and the medium.
• Explain how learning about the work will help you in your life and career. Consider the context in which the work was created and the meaning of the work.
• Explain how one or more specific disciplines (literature, drama, philosophy, art, music) influenced you.
• Examine the effect that you think this class could have on your career and personal life.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

• Length: 2-2.5 pages (not including title page or references page)
• 1-inch margins
• Double spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font
• Title page
• References page (minimum of 1 scholarly source)