Drawing upon your learning in previous courses, you receive information:

 That the nosocomial urinary infection rate is increasing for patients in the critical care areas. You are tasked to research the cause, identify likely causes, and use critical thinking and problem-solving to reduce or prevent infection and implement a solution.

• Length Requirement: 1000 to 1250 words.
• Cite at least four references to validate your statements. Prepare this Assignment according to the APA guidelines.

Assignment:

Movie Analysis

This week your signature assignment takes you to the movies. For this assignment you will watch one of the movies listed below. Then you will write an analysis paper drawing on everything that you have learned in the course. You will analyze the movie and complete a cohesive and comprehensive paper responding to the prompts below. Ensure the paper is organized in a way that shows each of the prompts are addressed.

1. Identify the movie by title and year. Provide a 2-3 sentence overview of the movie plot. Identify the main characters and provide a 1-sentence description for each.
2. Extrapolate from the movie the individuals that are influenced by the study of or practice of psychology, provide an explanation for the disciplines or sub-disciplines that are involved in the movie. Utilize appropriate vocabulary and terminology in the extrapolation.
3. Identify the psychological disorder of the character(s) in the movie. Does the diagnosis explained in the movie align to the DSM? Once a diagnosis is made, does the label attached impact the character personally? Professionally? Socially?
4. Explain the main theoretical approach, strategies, and practices that are used in the study of psychology in the movie. Provide a background explaining the strategies, historical and modern practices, and historical scientists related to the identified discipline or subdiscipline of psychology. Utilize appropriate vocabulary and terminology in the explanation.
5. Considering the brain and lifespan development, how do the characters in the movie portray cognitive, social, and moral development?
6. Associate the movie characters, plot, and setting with seminal investigations and major findings in psychology. Explain the seminal investigation and the major psychological finding referred to and explain whether or not it is accurately portrayed in the movie. Explain the points that make it either accurate or inaccurate.
7. What are the stereotypes presented in the movie? How are they related to the study of psychology? Are there examples throughout the movie of gender roles? How are sensations and perceptions shown in the movie?
8. Evaluate the role of learning and memory in the movie. How does the movie relate to and demonstrate classical conditioning, operant conditioning, or observational learning? Is there an impact on memory construction or retention in the movie? If yes, how is it portrayed? How is it (or is it not) accurate with what you have learned about what triggers memory construction, retrieval and memory loss?
9. Where within the movie, and how, are thinking, language, and intelligence explained and portrayed?
10. Evaluate how gestures ad expressions of emotion are portrayed in the movie. Analyze their relation to the experiences and culture of the characters.
11. What motivates the main character(s) throughout the movie? How does this relate to learning regarding motivation, emotion, stress, health and human flourishing?
12. If the character in the movie receives treatment explain the treatment? Explain how the treatment does or does not align with a typical treatment for this disorder.
13. Finally, conclude your paper with a review of how the movie portrayed the disorder. Apply course learning to explain why it was or was not a realistic portrayal of the disorder. Include in the conclusion your personal reaction to the movie and how mental illness was portrayed.

Movie Options

• A Beautiful Mind (Psychosis)
• As Good as It Gets (Anxiety Disorder)
• Benny and Joon (Psychosis)
• Black Swan (Variety of Disorders)
• Call me Crazy: A Five Film (Schizophrenia)
• Clean and Sober (Substance Related Disorder)
• The Deer Hunter (Stress Disorder)
• The Fisher King (Variety of Disorders)
• Gia (Substance Related / Mood Disorder)
• Girl Interrupted (Variety of Disorders)
• High Anxiety (Acrophobia Disorder)
• Infinitely Polar Bear (Bipolar disorder)
• I Smile Back (Variety of Disorders)
• It’s Kind of a Funny Story (Depression and Suicidal ideation)
• Matchstick Man (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)
• Off the Map (Mood Disorder)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Variety of Disorders)
• Ordinary People (Mood Disorder)
• Pawn Sacrifice (Paranoid Delusions)
• Rachel at the Wedding (Substance Related Disorders)
• Silver Linings Playbook (Bipolar Disorder)
• Sybil (Stress Disorder)
• The Skeleton Twins (Depression)
• Three Faces of Eve (Stress Disorder)
• Transamerica (Gender Identity Disorder)
• Twenty-eight Days w/ Sandra Bullock (Substance Related Disorders)
• Welcome to Me (Bipolar Personality Disorder)
• What about Bob? (Anxiety Disorder)
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Depression/Autism Spectrum Disorder)

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1500-2000 words; answers must thoroughly respond to the writing prompts in a clear, concise manner. All responses should be supported with an in-text citation and reference.

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimal word course for the assignment.

References: Use the appropriate APA style for formatting the essay. All in-text citations and references should be in APA format.  Include at least (5) different scholarly citations to support your responses, in addition to the textbook. (scholarly citations do not include blogs and student help websites).

  Assignment:

Quantitative Research

Assignment 2 this week is exciting as you will conduct a literature search on a quantitative study on your topic identified in week 1!  

The assignment should be around 750-1250 words in length.  

Be sure to use APA format, and a reference list, too

Write a fully developed and detailed APA essay addressing each of the following points/questions. There is no required word count; be sure to completely answer all the questions for each question in detail. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least one (1) source using citations in your essay. Make sure to cite using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page are required. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Conduct a literature search to select a quantitative research study related to the problem identified in Module 1 and conduct an initial critical appraisal. Respond to the overview questions for the critical appraisal of quantitative studies, including:

• Is      this quantitative research report a case study, case control study, cohort      study, randomized control trial or systematic review?
• Where      does the study fall in the hierarchy of evidence in terms of reliability      and risk of bias?
• Why      was the study done? (Define the problem and purpose.)
• Were      the steps of the study clearly identified?
• What      was the sample size?
• Are      the measurements of major variables reliable and valid? Explain.
• How      were the data analyzed?
• Were      there any untoward events during the conduct of the study?
• How do      the results fit with previous research in the area? (This may be reflected      in the literature review.)
• What      does this research mean to clinical practice?

Additionally, be sure to include the rapid appraisal questions for the specific research design of the quantitative study that you have chosen. These can be found in Chapter 5 of the textbook (Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt, 2015).

This critical appraisal should be written in complete sentences (not just a numbered list) using APA format.

Provide a reference for the article according to APA format and a copy of the article.

Assignment Expectations:

Length: Clearly and fully answer all questions; attach a copy of the article
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.
References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of one (1) scholarly source for the article is required for this assignment.

Write a 2- to 3+ page paper that addresses the following:

• Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.
• Describe how changes in the processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.
• Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements. Would you discontinue any medications, change the dosage, and/or add medications to the patient’s regimen?

1. Anna works in a community outreach program for single mothers. Three of the mothers had no prenatal care, and subsequently their babies developed severe infections in utero. Baby Sandra has chlamydial pneumonitis; baby Blake was born at 29 weeks’ gestation and has ophthalmia neonatorum; baby Mitch has congenital syphilis.

a. Discuss the concept of urogenital systemic infections as it relates to these three babies.

b. Based on the information provided, what do you believe Sandra’s, Blake’s, and Mitch’s health outcomes will be?

2- 3 paragraphs of 3 sentences each

3- APA STYLE

4- 2 references not older than 2015