• Develop a 6-8 page reflection on your life, applying the sociological imagination and using specific sociological concepts to better understand your life experiences.
  While we may not notice, society is constantly changing. For sociologists, social change is the continual change of society’s culture, structure, and institutions over time. Every society experiences change—it is through this change that the norms and understandings in a society become altered. Fashion is a great example of social change, as what we wear is dependent on the culture at the time. One hundred years ago it was not common for women to wear pants. Now it is perfectly acceptable. While most women are in favor of being able to wear pants, social change is sometimes not always welcome by members of a society. Can you think of any groups or organizations in the United States that are actively opposed to some kind of social change?
  Most social change is the result of conflict, demographic change, and technology.
  • Conflict and change: Conflict in a society (such as a war or even an election) can create significant change in a society.
  • Demographic change: Changes in the make-up of a population can also affect society. As the makeup of our society in terms of sex, race, age, et cetera, changes, so do many structural and cultural elements of society. How would our society be different if most of the population was under the age of 10? Or over the age of 70?
  • Ideas and Change: Technology is often a driving force behind social change and has brought significant changes to our society. Think back to twenty years ago—how different was society in terms of technology? How did that impact your everyday life? In our current time, our cell phone alarm wakes us up, we check our smart phone, make some coffee in our Keurig, remote start our car, and then use our navigation system to get us to work. This is a significantly different experience than we had twenty years ago.
  • As you reflect on your life and experiences in Assessment 6, consider how much has changed over the course of your lifetime. What are some major social changes? What do you think had changed for the better? For the worse?
    Demonstration of Proficiency
    By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
  • Competency 3: Explain the significance of social inequality for the individual and society. 
    • Explain one’s own educational experience from a sociological perspective.
  • Competency 4: Analyze the influence of culture on both the individual and society. 
    • Examine the impact of culture and socialization on one’s own life.
  • Competency 5: Analyze the impact of social change on society and social institutions. 
    • Analyze the impact of social structure, social change, and groups on one’s own life.
    • Explain sociological issues that affect one’s own field of study.
    • Analyze the role of technology and media in one’s own life.
  • 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, reflect on the question, “Who am I?” and conduct a micro-level analysis to explain and analyze your everyday experiences. In doing so, you will look at the impact of social forces on your individual life. Using your sociological imagination requires you to apply many of the concepts, theories, and applicable sociological understandings that you have encountered in the course.
    Deliverable
    Reflect on your everyday experiences that relate to concepts encountered in this course. For example, have you encountered any element of inequality in your life? Have you encountered any norms? Consider how a sociologist would explain these experiences.
    Write an essay in which you complete all of the following:
  • Introduction: Introduce yourself and what you plan on discussing in your paper.
  • Culture and Socialization: Examine the impact culture and socialization has had on your life. Include the following when creating this section: 
    • How did you develop a sense of self?
    • What agents of socialization had the biggest impact on you? How?
    • How has culture influenced your life?
  • Social Structure and Groups: Analyze the impact of social structure and groups on your life. Include the following: 
    • How have various groups (primary, secondary, reference, et cetera) guided your behavior?
    • What statuses have you held? What roles have you played?
    • How have social hierarchies shaped your life choices?
  • Education: Explain your educational experience from a sociological perspective. In doing so, include the following: 
    • What major functions has education had for you?
    • How has education been related to your life outcomes?
    • What experiences with inequality have you had in education?
  • Professional Field (NURSING): Explain sociological issues that affect your field of study or the field you intend to study at this point in your education. Be sure to include any social changes that may impact your field.
  • Technology and Media: Analyze the role technology and media have in your everyday life. 
    • What impact have new communication technologies and social media had on your life?
    • What messages have the media and popular culture communicated to you? 
    • What role has globalization played in your life?
  • Summary: Briefly describe your experience with this assessment.
  • Additional Requirements
  • Written communication: Develop text using organization, structure, and transitions that demonstrate understanding of cohesion between main and subtopics. Written communication is 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 five scholarly sources.
  • Length: 6–8 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.

How would the LPN contribute to the plan of care for a surgical client? You may choose any surgical procedure, related to pregnant patient or a pediatric patient. Identify three need areas and identify a goal for each and four standard interventions from which you would select. Utilize APA formatting to cite your resources. Be sure to cover the following:

• Description of the disorder that led to the need for surgery
• Safety concerns for this age group or stage of development. 
• Ambulation, rest, play, toys, and games for this patient.
• Fluid and nutritional needs for the patient following surgery.
• Equipment that will be needed for the patient following surgery. 
• Educational needs of the patient and family.
• Emotional care, for the child and the care giver
• Needed health care information under the care of the RN would the LPN need to identify?

-Explain description of the disorder that led to the need for surgery

-Explain safety concerns for this age group or stage of development. Ambulation, rest, play, toys, and games for this patient. Fluid and nutritional needs for the patient following surgery. Equipment that will be needed for the patient following surgery.

-Explain health information needed to provide care to the post-op client.

500 words Evaluation Essay (NO PLAGIARISM PLEASE)

A memoir about the impact of a teacher: For this essay, you need to write about a teacher who made the greatest impact on you as a student, and as a person.

 Please note: You need to evaluate what the teacher did that made a difference in your life, and then DESCRIBE how this teacher impacted your life.

The essay must respond to the prompts, you must choose the essay option I have provided for this assignment.

NOTE: In case is useful(I have been a medical assistant for ten years).

Assignment Details

This is a 3-step project:

1. Identify a change.
2. Find 6 articles.
3. Write an annotated bibliography for each article.

Please read the detailed instructions below carefully.

Step 1: Write 3–4 sentences answering the following questions:

• Identify and describe a recent change that occurred in your workplace. It could be a change in the levels of staffing; a change in policy, such as time off or tuition reimbursement; a change in use of equipment or supplies; a change in charting or computerized medical records; and so on.
  • Describe the change in 3-4 sentences.
  • 1 of the sentences should address the rationale for the change.

Step 2: Begin researching scholarly articles from the library from the past 5 years that are related to the change issue identified in Step 1.

• Complete a 6-column table of the references you found, including the following:
  • Author(s) last name, first initial.
  • (Year).
  • Title of article.
  • Title of Publication,
  • Volume #(Issue #),
  • Pages of the article.
• A minimum of 6 scholarly references are needed to complete this assignment; you may find more.

EXAMPLE
Change Issue: Low Census Staffing Policy
Currently, when the patient census is low, staff go home based on tenure; the same staff are continually going home, resulting in a lower paycheck for these nurses. The proposed change is to rotate all staff to leave when the census is low, regardless of tenure, so the burden of potentially lower pay is shared among the entire staff and not the same few.

Author Last Name, First, Initial.(Year).Title of Article.Title of Publication,Volume #
(Issue #),Pages.

Step 3: This step requires the development of an annotated bibliography for each of the 6 articles listed in Step 2. This step should be 6 paragraphs total (1 for each article that is summarized and analyzed) and approximately 450–700 words in 2–3 double-spaced pages.

Consider the following:

• Summarize the main points for each of the 6 references (must be from within the last 5 years) from Step 2, each in its own paragraph.
• Use the MEAL method of writing, where each paragraph contains a minimum of 4 sentences:
  • M = Main point
  • E = Example and/or Evidence (citation)
  • A = Analysis—refers to what was significant about the article and how the article was related to the change topic you selected.
    • Be sure to include at least 1 analysis sentence about each reference in that paragraph.
  • L = Link or transition to the main topic
• Remember to cite each article appropriately (Author(s) Last Name, Year) and include an APA formatted reference page. (See APA 6th edition).

Please click on this APA Style for CTU Students link for help with APA formatting. Use the CTU Writing Style Guide (templates provided)—not the Introductory Writing Style Guide.

Individual Project Rubric

The Individual Project (IP) Grading Rubric is a scoring tool that represents the performance expectations for the IP. This Individual Project Grading Rubric is divided into components that provide a clear description of what should be included within each component of the IP. It’s the roadmap that can help you in the development of your IP. Individual Project Grading Rubric

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comment 1

Nurses can use group power strategies such as networking, connecting, and collaborating to achieve professional goals and contribute to the welfare of patients as well as to the health of the population (Huber, 2014). Personal affiliations and networking are essential for multiple reasons, as it allows for the idea and strategy sharing. I think of networking as a way of managing own life. I frequently ask the co-workers for advice on what has worked for them in their units and how they have found success; this networking has been so helpful in the career. Another big part of personal affiliations and networking is own involvement in professional organizations. This current information and idea sharing can have a significant impact on and manager. I joined the ENA (Emergency Nurse Association) when I was still a bedside nurse and have continued my membership into my career as a director; I find that it is an excellent resource for idea sharing. There is so much evidence-based practice that is available through the ENA, and found that extremely helpful and saw it continue to benefit in the career in the future. 

Another professional organization that I became a member is Association of California nursing Leaders, ACNL. Through them, went to the conference of nursing students, where issues essential to nursing students such as LGBT and gender rights and allocation of help to drug users. Living in Los Angeles area for a while, I gave speeches there for the national nursing community on the importance of the issues. Even after many speeches and voting, the audience showed divisions on the issue. 

Leadership networks provide information, networking, and professional development for nursing school faculty and staff. The Networks bring peer professionals together to share best practices and success stories, sharpen leadership skills, and take full advantage of multiple resources (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2014). Professionals who are engaged in a variety of functions within the nursing are in tune with networks across nursing. There has been a massive push in the workplace organization for nurses to get involved and enrich themselves as professionals.

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Nursing world requires teamwork and building relationships to achieve set-up goals. Collaboration with other multidisciplinary professions is important in order to provide the best care to the patients. “Within organizations, the power of connections comes from networking or knowing people and from being able to go across lines literally to gather information” (Huber, 2013, p. 163). In order to have a successful nursing career, it is paramount to establish connections with other professionals and influential people .In order for the nurses to grow professionally networking with other experts is important. Nurses should affiliate themselves with professional organizations such as American Nurses Association and other nursing groups so that they can learn and share knowledge to keep them stay current on health matters. “Professional organizations and association in nursing are critical for generating energy, flow of ideas and proactive work needed to maintain a healthy profession that advocates for the needs of its clients and nurses, and the trust of the society (Mathew, 2012, para. 1). These professional organizations or associations offer continued education through seminars or bulletins that allow nurses to gain knowledge and broaden their career. The organizations also promote nursing to the public. Through the knowledge and skills that are gained from these affiliations, nurses can become leaders in their respective organizations. When networking is used properly and privacy of others maintained, it could enable an individual to grow both personally and professionally. Networking gives the nurses opportunity to socialize and feel the sense of belonging in a group. It is satisfying when one connects with other people who share the same passion, experiences and aiming to achieve the same goals.

            Through networking nurses share ideas and discuss nursing matters that help us improve the nursing practices for the best outcome of our patients. Constant interaction can help nurses gain confidence and feel empowered. Networking also opens doors of job opportunities and helps nurses advance in  their career. Through social interactions, such as social media, positive comments about nurses and their profession can inspire others and encourage them to join the nursing profession.