An essay proposal is a persuasive piece of writing. It should convince its audience that the issue the essay proposes to examine is worthy of deliberation and explain how the essay will approach this issue. Your proposal should include the following information:

  • A brief discussion/explanation of the importance and relevance of the debatable issue and your reason for choosing it. This should be approximately one (1) double spaced page in length.
  • A research question that provides direction and focus during the research process
  • A hypothesis or working thesis
  • A one (1) page point form outline of the essay following Toulmin argumentation

Annotated Bibliography (5%)
Your annotated bibliography must include the following:

  • A minimum of 5 sources, at least 3 of which must be peer-reviewed/scholarly sources, listed in either APA or MLA style. Your essay must follow the same style of documentation as your proposal and bibliography.
  • A brief summary of each source in 3-5 sentences.

Assignment Description

Leadership and Managing

This week you reflected upon the difference between a “manager” and a “leader” and discussed this concept with your classmates and professor in the discussion board. In a written essay please answer the following questions:

  • What are the differences between leaders and managers? What characteristics are similar and what are different?
  • Provide a total of three examples. First, of someone who has great managerial skills. Second, another individual with great leadership skills. Third, another person with poor managerial skills. These can be made up individuals or examples you have seen without any identifying information. Discuss how the staff of each individual would be affected by the skills of the leader/manager.
  • Complete the Emotional Intelligence Test Discuss your scores and what they mean. What did you learn about yourself as a leader? (Note that a 10 on the EI test means strong. On the score page, click on the blue “here” under “interpreting your GEIT scores, click here” for more information on each section and what it means. 

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 1500 to 2000 words total (at least 500 words per question prompt)

Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. 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 three (3) scholarly sources are required for this assignment.

Labor and Delivery (pregnant women)
The major project will be focused on Labor and Delivery (pregnant women)
Identify and discuss key elements to functioning effectively in a collaborative team environment.
•In terms of patient outcomes, identify the benefits to multidisciplinary collaboration.
•Describe the challenges that might arise when working with a diverse group of individuals.
◦Consider the variety of backgrounds, educational levels, professional roles, personalities, et cetera.
•Describe the team that will be the audience of your presentation.
◦As you think about your Health Assessment presentation, what challenges might the team present?
◦What elements do you think will come into play to function effectively with this group?
◦What things will you particularly have to pay attention to?
•Describe how might you adjust your presentation to effectively communicate with this group of people.
◦What are several strategies that you can identify to help overcome these challenges in an effort to enhance professionalism and foster optimal patient outcomes?

Assignment – Current Events

 

Instructions

Paper CE: Analysis of a Current Events article.

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a current events article (i.e., only one) that you may choose from any online current periodical, trade magazine, or other electronic publication about a global digital ethical issue. While this assignment will increase your knowledge in that subject area from a corporation viewpoint and enable you to analyze digital ethical issues of a current GLOBAL situation or event, it will also help enhance your research and writing skills, as well as your critical-thinking abilities.

Start by selecting one current IT related online article (2020 sources or later) about a global ethical issue. Note that this assignment is not a general essay about the topic selected, it must be about the current event article that you have selected. In addition, please note that while articles from journals may be of interest, they are ultimately too long and involved for this assignment – it is best to find an article from the World Wide Web from a trade magazine, or other electronic publication.  Provide the source citation that is in compliance with the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting rules, as well as the persistent URL – one that anyone can click on to re-access the original article.  (There are references, sources, and examples in our LEO classroom here to help guide you with proper UMGC and APA format and documentation.)

The following elements must be addressed:

  • Summarize the whole article by all of its key or salient points. It may help if you use bullets to note the salient points of the article, as you read through it. A summary is desired, not just the “thrust’ of the article.
  • Analyze the multi-national and global ethical aspects of the article – what is the impact or what is the importance of the information in the article and what are the ethical issues connected to the situation or event?
  • Determine three critically important questions not otherwise included (or answered) in the article that you would like to address to the author regarding the article – you are not expected to answer the questions!

Prepare a double-spaced paper and submit it to the LEO Assignments Module as an attached Microsoft Word file. The instructor will provide your grade and feedback via the LEO Grades tool. This assignment does not have a specific length, as the length depends upon the length of the article that is being summarized, but you want to make sure that you have fulfilled the three requirements listed above. Remember to use headings for each topic criteria. The length of Paper CE is not a factor considered in its grading!

Use APA formatted source citations for all sources utilized, in your reference list.  Remember, as a minimum, the source citation for your article must be included (including the URL if you retrieved this from an Internet source) along with an external link. In addition to critical thinking and analysis skills, your paper should reflect appropriate writing mechanics, good organization, and proper business-writing style.  Include a Cover Page with your Name, the UMGC/Name of the Class, and the Title of the Paper.

The student will prepare a five to seven (5-7) page analyses of a critical incident response issue(s) in the context of historical event or events. The paper will be prepared in accordance with APA (6th) format.
The paper must reference a minimum of three scholarly articles.  (For a definition and instructions on locating scholarly articles, see the UMUC library website http://www.umgc.edu/library/libhow/articles.cfm)  Three is a minimum; therefore, three is minimally meeting the standard (C – grade).  More than three is required for maximum credit in the resources category of the grading rubric.   Other sources should be evaluated for their credibility (just because it is on the web does not mean it is an accurate trusted source). I have given you a start with at least one scholarly article listed for each topic.
The issue must also be linked to experience in at least one critical incident as part of the discussion.  Previous incidents will be discussed in the scholarly articles; more information can be developed directly from AAR reports.  See the list of AARs that I have developed and please let me know of any others that can be added to the list.
The paper should also reference any relevant government policy.
For each topic I have given you a start with links to scholarly articles and one or more other important resources.  This is a start, if you write the paper from just the sources I provide it will be severely lacking.  Not all resources are directly available from the link.  You may have to look it up in the UMGC library to access the article.  I have not formatted these as APA resources; they are simply titles and links.  I am giving you a head start here, not running the whole race for you!  You will also want to closely examine the syllabus for other articles that apply to your selected topic.
In what ways is Psychology tied to Patient Care?
750 -1,200-word count APA format
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Must have the following Content:
– Define Psychology
-Explain the four goals of Psychology
-Convey how Psychology relates to Patient Care
-No 1st Person -The topic is well covered. The writer removes themselves from the essay and does not refer to themselves as I, Me, or My and uses the writer instead.
-Thesis Statement – The thesis is located in the last sentence of the 1st paragraph.
-A thesis statement tells the reader what the essay is about e.g this essay will define psychology, explain the four goals of psychology, and convey the importance of psychology in patient-care.
Total pts – 100
Project Description
Carry out a security self-assessment of an organization of your current or previous employer or your own organization. You must seek permission from the individual responsible for the information security of that organization. You may use any NIST Special Publications (e.g. SP800-171, SP1800), or any other national framework to assist in your report.
Report
Write a report based on the self-assessment of an organization. It should be 5-7 pages long, 12 point character size, double line spacing, and have 1” margins on all sides. It is recommended that you do not use the actual name of the organization in the report; use a title, such as “ABC, Inc.” Your report should include a brief description of the organization, nature of the business, analysis of the results, and recommendations for improvement in the form of an action plan.
Deliverables: A single Word document
Project Guidelines:
For the project, you can do a security assessment on either a single IT system or the entire IT infrastructure of an organization, whichever you think is feasible and manageable.
You can use these guidelines when working on your project:
1) Your project report just needs to be a very general assessment of the IT system in organization. You can keep it brief (about 4 to 8 pages long, not including the cover page), and broadly cover the following areas:
 Management Controls
 Operational Controls
 Technical Controls.
You don’t need to get into specifics on anything that might be considered sensitive or proprietary. Keep it very general (something that can be in the public-domain).
2) For your project, **only** use information that is considered public. Please **do not** use or reference any proprietary or non-public information. As the project guidelines state, do not use the actual name of any organization – instead use “ABC Inc.” And in your project please don’t reference any documents that are not considered to be in the public domain; also don’t use any company names – use something generic such as XYZ Inc.
3) Instead of doing a self-assessment of a real company, you can also do a self-assessment of a fictitious company similar to a real entity. For example, you could imagine that you are performing an assessment of a fictitious entity such as the following:
 A college bookstore that accepts online textbook purchases, or
 A pharmacy store that maintains a database of customer prescriptions
 An auto-insurance agency that maintains customer data
 … etc. … etc.
You can imagine yourself being hired as an Info Security consultant to perform a security audit of the fictitious company’s IT infrastructure. Assume that some rudimentary security measures are currently in place, but there is much room for improvement. In your report describe your assessment of the security measures currently in place and recommend any needed improvements to ensure better IT security in the organization.
For this assignment, select a real company in the fast food industry.
You have just been hired by (your selected company) as its new vice president of strategic planning. The corporation’s performance in recent years as well as the changes with business and economic conditions will be a central focus of your new job.
Given the size of the corporation and the fact that it is in a highly competitive industry, the chief executive officer (CEO) to whom you report has already given you permission to hire a staff of recent Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates to assist you in your efforts. You recently completed the interviewing and hired four people with minimal real business experience.
In coming months, you and your team will be creating a completely new—and, presumably, more effective—strategic plan. You plan to begin by holding a kick-off meeting with your team.
Deliverable Length: 1,000–1,250 words
To feel confident that all of the employees in your strategic planning team understand all that you have taught them, you require each to prepare a streamlined version of the key elements of a strategic plan. You require each employee to prepare the following sections of a strategic plan for the corporation’s next 3-5 years:

  • Mission and Vision Statements (Simply copying from an existing real company is unacceptable.)
  • Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound (SMART) Goals and Objectives
  • Industry Analysis
  • Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends (SWOTT) Analysis
  • A Perceptual Map
    • Choose any criteria that you think are important to plot.
    • Explain why you picked the criteria.

Your task is to create a plan, following the same parameters, which will be the sample standard that your employees’ submissions should match.
Please submit your assignment.

NURSING PAPER

Assignment will be chosen related to clinical assignment. Each student will choose a client that you had had your clinical rotation for a case study that you want to investigate. The case study must be approved by your course instructor by the end of your third clinical rotation. The student will research their issue and find current evidence, at least three (3) peer-reviewed nursing research articles related to their condition/issue.

Two weeks prior to the due date of the paper as indicated on the course outline, the student will submit an outline of their paper to their course instructor that includes the student name, case study overview, nursing practice issue, and references in APA format.

The paper must include the following items: 1. Title Page with student’s name2. Client HPI/PMH 3. Client FMH/ROS

  1. Client Medications/Allergies
  2. Client PE that you completed
  3. Client Laboratory/Diagnostic Test results
  4. Nursing Practice Issue related to client situation
  5. How the RN has assigned/delegate/supervised LPN, Certificated Nurse Aide, MedicationAide, and the Unlicensed Personnel
  1. Short summary of the three research articles related to condition/issue
  2. References 
he answer to classifying the data type, measure of central tendency, and the measure of dispersion for this assignment is found in Study 2 of this unit, which contains a paper, “Choosing and Using the Right Descriptive Statistics.” This assigned reading explains how you can capture the important dimensions of a distribution with just a few numbers. It then describes how to determine what data type you are dealing with. Knowing this data type gives you the information you need to answer the question about which measure of central tendency and measure of dispersion are appropriate. This is explained in detail in the latter part of the paper. Be sure you read it carefully and understand it.
Examine Table 4.1 in your Field textbook, page 112. Note that in addition to participant name, there are six rows, each displaying a variable and listing its content.

  1. In a Word document, list each of the six variables in its own row under the column labeled Variable as shown.
  2. After each variable, populate its row with the type of data it contains, using the information contained in the Introduction to Unit 4.
  3. Next, list the most appropriate measure of central tendency for that variable.
  4. Finally, indicate the most appropriate measure of dispersion for that variable. For example, if you were to use the variable “Name,” you would list the following:

VariableData TypeMeasure of Central TendencyMeasure of DispersionNameNominalModeHow Many Categories

Step 2: Enter the Data

  1. Manually enter the data from your Field textbook, page 112, Table 4.1, “Some Data With Which to Play” into SPSS.
  2. Save this dataset in a safe place. You will use this dataset to complete the tasks in Step 3.

Step 3: Create and Interpret Graphs

Complete Tasks 1 through 6 in your Field textbook, page 167:

  1. Create and interpret error bar charts (Tasks 1 and 2).
  2. Create and interpret error line charts (Tasks 3 and 4).
  3. Create and interpret scatterplots: one with a regression line and one scatterplot matrix (Tasks 5 and 6).
  4. Copy and paste all six charts to a Word document and add your interpretation.

Step 4: Report

  1. Create an APA-formatted report, detailing Step 2.
  2. Use subsection headings for each major substep. Make sure you include a cover page with the appropriate information, including your name.
  3. Support your discussion with credible research methods references (such as Field, 2018) and include an APA-formatted reference list of all sources cited in the report.
  4. Review the assignment scoring guide to ensure that you meet all criteria.
  5. Save your report as YourLastName_U4.doc and submit it along with YourLastName_U4.spv to the Unit 4 Assignment.
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