Asssessment Instructions

The topic of your first essay is how you are the hero of your educational and professional journey, based on the concept of the five stages of the Hero’s Journey archetype: birth, quest, trial, epiphany, and death.
For this assessment, first complete an outline of your first essay. This outline will guide the development of your final draft of the essay.

• Structure an outline based on the five stages of the Hero’s Journey.
  • Ensure your outline follows through each stage: birth, quest, trial, epiphany, and death.
• Apply accepted methods for outlining an essay, including main points and sub-points.

Use this outline to write your story about your personal journey in which you are the hero. Create a document to compose a properly formatted essay that follows the Hero’s Journey archetype. Ensure your essay includes the following:

• Provide a narrative that follows the Hero’s Journey archetype.
  • Birth.
  • Quest.
  • Trials.
  • Epiphany.
  • Death.
• Use descriptive language that provides detail for each stage of the Hero’s Journey. Such description includes feelings and experiences, coupled with sights and sounds, that will make your journey come alive for your reader.
• Apply in text the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, tone, and citation formatting.
• Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Use the Paper Formatting Example [DOCX] as a resource to guide your writing and formatting. The resources available to you in the Resources section of this assessment, as well as the Writing Center’s Stages of Writing page may also help you complete this assessment.
Submit your outline as well as your essay as one document.

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Standard formatting: Use one-inch margins, appropriate headers, and a title page.
• Length: Submit one double-spaced page.
• Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.

The patient’s mother expressed her cultural and spiritual practices in her daughter’s room singing as she entered the room, sprinkled tobacco around the patient’s bed, and decorating a hospital room with eagle feathers and crystals. The mother also performed a cultural ritual by moving her hands back and forth above her daughter. Another issue is the patient’s nurse behaving terse, dismissive, and disrespectful of the mother’s actions.
A culturally competent action in this case would have notify the patient’s mother of hospital’s visiting hours ending, letting her know the earliest she can arrive the next day when visiting hours open, and if any of the items the mother laid in her daughter’s room are valuable. The patient’s nurse should also communicate to the mother a chance to collect the items she’s distributed in the hospital room because the tobacco, feathers, and crystals create obstacles for the health care providers to treat her daughter.
The patient’s mother practiced a combination of holistic, aromatherapy, and energy therapies. The eagle feather and crystal employed holistic and natural therapy by unblocking, focusing, and directing energy. Forming a circle of tobacco around the patient supposedly creates an energy allowing the healer to connect with the patient. Singing and hand movements to and fro the girl’s body is another form of energy therapy.
As a future nurse, communicating to the patient’s mother for any spiritual preferences the nurse could accommodate for the patient. I would provide what I can to accommodate both the mother and her daughter, within the healthcare facility’s abilities. I’d offer the mother if there were any religious group or leader that would be helpful to the patient. I would lean on building a safe, respectful relationship aiming to accomplish high expectations and respect for equality and diversity as my guiding principles in this situation.
Brandenberger, Julia, et al. “A Systematic Literature Review of Reported Challenges in Health Care Delivery to Migrants and Refugees in High-Income Countries – the 3C Model.” BMC Public Health, vol. 19, no. 1, 14 June 2019, bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7049-x, 10.1186/s12889-019-7049-x. Accessed 11 Nov. 2020.
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How do you feel about becoming a social change agent, leader, and advocate? What areas of interest do you have that are related to bringing about a society committed to the mental health and welfare of its members? How might you inspire current and future students and colleagues so that they relate to and become engaged in doing something to bring about this vision? How do you plan to remain a competent human services professional?
Human services professionals are committed to understanding and addressing professional and societal issues. As you continue on your journey as a human services professional, it is your responsibility to constantly engage in professional development. This engagement might include continuing education courses, conferences, graduate degrees, certifications, and research, to name a few.
To prepare:

• Identify at least three personal and/or professional commitments that you are willing to make as a result of your understanding      of the need for social change, leadership, and advocacy.
• Consider steps you might take in your professional      development to become a more effective social change agent, leader, and      advocate.
• Consider how your new understanding might impact your      future work as a human and social services professional.

With these thoughts in mind:
By Day 4
Post a brief description of at least three personal and/or professional commitments you selected. Explain how your understanding of social change, leadership, and advocacy has impacted your commitments and your willingness to make them. Explain the next steps you might take in your professional development to become a more effective social change agent, leader, and advocate. Then, explain how your commitment might impact your future work as a human and social services professional. Be specific, and provide examples to illustrate your points.
Reference to use
Homan, M. S. (2016). Promoting community change: Making it happen in the real world (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage.
· Chapter 4, “Putting Yourself in the Picture” (pp. 96–112)
Wronka, J. (2017). Human rights and social justice: Social action and service for the helping and health professions (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
· Chapter 6, “Ground Rules” (pp. 297–318)
Austin, M. J., Regan, K., Gothard, S., & Carnochan, S. (2013). Becoming a manager in nonprofit human service organizations: Making the transition from specialist to generalist. Administration in Social Work, 37(4), 372-385.