The response should be at least three well-developed paragraphs. Please include at least one citation from an outside reading to support your analysis. Do not forget to use APA 7 formatting for citations.
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In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that racial segregation laws were constitutional so long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that became known as “separate but equal.” Thurgood Marshall chose to go after the root of the evil – the segregation itself – and Brown V. Board became the law of the land in 1954 determining that separate but equal has no place with “separate educational facilities being inherently unequal.”
Fast forward 64 years. Today, our schools look like Brown v Board of Education never happened. In addition, zero tolerance policies have added to the burdens already placed on certain bodies, leading to what is now being referred to as the “cradle to prison pipeline.”
Desegregation had provided the ONLY major results regarding the pernicious achievement gap in our nation’s history. During the 1980s – the achievement gap between white students and Black students was cut in HALF. Once equal opportunity was offered across the board – to better classes, better teachers, better facilities – schools began to produce the results that have not been replicated before or since. “Black Americans who attended schools integrated by court order were more likely to graduate, go on to college, and earn a degree than Black Americans who attended segregated schools. They made more money – five years of integrated schooling increased the earnings of Black adults by 15 percent” (Segregation Now). It was also found that integration improved the lot of all Americans – white students did just as well in integrated schools – but after being a part of an integrated environment – whites were more likely to live in integrated neighborhoods and to send their own children to racially diverse schools.
What do these statements mean to you – as a student, as a future educator, as a current educator, as a parent or future parent? What does it imply for the building of classroom communities and the ways we engage in curriculum and educational planning? If we are truly better when we learn together – when our classrooms reflect the beautiful diversity that is America – then what has happened to divide us so? Who is to blame and who can change it? How can we change it within our classroom communities?
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Intended Audience: Your Classmates.Assignment Description:Post an almost complete draft of your rhetorical situation assignment as a word doc. If the draft is incomplete based on the requirements below, points will be deducted. The draft must be accessible in order to receive points.Then use the questions (below) to do the peer review portion of the assignment for three peers.Your draft must be at least 3/4 complete to earn full credit for this assignment.In order to earn full credit, your draft must contain the Works Cited page in MLA style. The Works Cited page will contain a citation for “Backpacks vs. Briefcases” by Laura Bolin Carroll, your text, and any other class material you referenced. No outside research should be used for this assignment.In order to earn full credit, your draft must contain in-text citations in MLA style for sources used.For the peer review part of the assignment: return to your classmates’ drafts and provide feedback to three classmates by Monday night. This will give your classmates time to apply your suggestions before the final draft is due.Reviewing your peers’ drafts accounts makes up the majority of the grade for this assignment. The grade for this assignment is primarily based on the quality of your answers to the peer review questions. Do not use AI or another source other than yourself to generate the feedback, and make sure the feedback is consistent with the assignment expectations and requirements. While rare, it must be said that evidence of AI-generated feedback in the form of feedback that is inconsistent with the lesson and assignment will result in a 0 for the peer review assignment.Cut and paste the questions and answers into the response box.Peer Review Questions Does the draft have a clear thesis statement that addresses the rhetorical situation of a particular text? Is this statement the last sentence of the introduction? Please make suggestions for improving and shaping this statement or set of statements. Write down some ideas for your classmate to consider.Does the draft have at least a paragraph each addressing the text’s rhetor(s), exigence, audience, and constraints using several examples and evidence from a) the text they’re analyzing and b) the readings in the course? Make suggestions for improving the development or clarity of these ideas, and/or point out where your classmate should give an example from their text or from “Backpacks vs. Briefcases.”Where can the author expand their ideas and how can they do that?What ideas need more detail or evidence?What ideas or elements of the rhetorical situation need more explanation? What other suggestions can you make for improving the draft?What did you find most valuable about the draft? What did it do well and why?What would you address first? Why?
Purpose of the Assignment: To practice using rhetorical theory as a frame for textual analysis. To practice using rhetorical theory to find the intent and exigence in sources.
Intended Audience: Classmates. Instructor. Writing Teachers. Individuals interested learning more about writing and rhetorical theory.
Assignment Description: *NOTE: It’s a good idea to print this out and keep it nearby as you work on this assignment. There is a lot of information in here that will be directly helpful to you as you work through the process.
Step 1: Locate a text, and remember that a text is a broad term in this assignment, and identify and analyze the rhetorical situation of that text. A text can be defined broadly, but for this assignment, you’re going to choose from either of these two categories:
a) choose an assignment that you were given by your teacher or professor in a class that you have taken within the past six months. You must have the original document that came with the assignment and supporting materials such as the class description, the class syllabus, and other information about the context within which you received the assignment.
b) choose a written communication that you directly composed for professional or personal reasons in order to solve a problem. This text must be significant. It could be the text you wrote about for the Writing to Solve Problems assignment if that seems like it will provide enough substance and interest for you to analyze. By significant, I mean that you had to go through multiple stages to get this text written and sent; it must have had a strong exigence (reason) and you had an important argument to make, and you went through stages of a process to compose and create it rather than simply writing it in a few minutes and sending it. Think carefully about this option.
c) if you can’t find an example within either of these categories, you must make an appointment with me to discuss an alternative option before beginning your writing process for this assignment.
You have to have an authentic copy of your text for this assignment; this constraint will factor in to your choice of a topic. You’re going to need to attach the text to the end of your assignment so that your reader can refer to it as they read your analysis, so make sure you have a copy of it that is shareable and that you have permission to share. Work e-mails can be sensitive, for example, so if you chose that option, then do what you need to do and consult whom you need to make sure it’s shareable. If it’s too difficult, then it would probably be best to choose a different text.
Think about the text you intend to use for this assignment and make sure you fully understand how to apply the theory of the rhetorical situation to that text. Don’t choose a text that is too difficult to analyze or has very little content or substance. Choose a text wisely, and make sure the text you choose has plenty of rhetorical content to address and examine so you can demonstrate your knowledge of rhetorical situations in the paper. Watch this video by Kyle Steadman to help you understand what rhetorical analysis is and how it works:
Step 2: Now create rhetorical data to examine and use to write the paper. This will take some time. Use the following questions to help you generate content for the analysis. The goal is to learn as much as possible about the details of the text before writing the paper.
What is the exigence and purpose for the text? Why was it made? What is the text reacting to?
What is the main argument the text is trying to make? Where is the argument set up and established in the text?
Who are the intended audience(s) for the text? How do you know these are the audiences?
Who stands to gain something from the arguments and information in the text and who does not stand to gain? Why?
Who are all the rhetors responsible for making the text? The writer, sure, but what about the academic department, the educational institution who created the requirements and learning outcomes for the class? Or if it’s yourself writing an e-mail, for example, did you have anyone else look at it before you sent it? Was it critiqued by anyone else? Try to identify all of the individuals responsible for shaping the text. Those are the rhetors. There can be a main rhetor, but there are always contributors to a text.
Does the text have a picture or image? Who made the image(s)?
What types of constraints existed for the rhetors?
What deadlines and limitations did they face? How did that limit the text?
What advantages did they have? Did they have a strict timeline to work around?
Did they only get to use a certain amount of words, pages, or images? How did these issues constrain the work?
The answers to the questions above will serve as a way to collect rhetorical data. The more complete and comprehensive the answers to those questions are, the more rhetorical data you have to examine and analyze for this assignment.
Step 3: Once you’ve answered some of these questions, start to shape a central statement about what you’ve learned. Use the “Backpacks and Briefcases” article to set up terms and ideas and to support and elaborate on your rhetorical analysis. Collect quotes from “Backpacks vs. Briefcases” that connect to your own ideas in your paper and that you can use as support for your ideas in your paper, like you are having a conversation with the author Laura Bolin Carroll in your paper.
To craft your thesis statement, think about this questions:
What did the rhetorical information you collected about the text teach you?
What did you learn about the text after examining its rhetorical data? You looked at the text rhetorically. How did that frame for examining a text provide you a different perspective of the text?
What did you learn about the text from studying is rhetorical components? How did rhetorical theory help you see below the surface of the text?
Step 4: Draft your paper. In your own words, tell us how the text is rhetorically situated using your data and the articles from the course about rhetorical situations. The final assignment must be 750-1000 words and follow a citation format like MLA or APA carefully and accurately. Please use a handbook or Purdue Owl (Links to an external site.) to guide you.
Here is a general guide for organizing your paper:
Introduction: Give us some background about your text. What is it, why did you choose it for this assignment as an example of a rhetorical situation? End the introduction with a thesis statement that synthesizes all of the elements of the rhetorical situation into a clear analysis. The thesis statement should be the answer to a question, or a combination of the questions above–in general, how did you come to see this text differently by using the concepts of rhetorical situations to analyze it? Your thesis statement must be a single sentence.
Body: Write several paragraphs. You can write one paragraph about each of the elements of the rhetorical situation, starting with the exigence and argument, audience, rhetors, constraints. Use the questions above to help you fill in the details. Each body paragraph should start with a topic sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph, which includes the topic of the paragraph and what you’re going to teach us about that topic in the paragraph. The topic sentence has a direct relationship to the thesis. You can think of it as a leg that the thesis is standing on. The body of the essay breaks up the big idea/central statement/thesis statement into smaller, digestible parts that each get their own paragraph. Each paragraph speaks for one part of the thesis. That should be very clear in the paragraph. It takes multiple revisions to get it as clear as possible, so expect to keep reading and re-reading your drafts as you work on this assignment to try and make this connection as clear and obvious as possible for your reader.
Then, after the topic sentence, introduce your idea in your own words; bring in an example from your text that illustrates this idea; explain what this example means and how it connects to your idea, in your own words. Then bring in a quotation or paraphrase from “Backpacks vs. Briefcases” that is in conversation with your idea. Introduce that quote or paraphrase in your own words, with a signal phrase like “Carroll states in “Backpacks vs. Briefcases” that [insert quote or paraphrase here] (page # from the article where the quote appears). Then explain in your own words how that quote relates to your idea.
Finish the paragraph with a sentence that reminds us what you wanted us to learn in this paragraph! That’s a sentence like the topic sentence, only it’s even clearer and uses different words.
Conclusion: Summarize your main points from the paper again in new words. Restate your thesis in new words. What should we take away from this paper and keep thinking about? This can be a recommendation, a prediction, or an opinion about the big idea of your text.
Works Cited: You’ll need to include MLA or APA* citations for Laura Bolin Carroll’s article as well as your own text. I don’t think you’ll be needing any other citations for this paper, but if anything comes up, I’ll be sure to announce ti.
Your text: copy and paste the text into the last pages of your paper.
* If you have a good working knowledge of how to use MLA or APA or a strong preference for either one, you may use it. If you are new to these style formats and citation, please use MLA for this paper, which I am providing examples of. I’m happy to help with citation and formatting, and you should also make an appointment at the TCC Writing & Tutoring Center to go over your paper and get additional help if you think you need it.
Look over some of these examples for the assignment:
For this assignment, you will need to choose a topic or person from any of the various eras, movements or decades that we’ve discussed this semester and do a presentation on them using any media format you choose. (IM CHOOSING THE MOVIE PSYCHO- Why was this movie important to hollywood? What was the feeling of it, the colors, techniques, theme, director, style, music, anything! What was special about Alfred Hitchcock and this film?
The subject matter doesn’t have to be limited to an actor, director or filmmaker, but the topic of your presentation could be on the inventions of any of the equipment, editing or filming techniques that you’ve learned about. Basically, you can pick an area to cover and do your presentation on that. The point is that you take a deeper dive into the subject by exploring information about it that may not have been covered in this course. It does have to be something that was included in either the textbook, a movie, lecture or discussion that we’ve had.
Once you choose your area of interest, your project should be created in some type of media format. make it a powerpoint presentation. The possibilities are limitless. You can be as creative as you’d like. As long as you are presenting your insights, take-aways and interesting information about the subject matter in a thoughtful, thorough way. And, if it’s entertaining, even better!
Tip: Think of this project/presentation as a way to educate your fellow classmates on a topic or subject matter that you have chose to investigate further and then present your findings in a method that is relevant for today’s times.
Guidelines
minimum of 5 pages long if presenting a PowerPoint presentation or other written format.
write a reflection letter.Reflection letter instructions: How has this semester gone? What were the main take-aways for you? What do you wish you would have realized early on in the semester? What were the most important, or hardest assignments? What worked? Was there anything you did that was particularly helpful when completing the assignments? What would you give as advice to a student in week 1, next semester, who is about to embark on the same course as you? Your task: Write a letter to a student in week 1 of next semester. Your goal should be to help the person, as best you can, as if it is you reading the letter at the start of THIS semester. What do you wish you knew? What do you wish someone told you in week 1? These letters will be read by students in the next semester
Question 1:
Commedia art began as a result of combining literate performance and street performance. The main aim of commedia art was to represent every member of the society based on the allocated roles and responsibilities. During this type, actors were expected to be very sharp as they were the editors, authors and performers. It was a fair method of handling all actors as they were all paid.
The period also marked the first period when women were paid for acting various roles. The scenes were expected to highly connect with the audience but at the same time, they only rusted for a period of three minutes. Commedia dell’arte has influenced all aspects of acting in the past years. This is because of its ability to draw and differentiate characters based on their acting styles.
Question 2:
The first character is Margnifico who is like an eagle whereby he leads the entire city while looking down at everyone just the same way that the eagle does. Zanni takes the last character who acts as a pigeon as everything in the city seems new to Zanni. Margnifico is the master while Zanni is the servant. There are two masters under Margnifico one of them being Pantalone. He is a mean character as per the act. The Doctor is the second master who knows everything but understands nothing. There are two servants that is Brighella and Harlequino. Brighella has been presented as a canning servant while Harlequino is presented as a stupid servant.
Question 3: (About Aria)
He is singing about what he feels in heart after being heart broken by the wife. Emotions of sadness are expressed through the song. He does not show anger towards the wife but self-despair after what the wife made him go through. The wife is privy to the emotions as she is the one who has caused pain directly to him.
Question 4:
Arthur Fleck tends to believe that he is always right and his way is the only correct way. This means that no external factors has the ability to affect his stand. One the other hand, Canio tries to understand others which appears to his source of pain as he is hurt by the people he trusts. He attaches himself to the story others around him does not understand him. On the other hand, Canio tries to consider the reason what people decided to do specific actions and understands them which includes painful ones. His ability to understand others acts as a source of pain to him
Develop a research paper that identifies a specific Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operating agency. Fully describe 1 DHS operating agency from the following list:
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
U.S. Secret Service (USSS)
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
The information must include a discussion of the selected DHS agency.
Identify the agency’s mission, goals, objectives, and metrics.
Conduct an analysis of how these mission areas address the threats or challenges.
Recommend agency program priorities among the current set of goals, objectives, metrics, or budget items.
Justification of all choices is an essential element of this assignment.
Reference all source material and citations using APA format.
SCENARIO: Monica is a single mom who has a 16-year-old son named Jordan. Monica and Jordan were close at one point. As of late, Monica has been noticing that Jordan spends a lot of time focusing on what his friends think about him. Without his mother’s permission, Jordan recently crawled out of his bedroom window and went to a party when he was supposed to be studying for an exam. Upon his return home, Jordan reeked of alcohol and marijuana and was caught by his mother. Shocked and appalled by her son’s recent behavior, she grounded him for two weeks.
What advice would you give Monica about her son’s recent behavior?
ASSIGNMENT: Using what you learned about the adolescent brain and social development, you will answer questions related to this case study assignment below. Your goals are to help Monica understand why her son makes the choices he does and recommend some strategies that may help solve the problem. Use the touchstone response template to answer the questions.
A. Assignment
DIRECTIONS: To complete the assignment, you will answer the following four questions in 5-7 sentences each:
What happens inside the brain of a teenager that makes it difficult for Jordan to weigh the risks and rewards of his behavior? Describe how the adolescent brain weighs risk and reward.
Why does it appear that Jordan values the opinion of his peers more than the opinion of his mother? Explain the psychological concepts that may account for why Jordan places value on his peers’ opinions.
What advice would you give Jordan’s mother, Monica, that would teach him how to make better choices and decisions? Discuss a specific strategy that Monica may implement to help her son make better decisions.
If you were in Monica’s shoes, how would you feel? Explain why a better understanding of Monica’s perspective could result in more constructive advice.
Template:
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Using what you have learned about the adolescent brain and social development, answer the questions in this case study assignment. Your goals are to help Monica understand why her son makes the choices he does and recommend some strategies that may help solve the problem.
For each question, you should write a paragraph-length response (5–7 sentences) to receive credit for this assignment. You may use your Sophia tutorials as a resource.
Question 1: What happens inside the brain of a teenager that makes it difficult for Jordan to weigh the risks and rewards of his behavior? Describe how the adolescent brain weighs risk and reward.
Question 2: Why does it appear that Jordan values the opinion of his peers more than the opinion of his mother? Explain the psychological concepts that may account for why Jordan places value on his peers’ opinions.
Question 3: What advice would you give Jordan’s mother, Monica, that would teach him how to make better choices and decisions? Discuss a specific strategy that Monica may implement to help her son make better decisions.
Question 4: If you were in Monica’s shoes, how would you feel? Explain why a better understanding of Monica’s perspective could result in more constructive advice.
SCENARIO: Monica and Jennifer are coworkers that have been assigned to work on a project together. Jennifer is very organized and wants her and Monica to do really well on this project. To get started, Jennifer took some initiative and prepared a list of to-do items along with the due dates. She even color-coded the list to indicate who will do which item. Shortly after, Jennifer sends an email to Monica with the to-do list attached. Jennifer wants her partner to know that she is serious about their success.
Monica is happy her teammate has shown initiative but is surprised by Jennifer’s to-do list and feels a bit uncomfortable as she is feeling like Jennifer is micromanaging her. Monica wants to do her part on the project but is feeling anxious because she doesn’t know where she fits in. Monica is worried about working on the project. She wonders if she can succeed in this project since Jennifer is already the leader. Prior to this situation, Monica worked for a separate employer who asked her to work on a similar project. She felt anxious about her ability to successfully complete the project and attempted to communicate her feelings with a co-worker. However, her co-worker didn’t seem to understand Monica’s concerns and said that she should just ignore her feelings and get the work done.
As Monica ponders having a conversation with Jennifer, she starts to feel overwhelmed and thinks it might just be easier to be removed from the project.
ASSIGNMENT: Now, it is time to practice the skills and concepts that you have learned to help your friend Monica navigate through a difficult workplace situation. Using your problem solving and self and social awareness skill, as well as what you have learned about personality traits and emotions, answer the questions in this case study assignment. Remember, you are to help Monica calm her anxiety and find a solution to her problem.
Download and use the touchstone response template to answer the questions.
Psy1010 Touchstone 3.2 Response Template
In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any plagiarized or recycled work will result in a Plagiarism Detected alert. Review this tutorial for more about plagiarism and the Plagiarism Detected alert: Touchstones: Academic Integrity Guidelines. For guidance on the use of generative AI technology, review Ethical Standards and Appropriate Use of AI.
A. Assignment
DIRECTIONS: To complete the assignment, you will answer the following four questions in 5-7 sentences each:
What are the “Big 5” personality traits? Name and describe each of them, using specific details and information from the case study and course lessons.
Consider the different approaches to the project taken by both Monica and Jennifer. On which of the Big 5 personality traits do they most differ? Discuss these differences in their personality traits.
Using what you learned about emotions, what advice would you give to Monica? Describe a specific strategy that Monica can use to manage her emotions and successfully complete the project.
If you were in this situation, how confident are you that you could successfully resolve a workplace conflict like the one that Monica faced? What past experiences or knowledge influence your answer? Explain how your experience or knowledge can resolve a similar workplace conflict.
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Using your problem solving and self and social awareness skills and what you have learned about personality traits and emotions, answer the questions in this case study assignment. Remember, you are to help Monica calm her anxiety and find a solution to her problem.
For each question, you should write a paragraph-length response (5–7 sentences) to receive credit for this assignment. You may use your Sophia tutorials as a resource.
Question 1: What are the Big 5 personality traits? Name and describe each of them.
Question 2: Consider the different approaches to the project taken by both Monica and Jennifer. On which of the Big 5 personality traits do they most differ? Discuss these differences in their personality traits.
Question 3: Using what you learned about emotions, what advice would you give to Monica? Describe a specific strategy that Monica can use to manage her emotions and successfully complete the project.
Question 4: If you were in this situation, how confident are you that you could successfully resolve a workplace conflict like the one that Monica faced? What past experiences or knowledge influence your answer? Explain how your experience or knowledge can resolve a similar workplace conflict.
SCENARIO: Mark works with Monica and Jennifer. He likes to make people laugh but often jokes about his struggles to learn new programs and technology.
The company recently informed the team that there will be a compliance test on new safety policies, which employees will need to pass in order to keep their jobs. The company has provided materials to study, as well as optional practice exams.
Monica, Jennifer and Mark are having lunch in the break room, and Monica and Jennifer mention that they have already signed up to take the first practice test. Mark comments about how hard it is for him to learn a different way of doing the jobs that he has been doing for years. However, later in the day, he stops by Monica’s desk to find out how she is preparing for the test and asks for advice. Given that they have a month until the compliance test, Monica is confident that she can help Mark prepare.
ASSIGNMENT: Using your problem solving and self and social awareness skill and the information that you have learned about the plasticity of the nervous system and motivation and mindset, answer the questions in this case study assignment to help Monica offer strategies to improve Mark’s chances for doing well on the compliance test. Download and use the touchstone response template to answer the questions.
In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any plagiarized or recycled work will result in a Plagiarism Detected alert. Review this tutorial for more about plagiarism and the Plagiarism Detected alert: Touchstones: Academic Integrity Guidelines. For guidance on the use of generative AI technology, review Ethical Standards and Appropriate Use of AI.
A. Assignment
DIRECTIONS: To complete the assignment, you will answer the following questions:
What kind of mindset does Mark need to embrace to be successful? Describe the impact of mindset on success.
What type of mindset does Mark currently have, and how does it affect his brain? Explain how mindset affects learning.
What advice should Monica give to Mark, and why? Describe a specific strategy that Monica can suggest to Mark to improve his memory and better prepare for the compliance test.
If Mark were your coworker, what important aspects of the situation would you want to keep in mind when offering advice and strategies to him? Why do you think this is important? Explain the importance of tailoring advice and strategies directly to Mark’s situation.
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Using your problem solving and self and social awareness skill and the information you learned about brain plasticity, motivation, and mindset, answer the questions in this case study assignment to help Monica offer strategies to improve Mark’s chances for doing well on the compliance test.
For each question, you should write a paragraph-length response (5–7 sentences) to receive credit for this assignment. You may use your Sophia tutorials as a resource.
Question 1: What kind of mindset does Mark need to embrace to be successful? Describe the impact of mindset on success.
Question 2: What type of mindset does Mark currently have, and how does it affect his brain? Explain how mindset affects learning
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Question 3: What advice should Monica give to Mark, and why? Describe a specific strategy that Monica can suggest to Mark to improve his memory and better prepare for the compliance test.
Question 4: If Mark were your coworker, what important aspects of the situation would you want to keep in mind when offering advice and strategies to him? Why do you think this is important? Explain the importance of tailoring advice and strategies directly to Mark’s situation.
Peer 1 : A legal nursing issue that sticks out to me is the case of redound Vaught, a Tenessee nurse that made a deadly medication error and whose case made headlines when she was charged criminally for her actions. This case was all over the news while I was in nursing school and caused me to take a serious look at how this kind of error could occur.
Malpractice is a legal term that anyone who works in the medical field is familiar with. It is described as “professional misconduct, unreasonable lack of professional skill, or failure to adhere to the accepted standard of care that causes injury to a patient” (Burkhardt, 2020, p. 126). Nurses are expected to make decisions according to their experience and education and can be held liable when it is deemed that there has been a breach of duty to the patient. When a nurse is licensed they are deemed to meet a certain proficiency and must follow the standard of care outlined for them from the state licensing board, their own facility policies, federal laws etc. (Burkhardt, 2020). Vaught made many errors when she mistakingly administered a paralytic to her patient instead of a sedative for anxiety. The legal case that followed determined that this went beyond medical malpractice and Ms. Vaught was charged with 2 felonies.
Vaught made a series of missteps and as a “reasonable and prudent nurse” these actions could have been avoided. She ignored alerts within her electronic medication system that indicated she was withdrawing the wrong drug, she failed to recognize the drug she was administering and she failed to properly monitor the patient after the drug was administered. The medical field has taken a good look at how to decrease the number of preventable errors in medicine. In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published To Err Is Human a report which argued that “errors are due not solely to individual health care providers but also to systems that need to be made safer” (Lamas, 2022). Mistakes are always going to occur, so how can we learn from them.
Vaughts error falls under the category of the National Quality Forum’s “never events” initiative. This initiative recognized 28 “serious reportable events, which are so unambiguous, serious and preventable that they should never happen” (Burkhardt, 2020). One of the 28 never events is “patient death or serious injury associated with a medication error”. When Vaught administered that paralytic it was a failure in the system. She ignored many of the things that we are taught in nursing school including the rights of medication administration and that combined with her claims of being over worked and distracted led to the death of a patient.
As an outsider looking in there are so many glaring mistakes and ways that this could have been prevented, most of which the hospital had in place. There were claims that their electronic medication distribution system was malfunctioning, as someone who works in the ER of an underfunded community hospital, I find that completely plausible. There isn’t a moment that goes by when I am on the floor that I am not aware that I am just as vulnerable as Vaught was that day. I use her case as a reminder to not take shortcuts, to look up medications if I am not familiar with them and to remain steadfast and competent in my career as a nurse.
peer 2 :
A nurse is currently under investigation after various patients have become ill due to fentanyl being replaced with water during their care. The incident occurred at the Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Oregon, where suspicion of medication theft was reported. As a result, a concern for adverse patient care occurred, with the impact on the patients still being monitored and deaths being investigated. In this case, patients could have acquired infections due to the introduction of tap water into their system.
In this example, the nurse falls under professional negligence as she failed to do what another reasonable nurse would have done in her position (Burkhardt, 2020). This nurse did not ensure the safety of her patients and acted in a way that not only did not follow the plan of care but violated their welfare. Additionally, as a nurse, the individual has committed malpractice as she committed negligence in a professional capacity and failed to adhere to the standard of care, causing injury to multiple patients. (Burkhardt, 2020).
Malpractice within the healthcare field can be mitigated by using safety standards to prevent injury. The Joint Commission has outlined safety goals that healthcare providers, specifically nurses, can implement to create a safer practice environment (Rodziewicz et. al., 2023). Such safeguards include medication labels on all medications and proper identification of patients prior to administration. In this case, although the medication was labeled and the patient was identified, the nurse tampered with the medication. This action caused the safeguard to fail. In this case, requiring a cosigner when scanning the medication and programming the pump to minimize tampering risk may have been beneficial. Conversely, safeguards such as reporting discrepancies or any unexpected occurrence successfully prevented further injury by the nurse.
Although this nurse was reported and injury has already occurred, performing a root cause analysis is vital. A root cause analysis can help identify what factors contributed to these events and how to prevent them in the future (Rodziewicz, et. al., 2023). In this case, further insight into the nurse and the circumstances behind her actions can help identify other staff struggling to perform and meet the standards of practice. Examples can include substance abuse that is triggered by other emotional means, such as depression, anxiety, or previous health issues. Additionally, the units and the workplace environment will be assessed, and how management is involved in maintaining the well-being of their staff will be assessed. Unfortunately, the shortage of nurses is increasing the workload, which leads to fatigue, mistakes, and countless other factors that can negatively impact patient safety. In this case, drug testing on staff was not confirmed by Asante (Battaglia, 2024). These types of safeguards can help identify at-risk staff and allow management to intervene before events such as these take place, risking the lives of patients within the facility.
In this case, the loss of life and patient injury could have been avoided. Once the investigation is complete, further details may highlight weaknesses in the hospital’s and the Joint Commission’s safeguards. Changes will be made and hopefully will have a positive impact by preventing further injury.
Assignment status: A legal nursing issue that sticks out to me is the case of redound Vaught, a Tenessee nurse that made a deadly medication error and whose case made headlines when she was charged criminally for her actions
For this assignment, look through the Learning Resources from the entire semester and find one specific example of literature, art, music, dance, drama, theater, philosophy, or religion that you can use as inspiration to create something of your own that imitates it or presents a new perspective on it.
This means you should find a specific painting, poem, story, piece of philosophy, religious ritual, play, dance etc. Do not use terminology like hue, perspective, tempo etc. You are imitating or building from the work of another artist, philosopher, author etc.
You will share your creative effort with the class in a discussion forum. Please avoid repeating something creative you may have already done in the class discussions.
Step 1: Create your work
Produce a creative piece of writing, art, music, drama, theater, video, or audio during this semester. You may not use something you created prior to this class. Some examples are below. If you are unsure your idea will work, don’t hesitate to contact your instructor for feedback.
An alternate ending for one of the pieces of fiction in week 4.
A creative rewriting of one of the poems or short stories in week 4.
Your own poem that imitates the rhyme scheme or that uses some of the same metaphors as one of the poems in week 4.
A painting or drawing in the style of one of the artists covered in week 5.
Nail or make-up art in the style of one of the artists covered in week 5.
A video or audio of you performing your own version of one of the pieces of music from week 6.
A video of you performing your own version of one of the dances covered in week 6.
A video where you creatively retell a piece of literature from week 4 or where you present images to go with a one of the pieces of music from week 6.
A recording or audio of you acting out a short scene from one of the dramas mentioned in week 7.
Please keep any videos or audio down to 5 minutes or less. Take photos of your work to share if appropriate.
Step 2: Write about your work
Once you have produced your creative work, please address the following items in a short 300 to 400-word essay.
Identify the specific piece of art, literature, drama, music, dance etc., that you were imitating. If you are imitating a specific artist or author, provide the name of one of their works. If you imitate a particular time period or type of work, identify it.
Explain why you used this example as your inspiration.
Specifically explain what elements, techniques etc., you used from the original piece in your own, what you changed or modified and why.
Provide some general comments based on what you did in this exercise about how elements from the Humanities can be incorporated into your personal and job-related creative and thinking processes.
Provide a citation in MLA format of the Learning Resource where you found the piece you are imitating.
Step 3: Post your work and look at your classmates’ work
Post your creative piece and short essay to the appropriate discussion forum
Respond in at least 2-3 sentences to two of your classmate’s creative efforts.
Learning resources from the school library: That may be helpful but you can choose what ever inspiration make you comfortable.
Organizational Resistance to Change (And why good companies fail).
In the Module 1 Case Assignment, you will write a 5- to 6-page paper in which you analyze in-depth the reasons that good companies fail due to their reluctance to respond to changes in the internal company and the external environment.
To begin the Module 1 Case assignment, read the following article and chapter from the following sources:
Butt, J., & Ivanov, S. (2017). Study of a large office supply retail organization: How good companies slowly go out of business. International Journal of Organizational Innovation, 9(4), 100-116. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Shein’s (2011) Phases of Organizational decline? Shein, James B. (2011). Chapter One – The Phases of Decline and Early Warning Signs Reversing the slide: a strategic guide to turnarounds and corporate renewal. [Books24x7 version] Available in the Trident Online Library.
Case Assignment
After you read the foregoing sources, visit the library, and consult IBISWorld (download the IBISWorld Academic Overview). Search for “Office Supply Stores in the U.S.” Scan through the various pages associated with the large office supply retail industry, noting key areas of opportunity, key areas required for success, and key threats. Then, in a well-written 5 page paper (not including Cover and References pages), respond to the following:
Based on your research, what are the key drivers for success in the large office supply store industry? This section should be at least 2 pages in length.
What were the reasons for the failure of the Fortune 500 office supply company, as discussed in the Butt and Ivanov (2017) journal article? Are these reasons consistent with Shein’s (2011) phases of decline?
What other reasons, if any, have you identified? Are there any practical difficulties that served as barriers to needed organizational change? (This section should be at least 2 pages in length).
What recommendations would you have given the leadership of the foregoing Fortune 500 company relative to how the company may have avoided organizational failure? (This section should also be at least 2 pages in length).
Conclude your paper by identifying the key lessons you have learned from Module 1 (as taken from both the Background materials and the Module 1 Case assignment) concerning the need for ongoing adaptation on the part of the organization and the need to avoid organizational inertia and resistance to change. This section should be at least 1 page in length.
Assignment Expectations
Minimum length requirements for the Module 1 Case assignment is 5 pages (not including Title and Reference pages).
Be sure to cite at least 3 scholarly sources using APA Style
