Discussion

Instructions:

1. Respond to EACH of the three Module 2 discussion questions presented below (questions A, B & C). Do so using separate posts for each question; do NOT respond to multiple questions within the same single post.
2. Continue to participate by submitting additional follow up posts in response to each question. Before the module ends, be sure to provide at least TWO substantive responses to EACH of the following discussion questions:

Question A: Examine either (a) the Kalam Cosmological Argument and/or (b) the Anthropic Teleological Argument, as discussed in the text. Is either more plausible than the other? Why or why not?

Question B: What are “properly basic” beliefs? Can a belief in God be one, if the whole notion of a “properly basic” belief is justified?

Question C: Which of the following accounts of God do you find most plausible: (1) God as personal, as understood by traditional Western theism; (2) God as an impersonal force, as understood by Spinoza and Shankara; or (3) God as understood by process theology, as a quasi-personal God but not the creator of the world ex nihilo or “out of nothing”; or (4) none of the above? Why?

Leadership Innovation

1- Identify and explain four concepts about CPS that you learned in the textbook that you can apply to your personal or professional life. This is to give specific examples of exact things you can and will do.

2- Elaborate on the risks in not applying CPS to the specific examples given in question 1 above this week. Generalities and “pie in the sky” are not graduate level responses. Be sure to cite the textbook for each concept.

Note

Both responses for question 1 and 2 above is to be approximately 500 words.

Project

Initial Postings: Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook must be the primary source utilized and listed in your reference section (and properly cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion. This means that they support the material from the textbook. Do not use other sources to substitute for or replace the textbook.

Provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

Define and provide one example each of a known known, known unknown, and unknown unknown you have encountered on previous projects. Which of the these would be addressed during planning phase? Which would be the basis for listing on a risk register? Why?
To help identify risks, what are some questions a project manager could ask when reviewing the project charter and WBS? Why would these be the questions to ask?
Your post must be substantive and demonstrate insight gained from the course material. Postings must be in the student’s own words – do not provide quotes!

Note

Your initial post should be at least 500+ words and in APA format (written in full , using proper paragraph structure, sources cited within the body of the main text and Times New Roman with font size 12).

Response to Other Student Postings: Respond substantively (at least 100 words) to the post of at least two peers, . A peer response such as “I agree with her,” or “I liked what he said about that” or similar comments are not considered substantive and will not be counted for course credit. Also, just repeating information from the course material or your own initial post does not satisfy these criteria.

EST by highlighting differences between your postings and your colleagues’ postings. Provide additional insights or alternative perspectives. This means an on-going conversation in addition to the two required responses above.

Evaluation of posts and responses: Your initial posts and peer responses will be evaluated on the basis of the kind of critical thinking and engagement displayed. The grading rubric evaluates the content based on four areas: Content Knowledge & Structure, Critical Thinking, Presentation & Writing Mechanics, and Response to Other Students

Discussion 11 (Analyzing)

This week we turn our attention to annotations. Annotation is a crucial component of good data visualization. It can turn a boring graphic into an interesting and insightful way to convey information. This week, please navigate to any site and find a graphic that could use some annotation work. Add the graphic and the website it is found as an attachment to this post and note what you would do to enhance the graphic and note why you would make these decisions.

Note

In response to peers, add additional information to their posts noting what else could be done to enhance the graphic.

This should be a minimum of 300 words, checked with Grammarly, with at least one APA formatted reference.

Child obesity

Child obesity is a medical condition that affects both teenagers and children, resulting in having too much fat stored within the body and negatively affecting the child.  There are many factors that contribute to childhood obesity in America.  One of the key things is that only 2% of children in America get healthy foods. That means that 2% or less consume a well-balanced diet while 98% or more children do not receive proper nutrition. Obesity in children contributes to reduced life expectancy, and there is a need to develop better eating habits among the children to rescue cases of the chronic trend. To address this problem, I went to the CINAHL database under the nursing database options. I then conducted a search for “childhood obesity” and “prevention” to obtain evidence-based results for this topic. There were thousands of articles to choose from so I randomly browsed the options until I found one that would pique my interest. The most consistently mentioned intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity was nutrition and exercise. More specifically, the nutritional patterns of the parents were more likely to indicate the risk of childhood obesity. For this problem, my intervention will be a nutritional training program that is family based coupled with structured family exercise. Eating behaviors include poor diets where the child might be eating foods rich in fats and sugar such as fast foods, particularly sna (Suarez, 2020). Calories should be limited for sugary foods and those rich in fats (Filgueiras et al., 2019).

University of Saint Augustine for Health Sciences

NUR7050: Evidence-Based Practice for Nurse Leaders

NOTE: An abstract is not required

NOTE: This is a template and guide. Delete all highlighted materials.

Note that in APA there is no heading that says Introduction. The paragraph or two that follows the title on the first page of your text is assumed to be your introduction. Your introduction follows the title of your paper (note that it is not bolded). You should start your introduction with a powerful statement or two to stimulate interest. You should identify the purpose of your paper and provide a preview of what the paper will include. Remember that formal papers are in general in third person so no I, me, we; however, you can use first person in the search section since you are describing what you did.

Significance of the Practice Problem

Start this section with identification of the practice problem. This section should also answer the question “why is this important?” You should address the significance to the patient/client (e.g., pain, suffering, quality of life, impact on income potential, etc.), the family, healthcare system (e.g., impact on cost or delivery systems), and society (e.g., cost of care, need for healthcare policy). Discuss the incidence and/or prevalence and include the financial impact if at all possible. You might discuss the impact on length of stay, readmission, home health care requirements, disability and/or mortality. Also, you should address any quality, safety, legal, and ethical implications. This discussion MUST be substantiated by citations from professional literature.

PICOT Question

This section should include your PICOT question but also should provide thorough descriptions of your population, intervention, comparison intervention, outcome, and timing. This section contains, in essence, your operational definitions of the variables in the question. If you use definitions from the literature be sure to cite them.

Population/Problem

Describe the population by age, gender, diagnosis, personal habit, procedure, etc. Be thorough. Describe the population by age, gender, diagnosis, personal habit, procedure, etc. Be thorough. Remember that this is the population that most closely matches the population where you would conduct your EBP change but not so specifically like that population that you cannot find that population in the scientific literature related to your problem and intervention.

Intervention

Describe the intervention being investigated as a possible means to achieve the outcome. Be thorough and include citations which support this intervention for your selected practice problem.

Comparison

Describe the comparison. If the comparison is usual treatment, describe what that usual treatment is and include citations to support that it is usual treatment.

Outcome

Describe the outcome. It should be measurable since you will need to describe how you are going to measure it in your evaluation plan. If you know of a tool to measure the outcome, briefly describe it here. Again, citations are necessary.

Timing

Timing may be related to an event (e.g., 6 months after injury) or is how long after initiation of your intervention would you expect to see a change in the outcome. Use citations to support the appropriateness of the timing.

Search Strategy and Results

This section should include a description of keywords, inclusion and exclusion criteria, which databases were searched and the results of the search. You also need to identify Figure 1, which is a diagram showing the results of your search. Your final number of primary research studies and/or systematic reviews after exclusion criteria is applied should be between five and ten. If you have more than that, then you need to narrow your search, perhaps by publication date range. You need to identify why you eliminate any primary research studies or systematic reviews that meet your inclusion criteria and do not meet your exclusion criteria. One acceptable reason would be poor quality of study. (NOTE: If you did not find at least 8-10 primary quantitative research studies and/or systematic reviews to answer your practice question, it is a research question rather than an EBP question and you need to change your question.)

Conclusion

The conclusion should start with a statement regarding the intention of the paper and your achievement toward that intention. Also, it should briefly say what was included in the paper. Remember that the introduction is a preview and this section should contain a summary.

References

Remember that this is a reference list rather than a bibliography. A bibliography is everything you read to prepare the paper but a reference list is only what you cited. If there is not a citation for a reference, it should not be here. PLEASE make sure that your references and your citations throughout the paper are in APA 7^th format. You can go from an A paper to a B paper on APA errors alone. Take the time to make sure that they are correct. We have already formatted the paper for you with this template.

Figure 1

Results of Search for Research Evidence

Use http://prisma.thetacollaborative.ca/ to generate a diagram describing the results of your search. Paste it here.

 

PICOT: Does parental nutritional and exercise behavior have a greater effect at preventing childhood obesity when compared to behaviors that kids are exposed to outside of the home?

 

 

 

Parent Literacy Presentation

As early childhood educators, it is our responsibility to assist parents in encouraging the development of literacy in their children. One way to do this is by providing resources to our parents on how they can foster literacy at home (Coats, 2013).

To prepare for this assignment,

• Review Chapter 5 in the course textbook.
• Read the document Add Notes to Your Slides Download Add Notes to Your Slides.

Your presentation must include the following:

• Title slide.
• Defend the importance of reading to young children (at least one slide).
• Describe effective resources for story or music time (at least one slide).
• Examine how to decide what types of books are appropriate for young learners (at least one slide).
• Include a list of suggested books that will benefit each type of literacy (linguistic, audio, visual, gestural, spatial, and tactile) and an explanation of why these books will benefit each type of literacy (at least one slide).
• Describe at least two community resources and/or organizations (local to your area) that you would suggest to parents for accessing literacy materials (at least one slide).
• Determine at least six online resources that parents can use to promote their child’s literacy development (at least two slides).
• Reference slide.
• Each slide should be designed to clearly and concisely address the material.
• The notes section of the PowerPoint must be utilized to expand on your presented points and include any additional information necessary to explain the student’s point of view.

Instructions

• Must be seven slides in length (not including title and references slides) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation(Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title slide with the following:
  • Title of project
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources(Links to an external site.)table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this presentation, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.