Jeff’s Case 

Jeff is a 16-year-old Hispanic boy. He typically sleeps until noon on days when he does not have school. On school days, it often takes his mother 20 minutes to wake him. He recently moved from another school district and has few friends at the new school. When awake, he typically keeps to himself in his room. Jeff is not interested in school and has few hobbies. His response to most questions is “I don’t care!” He is overweight and keeps food in his room and eats it when he gets hungry at night. 

Mark’s Case 

Mark is a 52-year-old Caucasian man. He spends much of his time in bed. He recently lost his job due to his continued tardiness and poor performance. He is receiving unemployment benefits and has not started to look for a new job, as he feels no one will hire him. Mark is divorced and has not dated since his divorce was finalized 6 years ago. He often feels as if nothing matters and there is really “no point in going on.” Mark has lost 15 pounds over the last several months as he often “forgets” to eat. 

Review the two cases. Based on the information you learned from your assigned weekly readings from your textbook, respond to the following:

• Which of the persons may be more prone to a mood disorder? Apply the most current DSM criteria.
• What else would you need to know to diagnose a mood disorder? Apply the most current DSM criteria.
• What are the primary causal factors of mood disorders?
• If either of the persons were to be treated for a disorder, what are some of the treatment strategy risks or consequences?
• Does the given life stage (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age) of the person impact your understanding of the causal factors or treatment strategy?

Write your initial response in 1–2 paragraphs. If you refer to research information, cite sources applying APA standards.

Complete the "Stakeholder Analysis" spreadsheet and submit it to your instructor along with a 500-word summary of your findings. In the summary, discuss the following.

1. Summarize stakeholder attitudes about the identified problem and support your summary with specific data from your collection tool.

2. Summarize stakeholder attitudes or experiences related to previously implemented problem solutions and support your summary with specific data from your collection tool.

3. Summarize stakeholder ideas for potential solutions and support your summary with specific data from your collection tool.

4. Who are the stakeholders you will seek to act as sponsors to support you in the implementation of a problem solution? Provide specific reasons why these stakeholders are key to implementing a solution.

5. Who are the stakeholders that will likely be directly affected by solving the problem? Provide specific ways these stakeholders could be directly affected by solving the problem.

6. Who are the stakeholders who could pose potential roadblocks to solving the problem? Provide specific reasons why these stakeholders could pose potential roadblocks and what those roadblocks could be.

Communicating With Technology

Describe in detail at least three instances during the course of an average week that you are required to organize, calculate, and interpret numeric data. If your average week does not generally include organizing numerical data, you may need to be creative with this part of the discussion! For each of the instances you describe, explain how the use of different technology tools might make these tasks easier and more accurate. Provide multiple examples of technology tools including:

• portable devices (cell phones, pocket calculators, tablets), desktop computers, computer networks

Discuss any ethical, legal, and security implications of using technology to create and share numerical data.

Use properly documented sources from this course or other valid outside resources to justify, support, and expand on your response.

By the due date assigned, post your initial response of at least 150 words

2-1 Discussion: Define Your Project Statement

List your ECLIPSE statement for your project plan presentation using one of the formats listed in the Elements of a Well-Built Question article. Include an explanation of the components of your statement in your original post.

In response to your peers, provide feedback on how they could improve their statement and/or ask clarifying questions. This is to aid your peers in the development of their literature search and project development. The foundation to the final project is a well-researched statement.

US History 1

writing assignment which will consist of a short essay- between three and five paragraphs due each week via Blackboard. In this essay, you will explain what you found most and least interesting in each chapter or chapters and what you think is the most important event and/or theme present in that chapter or chapters.

The Assigned Text 

"The American Yawp: Free and Online

chapter 1: "The Collision Of Cultures"

Chapter 2: "Britain and its Colonies" 

For each assignment, you will use the M.U.S.E. link to complete the lab. Access the M.U.S.E. by clicking on Learning Materials.

In this lab, you will gather data about CO2 emissions using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Web site (Earth System Research Laboratory, n.d.) to help you write up a scientific report centered around known phenomena of CO2 emissions, related to the following question:

Would you expect to see an increase or decrease in CO2 emissions in the data over the past 40 years? Why?

Sources of CO2 Emissions

Using the M.U.S.E. link, review the background information, and access the Web site to gather your data.

Attach is all the information you should need.

Science Meets Real Life

Science Meets Real Life

Humans are naturally inquisitive and have always asked questions about the world around them. Many questions could not be answered due to a lack of available technology, but many others could be answered through the process of trial and error. Over time, the way humans ask and answer questions about the natural world was developed and shaped into what is now call the scientific method. It allows scientists to conduct research in a systematic, organized fashion.

As humans make new scientific discoveries, they are able to develop additional technologies. For example, historically people used the bark and leaves from the willow tree to treat fevers and pains. This was a traditional medicine that people shared with one another via word of mouth. As technology advanced, the materials from the willow tree could be analyzed in a lab and the components could be studied to see which natural chemicals were responsible for reducing the fevers and pain. Research showed that the willow tree contained a form of salicylic acid and that this was what gave it its healing powers. This scientific research led to the development of the aspirin we use today which is now mass produced (and that you have probably taken at some point in your lifetime).

You depend on many technologies throughout your day that make your modern life possible. In this assignment you will look at some of these technologies and the scientific discoveries that made them possible. You will evaluate both the negative and positive impacts of these discoveries. You will also broaden your scope to look at how different cultures with different levels of access to technology approach the same problem – health care.

Part I Science in your personal and professional life

Think about your day from the time you wake up to the time that you go to sleep.

• List four technologies that you rely on and would find it difficult to get through your day/night without. Do these technologies have any negative impacts on your life? Why or why not?
  • Think about your day from when you wake up to when you go to sleep. Describe one scientific discovery that makes modern life possible.
  • List as many negative and positive impacts you can think of that this scientific discovery and the technologies that it allowed to be developed may have. Evaluate and discuss if the positives outweigh the negatives overall, or whether the negatives outweigh the positives.

Part II Science and technology in a multicultural world

Many research programs around the world focus on the discovery of cures to ailments from cancer to mental illness. Modern society invests a great deal of money, and time while pushing the boundaries of modern technology to develop new cures, and improve existing treatments.

Review the following Unit 9 Assignment Resources

• Describe one advantage and one disadvantage to the westernized high tech research approach to medical treatment.
• Describe one advantage and one disadvantage to using traditional medicine as an approach to medical treatment.
• Are there benefits to having multicultural approaches to medical treatment? Explain your answer.
• Could these two cultural approaches both be improved by drawing upon the other? Why or why not?
• Discuss any challenges there may be in combining these two different cultural approaches to treatment that have a very different level of reliance on scientific research and technology.

Model 3

Select and research an issue in human services history that has impacted the delivery of services. In a 6- to 7-page report, complete the following:

Describe the issue, its background, and the key people who were involved.

Explain how the issue or these key people have changed or defined human services.

Discuss the issue and the key people's impact on theory, practices, and ethics, and how these issues have changed service delivery systems.

Evaluate and discuss if the changes are still evident today or have become extinct.

Examples of issues may include, but are not limited to, the Civil Rights Movement, Family Medical Leave Act, GI Bill, work/life balance, and childhood vaccinations

Nursing Powerpoint

Assignment:

This week you will create a two-part Power Point to discuss the following:

Part one: Peplau was the first nursing theorist to identify the nurse–patient relationship as being central to all nursing care. Peplau valued knowledge, believing that the nurse must possess extensive knowledge about the potential problems that emerge during a nurse–patient interaction. Peplau's theoretical work on the nurse–patient relationship continues to be essential to nursing practice.

Create a PowerPoint presentation describing the phases of the Nurse-Patient relationship as defined by Peplau.  Align your presentation with a current nursing practice example.

Part two: Provide a discussion of Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory.  What are the three related parts? Identify a current nursing practice example where Orem’s theory would be relevant. Use at least one evidenced-based research article to support your practice example.

Power Point should include at least 3 outside references and the textbook. It should include title and reference slides and be 14-20 slides.

READ BASIC INSTRUCTIONS-

BASIC INSTRUCTIONS-

· Do not write a paper in the PPT – clean, organized and easy to read bullets/graphs/diagrams should be used to get the message across

· Enticing background color is welcomed as well as minimal transitions and pictures to add to the message

· Title slide with title, your name and school listed

· Every slide has a heading of no more than 3-4 words

· No more than 7-8 bullets or points on a slide

· Citations are on EACH slide posted in the lower right corner as (author, year) – the exception is if you use a quote or have more than bullets for the message – than use the citation within the sentence/message – but using quotes and full sentences is completely avoided if at all possible for class PPTs!

· Reference slide compiling ALL references as the last slide in APA format; bulleted or “hanging”

Obesity In America

 Describe the effect that obesity (childhood and / or adult) has had on you personally or your community.Select one (1) contributing factor to childhood or adult obesity. Recommend two (2) preventative measures related to the selected factor that people can take in order to reduce their chance of becoming obese.Discuss one (1) sociological theory that relates to the selected contributing factor to obesity.