For this first Reflection Paper, you will identify a health issue that impacts an African American subpopulation at a worse rate than whites. This subpopulation can be broad (e.g., women, children, adolescents, college students, people over the age of 65, transgender individuals) or more narrow (e.g., women in the Southeast, children between 8-17, adolescents in […]

For your initial post, identify 3 key takeaways from whatever you read or listen to. What did you find significant, interesting, or surprising, and why? How does this information illuminate, amplify, and/or complicate what you read about cognitive biases in the textbook last week? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1phvO8sY2l5kJzIIyYNycPp-uw5wGfVfpUC5bA2Vx4FM/edit?pli=1#heading=h.2tteejpanjb7

#1 Currently, the law states that a woman must see a physician in person before she can use mifepristone (the abortion pill RU 486) to induce an abortion. The law prohibits using a video conference with the physician and the medication being administered by a nonphysician. Legislators are seeking information on which they can base […]

Assignment No. 1: Economic Choices and Inefficiency in Business As outlined in the first two chapters of BSZ, economics focuses on the choices that people make. In the simplest of terms, we can consider a choice to be rational if and when the benefits of that choice are at least as great as its costs […]

What qualities do you feel a nurse leader should possess and why? Compare and contrast, provide scenarios or examples comparing good versus bad nursing leadership (feel free to use examples from personal experiences and observations without; anonymously of course) to illustrate the point of poor and ineffective versus good and effective nursing leadership. What did […]

Nurses can be an integral part of designing public policy as political leaders. As a registered nurse, you have a professional commitment to improve health care. However, many nurses are not politically active and do not lobby for important aspects of their profession. What are the reasons many nurses do not actively engage in lobbying […]

Step one of this mini-term is to choose a play to read, based on whatever your interests are! Plays on the curated list are sorted by a general topic tag (some appear in more than one tag!) If you don’t see anything that interests you, OR you feel more adventurous and want to see what […]

Research two current news articles regarding the transformation of Saudi Healthcare through the new insurance scheme. Compare and contrast the authors’ ideas. Do you agree with their support or concerns regarding implementing insurance? How has the mandatory health insurance affected you or your family?

I.Q. (intelligence quotient): In general, it is an assessment of your ability to think and reason. An IQ score is a standardized way of comparing this ability with the majority of people the same age as you. A score of 100 means that compared to these people in your general age group, you have basically […]

Most of the ethical prescriptions of normative moral philosophy tend to fall into one of the following three categories: deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. These categories in turn put an emphasis on different normative standards for judging what constitutes right and wrong actions. Moral psychologists and behavioral economists such as Jonathan Haidt and Dan Ariely […]