Understanding the importance of organizational change and how leadership impacts change is part of the process of working successfully with change. Listening to organizational stories based on leadership styles, roles, and images from change agents/leaders is important to learning how change may or may not be successful within an organization. Change agents/leaders follow at least […]

Nursing is a very highly regulated profession. There are over 100 boards of nursing and national nursing associations throughout the United States and its territories. Their existence helps regulate, inform, and promote the nursing profession. With such numbers, it can be difficult to distinguish between BONs and nursing associations, and overwhelming to consider various benefits […]

Nurse-scholars have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to erode quickly or worse.   Fortunately, there are […]

New construction projects begin with a design phase, where architects blueprint the vision complete with design details. They work in collaboration with builders who use the designs to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools, and materials to bring the vision to reality. You are both architect and builder of your success. You have started to blueprint […]

When pediatric clients present with mood disorders, the process of assessing, diagnosing, and treating them can be quite complex. Children not only present with different signs and symptoms than adult clients with the same disorders, but they also metabolize medications much differently. As a result, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners must exercise caution when prescribing […]

1. In your own words, explain Ridley’s argument based on utilitarianism and the Ideal Experimenter. According to Ridley, how might the Ideal Experimenter effectively be persuaded to conform to non-utilitarian standards of experimental practices? 2. In the end, do you think Ridley’s argument succeeds? Suppose some researchers performed experiments on children in which many of […]

To prepare: • Read this article listed in the Learning Resources: Turner, K., & Lehning, A. J. (2007). Psychological theories of poverty. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 16(1/2), 57–72. doi:10.1300/J137v16n01-05 • Select a theory under the individual-related theories and a theory under the structural/cultural-related theories. • Complete the handout “Comparing Individual-Related and […]

This week you should be looking for a news articles that deal with employment laws or with discrimination in the workplace. Your entry should:   Summarize your article Explain how it relates to the weekly text materials, and Why you found it interesting.   You should then attach the news article to your entry.

To prepare: • Read this article listed in the Learning Resources: Turner, K., & Lehning, A. J. (2007). Psychological theories of poverty. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 16(1/2), 57–72. doi:10.1300/J137v16n01-05 • Select a theory under the individual-related theories and a theory under the structural/cultural-related theories. • Complete the handout “Comparing Individual-Related and […]

To prepare: • Read this article listed in the Learning Resources: Turner, K., & Lehning, A. J. (2007). Psychological theories of poverty. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 16(1/2), 57–72. doi:10.1300/J137v16n01-05 • Select a theory under the individual-related theories and a theory under the structural/cultural-related theories. • Complete the handout “Comparing Individual-Related and […]