Word cloud generators have become popular tools for meetings and team-building events. Groups or teams are asked to use these applications to input words they feel best describe their team or their role. A “word cloud” is generated by the application that makes prominent the most-used terms, offering an image of the common thinking among participants of that role.

What types of words would you use to build a nursing word cloud? Empathetic, organized, hard-working, or advocate would all certainly apply. Would you add policy-maker to your list? Do you think it would be a very prominent component of the word cloud?

Nursing has become one of the largest professions in the world, and as such, nurses have the potential to influence policy and politics on a global scale. When nurses influence the politics that improve the delivery of healthcare, they are ultimately advocating for their patients. Hence, policy-making has become an increasingly popular term among nurses as they recognize a moral and professional obligation to be engaged in healthcare legislation.

To Prepare:

• Revisit the Congress.gov website and consider the role of RNs and APRNs in policy-making.
• Reflect on potential opportunities that may exist for RNs and APRNs to participate in the policy-making process.

By Day 3 of Week 8

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy-making. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities to participate in policy-making. Be specific and provide examples.

Organizational Behavior – Week 1 Assignment

Global Mindset

Chapter 1 Understand Yourself feature gives you the chance to self-assess your global mindset. Global mindset reflects how well we influence people, groups, and organizations from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. The ability to work effectively with people from many parts of the world will help you to perform well on the job and advance your career faster. After completing the self-assessment, answer the following questions:

1. Do you think that your score accurately reflects your global mindset? Why or why not? What, if anything, is missing from the assessment?
2. How do you think that having a higher global mindset will help you to be a better manager and leader? How can this characteristic help you succeed in your career?
3. What might you do in the next year to increase your global mindset? Identify and discuss three specific behaviors, activities, or other things that increase your global mindset.

As you are answering these questions, try to see these issues from the perspective of how individual, group, organizational system, and technology affect the change process. Second, identify individual and group attributes that influence work behavior and organizational effectiveness. Last, look at different types of diversity and barriers to inclusion that exist in the workplace.

Please write a 750 word summary, including your actual results (scores, for example) along with your areas of strength and opportunities for growth.

Submit this assignment as a Word document, using the APA format. Title page and references are not included in the 750-word requirement.

Organizational Behavior – Week 2 Assignment

Work Locus of Control

Chapter 3 Understand Yourself feature gave you the chance to self-assess your work locus of control. Higher scores on the measure reflect a more external locus of control. Managers tend to have a more internal locus of control. After completing the self-assessment, answer the following questions:

1. Do you think that your score accurately reflects your locus of control at work? Why or why not?
2. How do you think that work locus of control might influence your effectiveness as a manager?
3. What do you think is the ideal locus of control in a work setting and why?
4. What might you do in the next year to make your work locus of control consistent with your answer to number 3?

Before answering these questions, make sure to draw connections of individual behavior within the organization, including diversity, job satisfaction, personality, perception, motivation and reward systems, decision-making process, and emotional intelligence, and how they relate to your work locus of control.

Please write a 750 word summary, including your actual results (scores, for example) along with your areas of strength and opportunities for growth.

Submit this assignment as a Word document, using the APA format. Title page and references are not included in the 750-word requirement.

Begin Cardiovascular/Pulmonary PowerPoint Presentation

The student will develop a PowerPoint presentation on a cardiovascular/pulmonary disorder/disease discussed in the McCance text. The presentation must provide information about the incidence, prevalence, and pathophysiology of the disease/disorder to the cellular level. The presentation must educate advanced practice nurses on assessment and care/treatment, including genetics/genomics—specific for this disorder. Patient education for management, cultural, and spiritual considerations for care must also be addressed. The presentation must specifically address how the disease/disorder affects 1 of the following age groups: infant/child, adult, or elderly.

Goal: To will develop a PowerPoint presentation on a cardiovascular/pulmonary disorder/disease discussed in the course textbook.

Format Requirements: Presentation is original work and logically organized. Followed APA format including citation of references. Power point presentation with 10-15 slides were clear and easy to read. Speaker notes expanded upon and clarified content on the slides. Incorporate a minimum of 4 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).

Content Requirements: For this assignment:

1. Select a cardiovascular or pulmonary disorder.
2. Provide information about the incidence, prevalence, and pathophysiology of the disease/disorder to the cellular level.
3. Educate advanced practice nurses on assessment and care/treatment, including genetics/genomics—specific for this disorder.
4. Provide patient education for management, cultural, and spiritual considerations for care must also be addressed.
5. Must specifically address how the disease/disorder affects 1 of the following age groups: infant/child, adult, or elderly.

Your PowerPoint presentation should be formatted per APA and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions)

Grading Rubric

Your assignment will be graded according to the grading rubric.

Presentation Rubric