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Reflective Paper #2: Complete the following free online assessments and print your results: 1. Assertiveness Quiz 1 http://stress.about.com/library/assertiveness_quiz/bl_assertiveness_quiz.htm 2. Assertiveness Quiz 2 http://www.headinjury.com/assertquiz.htm 3. Assertiveness Skills Builder http://www.headinjury.com/assertskills.html 4. Five Steps to Assertiveness http://stress.about.com/od/relationships/ht/howtoassert.htm Read the following chapters in your course textbook, Personal and Interprofessional Communication; Career Planning and Development; and the journal article posted in your Blackboard course titled Mentoring: Some cautionary notes for the nursing profession Course text book name is: Nursing Leadership and management by Patricia Kelly and Heather Crawford second addition Writing Reflective Paper 2: The purpose of this paper is for you to use feedback from these assessments and information from assigned readings, in combination with what you already know about yourself, to critically analyze your own strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for growth. There is no right level of assertiveness, and you are not required to accept everything that the online assessments tell you as the literal truth. However, it is essential that you be open to considering new information and new perspectives on your interactions with others. Part I: Personal Profile Describe yourself, as reflected in the results of online assessments. Include: a. Did you get similar results from all the quizzes? b. What surprised you, if anything? Do you disagree with any of the results? Explain why. c. (For example, you might be more aggressive with your spouse and more assertive with your siblings, or more assertive at home and more passive at work). Part II: Application of New Insights to a Specific Situation Be Specific and give at least one concrete example from your clinical experience that illustrates how your assertiveness affected/affects your behavior. Be sure to include: a. How your actions in the situation showed your individual assertiveness style. b. How your degree of assertiveness may have differed from that of others in the situation, or from what others expected of you; and how this influenced the outcome of the situation. c. If this situation arose again, what you would do differently? Part III: Reflections for Personal and Professional Growth Thinking about the new insights you may now have about yourself, and possibly others, from both Reflective Paper 1 and now Paper 2: a. What would you like to change or develop in yourself? How could you go about making these changes? Is assertiveness something you would like to develop? How does this information on assertiveness add to what you learned about yourself in Reflective Paper 1? b. How could you use this knowledge about yourself (knowledge about your own assertiveness) to improve interacting with patients, families, and staff, or your family and friends? c. How could a mentor help you develop the areas you identified for growth from Reflective Paper 1 and this Paper 2? How would you find such a mentor? Be specific! Find resources below: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6101690/ https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=7DAxBgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Nursing+leadership+and+management+and+interpersonal+and+interprofessional+communication&ots=uYvyI-yxSq&sig=Crg-wU8a7h-Ls-ynAK-OOfxNkWk#v=onepage&q=Nursing%20leadership%20and%20management%20and%20interpersonal%20and%20interprofessional%20communication&f=false http://careersinnursing.ca/new-grads-and-job-seekers/career-services/Landing-Nursing-Job https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25267130 my result for test one 1 assertive

As citizens, we have the responsibility to ensure that people are afforded the opportunity to live in a good place. One of our civic duties is to vote to uphold the democratic values our country is founded upon. When someone violates the accepted order, part of their punishment is to suspend or vacate their right to vote. Although voting may not seem to be a big concern, the voting process is the way we, as a country, choose who will make and enforce our laws.
This is not a simple matter. Explore the issue and make a determination. Do not focus exclusively on what you want to see, but look at the entire picture. Failing to consider alternate viewpoints will only make your argument weak. Support your argument with evidence. Keep in mind that this can be a very divisive issue and you must state your case to an audience that ranges from apathetic to hostile.

You know your ethical standards are above reproach but you are not too sure about the 120 or so employees who work for the agency. What would you do to elevate the ethical consciousness of everyone who works for the organization?In responding to this question, you are expected to draw on the Fry text, the supplemental articles you have read to date, and the Cooper and Johnson texts.The text books are below: Frank J. Barrett and Ronald Fry, Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Organizational Capacity. Taos Institute Publications. 2008 Second Printing. ISBN-13:978-0-7880-2163-3Terry L. Cooper, The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 5th edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006 ISBN-13:978-0-7879-7651-4Craig E. Johnson, Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow 6th Edition. LA, Ca.: Sage Publications ISBN: 978-1-5063-2163-9

Reflect on your current knowledge and life experience of Personal Effectiveness.1. Write a 1- to 2-page definition of personal effectiveness in your own words.
2. Include at least three sections in this assignment.

b. Explain why you believe those elements are personally effective.
c. Construct a 1-sentence definition of personal effectiveness for yourself that you can use as a reference point in making life decisions.Refer to Personal and Professional Effectiveness PowerPoint.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT AND DIVERSITY Create an overview of the issue and its potential impact on the organization and patient care. Explain why the issues you identified are critical to the healthcare industry in establishing high quality and patient outcomes. Identify research that supports your assumption. Identify strategies to address identified issue.

Assignment 2 meets the following course objectives:Apply a sociological perspective to the social world.
Analyze contemporary social issues using the sociological imagination and use sociological theories and concepts to analyze everyday life.
Demonstrate the ability to identify, locate, and retrieve information related to the topics in the course.
PurposeThe primary goal of this exercise is to apply your developing sociological knowledge and skills to the analysis of a current event.

Written Assignment | Position Paper (Lucy Donovan and Cromwell College Case)A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to. Your job is to take one side of an argument and persuade your audience that you have well-founded knowledge of the topic being presented. It is important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims, as well as to address the counterclaims to show that you are well informed about both sides.Read pp. 409-415 (Ch. 9b) Business Cornerstone BookSummary of what the reading was about: This girl Lucy Donovan, who attends Cromwell College needed to pass her Introduction to American Politics midterm the only issue was that her professor didnt really go over the necessary material for her to pass the mid term. Her professors past test were extremely difficult for her because Prof. Sanders would use the test from a different professor test the year before to test his students. The professor who made the test actually did teach his students the information unlike prof sanders. Lucy knew if she failed the Midterms her parents would send her back home. A few days before her mid terms Lucy was at her work study job in the political science department and was informed she needed to scan and print some papers. While doing so she came across the mid term for her American Politics test. She didnt know what is was at first until she read the title and took a glance at the essay question that would be 50% of her grade for that test. She read the topic but the afterwards flipped the paper over so she could read anymore. The topic was the positions on federalism taken by Madison and Hamilton. Lucy really wanted to pass this midterm with at least a C so she did her research on the topic and took several notes. On the day of the midterm she applied what she had learned and after the test she felt horrible. She went to the dean and told them what happened. She thought that they might go easy on her cause she came forwarded about it. She is sill waiting for the rule of her case. Question at Issue: Follow the guide carefully as that will help you learn how to write an effective position paper.
Guidelines:
-Word document 2-3 pages in length double-spaced, 11 pt.
-Your written report will be graded carefully for the requirements outlined in the Grading Guide as well as quality of content, grammar, format, style, clarity, proofreading and editing.
-You will need to refer to the UHD Honesty Policy to complete this assignment:
https://www.uhd.edu/administration/employment-services-operations/resou rces/Documents/PS03A19.pdf#search=honesty%20policy

For this week’s small class, please read Chapters #45, 46, and one TBA. The Trolley Problem, and Death.Read also The Lifeboat Case. The trolley problem and the lifeboat case are classics in moral philosophy. They are meant to be difficult, and challenging.For your own use, prepare notes on the readings. Your notes should summarize (briefly) the main points of the three articles. You will need these for this week’s seminar prep.Then prepare (in writing) a brief set of notes on 2 questions:1. Remember to use materials from the readings, and from ethical theories.2. If you were the captain in the Lifeboat case, what would you do, and why? Remember – same reminder as #1.

Michael Vasquez was proud of his job as a new product manager for a technology start-up, and he loved the challenges, risks and tough decisions that went along with the job. But as he sat in his office after a long day, he was troubled, struggling over what had happened earlier that day and the information he now knows.Just before lunch, Michaels boss had handed him a pile of private strategic documents from their closest competitor. It was a competitive intelligence gold mine product plans, pricing strategies, partnership agreements and other documents, most clearly marked private and confidential. When Michael asked where the documents came from, his boss told him with a touch of pride that he had taken them right off the competing firms server. I got into a private section of their intranet and downloaded everything that looked interesting, he said. Later, realising Michael was suspicious, the boss would say only that he had obtained electronic access via a colleague and had not personally broken any passwords. Maybe not, Michael thought to himself, but this situation wouldnt pass the 60 Minutes test. If word of this acquisition of a competitors confidential data ever got out to the press, the companys reputation would be ruined.Michael didnt feel good about using these materials. He spent the afternoon searching for answers to his dilemma, but found no clear company policies or regulations that offered any guidance. His sense of fair play told him that to use the information was unethical, if not downright illegal. What bothered him even more was the knowledge that this kind of thing might happen again. Using this confidential information would certainly give him and his company a competitive advantage, but Michael wasnt sure he wanted to work for a firm that would stoop to such tactics.Sources: Adapted from Weber, Kent (JanuaryFebruary 2001). Gold Mine or Fools Gold? Business Ethics, 18.Questions:What is the ethical issue in this scenario?
What should Michael do? Justify your answer using at least two ethical theories.
Do you perceive Michaels boss to be ethical or unethical? Explain your answer in detail
Should Michael blow the whistle? Define whistleblowing. Explain what motivates whistle-blowers and under what circumstances whistleblowing is justified?
Based on the case study, provide four reasons why ethics is relevant to business?
Word limit: 1800 words References: Students should use at least 12 references including academic journals, books, industry sources and newspaper articles (media sources)Structure of the responses in a report formatTitle page
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Would you recommend the use of a cognitive ability test as part of the process for selecting supervisors of production workers in a manufacturing organization? Why or why not? Explain your rationale providing as much detail as possible.