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Case Study

| February 2, 2019

Greg Case Study: Peggy and Gary had been married for five years, and had been trying to have a child. They had undergone artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization, but each pregnancy had resulted in a miscarriage. Peggy and Gary decide that surrogacy was their best option and placed an advertisement in the local college […]

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CONCEPTS AND THEORIES OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR

| February 2, 2019

The Session Long Project (SLP) is a progressive assignment that involves assessing a health behavior; researching and identifying an evidence-based model or best practice strategies to best address the health behavior; creating a plan (i.e., program or an intervention) and outlining implementation procedures; and suggesting appropriate evaluation tools to measure effectiveness of the proposed program […]

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Personal Health Behavior

| February 2, 2019

Drawing from the required readings for this module and your personal, professional, and/or educational experience: Identify one health behavior that you personally want to improve upon. Identify and describe one model/theory of health behavior that you will use to improve the behavior you identified in #1 above. Get a 10 % discount on an order […]

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Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice

| February 2, 2019

Differentiate between nursing research and evidence-based practice. The posting  requires one reference from an English titled, peer reviewed NURSING journal less than 5 y/o. and a reference from the course textbook: Polit, D. E & Beck, C. T. (2018). Essentials of nursing research: Appraising evidence for nursing practice(9th. ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Professional, governmental, […]

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Participation

| February 2, 2019

Unit 4 Class Participation: Polit and Beck (2018), Chapter 3 or 7 The highest potential points for in-class participation are 5-points. Please use these guidelines for online  participation. To earn points for weekly class participation, you must submit a one paragraph (100-125 words) summary of one of the required Polit and Beck (2018): Polit, D. […]

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Investigation

| February 1, 2019

Investigate a small, independent recording company (of which there are tens of thousands throughout the United States and the world). Visit its Web site, and/or e-mail or telephone the company. In your investigation,  proceed through the steps of the critical process (listed below). Write up your analysis in 4- 5 pages (double spaced). Your written responses should be […]

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Anti-oppressive social work practice

| February 1, 2019

Anti-oppressive social work means critically reflecting on your own cultural identities and how the social environment impacts these identities. Acknowledging power and privilege can be uncomfortable; however, with values of multiculturalism and social justice, social workers are committed to engaging in their own personal work and addressing social barriers clients may experience. Social workers view […]

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Action Research Study

| February 1, 2019

Action research by its very nature is participatory and should allow all interested parties to participate in voicing their opinions, concerns, or ideas. Survey creation is often an attractive method by which to collect information from groups of people (though it is not the only method). Since action research is often less formalized than other […]

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Explanation in Personality Theory

| February 1, 2019

How does the idea of a person as the processor provides an explanation in personality theory- either individual or social? How would you analyze the cognitive paradigm, including current criteria? What is a current example demonstrating the concepts? Get a 10 % discount on an order above $ 100 Use the following coupon code : […]

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Case Study On Death And Dying

| February 1, 2019

The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and understanding of a diversity of faith expressions; for the purpose of this course, the focus will be on the Christian worldview. Based on “Case Study: End of Life Decisions,” the […]

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