Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Information E-Mail or Memo: Organizing Presentations

As assistant director, you have been working on a program of speakers for the spring luncheon meetings of the National Workrights Council, a group that advocates for workers. You have received confirmation that William J. Prewarski will speak on January 11. His topic is “Wellness Programs and Employee Rights.” Bridget F. Benoit will discuss “Rising Healthcare Costs” on March 13. You are fairly certain that Joel Shaw-Jones will speak to the group on May 15. His topic is “Outrageous CEO Compensation.” For the June 9 meeting, you propose three possibilities: “The Real Cost of Offshoring,” “Perform or Perish,” or “Workplace Privacy.”
Your Task. Prepare a message addressed to Colson M. Kettler, Executive Director, National Workrights Council. Outline the proposed speaking schedule and ask him to choose a topic for June 9. Include an action closing and deadline for his response. Provide a reason for the deadline.
Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing. Use well-structured sentences, audience-appropriate language, and correct conventions of standard American English.


Monday, 10 February 2014

Care Experience

Part I: Indirect Care Experience 
Develop a pamphlet to inform parents and caregivers about environmental factors that can affect the health of infants.
Use the "Pamphlet Template" document to help you create your pamphlet. Include the following:
1. Select an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants.
2. Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.
3. Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.
4. Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research.
5. Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource.
In developing your pamphlet, take into consideration the healthcare literacy level of your target audience.


READ MORE ON THIS PAPER HERE!!!!
 

Part II: Direct Care Experience

1. Share the pamphlet you have developed with a parent of an infant child. The parent may be a person from your neighborhood, a parent of an infant from a child-care center in your community, or a parent from another organization, such as a church group with which you have an affiliation.

2. Provide a written summary of the teaching / learning interaction. Include in your summary:

a. Demographical information of the parent and child (age, gender, ethnicity, educational level).

b. Description of parent response to teaching.

c. Assessment of parent understanding.

d. Your impressions of the experience; what went well, what can be improved.

 

Submit Part I and Part II of the Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants assignment by the end of Module 1.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.