Over time, some acquaintances become our friends. 

Friends are people with whom we have voluntarily negotiated more personal relationships. Most of our interpersonal relationships fall into the categories of acquaintances or friends. 

Some are  context bound. People often refer to their tennis friends, office friends, or neighborhood friends. Close friends are those that we share close, caring, and trusting relationships with.
Prepare a 3-5 minute speech about your friends. Identify one person you have known for some time that you would consider an acquaintance, one that you would consider a friend, and one that you would consider a best friend. 

Describe each one, and your relationship with them and why you put them in the category that you did. It must be a minimum is three pages.

Speech Organization Guidelines

Introduction

Body

Conclusion

Discussion Questions

Professional nurses rely on research findings to inform practice decisions; they use critical thinking to apply research directly to specific patient care situations.

Think about an independent nursing practice problem you care passionately about and would be interested in searching for evidence.

The below problems should not be used:

*medical/doctor/physician problems such as medications, or medications administration or effects, diagnostics such as EKGs, labs, cardiac catherizations.

*staffing, nurse-to-patient ratios, workforce issues are organizational/system /political/administrative/multi-stakeholder problems which nursing cannot solve independently.

• Describe      a significant nursing clinical issue, topic of interest, or practice      problem that is important to you. Describe why you chose the      problem/topic.
• Write      your clinical question in the PICO(T) format for your nursing practice      problem.
• *To      write your clinical question in the PICO(T) format, use the NR439_Guide      for writing PICOT Questions and Examples found in your required reading or      access the following link:

NR439_Guide for writing PICOT Questions and Examples (Links to an external site.)

• List      each of your PICOT elements.

Share why you care about this nursing practice problem and why you believe the problem would benefit from finding the best evidence.

Formulate one new comment of your own. It must be a logical and thoughtful response that synthesizes the comments of 2 students.

Also directly respond to at least one classmate below in a way that extends meaningful discussions, adds new information, and/or offers alternative perspectives.

student 1. The target population that I am studying for this course is the Hispanic population in Florida. I plan to use sources such as local government websites such as the Florida Department of Health, to get a further understanding of health behaviors among the Hispanic population in Florida.

There are many sources to gain the knowledge that I need to understand the behaviors of the Hispanic population in Florida, different sources will offer different information to get the best understanding. Journal articles will be beneficial to gain knowledge from people who work around the topic, websites are also beneficial to gaining information because there are many government websites that share valid information. Looking at news reports on the topic can give information about specific communities and further information about how the people in the community feel and how the behaviors of the target population is having a negative effect on their health.

student 2. The target population I’m exploring to get a better understanding of behaviors is the Hispanic/Latino population in Waukegan, IL.  The sources I plan to utilize will be peer reviewed, scholarly journals, local websites, and case studies.

Waukegan, IL population have over 87.6 thousand people. A majority of the resident there, 55.6 percent, are Hispanic/Latino (Data USA, n.d.). Many are undocumented and lack health insurance coverage. Utilizing peer review sources and scholarly journals will provide scholarly reviews writing and reviewed by experts. This will help to ensure my presentation has articles of good quality and scientifically valid.

The best way to address the health issues that affect the Hispanic population is to get a clear understanding of how they think and other factors such as the biological, behavioral, physical, and socioenvironmental areas (Institute of Medicine, 2002). So, when developing my presentation, I plan to use local websites such press releases, new reports, and case studies to reach and engage the Hispanic community and community leaders.

Consider a community that you are familiar with. What issues threaten the ability for that community to thrive? (Links to an external site.) Refer to the sample topics page to help choose an issue, if you need some guidance. You will be providing context/background for the topic as well as evaluating strategies, models, programs, or initiatives associated with it. Do these strategies or programs work? Examine the challenges and successes. Develop an argument for “best practices or solutions”. the issue can be related to these –

Suggested Paper Ideas:

Cosmopolis: local cultures, globalization, diaspora

Cultural, heritage (or traditional) preservation

Architectural erasure & preservation of communities, landscape, communities

The meaning of cultural sustainability and sustainable heritage development

Belonging and identity: their environmental, economic, and social significance

Changing patterns and cultures of consumption

Women and men, children and the elderly, families and sustainability

Cultural dimensions of childbearing and population growth

Cultural tourism & impacts to local economy

Indigenous peoples: self-government, self-management, and cultural autonomy

Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices of sustainability: broadening the scope of valid knowledge

Equity, Diversity, & Social Justice

Gender and sustainability

Poverty and its eradication

Health in its environmental, cultural, economic, and social contexts (social determinants of health)

Prison System & Recidivism

Environmental preservation -land, culture, identity

Urbanization and the sustainability of human settlement & gentrification

Self -determination & cooperative economics