Nursing

Serial Killers

Serial Killers

Serial Killers

For this assignment you will review a serial killer’s case in depth. The killer you choose to review will also be the subject of your Week 5 final assignment, so keep your research material handy.

First, choose one of the following serial killers:

  • David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”) taunted police over a year and shot 15 people (6 died) in New York City. The movie “Summer of Sam” was about this time.
  • Gary Ridgway (the “Green River Killer”) holds the American record for most victims. He confessed to killing 48 over a 16-year period but is suspected of having killed many more!
  • Wayne B. Williams is believed to be the killer of 24 children and young men in Atlanta, though there is still some doubt.
  • John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were the “DC snipers” who shot 13 people (ten died) over three weeks in the Washington DC area in 2002.
  • Ted Bundy: Confessed to almost 30 murders (there may have been more). He was known for being smart and good-looking, and acted as his own lawyer.
  • Jeffrey Dahmer: His case captured worldwide attention after his capture, mostly due to his habit of keeping parts of his victims long after their deaths, as well as cannibalism and necrophilia.
  • Kristen Gilbert: An example of a female serial killer, she was a nurse who killed hospital patients in her care.

For this assignment, create a 4- to 5-page report in Microsoft Word that covers the following points:

  • Summarize the case: time period, location, number of victims, etc.
  • Describe the killer’s background, methods, and area of operation.
  • Determine which of the theories from Week 2 relate to this killer and show why you made this determination.
  • How did the killer select his or her victims? Was there anything that the victims did to provoke the killer? Are the victims in this case in any way responsible for their own deaths?
  • By analyzing all of the above information, you should now be able to propose a three-part typology and explain your analysis. Your typology should describe the killer’s motivation, location, and organized or disorganized factors. For instance, John Wayne Gacy might be described as a Power/Control, local, organized killer.

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cardiovascular disorders

cardiovascular disorders

This week you have learned about common cardiovascular disorders in the Adult and Geriatric patient. For the purpose of this discussion write on nursing the following cardiovascular disorders and provide the following in your initial post:

Cardiovascular disorders:

  • CHF
  • Valve disorders
  • Angina
  • PVD

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Professional Development Exercises: Nursing Ethics

Professional Development Exercises: Nursing Ethics

Professional Development Exercises :

Please combine all of these responses into a single Microsoft Word document for submission

Please submit only complete assignments (not partial or “draft” assignments).

Submit only the assignments corresponding to the module in this section.

You are not required to adhere to the 500-1000 word count for each of the responses, but please be thorough in your responses so that you adequately address all aspects of each question.

 

1. The paper should be written in APA format and not question and answer form.

2. Please maintain your TurnIt In similarity index at 0% as indicated in the getting started page.

3. Avoid writing in the first or second person (e.g. I, we, you, us). Speak in the third person form (e.g. he, him, his, himself, she, her, hers, herself, it, its, itself, they, them, their, theirs, and themselves). If you need to refer to yourself, use “the author”

4. References must be scholarly peer reviewed articles. All references, need to be within 5 years (so nothing later than 2013) as indicated in the Getting Started page tab.

5. Avoid using references from .com sites because they are typically privately owned and have biased. Use references from .edu (education), .gov (government), or .org (non-profit organization) sites.

6. In text citations. Please review you create in text citations.

Paraphrasing: Medical surgical nurses possess skills required in specialty departments (Smith, Jones, & Johson, 2015).

Direct quote: “Medical surgical nurses possess skills required in specialty department” (Smith, Jones, & Johnson, 2015, p. 200).

Direct quote: A study by Smith, Jones, and Johnson (2015) found that “medical surgical nurses possess skills required in specialty department” (p.123).

7. The first time you use an acronym write out what each letter of it stands for and put the initials in parentheses. For example,

cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

8. Make your sentences succinct and too the point. Try to limit it to approximately 20 words, otherwise it makes it convoluted for your reader.

9. Do not start you sentence with a demonstrative pronoun (This, That, These, Those). Demonstrative pronouns are typically reserved for the spoken language when the person speaking can gesture toward the object they are talking about.

10. Avoid starting a sentence with “it” because emphasis is placed on that word, and you message loses vividness.

11. Page requirements: I believe you can cover the topics sufficiently with a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 7 pages EXCLUDING your reference page.

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Paragraph 2- Please respond to the following post.

Paragraph 2- Please respond to the following post.

Please respond to the following post with a long paragraph, with references and citations, in alphabetical order.

Define critical thinking and evidence-based practice. Discuss what critical thinking in nursing practice entails and explain why it is important. Discuss the role of critical thinking and evidence-based practice as they relate to patient outcomes.

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