Describe the difference between research and quality improvement. Provide a workplace example where qualitative and quantitative research is applied and how it was used within your organization. When replying to peers, discuss how these research findings might be incorporated into another health care setting.

Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers. 

How-To Teaching Tips

This week’s discussion consists of two parts. Both parts are required:

Part One: Re-read one of the how-to essays in the textbook and identify as many of the Eight Teaching Tips as you can. List any tips the essay doesn’t use.

You may use the same essay you picked last week or one of the others from the following list:

• “Your First Kill” by Aaron Kenedi (p. 232)
• “The Semi-Sweet Science” by Oscar Villalon (p. 234)
• “How to Feed a Fish” by Isabelle Wattenberg (p. 237)
• “How to be Younger” by Laura Kate James (p. 352)
• “Scratch that Itch” by Bennett Lindsey (p. 355)
• “The Sprout Route” by Winston Bell (p. 356)
• “Why Falling in Love Feels so Good” by Judy Krause (p. 358)

Alternative: Go to YouTube and look up a “How to” video (type “How to” in YouTube’s search engine, and many will pop up). Watch a short video—no more than 10 minutes–and identify as many of the Eight Teaching Tips as you can. Note any of the tips not used in the video. Include a link to your video or embed the video in your post.

Part Two: Tell the class the topic of your how-to essay and ask them to generate every possible question they would like answered or that other readers might like answered in your essay.

In your responses, did you notice any other teaching tips present or absent (Part 1)? Also, generate as many questions as you can for your classmates’ essays (Part 2).

 You have a project of opening up a new intermediate care unit in your hospital which includes cross training current nurses. What will be your goal. What will be your objectives, Describe the goals you have set for this project. Please include 3  APA 7references not more than 4 years old. 

You start with your research paper and work on it throughout the semester. Please follow 4 steps when you work on your research paper. Please review Research Paper Grading Criteria Rubric and sample paper in module 5. 

Step 1: Select a research topic directly related to marriage and the family covered in the textbook or beyond the book.    

Step 2: After you select your paper topic, you review literature. Or you start with literature review and then select a research topic. In literature review, you browse the Internet and visit the library to collect the existing data about the topic under study. There are two purposes of reviewing literature. First, you gather the existing data about the topic under study. Literature review will help you decide how you will work on your paper. By reviewing literature, you will know how to fit your research in the mainstream of the area under study. 
Step 3: You formulate a hypothesis. For example, you try to find out the main causes or effects of divorce. You can hypothesize that the loss of sexual desire is more likely to cause divorce. This probably is one of the hypotheses you formulated. Remember that hypotheses should be direct, specific, and measurable. Please post your paper topic and two hypotheses in module 5.

Step 4: You design questionnaire based on your two hypotheses and use your survey results and your secondary sources to support your two hypotheses. 

Step 5: You write your paper and please refer to grading criteria and sample paper because your paper is graded according to the grading rubric. Please submit your paper including title page, introduction, literature review, methodology, discussion, conclusion, and reference page using APA guidelines in Module 5. 

How to formulate a hypothesis?

A hypothesis is a suggested explanation of a phenomenon. A hypothesis is a statement of the relationships between factors or causes and the problem or phenomenon under study.  

You as a researcher can identify a problem or phenomenon, find the main causes or effects of the problem, and provide the possible solutions to the problem. For example, if you study the problem of divorce and try to find the main causes of divorce, you may hypothesize that lack of communication is more likely to cause divorce. In this case, lack of communication is one of the main causes of divorce.  Also remember that a hypothesis should be direct, specific, and measurable. For example, if you study gender inequality or women as minority group, you try to argue that women are subordinated and discriminated against. You can hypothesize that women are more likely to earn less income than men do. Income here is measurable and is an indicator to measure discrimination against women. You can examine discrimination against women in aspects of income, power, occupation, education, etc. The following hypotheses might help for brain storm purpose. Your sources that you have collected also will assist you.

• A child is more likely to progress when both parents are involved in their education.
• Children that their parents are not involved tend to face difficulties in school.
• Gays and lesbians are likely to be treated more unfairly when it comes to job offerings.
• Children whose parents divorce are more likely to experience emotional and mental trauma.
• Children whose parents divorce are more likely to get divorced in the future.
• Women who go out with unknown men are more likely to experience date rape.
• Adults who experienced child abuse are more likely to be violent or abusive as an adult.
• African Americans are less likely to obtain jobs compared to other minorities.
• The more a person belongs to minority group, the less likely the person will find employment.
• Conduct Disorder is more prevalent in black males than any other minority group.
• The wealthy are more likely to obtain the finest health care such as organ transplant.
• If healthy food were more accessible and less expensive, there would be less obesity in the United States.
• Couples with alcohol addictions are more likely to experience higher domestic violence rates than couples with relatively low levels of alcohol addiction.
• Couples with alcohol addictions are more likely to report lower levels of trust and safety. 
• Children with divorced parents are more likely to experience a different lifestyle than children with married parents.
• Children with divorced parents are more likely to experience emotional strain towards their school performance.
• Children with a history of abuse are at risk of developing psychiatric problems as adults. 
• Children who are abused in their childhood are more likely to abuse their own children.

  RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC IDEASSS
  -Family diversity
  – family and marriage
  -gender and family
  -intimacy friendship and Love
  -marriage in societal and individual perspective
  – marriage work and economic
  -intimate violence and sexual abuse
  – coming apart : separation and divorce
  – new beginnings :single parent families, remarriage, and blended families 

 PSYC 3007: Influence And Persuasion 

People who join the helping professions, such as teaching, counseling, and crisis work, often speak about their passion to serve others. If you have ever been in a class or a work environment where you stood for others without a voice or for a cause you believed was right, you can be considered a social advocate. Social advocacy is one way as a Walden student and beyond that you can forward social change and fulfill the Walden University outcome to facilitate positive social change.

The persuasion theories and strategies that you are studying this week can add to your bank of knowledge and research to support you taking action as an advocate. This Assignment is an opportunity for you to practice use motivation and compliance strategies in your efforts to bring groups together to change minds and hearts.

For this Assignment, you will respond to the following scenario:

You are a social advocate for a group of individuals in your community who feel disconnected from the community because of their distinguishing characteristic(s) (e.g., language, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, beliefs) and have experienced discrimination. Members of this group want to use a room at the local community center for a much-needed program (e.g., language classes, an after-school program, a support group, etc). However, the individuals who run the community center, known as The Board, have a reputation of denying proposals from minority groups. As this group’s advocate, you believe that if you can get the two groups together, understanding and an agreement might be reached.

To prepare:

• Review the Week 5 Learning Resources.
• Fill in the details of this scenario. Choose a group that you would advocate for based on your experience or interests, and identify a focus of their proposal based on a realistic need.
• Consider that The Board’s funding contract has a clause about serving the whole community. 
• Consider which strategy you learned about this week – either the “foot-in-the-door” strategy or the “door-in-the-face” compliance strategy – would be more effective in working with The Board; the goal is to get The Board to the meeting to hear your group’s proposal.
• Consider how to use cognitive-dissonance theory to persuade a change in view by The Board in your scenario.

By Day 7

Submit a 3- to 5-page paper that includes the following:

• Using either the foot-in-the-door strategy or the door-in-the-face strategy, explain how you will get The Board to attend an information meeting about the group’s proposal.
• Explain in enough detail to demonstrate that you understand the strategy, and why you believe the strategy you chose will work to motivate The Board to come to the meeting.
• Assume your strategy worked and The Board is now at the meeting where your group is going to present their proposal. Your next goal is to get the board to feel dissonance. Explain why you want the Board to experience dissonance. Next, based on your readings, discuss the specific activity that will believe will induce these feelings and why you chose this activity.
• Based on the techniques to relieve dissonance discussed in Chapter 11, describe an activity you will provide at the meeting to help The Board relieve their feelings of dissonance, and explain why your activity will be effective in helping them to relieve their dissonance. Why will relieving the Board’s dissonance be an important part of your meeting with them?

Evaluate the ethics of using these compliance strategies and explain your reasoning based on specific ethical guidelines.