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setting. Nurse advocates take other leadership roles to educate, improve healthcare delivery, ensure safety and cost-effectiveness of care, have a voice in healthcare policy decisions, and promote nursing by maintaining a positive image of the profession. Competency Competency can have several meanings. A nurse who performs at an expected level is demonstrating competence. Competence can be described as the ability to act effectively using critical thinking, efficient problem-solving, and ethical
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, and an academic recommendation. Applications for admission are evaluated without regard to race, color, national origin, creed, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disabling conditions, financial resources or any other status protected by law. Test Optional AdmissionTest Optional AdmissionBecause standardized tests do not always accurately reflect academic ability or the potential to be academically successful, and because we practice a holistic review of admission applications, SAT or ACT
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. Marit Barkve – Bachelor of Art in Norwegian Language & Global Studies (Social Justice and Development) with a minor in Political Science Why PLU? JooHee Berglund was a brilliant recruiter at a Lutheran college fair in Minneapolis, Minnesota. My PLU experience: Year 1 – Lots of fun, lots of friends, lots of refreshing change. Year 2 – Studied abroad for the year in Hamar, Norway. Year 3 – Lots of academics, Language Capstone (intro to critical literary theory!); RA in Hong. Year 4 – Good combination
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STEM Education Learning ObjectivesLearning ObjectivesPLU students who complete the minor will: develop STEM content knowledge practice and develop their own teaching style and philosophy engage in critical reflection by considering issues from multiple perspectives cultivate respect for diverse cultures and ways of knowing, which will allow them to teach all students effectively using culturally sustaining pedagogy begin to recognize how culture, tradition, and training shapes our assumptions
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Communicating Course Expectations Posted by: bodewedl / February 1, 2017 February 1, 2017 by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer The first weeks of a course are a critical time for establishing expectations. Teachers in K-12 education have long understood the value of classroom management; but in higher education, the topic is sometimes overlooked. Whether your teaching style is structured or laid-back, almost all students benefit from receiving clear expectations from their instructor. The
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how interfaith work has given them tools for personal growth and how the Lutheran tradition has helped inform the work they do. Kara shares some of the ways in which PLU as a Lutheran institution provided her with an environment where she could both practice her faith in community with others while having the ability to learn from and with those who don’t necessarily share the same background as her. Receiving a liberal arts education at a Lutheran institution that values critical questioning has
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Kayla Harvey, PhD, MSN, PNP-BC Assistant Professor of Nursing Phone: 253.535.7672 Email: kayla.harvey@plu.edu Biography Biography After many years of experience as a pediatric nurse practitioner in the critical and acute care setting, I have expanded my practice into research in order to better understand and support families during a pediatric hospitalization. I enjoy sharing my clinical experience and researcher insight as faculty working with nursing students at PLU. Education PhD
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choosing to be in the USA and at PLU today meant letting go of other people, schools, towns, cities and countries, no matter how strongly I was connected to them. Rebecca: Your 2013 dissertation on representations of the zombie as a figure of the intellectual impoverishment of Africa emphasizes the importance of critical thinking. How do you teach critical thinking to your students? Patrick: With students, we analyze representations of zombies across cultures. Focusing on the zombie leads to
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government decision making from local to international levels. They have written and contributed to more than a dozen books and encourage students to share in their research interests.What Careers are There in Political Science?Political Science students most often choose careers in: Law, either as an attorney or administrator Government Law enforcement Private businesses Education You may find it necessary or desirable to pursue graduate studies for some of these fields, as do many students. For
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reverent care.” Upon noticing this connection, Professor O’Brien applied for and received a Kelmer-Roe grant, with student Collin Ray, to study the connections that she saw between ultrarunning, Dark Green Religion, and concepts like gender, race and class. Professor O’Brien believes the activity of ultrarunning, the combination of testing the body and returning to outdoors to do it, speaks to a spiritual relationship between runners and nature. “You’re returning to a more primal behavior where
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