Posted: June 2nd, 2015

A Letter.

A Letter.

Assignment description: Youam taking a class called College Success. This is Your final assignment. You are going to write a letter to a student just beginning this course.Provide the student with an overview of what they can expect.Also, tell him or her the three most significant things you learned in this course.Explain what you learned and how you will use it in the future.

Below is the syllabus. You might use this information to provide the student with an overview of what they can expect.
Brief Course Description
A comprehensive course that integrates personal growth and values, academic study strategies, and critical and creative thinking proficiency. This survey course focuses on the following topics: life management, learning styles, personal and educational values, instructor- student relations, maintaining health, memory and concentration, lecture note-taking, textbook studying, subject specific studying, test taking, using the library, critical analysis, problem solving, and creative thinking. Emphasis on the attainment of life-long success in academic, professional and personal development.
Overview:
You will need to complete weekly textbook readings, post to the discussion forums, complete online quizzes and more. You will be asked to practice many of the techniques you read about in the textbook, post work online and save certain work to a college success binder which I will grade at the end of the semester. To know what to do, you will need to carefully read the step-by-step instructions which will be provided in each module book. I recommend that you print the step-by-step instructions for each module and check each task off as you complete it.

Strict Deadline:
You must complete work at regular intervals during the week so that you finish before the Sunday 11:55 p.m. deadline. We usually move to a new module on Monday a.m. Dates for each deadline are clearly posted at the top of each module. Beginning and ending dates can be located at the top of each module and in the Course Calendar located on the side of the homepage.

Weekly Reflection:
Each week you will respond to a weekly reflection question. You will complete this task as a Post Text Online assignment.

Discussion forums: Discussion forums are design to create a course community. You will be asked to post your requested information for your classmates to read and comment on, and you will comment on other students posts.

Quizzes
There will be a total of 6 quizzes. The purpose of each quiz is to reinforce the material covered in the textbook and other class material. All quizzes will be multiple-choice. There are NO quiz make-ups. Remember quizzes will be timed.

College Success Binder
Each week you will complete off line activities. You will print and then complete these activities. Then you will put the complete activities into a binder. At the end of the semester, you will turn in your College Success Binder.

College Success Project
choose one college success topic and explore it more deeply. You will research this topic and then apply it to your life. Then you will write a 5-6 page paper summarizing your knowledge of the topic. Lastly you will create a one page leaflet on the topic. More details will follow when the assignment is assigned.

GUIDELINES FOR QI ASSIGNMENT
Quality improvement (QI) can be defined as the effort to better patient outcomes, system performance, and professional development (Batalden & Davidoff, 2007). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has challenged professionals to improve healthcare quality, with quality described using the following six domains: safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity and patient-centeredness. These quality aims provide a framework for focusing improvement efforts. The unrelenting engagement of all providers is required to transform healthcare. APNs are well positioned to lead quality initiatives by virtue of their advanced knowledge and preparation. To effectively lead quality improvement requires understanding that organizations are complex adaptive systems; dynamic, unpredictable, and are composed of moving parts. Knowledge of theoretical underpinnings of change (theory explicating the phenomenon of human behavioral change) is foundational to successful improvement. A wide variety of QI models, tools, and methods are available to guide the APN in facilitating improvement.
For this assignment, select a practice improvement issue within your organizational system and within the realm of your practice area. Using the grading rubric as a guide, develop a quality improvement plan to address the identified issue. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate knowledge of the essential elements of quality improvement, with change theory as an underpinning for the process. Students are not expected to implement the plan; however, the process for implementation and evaluation is addressed as part of the planning process.
The paper should be carefully written in a formal style, based on primary sources, provide an integration of ideas, and be 4-6 pages in length, excluding title page & reference list. Organized flow, logical progression of ideas, and clarity in thought are essential.