Career Investigation Project Health Presentation.
Career Investigation Project Health Presentation.
HLTH 105 CAREER INVESTIGATION PROJECT ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEW Career exploration can be a learning process. One of the best ways to gain information is through first-hand experience and observation. This assignment will provide the opportunity to interview and visit with a working health professional in your career of interest. The reality of the work day is always different than what you can read about in a book. Discover, through firsthand knowledge, if a career or type of specialty area in healthcare is a good fit for you. INSTRUCTIONS Career Investigation Project: Topic Selection Assignment • • • • Choose 1 career of interest in the health field to investigate. Find a working professional in the chosen field to “shadow” and interview in the early part of the term.
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o Schedule a date and time to meet with your chosen health professional. o Spend as much time as possible seeing what the professional does on a day-today basis. It is recommended that a few hours be spent with the professional interviewing and seeing the place of work as well as any routine business. o Dress professionally when visiting and be thankful to the professional for the time spent. o Use the questions below as a guide for interviewing your chosen health professional. Career Investigation Project: Final Submission Assignment After shadowing/interviewing your professional, design a 10–12 slide PowerPoint presentation documenting your experience and knowledge gained through this investigation. PowerPoint slide content should follow the interview questions below in order. o Creativity in design and appropriate/relevant use of images is encouraged. o All sources used should be referenced on the last slide using current APA format. o PowerPoint slides should be in outlined / talking points form. Provide your narrative to explain talking points in the notes section below the slide. Title slide must include: Your name, Liberty University, HLTH 105, name of career investigated 1. Name of the career/profession and what is required to practice this profession in the USA. (1 slide) 2. Who was the person with whom you shadowed/interviewed and on what day did you observe them? (1 slide) 3. Where did they go to school or what training did they have? What are their degrees, certifications, etc.? (1 slide) 4. Does this person have to complete continuing education? If so, what types of education must they receive, how many hours, etc.? (1 slide) Page 1 of 2 HLTH 105 5. What were some of the daily functions of that person? What time of the day did they begin and end? Did this person interact with patients/clients—if so, on what level? Describe what took place while you were observing. (1–3 slides) 6. How does the person you observed describe a normal day? Stress level, time management issues, daily work load, etc. (1–2 slides) 7. What quality or characteristic does the person you interviewed think is necessary for someone working in that profession? (1 slide) 8. What characteristics do you think are a MUST for someone wishing to enter this profession? (1 slide) 9. What are 2 positives and 2 potential negatives about this profession? (1 slide) 10. Provide an Internet resource to the class where they can learn more about this profession: provide the name of the organization producing the website with the web address.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours. Career Investigation Project Health Presentation.
Career Investigation Project Health Presentation.