This discussion question meets the following NASAC Standards:

18) Understand diverse racial and ethnic cultures, including their distinct patterns of interpreting reality, world view, adaptation, and communication, and to incorporate the special needs of minority groups and the differently abled into clinical practice.

19) Understand the importance of self-awareness in one’s personal, professional, and cultural life.

102) Sensitize others to issues of cultural identity, ethnic background, age, and gender role or identity in prevention, treatment, and recovery.

119) Recognize the importance of individual differences by gaining knowledge about personality, cultures, lifestyles, and other factors influencing client behavior, and applying this knowledge to practice.

121) Conduct culturally appropriate self-evaluations of professional performance, applying ethical, legal, and professional standards to enhance self-awareness and performance.

Networking for Academic and Professional Success

Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 1: Developing an Academic and Professional Network

When was the last time you read Meditation XVII of John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions?

Unless you are a student of seventeenth-century poetry, you may not be all that familiar with this piece. However, you may be much more familiar with one of its well-known phrases: “No man is an island….”

As you begin your journey toward achieving your academic and professional goals, you have a great opportunity to network with academics and professionals who can help ensure you do not travel alone. This network can help to clarify your own vision for success and can help guide you now and in the future. To paraphrase Donne, no one is an island.

Begin creating an academic and professional network by identifying which academic and professional connections and resources with which you need to collaborate to succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse

• SOURCE: David Trend, Elsewhere in America
• LENGTH: 400-600 words
• DUE: Tuesday, March 3 11:59 pm)
• SUBMISSION: Online
• WEIGHT: 10% of course grade

Pick one of the prompts below and write a formal academic essay in response. (Formal writing means structure [introà body paragraphsà conclusion], development of argument [thesis, claims supported by evidence, logical argument], formal English, and footnotes[1] for citation.) Also, double-space and use proper margins. You will submit this assignment through Canvas(click on the essay assignment).

1. Trend argues that the United States is an “unfinished project.” [2] How does he mean this claim with respect to the United States having an aspirational culture? How does he understand it to include the potential for outsiders to belong to American culture?
2. Trend argues that culture helps frame boundaries for including or excluding certain subjectivities. With respect to at least two distinct groups, how does Trend suggest these groups struggled to change their status from “not belonging” to “belonging”?
3. Trend wonders what might happen if the notion of “identity” was treated as nothing more than “fiction.”[3] Discuss the ways in which at least one identity you claim has become important to your sense of belonging (or lack thereof) in some aspect of your life. In what ways is that identity a basis for you activism/engagement with the world. How is it more than a fiction?
4. Arguments about religion and morality lie at the heart of much conflict in contemporary society. Describe three issues profiled by Trend that have matters of faith at the core of the conflict.

[1] Footnotes should follow either the Turabian or (the nearly indistinguishable) Chicago style. For a convenient guide to footnote citation systems, please consult either of these websites. They present the same information but package it different ways so rely on the one you find easier to comprehend. Alternatively, look at how Trend organizes his citations and copy what he did. A simple example (citing a book by a single author) is fn. 7 (p. 28). https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/turabian-footnote-guide (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) OR http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html (Links to an external site.)

[2] David Trend, Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary American Culture (Routledge, 2016), 99. [This is how a first citation of a book with one author should look.].

[3] Trend, 123. Trend follows up that speculation by sourly observing that such thinking amounts to “utopian silliness.” This passage from Chapter 6 thus seeds his discussion of this country’s utopian aspirationalism in Chapter 12. [This footnote models how a second citation of a previously cited source should look. The next two sentences demonstrate the footnote’s other function, as a place to expand upon an idea raised in the main text.]

Competency

Examine the nature and functions of strategic management.

Instructions

Today a new quarter begins at one of the following well-known organizations: Google, Walt Disney Company, Amazon, P&G, 3M, or Ford Motor Company. Please choose one of these organizations to complete the summative assessments for this course. Once you choose an organization, you should use that organization for all of your assignments.

There are changes on the horizon for your chosen company that could either impact business positively or negatively, so there is a need to revisit the current strategic plan.

Complete the following steps by writing a three- to four-page APA formatted paper with at least two outside sources (in addition to the text):

1. Research what the vision and objectives are for the organization over the next two years.
   • What is the current vision and has the organization followed this vision through their actions? If so, how, and if not, in what ways?
   • What are the short-term and long-term objectives for the organization? In what ways can these objectives be achieved? (If the organization has not provided this information, use your research to hypothesize what these objectives might be, and how they could be achieved.)
2. Complete a SWOT analysis by performing research on your chosen organization. If the necessary information is not available, infer what the missing information might be based on your research.
   • What are the current strengths of the organization and will they still be of value as the industry changes?
   • In what way can the current weaknesses be minimized while adapting to the change on the horizon?
   • Are the opportunities of the previous plan still applicable? If not, what will the new opportunities be?
   • What are the upcoming threats? Can they be addressed in the same way as they have been in the past?

In addition to answering the questions above, please answer the following question in your paper:

In what way was this analysis beneficial in providing the beginnings of a well-rounded plan for the future, and in what way will this understanding impact the workforce?

Incorporate information from the readings, your research, and personal experience (using APA citations where appropriate).