Instructor: Ruth Cronje
Course Description
This particular section of the Blugold Seminar is part of a multi-semester, multi-disciplinary general education (GE) course bundle to integrate courses you'll need as a pre-Nursing major. The theme integrating these courses is to help you negotiate dilemmas you'll encounter as a nurse and to consider ways to determine what is the best way to treat your patients.
Readings
- The Future of Nursing
- MLOR Evidence
- How to Cut Hospital Costs? Better Mattresses
- Summary with Strong Response
- FDA Approves 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive
- Senior Nurses
- Some ads seduce rather than persuade, turning off your brain in the process
- Experiences of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Houston Shelters: Implications for Future Planning
- When Doctors Become Patients
- Oppression: A Concept Analysis and Implications for Nurses and NursingResponding Before a Call is Needed
- What "Patient-Centered" Should Mean: Confessions of an Extremist
- Cargo Cult Science
- Climate Change: The Public Health Response
- Why Should We Care about Social Justice?
- Will Health Reform Survive the Courts?
- Demand Growing for Giving Birth at Home
- Modern Science Needs Traditional Knowledge
- Still Shackled in the Land of Liberty: Denying Children the Right to be Safe From Abusive "Treatment"
- Nurses' Role in the Future of Health Care
- Dr. Pou and the Hurricane - Implications for Patient Care during Disasters
- Evidence Based Medicine: Making it Better
- The Ethics of Screening: Is "Screeningitis" an Incurable Disease?
- Translation Matters in Choices on Data
Assignments
- Summary Portfolio
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Patient Care Action Plan Project
- Evidence-Based Practice Fishbowl Exercise
- Initial Writing Sample Prompt
- Doing a Rhetorical Analysis
- Ethos (Brown example)
- Nursing Team Topic Critical Literature Synthesis Assignment
- Instructions for Activating Modular Messaging Voicemail
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Applying Ethos to Your Own Writing
Class Notes
- Situating Your Argument
- Some Summarizing Thoughts
- Science Education Reading Notes
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Quote Sandwich (ppt)
- Key Concepts in "An Overview of Rhetoric" by Robert Herrick (ppt)
- What is Academic Writing, Anyway? (ppt)
- Ten Essential Lessons about Writing (ppt)
- Ancient Greek Rhetoric (ppt)
- Key Rhetorical Terms
- Ethos (ppt)
- Karios (ppt)
- How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experiences, and School
- Selzer: Textual versus Contextual Analysis
- Situating Your Argument
Exercises
- Background Information (starting your research)
- Interest Inventory
- UW-Eau Claire's Liberal Education Learning Goals and Learning Outcomes
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Visual Rhetoric
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Kairos
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Ethos Voice and Rhetorical Distance
