Retirement And Estate Planning
Retirement And Estate Planning
1. Traditional 401(k) plans can be funded entirely through salary reductions by employees, enabling employers to bear no additional cost for employee compensation.
True
2. A cash balance plan establishes a separate fund for each plan participant.
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False
3. Defined benefit plans provide more benefit security than do age-weighted or cross-tested plans.
True
4. All group insurance programs offered to employees must comply with ERISA reporting and disclosure requirements.
False
5. A cross-tested plan uses a fixed age-weighted formula. The plan is designed to maximize benefits for a firm’s highly compensated employees while providing whatever is necessary for remaining employees to satisfy nondiscrimination regulations.
False
6. An employee cannot be covered under both a defined benefit and a defined contribution plan.
False
7. A self-employed person with less than 10 employees can use a money purchase plan to fund his or her own retirement.
True
8. Unlike a traditional IRA, a Roth IRA contribution is not restricted by active participation in an employer’s retirement plan.
True
9. An early distribution penalty can be assessed on Roth IRA withdrawals.
True
10. Account holders with more than one Roth IRA can treat them as separate accounts when calculating tax consequences of distributions from any of them.
False
11. A trust cannot provide for creditor protectioninsurance
True
12. Including a spendthrift clause is recommended for children with money management or substance abuse problems.
True
13. All of the following are true regarding tax implicatons of cash balance plans, except
a. employer contributions to the plan are deductible when made
b. taxation of the employee on employer contributions is deferred
c. the plan is not subject to minimum funding rules of the Internal Revenue Code
d. certain employers who adopt a cash balance plan may be eligible for a business tax credit up to $500
e. employees may make voluntary contributions to a “deemed IRA” established under the plan
14. Which of the following is (are) true regarding elective deferrals in a Section 401(k)?
a. elective deferrals are not subject to Social Security and Federal Unemployment payroll taxes
b. elective deferrals are always made on an after-tax basis
c. if the company elects to have a safe harbor plan, elective deferrals must meet the actual deferral percentage test
d. account funds can be withdrawn without a premature distribution penalty if the employee becomes disabled or dies
e. since employees elect the amount of funds to defer, nondiscrimination tests do not apply to elective deferrals
15. Which of the following types of employer plans are exempt from most or all ERISA provisions?
a. plans of state, federal, or local governments or governmental organizations
b. plans of churches, synagogues, or related organizations
c. plans maintained solely to comply with workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, or disability insurance laws
d. all of the above
e. none of the above because no employer plans are exempt from ERISA provisions
16. Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (ILIT) are primarily designed to ensure that the death benefit is excludable from the insured’s federal gross estate.
a. true
b. false
17. Are all of the items listed below reasons why having a will is important? (True or False) True
The state directs how the decedent’s property is transferred
A spouse’s share of the decedent’s estate may be equal to a child’s
Children may be treated equally although not equitably
May require the appointment of an administrator who will usually have to furnish a surety bond, thereby raising the costs of administration
The administrator of the estate is determined by the court
18. Paul owns the following property:
Boat (fee simple)
Condominium on the beach (tenancy in common with his brother and sister)
House and two cars with his wife, Karen (tenancy by the entirety)
Checking account with his son, William (POD)
Karate business (JTWROS with his partner, Mike)
Which items will go through probate?
Karate business (JTWROS with his partner, Mike)
House and two cars with his wife, Karen (tenancy by the entirety)
Checking account with his son, William (POD)
Because it has beneficiary designation
Which property ownership could he sell without the consent of a co-owner?
Boat (fee simple)
Because the owner have full ownership of the property
19. Two brothers have consulted you about the purchase of a lakefront cottage. The brothers plan to use the cottage on a seasonal basis. They are unsure of how they should title the property. Which of the following items of information do you need to obtain before making a recommendation?
The purchase price of the cottage
How much each brother plans to contribute toward the purchase of the cottage
Whether the brothers want their interest in the cottage to pass under their wills when they die
1 and 2
3 only
1, 2, and 3
2 and 3
20. Are all of the items listed below reasons why having a will is important? (True or False) True
The state directs how the decedent’s property is transferred
A spouse’s share of the decedent’s estate may be equal to a child’s
Children may be treated equally although not equitably
May require the appointment of an administrator who will usually have to furnish a surety bond, thereby raising the costs of administration
The administrator of the estate is determined by the court
21. Annual additions to an age-weighted plan include
a. employer contributions to participants’ accounts
b. employee contributions to own account
c. forfeitures from other accounts
d. only a and b
e. all of the above
22. Which plan has benefit levels that are guaranteed by both the employer and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)?
a. money purchase plan
b. target benefit plan
c. cross tested plan
d. defined benefit plan
e. tax-deferred annuity
23. Advantages of defined benefit plans include all of the following, except
a. defined benefit plans are easy to design and easy to explain to employees
b. employees obtain a tax-deferred retirement savings medium
c. retirement benefits at adequate levels can be provided for all employees regardless of age
d. benefit levels are guaranteed both by the employer and, for some plans, by the PBGC
e. for an older highly compensated employee, a defined benefit plan will allow the maximum amount of tax-deferred retirement saving
24. Which of the following is (are) true regarding the tax implications of having a money purchase plan?
a. employer contributions and plan earnings are tax-deferred for the employee
b. employers beginning a new plan are eligible for a $2,500 business tax credit in the first year to help with startup costs
c. the employer tax deduction is limited to 25% of total payroll of the employees covered under the plan
d. only a and b
e. only a and c
25. All of the following are true regarding money purchase plans, except
a. most money purchase plan benefit formulas use a factor related to the employee’s service that favors owners and key employees
b. nondiscrimination regulations provide a safe harbor for money purchase plans
c. a plan benefit formula can be integrated with Social Security
d. forfeitures, unvested amounts left behind by employees in their plans, can be used to reduce future employer contributions
e. money purchase plan funds are generally invested in a pooled account managed by the employer or a fund manager selected by the employer
26. A tax-free rollover of a Roth IRA can be made to
a. another Roth IRA
b. a traditional IRA
c. a tax-deferred annuity
d. a and b
6. a and c
27. Ways that a Roth IRA differs from a traditional IRA include:
a. initial investment and earnings can be withdrawn tax-free
b. Roth IRA contributions can be made past age 59½
c. Roth IRAs are never subject to minimum distribution rules
d. a and b
e. a and c
28. Directors of Xenon Corporation are considering changing from a traditional defined benefit plan to another type of plan. They have asked you to explain the advantages and disadvantages of such a change. You explain that if Xenon Corp. converts to
a. a defined contribution plan, most or all plan assets would be credited immediately to vested employees
b. a cash balance plan, Xenon Corp. must increase the level of contribution to older employees
c. a cash balance plan, Xenon Corp. would no longer need actuarial services
d. only a and b
e. only a and c
29. Maxton Manufacturing, Inc., uses prior year testing to monitor discrimination in its Section 401(k) plan. Last year, the actual deferral percentage (ADP) for all nonhighly compensated employees at Maxton was 4%. This year, the ADP for highly compensated employees at Maxton can be as high as
a. 2%
b. 4%
c. 5%
d. 6%
e. 8%
30. The retirement plan for Bethel Shalom synagogue must adhere to ERISA reporting and disclosure rules.
a. true
b. false
31. Harper Engineering, Inc., offers several benefits to employees. Which of its benefits would be exempt from the ERISA reporting and disclosure requirements?
a. Harper pays for life insurance to provide for employee dependents if the employee dies
b. Harper gives each employee a small gift worth less than $5 on St. Patrick’s Day
c. Harper has a scholarship program that pays for employee tuition for industry-relevant continuing education, based on the employee passing the course, out of the employer’s general assets
d. b and c
e. a and c
32. Sentenal Corp., a restaurant supply company, is a closely held business. Tom Brady, founder and owner of the business is 59. Jeff Alcorn, age 53, is a key employee. The business employs 10 other rank-and-file employees earning an average of $30,000 per year. Both Tom and Jeff would like to contribute between $30,000 and $40,000 per year to a qualified retirement account. The advantages of using a profit sharing, age-weighted plan at Sentenal rather than a defined benefit plan include:
a. the age-weighted plan is simpler to install
b. the age-weighted plan is less expensive to administer
c. the age-weighted plan allows more flexibility in plan contributions
d. all of the above
e. only a and b
33. The law firm of Willie, Cheatum, and Howe is structured as a professional corporation that has three key employees between ages 39 and 43, two law clerks in their late 20s, and two secretaries, both age 31. The three key employees earn $500,000 per year. The law clerks are paid $30,000 and the secretaries are paid $15,000 annually. Turnover for both the law clerks and secretaries has been rather high, with at least one law clerk and one secretary leaving about every 6 months for the past year. Characteristics of the firm that would make a cross-tested plan a less than optimal solution for the firm include
a. the plan would have to be reconsidered at each new hire
b. the plan would provide relatively few advantages given the age of the highly compensated group
c. having more than one highly compensated employee makes coverage tests related to the plan more difficult to apply
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
34. Shannon McDougal will retire December 31 of this year. Shannon has worked for Shamrock Construction for 30 years. During his last 5 years, he earned $40,000, $47,000, $44,000, $46,000, and $48,000. Shamrock’s retirement plan uses a unit credit formula that awards employees 1.5% for each year of service using a financial average of the last 3 years. Shannon’s annual benefit will be:
a. $19,500
b. $20,250
c. $20,700
d. $21,150
e. $21,600
35. April Showers, age 30, opened the Unique Boutique 5 years ago. April has five employees ranging in age from 25 to 42. Earnings have fluctuated. Profits have been made only in the last two years. April should
a. not have a defined benefit plan because it is designed for older business owners
b. have a defined benefit plan because it will maximize April’s tax deduction
c. not have a defined benefit plan because there are a large number of years until the owner or employees retire
d. have a defined benefit plan because the owner can get $1,500 tax credit for establishing a new retirement plan
e. not establish a defined benefit plan because it is not likely April can meet the annual funding requirements
36. Mandy Thomas, age 47, is the owner of The Golf Pro Shop. Mandy wants to retire at age 55. The company adopted a defined benefit plan 2 years ago, 3 years after the business opened. Mandy wants to increase the amount that she contributes to her own retirement. Mandy can
a. increase the amount without limit
b. increase the amount within limits set by the Internal Revenue Code
c. increase the amount, but must also contribute to all other company employee accounts by the same proportion
d. increase the amount, but maximum benefit will be cut in half because the plan is less than 10 years old
e. she cannot increase her contribution
37. The owner of Whitney Corporation, Inc., earned $250,000 in 2013. In the same year, three highly compensated employees earned $100,000 each. The remaining 30 line workers earn about $20,000 each, for a total payroll of $600,000 for this group of workers. Whitney Corporation made the maximum allowable contribution to each employee’s money purchase plan in 2013. In 2013, what was the total amount that Whitney Corporation contributed to their money purchase plan?
a. $51,000
b. $150,000
c. $225,000
d. $276,000
e. $318,000
38. Orville Winbacher died last year at age 58, leaving $500,000 accumulated in a Roth IRA. Which of the following is (are) true?
a. monies in the Roth IRA must be distributed within a year of the Orville’s death either to his estate or to a beneficiary
b. distribution from the account can be made over the life of a designated beneficiary if begun within a year of Orville’s death
c. initial distribution of Orville’s Roth IRA funds to a beneficiary are tax-free, but subsequent investment returns on amounts distributed are taxable
d. a and b
e. b and c
39. George Flint was transferred to Chicago three years ago. When he left Detroit, he sold his home and put some of the money in a new Roth IRA. He and his wife, Wilma, have been renting a home for the past 3 years. Recently, the homeowner decided to sell. George is interested in buying the home. George can make a penalty-free withdrawal from his Roth IRA to help complete the purchase.
a. true
b. false
40. Brothers Tim and Jim Shanton have asked you, their financial advisor, to settle a friendly quarrel between them. Tim argues that a Roth IRA and a traditional IRA are actuarially equivalent if $4,000 is available for investing on a before-tax basis, contributions to the traditional IRA are deductible, tax rates are expected to stay the same, and both have the same interest rates. So, it makes no difference which vehicle one uses to save for retirement. Jim insists that a Roth IRA is the better investment. You tell them
a. Tim is wrong; the tax deduction available for a traditional IRA allows more money to work for the contributor
b. Jim is wrong; at least for some low-income individuals, the traditional IRA is a better investment because of its relatively lower tax rates
c. Tim is right; the two investments are equivalent in every respect when considered at the end of an investment horizon at least 10-years long
d. Jim is right; the ability to make tax-free withdrawals from a Roth IRA gives a greater return even when contributions and interest rates are equivalent over time
e. both are right; the two investments are actuarially equivalent, but absence of a minimum distribution date and more liberal penalty-free withdrawal options may make the Roth IRA more attractive
41. Which of the following statis is (are) NOT correct?
a. A durable power of attorney for health care is always a direct substitue for a living will.
b. A living will only covers a narrow range of situations.
c. A living will must generally meet the requirements of a formally drafted state statue.
d. Many well-intentioned living wills have failed because of vagueness and/ or ambiguities.
42. A __________ is a legal request for how one’s estate should be distributed upon death
a. Letter of last insturction
b. Will
c. Asset distribution
d. None of the above
43. The person transferring asssets to antoher person in a trust is called the
a. Trustee
b. Grantor
c. Executor
d. None of the above
44. A ______________ is a legal documemnt created by indiviudals to specify their preferences if they become mentally or physically disabled
a. Power of attorney
b. Living trustr
c. Codicil
d. Living will
45. A _____________ trust, the grantor is no longer the owner of the assets in the trust disabled
a. Living
b. Revocable living
c. Irrovocable living
d. Non of the abovel
46. Which of the following is not true regarding estate taxes?
a. They are dependent on the value of an estate
b. Any funds that are provided as a result of a life insurance policy are counted as part of the state for tax purposes
c. All the assets in an estae can be distributed tax-free to children or others
d. All of the above are truel
47. Which of the following situaitons would NOT constitute a transfer that comes within the gift tax statues?
a. Robin creates a trust under the terms of which her daughter is to get income for life and her granddaughter the remainder at the daughter’s death.
b. Robbie purchases real propety and has the title conveyed to himslef an to his brother as joint tenants.
c. Randal creates an irrovocable trust giving inocme for life to his wife and providing that at her death the corpus is to be distributed to his son.
d. Ray purchases a U.S. savings bond made payable to himself and his wife, Raquel. Raquel cashes the bond to be used for her own benefit.
e. Rose creates a joint bank account for herself and her daugher. There have been no withdrawls from the account.
48. A living trust is one in which the grantor creates an inter vivos trust that is funded with part of all of the grantor’s property.
a. True
b. False
49. Which of the following transfers qualify for the unlimited marital deduction?
a. Outright bequest to resident alien spouse
b. Property passing to citizen spouse in QTIP
c. Income beneficiary of CRT is a nonresident alien spouse (trust is not a QDOT)
d. Outright bequest to resident spouse who, prior to the decedent’s death, was a noncitizen bu who after the decedent’s death and before the estate return was filed, became a U.S. citizen.
e. b and d
50. The generation-skipping transfer tax (GSTT) is in addition to the unified gift and estate tax and is designed to tax large transfers tht skip a generation (i.e. from grandparent to grandchile). The purpose of the tax is to collect potentially lost tax dollars from the skipped generation. Which of the following transfers qualify for the unlimited marital deduction.
a. True
b. False
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Discussion: Pregnancy is not on Illness
Discussion: Pregnancy is not on Illness
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Because pregnancy is not on illness, few special care measure are required. As a nurse discuss critically the different health…
Because pregnancy is not on illness, few special care measure are required. As a nurse discuss critically the different health promotion topics that pregnant women should be supported to focus on, to promote their health and the health of the fetus during pregnancy.
-Introduction.
-Statistics in mother and newborn mortality and morbidity in Saudi.
Discussion: Pregnancy is not on Illness
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-health, smoking, nutrition, exercising, traveling, working.
– roles of nurses in decreasing the rate.
-conclusion.
world: 2000 .
reference: 15 from 2010 to 2017 .
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.
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Case Study Week 3
Case Study Week 3
Minitrex Case Study
Read the CRM at Minitrex Case Study on pages 243-245 in the textbook. Answer the Discussion Questions at the end of the Case Study. Your responses must be complete, detailed and in APA format. See the sample assignment for expected format and length. The grading rubric is included below.
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Datatronics Case Study
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Read the Customer Service at Datatronics Case Study on pages 246-250 in the textbook. Answer the Discussion Questions at the end of the Case Study. Your responses must be complete, detailed and in APA format. See the sample assignment for expected format and length. The grading rubric is included below.
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Adolescence Pregnancy
Adolescence Pregnancy
Adolescent pregnancy is viewed as a high-risk situation because it poses serious health risks for the mother and the baby. Describe various risk factors or precursors to adolescent pregnancy.
Research community and Maryland state resources devoted in adolescent pregnancy and describe at least two of these resources.
Research the teen pregnancy rates for the last 10 years for Maryland state and community. Has this rate increased or decreased? Discuss possible reasons for an increase or decrease.
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Assignment: Ethical Health Care Scenarios
Assignment: Ethical Health Care Scenarios
Assignment: Ethical Health Care Scenarios
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Ethical Health Care Scenarios
Review the following scenarios.
Scenario 1: Medical coding in a physician’s practice
Imagine you work in a high-pressure cardiology physician’s office and you are one of two medical coders. Your supervisor is very focused on the greatest reimbursement to satisfy revenue projections for the practice. As a result, you are asked to “up-code” billing. How can the pressure of acquiring the maximum repayment for services lead to manipulating or falsifying documentation?
Scenario 2: Administration of patient medications in the hospital setting
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Imagine you are a new graduate nurse working nights on a busy medical unit. You just received a new patient who needs to be admitted to your unit and you just finished medicating a patient with a narcotic injection with a dose greater than ordered. Clearly understanding medication errors may lead to patient injury and even death, explain why a clinician may choose not to report the incident.
Scenario 3: Not hiring a qualified individual because of discrimination
Imagine you are a new human resources director in a nonprofit organization and have been pressured not to hire Middle Eastern candidates by the organization’s CEO. In the United States, discrimination against people based on their ethnicity, race, or cultural orientation is strictly forbidden under federal and state laws. Ethical discrimination may result in the breeding of ill feelings at work, as well as reduced productivity. To eliminate these ramifications, organizations need to put forth increased effort in curbing ethical discrimination in the employment sector. What are some interventions organizations can put in place to prevent discrimination?
Write a 150- to 350-word response for each ethical scenario. Include a title page with your name and your responses.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
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.
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Nursing Assignment: Create A Screencast Script For Pulmonary Edema
Nursing Assignment: Create A Screencast Script For Pulmonary Edema
Assignment: Creating a Screencast
Many people today have become intrinsic consumers of knowledge and search the Internet daily for both personal and professional reasons. Nurse educators can build on these natural, information-seeking tendencies by using Screencasts (also known as webcasts). Screencasts, a popular tool in both education and industry, allow presenters to record the output of their computer screen. Similar to asking a colleague to sit at your side while you describe the features of new software to him or her, a Screencast allows you to record and share your screen. This asynchronous capability is especially beneficial to nurse educators who teach students in online and hybrid environments.
For this Assignment, you create a Screencast. Over the next 3 weeks, you will engage in the following phases:
· Design: During this phase you create a script for your Screencast.
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· Record: During this phase, you will use your script to create a 3- to 5-minute Screencast. Your Screencast must include both audio and video.
· Share: You will be submitting your script and your Screencast to your instructor for graded feedback.
To prepare (Design Phase)
· Review this week’s media presentation, Screencast Demonstration. Reflect on the content presented by Dr. Tim Bristol. In addition, consider how the computer output and audio narration might have increased student understanding and engagement.
· Reflect on the learning needs of an audience that you might teach in the future. Of these needs, which concept, skill, or process might you effectively teach by recording your computer screen? Furthermore, which websites or computer programs might you utilize during your instruction?
· Review the Screencast Script: An Example document. View Dr. Bristol’s Screencast a second time, comparing the script to his onscreen navigation and dialogue.
· Select your audience of learners and learning need. The learning need that you select for your Screencast must be different than one chosen for a previous Discussion or Assignment. You may, however, select the same audience of learners.
· Refer to the Assignment Planner document for specific details and requirements for completing this Assignment.
· Begin to design your script for the Screencast using the Screencast Template document.
Components to complete for this Assignment*
· Final version of Screencast Script
· 3- to 5-minute Screencast
Reminders: This is not an essay….
My topic for the screencast script is Pulmonary Edema… I want the Signs and Symptoms, treatment and nursing intervention of patient with Pulmonary edema.
ReFollow the uploaded Screencast Script example and template below.
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