E-Book Review Assignment

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E-Book Review Assignment

Intentionally selecting quality resources with childrens interests, literacy goals, and cultures in mind is an important aspect of being a qualified educator.  This assignment asks you to develop this school by choosing an E-book that you would use in your teaching. This assignment is worth 15 points.

Use the following 7 researched based early literacy foundational skills to evaluate your E-book. 

1.    Vocabulary (How does this book introduce new or challenging vocabulary words?)

2.    Narrative Connections (How does the book tell a story that a child can easily retell or act out? How do characters, ideas, or storylines lend themselves to discussion?)

3.    Print and Visual Motivation (How would children be interested in this subject, the writing craft, and these pictures?)

4.    Print Awareness (How is the print accessible for children?)

5.    Word-Image Relationship Knowledge (How can children make a connection between the words and the images?)

6.    Phonological Awareness (How can children hear and say rhyming words or identify sight words?)

7.    Culturally Responsive (How can children see/hear themselves or culturally appropriate and validating images and concepts?)

    Selection Rationale (2 points)
o    Explanation of why you selected this book over one of your other final choices. Provide the reference information for one of your other final choices.

    Reference and Summary Information (2 points)
o    Provide the APA full reference information.
o    Provide a summary of the book.

    E-Book Review (14 points)
o    Review all seven of the above components.
o    Discuss gems and gaps for each component
o    Support all claims with specific examples from the book.

    Teaching Implications (2 points)
o    Discuss how and when you see yourself using this book with children.

Periodical Reference: Enhancing the Early Reading Experience: Book, Strategies and Concepts by Michael Strickland & Laura Abbott

The connection between culture and climate change

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summarize and respond or react to the text in written commentary

Van den Pol, B. (n.d.) The connection between culture and climate change. Retrieved from: http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/pdf/case-studies/cs-bernadet-van-den-pol.pdf

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Citations need to be within 5 (Five)  years
Context: Nursing in the USA
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Allopathic care, also known as western medicine or conventional medicine, can be defined as the treatment of disease using pharmacologic and/or pathophysiologic modalities (Shirazi, 2012). Allopathic care focuses on the treatment of acute signs and symptoms and the underlying causes. Holism is the practice of awareness and restoration of the mind, body, and spirit. Holistic care is often described as intentional healing of the whole being through music, massage, meditation, therapeutic touch, art, aromatherapy, and healing energy therapies. Complementary-alternative medicine (CAM) are therapies that use conventional and complementary approaches to promote healing for the mind, body, and spirit (Drick, 2018).

Allopathic care includes preventative care, medications, antibiotics, vaccinations, hormone therapy, radiation, and surgical interventions (Shirazi, 2012). Allopathic care also includes screening, risk assessments, and educational programs. Alternatively, CAM therapies include therapeutic massage, meditation, and prayer that may help restore clarity, relaxation of mind and body, improved mood, and quality of life that leads to positive behavioral changes (Drick, 2018). Aromatherapy is another holistic and CAM therapy that uses certain scents to promote relaxation, reduce nausea, pain, and anxiety, and overcome insomnia. Lastly, these therapies also include the recognition of the importance of daily self-care. The nurses’ ability to understand and practice appropriate self-care modalities, such as self-reflection, self-awareness can assist in the healing and restoration of both the patient and nurse.

Despite the benefits, there are limitations to both practices. CAM therapies are limited due to the lack of substantial evidence. A lack of evidence may be due to insufficient funding and/or the inability to design a scientific study that is based solely on CAM therapies, as most CAM therapies are used as adjunct therapies (Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public, 2005). Therefore, additional scientific research is needed on the health benefits of CAM therapies. The public distrust and belief that government and pharmaceutical companies lack credibility hinder allopathic medicine, in addition to being viewed as “unnatural” by some individuals (Lo & Hotez, 2017).

Being a nurse is embracing the art and science of nursing by providing healing care from the inside out. Thus, I believe the most effective way to promote healing and wellness is combing allopathic medicine and alternatives therapies. The combination of allopathic and holistic, complementary, and alternative therapies leads to healing and promotion, positive patient experiences, and quality outcomes (Fan, 2017). 

Drick, C. A. (2018). The Advanced Practice Nurse: Holism and Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches. In L. A. Joel, Advanced Practice Nursing: Essentials for Role Development (Fourth ed., pp. 251-275). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis.
Fan, D. (2017, March). Holistic integrative medicine: toward a new era of medical advancement. Frontiers of Medicine, 11(1), 152-159. DOI 10.1007/s11684-017-0499-6
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public. (2005). Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States. In Need for innovative designs in research on CAM and conventional medicine (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK83801/ ed.). Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US).
Lo, N., & Hotez, P. (2017, September 1). Public Health and Economic Consequences of Vaccine Hesitancy for Measles in the United States. JAMA Pediatrics, 171(9), 887-892. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.1695.
Shirazi, S. F. (2012, September). Allopathic Medicine vs. Holistic Medicine. Acupuncture Today, 13(9). Retrieved from https://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=32630

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Length: A minimum of 150 words per post, not including references
Citations need to be within 5 (Five)  years
Context: Nursing in the USA
See the attached  for the original assignment

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Holistic medicine was the first accepted medicine beginning in about the 27th century BCE, when ancient Egyptians practiced medicine guided by the idea that disease can stem from either spiritual, physical, or mind/heart causes (Pederson, 2005).
The modern era of allopathic medicine began in Europe, around 14th century, when empirical evidence grew in importance among scientists (Pederson, 2005). Studies during this time led to the idea that the spirit and body function separately, which was largely cemented by the philosopher Descartes in the 1800s (Pederson, 2005). Descartes can be largely credited with popularizing a mechanistic view of the body as component parts, separate from the mind (Pederson, 2005). The American Medical Association was founded in 1848 based on these ideas (Pederson, 2005).
In 1874, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still starts promoting osteopathic medicine, an obvious throwback to holistic medicine, with the philosophy that all body systems are interrelated and dependent upon one another for good health (Pederson, 2005). In 1892, Dr. Still opens the first school of osteopathic medicine in Kirksville, Missouri (Pederson, 2005).
An offshoot of holistic care, homeopathic medicine, also known as alternative medicine or CAM, has thrived while allopathic and holistic models of medicine fought for cultural dominance in the US (Whorton, 2003). For thousands of years, Native Americans have practiced what would be called homeopathic medicine on American soil and, since the 1700s, others in the US and Europe have turned to other cultures and spiritual doctors (Koithan & Farrell, 2010 & Wharton, 2003). The search for homeopathic remedies has become so mainstream that, in 1992, the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) was established within the Office of the Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) to facilitate study and evaluation of complementary and alternative medical practices and to disseminate the resulting information to the public (National Institutes of Health, 2015). In 1998, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) was established by Congress, elevating OAM to the status of an NIH center, and in 2014 the NCCAM was renamed the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (National Institutes of Health, 2015) .
Allopathic, holistic, and homeopathic medicine are all methods of approaching health by a person or a community. Their various reigns as the prevailing medical philosophy have waxed and waned as cultures have changed and various studies have shown one to be superior to the other many times over. Today, these philosophies are practiced simultaneously with passionate, and sometimes overlapping, proponents of each.
All these philosophies have their detractors. Advocates of holistic health point out that practitioners of allopathic medicine often treat symptoms rather that the root cause of disease (Woods, 2017). While this is partly true in that allopathic providers might not delve into a persons life enough to find that their love of daily red meat is causing intestinal inflammation, it is likely that the practitioner would find the inflammation and deal with that issue (Harvard Medical School, 2018 & Woods, 2017). Detractors of homeopathic care highlight sensationalism and anecdotal evidence as not evidence-based (Woods, 2017). Denunciations of holistic care have mostly fallen to the wayside, with critique falling on methods and practitioners rather than the philosophical foundation (Woods, 2017).
Integrative medicine as created to bridge the gap between the allopathic and homeopathic approaches (Woods, 2017). Integrative medicine refocuses medicine on health and healing. It insists on patients being treated as whole personsminds and spirits, as well as physical bodies who participate actively in their own healthcare (Woods, 2017). Part of participating in ones own care may include homeopathic remedies, which are discussed with medical providers. This integrative method is also widely taught in medical schools, usually called patient and family centered care, and has become the prevailing medical attitude in todays society citing increasing staff satisfaction, decreasing costs, and improving patient outcomes as its largest benefits (Clay & Parsh, 2016).
References
Clay, A. M., & Parsh, B. (2016). Patient- and Family-Centered Care: It’s Not Just for Pediatrics Anymore. AMA Journal of Ethics, 18(1), 40-44. doi:10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.1.medu3-1601
Harvard Medical School. (2018, November 7). Foods that fight inflammation. Harvard Women’s Health Watch. Retrieved from https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/foods-that-fight-inflammation
Koithan, M., & Farrell, C. (2010). Indigenous Native American Healing Traditions. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 6(6), 477-478. doi:10.1016/j.nurpra.2010.03.016
National Institutes of Health. (2015, August 20). NIH complementary and integrative health agency gets new name. Retrieved from https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-complementary-integrative-health-agency-gets-new-name
The New Medicine [Television broadcast]. (2005, March 29). Twin Cities, MN: PBS.
Whorton, J. (2003, November 4). Countercultural Healing: A Brief History of Alternative Medicine in America. Frontline. Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/altmed/clash/history.html
Woods, M. (2017, February 23). Alternative vs. Traditional Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id=13500