CTC101– College Success Seminar
Weekly Journal Assignments
Due Dates: 11:59 p.m. EST, Sunday of Units 1, 2, 6, 7, and Friday of Unit 8
Points: 100 each
Overview:
The purpose of the journal assignments is to be an ongoing individual conversation between you and
your instructor. All conversations in the journal are strictly between you and your instructor and
cannot be seen by other students.
Instructions:
Each week that a journal is assigned, you will answer specific journal questions supporting your work
with evidence from the provided resources.
Requirements:
• Use critical thinking about course ideas and concepts and connect them to your
experiences.
• Reflect on your experiences with a personal application and connection to learning.
• Use professional language, grammar, and spelling.
Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated before you write
and again after you write.
Evaluation Rubric for Weekly Journal Assignments
CRITERIA Did Not Meet Expectations Needs Improvement Competent
Meets or Exceeds
Expectations
(0-23 points) (24-29 points) (30-35 points) (36-40 points)
Content
Reflection
Reflection
states only
what was read
or heard in
class without
any further
development.
Reflection
raises ideas from the
coursework with
limited sharing about
what it means to you
and what you think
about the ideas.
Reflection shares the
meaning you
place on coursework
experiences and how
they connect to
support your
success.
Reflection reveals
critical thinking about
course ideas and
concepts that
connect the meaning
of the ideas and ways
to make them work
for you in college and
life.
(0-17 points) (18-22 points) (23-26 points) (27-30 points)
Personal
Growth
Inadequate
evidence of
reflection.
Limited evidence of
reflection on own
work with a personal
application and
connection to
learning.
Evidence of
reflection on own
work with a personal
application and
connection to
learning.
Strong evidence of
reflection on own
work with a personal
application and
connection to
learning.
(0-17 points) (18-22 points) (23-26 points) (27-30 points)
Writing
Quality
Poor writing
style lacking in
standard
English, clarity,
and language
used and/or
frequent errors
in grammar,
punctuation,
usage, and
spelling. Needs
work.
Average and/or
casual writing
style that is
sometimes
unclear and/or with
some errors in
grammar,
punctuation,
usage, and spelling.
Above-average
writing style and
logically organized
using standard
English with
minor errors in
grammar,
punctuation, usage,
and spelling.
Well written
and clearly
organized
using standard
English,
characterized
by elements of a
strong writing
style, and free
from grammar,
punctuation,
usage, and
spelling errors.
Overview:Instructions:Requirements:Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated before yo ...
CTC101– College Success Seminar Weekly Journal Assignments
1. CTC101– College Success Seminar
Weekly Journal Assignments
Due Dates: 11:59 p.m. EST, Sunday of Units 1, 2, 6, 7, and
Friday of Unit 8
Points: 100 each
Overview:
The purpose of the journal assignments is to be an ongoing
individual conversation between you and
your instructor. All conversations in the journal are strictly
between you and your instructor and
cannot be seen by other students.
Instructions:
Each week that a journal is assigned, you will answer specific
journal questions supporting your work
with evidence from the provided resources.
Requirements:
• Use critical thinking about course ideas and concepts and
connect them to your
experiences.
• Reflect on your experiences with a personal application and
connection to learning.
2. • Use professional language, grammar, and spelling.
Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be
evaluated before you write
and again after you write.
Evaluation Rubric for Weekly Journal Assignments
CRITERIA Did Not Meet Expectations Needs Improvement
Competent
Meets or Exceeds
Expectations
(0-23 points) (24-29 points) (30-35 points) (36-40 points)
Content
Reflection
Reflection
states only
what was read
or heard in
class without
any further
development.
Reflection
raises ideas from the
coursework with
3. limited sharing about
what it means to you
and what you think
about the ideas.
Reflection shares the
meaning you
place on coursework
experiences and how
they connect to
support your
success.
Reflection reveals
critical thinking about
course ideas and
concepts that
connect the meaning
of the ideas and ways
to make them work
for you in college and
life.
(0-17 points) (18-22 points) (23-26 points) (27-30 points)
Personal
Growth
Inadequate
evidence of
reflection.
Limited evidence of
reflection on own
work with a personal
application and
connection to
4. learning.
Evidence of
reflection on own
work with a personal
application and
connection to
learning.
Strong evidence of
reflection on own
work with a personal
application and
connection to
learning.
(0-17 points) (18-22 points) (23-26 points) (27-30 points)
Writing
Quality
Poor writing
style lacking in
standard
English, clarity,
and language
used and/or
frequent errors
in grammar,
punctuation,
usage, and
spelling. Needs
work.
Average and/or
casual writing
style that is
5. sometimes
unclear and/or with
some errors in
grammar,
punctuation,
usage, and spelling.
Above-average
writing style and
logically organized
using standard
English with
minor errors in
grammar,
punctuation, usage,
and spelling.
Well written
and clearly
organized
using standard
English,
characterized
by elements of a
strong writing
style, and free
from grammar,
punctuation,
usage, and
spelling errors.
Overview:Instructions:Requirements:Be sure to read the criteria
below by which your work will be evaluated before you write
and again after you write.
6. 2
Facility Selection and Research
2
Facility Selection and Research
Stephanie Williams
2/28/2022
Facility Selection and Research
The facility selected in this assignment is the doctor's office. A
specialist's office is a well-being office that at least one doctor
utilizes in giving treatment to patients. As an office for
diagnosing and treating short-term patients, the specialist's
office assumes a fundamental part of the well-being area that
incorporates leading routine exams and meeting patients for
discussion. Some clinical workplaces might direct specific
analytics (Afsary et al., 2020). Many of these workplaces are
found in medical clinics, facilities, and clinical centers run
either by the state or private. Experts ordinarily give
emergency, assistant, and tertiary clinical advantages, while
7. prosperity centers give fundamental thought and some central
therapy or clinical guide. Prosperity workplaces accept an
incredibly enormous part in the alleviation of fiascoes because
of their particular limit in treating the hurt and managing with
episodes of infection.
The doctors' office and its hardware should likewise stay
functional. Most medical clinic specialists perceive these
realities and thus have arranged conventional designs to
alleviate calamities. In any case, all building plans experience
the ill effects of an absence of hierarchical options i n case of
extreme harm to or loss of office's motion. Little consideration
has been paid to this, which is troubling since, in many puts,
clinical care relies upon just a single medical clinic, and its
harm could make a tremendous emergency due to the absence of
choices nearby (Afsary et al., 2020). By and large, grown-ups
arrived at the midpoint of more than 4% visits to their office-
based specialist co-op. A higher level of adults with at least
four visits goes to the specialist's office, which is a tremendous
rate contrasted with 27.0 percent and 27.1 percent, individually,
for grown-ups whose were little or medium-sized practice. The
adults visiting a huge practice have a higher mean number of
visits than different gatherings of grown-ups visiting solo or
little practices. A higher level of grown-ups with specialists'
visits that had no medical attendant professionals or doctor
partners on staff have only one visit during the year than grown-
ups with issues that had one attendant expert or doctor right
hand on team 31.4 percent (Colenberg et al., 2021). A higher
level of adults whose visits had one medical attendant expert or
doctor colleagues on staff or at least two on staff 29.6 percent
had at least four visits contrasted and those whose diagnostics
did not have these kinds of specialists on staff.
Patient security is a fundamental part of medical services'
quality. As clinical workplaces persistently endeavor to
improve, there is developing acknowledgment of the
significance of laying out a culture of patient security.
Accomplishing a culture of patient security requires
8. comprehending the qualities, convictions, and standards
regarding what is significant in a clinical office and which
mentalities and practices connected with patient wellbeing are
upheld, compensated, and anticipated. Since versatility issues
will be a standard trademark all the time of numerous patients
coming to a medical care office, placing expanded consideration
into guaranteeing these areas are not difficult to enter and
explore appears to be legit (Colenberg et al., 2021). Measures,
such as changing the stature of test tables, the width of access
ways, the flexibility of X-beam, and other demonstrative gear,
have been demonstrated to influence patient utilization and staff
adequacy drastically. In this task, the doctor's office was
selected since the current doctor's office configuration is
integral to the present restored center around the patient-
focused approaches and medicines, highlighting the host of
massive changes moving throughout the country's medical care
industry. Furthermore, when patients notice that their doctor
office configuration uses current PC gear that is productively
and utilized by staff, they have a solid sense of safety that their
crucial individual clinical data is being taken care of in a way
that is consistent with the assurances HIPAA rules have been
composed to guarantee.
References
Afsary, S., & Gharipour, M. (2020, April). The Analysis of
Visibility and Circulation in the Community Health Clinic,
Using Space Syntax: A Case Study in Baltimore. In Transform:
Socially Embedded Collaborations. EDRA.
Colenberg, S., Jylhä, T., & Arkesteijn, M. (2021). A literature
review is the relationship between interior office space and
employee health and wellbeing. Building Research &
Information, 49(3), 352-366.
HCS/446 v11
9. Facility Planning Template
HCS/446 v11
Page 4 of 4Facility Planning Template—Floor Plan
Health care facilities have uniquely defined characteristics
based on the needs of the facility or population served. Poor
design may lead to staff, visitor, or patient stress. In large
facilities, the inability to find a department may lead to
frustrations and disorientation. Poor layout may also lead to
staff inefficiencies or fines because of failure to meet
regulatory requirements.
Throughout this course you will design a floor plan for the
facility you selected in the Week 2 Facility Selection and
Research assignment. This assignment illustrates the difficult
balances between patient flow, workflow, safety, and aesthetics.
You will use this document as a guide to understand the
environmental design elements you should include in your final
design. You will submit this document each week as your
assignment.
For this project, you may use the program of your choice to
complete the floor plan. Some programs to consider are
Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Visio®, Publisher®, Excel®, or
online floor plan programs such as Edraw, SmartDraw, Gliffy,
and Lucidchart. Your faculty member will need to approve your
choice, since he or she must be able to view your project in
order to grade it. It is important to note that the purpose of this
project is not to be an expert at creating a facility using your
chosen program, but rather to ensure the concepts learned in
this course can be applied to the facility design principles.
Your use of the floor planning program is meant to enhance
your learning of the course and program concepts.
Week Two: Facility Selection and Research
Select a facility from below to use in your final project. You
will use this facility in Weeks 3 through 5. If you would like to
use a facility not listed here, please check with your instructor
for approval.
10. · Assisted living
· Birthing center
· Clinic
· Doctor’s office
· Hematology lab
· Hospital security layout
· Outpatient clinic
Research the facility.
Write a 260- to 350-word summary. Your summary should:
· Describe the facility you selected and its purpose in the health
care industry.
· Identify the populations who use the facility.
· Identify key characteristics of the facility.
· Explain why you have selected this type of facility.
Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.
Submit your assignment.
Week Three: Facility Planning—Floor Plan, Part 1
The construction of evidence-based health care facilities
includes careful planning and layout as well as considerations
for the health of the population to be served. Evidence-based
health care facilities planning also needs input from a cross -
functional team of informed stakeholders and the integration of
best practices in modern design and regulatory requirements.
This week you will focus on your facility’s structure and the
areas contained within it. Next week you will add assets to your
facility.
Create a floorplanthat includes at least 3 to 5 distinct areas or
rooms. You will be responsible for adding environmental design
elements each week. Your final floor plan is due in Week 5.
Note: You are not expected to manually draw all elements of
your design. Using images, clipart, graphics, icons, symbols, or
any other visual tools in your design is acceptable.
Consider the following elements and add them to your facility
as appropriate:
· Facility structure
11. · Walls
· Doors
· Hallways
· Waiting areas
· Other related structural components
· Facility areas
· Customer service and amenities
· Reception desk, bathroom, shower, vending machine, etc.
· Patient consultation areas
· Clinical support areas
· Nurses station, charting areas, etc.
· Administrative offices
· Building support
· Laundry, generator facilities, housekeeping, etc.
· Diagnostic and treatment space equipment and location
· Mechanical equipment
· Space for laboratory equipment, radiology equipment, gases
like oxygen, and suctions
Write a 175- to 350-word response to the following questions:
· Describe the steps you took to complete the structure and
areas of your facility.
· What considerations did you make?
· Include references and research to support your
considerations.
· Describe any successes or challenges you faced this week
building your facility.
· Include a print screen of your facility below. Use the
instructions provided if you need help adding a print screen.
Include a print screen of your facility in the last page of the
paper.
Cite at least 1 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar reference.
Submit your assignment.
Week Four: Facility Planning—Floor Plan, Part 2
This week you will continue to build your final facility. The
legal team has asked you to provide them with considerations
12. regarding legal and regulatory requirements that may affect the
facility planning process.
Add the following to your facility:
· Assets and equipment:
· All assets and equipment that should be considered for use by
the patient, staff, and families
· Regulatory considerations:
· Color and noise elements
· Regulatory elements, such as Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) and Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) guidelines
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper. Your paper should:
· Analyze the impact of federal, state, and local legal and
regulatory requirements on your selected facility.
· Consider and discuss assets and equipment you will need to
add to your floor plan.
· Consider and discuss any modification you made to your floor
plan with respect to structure and area.
· Analyze accountability and liability implications for
individuals and organizations for your selected facility.
· Analyze legal versus ethical considerations for your selected
facility.
· Include a print screen of your facility below. Use the
instructions provided if you need help adding a print screen.
Include a print screen of your facility in the last page of the
paper.
Cite at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment.
Week Five: Facility Planning—Floor Plan, Part 3
This week you will complete your floor plan by incorporating
additional elements, such as IT equipment and creative healing
elements. It is important to review your facility and consider
any additional changes based on the knowledge you have gained
throughout the course.