This professional portfolio assignment will prepare you to market and negotiate for employment as an advanced nurse practitioner by understanding what goes into a resume, recommendation letter, and cover letter. The assignment must contain the following:
Copy of NP job description (include current APA citation of source) from a job posting of your choice. (You are not applying for the position yet.)
One letter of recommendation (does not have to be real, can be makeshift).
Resume as an NP
Resume Sample and resume builder can be found on the
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Cover Letter for NP job
Cover Letter Sample can be found in the course textbook on page 543, Box 20-2.
Submission Instructions:
The cover letter should be no more than 1 page, the recommendation should be no more than 1 page, and resume should be no more than 1 page.
Tort law ensures that if one party harms another through intentional actions, negligence, or strict liabilitysuch as with defective productsthe aggrieved party can seek restitution to be made whole. Strict liability applies when a product is inherently unsafe, requiring no proof of intent or negligence. In civil cases, the court determines appropriate damages to restore the injured party to their prior state, often through financial compensation since the wrongful act cannot be undone. Some torts, like assault, may also constitute crimes, but the focus here is on civil remedies.
Understanding tort law is essential for businesses as it addresses civil wrongs like negligence and product liability, which can have significant financial and reputational impacts. This legal framework helps professionals minimize risks, implement safety measures, and navigate disputes effectively. For instance, a product manager must consider potential liability if a consumer good causes harm. By understanding tort law, businesses can mitigate risks, comply with legal standards, and protect themselves from costly lawsuits, safeguarding both their operations and market position.
In Assessment 3, you will explore a tort case involving negligence or product liability, analyzing how the court reached its decision and how the ruling could impact business practices. You are also encouraged to perform the ungraded knowledge check activity to gauge your readiness before completing the assessment. These activities will help you understand the broader implications of tort law and its practical application in preventing harm, protecting business interests, and shaping industry standards.
The first step in preparing your case law analysis is to choose a legal decision involving contracts. In your briefing, you must be able to understand the courts decision, summarize it, and evaluate it. You may choose any publicly available legal case involving a breach of contract or dispute arising from a contractual agreement. To help you get started, use these useful resources to find an interesting case involving breach or a contractual dispute:
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This section of your reading list includes several sites you can search from.
Review the media activity to review parts of a written court decision to help in your analysis and evaluation.
Also review the media activity.
This multimedia will help you to understand the reading materials and articles you find.
Click Transcript. (After you open the multimedia, the Transcript link is located at the lower right corner of the screen.)
Use the transcript as another resource to quickly look up some of the more common terms. This terminology will be useful in personal, scholarly, and professional settings.
Once you have selected a business-related case involving tort law and an organization impacted by the decision, assume youre a senior manager in the organization you selected and that you were asked to prepare a briefing (34 double-spaced pages) of the court decision to help the executive team of the organization understand the impact the case might have on the company.
In your briefing, please complete the following:
Summarize the facts of the case.
Include detailed explanations of the facts.
Include key distinctions and nuances that enhance understanding of the case.
Analyze all relevant tort(s) and the elements required to prove each.
Provide detailed explanations of their significance and relevance.
Explain how these torts and the associated elements matter in the case.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each partys arguments.
Provide insightful and nuanced analyses of each party’s arguments.
Analyze the courts ruling and rationale clearly and accurately.
Offer detailed commentary on the rationale and implications.
Explain accurately how the ruling applies to a specific industry and third-party company.
This is the company and industry where you should imagine yourself to be a senior manager for this assessment.
It is for the real or imagined executives of this company that you write this briefing.
Provide these executives with concrete examples to demonstrate how they should modify their their operating procedures to be consistent with the case opinion.
Contracts are fundamental to business transactions, forming agreements through offer, acceptance, and consideration. If one party changes the original offer, it constitutes a counteroffer, giving the other party the option to withdraw. Once terms are agreed upon and documented, the contract typically outlines remedies for breaches, such as compensation for nonperformance. Courts rely on these terms to determine the expectations of the parties if a dispute arises. Understanding contract law is crucial for professionals to navigate agreements effectively, manage breaches, and negotiate favorable terms. For example, a business manager must know how to address a suppliers failure to deliver goods on time and pursue appropriate remedies, ensuring agreements protect organizational interests and minimize disputes.
In Assessment 2, you will analyze a legal case involving a breach of contract, evaluating key elements such as offer and acceptance and examining how courts resolve contract disputes. You are also encouraged to perform the ungraded knowledge check activity to gauge your readiness before completing the assessment. These activities will allow you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each partys arguments real-world contract scenarios, deepening your understanding of contract law and providing you with practical insights into how contracts are formed, enforced, and breached in business settings.
The first step in preparing your case law analysis is to choose a legal decision involving contracts. In your briefing, you must be able to understand the courts decision, summarize it, and evaluate it. You may choose any publicly available legal case involving a breach of contract or dispute arising from a contractual agreement. To help you get started, use these useful resources to find an interesting case involving breach or a contractual dispute:
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This section of your reading list includes several sites you can search from.
Review the media activity to review parts of a written court decision to help in your analysis and evaluation.
Also review the media activity.
This multimedia will help you to understand the reading materials and articles you find.
Click Transcript. (After you open the multimedia, the Transcript link is located at the lower right corner of the screen.)
Use the transcript as another resource to quickly look up some of the more common terms. This terminology will be useful in personal, scholarly, and professional settings.
Once you have selected a decision and an organization impacted by the decision, imagine youre a senior manager in the organization you selected and that you were asked to prepare a briefing (34 double-spaced pages) of the court decision to help the executive team of the organization understand the impact the case might have on the company.
In your briefing, please complete the following:
Summarize the facts of the case.
Include detailed explanations of the facts.
Include key distinctions and nuances that enhance understanding of the case.
Explain all key contractual terms in dispute.
Include detailed and nuanced explanations of their relevance.
How do these terms matter in the case?
Apply relevant legal principles (for example, offer and acceptance, consideration, performance) accurately.
Demonstrate exceptional understanding and insight into how these principles relate to the case.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each partys arguments.
Provide insightful and nuanced analyses of each party’s arguments.
Analyze the courts ruling and rationale clearly and accurately.
Offer detailed commentary on the rationale and implications.
Analyze alternative outcomes clearly.
Argue the potential impact of these alternative outcomes.
Demonstrate nuanced understanding of the feasibility and implications of these outcomes.
Explain accurately how the ruling applies to a specific industry and third-party company.
This is the company and industry where you should imagine yourself to be a senior manager for this assessment.
It is for the real or imagined executives of this company that you write this briefing.
Provide these executives with concrete examples to demonstrate how they should modify their their operating procedures to be consistent with the case opinion.
Your response to this discussion is due by this week Friday at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST).
You are also asked to respond to at least one other student in the class on his or her response.
Your response to your fellow student is due by this week Sunday at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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Hi, students!
Your first writing assignment will be a Critical Annotated Bibliography, which will require you to locate five (5) scholarly sources and analyze them. You will choose a research topic to focus on for your papers this semester. This discussion will help you get started.
Here’s what you’ll need to do:
Respond to this discussion topic by answering the following questions:
AI Tools to Explore:
Please note that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.
Watch the video, “How to Read and Comprehend Scientific Research Articles.” This video, located in the Learning Resources Section of the Content for this week, shows you how to break down a scholarly article for better understanding.
Note: There are various types of research articles, and you can learn more about identifying different types by visiting the links “Identify Scholarly Articles” and “Different Types of Scholarly Sources” in Week 1 Content/Learning Resources.
Review the “Template for Taking Notes on Research Articles”: This template will guide you in capturing key details and insights from your readings.
Read “Searching Basics” from the UMGC Library: This guide will help you begin your research.
Explore AI-powered tools: This semester, you are encouraged to use AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, which can assist in formatting documents, and organizing research. Additionally, you can explore other AI tools like Elicit.org, which helps search and summarize academic papers, and Scholarcy, which breaks down complex articles into structured summaries. These tools can enhance your comprehension and research efficiency.
Make it clear that you used AI and explain how you used it: When using AI tools, it’s important to be transparent about their use. This practice promotes academic integrity and helps others understand the role of AI in your work.
What research topic will you focus on for this semester? Why? (Answer in one or two sentences.)
What is the most important step to take when reading research articles? What do you think, and what do the materials suggest? (Answer in one or two sentences.)
After reviewing the “Searching Basics,” find one (1) article on your chosen research topic that reviews and provides the findings of a research study. You can use AI tools like Microsoft Copilot or Elicit.org to help locate relevant articles and summarize the findings efficiently. In your response, include:
The author(s) and title of the article.
A brief (one or two-sentence) description of the research study and its findings.
How might AI tools impact your research process? Reflect critically on the use of AI for academic research. In your opinion, what are the potential benefits and limitations of relying on AI to assist with reading, summarizing, or locating scholarly sources? For more insights on critical thinking in the age of AI, you can read the article (Answer in one or two sentences.)
Respond to a classmate’s chosen topic: Reflect on one of your classmates chosen topics and share your thoughts in one or two sentences.
Microsoft Copilot: This AI tool integrates with Microsoft Office apps (Word, Excel, etc.) to assist with document creation, organization, and summarization, making your research process smoother and more productive.
Elicit.org: Helps you search for scholarly articles and provides answers to specific research questions with efficient summaries.
Scholarcy: Breaks down research articles into easy-to-read summaries, highlighting key points.
After reading and studying the article, consider the following:
Reflect on the three dynamics the article identifiesestablishing legitimacy, maneuvering politically, and negotiating perpetually. Which of these dynamics resonates most with your understanding of effective leadership in collaborative or high-stakes environments? Why?
The article illustrates leadership challenges and strategies with examples such as Daniel, Christine, and Antonio. Choose one of these cases and analyze the leadership lessons it conveys. How do these lessons relate to your personal experiences in leadership or teamwork?
The article stresses that leadership in professional service firms is inherently collective and contingent on the consent of peers. How do you interpret the idea of “collective leadership”? How have you seen this concept play out in your professional or academic life?
In your opinion, are the principles discussed in this article unique to professional service firms, or can they be applied in other organizational contexts? Provide examples to support your view.
600-800 words
After you done I will send my classmate discussion and you have to reply to it.
Write a 1,000-1,250-word paper, applying what you have learned about the study of relational communication thus far in the class by doing the following:
After reviewing this topics assigned readings, explain the role of self-concept, identity, or self-perception in relationships (think about Goffmans distinction between front region and back region or Identity Management Theory). How do these concepts influence communication choices in friend, work, romantic, or family relationships? (Suggestion: Only choose one or two relationship types to address; there is not enough space to give adequate attention to all of them)
What is the role of faith and religious or spiritual identity in relationships? How does it affect communication in relationships?
Use current communication research to support an argument about how new media (i.e., social networking sites/apps) influence identity construction and identity management in the relationships that were discussed in prompt 1 above.
Include a minimum of six scholarly sources.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
You will turn this paper in to two places by the deadline (Day 7): 1) submit it into the assignment dropbox, and 2) post it into the Topic 3 Peer Review Forum.
(Your final draft of this assignment will be due by Day 7 of Topic 4.)
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): EBSCO-FullText-02_14_2026 (1).pdf, EBSCO-FullText-02_14_2026.pdf, COM-451 Rubric – Self-Concept and Relational Communication Paper – Rough Draft.pdf
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