Examine the importance of professional associations in nursing. Choose a professional nursing organization that relates to your specialty area, or a specialty area in which you are interested. In a 750-1,000 word paper, provide a detailed overview the organization and its advantages for members. Include the following:Describe the organization and its significance to nurses in the specialty area. Include its purpose, mission, and vision. Describe the overall benefits, or "perks," of being a member.Explain why it is important for a nurse in this specialty field to network. Discuss how this organization creates networking opportunities for nurses.Discuss how the organization keeps its members informed of health care changes and changes to practice that affect the specialty area. Discuss opportunities for continuing education and professional development.Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

PROMPT Assignment Description Throughout the semester students will be required to write three (3)  blog posts. Each blog post should use ideas from class (both discussions  and readings) to describe, analyze, and evaluate the cultural text  discussed. For this assignment, students step into the role of “cultural  critic.” The tone of blog posts is professional but entertaining.  Students should write for a diverse audience who may not be familiar  with the text or texts discussed, the genre the text is part of, or the  concepts learned in class and applied when analyzing the text (or  texts). Blog Post One: Music (Due with Module 7) Students will choose a song or album and create a 500 – 750-word post  describing, analyzing, and evaluating the song or album. Songs or  albums discussed cannot be part of assigned cultural content. To achieve core area objectives, students will be asked to pay special attention to the following questions: How does what you have learned from class apply to the cultural object? (Critical Thinking) In what way does the production of the cultural object affect the final product? (Critical Thinking) How is the artist/author/musician/actor/director/etc. (artist for  short) positioned in society (race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion,  sexuality, disability)? (Social Responsibility) How does the artist’s position in society affect the production,  consumption, interpretation and reception of the object? (Social  Responsibility) How does the object represent an ethical position? If an ethical  position appears to be missing, what could be the reasons that it is  missing? (Personal Responsibility) GUIDELINES After you take notes on the topic of your blog, think about your  paper. Writing is a process, and should not simply answer the above  questions. This is where critical thinking and communication are  important. Generate a thesis (a claim you will make and support throughout your  blog post). Your thesis should be related to ideas from the course  (think about representation, social construction, power, discourse,  etc.). After you have a solid claim, identify reasons you have for making your argument and evidence that supports it.

TOPIC 1 - Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Actions for TOPIC 1 - Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Can you think of an IMC campaign? Progressive is one example, but there are plenty out there. Feel free to go back in history and think of campaigns like IBM's launch of the personal computer using the Charlie Chaplin-like character or Coke's I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing campaign, or Apple's IMC campaigns used on every new product launch. Remember, don't just focus on the advertising. Find those other promotion tools they used to convey the selling proposition. You may want to read most of the week's readings before tackling this discussion topic to get a better idea of what all the promotion mix tools are, and how the AIDA model (as noted in the reading highlights in the example above) works