COMM120 W2 Project Plan Brandon Monte
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Week 2 Project Plan
Brandon Monte
COMM120
March 15, 2022
Part I:
Topic: Fire Service Management
Fire Service Management is my topic of choice because it is what I plan to get my bachelor’s degree in.
It’s a topic that interest me because I have been in the fire service for 13 years and I feel as though attention of health and wellness of members in the fire service doesn’t get the attention it needs.
Scope and value:
I plan on narrowing my topic and research by exploring the leading cause of line of duty deaths among firefighters, which happens to be sudden cardiac arrest (heart attack).
Researching and exploring more about this subject will benefit me in my personal and professional life. I will be more educated and knowledgeable on how to perform our job safely while at the same time giving this knowledge to my colleges at the fire department.
Communication medium:
To best communicate my project, I will use statistics, graphs, and scholarly sources that clearly show the how heart attacks account for 50 percent of the line of duty deaths among firefighters. While using power point slides and personal narration, I will suggest solutions to the growing problem. These solutions will not only be my own opinion, but those also from which I’ve obtained from scholarly sources. Critical thinking questions:
Questions I will ask in order to go more in depth of my topic will be, “Why do so many firefighters die from heart attack while on duty? Is it because of the intense hazards of the job? Is it due to poor personal health management, poor genetics, obesity? Is it because the fire department agency has provided a poor health and wellness plan? Is the reason for this growing problem a combination of all listed?”
Part II:
In order to present my topic on health and wellness of the fire service accurately and respectively, using information literacy will be important as I select the sources that will be the foundation of my presentation. Informational literacy will help me stray from bias, fake news, disinformation, misinformation and satire sources. As I look at all sources such as academic journals, government sources, books, and the internet, I will select the best of these sources based on accuracy, credibility, relevance, and current. For instance, if I were to choose a source that provided a graph on how many firefighters died from heart attacks on duty from 1950 to 1980, that would be irrelevant to the
discussion I am trying to make. Having been a career fire fighter for over a decade, I am aware of the National Association of Fire Protection (NFPA) and how they have implemented health and wellness plans in the fire service. Therefor, I will explore government sources such as NFPA for my research.
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