...Biopsychosocial Case Study Paper Theodore (Ted) John Kaczynski—AKA the Unabomber—was born May 22, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois to Wanda and Theodore Richard Kaczynski (Meyer, Chapman & Weaver, 2009). The date of his first recorded attack was on May 25, 1978 when a package exploded at Northwestern University, and his last attack was on April 24, 1995 aimed at the California Forestry Association. However, before the spree of attacks—mostly targeting universities and airlines—Theodore Kaczynski’s life was marked by antisocial tendencies, flattened affectivity, and interpersonal dysfunction. During his primary and secondary Ted played by himself and his mother encouraged socially isolated activities, such as reading. He graduated high school one year early but was not remembered specifically by most of his class mates. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Chicago and taught at the university level for several years before abruptly quitting and moving to a secluded cabin in Montana. Even though several diagnoses of psychological disorder are warranted, the diagnosis of schizoid personality disorder (SPD) best describes the particular features exhibit by the Unabomber over the course of his upbringing and adult years. Though, to piece together a diagnosis of SPD and the life events of Ted an overview of the case study must be presented, the psychological, social, and biological precursors of the disorder must be examined, and the application of the behavioral-cognitive...
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...Case Study Week 3 Kristin Parramore-Eaker PSY/410 Abnormal Psychology March 11, 2013 Dr. Kathryn Westbeld Ph.D. Case study week 3 Outline: Sleep Walking Objective: The purpose of this case study is to research and understand the psychological state involved with sleepwalking or somnambulism disorders. The information provided by the patient and his wife examine the functions of the brain while the individual appears to be in non-REM sleep and functioning, while other areas of the brain are in a normal sleep state. The case addresses the episodes following times of severe anxiety to test stress (Meyer, Chapman, & Weaver, 2009). Method: A review of information and history related to sleep disorders and sleepwalking suggests a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of sleepwalking. Sleepwalking disorder (307.46) in the DSM is the impairing repeated sleepwalking episodes with unresponsivity during the episode; the individual has rapid or quick reorientation, and amnesia for the episodes. This case meets the criteria for this diagnosis (DSM IV TR, 2000). Results: The findings support sleepwalking with stress relating to test anxiety disorder as an explanation of the recurring episodes (Meyer, Chapman, & Weaver, 2009). Conclusions: The research supports the pathology of the disorder and explores treatment plans for the individual to lessen test...
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...Case Study Paper University of Phoenix Erica Vazquez PSY 410 Annette Edwards October 10, 2011 Case Study Paper “Once upon a time, there was a little girl who dreamed of being a mommy. She wanted, more than anything, to have a child and knew her dream would come true one day. She would sit for hours thinking up names to call her baby. Eventually this little girl grew up. Though she'd met and married her Prince Charming, she was having trouble conceiving. She began to realize that her dream wasn't going to come true without a great deal of medical help. So she went on a long journey through the world of fertility treatments. When none of them worked, she got frustrated and depressed. She felt like a failure. And then one day, finally, she became pregnant. She was thrilled beyond belief. She had a wonderful pregnancy and a perfect baby girl. At long last, her dream of being a mommy had come true. But instead of being relieved and happy, all she could do was cry.” (Shields, 2005) Brooke Shields was born to Frank and Terri Shields on May 31, 1965. Her father an executive for Revlon and her mother a model separated when Brooke was very young. Brooke began her modeling career at 11 months and has been acting and modeling since then. After graduating from Princeton University brook met and married tennis player Andre Agassi, they were married for two years before they got divorced. In 2001 she married Chris Henchy and began to try to conceive a baby. Unfortunately, she was...
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...Grand Canyon University Predicting work place aggression against nurses in all hospitals NRS-433V 1/27/2012 Workplace violence (WPV) towards nurses is occurring more worldwide and in the United States WPV is becoming a major killer. Australia’s health care industry has been known to be the most violent. The workplace violence occurs in all areas of the hospital including the ED and mental health department and the health care setting seems to be more prone to WPV. Some examples of WPV are physical assault, bullying, verbal abuse, and different forms of harassment. In this study the researcher focuses on the perpetrator and the behaviors that might indicate the occurrence of workplace violence. The researcher also addresses skills that a nurse may use to help predict the possibility of WPV. Having these skills allows the nurse to respond to a situation early and possibly de-escalate the episode. The study occurred in a non-teaching hospital, 332 nurses in all areas ED, surgical, mental, pediatric, medical, and maternity were asked to participate in the study. The approval was obtained through the ethics committee in the case study hospital and university. The nurses received a letter stating what the study was about, a survey, and an interview consent card, if the nurse wanted to participate they returned the interview consent card. About 35 nurses agreed to be interviewed; they had to give written consent before completing the survey or the interview. The benefits...
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...F4 Practice Case Study Report Name: Zeng Jingfang (Natasha) No. 22925 Lecturers’ names: Wai Sim Chan, Geraldine Malone Course name: English Preparation Program Due date: Tuesday, Week 6 Word count: 921 Introduction This case is about Linda White, who was promoted to the position of supervisor in a publishing and editing company named Orion. She is a hard-working staff member with a lot of experience and she knows exactly what has to be done in the job. Unfortunately, Linda lacks the ability of communicating effectively with her subordinates. She does not give relevant instructions to inexperienced staff and rarely listens to their ideas, nor does she respond to employees’ requests for guidance. Under these circumstances, Linda’s team is demoralized and inefficient so they do not finish their work in order to meet deadlines. As a result, there is a high staff turnover in her department. This case study report will examine the cause of complaints about Linda White and problems within her department will be identified and analyzed. Three possible solutions will be proposed and an evaluation of these will be presented. Finally, a recommendation will be made about the best solution to this problem. Problem Identification and Analysis An analysis of the case shows that these symptoms are attributed to Linda’s management or leadership style. She uses the “delegating style” to give responsibility and authority to employees (Thornton...
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...Craig Chapman, Page 1 CRAIG J. CHAPMAN Assistant Professor - Accounting Information and Management Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Jacobs Center, Room 6227, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 Telephone: (847) 491-2662, Fax: (847) 467-1202 E-mail: c-chapman@kellogg.northwestern.edu SSRN Research Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=417740 Education HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, BOSTON, MA Doctor of Business Administration degree, Accounting and Management, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Professors Paul M. Healy, V.G. Narayanan & Thomas J. Steenburgh. HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, BOSTON, MA Master of Business Administration degree, 2003. Graduated with High Distinction as a George F. Baker Scholar. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD – MAGDALEN COLLEGE, ENGLAND Master of Arts degree in Mathematics, 1995 Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics, 1989. Graduated with Honors. Publications “Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts” with Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy. The paper examines relative accuracy and bias of different analysts and proposes a number of possible explanations for the findings that the analysts at the Buy-side firm studied appear significantly less accurate and more optimistic than those working for sell-side firms. Financial Analysts Journal, July/August 2008, Vol. 64, No. 4: 25-39. “An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions” with Thomas J. Steenburgh. Combining new, hand-collected...
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...organizations like universities, colleges, banking and hospitals with large amount of data require a software that is able to organize the data and in the database. Therefore the primary use of a database management system is its ability to collect data, store and transmute it into informative information that can help business make decisions. In order to make this possible, a database must be able to reduce data redundancy, inconsistency, upsurge security features, reliability and allow concurrent access of the data and improve accuracy and accuracy. The most important purpose of such a database is to provide automated methods that are able to develop, store and retrieve data more efficiently (Chapman, 2014). There are several drawbacks that are associated with the use of conventional file systems. This is because of the fact that most of such databases applications are developed on top of an existing file system. For this reason, the following problems are expected. To begin with, is redundancy; it is a situation where a lot of file formats together with duplicate information is found in different files (Gillenson, 2005). Accessing such data is difficult and the duplication of data in a file system may sometimes require a new program to be written. Another problem associated with conventional file systems is the difficult in file isolation. This is due to the multiple files and formats in the system that makes it difficult to isolate files from each other (Chapman, 2014). There...
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...Case Study: Theodore Bundy Jeana Avery PSY 410 University of Phoenix Jan 27, 2010 Case Study: Theodore Bundy This paper will look at the case study of the serial killer Ted Bundy, who had antisocial personality disorder. Background of Bundy’s life will be provided, as well as the definition and criteria of antisocial personality disorder. Last, the paper will look at the biological, emotional, and cognitive causes of antisocial personality disorder. Background Theodore Bundy was born November 11, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. Bundy never knew his biological father, and was raised in his early years by his grandparents, who Bundy believed were his parents. Bundy’s mother, whom he believed to be his sister, eventually took Bundy from his grandparent’s home and remarried. Three children resulted from his mother’s marriage to Johnnie Bundy, and Ted Bundy reacted with anger, resentment, and jealousy. Bundy did well in school, attended Sunday school, and was an avid skier. However, Bundy was haunted by his illegitimacy, and his mother’s resentment towards him. Bundy’s step-father would become violent when provoked, and Bundy felt overlooked, unsupported, and ignored. As a child, Bundy looked at naked pictures of women, obsessed about material possessions, and was humiliated by his family’s economic status. Due to Bundy’s lack of social skills, Bundy was shy, introverted, and felt inferior to others (Meyer, Chapman, & Weaver, 2009). “I am the most cold-blooded son...
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...Article A1. Article Ford, Y. , Heyman, A., Chapman, Y. (2014). Patients’ perceptions of bedside handoff; the need for a culture of always. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 29(4), 371-378. A2. Graphic Background Information | The purpose of this article was to identify patient perceptions of bedside handover through directly asking patients about their care. The study was done on a two in-patient medical-surgical departments at Borgess Medical Center in Michigan. They had implemented bedside handoff at shift change 18 months prior to this study. Then a sample of patient participants was chosen from the two nursing departments for the study. They had to meet certain criteria to be a participant and they had to experience three handoffs. Then they were given a survey to fill out after the beside handovers. Participants were positive about the RN bedside handoff process. The overall mean from the survey was 3.32 on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to a 4 (highly agree). | Review of Literature | There were multiple references that provided statistics and facts during this study. Most of these studies have focused on implementing bedside handoffs and nurse perceptions of the handoff. Published studies that focused on patients’ perceptions of beside handoff have been mainly qualitative. Recently, researchers have published studies that seek to measure bedside handover quantitatively...
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...IKEA CASE STUDY Jill E Keeney Capella University February 24, 2016 Fundamental of Human Resource Management 3040 Instructor: Professor Marni Swain Introduction With so many people working hard to make ends meet, the living-wage pay seems like an ideal solution to help. The living-wage allows employees to meet their basic needs. (Chapman & Thompson, 2006) IKEA is trying to create a better life for its employees by implementing the living-wage. The living-wage also creates a workforce that is higher skilled, provides better customer service, and less turnover. This is more cost efficient for a company. (Bell, 2014) Risk and Challenges Issues for a business implementing the living-wage is productivity, skill of workers, and employee financial issues. While IKEA is not raising prices with the living-wage, it might have to adjust the amount of employees it schedules and hires, so an employee might be doing the job of 2 to 3 instead of just one employee. IKEA might have make the workforce more productive, and this would lead to less jobs within the company. (Chan, 2015) Employees might also be working less hours than full-time due to the increase of pay and less jobs being created. The other factor is that employees may not be able to have yearly increases if the business profit/loss is not adequate. This might create a turnover in employees if the living-wage is not increased yearly. (Geiger, 2015) An issue that IKEA might be faced with is low-skilled employees slowly...
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...Running Head: BIOSTATISTICS IN NURSING: FINAL PAPER Biostatistics in Nursing: Final Paper Richard Hoinacki Nova Southeastern University NUR 3200 Marcia Derby RN, MSN, Asst Prof. October 15, 2008 Many people develop renal disease and once they become diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease many have only a few choices when it comes to renal replacement modalities. According to Chapman, M., Fink, N., Finkelstein, F., Marsh, J., Meyer, K., Powe, N., Wu, A. (2004), every year in the United States, nearly 90,000 patients with chronic kidney disease progress to ESRD and begin renal replacement therapy. Most patients optimally would prefer a kidney transplant, but many may not have the ability to find a donor and must get on a transplant list. So while they wait for a suitable kidney donor their only option is dialysis. End Stage Renal Disease patients have two choices of dialysis, either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Chronic dialysis can impose a considerable burden on patients and their families, with regards to health care and their quality of life. Many statistical studies have been done to compare the qualities of life with ESRD patients who are on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. According to Lausevic, M., Nesic, V., Stojanovic, M., Stefanovic, V. (2006), health-related quality of life is a multidimensional concept that includes physical functioning, social functioning, mental health, and general health perceptions. This paper...
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...QUESTION TWO: ADULT CASE STUDY, AN ETHICAL ISSUE OF CONSENT. This essay presents a critical incident analysis of a 70 years old man refusing to give consent to a life saving treatment. The essay will discuss its impact by discussing the conflict between professional and the patient’s issues. It will go on to explain the main professional issues in the scenario, breach of any NMC code of conduct and show how they relate to the guidelines set by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). It will also highlight on the relevant underlying legal or ethical principles that applies to the case study and its implications. For instance, ethical principles, such as beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, human rights and the best interests of the patient will be explored, in the light of relevant laws, in order to show some of the legal and ethical complexities within this case study, and finally draw a conclusion. For confidentiality purposes, have been changed in accordance to the NMC guidelines. The main professional issue reflected in this case study is the issue of consent. Consent, means to give permission for something to take place or to agree to do something (oxford dictionary 1998). This does not necessitate that, the actions approved have been developed or permission given in the knowledge of possible consequences known as informed consent has been achieved. This goes to show that, for medical purposes, although the patient has the right to refuse treatment, he has to also...
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...Contingency theory is perceived by some scholars as a fragmentation of various ideals patched together into a theory of management accounting, nevertheless, it should be recognised that it provides a wealth of knowledge into contemporary management accounting practices. Contingency theory provides enhanced information to the individual which ultimately improves decision making and assists in achieving organisational objectives (Hamas and Lääts, 2002, p. 379). This theory has invaluably provided research evidence that are attributable to contemporary management accounting knowledge and designs. It has provided a profound method to adjust to ever changing external environments and the need for changes in internal factors (Otley, 1980, p. 413). Strengths of contingency theory style research Challenging the criticisms of contingency theory for being fragmentary and contradictory due to its methodological limitations, it is the failure of critiques in realising the many different forms of management accounting designs under the contingency approach and the relationships between those design which have perpetuated this idea (Gerdin and Greves, 2004, p.303). Attention should be shifted to the concepts under which contingency theory has been applied. Contingency theory in its simplest form highlights that an organisation’s structure is conditional upon contextual factors such as environment, strategy and size. One of its key strengths is a congruence approach that it represents...
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...that they can flaunt all the laws in regard to the conditions of work and the state of the mines like in the case of Centralia N.o 5 mine where even after numerous inspections and reports about the law not being regarded and the risk it poised to the miners in the mine the company was still allowed to operate.Centralia was owned by Centralia coal company with Bell and Zoller being its directors. It was among the top six coal mining companies in Centralia and its headquarters were based in Chicago. A major point to note is that no coal office or its directors were based in Centralia The case study by John Bartlow Martin Blast in Centralia No. 5 highlights multiple failures that exist in public administration. The Logistical alternatives Scanlan could have addressed were corruption, communication, time and responsibility. Inspector Scanlan worked during a period where corruption was the order of the day. The people in position of leadership in government were easily bought by businesses. This is evident with the mine owners and the agencies who were task with the responsibility of ensuring safety and regulation of the mines. According to the case study most inspectors would visit the mines and liaison with the owners. Disasters do not kill people, negligence from corrupt public officials is what kills people (Anbarci, Escaleras, & Register 2007). In the case study we can note that Inspector Scanlan did actually experience difficulties in communicating...
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...Rus Wane Equipment Case Study Joint Venture In Russia Michael G Rutkowski Upper Iowa University Abstract Wane Machines Inc. engages in the manufacturing, installation, and maintenance of large scale heating and cooling equipment for office and apartment buildings. In February 1990 a joint venture was formed called Rus Wane Equipment with NLZ, a medium sized factory outside Moscow, that manufactured similar equipment, but of much lower quality. This case shows the difficulties that can arise if a company does not follow the organizational structure, management systems, and the human resources policies of the company. And how changing government legislation in a rapidly changing business environment like Russia, can have serious financial impacts and decline the advantages of a joint venture. This case shows the situations and difficult problems that can arise from a joint venture between Wane Machines, Inc and NLZ the Soviet partner company. Wayne Machines started in New York City and specializes in manufacturing, installing, and maintaining large scale heating and cooling equipment. The corporation is divided into four divisions that unite 50 companies in 160 countries. After exploring markets in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union a Soviet-Belgian joint venture was formed in February 1990, called Rus Wane Equipment. Rus Wane established another joint venture with a St. Petersburg partner, to install and service its products in Russia. The market potential in the...
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