...This is a reflection on my experiences during my four weeks community clinical rotation at the Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System in Temple. I will begin by discussing the most meaningful aspects of my clinical rotation and why it was valuable to me. I will next discuss how my clinical experience helped me to identify my personal strengths, how the experience helped me grow as a student nurse, and how this experience will impact my future practice. The most meaningful part of this experience was meeting the different Case Managers, who track the Veterans’ care from their initial screening till they pass or get cured depending on their diagnosis. These RNs was kind, amusing and amazingly excellent in their field of expertise; they were smart, talented, headstrong and self-motivated leaders who are passionate about their job and saving the life of veterans. Although the case management position has limited funds, resources, and little to no data, these amazing case managers create guidelines, protocols, and are still in the process of creating extra programs that will better help the most vulnerable veteran’s population to obtain an improve level of healthcare to...
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...“Kinesthetic Study Strategies” (n.d.), these type of learners “need to do things to understand”. Unfortunately, only 15% of students learn this way. This makes education difficult for these students, as most education is catered to the majority of students, which is evenly split between visual and auditory learners (Anderson, n.d.). The author of this essay identifies as a kinesthetic learner. Being a kinesthetic learner, the preferred learning strategies have included many that are typical for this learning style. Hands on approaches for nursing skills have been highly successful, as well as return demonstration. The author has also found that teaching other skills has greatly improved her understanding and method. In order to learn ideas that are not skill related, illustrating the idea and explaining it to others has proved very effective. Also, the author will often write about events in clinicals, what actions she took, and then research to see if these were the best actions, or how she could improve upon her practice. The preferred method of studying for exams has been to rewrite notes repeatedly, and recall clinical events and situations in order to reevaluate the actions taken. According to “Kinesthetic Study Strategies” (n.d.), these learners do excel with an approach to learning that incorporates all their senses. When learning, these students retain...
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...Instructions Write a 100 to 200 word reflective essay describing your growth in Curricular Endpoint A, B, C, and D. In your essays, please describe the activities or assignments that have helped you progress in the curricular endpoint. Please also describe how your experiences and growth will impact your future practice. Please write your essays below each curricular endpoint. You may attach relevant artifacts (e.g. photos or text) Curricular Endpoint A: Patient Care Provide patient care in cooperation with patients, prescribers, and other members of an interprofessional health care team based upon sound therapeutic principles and evidence-based data, taking into account relevant legal, ethical, social, cultural, economic and professional issues, emerging technologies, and evolving biomedical, pharmaceutical, social, behavioral, administrative and clinical sciences that may impact therapeutic outcomes. Years ago the practice of pharmacy mainly involved preparing and dispensing drugs that have been prescribed to patients while lacking patient interaction, However, the pharmacy profession now has moved from that of a "count and pour era" to that of patient-centered care. In other words, no longer does the practice of pharmacy includes simply filling out prescriptions, but also include being part of the health care team. It now includes being directly involved in patient care; providing counseling about new drug therapy, and providing education on disease process. Due to the...
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...Executive Nurse Leadership Program Hospital Department Rotations: Respiratory-Essay #3 Equipment and supplies obtained through contract services consist of ventilators, bipap machines and cough assist devices. The hospital has sixteen ventilators on-site which are hospital owed; however there must be two ventilators onsite to serve as back-up. When the need for greater then fourteen ventilators arises, contracted ventilators must be brought in-house. The hospital currently owes one bipap machine, therefore whenever it is use a contracted bipap machine must be brought in. The cough assist device is when patients are unable to produce an effective cough and is rented as needed for patients. Supplies for this contracted equipment may also be obtained on an as needed basis. Staffing is based on respiratory therapy hours per patient day (HPPD) and the acuity level of the respiratory patients in house. Must days there are two respiratory therapists per twelve hour shift and the Director of Respiratory Therapy is counted in staff for day shift. Occasional on weekends an extra respiratory therapist maybe added for an eight hour shift in place of the Director of RT, however this is only when the census is high and the patient acuity is high as well. Patients are weaned from the ventilator according to the established weaning protocol. The pressure support weaning protocol is initiated as ordered by the pulmonologist and will be conducted between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm...
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...Personal Essay This paper will be focusing on the life experiences that guided me towards selecting my current career choice of becoming a registered nurse; most of which has been through inspiration. Throughout the body of this essay highlights will be made on personal encounters with other healthcare professionals, past work history that contributed to my current career choice and individuals that were the driven force behind me wanting to be a nurse. I chose nursing because this profession allows me to care for an individual in their most vulnerable state and to gain trust and rapport over time. As a nurse, I will contribute by helping people live longer, richer lives. This decision was made at the age of fifteen in 2004 after becoming a member of the Antigua and Barduda Red Cross Society; which was the first exposure I had to the healthcare sector and where the true meaning of helping a complete stranger was understood. During my tenure I became a Certified Peer Counsellor to teenagers, where I learnt the skill of using effective therapeutic communication to converse with abused teens; be it physically, emotionally or sexually. Being certified gave me the opportunity to educate young adults on current pressing topics such AIDS, HIV and STD prevention. Additional, duties as a peer counsellor included distributing condoms and performing the necessary demonstration to ensure safe and effective usages. As one of the younger active members of The Antigua and Barbuda Red...
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...335). The purpose of this essay is to examine the implications of aspects within the Asian culture, specifically communication and their view of authority, have on the delivery of culturally competent health care. Chinese beliefs center on harmony, unity, and survival of the family. The Chinese family is the fundamental social unit. Gender, age, and birth order all play a role in establishing the hierarchal structure of the family (McLaughlin, 1998). Actions and decision made by an individual in the family will reflect back on the entire family. Therefore, decisions are made with the understanding of how it would affect the entire family. Poor decisions are not only reflected on the present family, but it affect future generations and so “…the burden on responsibility transcends...
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...THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Background of the Study Learning in clinical environment involves what Jarvis (2006) defines as action learning, which involves “learning by doing... within a specified social context” (in nursing it is the clinical area). It also involves much more complex learning such as learning of concepts, problem solving, decision making, rule learning, critical thinking. The nursing educators and institutions have an ethical obligation to ensure admission criteria and academic standards that are reasonable and fare, yet effective indicators of students’ success. When an educational institution issues a diploma to one of its students, it is, in effect certifying the society that the student possesses all the knowledge and skills that are required in his chosen discipline. To remain competitive and accountable, it is imperative for nursing programmes to have efficient and reliable admission criteria. Quantitative data and research- base facts are essential for the development, revision and modification of the admission criteria to guide nursing educators to identify and select those students who will successfully complete the nursing programme. It also helps in minimizing the wastage of human and material resources that occur due to student failure and attrition (Dr. Romana Idrees, 2008). Furthermore, the students are exposed to a wide variety of clinical settings—including hospitals, outpatient, community clinics, treatment centers...
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...Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Pharmacy Assignment #1: Prescription Label Assessment Student: Site: ___________________________ ______________________ Date: __________________________ Preceptor Signature: ______________ Print Name: ___________________________ 1. Items on the prescription label that are required by New Jersey State Law: 2. Items on the prescription label that are not required by New Jersey State Law: 3. Overall opinion as to the overall appearance and acceptability of the label in your pharmacy: 4. Reference(s) used for this assignment: . PRECEPTOR COMMENTS (OPTIONAL): Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Pharmacy Assignment #2: Over-the-Counter Medication Assignment Student: ______________________ Site: _________________________ Date: _____________________ Print Name: ________________ Preceptor Signature ___________________ Please use the respective forms on the following pages to complete this assignment: 1. Category 1: Cough/Cold and Allergies (REQUIRED) Reference(s) used for this assignment: 2. Category 2: Women’s Health (REQUIRED) Reference(s) used for this assignment: 3. Category 3: Please indicate the category you chose for this assignment.(Select ONE of the following: Pain/Fever; Constipation/ Diarrhea; Heartburn/Dyspepsia; Smoking Cessation) Reference(s) used for this assignment: PRECEPTOR COMMENTS (OPTIONAL): Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Pharmacy Assignment...
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...ESSAY - (lateral-) meniscus - posterior horn rupture In sports and orthopedics, a tear of a meniscus is a rupture of one or more fibrocartilage strips in the knee called menisci. Anatomy There are two menisci in the knee. The menisci are C-shaped wedges of fibrocartilage located between the tibial plateau and femoral condyles. While the ends of the thigh bone and the shin bone have a thin covering of soft hyaline cartilage, the menisci are made of tough fibrocartilage and contain 70% type I collagen. They conform to the surfaces of the bones they rest on. One meniscus rests on the medial tibial plateau; this is the medial meniscus. The other meniscus rests on the lateral tibial plateau; this is the lateral meniscus. The larger semilunar medial meniscus is attached more firmly than the loosely fixed, more circular lateral meniscus. The anterior and posterior horns of both menisci are secured to the tibial plateaus. Anteriorly, the transverse ligament connects the 2 menisci; posteriorly, the meniscofemoral ligament helps stabilize the posterior horn of the lateral meniscus to the femoral condyle. The coronary ligaments connect the peripheral meniscal rim loosely to the tibia. Although the lateral collateral ligament (LCL) passes in close proximity, the lateral meniscus has no attachment to this structure.[4] The joint capsule attaches to the entire periphery of each meniscus but adheres more firmly to the medial meniscus. An interruption in the attachment of the joint...
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...Slide 1 Email: jkanglim@unimelb.edu.au Office: Room 1110 Redmond Barry Building Website: http://jeromyanglim.googlepages.com/ Appointments: For appointments regarding course or with the application of statistics to your thesis, just send me an email Cluster Analysis & Factor Analysis 325-711 Research Methods 2007 Lecturer: Jeromy Anglim “Of particular concern is the fairly routine use of a variation of exploratory factor analysis wherein the researcher uses principal components analysis (PCA), retains components with eigenvalues greater than 1 and uses varimax rotation, a bundle of procedures affectionately termed “Little Jiffy” …” Preacher, K. J., MacCallum, R. C. (2003). Repairing Tom Swift's Electric Factor Analysis Machine. Understanding Statistics, 2(1), 13-43. DECRIPTION: This session will first introduce students to factor analysis techniques including common factor analysis and principal components analysis. A factor analysis is a data reduction technique to summarize a number of original variables into a smaller set of composite dimensions, or factors. It is an important step in scale development and can be used to demonstrate construct validity of scale items. We will then move onto cluster analysis techniques. Cluster analysis groups individuals or objects into clusters so that objects in the same cluster are homogeneous and there is heterogeneity across clusters. This technique is often used to segment the data into similar, natural, groupings. For both analytical...
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...The Impact of Participative Management on Employee Satisfaction, Employee Commitment, and Turnover Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of participative management on employee satisfaction, employee commitment, and turnover. The analytical data are based on the survey of 31 private sector employees. Pearson correlation coefficient results show that both employee satisfaction and employee commitment are effected by participative management, while turnover is not effected by participative management. Introduction The concept of employees’ participation in decision making "Participative management" (PM) has been a focus of research and practice for many years. It is widely believed that the employee participation in decision making process may affect employee’s job satisfaction; employee productivity, and employee commitment towards the organization and they all can create comparative advantage for the organization in order to stay in top of their competitors. Thus, to gain employees’ commitment and to get their job done properly, individual employee should not be treated in isolation, but must be involved in issues related to concerning them and the organization. When employees are involved in decision making there will be greater organizational commitment, staff absenteeism is reduced, improved performance, reduced turnover and greater job satisfaction. The main intention of this study is to investigate the relationship among job satisfaction, employee...
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...Creativity CREATIVE THINKING—DOWN ROADS LESS TRAVELLED Original ideas have changed the course of human history. Much of what we now take for granted in art, medicine, music, technology, and science was once regarded as radical or impossible. How do creative thinkers achieve the breakthroughs that carry us into new realms? Creativity is elusive. Nevertheless, psychologists have learned a great deal about how creativity occurs and how to promote it. We have seen that problem solving may be mechanical, insightful, or based on understanding. To this we can add that thinking may be inductive (going from specific facts or observations to general principles) or deductive (going from general principles to specific situations). Thinking may also be logical (proceeding from given information to new conclusions on the basis of explicit rules) or illogical (intuitive, associative, or personal). What distinguishes creative thinking from more routine problem solving? Creative thinking involves all of these thinking styles, plus fluency, flexibility, and originality. Let’s say that you would like to find creative uses for the millions of automobile tires discarded each year. The creativity of your suggestions could be rated in this way: Fluency is defined as the total number of suggestions you are able to make. Flexibility is the number of times you shift from one class of possible uses to another. Originality refers to how novel or unusual your ideas are. By counting the number of times you...
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...Title Page Assignment Title Specific elements of essay: * Describe the Goals & objectives of my organisation * Understand the specific responsibilities of middle management in enabling an organisation to achieve its goals Gareth Lewis Date: 12 June 2013 Birth: 08/03/1956 Phone: 01656 773163 Email: gareth@lewis453.orangehome.co.uk Page 2 This assignment has been produced to provide evidence of my organisations goals & objectives, the evidence provided gives clear distinction between the goals & objectives of my organisation. The essay also includes essays on how my organisation shall meet its objectives & goals, and the specific responsibilities of middle managers in enabling my organisation to achieve its goals. There are sections describing the differences between goals & objectives and the different role in relation to Leaders and managers Page 3 Introduction I am the Site Manager for the Princess of Wales Sterile Services department; I have worked in Sterile Services for 27 years and have progressed through nearly every role prior to becoming Manager. My responsibilities are to provide a Sterilization of instrumentation service to firstly Main Theatres within the Princess of Wales Hospital and Neath Port Talbot Hospital and to all NHS services who require re-process of surgical instruments for safe patient use. This role requires me to have knowledge of all aspects of the decontamination re-process of surgical instruments...
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...Aptitude Testing and the Legal Profession 6 June 2011 Dr. Chris Dewberry Birkbeck, University of London 1 Acknowledgement: I wish to thank Chris Hutton for his help in compiling information in the section of this report entitled Aptitude Tests Currently Used in the Professional Services Sector, Appendix 3, and Appendix 4. 2 Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 6 The Background to this Report................................................................................................ 12 An Introduction to Aptitude and Aptitude Tests ..................................................................... 13 A Brief History of Psychological Ability Testing ....................................................................... 16 The Origins of Testing .......................................................................................................... 16 The Birth of the Modern Ability Test ................................................................................... 17 The Introduction of Group Testing ...................................................................................... 19 The New Science of Psychological Testing .......................................................................... 20 The Growth of the Ability and Aptitude Testing Industry ................................................... 20 Aptitudes and...
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...2012 Catalog Volume 20 Issue 1 March 5, 2012 – December 31, 2012 This Catalog contains information, policies, procedures, regulations and requirements that were correct at the time of publication and are subject to the terms and conditions of the Enrollment Agreement entered into between the Student and ECPI University. In keeping with the educational mission of the University, the information, policies, procedures, regulations and requirements contained herein are continually being reviewed, changed and updated. Consequently, this document cannot be considered binding. Students are responsible for keeping informed of official policies and meeting all relevant requirements. When required changes to the Catalog occur, they will be communicated through catalog inserts and other means until a revised edition of the Catalog is published. The policies in this Catalog have been approved under the authority of the ECPI University Board of Trustees and, therefore, constitute official University policy. Students should become familiar with the policies in this Catalog. These policies outline both student rights and student responsibilities. The University reserves the right and authority at any time to alter any or all of the statements contained herein, to modify the requirements for admission and graduation, to change or discontinue programs of study, to amend any regulation or policy affecting the student body, to increase tuition and fees, to deny admission, to revoke an offer...
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