...Family Interview My family is comprised of primarily blacks. My great great grandmother family was from Syrian and my great great grandfather family was of African descent. My family is Protestant Christian and we attended a Church of Christ while growing up. Jamaicans prefer using natural remedies. Most will try to use herbs or different bushes to treat various medical conditions before going to an actual doctor. My grandmother would go to the fields (similar to farms) and gather herbs or bushes for us to drink when we were sick. If she wasn’t able to find a particular herb she would consult a Bush Doctor. These were unlicensed herbalist living in the very rural areas in Jamaica. They knew from experience what herbs or bushes should be used to treat various illnesses. My grandmother said medicines were not readily available and these Bush Doctors were their principal source of care. I remember growing up if I had a fever my mom would bathe me in very cold water a few times throughout the day and had me drink a special herb until the fever went away. Like my grandmother my mother didn’t use a lot of medicines. Most issues are treated holistically first and when those failed, modern medicine was used if available. My family as well as the majority of Jamaican families is very superstitious, hence if you had an unexplainable illness...
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...are many underlying answers to these questions and in this paper I would like to explain what I have learned in the process of interviewing and interacting with these five individuals from different families. I will go into detail about the summary of these results, the generalizations I have made, conclusions about the interviewees, and how they are incorporated with the consumer socialization process. This will help to give you a better understanding of what is all included in consumers behaviors. Also, some specific terms will help you as the reader to fully grasp the meaning behind this process and why the family plays such a big role in influencing other members to act in a certain manner. Interviewees While partaking in my first interview, I noticed that I would need to develop a unique style of interviewing for each interviewee based on their social style. First, I went about interviewing my girlfriend who is currently 22 and very outgoing, talkative, and quick to make decisions in some cases. This style could be categorized as having a expressive personality. I not only asked her questions about how she had learned from past experiences with family, but also, if she had developed any certain habits or consumption behaviors that may separate her from her family members. I found myself asking her to clarify further what she meant when giving responses to probe for more in-depth information and then making sure to actively listen encouraging two-way communication...
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...She was born in 1957. Crystal is a 59 year-old female. 3. Crystal received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She currently works full-time at Transamerica as an Indexing Specialist. 4. Her current family structure is a two-parent household, with her husband, and four children. Two kids are married, one moved back home, and the other (me) is in college. 5. For most of her life, she grew up in rural Iowa. In her childhood she grew up on the farm. Once she got married she moved around different cities such as Waterloo and Cedar Rapids, finally landing in a small-town of approximately 1,3000 people. Questions 1. Crystal says both parents participated in raising her, however with unequal roles. Her mother was the main caretaker as the stay...
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...Interviewee 2: Information: Male, Chinese, Age 20 How many members are there in your family? There are 5 members including him. He has 2 older siblings – brother and sister. What role did each of your parents play during your childhood as well as now? He states that his family has a traditional Chinese background. His father was a busy man who earned money while the mother was a housewife that stayed at home and took care of her children. For instance, she focused on the educational aspect of her children. To illustrate, she revised with her children and made sure they complete their homework. Furthermore, she oversaw school affairs such as fetching her children to school. He stated that his father would not interrupt his mother in education and teaching of the children. For example, the father did not ask him about school. As a result, he did not communicate much with his father. He did not see his father every day, probably only 4 to 5 times per week. It is much less now as he lives separately from his family....
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...My interviewee was Argentina Raudales, my mom. She was born on April 22, 1953, in Esquías, Comayagua, Honduras. She spoke of anecdotes about her childhood and why she moved to the United States, yet she was kept in a bubble by her parents about the wars and disagreements happening around her country and neighboring countries. I chose to interview my mom because she would always tell me stories about her childhood, yet she never told me anything bad happening in Honduras but because of history, I know civil wars were happening in Central America during the time she was growing up. My grandfather was in the military, but when he got married to my grandmother he left the military and worked in agriculture. During the 50’s and 60’s, he decided...
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...The person I interviewed for this assignment was my mother. The reason I decided to interview her was to think about the differences between three generations of women in my family. While reading the articles for this assignment I was struck at the vastly different experiences seen in my grandmother’s experience versus my mother’s and then mine own experience. By the 1920’s 30-50% of women gave birth in hospitals (Feldhusen, 2000), my grandmother was not one of them. She gave birth 12 times, at home, with only my grandfather in attendance. Prenatal health care was not even something that was considered, and having anyone other then family around wasn’t even a thought. My mother’s experience, (which I will go into more detail later) was in a hospital and she stayed 5 days after the birth. As for my own experience, I was in a hospital, and I left after 48 hours. I. When I asked my mother about her pregnancies with my brother and I, she stated that she didn’t really have a lot of problems. The one thing that stood out was that she developed a full body rash when pregnant with her first child. With her second child she remembers the doctor asking if she was getting any exercise – she laughed and told him she had a two year old and was in the...
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...The person I am interviewing and who I think has an interesting past is my mother Maria. She has been my rock for the past 20 years she is filled with happiness, knowledge, laughter and love. My mother taught me everything I know, she taught me the right from wrong, she taught me how to treat others and most important she taught me how to love. Maria grew up poor in Jalisco Mexico but then immigrated to the United States and gave birth to my sister, me and my little brother. I asked my mother a couple questions about her past and the answers I received were astonishing. “Family tales were a great way to pass the time in my family.” Every time when we are at a family gathering my mother will always bring up some child hood memories of the family. Like the time when I was three years old, all my teeth had fallen out and I was basically toothless but I only...
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...Estarreja, Portugal when they were toddlers, but they moved to America when they were in their teenage years. To interview David about his first immigration was hard because of the fact that he was so young when he moved to Angola from Portugal. His family moved to Naimbe (called Moçâmedes or Angra de Negro when he lived there) because his father’s work relocating and more opportunities. Though his family did not want to move, they were very lucky that their father even had a job in general. His work did pay for them to move and even helped them buy a house in Angola. Naimbe was a Portuguese Province, so the move was not that difficult and not much was needed to adjust. Most of the people still spoke portuguese, celebrated most of the same holidays, and most importantly had the same type...
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...Week 8: Informational Interview Template and Grading Rubric ------------------------------------------------- This document contains the template you will use to complete this assignment. Save the file by adding your last name to the filename (e.g. Week8_Informational_Interview_Template_Smith.docx). Be sure to proofread and spell check your work before you submit it. ------------------------------------------------- A grading rubric is also available at the end of this document. There are FIVE steps to the Informational Interview. Step 1: Compile a list of individuals in your target career field whom you would like to interview. Try to identify people who are working at a company in which you are interested. This is a good opportunity to practice your networking skills. Let your classmates, friends, family members, and colleagues know that you need to complete an informational interview with someone in your intended career field. You’ll be amazed at how effective networking can be. Step 2: Prepare a brief introduction of yourself and the purpose(s) of the informational interview. Prepare a list of open-ended questions that would be appropriate to ask during the informational interview. An Internet search using “informational interview” will provide you with many examples of questions you might want to use. Step 3: Practice your interview with a classmate, friend, family member, or colleague and ask them to critique your performance. Identify ways to improve based...
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...Vanessa’s questions 1. As an advocate for the elderly do you find it difficult when you come across family members who have no desire are concerns of the well beings of their family member. 2. How does she as advocate handle the death that often comes with working with the elderly? Roger questions? 1) How are the funds allocated for human service organizations? 2) What is the difference between a non-profit and for-profit human service organization? 3) What are some of the guidelines for allocated funds from the federal government? 4) Does the funds give them the authority to dictate the organizations day to day operations? Conduct an interview with a social services lobbyist within your state legislature. Use the same form of interview questions as in previous group interviews but include the following: • Discuss the role of the lobbyist as a social advocate. • How do his or her positions as a lobbyist affect social policy changes? • How are dollars for human services acquired? What role do they play? • Does the interviewee see his or her role as a policy changer or as a funding advocate? Why? • What does he or she envision as the future for human services? Will we as a society fund more or less to those in need? As a group, prepare a 2- to 3-page paper summarizing this interview As a group, discuss all three interviews and summarize the role of advocate, mediator, and lobbyist in the field of human services. Choose a role and discuss its social importance...
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...Table of content Research Background 1 Culture Research 1 1. Consumer Culture: Nail Preference Culture 1 2. When and where were the observations/interviews done? 1 3. Consumer List 2 4. Consumer theory Analysis 2 5. Observation Outline and Question List for Interview. 7 6. Who is the target of this culture? (Both demographic and psychographic profile of the individuals) 7 7. Group Members and their contribution to the project 8 Appendix I 9 Nail Preference Culture of Female Consumers Research Background Since marketers successfully promote the slogan “It is women’s nature to be beauty”, it seems also well-explained a phenomenon why in current market female consumer exists huge growth potential to marketers to pay attention to it. In this research project, we are trying to explore the nail preference culture of female consumers and understand their potential behavior motivations. In order to get practical information from this group of consumers, we interviewed some consumers in Nail D’Amour nail salon store as well as its nail specialist. In addition, we used value – Utilitarian Value/Hedonic Value, Motivation – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and Decision Making Process Model these three theories to explain behavior and motivations of these consumers. According to the interviewing results, we found that this group of consumers love doing nail is mainly due to its Hedonic value which satisfies consumers’ emotional demands to make...
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...Here is an interview for Dr. Jimmy Adegoke who works in department of geosciences, and he is a climatologist whose research emphasizes the role of the land surface as drivers of weather and climate. I prepared several questions, and the central point I talked with him is what differences between business student and science student. I interviewed him in the student union, and his solemn and cautious leave me a deep impression when he put his palms together devoutly. When I finished my self-instruction, he stood up and shook hands with me, but no smile. I felt a little nervous. I told him that I am a business student, and our major is totally different, which is the reason I choose him to be my interviewee. He said his work is complex and complicated because it is not only teach, but also includes some researches about biology and geography, the supervision of master student, participating conference and the community of finical planning. I asked him what the favorite part in his work is. This question seems carried him back, and he paused as if to find a way to phrase his next thoughts. And then, he continued to say that to teach and work with students is his favorite work. He also said to spend a lot of time on research is not his will, and he would like to be with his family if there are 48 hours a day. When he said this I felt a man who has sense of responsibility and loves his family deeply. .To answer the central point of this interview, his response is that business students...
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...two hospitals, sixty physician offices, and eighteen community satellite facilities (About Heritage Valley Health System). I had the pleasure of doing my job shadow with them. While doing my first job shadow, the women that I was shadowing, was kind enough to let me interview her. Not knowing how many job Shadows I would be able to complete, I thought it would be a good idea to do some more interviews. Danette Hallam works for the Heritage Valley Health System, as a medical assistant for the Sewickley ConvenientCare Center. She has been working for them for five years. She is married and has three children. She spent some time showing me pictures and telling me funny stories about them. She is very family-oriented. Her oldest son is in the Marines. She started to tear up when talking about him. Danette first started as a receptionist for a doctor's office in Beaver. She had always planned to go into the medical field...
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...Quality Improvement Plan Part II This paper attempts to explain some areas of potential improvement for the Veteran Affairs (VA) organization in a surgical department. Describe the data that needs to be collected and the tools to be use. Also, it will be identified and compared the types of information collected based on the different tools used. Presenting the Quality Improvements (QI) tools needed to accomplish the goal and describe the information obtained from it. In addition, establish how are these tools helpful for the health care organizations. Areas of Potential Improvements for the Organization The areas to be considered are; on- call Practices, preoperative personnel are assigned designated times, in addition to their regular work hours, to be available on an “on-call” basis for unplanned , urgent, emergent procedures or to provide care for patients whose procedure run past schedule time periods. Call hours may vary from four hours or more. Actual hours worked during the call period are unpredictable and can range from 30 minutes to the entire length of the call period. A large body of research exists about fatigue and sleep deprivation and their effect on performance. Research also suggest that work periods of 12 hours or more are associated with higher probability of making an error and increase in risk-taking behaviors. The Time-Out: While technologies and other innovations have advanced health care, these advancements have also led to failures in the delivery...
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...STUDENT NUMBER: 016-525-057 TABLE OF CONTENTS Job Ad ..............................................................................................................1-2 Interview Plan ……………………………………………………………...3-8 Beginning-Preparing for the Interview * Conduct a Job Analysis * Develop questions in advance * Develop Rating Scales * Determine the Purpose and Format of the Interview * Train Interviewers Middle-During the Interview * Provide Background * Interview Do’s * Use Probes * Take Notes * Closing the Interview End-After the Interview * Score Responses * Follow-up * Conduct Further Assessment with Reference Checks * Make a Selection * Reminders Developing a Set of Six (6) Competencies.....................................................9-11 * Core Competencies * Functional Competencies * Job- Specific Competencies * Behavioural Descriptive Interview (BDI) Style Question * Answering Behavioural Interview Questions Using STAR Formula * Behavioural Questions Behavioural Anchored Rating Scale (BARS).......................................12 Rating Scales.........................................................................................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,.13-14 Appendices * Appendix A- Interview Questions and Answers..............................................15-19 Rationale for Selecting/Not Selecting Candidate ................................................20-21 ...
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