...Nursing Sensitive Indicators The American Nurses Association established national initiatives called nursing-sensitive outcome indicators that focus plans/programs to increase quality and safety in patient care. They gauge aspects of direct patient care related to quality of nursing care by reflecting on structure, process and outcomes of nursing care. Structure in regard to staffing and the skill, education and certification of staff; process in regards to measuring aspects of nursing care related to assessment, intervention and RN job satisfaction, and outcomes by improving the rates of specifics in relation to patient outcomes such as in this particular case preventing hospital acquired pressure ulcers, improving patient satisfaction and restraint prevalence. Nursing Sensitive indicators are only specific to nursing and in 1998, ANA developed a National Data base of nursing quality indicators (NDNQI) so they could continue to collect and build on data from studies to expand nursing knowledge related to factors that influence the quality of nursing care. Why is this important? The nursing profession has the responsibility to measure, evaluate and continually improve practice. NDNQI identify where and how the staff is needed and show the need to increase staff in particular areas of nursing care that need improvement. The NDNQI mission is to help the RN in patient safety and quality improvements by providing research based national and comparative data on nursing care...
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...Submitted by: Group-7 Using differential data for constructing an index which is leading indicator of economy. Decoding the economic data to predict economic health. Leading Indicators of Economic Growth Indian Perspective 1. Introduction Leading Indicator approach is helpful in predicting the health of economy and take corrective fiscal or monetary policy in anticipation. 2. Economic Indicators Leading, Lagging and Coincident indicators confirm what is happening in our economy. Leading Indicator: Predict what the economy will do in the future. Example: hours worked per employee. If the hours are rising, firms should increase hiring. Lagging indicators: confirm what leading indicators predict. Lagging numbers change a few months after the economy does. Example: unemployment rate. It will fall after a few months of economic growth. If the leading indicator of hours worked is increasing, after a few months the lagging indicator of unemployment should fall. Coincident indicators: mirror what the data is saying. It is generally what is happening right now, for example, the jobs report. If a leading indicator is predicting future job gains, a lagging indicator is saying unemployment is falling, a coincident indicator will tell you the current employment number. 3. Business Cycles 3.1 Definition Fluctuations found in the aggregate economic activity. It is cyclical, consisting of expansions followed by recessions, contractions and revivals which merge into the expansion...
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...UPGRADING CHEMISTRY FORM 1 AA Acids, Bases & Indicators Comprehensive tutorial notes Julius G.Thungu jgthungu@gmail.com 0711 354 885 INTRODUCTION TO ACIDS, BASES AND INDICATORS 1.In a school laboratory: (i)An acid may be defined as a substance that turn litmus red. (ii)A base may be defined as a substance that turn litmus blue. Litmus is a lichen found mainly in West Africa. It changes its colour depending on whether the solution it is in, is basic/alkaline or acidic. It is thus able to identify/show whether another substance is an acid, base or neutral. (iii)An indicator is a substance that shows whether another substance is a base/alkaline,acid or neutral. 2.Common naturally occurring acids include: Name of acid | Occurrence | 1.Citric acid | Found in ripe citrus fruits like passion fruit/oranges/lemon | 2.Tartaric acid | Found in grapes/baking powder/health salts | 3.Lactic acid | Found in sour milk | 4.Ethanoic acid | Found in vinegar | 5.Methanoic acid | Present in ants, bees stings | 6.Carbonic acid | Used in preservation of fizzy drinks like coke, Lemonade, Fanta | 7.Butanoic acid | Present in cheese | 8.Tannic acid | Present in tea | 3.Most commonly used acids found in a school laboratory are not naturally occurring. They are manufactured. They are called mineral acids. Common mineral acids include: ...
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...Rose Petal pH Indicator Strip II – Proponents Jhed Angelo Nemuel Parcon Princess Hope Delos Reyes Jalel Pasbal Maureen Suganob Nel Joshua Turaray Laureen Suganob Reed Elcen Lumbay II – Objective This project aims to produce a pH indicator strip made from rose petals. The researchers want know if the rose flower is an effective acid-base indicator and if it would be precise when used to identify the pH levels of household items. III – Introduction Normally, pH indicator strips such as litmus paper are the ones used in indicating the pH level of a substance. pH is the measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, numerically equal to 7 for neutral solutions, increasing with increasing alkalinity and decreasing with increasing acidity. Acidic and basic are two extremes that defines chemicals. The pH scale measures how acidic or basic a substance is. It ranges from 0 to 14. A pH of 7 is neutral. A pH less than 7 is acidic, and a pH greater than 7 is basic. Each whole pH value below 7 is ten times more acidic than the next higher value. For example, a pH of 4 is ten times more acidic than a pH of 5 and 100 times (10 times 10) more acidic than a pH of 6. The same holds true for pH values above 7, each of which is ten times more alkaline—another way to say basic—than the next lower whole value. For example, a pH of 10 is ten times more alkaline than a pH of 9. (http://www.epa.gov) Roses are woody perennial shrubs or vines of the genus Rosa, within the family...
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...The Myers-Briggs indicators (MBTI) is based on the work of Carl Jung and reports a people preferred way of attending to the world and making decision based on psychological. The aim of MBTI is to identify, from self-report of easily recognize reactions, the preference of people in regard to perception and judgment. Therefore the effects of every preference singly and in combination can be established by research and put to practical. It was developed in 1940s by Isable Briggs Myers and original research is done in 1940s and 50s. It indicates personality inventory to make a theory of psychological types prescribed by C.G Jung understandable and useful in our human life. MBTI has included perfect through continual test research and development...
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...Myers Briggs Type Indicator Introduction Can you name anything that Elon Musk, Hilary Clinton, Jodie Foster, and Russell Crowe have in common? According to Myers Briggs type indicator, they are all INTJ’s. I just took the test and discovered that I am also an INTJ and that INTJ’s only make up about 2.9% of the population. Elon Musk is someone I didn’t know too much before I took Myers Briggs test, but soon realized how cool he made INTJ’s seem. You will discover many great contributions Elon Musk made to the world, my MBTI results and knowledge of my strengths, and similarities in behaviors and traits Elon Must and I have in common. Elon Musk has made many great contributions to the world. He is co-founder of the online financial services company X .com who later merged with Confinity which had developed an online payment system called PayPal. A specific situation that Elon Musk exhibited leadership traits is him trying to send astronauts to Mars in the next 10mto 20 years. He is the founder of the private spaceflight firm SpaceX, and last November laid out his vision for establishing a huge Red Planet colony that could one day support up to 80,000 people. INTJs make up 2.9% of the population and those traits relate to their personality type in so many ways. Our similar characteristics include strategic and goal oriented. Also a natural leader, calm and analytical. These traits relate to Elon Musk because they all describe the type of person he is. According to Forbes...
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...The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: The Benefits, Challenges and Application in Public Speaking and Communications The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality assessment tool that provides people with a very clear understanding of their personality and how that personality influences all the different aspects in their lives. There are sixteen different personality types and each one has the description of how that person behaves in the society. People can greatly benefit from knowing and understanding their Myers-Briggs type. When people know their personality type and spend time understanding how their personality works, they become more efficient and genuine individuals. The MBTI creates self-awareness in people which make them feel better...
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...the Army from our lessons on ethics, self-awareness, and resilience. From a self-awareness and resilience standpoint, my Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) score is the same now as when I first took the test in 2000, despite a multitude of experiences in different settings. So my outlook and temperate are very stable. Based on my experience with MBTI and other diagnostic tools, I have long embraced them as reasonably accurate depictions of how human beings process and communicate information. I have also embraced them as reasonably accurate predictors of likely how humans will react given the circumstances. The Army attracts people with diverse ways of thinking into it ranks and attempts to inculcate them with a set of shared values meant to guide ethical decision making. This paper will further explore the nuances of self-awareness, resilience, and ethical decision making. Myers Briggs has 16 type indicators. I am an INTJ (Introverted-Intuitive-Thinking-Judging). Given multiple deployments, multiple assignments, a plethora of interactions with various personalities in a multitude of settings, it has not changed in 17 years. Therefore, I am convinced my type indicator is hardwired....
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...The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an assessment test based on Carl Jung’s psychological types and the attitude of introversion and extraversion. Carl Jung believed that much of our conscious perception of and reaction to our environment is determined by the opposing mental attitudes of extraversion and introversion. Extraversion is an attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward the external world and other people. Introversion is an attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward one’s own thoughts and feelings. According to Jung, everyone has the capacity for both attitudes, but only one becomes dominant in the personality (ENGLER, B 2014). The Myers Briggs assessment asked me a total of 72 questions about how I perceived things that have occurred in my life and my personal values and beliefs. My test result for the Jung typology test was personality type ENFJ....
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...The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a series of “two-choice items concerning preferences or inclinations in feelings or behavior” (Aiken & Groth-Marnat, 2006, p. 401). This assessment is scored on four scales: “Introversion-Extroversion (I-E), Sensing-Intuition (S-N), Thinking-Feeling (T-F), and Judging-Perceptive (J-P)” (Aiken & Groth-Marnat, 2006, p. 401). With these four scales the MBTI assessment can come up with 16 possible personality types. The MBTI searches for “preferences and does not measure trait, ability, or character” (www.myersbriggs.org). Once the questions are answered and assessed the respondent is assigned to a personality type that most fits the answers that were given during the assessment. This test...
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...The purpose of taking an assessment like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator is to assist you in finding the best career choice that is suitable to your personality “type”, and perhaps, the assessment will give your future employer a better understanding of your personality, work ethic and preferred communication style. The outcome can be positive, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is widely used in many organizations and industries to help improve productivity and efficiency in the workplace. However, I believe that there are always exceptions to the rule because not every individual can be identify into a specific category, and personality type does not always relate to job performance. My personality type is “ENFJ”, Extravert (1%), intuitive...
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...The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test is an exceptional tool to determine not how a person relates to other but to determine how a person develops their perceptions, gather information and makes decisions. The Myers-Briggs personality preference of Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging (ENTJ) are known as the natural born leaders. Generally being a leader is an admirable trait. However, there are times when the ENTJ preference can alienate others and be seen as micromanagers. Needs work FREETHINKING LEADERNeeds work on APA According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Test, it has been determined that I possess an Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging (ENTJ) personality (Personality test based...
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...This Saturday academy helped me learn about my personality, social identity, and how to present my “story” in a personal essay. Based on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Test, it identified me as an ENFJ—extraverted feeling with introverted intuition. This identification interrupted me as an honest individual with excellent people skills and is well-organized. This personality type’s description was very accurate when describing my personality. For example, I have always had great people skills after working for my family’s business since I was four years old, where I had to communicate with customers daily. As a result, knowing my Myers Briggs type can help me understand my family, friends, colleagues, and especially myself. On the other...
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...1. My four-letter indicator was ENTJ. ENTJ is a personality of a person that has the tendency to direct or marshall. 2. I don’t really think that it was accurate, because I am not the kind of person to direct someone to do something, I usually am the person that follows directions in a group. 3. Three majors that were given for my results were, Politics, Engineering, and Business Management. 4. One thing that was shocking to me, was that the results had lawyer for a job that I would enjoy. I guess that job was a choice because I answered yes to the statement, that I’d rather see justice than mercy. I am not interested in becoming a lawyer, because I wouldn’t feel comfortable having people’s lives in my hands on whether they are guilty or...
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...Analytical Chemistry Laboratory I Fall Semester University of Massachusetts Lowell Department of Chemistry Determination of equivalence point using pH titration of Potassium Hydrogen Phalate and 0.1 N Sodium Hydroxide with phenolphthalein indicator By Lee Binks (12647892), Penny Jinks (12993456) and Hong Links 13504733) Date submitted: Sept 18th , 2013 Abstract- The experiment described elucidates the fundamental principle of potentiometric titrations and determination of equivalence point using pH titration of Potassium Hydrogen Phalate and 0.1 N Sodium Hydroxide with the use of phenolphthalein indicator. The present study revealed the equivalence point by using simple titration curve which was further confirmed by using first and second derivative plots and pKa value of the Potassium Hydrogen Phalate. Introduction- The pH meter measures the pH of a solution and provides a direct method of obtaining a titration curve which is a graph of measured pH values versus the volume of titrant added in milliliters. The equivalence point is the point at which a stoichiometrically equivalent amount of base has been added to the acid. It does not mean that pH will be necessarily 7. KHP is a monoprotic acid. The neutralization with NaOH takes place in a 1:1 ratio HOOCC6H4COOK (aq) + NaOH ( aq) ---> C6H4 ( COO)2 2- (aq) + K+ (aq) + Na+ (aq)...
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