...Nurse Language Laura Lynch Nevada State College ABSTRACT This paper discusses the significance of utilizing standard language and writing skills as it relates to multiple tiers of communication required in the nursing profession, as well as the importance of maintaining these elite level communication skills. In addition, this paper also includes a comparison between two minority authors that argue for the importance of their respective Chicana and black, “native tongues “. The pros and cons of their arguments is contrasted against authors’ Allen, Chapman, O’Connor and Francis (2007), whom address the significance of language and writing within the area of professional nursing that upholds the elite verbal and written communication standards practiced in nursing today. The Communications and the Language of Nursing The language spoken in the profession of nursing requires a wide spectrum of core communication skills that provide a verbal bridge of common understanding of illness, healing, wellness or prevention. These skills require the continual change and transformation of the nursing profession’s language. From the perspective of the patient’s bedside and nurse-to-nurse communications, through the nurse to the specialist, the criteria for common core can be acknowledged. Additionally, the personal slang and reflections of self identification shared in Anzaldua and hooks’ essays demonstrates the immediate need for the requirement of a common core language required...
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...purpose of this paper is to go over the service learning project that was conducted. The paper will start off with a brief background of the major problem and issues that are faced. The author will then identify the benefits and consequences of a physician's office offering multilingual services. Then the author will offer several recommended solutions, which will be followed by a brief description of the evaluation plan that could be used to measure the effectiveness of the recommended solution. As part of the Service Learning Project, a woman by the name of Mary Garcia was interviewed. She expressed that her elderly parents, who speak nothing but pure Spanish, seem to have communication problems...
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...Court Issues Analysis Annali Zieroth CJA/394 October 29, 2012 Troy Hokanson In the following paper there will be an analysis that identifies the current issues facing courts and the court administrators today such as the delays, congestion, and backlog and how these issues can affect the court system. This paper will include a discussion on the future management issues and trends regarding language interpretation services that can impact the court system as well as the court system process. There will be discussion on the past, present, and future impact that the victim rights laws have on court proceedings. Current Issues Facing Courts Today The current issues facing courts and court administrators today is the serious problem of backlog, delay, and congestion. This causes more problems in the court system because it seriously threatens the quality and dignity of justice due to the courts falling behind in their work and then them trying to speed up and process as many cases as possible. The court systems are not designed to do quality work while under stress, nor are they designed to work quickly through their cases. When the courts attempt to do their work quickly, mistakes of all sorts can occur in what is called the assembly-line justice. To begin with, prosecutors will start dropping cases for no apparent reason this is called nolle prosqui in addition to cases where the prosecutors may think the police have not obtained enough evidence to make a case (Court Issues...
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...Communication Opinion Paper Diana Rodriguez HCS/320 May 5, 2014 Communication Opinion Paper In healthcare, providers must communicate effectively by using the basic elements of communication with a compassionate and understanding approach. What are the five basic elements of communication? Quite simply, the sender, receiver, message, channel and feedback play a significant role in how providers and patients interact in order to accomplish a mutual level of understanding. (Cheesebro, O'Connor, & Rios, 2010) Communication is about sending and receiving messages but listening is the key to bringing clarity to the topic of a conversation. Being descriptive and inquisitive while exchanging information helps grasp the feelings, wants, thoughts and needs of the people communicating. (Cheesebro, O'Connor, & Rios, 2010) It is important to know the reasoning behind the message being delivered. In the medical field professionals deal with many types of audiences like vendors and the communication style will be different for each one. Professionals must be eager to be good listeners so that they can summarize the sender’s information. Being good writers will collect he necessary data needed to take good care of patients, address their needs appropriately. Utilizing verbal and non-verbal communication skills by making eye contact and controlling the tone and volume of their voice is still considered a form of speech and is a good way to build a connection with others....
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...aliens in the medical coverage. This report reviews the rights of the undocumented aliens to healthcare and hoe this can be improved. This research discovered that the undocumented aliens have limited access to health care due to lack of identity papers. This is due to the fact that they earn very low income and medical insurance coverage is lower for the undocumented aliens. As a result, they rely on the safety-net medical care providers such as social health centers as this centers continue to provide care for the undocumented aliens. This research also reviews the limitations and problems faced by the undocumented aliens in accessing health care and as a result the ploys they use to access medical care. The findings of this research show that they mostly rely on treating themselves with over counter drugs or in the cases of extremes they use unofficial networks to seek treatment. Also, it is evident that they would do anything to safeguard their cover from being discovered and these results in stress and psychological disorders. Another finding is that despite the healthcare reforms, undocumented aliens still have no rights to access health care compared to the US citizens. This research recommends designing of programs which focus on the issue of undocumented aliens being excluded from the medical care reform. Designing this reforms may involve adding more policies that favour the rights of the undocumented aliens to access medical care such as rights to have medical insurance...
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...Effective Communication Paper Xavier Vilar HCS 325/ Health Care Management Ms. Debra Baker October 27, 2011 When examining communication, people have to remember that this is the most important skill that a person has to master in life. Everyone in the world spend most of the entire day trying to communicate verbally, non-verbally, in writing, speaking, and listening to others. Many know some barriers that may interrupt communication like: gender, age, developmental level, culture, diversity influences, disabilities, stress, emotion, knowledge, listening skills, and non-verbal interpretations (Tamparo 2000). All of these barriers can effect how teams and group communication process can impact organizations. By exploring how gender and cultural differences impact communication through co-workers, managers, patients, families, and caregivers can help us understand how important communication is important to an organization and how sharing information; ideas are important. Every organization should always identify any way to make improvements in communication between staff and patient. Team and Group Communication Process In Morton Plant Hospital, they are always striving to be the best communicators in the Bay Care Health System. Employees at Morton Plant know the only way effective communication takes place is when they listen first, knowing to be cultural sensitive, reduce stress and fear, identifying persons with impeding disabilities and...
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...performance of employees. Employee Process of selection:- The process of selection is different in different companies; however a general procedure of selection can be framed. This process of selection can be explained with the help of following diagram. selection Job analysis:- The very first step in the selection procedure is the job analysis. The HR department prepares the job description and specification for the jobs which are vacant. This gives details for the jobs which are vacant. This gives details about the name of the job, qualification, qualities required and work conditions etc. Advertisement:- Based on the information collected in step 1, the HR department prepares an advertisement and publishes it in a leading news papers. The advertisement conveys details about the last date for application, the address to which the application must be sent etc. Application blank/form :- Application blank is the application form to be filled by the candidate when he applies for a job in the company. The application blank collects information consisting of 4 parts- 1) Personal details 2) Educational details 3) Work experience 4) Family background. Written test :- The application which have been received are screened by the HR department and those applications which are incomplete arerejected. The other candidates are called for the written test. Arrangement for the written test is looked after the HR department i.e....
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...newspapers is a broadsheet newspaper called The Guardian and the other one is the tabloid publication called The Sun. Two articles from these papers will be compared with each other, exploring the similarities and differences between them. The articles in question are ‘Top-Toc-Treat-Junkies-like-patients not criminals’ which appears in The Sun and The Guardians article ‘Leading doctor urges decriminalisation of drugs’. Broadsheet and tabloid newspapers employ different techniques to appeal to their readership. A typical tabloid article has a simple headline, sometimes in the form of a pun or using colloquial language which grabs a reader’s attention. The heading in a tabloid article tends to be more vague using less information and leaving itself open for interpretation which means the reader will have to read on for further insight into the story. It has a style of writing is very different from a broadsheet. They tend to use a style of writing which is known as ‘sensational’ or ‘hyperbole’, which can make the story more dramatic than it actually is. The language used in a tabloid appeals to those looking for a less challenging read and targets most ages. Although a tabloid can seem to be less ‘serious’ than a broadsheets, they do often have facts and educated opinions to back up an argument in a article. There is a lot of emotive language used frequently to provoke the emotions readers such as ‘dirty needles’ and ‘awful lifestyles’. A typical broadsheet article, on the...
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...Analysis of An Article: A critique of “The Language of Euthanasia” This essay is a critique of the article “The Language of Euthanasia” written by Sheila Grant. After careful evaluation of this article, it is impossible to accept Sheila Grant's’ view on Euthanasia as it commits the fallacies of red herring, hasty conclusion and slippery slope making her persuasive view problematic. The fallacy of the red herring is committed when a person making an argument presents an argument (that can be valid or invalid) but does not address the issue or the question directly. In the article, Grant says “What makes this discussion of this subject so difficult is that there is a great public confusion about the terminology”. I feel that the reference and in-depth debate of the many meanings of the word Euthanasia avoids the subject rather than addressing its ethical value. This fallacy is also committed when the author beings discussing the different types...
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...meaning ‘psyche’, or “the soul, mind, or personality of a person or group” ("Psyche." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2015). Psychology has many different fields of study that include social behavior, human development, and cognitive procedures, just to name a few. One name that often comes to mind when the word psychology is mentioned is Sigmund Freud. Freud is often thought of as the most influential, as well as controversial, figure in the study of psychology. His theories and views set the standard for the understanding of the human mind and its functions. There are six major schools of thoughts in psychology; functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanistic psychology, cognitivism and Gestalt psychology. This paper will identify three of those schools and examine the basis of each. Functionalism The first psychological school of thought I want to explore is Functionalism. Functionalism is “a late 19th century to early 20th century American school of psychology concerned especially with how the mind functions to adapt the individual to the environment” ("Functionalism." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2015). The basic reasoning of functionalism is to seek delineation of thought patterns and what they do without questioning. Basically speaking, in order to understand the mind and its functions one must look at what it does and not be concerned with the how and why. ...
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...Hmong Culture vs Western Medicine: A Social Constructionist Analysis Throughout Lia Lee’s medical journey, both her doctors and her family struggled to understand one another’s behavior resulting in misunderstandings, alienation, and distrust between the two parties. The social constructionist perspective and related theories on human behavior, such as symbolic interactionism, can be used to analyze the complicated and confusing relationship between the Lee family and the Merced County Medical Center doctors. The social constructionist perspective, as defined in the book Human Behavior and the Social Environment, states that “people construct meaning, sense of self, and a social world through their interactions with each other,” Hustchison, 2019, p 52....
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...Throughout my internship at Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, I have developed Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice Competency 2 skills, which is to Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the nursing home with regard to its commitment to supporting equality and challenging oppression in its approach to diversity among its staff. I will include a strategy on how to address cultural differences among staff and residents. Diversity among staff is very important in Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center that I am interning at this year. The nursing home already understand that bringing diversity of voices in the nursing home from different racial, cultural and economic backgrounds is the right thing to do to meet the needs of all the residents at the nursing home. I have seen that increasing diversity at all staff levels in the nursing home has resulted in better patient outcomes and a deeper connection to the community. A disconnection between staff and the residents that the nursing home serve can present a cultural problem that must be overcome to provide patient-centered care....
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...Artificial Intelligence(AI) and the Modern -Day Hacking Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has created new markets and new opportunities in many areas such as health, education, energy, and the environment. The history of Artificial Intelligence can be traced back to the Greece philosophers who modeled human thinking as a system of symbols [1]. This was the first time someone thought about replicating human thinking. During the 1940s, Connectionism was developed to study the process of thinking. Later in 1950, a man named Alan Turing wrote a paper on how to test a “thinking” machine. His paper was followed in 1952 by the Hodgkin-Huxley model of the brain as neurons forming an electrical network, with individual neurons firing in all-or-nothing pulses. These events, at a conference sponsored by Dartmouth College in 1956, helped to spark the concept of Artificial Intelligence [1]. In recent years, machines have surpassed humans in the performance of certain tasks. Machines are now able to replace...
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...10 Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology Deborah Biggerstaff Warwick Medical School University of Warwick, Coventry UK 1. Introduction In the scientific community, and particularly in psychology and health, there has been an active and ongoing debate on the relative merits of adopting either quantitative or qualitative methods, especially when researching into human behaviour (Bowling, 2009; Oakley, 2000; Smith, 1995a, 1995b; Smith, 1998). In part, this debate formed a component of the development in the 1970s of our thinking about science. Andrew Pickering has described this movement as the “sociology of scientific knowledge” (SSK), where our scientific understanding, developing scientific ‘products’ and ‘know-how’, became identified as forming components in a wider engagement with society’s environmental and social context (Pickering, 1992, pp. 1). Since that time, the debate has continued so that today there is an increasing acceptance of the use of qualitative methods in the social sciences (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000; Morse, 1994; Punch, 2011; Robson, 2011) and health sciences (Bowling, 2009; Greenhalgh & Hurwitz, 1998; Murphy & Dingwall, 1998). The utility of qualitative methods has also been recognised in psychology. As Nollaig Frost (2011) observes, authors such as Carla Willig and Wendy Stainton Rogers consider qualitative psychology is much more accepted today and that it has moved from “the margins to the mainstream in psychology in the UK.” (Willig & Stainton...
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... My dad is a truck driver. Getting to that point was not easy, especially that he survived two heart attacks in the past 5 years. Now he is leaving out his dream by driving everywhere, exploring new places, and new people by being the healthiest he has ever been. For my mom it was more of a challenge because she was a doctor back in Honduras and it was hard to certify herself as an official doctor here in America. Now she is an amazing teacher assistant where she can balance work life and home life. However, during the time that she was still pursuing her medical career here in America, I would go to medical conferences with her to keep her company. I remember going to one conference and be in absolute shock with all the video footages that they presented from past surgeries. However, in that conference, there was at least one workshop throughout the day that had a panel of lawyers that would come and inform the medical assistants about updated laws. At the age of 8, I did not understand what they were saying, but I do remember how confident they were when presenting their information. Till this day, I thank God that my mother took me to that conference because there is where my interest in the legal field began. Leaving the conference that day I said to myself that I wanted to become a lawyer because they way that they presented themselves on stage. As time went by and one day in college, one of my classmate told everyone that there was an amazing law program at the University...
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