...While doing my research on resistant people, I’ve learned that some individuals are resisting changing, and there are multiple reasons. While adding to the complexity is the fact that from time to time the stated reason hides the real deep personal reason. I have learned to recognize that people work through a psychological change process as they give up the old and come to embrace or reject the new. People may experience initial denial, and then begin to realize that the change can’t be ignored. Sometimes strong feelings may emerge, like fear, anger, helplessness and frustration. A person can accept the change either negatively, with feelings of resignation and complacency or positively, with enthusiasm to capitalize on the changes. You should always watch out for the ones who get stuck in one phase, and offer your support. Allow space for people to work through the stages and give them time to breath and listen with empathy. I have learned that there are many reasons why people are resistant to change, the first reason is that the person is in general against or negative towards all that is different or new. They would say things like we just don’t have time for that or its too early or too late for that. The second reason is that the person is not interested in the idea or change, or he/she has other goals that he/she wants to pursue. The third is that the person doesn’t understand the message and/or the consequences that the change will have on his /her work situation. ...
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...infections that were once easily cured with antibiotics are becoming harder to treat. This is due to antibiotic resistance. The World Health Organization has called this one of the biggest threats to human health today. What is antibiotic resistance? Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria change to protect themselves from an antibiotic. They are then no longer sensitive to that antibiotic. When this happens, antibiotics that previously would have killed the bacteria, or stopped them from multiplying, no longer work. What are ‘superbugs’? ‘Superbugs’ are bacteria that are resistant to several different antibiotics. The methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria commonly found in hospitals, and the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), are now very hard to treat because of antibiotic resistance. Strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli) — the bacteria that causes many urinary tract infections — have also developed resistance to a number of antibiotics. How does antibiotic resistance affect me? Using antibiotics when you don’t need them may mean that they won’t work for you when you do need them in the future. If you have an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection: * you will have the infection for longer * you may be more likely to have complications of the infection * you could remain infectious for longer, and pass your infection to other people, which increases the problem. You can help prevent...
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...head:INFECTIOUS DISEASE 1 Infectious Disease Paper Brandie Evans University of Phoenix June 11, 2013 Sherrie Sheets INFECTIOUS DISEASE 2 Infectious Disease Introduction Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is produced by a strain of staph bacteria that's become resistant to the antibiotics generally used to treat normal staph infections. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was first discovered in 1961. Today In present time MRSA has turned out to be a dangerous health problem, Bacteria are always altering because of genetic reasons and the continustened change. Therefore, because of the change numerous bacteria begin to increase the resistant to a specific antibiotic. As soon as the less resistant and weaker bacteria come into contect with that identical antibiotic, and so they stop living. However, the resistant and more stronger bacteria remain before they disappear. If these more tougher and stronger bacteria happen to live then they can duplicate. The newly Once more the dublicated bacteria hold the same to the antibiotic and extra variations diffrenceces in their genetic influence refer that a large number of these off-spring bacteria will be even morestronger and tougher. As time goes on, the frequently change of bacteria genetics and the population favoring of one form of a medication over another has indicated to the more thougher and stronger types of Staphylococcus aurous. But normally these...
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...explains the events of The Pigman in two sentences. Lorraine and John are going through things that change them forever, good and bad. When they meet Mr. Pignati, they accomplish a friendship that could never be achieved with anyone else. John is going through great change, but Lorraine is becoming a person who can resists temptation from friends, be honest with everyone, and can even find the strength to prevent others from making dreadful choices. Paul Zindel’s miraculous novel, The Pigman, illustrates how Lorraine is resistant to negative peer pressure, honest, and resistant to drugs and alcohol. One way Lorraine is seen as resistant to negative peer pressure is while she is protecting Mr. Pignati during the telephone marathon. While playing the telephone marathon, Mr. Pignati offers them ten dollars for the L&J Fund. When John hears this generous offer, his...
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...Disease in News There have been many articles related to diseases in the news as the years have passed; as the healthcare industry changes public knowledge and education become more prevalent. The better educated the more healthcare professionals can aid the public in taking responsibility on how to treat the disease. "Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death, nature knows this; and nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster." ("Quotes About Disease", n.d. Paracelsus, Philipus ) Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges in India In recent news, physicians have encountered a totally drug-resistant strain of TB that has emerged in India. Data conducted by Giovanni Migliori, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Tradate, Italy, suggests that this strain, TDR-TB, is a deadlier iteration of the highly resistant forms of TB that have been increasingly reported over the past decade. Totally resistant TB is not new at all” (Rowland, 2012, para. 3). The official accounts have not yet been determined but the scare of this potentially fatal disease coming back has physicians and private organizations prompting pharmaceutical industries to redirect their interests in finding new treatments for the disease. Research suggests that this drug resistance is due to the inadequate care and mismanagement of...
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...as people reach adulthood, they’ll become resistant to change. At age 30, people who are usually open, aren’t that open anymore because of all the time they spend on work. When a family is made, people are no longer welcome to try new or different things because of responsibilities. Not even divorce or death of a loved one can result a change in the personality. People who want changes in their life fail to make the changes because they set up too many goals for themselves. Nikolas Westerhoff claims that people become resistant to change as they change from adolescents to adults. Part II: Discussion Key Words/ Phrases: Novelty, Personality, Transformation, Resistance, Age, Decrease, “New experiences” Topics/ Subjects: Freedom, Society, Openness, Responsibility, Change, Inspiration, Failure, Power Connection: Nikolas would connect the topic failure to his ideas about resistance to change by suggesting that people have tried to change, however because they have failed to change they now became resistant to change. Someone may have set up a goal and was hasty with it resulting a failure. Since they have failed to change, they become afraid which leads to resistance on changing. Questioning: * The text: According to the author, why do some people fail on making changes in their life? * Personal Reality: What was a change that you tried to make in your life? * The World/External Reality: What are some changes that people try to...
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...incorrectly. Nobody allows their body to heal itself. In certain cases antibiotics should be used to help cure one of an infection but not in the ways they are used today. Antibiotics can be found in many household that includes mostly all wipes and sprays. Antibiotics being included in all of these products can do nothing but hurt one in the long run. Placing antibiotics in cleaning appliances can cause all bacteria to become immune and change so that the antibiotic becomes unproductive and the bacterium becomes stronger. Antibiotics are used for anything from cuts to strep throat and pneumonia and have been for a very long time. They are becoming impotent because they are used incorrectly by nearly everyone: doctors, patients, and even people raising animals for meat. The misuse would be prescribing the drugs completely incorrectly. In doing this, superbugs are produced and they are extremely antibiotic resistant and almost impossible to stop. Antibiotics also kill some of the good and helpful bacteria inside of the body which may allow resistant bacteria to fill in. The human body itself has sets up its own defenses with pathogens and other walls that fight and harmful bacteria off without any use of antibiotics. It is very faulty to overuse any type of antibiotics. In doing so it weakens the body’s defenses greatly and the human race will eventually have to keep making them stronger and a super illness will eventually form. When someone needs an antibiotic they should get one...
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...More important is other living forms or life like bacteria’s are changing, and becoming resistant to the body’s defenses and medical treatment that causes infections. There are multi-drug strains of Staphylococcus are emerging in various parts of the world all of the time. Staphylococci are usually present on the skin or in the nostrils of 20 to 30 percent of individuals any time. Usually it causes no problem for otherwise healthy individuals. Although individuals cannot do anything about catching the infection, fortunately there are things individuals can do to reduce or build their immune systems. • How is this infectious agent transmitted through food or water? This infection can be transmitted through direct or indirect contact and in food. If transmitted through contact, individuals that had a staph infection, probably had acne, boils, and styes on their eyelids, or infected wounds. Staphylococcus aureus is also transmitted through convenience food which offers an appropriate growth environment for toxin-producing bacteria. Staphylococcus aureus is able to grow in a wide variety of foods such as milk products, mixed foods, meat and meat products, egg and egg products, cakes and ice-cream. The fight against foodborne diseases are facing new challenges because of fast changing patterns of individual consumption, the globalization of the food market and climate change. This infection can be defeated by ones...
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...1)They can physically dodge the pesticide ( Pesticides being sprayed on the wall and insects will avoid the wall) 2) They can evolve so that the pesticides cannot penetrate the external body of the insect (Insects dropping off the limbs that touched the pesticides) 3) Insects evolve and antidote to the pesticide 4) Insects finds and internal dodge to the antidote Describe how the Heliothis moths have been able to evolve resistance to pesticides by describing how they match each of the three criteria for naturals selection: Variation in a trait Sodium channels gene change Variation that is heritable Changes in the DNA that is passed down Differential reproductive success Mating in hay Explain the irony behind the evolution of resistance to pesticides and the lobbying of legislature to ban the teaching of evolution in predominately farming areas. To understand how insects become resistant to pesticides, you must understand evolution. The famers, who need to understand these concepts the most in order for their crops to be successful, are the ones advocating to ban the teaching of evolution. Describe the experiment that Bruce Levin and his wife did when they took antibiotics. What did they find out about the bacteria in their bodies within a few days of taking the...
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...prescribed 27 million antibiotics in Canada alone in a year. Specialists prescribed antibiotics to kill a virus; which causes issues. A sudden change from the parent to offspring with different characteristics is a mutation. These microorganisms are acting on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. His theory...
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...In the health care system, one of the essential dilemma a nurse managers face is to deal with the management of change. Therefore, the nurse manager as well her team members need knowledge, competence, and leadership skills to maintain the expertise needed to carry out the complexity of the change management process. Change is an ongoing process where people can be passive, divergent, or supportive toward it. Regardless of these feelings, change is required to achieve advancement in the profession. Thus, this paper will explore the management of the change process by identifying a problem that a nurse manager need to resolve, driving forces for the need to change, application of management and leadership theory as well motivational theory,...
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...why they will be working on Saturdays and allow them to voice their opinions. Anytime change occurs there is going to be resistant usually out of fear, Marcy must understand this and take the time to listen to and try to eliminate those fears. Another step Marcy could have taken was to introduce the employees to the change gradually instead of springing it on them suddenly. I would have announced the change to the employee upon hearing about it but would have asked for a few people to volunteer on Saturday before the change was in effect. This way they could get a feel of how it would be to work on Saturdays, sure some may still be resistant but some may see that it’s not all bad. Marcy can deal with resistance to the new policy by being open and honest. Let the employees know how you feel about the change and why the change is good for the company. She could also try getting those resistant to the change involved by asking for their ideas and suggestions and trying to incorporate those ideas. This may make them feel better about the change if they feel like they have a part or even a say in the change. Another way is providing some flexibility, some employees are not available every Saturday for various reasons such as no babysitter, kid’s sports events, or other planned family functions. I think offering employees half days on Saturday or work one off the next would make them less resistant, especially if a person has grown accustomed to a five day work week. One psychological...
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...effervescence II. COAGULASE TEST III. MANNITOL SALT FERMENTATION TEST IV.DNASE TEST * * Staphylococus aureus on the left is negative for DNase production; the Serratia marcescens on the right is positive for DNase production as evidenced by the area of clearing around the growth. IV. NOVOBIOCIN TEST Rapid, automated identification of novobiocin-resistant, coagulase-negative staphylococci. (CoNS) ID of Staph.saprophyticus Resistant= less than 16mm Sensitive= more than 16mm * Staph.saprophyticus is Novobiocin resistant * Staph.epidermidis- Novobiocin sensitive V.BACITRACIN (TAXO A) TEST Difference of the group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus from other non-group A beta-hemolytic streptococci is by using sensitivity test to bacitracin (Taxo A discs). OPTOCHIN (TAXO P) DISCS TEST This is a differential test used to distinguish between organisms sensitive to the antibiotic optochin and those not. This test is used to distinguish Streptococcus pneumoniae (optochin sensitive (pictured on the right)) from other a-hemolytic streptococci (optochin resistant (Streptococcus mitis is pictured on the left). Bile- Esculin Hydrolysis Determine the ability to grow in 40% bile and esculin hydrolysis POSITIVE RESULT- Esculetin reacts with FeCl3 to form brown-black ppt The differential ingredient is esculin. If an organism can hydrolyze esculin in the presence of bile, the product esculetin is formed. Esculetin reacts with ferric citrate...
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...bacteria secrete to kill other bacteria when forced to compete for limited nutrients. The first antibiotic, Penicillin, was discovered in the 1928 by Alexander Fleming and began being mass produced by the 1940’s. Within the same decade, resistant strains of bacteria began to appear. (1) Since then, 18 dangerous drug-resistant superbugs have been discovered (according to the CDC). A bacterium is referred to as a ‘superbug’ if it carries several resistant genes within its DNA. (2) Bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics primarily through two ways: by mutation or by horizontal gene transfer, in which bacteria share resistant genes with other bacteria essentially swapping out portions of their DNA for mutated sections. Antibiotics kill bacteria by binding to the cells protein so that the protein cannot function properly, hindering the bacteria from growing and reproducing. If the bacteria contains mutated portions of DNA, the antibiotic cannot bind to the altered protein and the bacteria won’t be affected. Due to natural selection, the bacteria that survived, the mutated bacteria, will be left to grow and reproduce and all that will remain will be the antibiotic resistant bacteria. (1) There continues to be an increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria due to a variety of reasons, mainly the over-prescription of antibiotics, the misuse of antibiotics (such as not taking them for the full course), and the use of antibiotics in livestock. (3) Many doctors write prescriptions...
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...selection would be the gradual increase in size of the modern horse. This change occurred due to the environment changing from forest conditions to grassland conditions. The contrast in disruptive selection is the distribution curve shifts both ways and focuses on two or more phenotypes versus intermediate phenotypes. An example of disruptive selection is the British snails. They live in low-vegetation areas and in forest areas. Thrushes feed on the the snails with dark shells and no bands in the vegetation areas and they feed on the snails with the light bands in the forest areas. Therefore, these snails had to adapt to their own environment. 2. Overuse and misuse of antibiotics can cause resistant bacteria to form through natural selection. When you introduce selective pressure (antibiotics) to a bacterial infection, some of the bacteria can acquire “free” DNA from its environment. Which can mimic the antibiotics genetic make up. This causes some bacteria to create a resistant gene that can be passed to the next generation. As a result the genetically resistant bacteria keeps increasing in population. Not completing a course of antibiotics can also cause resistance bacteria to breed, by not killing off all of the bacteria in the infection. 3. The transition from aquatic to terrestrial life of vertebrae groups require four different major changes to occur. First, the sensory system (water vs air) had to change yo adapt...
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