...Purnell (2008) defines cultural competence as the adaptation of care in a manner that is consistent with the culture of the client and is, therefore, a conscious process and nonlinear. The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence consists of seven categories (macro aspects) and twelve sub categories (also known as domains), which introduce and detail the major realms of miscommunications in the health field. The model includes the following concepts: a global society, community, family, person, and conscious competence. The theory and model are conceptualized from biology, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, history, ecology, physiology, psychology, political science, pharmacology, nutrition, communications, family development, and...
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...of many cultures caring for people of different cultures. Culture can be described as a set of norms that set standards for society of what is an acceptable behavior (ethnoconnect.com, 2016). Healthcare providers should understand that being culturally diverse consist or more than just values and beliefs (Nursingworld.org, 2003). Healthcare providers should understand there are more facets to cultural diversity such as language, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, socio-economic status, and occupational status. In this paper, the author will discuss how the Purnell Model relates to transcultural health care. The author will also discuss the different domains of the Purnell Model and assess how each of these domains play a part in the diversity of health care. The Purnell Model is designed of different cultural expectation of healthcare professionals. It is composed of many circles. It is composed of an outer ring and three rings. The outer ring represents global society. Global society means natural disasters, world communications, and politics. The second ring represents the community. The community is a group of people sharing a common interest. The third ring represents family. Family can be defined as two or more people who are emotionally involved with each other (Salisbury.edu, 2016). The fourth ring represent person. Person can be defined as a biopsychosociocultural human being who is constantly adapting (Salisbury.edu, 2016). The twelve domains are encompassed...
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...perspective of development. I will be listing the eight developmental stages throughout life, and the three key developmental domains. I will then summarize two of the theories of the life span development. I will list the four I will then explain how heredity and the environment interact to produce individual differences in development. I will then summarize everything that I have wrote in this paper in a conclusion of the paper. I will also list the references that I have used to write this paper. After several hours of research, I have put this paper together. I hope that you like it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Throughout this paper you will know how the life span development works and what all is entailed in it. You will be able to understand the two theories that I have chosen. You will also know how heredity and the environment interact to produce individual differences in development. Explain the life span perspective of development. The life span perspective is all about understanding all of the changes that take place throughout ones’ life and the changes have to be observed as a result of the culture and the situations that surround each change. Life span is also known as and referred to as being life-long changes that continue and is not based by just one age period. The life span perspective consists of physical, cognitive, and social domains. According to Santrock (1999), “Some aspects of our development increase while others decrease”. Paul Bates goes on to...
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...Individual Cultural Communication “Ethiopian Culture” Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Discussion of the Ethiopian culture’s pattern of communication using Purnell’s Domains of culture as a guide The Purnell’s model for cultural competence is a circular model made up of four rings. They include the global society, community, family and person. Global society which is the outer most ring represents aspects such as world politics and communications, global exchanges in fields of commerce, health and technology, war, famine and the increasing ability or people to tour the world while interacting with people from diverse cultures. The second ring which is labelled community represents people whore share a common interest or have a common identity and live in a specific locality. The third is labelled family and it represents two or more people that are emotionally involved. The fourth one is labelled person and it represents the human being who is constantly adapting. The interior of these four rings is divided into twelve wedges that show cultural domains and their concepts. The core of the circle is left empty to depict the unknown aspects of a cultural group. The twelve domains include heritage, communication, family organization, workforce issues, bio cultural ecology, high risk behavior, nutrition, child bearing practices, death rituals, religious practices and health care practices. Nurses can use the...
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...Growth is physical changes leading to increase in size (Allen, 2009). Growth is measured; “the growth rate is rapid during the prenatal, neonatal, infancy and adolescent stages and slows during childhood” (Scibd, 2012). In comparison, development refers to an increase in complexity-a change from the relatively simple to the more complicated and detailed (Allen, 2009). Development is not growth as in when a child increases in size, but it is the growth of behavior;”development is also influenced by heredity, environmental factors, culture, and family values unique to each individual” (Allen, 2009). Growth is measured by charts whereas there are domains of development that are met to measure the growth of development. In this paper I am going to discuss the six major areas of development domains, an analysis of developmental milestones, and explain factors of what can contribute to atypical development. There are six major areas of developmental domains: physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, speech and language, and social-emotional. Allen (2009) states, “Each is integrally related to and interdependent with each of the others in the overall developmental process” (pg. 35). Basically, one area of development is influenced by another area of development and so on and so forth. For example: If Liana is not growing properly throughout infancy she is not going to hit certain milestones of development that may require gross motor skills such as walking, running, etc. Physical...
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...The External Environment and Organizational Culture Chapter 02 McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objectives LO 1 Describe how environmental forces influence organizations and how organizations can influence their environments LO 2 Distinguish between the macro environment and the competitive environment LO 3 Explain why managers and organizations should attend to economic and social developments. LO 4 Identify elements of the competitive environment. 2-2 Learning Objectives LO 5 Summarize how organizations respond to environmental uncertainty LO 6 Define elements of an organization’s culture LO 7 Discuss how an organization’s culture affects its response to its external environment 2-3 Organization Inputs and Outputs Figure 2.1 2-4 Open Systems Open systems Organizations that are affected by, and that affect, their environment. 2-5 Open Systems Inputs Goods and services organizations take in and use to create products or services. Outputs The products and services organizations create. 2-6 Open Systems External environment All relevant forces outside a firm’s boundaries, such as competitors, customers, the government, and the economy. Competitive environment The immediate environment surrounding a firm; includes suppliers, customers, rivals, and the like. 2-7 Open Systems Macroenvironment The general environment; includes governments, economic...
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...both meaningful and relevant. I suppose it would be convenient to declare my passion for medicine as the inherent outcome of my coming of age journey. The Italian philosopher, Antonio Gramsci, once declared that we are all the product of an infinity of traces, which impinge upon our consciousness. What I found powerful and compelling about this pithy observation is that we are all the manifest outcome of intersecting and overlapping forces, which shape and define our existential direction. Although I was born here to Vietnamese immigrants, my childhood can be summarized as culturally dissonant, economically challenging, and filled with the density of psychological trauma. My parents epitomized the typical immigrant experience. They worked twelve hour days in unfulfilling jobs, so that their children could have the opportunities they could only dream of. As the youngest of five children, I was often left...
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...(business and economic environment, the market, the competition). * Internal audit—the controllable variables (organisation’s strengths and weaknesses, operations and resources in relation to the environment and competitors). Chapters 1—6 McDonald and Leppard’s The Marketing Audit Model is a comprehensive set of exercises that a company can go through to develop insight into all aspects of the marketing process as well as providing a framework for planning and implementation. Marketing Orientation Definition The model comes from the perspective that best-practice will result in a strong marketing orientation for business, that is the identification and satisfaction of customer needs. The Marketing Audit Model is split into twelve discrete sections: Chapters...
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...THE TALENT THRUST FOR ACHIEVING EXPONENTIAL GROWTH September 2007 Introduction This paper outlines the people strategy that can be adopted by a people intensive company that is looking at achieving exponential growth in revenues and business. To illustrate this better, an example of a mid cap IT Company has been taken. The IT Company is focused on meeting the challenges omnipresent in the business environment detailed in the paper, while ensuring the goals of the organization are achieved. The company has set itself very ambitious goals. Achieving these goals would require leveraging of its talent pool. The Context Industry Scenario According to the annual NASSCOM Survey on performance of the IT Software and Services Industry in India, the Indian IT – ITES industry recorded an overall growth of 30.7% as against a projected growth of 27%. They clocked revenues of USD 39.6 billion in FY 06 – 07 up from USD 30.3 billion in FY 05 – 06. The survey also projects that this industry will grow by 24 – 27% whereby revenues will be in the range of USD 49 – 50 billion in FY 08. While India continues to be the preferred destination for Global IT sourcing, due to its talent pool, top quality management and security and quality focus, there are certain challenges that IT organizations need to address immediately. Some of the immediate challenges would include the rupee appreciation, sustainability of available talent, infrastructure development and sustenance of a positive regulatory...
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...A Summary of “Strategic alignment: Analysis of perspectives” by Tiago Reis de Almeida Preston Coleman and Raymon Papp’s paper hub on strategic alignment model. Furthermore, how it has been operationalized to enable assessment of an organization’s business and technology strategies into one of twelve defined alignment perspectives using a web-based model. The authors emphasise that the first concept of strategic alignment remains actual and usable to corporate executives looking to achieve alignment of their business and technology strategies. This model is presented as a combination between four quadrants, which one constituted by three components and it’s divided into two distinct areas: business and information technology (IT). Each area has two quadrants that define that part of the business. Focusing on the business area, the two quadrants are business strategy and organization infrastructure. Business strategy has three different components: business scope, distinctive competencies and business governance component. The first component links everything that might effect the business environment, such as markets, products, services). Distinctive competencies cover all items responsible to create market’s success, like brand, research, value chain. The last component is Business governance that relates to the existent relationships between stockholders and the directors board, governmental regulations and relations with other strategic partners. The other quadrant...
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...nation’s ethnic diversity continues to grow, things like the distribution of resources, ethnic conflict, and assimilation can not be understood in terms of neatly packaged identities in competition. Today, an increasing number of people regularly switch from ethnicity to ethnicity in normal discourse, in an attempt to maximize their economic and political interests. I propose to examine ethnographically and in depth the process of identity switching – that is, how people negotiate between multiple ethnic identities in everyday contexts – among Latinos in Queens, NY. Methods and analysis: From January to July, I will collect ethnographic data about ethnic identity invocation trends in the research communities, train a research assistant, select twelve participants for continuous monitoring and work closely with them for two weeks each. From August to September, I will train the research assistant further and use the knowledge gained from the ethnographic data phase to design and pilot test a household survey. Between October and December, this survey will be administered to a representative sample of 200 respondents. Using the data collected from these surveys, inferential statistics –odds-ratios, chi-square, and logistic regression - will be used to test the hypotheses. Intellectual merit: While ethnic identity has long been understood by anthropologists to be a contextual phenomenon, less is known about how the process of ethnic identity switching works. Through the in-depth study of...
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...Life Span Perspective Denise Bonner PSY/375 - LIFE SPAN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT February 09, 2013 Lynn Seiser Life Span Perspective Throughout life people go through different stages of development through different their life span. Development does not only occur from birth to childhood but it carries to adolescents, early adulthood, and through later years of adulthood as well. There are different characteristics and factors that take place during a person life span such as ones culture, genetics, and environment. The life span has three different domains which are physical, cognitive and social that plays a role in a person’s development. Past psychologist have different theories on the life span development. Sigmund Freud was a well known psychologist that broke down the different stages in a human’s life. Erik Erikson was also well known for his theories in which some related to Sigmund Freud as well. There are five different characteristics of the life span perspective which include: multidirectional, multicontextual, multicultural, multidisciplinary, and plastic (Berger, 2011). The life span perspective of development is not just the phase that takes place in the childhood or adulthood portions of one’s life. A multidirectional perspective enables researchers to recognize the gains and losses often occur simultaneously: Human characteristics change in multiple ways and from a life-span perspective, a multidirectional view allows us to understand when, how, and...
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...Cory Weaver Native American Studies Survival and Sovereignty: The Seminole Tribes The Nation - The Seminole tribe is the product of an ethno-cultural blending of the Creek peoples from the lower-central Southeast with indigenous Floridian tribes such as the Choctaw, Timuquan and Apalachicolas, some of whom were part of the Muschogean culture. The meaning of the word “Seminole” has been interpreted, loosely, as “runaway” or “broken off” (McReynolds 1957, 12). This refers to the separation of the Lower Creek peoples from the larger tribe, as described by an 18th-century observer. “Runaway,” reported historian Wiley Thompson, was “applicable to all the Indians in the Territory of Florida as all of them ran away…from the Creek…” (McReynolds 1957, 12). Runaway African-American slaves added to this conglomeration of native peoples, making the Seminoles a truly renegade people in every sense. The Seminoles saw themselves as having waged a long struggle for freedom. “The Indians who constituted the nucleus of (the) Florida group thought of themselves as yat;siminoli or ‘free people…’” (Seminole Tribe of Florida, 2013). The Seminoles spread throughout Florida during the second half of the 18th century. A diverse group, they brought with them a broad range of skills and means of subsistence, including farming, hunting, fishing and a form of animal husbandry. From their North Florida homeland, the tribe expanded south, establishing settlements as far as the Everglades by...
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...others, school was pleasant and they received good grades but their home life was unpleasant, so they quit school and left town. Given their youth, lack of work experience, and poor education, these boys were restricted to unskilled labor. In short, they were desperate, facing serious financial need and limited opportunities for coping with it. Financial need and limited opportunities cannot sufficiently explain entry, as many individuals faced with the same sort of situation probably do not turn to prostitution. Commercial exploitation of children especially boys in Ghana is on the rise especially in coastal areas of Ghana such as Accra, Cape Coast and Takoradi. Staff of hotels receive a commission for recommending “rent” boys as young as twelve [12] years to hotel residents who are either foreign or local tourists (). Sexual exploitation of boys in tourism is particularly pervasive in Cape Coast in the Central region. The situation seems to be deteriorating drastically as boys of school going age were enticed into sexual acts for financial gains. The boys deliberately hang around beaches, tourist sites such as castles, hotels and guest houses soliciting foreign tourist looking for sex. Their clients mostly married men include locals, Africans and Europeans. Although boys can be victims of sexual exploitation as well, public discourse tends to focus on girls, who engage in sexual activities in exchange for money or goods.Boys, however, face their own stigma as the issue...
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...depicting a small child playing with his pets. According to the museum, this artifact was made sometime around 330 B.C.E., so it is from the transition time between the Classical and Hellenistic Periods. It was found in Athens and the museum identification number is 88.2012. It was donated anonymously (AI info). Relatively intact, the image on its front is very easy to interpret. It is very clearly a young Greek boy, playing with his pet dove and dog. He holds the dove outstretched in his right hand and the dog appears to be jumping towards it, perhaps out of excitement. This stele is about 3-4 feet high and maybe a foot and a half wide. At one point it was painted, because there is a very feint trace of the colors red and blue. In Greek culture, stele had several uses. Some like those of the god Herma, were used as marker points and had information on distances and where you were at the time. Others were decorated and used in festivals. As I mentioned before, this particular one marked the grave of an individual. In fact it is very likely that the boy on the stele is the...
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