...Analysis of a Nursing Conceptual Model, Educating the Staff, Elizabeth's part Nurses have different educational levels so different educational tools are used to teach Watson’s nursing theory (Blais & Hayes, 2011). Watson’s complex, four-element theory will need to be presented over several months for nurses to grasp the concepts and apply the theory in nursing practice. The first in-service should introduce Watson as a nursing theorist and give nurses an overview of the Caritas Process, the Transpersonal Caring Relationship, Caring Moment, and Caring Healing Modalities. Once a month an in-service will be given on the components of one of the four elements for approximately six months. The in-services will be facilitated by a nurse educator with opportunities for discussion on nurses’ feelings about caring, nurses’ experiences with patients, and how to apply the four elements to nursing practice. Nurses can provide feedback on the in-services. The second phase of in-services will focus on implementation into the philosophy of the health care facility, individualized integration into nursing units, nursing job descriptions, clinical ladder, nursing documentation, communication, and continuing educational tools. Each in-service will focus on one aspect of the integration of Watson’s theory into the health care setting. Active involvement of nurses through discussions and planning increases retention and boosts the confidence of nurses during the learning process (Blais & Hayes...
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...History of Community Nursing Matrix Historical Time Period Nursing Role in Community Major Health Issues Partnerships Used Watson’s Theory Past Period 1 1800-1900 (America’s Colonial Period) In 1800-1900, during America’s colonial period and the new republic, public health committee was concerned about the health and care of individuals in the community; in the early years of 1800, the care for sick people and the ideas of public well-being were influenced by the traditions of British immigrants. That was the motive for establishment of a system to care for sick, poor, aged, mentally ill and dependent patients based on the English model. Using the Law of 1601was a great medical privilege for poor communities, blind individuals, and those who did not have families. At that time, the problems surrounding poor communities included death, birth defects, and many other kinds of sicknesses; that was also the beginning of the industrial developments and mechanizations and population growth, which contributed to increased incidence of disease. In 1856, Florence Nightingale organized hospital nursing practice and nursing education, emphasized the benefits of public health nursing, and highlighted the job of nurses which includes health promotion and disease prevention. (Dieckmann, 2008, p. 21) In the early 1800s, nurses were responsible for providing care at home and mostly focused on ethical improvements rather than illness or disease prevention. The year 1813 was the starting point...
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...The Application of Watson’s Caring Theory Name Institution Affiliation Application of Watson’s Caring Theory Human Caring Theory by Jean Watson contributes to the existential nursing. It concentrates on authentically caring concerning the whole patient. This caring involves the patient’s spirit, body and mind to facilitate the healing process to persist at an optimum level (Watson, 2011). Watson defined it as a caring model, which includes both science and art; providing a framework that intersects with and embraces science, art, spirituality, humanities, and new dimensions of spirit-body-mind medicine in addition to nursing. The essay describes the idea of Watson’s theory, the application of Human Caring theory in nursing practice connected to personal case, and the relevance of Human Caring theory in nursing leadership related to nursing problem. Watson supposes that the theory is ever changing and ought to be open to the evolving nursing practice as well as the human phenomena dynamics. Watson elaborates by explaining that caring art and science goes past an intellectualization of the subject luring us into endless, but timely space to re-examine the recurrent phenomenon of the human ailment. Using such abstract notions of faith, love, hope, caring, trust, and spirituality to nursing art and science could help stratify the human caring concept (Watson, 2011). The current nursing practice is incredibly affected by the theories designed by Dr. Watson...
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...Jean Watson’s Caring Theory Nurses’ responsibilities to their patients are continually changing with the times. Jean Watson formed the “caring theory” to convey the significance and emphasize nursing as a diverse health profession. Using the Jean Watson’s caring theory enables nurses to maintain their perspective on caring for patients when overwhelmed with increased acuity, responsibility and workload. With the increase of patients and their needs, nurses often replace the caring attitude with an attitude of arrogance and hurried tasks, leaving patients and family members with belief that nurses believe they are here just to perform a job. By applying the Watson caring theory in caring for patients, “it allows nurses to practice the art of caring, to provide compassion to ease patients’ and families’ suffering, and to promote their healing and dignity but it can also contribute to expand the nurse’s own actualization” (Cara, 2003, p 2). Watson believes it is crucial that nurses apply caring values to their practice because it is essentially a byproduct in discovering the meaning of the nursing profession (Theory of Human Caring, n.d.). The foundation of this paper is to expound on the caring theory Jean Watson designed “to bring meaning and focus to nursing as a distinct health profession” (Cara, 2003, p 2). Description of the Theorist In the 1940’s, Jean Watson was born in West Virginia in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains. In 1961, graduated from the Lewis Gale...
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...Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring Caring Moment - “The moment (focal point in space and time) when the nurse and another person come together in such a way that an occasion for human caring is created” In Jean Watson's theory of caring she has tried to make “explicit nursing's values, knowledge, and practices of human caring that are geared toward subjective inner healing processes and the life world of the experiencing person, requiring unique caring-healing arts and a framework called "carative factors," which complemented conventional medicine, but stood in stark contrast to "curative factors." At the same time, this emerging philosophy and theory of human caring sought to balance the cure orientation of medicine, giving nursing its unique disciplinary, scientific, and professional standing with itself and its public.” (Watson, 1999) Concepts: • Carative factors (evolving toward "Clinical Caritas Processes") • Transpersonal Caring Relationship • Caring Moment/Caring Occasion Jean Watson’s 10 carative factors that can be used as a guideline to help nursing interventions. These carative factors provide a framework that aids the nurse to pay attention to the caring processes. 1. Embrace altruistic values and practice loving kindness with self and others. 2. Instill faith and hope and honor others. 3. Be sensitive to self and others by nurturing individual beliefs and practices. 4. Develop helping – trusting- caring relationships. 5. Promote and accept...
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...facilitate employee learning of job-related knowledge, skills, and behaviors’. It is basically a methodically tailored process, which supports performance management, designed to achieve endured change in work behavior. Recruited members are not only required to make sure they are consistent with company objectives, they must also to be in tune with industry trends as a result of the training provided (Stuart, 2014). Training can also be used as a way to help the employee to meet a performance goal that has been initially set, thus facilitating the ability to benchmark one’s respective performance against best practices. Usually an HR department administers training related to on-the-job techniques in order to teach them certain practices for specific tasks. This is done so as to ensure that when given tasks, personnel will know how to operate more effectively & efficiently. Well-designed training programmes adhering to the training cycle are usually assigned to the workforce at hand. The training cycle, as defined by Pilbeam & Corbridge (2006) is a ‘systematic approach to identifying and responding to training and development needs and a path to achieving organized learning.’ It consists of 6 principal stages. The first stage is the training needs analysis, this is where the right type of training programme is chosen to identify skill gaps in people, which training seeks to fill. Questions such as ‘Is there a supply of people’ and ‘Which are the target jobs that require training’,...
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...Applying Middle-Range Theory to Solve Fatigue in Nursing Samuel Ayeni Grand Canyon University 12/20/2015 Applying Middle-Range Theory to Solve Fatigue in Nursing For a long period, nursing has been viewed as a profession with great rewards. However, there have been also a lot of challenges and complexities surrounding current health care. Nurses often undergo fatigue in their environment of work. Registered nurses who operate in tertiary care locations often expose themselves to long hours of working, trauma, abuse, and even death, which collectively make them become fatigued both emotionally and physically (Lenz & Pugh, 2003). A review of the literature has proved the importance of education to nurses about risks, and how to fight fatigue. This report discusses, in detail, the Evidence-Based Practice Change Model, and Transpersonal Caring Theory to bring about solutions to the problem of fatigue among nurses. Nurses who find it difficult to adapt to health care environments are the ones who go through many troubles and are often fatigued. Providing care to others for an extended period of time will undoubtedly lead to fatigue if not handled properly. Those who are fatigued may experience symptoms such as nuisances, despair, annoyance, chronic weariness, and little ability to perform sufficiently at work (Lenz & Pugh, 2003). Fatigue is an idiosyncratic involvement that can lead to undesirable...
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...Behaviorism and Its Effect on the Understanding of Learning AIU Online Abstract This paper focuses on a brief summary on the history of behaviorism, starting with experiments conducted by Franklin Henry Giddings and Ivan Pavlov, a sociologist and a physiologist whom established the groundwork for behaviorism, particularly in America. In addition, this paper also explains the main components of behaviorism, which are classical conditioning and operant conditioning, connectionism, and the contiguity theory. It moves forward to explain four experiments that are popular through the study of behaviorism: the reason behind conditioned salivation in Ivan Pavlov’s dogs, conditioned responses in humans through Watson’s little Albert experiment, Thorndike’s research with cats and a puzzle box to demonstrate the law of effect through the use of reinforcements, and B.F. Skinner’s experiment with rats to prove how an organism learns through operant conditioning. Finally, this paper examines how, according to behaviorists, there are three principles of learning new and intricate behaviors, known as shaping, chaining, and fading. Behaviorism and Its Effect on the Understanding of Learning Behaviorism suggests that an organism learns from its environment. It is the result of the association between a stimulus and a response. An organism learns new behavior through classical or operant conditioning. It is a theory that does not base its ideals on emotions or prior knowledge. Some say behaviorism...
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...has no whistle blower policy and now need to decide if I should suggest that we adopt a whistle blower policy. The United States is among only a handful of countries that follow an employment-at-will doctrine, the only state that does not is Montana. Unlike the United States, most countries can only fire employees if there is a cause. The United States can fire employees for no cause, employees could walk into his/her place of employment tomorrow and be fired. The company also does not have to give a reason for firing the employee. “At-will means that an employer can terminate an employee at any time for any reason, except an illegal one, or for no reason without incurring legal liability. Likewise, an employee is free to leave a job at any time for any or no reason with no adverse legal consequences” (NCSL). Employment-at-will also means that employers have the right to change contracts at any time. For instance, employers can reduce paid time off or change benefits. There are some exceptions to the rule: a company cannot dismiss employees based on race, gender, color, or religion; employees cannot be fired for reporting violations of workplace safety; an employer cannot fire an employee for exercising the right to file a workman’s compensation or a sexual harassment claim. First scenario, John posted a rant on his Facebook page in which he criticized the...
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...Your questions answered about….. 1. …the research and origins of the HRPM a. What is the HRPM? The CIPD HR Profession Map comprehensively sets out how HR adds the greatest sustained value to the organisation it operates in, now and in the future. It describes the highest standards of professional competence to deliver sustained performance for the organisation. It captures what successful and effective HR people do and deliver across every aspect and specialism of the profession, and sets out the required underpinning skills, behaviour and knowledge. Covering 10 professional areas and 8 behaviours, set out in 4 bands of competence, the HRPM covers every level of the HR profession: from Band 1 at the start of an HR career through to Band 4 for the most senior leaders. b. On what research was the HRPM based? We built the original version of the map through engagement with 36 organisations, 19 of whom operate in global markets. Approximately 1/3rd of the organizations consulted are headquartered outside the UK. In total, these organisations cover an employee base of over 3 million individuals. The research included a comprehensive review of documents on the HR profession such as CIPD, academic and practitioner research and publications, and organisation structure charts and competency frameworks (behavioural and technical). We also carried out interviews with 32 organisations (see appendix for list), covering:...
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...empowering, and networking. Yukl’s task-oriented behaviors, described as leadership behaviors, can also be relevant for managers who “get things done through other people”. On page 69, Yukl describes that task-oriented behaviors “ensure that people, equipment, and other resources are used in an efficient way to accomplish the mission of a group or organization.” These are specific, measurable concepts that a manager can delegate to “get things done.” Planning prioritizes objectives and assigns responsibilities. Clarifying gives the manager an opportunity to set standards and assign tasks. Monitoring gives the manager an opportunity to assess performance and manage progress. A manager can problem-solve to deal with disruptions and keep the job on course. These behaviors are all imperative for leaders, however, they are also essential...
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...A Phenomenological study describing the lived experience of nurses caring for prisoner-patients by Christopher Veal i A Phenomenological study describing the lived experience of nurses caring for prisoner-patients ABSTRACT There are close to five thousand prisoners in custody in Queensland prisons and this number is on the increase. Prisoners have complex health needs and it is the role of the correctional health nurse to care for prisoner-patients and their health needs. Yet there is a paucity of research surrounding this topic. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the lived experience of nurses caring for prisoner-patients. Five registered nurses, employed in correctional centres in Southeast Queensland were interviewed to illuminate the experience of caring for prisoner-patients. Data was analyzed using Colaizzi’s (1978) method of phenomenology. Textual analysis revealed two themes with five corresponding sub-themes that depicted the meaning of nurses’ caring for prisonerpatients. The experience of nurses caring for prisoner-patients was described by nurse participants as ‘obstructive practices’ from the custodial officers, ‘decreased standards of care’ by nursing staff, ‘prejudice’ towards to prisoners, ‘increased level of mentally ill prisoners’ and a ‘lack of recognition’ for nurses working in the prisons. Amidst all these difficulties, nurses who cared for prisoner-patients demonstrated courage in the work they did and persevered...
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...Concepts Analysis Paper Demis Rey BSN Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Nursing Kaplan University March 10, 2014 The concept of Quality has a close relation with nursing practices. Higher quality healthcare is the common goal of all healthcare team and improving healthcare quality has become the common focal point of all healthcare organization. Quality has become an important issue for healthcare facilities facing a changing of healthcare environment (Tsai, & Wu, 2013). Quality is derived from the Latin “quails” and is defined as essential character of nature…an inherent or distinguishable attribute or property, a character “trait” and is defined as superiority of kind and degree or grade of excellent (Wicks, & Roethlein, 2009). Every quality expert defines quality somewhat differentially, and there are a variety of perspectives than can be taken in defining quality. The most widely concept of quality is the Industrial Organization Society (IOS) definition as “the degree to wish a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements” (Wicks, & Roethlein, 2009, p. 85). The psychological concept is closely aligned with the dictionary definition when quality relates to logic: “quality is the positive or negative character of a proposition” (The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2014). Quality is a set of characteristics or properties, as supported by the multidimensional definitions of quality. Quality can focus on excellence or can be viewed as the degree of a...
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...“concerted effort of an organization to build socially responsible relationships by achieving research-based goals through the application of communication strategies and the measurement of outcomes” (Kendall 1996, p.3). This paper examines the value of the modern-day IPR practice through a case study from an overwhelmingly successful IPR campaign ‘Best Job in the World’ sponsored by Tourism Queensland, Australia. Firstly, the research methodology will be introduced. Secondly, an introduction of the campaign will be sketched. In the third section of the paper, the analysis of the campaign is structured in three subitems with theoretical references. In the following section, a post-hoc evaluation tries to examine the case through a logical model. Lastly, by drawing from the previous analysis and evaluation, the paper exposes the findings in the values of modern-day IPR campaign. Research Methodology When considering what research methodology is appropriate and shall be adopted in the course of analyzing and evaluating this IPR campaign, it is important to understand the patterns and attributes of the study case. In view of the ‘Best job in the world’ IPR campaign is a typical model of modern-day IPR campaign, which is different from traditional PR campaign in terms of the PR strategies, execution and communication channels. Therefore, research methods correspondingly adopted contrastive analysis and evaluation in a literature review in accordance with academic theories. With respect...
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...Law Assistants Co. Law Assistants Co. Law Assistants Co. Law Assistants Co. Prepared by: Maryam Arshad (212870234), Yueying Xu (212832747), Emilie Pryse (212740338), AmynaAmyna (212837373), and Constance Tomson (212804266) All Members from Section C Prepared by: Maryam Arshad (212870234), Yueying Xu (212832747), Emilie Pryse (212740338), AmynaAmyna (212837373), and Constance Tomson (212804266) All Members from Section C Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 General Information 3 Product Overview and Economic Justification 4 Risk Assessment and Mitigation 5 Marketing Plan 7 Marketing Mix 7 Application Development Plan 8 Application Development 8 Timeframe 8 Questions and Approach ……………………………………………………………………….…9 Summary 9 Conlusion 9 Bibliography 11 Appendix A – Crime Rates Comparison 14 Appendix B – SWOT Analysis 14 Appendix C – Estimated Costs 15 Appendix D – Estimated Revenues 15 Appendix E – The LawAssist Working Process 16 Appendix F – Implementation Process 17 Appendix G – Implementation Plan 17 Executive Summary In today’s world, technology is moving at an incredibly fast pace. Industries such as healthcare, retail and finance have all implemented one or another form of modern technology. Out of the many advancements in the past decade, the most significant is cognitive computing. Defined in simple terms, cognitive computing refers to a computer system that is modeled after the human brain (Cognitive Computing)...
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