Frank Pogue (2000) did a research project to determine why students fail. What he founds to be true in that study habits survey was that more than 30 years ago still rings true today-students fail because they do not know how to study. The best advice he can give is to develop sound study skills. He said that a student should make sure that he/she has a good study environment, a good desk, a sturdy chair, good light, comfortable room temperature and a quiet atmosphere. That means he/she should eliminate
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performance pose another question. Do the students possess motivational factors such as individual values, reality and emotional factors and the influence in the educational process? With the foregoing issues and concerns, the researchers would like to determine whether students’ academic performance has an effect in the choice of Hotel and Restaurant Management career. Furthermore, the researchers aim to provide information about motivating students in choosing their course in college
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with what is happening to our children these last few years. Childhood obesity is becoming more prominent and should be on your priority list. I am currently a Registered Nurse enrolled in the University of Phoenix to obtain my Bachelor’s degree in Nursing. I have become more aware of my community and through different assessment in the assignments; I have had the chance to identify some of the different characteristics within my community that could adversely affect the health of the population. Childhood
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GOFF, ANNE-MARIE, Ph.D. Stressors, Academic Performance, and Learned Resourcefulness in Baccalaureate Nursing Students. (2009) Directed by Dr. David F. Ayers. 135 pp. Despite extensive research establishing that stress affects problem-solving ability and coping, and leads to decreased learning, academic performance, and retention in nursing students, a paucity of research explores specific factors that could enhance these learning processes and outcomes. This explanatory correlational study examines
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strive for better opportunities that allow for individual growth. My idea of nursing is to be a patient advocate and use effective communication. Ethnicity, religion, and an individual’s background plays an important role but that is why nursing is so diverse and special. It allows each of us to set out short and long- term goals to improve ourselves. As stated by Cynthia O’Neal, (November 2004). Journal of Nursing Education, 43 (11), 524. “In today’s health care environment, baccalaureate
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Psychosocial Report I. Identifying Information Name: KP Age: 21 Sex: Male Education: 2nd year college Religion: Roman Catholic Status: Single Birth order: Youngest among the 3 siblings. Occupation: Students Location: Angono Rizal Living with: Relatives and siblings II. Referring Person The person who referred KP to me is his mother. His mother notices that KP has been going home late very often and is even drunk when getting home. They always fight because of that. She stated
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The Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success Yesenia Osle Introduction to graduate study in health sciences/nursing/HCS504 10/07/2014 Michelle Dorin The Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success The price of success is hard work, dedication the job at hand,and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand” (“Success,” 2004, para. ). Sometimes, we considered a successful person when he or
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Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects our children and adolescent. This topic has become an all so familiar topic of discussion among health organizations in the United States. Obesity is an increase in body weight resulting from excessive accumulation of body fat relative to lean body mass (Hockenberry, 2008). Childhood obesity, by either definition, has become an epidemic that every community is currently facing and should be correcting. The
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1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background Obesity is the accumulation of adipose tissues inside the body with the Body Mass Index (BMI) more than 30kg/m2. While people with the BMI between 25.0 to 29.9 kg/m2 are characterized as overweight (WHO, 2016). According to WHO, over the past 30 years mean the three decades, obesity occurrences have doubled up with the total amount of 1.4 billion people are overweight and 500 million obese worldwide (Bank of America Merril Lynch, 2012). With an estimation, the
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Caldera to properly adapt her style of leadership to create a successful environment with her new employees each year at the radio station. Ann hires new students to become disc jockeys at the school radio station; she then gives them the rule and regulations, befriends them and lets them loose on the air to fail. Ann needs to regard her new students with a changing leadership style. An example would be the way parents raise their children using the SLII model. An infant will require different supervision
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