SOCIAL WORK GENERALIST PRACTICE The following is a very general outline summarizing the theories covered in the NCSSS foundation classes of SSS 571: Human Behavior & the Social Environment. Theory application & integration with practice are demonstrated. This outline is only a summary of highlights; all theorists, ideas, and concepts are not included. Because human behavior is complex and the social work profession is broad, numerous theories are utilized for social work practice at the micro-meso-macro
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knowledge to the United States. The diversity of population is affecting the healthcare delivery system in the country. Nurses play a major role in the delivery of healthcare. Nurses are the direct caregivers to patients and spend maximum time with the patients and their family. “As the demographic composition of Western industrialized countries continues to diversify, the need for nurses to practice with cultural competence becomes essential” (Canales & Barbara, 2001, p. 103). Culturally Competent
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Jong-Tae Choi* College of Business Administration Seoul National University Abstract This study aims to find out the role of the Confucian family value in the process of the transformation of Korean HRM and IR in a hypercompetition period. I analyzed the characteristics and the transformation of Korean companies’ HRM as well as the core value system of Confucian familism. I suggest that a successful transformation of HRM in Korean companies requires an interplay between two factors. First is
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Adopting a family systems theory, which can be defined as understanding people not in isolation, but as part of their family can help shift the current systems theory, which fails to see the youth as part of a larger family entity and translates the youth in how they fit into the “system”. Currently, there is a model of intervention for youth with first episode psychosis called Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) program in British Columbia that works to create a “care pathway” (Fraser EPI Program
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Family Health and Nursing Practice University of Phoenix NUR 542: Dynamics of Family Systems May 25, 2010 Traditional hospital based nursing care is most often care provided to individual patients. Individual patients, however, are members of a family. Family nursing practice has evolved over the past 20 years as a way to approach and work with families. Effective nursing care ensures that the entire family’s situation, not only the illness of the loved one, is considered (Maijala & Astedt-Kurki
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and demand, is the components of human trafficking. Some have argued and defined human trafficking as the removing of any orphan from their culture and placing them in an unrelated different environment. Nevertheless, it is the poor non-educated families from developing or sending nations that suffer the most. Kenya and other nations have been affected by human trafficking in one way or another, while the United State avoids legal responsibility and accountability in such matters. Kenya’s issue
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care. As a leading supporter of academic institutions that educate advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), AACN is keenly aware of the direct link between graduate-prepared nurses and both patient safety and positive outcomes. Within the APRN community, Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) play a unique role in the delivery of high quality nursing care. These clinicians are experts in evidence-based nursing and practice in a range of specialty areas, such as oncology, pediatrics, geriatrics, psychiatric/mental
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Bangor Family Physicians Case Study Executive Summary & Stakeholders Bangor Family Physicians is a partner based medical group practice located in Maine. The practice consists of four family practice physicians, and a medical support staff. The medical support staff is made up of a practice manager, two receptionists, four nurses, two medical assistants, two billing clerks, and a laboratory technician. Additionally, Bangor Family Physicians employs a CPA to assist with taxes and financial
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culturally dissimilar families, and demonstrate how a nurse would continue with health promotion centred on the variances in health traditions between the three cultures. The three cultures include Hispanic culture, Native American Indian culture and White American culture. The objectives of this essay are to recognise different cultural families and their own shared health traditions grounded on their cultural heritage. Practices and traditions will be evaluated and how th families ascribe to them.
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The Future of Nursing: Transforming Education, Practice, and Role Nurses form the front line of the nation’s healthcare workforce. Nurses make up the largest percentage of the patient concern group in the nation. A report filed by the Institute of Medicine, entitled “The Future of Nursing” recommends several suggestions to figure out the future of nursing. “The healthcare system is rapidly changing in all aspects; however nursing is hindered in its evolution by several obstacles that restrict nurses’
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