Arlan affiliation not provided to SSRN Yasmina G. Wingo affiliation not provided to SSRN Joeti Shrestha Lyceum of the Philippines University - Graduate Studies August 10, 2008 Abstract: This study attempts to analyze the impact of employment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) on the academic performance of their children. One specific goal for this study is to awaken, encourage and challenge the government through the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to formulate
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Migration in Afghanistan 1. Introduction Afghanistan is home to the largest refugee crises experienced since the inception of the UNHCR. Decades of war have led millions to flee their homes and seek refuge in the neighboring countries of Pakistan and Iran, and for those who were able, further abroad. The number of refugees spiked in 1990 at 6.2 million. They began to decrease in 1992 with the fall of the government, but began to increase again in 1996 with the rise of the Taliban. In 2002, with
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The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Future of Nursing report set a goal that eighty percent of the practicing nurses have a baccalaureate degree to meet the changes in the healthcare system by 2020. Over the last two classes my PICOT question has continued to develop, from a broad view to a more narrowed question of the use of simulation in addition to traditional lecture and clinical time. This writer is a nursing instructor of an Associate Degree Nursing program. Other than teaching in various
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support, it is possible for IPC to be effectively promoted. The purpose of conducting this study was for the evaluation of the impact of professional nursing practice environments, authentic leadership, and structural empowerment on experienced nurses’ perceptions of interprofessional collaboration. A predictive non-experimental approach was employed to evaluate the impacts of authentic leadership, structural empowerment, and professional nursing practice settings on nurses perceived interprofessional
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a national statement of purpose for the health care system as a whole. Six fundamental needs have been identified in an effort to reduce the burden of illness, injury and disability and to improve the overall health and function of the population. (IOM, 2012). These needs have been established around the premise of making health care: Safe: Patients safety is the first priority
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Safe Staffing McConnell- 2 Safe Staffing Affects Everyone Abstract: Safe staffing is a vital component of quality nursing care. However, oftentimes units in healthcare facilities across the nation lack the personnel that give the units the number of human resources needed to provide safe and sufficient care. A variety of people are affected by unsafe staffing: the actual nurses and ancillary staff, as well as stakeholders such as administrators, government and legislative bodies, and last
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(SBS) in HIV/AIDS. Questions which had already been thoroughly studied by SBS (like determinants of HIV-related risk behaviours, or impact of gender and socio-economic inequities as well as discrimination on the diffusion of HIV) will have to be "revisited" in light of these recent changes. New issues (such as risk behaviours among already infected patients. impact of therapeutic advances on psychosocial and daily life management of their disease by people living with HIV/AIDS, adherence to treatment
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a few health care providing institutions. In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of hospitals and clinics across the U.S. adopted the use of limited EMR technology (Carter, 2001) In the early 1990s, heeding recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) landmark study, the U.S. government set an ambitious goal for all physicians to computerize patient records by the year 2000 (Dick, R.S., Steen, E.B., & Detmer, D.E. 1997) Due to patients’ privacy issues, less streamlined and often conflicting software
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Factors affecting fecundity of P. solenopsis Pak. J. Agri. Sci., Vol. 47(4), 425-428; 2010 ISSN (Print) 0552-9034, ISSN (Online) 2076-0906 http://www.pakjas.com.pk IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION ON SOCIAL PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS FAMILIES LEFT BEHIND IN AGRARIAN COMMUNITIES OF DISTRICT TOBA TEK SIGNH, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN Izhar Ahmed Khan1,*, Sadaf Mahmood1, Ghulam Yasin2, Babar Shahbaz3 1 Department of Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan; 2Department of Sociology
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Health Care Economics and the Uninsured School of Nursing Health Care Economics and the Uninsured The United States health care system is a large and complex structure organized to deliver health care services to the country’s residents (Maurer, 2013). The system is not systematically organized, but is the result of the interrelationships between numerous influences such as culture, consumers, epidemiology, health professionals, governmental policy, technology, and economics
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