become more aware of and actively respond to patients cultural differences.These strategies include gathering information that help you learn about patients, building interventions and workflows on patients culturally based values, preferences, and perceptions. The strategies also include creating patient education materials, choose images and language that resonate with the target population and sustaining your organizations efforts to culturally tailor care. One example that stood out to me relating
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TOPIC 1: Do you really know anything? With reference to Descartes’ first meditation justify your answer in full and respond to possible objections. A belief is any opinion or any view whether you are committed to the view or not. Thus, if you know something, you are entitled to believe in it. The subjective nature of knowledge partly is based on the idea that beliefs are things that individuals have and those beliefs are either justified or not justified (Pardi, 2011). However, Descartes notices
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that Justine Sacco’s account was personal, it’s important to note that she was the face and voice of the organization she worked for. Her job was to decide how the company communicates its message to the world and she violated her authority. My perception of her after the incident is that of a person lacking discipline and one who does not value the ability behind her position. She had the platform to put a positive message out there and she misused the opportunity. One vital lesson I learnt from
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Perception is a very powerful thing many people rely heavily on other people’s perceptions of them. I myself rely on the fact that people find me to be knowledgeable as well as someone that is easy to talk to in order to do my job well. This paper will help me to understand how perception works through doing an analysis of what three observers declared were their perceptions of a photograph. In this paper, I will explain the steps of the perception process; as well as provide descriptions
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How the authors and readers create meaning from text: Although these three stories are unrelated to each other they share many examples of symbolism that both the authors as well as the intended audience can create meaning from. The descriptive words that the authors used can better help the readers understand the concept behind the story as well as any symbolism that may be in the story. Salvation, by Langston Hughes tells a story of when Langston was younger and he went to a
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The idea of Belonging is a dynamic and essential aspect of life through an individual’s portrayal of identity, place, relationship and acceptance, it is also dependant on the person’s perception of what belonging is defined as. The free-verse novel ‘The Simple Gift’ written by Steven Herrick and picture book ‘Way Home’ composed by Libby Hathorn convey these different dimensions of belonging through characters and context. Both main characters of the texts share the same themes of homelessness and
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Associate Level Material Appendix A Meditation Worksheet Directions: Locate two resources on the Internet that explain meditation techniques. • Enter the name of each website into the matrix, then copy and paste the web address. • After reviewing the website, provide a brief summary for each source. • Below your summary, list two interesting facts you learned from each site. • Try the techniques you located in your Internet search. Provide a brief description of what happened in
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Identifying the Real Problem Each and every day we encounter problems that we have to solve. In the midst of these problems we find growth and understanding. Problems, in fact, are never new. Simply, they are all variations of the problems that we all share – not feeling good enough or worthy of something or someone, an inability to trust, and fear of abandonment or separation. All of these problems we struggle with at different levels, however, the themes are always the same: finding a sense
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The first question “Why do you want to transform as a leader?” took me deep into myself. At first, It looked like a simple question but with time got tougher and tougher. Finally I had an answer to the question. I want to transform to bring a change in the way some of our organizations are operating i.e. build a happy work environment. The Journey from our belly to the top of our head” is called Self Leadership was a very unique definition. Self-Leadership is understanding the co-relation
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I will be looking into are Ethics and Natural Sciences. By providing examples that fall under my two Areas of Knowledge, I will discuss the claim in relation to my three Ways of Knowing – sense perception, emotion and language Firstly, when we say “see” would we only be referring to our sense perception in order to “see” the “things”? If so, what about people who are blind? They cannot see things so according to the claim would that mean that they do not understand things? On the contrary, it is
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