Staff Article Reviews Samples For Students

Summary:

In Michael Blanding’s article, “The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters,” the function and the role of a corporate headquarter is emphasized. It illustrates that coordination in an office or organizational work is very important and that the headquarter houses the whole operations of the enterprise in a more efficient manner. The explicit knowledge of the activities of each of the organizational department is very crucial to the maximum performance of the company. This only happens when there is a corporate headquarter. It integrates the works of each unit of the organization through its staff.

The article further explores the virtual roles ...

Abstract

The topic of this paper is regarding the effects of the nursing shortage on patient safety and adverse events. Due to the nursing shortage, there is an increase inare registered more patient adverse events and there is increasedthe risk to the patient’s safety increased. If the nursing shortage problem is not correctedsolved, then there will be a continuance ofcontinue increase in the risk to patient safety risk , andas well as harm to the patient. In the paper there is provided Aan explanation of the nursing shortage, the its cause of the shortage, how the shortageit affects patient safety, and ...

Part 1. Differences between quantitative and qualitative research

Research is the parlance used to refer to the search of knowledge. It is described by Kothari (2004) as both a scientific and systematic search for information and an art of scientific investigation. There are two approaches used in research, namely quantitative and qualitative research and they vary greatly on how the research is done. Quantitative research only uses measurable data to analyze while the qualitative research approach mainly uses data that are narrative and subjective. The goal or research objective of quantitative data is to use statistical models using a systematic procedure. This approach uses various steps to progress logically ...

Question # 1

Summary
This sort of comparison also serves as a benchmarking tool. Due to the gap created, it is imperative to ascertain that the club is putting necessary efforts while establishing budget commitments to attaining the new desired level. Use of the symbolic automobiles to elucidate the strategic mission and vision statement of the club will result in a more modest agreement with regards to the clubs’ positioning after members of the board evaluate the projected costs. This gap directs members of the club to appraise its actual status rather than the ideal, and it demands for constructive participation by members ...

Question 1

John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success is still applicable to the current business environment. The pyramid named loyalty, team spirit, condition and skill present in the team. These attributes are essential to today’s business environment as they help nurture the relationship between the firm and its clients. The Pyramid of Success is applicable not only to basketball where Wooden was a coach but also in our day to day live. Through Wooden, we learned that the end is always a result of our doings and misdoings. Therefore, businesses that want to prosper in the long term should not ...

The article, “The Well Director,” is a compilation of ten attributes that describe a great director. This paper will discuss four of the attributes discussed in the paper that this writer deems most important; 1) a great director has vision, 2) results are obtained by guiding people to accomplish the predetermined goals of an organization, 3) an efficient management team is key to success, and 4) a great director causes people to want to work for him or her. All ten attributes are important, but this writer feels that these four are keys to the overall success of a ...

Management

With reference to the members of staff, Barrett is a good listener that is quite willing to accept varying opinions. He is a good listener that distills comments and information well. He listens carefully and can substantiate his suggestions or comments. Barrett is also patient and respectful. This attribute enables his members of staff to challenge him. Additionally, the attribute allows him to invite disagreements from people. He never attacks people individually or diminish their importance.
Barrett gives freedom to members of staff and allows them to do what they deem right. He is loyal, especially on issues of personnel ...

Method of obtaining necessary approval

The plan needs support and high levels of corporation from everyone in the organization. Therefore, there are numerous ways i can use to obtain the necessary support from the managers and fellow staff Members. Some of the methods that can be used to gain their support and total commitment to the project include writing a rough draft on the proposed project and then presenting it to the management in an effort to get their support. This will help in gaining and bringing it to their attention the need to undertake the projects. The other methods that can be used is doing ...

“Carers’ experiences of being exposed to challenging behaviour in services for autism spectrum disorders”: An Article Review

Challenging behavior is a common activity that can be encountered in our daily lifestyle. Its definition takes account of behaviors that are abnormal in reference with cultural or traditional practices; and its potency can put other people to harm. Behavior under this category leads a person to be restricted from communal facilities.
This paper would review the article entitled Carers’ experiences of being exposed to challenging behavior in services for autism spectrum disorders. In order to give final thoughts about the article, this review will include the definition of the article’s problem, purpose and research question. It would also ...

` Literature Review
Will the implementation of strict count process and other means lower the retention of surgical items (foreign bodies) in patients and during surgery and how does it help to increase patient safety?
Ali, A., Omar, B., Okacha, N., Abderrahmane, A., & Mohamed, B. (2012). Paraspinal Textiloma. After Posterior Lumbar Surgery: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. World Neurosurgery, 77(2)375-380. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2011.07.017
Paraspinal Textiloma is a complication that is common after posterior lumbar surgery. This study aims to inform spinal surgeons and radiologists on the experience of Paraspinal Textiloma so as to minimize unnecessary death that is ...

Organization Structure has impact, effects and influences on many and most of the aspects of an organization that determine its performance. Most important is the kind of effects it has to the people within the organization, from the staff to the management and even its owners or stake holders. The aspects of an organization that are influenced by the organization structure are
- Effectiveness and efficiency
- Internal communication
- Employee morale
Different types of organizational structures exist, each with its own pros and cons, each with its own effect on the overall organization behavior. ...

Transitioning Mary McClain from high school to college needs to include discussions with the staff at the college so that the staff is familiar with Mary and her assistive technology (AT) needs to be successful at college. The second strategy to help Mary be successful at college is to assign her a mentor at the college. The mentor could be another special needs student who has been at the college longer than Mary has and can help Mary learn where she needs to go to have her needs met.
Let us assume the technical college Mary wants to attend ...

Article review

This is a review of the article “Establishing a Total Safety Culture within a Flight Department” by Homan, W.J., Rantz, G. W and Balden, R. B and published by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1998.
The article presents principles and procedures based on behaviour. These procedures and principles are successfully applied to modify safety attitudes within Flight departments. It addresses the constraints and flaws of human condition and methods of employees to learn safe behaviour. It then goes ahead and propose management of crew resources as a tool of increasing general safety in the Aviation industry. Additionally, it identifies senior ...

Article Review

ARTICLE REVIEW
The article titled as “How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study” explains how incorporating different elements of patient care in the nursing practice can influence the level of patient satisfaction and help in promoting better healthcare. The article is based on a qualitative research performed on four groups of nursing professionals. The study design consisted of twenty six registered nurses responsible for providing utmost level of patient care in a hospital setting. The interviews conducted with these nurses were recorded and later transcribed for a thorough analysis.
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Chapter 4 - Acquisition and Measurement
Many Happy Returns
It is essential for organizations to assess the financial impact of the investment in a new form of technology. This can be best achieved through evaluation of the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the returns on investment (ROI). This can be achieved through simple calculations, payback data and economic value analysis. The lack of a proper quantification method can lead to tremendous losses.

Concepts to Clusters: The Real Technology Chasm

Investment in appropriate forms of technology can yield tremendous success for any company. Since constant evolution of technology enhances its quality and overall service delivery, it ...

Introduction

This paper aims at critically analyzing the role played by the knowledge possessed by nurses and how it helps in the delivery of services in health cares. The research also seeks to highlight the importance of the resources used by nurses to acquire the much-needed knowledge (Barker, 2009). The staffing crisis problem occurs when knowledge in the provision of care is limited in nursing. When nurses lack inadequate knowledge in providing care, it is equal to not having enough staff. The costs of healthcare are very high, which means that patients need to get the best form of care ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of Fiona Wilson’s article “Dilemmas of Appraisal”. The paper also gives an analysis of the article while examining the main aim of the author in writing this article and the major aim of the research. Additionally, I will also analyze the research methods used in this research and the findings of these methods and procedures. Finally, I will provide a conclusion alongside some recommendations based on my findings and inferences concerning the research.
The main aim of the article Dilemmas of appraisal is to examine the underlining assumptions of ...

1. Whitman’s decision about guns was a very difficult one for her to make. However, it was undoubtedly the correct one. As a well-respected, multinational company, eBay cannot be seen to support firearms which are likely to get into the wrong hands if cold via auction on an online marketplace. There have been plenty of examples in the media of individuals owning, and using, guns who are not licenced or qualified to do so. EBay is a family-friendly site, and therefore Whitman had no choice but to ban the sale of guns.
2. Whitman quickly found that the staff at ...

Article 1: Barriers to fitness: Overcoming common challenges

The Mayo Clinic Staff (par. 1) examine the possible excuses that people provide to avoid training and exercises. The various reasons that individuals give include lacking adequate time, finding exercise boring, laziness, tiring, lack of support, self-consciousness, expensive, fear of getting hurt, not being athletic, and past failures in training. For each reason, Mayo Clinic Staff outlines several ways that individuals can utilize to overcome the barriers. It is vital for people to set aside adequate time to exercise by cutting down on other activities such as driving and sleeping. The training should include routines that the individual enjoys ( ...

Dealing with elderly patients in various nursing scenarios can be challenging in a number of ways. One of the biggest risks to these patients is falls, as these can lead to a number of different health issues, including fractures and psychological distress (Campbell, 2016). As such, much research has been conducted with the aim of understanding what can be done to prevent these falls. Hourly rounding by nurses working with elderly patients is one area of interest, as it has been shown to significantly reduce the incidence of falls in nursing units (Campbell, 2016). The purpose of this paper ...

Psychology

Exposure Therapy for Fear of Spiders in an Adult with Learning Disabilities: A Case Report
Introduction
Past research has shown that people with learning disabilities are prone to a higher extent of being susceptible to phobias of various types. Exposure therapy is a type of treatment for phobias, where subjects are repeatedly exposed to the thing they are afraid of till the latent fear subsides, primarily as a result of the subjects associating non-threatening cues with the objects creating phobias. Past research has depended upon behavioral indices to determine success, overlooking the fact that people with learning disabilities could ...

Article #1: Becker, R., et al. (2011). “Functional dysphagia therapy and PEG treatment in a clinical geriatric setting.” Dysphagia, 26, 108-116.
1). Summary: The article by Becker et al. delves on the outcomes of two Functional Dysphagia Therapy (FDT) with one group using percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), and another group of non-PEG users.
2) Element: The victims of stroke and those with cerebrovascular diseases have neurogenic dysphagia, 50% and 30% respectively. The result of this study revealed a mortality rate of 19.7%, and lower for the second group of non-PEG users which is at 8.6%.
3) Outcome: Those ...

The quality control process is an essential part for all spheres of lives. When it comes about the health care institutions, the quality control process is vitally important. An article “Evaluating implementation of quality management systems in a teaching hospital’s clinical departments” is about a quality improvement system implementation in the 2000-bed teaching hospital and a short evaluation of the experimental application.
The total quality control comes to the hospitals very slowly, as it requires many transformations, as the changes in behavior, habits, culture, power systems and sociological hierarchy. A hospital departments autonomy, mechanical and professional bureaucracy are the obstacles ...

The task of the CEO of a company is to ensure that the operating costs are at a minimum, a continuous growth and expansion of the company and the profits are maximized at all times. He has to always ensure that the new ventures survive to their fulfillment in that they produce the desired results on their maturity. Very few initiatives that are launched in areas with potential make it to maturity without being stifled by the mature ventures. Some mistakes that the executives make include;

Part 1.Failing to provide the right kind of oversight

Distractions on many occasions tend to make the managers fail to follow the rules that are ...

Summary of the Article

The article entitled “Transformational Leadership and Staff Training in the Law Enforcement Profession” written by Bynum (2013) and published online in The Police Chief presented relevant issues on transformational leadership and training personnel as applicable to the criminal justice profession. Initially, the author discussed the aspects of the four I’s of leadership, to wit: “individualized consideration, idealized influence, inspirational motivation, and intellectual stimulation” (Bynum, 2013, par. 3). Aside from these facets, the study conducted by Murphy and Drodge (2004) that revealed that transformational leadership is a social process that involves different members of the law enforcement organization. As contented, ...

Article Review

Article Review
Chakraborty Rajot
Introduction
Finance department is a core department in an organization, generally endowed with an oversight responsibility for the effective management of a company’s or an organization’s money. The vital functions performed by the department encompass, financing business activities, recording transactions, developing budgets and reporting financial results, and these facets are well enunciated in Chakraborty’s article. Besides, this paper reviews some of the key functions performed by qualified personnel in the finance department, in conjunction to the principal roles of the department. Also, it reviews, functions delineated in Chakraborty’s article, in ...

Integrated Literature Review

Directorship on Child Care
Introduction
Childhood is an important stage of human development in which proper guidance are necessary in order to ensure that a child’s welfare is being addressed. In many ways, the work of a program director encompasses a difficult role in terms of regulations and program strategies that aims to have a positive influence towards child development. In this discussion, the role of a director in child development will be explored by examining literatures that articulates the topic on teacher’s needs, ethics, leadership, roles and responsibilities, and best practices. Directors are institutional leaders that ...

The following is the critique of the research article titled: “Measuring the nursing workload per shift in the ICU”.

Research problem/purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the differences in nursing workload between consecutive shifts, using a nursing workload measurement tool. The aim of the study is to measure the workload of nurses between two consecutive shift using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). This study is designed to solve a common problem related to handling of nursing manpower in the ICU. The research is in line with existing knowledge about man power placement and workload. This research addresses an important issue pertinent to managing the global problem of nurses man power shortage and finding ways to ...

Medication overdose in Nursing Homes

Nursing home residents are often in need of pharmacological drugs for diverse reasons. However, sinister acts have been reported overtime whereby nursing residents are overdosed by unscrupulous staff due to varied reasons. Medication overdose in nursing homes involves giving residents higher doses than the prescribed dose. The major driving factor according to Paulozzi, (2012) is to subdue the residents. Research by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) documents this worrying trend and records that in excess of 17% of residents in nursing homes across the U.S receive more than the needed dosage of antipsychotic drugs daily (NCHS, 2013). ...

In an international context, the United States carries a long-standing reputation for boasting some of the highest quality health care and medical services available anywhere in the world. Despite appearances, however, health care in the United States remains imperfect. Not all medical services and hospital organizations attain the highest quality, despite what many think. The concern of this paper, therefore, is firmly grasp the core elements of quality and to assess their presence or lack thereof by analyzing two United States hospitals. Using available data via the Hospital Compare site from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services(CMS), two hospitals ...

Introduction

Internal audit refers to an objective declaration and independent activity consultative in nature and which is designed to enrich the value and advance the daily operations of an organization. This helps a given organization to achieve its desired ends since it brings in a disciplined and systematic approach on how to approach, improve and evaluate efficiency of managing risks, governance and control processes. (Picket 81).

Internal audit catalyses improvement in an organizations’ efficiency and effectiveness by giving room for recommendations and insights which are normally inclined upon assessment of data, analyses of such data and the processes of conducting such business. ...

The servant leadership style tends to be highly effective in healthcare organizations. Adoption of the servant leadership model presupposes establishing a work environment aimed at promoting shared decision making as well as community experience.
It is considered that the term ‘servant leadership’ was proposed by the American philosopher Robert Greenleaf. It is worth noting that this type of leadership requires the deepest level of intuitive perception and understanding, empathy, the ability to look within and around, a sense of community and a stable framework of values (Marquis & Huston, 2012, 52). According to this theory, a person should be focused on helping and ...

Article Analysis

Abstract
Introduction
Methods
First, all patients were admitted to the trial wards and those who met the inclusion criteria were considered. Secondly, the members were recommended by ward staff to the study nurses. Thirdly, the entry criteria included; age of 65 years and above; the pressure ulcer risk of 15 to 20 based on physiologic, demographic, and disease specific features and consent to regular examination of pressure areas. Also, the members were transferred to the trial beds after their consent was sought. In addition, the exclusion criteria were employed such as obesity greater than 155 kilograms, ...

Summary of the Article

The article generally speaks of the reality of forgiveness and what it brings to other people in an individual and group basis. It begins with the realization that, according to studies, forgiveness interventions results in decreased anxiety, depression, and anger, and in increased self-esteem, hope, and positive affect (Magnuson & Enright, 2008). These factors show that forgiveness can provide beneficial impacts upon society at large.
The model for forgiveness intervention by Enright and Worthington were first implemented in educational institutions as a social scientific work. However, an emphasis was given on the fact that forgiveness first finds its shape in ...

At the end of every fiscal year corporations post large profits that run into millions of dollars. The main beneficiaries are the stockholders of these corporations and the top management staff that lead luxurious lives. The situation is however different for the workers in the lower carders of these corporations that work the hardest to create these profits because as the corporations keep growing their profits the number of Americans living below the poverty line keeps increasing.
According to Segal, whose article appeared in the New York Times, an Apple store worker sold goods worth $750,000 in a span ...

Willoughby, W. (1918). The movement for Budgetary Reform in the States. New York: D. Appleton and Company for the Institute for Government Research.
Thesis: The article discuss about the budget laws which are adopted by several states. The author expresses that budget is the essential tool of public administration. With the provision of comparative study the author also provided some criticisms of the main aspects of budgetary laws of the states. It is being emphasized in the article that an executive budget could not work successfully until the government of state becomes too much reorganized that it’s ...

Health care management is the profession that offers leadership and direction to the organizations that provide personal health services as well as units, departments, divisions and services in those organizations. This implies that healthcare management is necessitated by the nature of organizations which requires managers and other heads to provide leadership, coordination and supervision of employees. This is done so that organizations can achieve their goals which are not possible to attain through a single individual. It also implies that the complexity and scope of the tasks carried out while providing services area high to the extent that staff cannot ...

The police department suffices for general purposes of law enforcement. However, the organization and staff levels often depend on various activities. For instance, New York Police service oversees more activities in comparison to City of Cumberland Police department which oversees lesser activities. In York, the staff level surpasses five hundred while Cumberland only has fifty officers with four personnel officers.
New York police are organized functionally with internal departments including neighborhood association, York County gang prevention, police alert network, and police community service. On the other hand, in Cumberland the staff is organized in three broad categories which ...

Management

Management

Introduction

It can cause a reduction in employee turnout, among the likelihood of the extreme employee turnout. However, it must take place; another reunion with the workers will have to be occurred to assist them observe the big image of any company.

Discussion

Staff turnover can be disorderly, expensive and affect team confidence. Staff leaves for various causes, and it is usually not as they would like more advantages. There are varieties of other causes that will effect in the staff creating that result to remain or leave. In the company, managers take interview many of candidates and throughout this procedure ...

Article Review

Article 1
Banas, Colin A, Erskine, Alistair R, Sun, Shumei and Retchin, SheldonM. Phase Implementation of Electronic Health Records Through an Office of Clinical Transformation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2011; 18: 721-725.

Article Synopsis

This article is a case report that delves into the implementation of electronic health records. While electronic health records present various benefits to the health care system such as improved patient outcomes and cost savings, their uptake and diffusion through the healthcare sector has been rather slow and limited. Therefore, this article presents information on the phased implementation of electronic health records by examining a ...

The Ritz Carlton range of hotels basically sells services. In their early history as a company, they first decided to focus on offering height, light, and views to the market in order to achieve higher profit margins. They offered a substantial premium for these infrastructure-related factors. Due to some restrictions on infrastructure (e.g. construction of high-rise apartments were restricted in Washington in the past), the management decided to shift their focus on services. They used various strategies but the real essence of this company’ service is its excellent personalized hotel services.
Ritz-Carlton takes the control of the quality of their ...

Business

It is ethically wrong for the LPS Company to employ improper fee structure which results to double-billing the mortgage investors for legal services which is related to the processing of the foreclosures and the bankruptcies. Timaraos (2013). this is actually ethically wrong.
The company’s ethical duty could have been to provide the right information to the clients rather than exploiting them on the basis of providing them with the improper fee structure which resulted to double-billing their mortgage for legal services which is related to the processing of the foreclosures and the bankruptcies. I therefore propose that ...

Abstract

In this paper, I will cover the issues of treating patients with dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis is a condition when patients develop two disorders, and most healthcare professionals are not able to assist those patients in treating their conditions. A literature review reveals that lack of proper regulations and specialized treatment models are considered the main causes of low recovery rates among patients with comorbid disorders. Other issues include lack of patient motivation, education, compliance with treatments, etc. The available literature mainly criticizes the contemporary situation in healthcare when it comes to treating patients with comorbid disorders, but some approaches ...

Introduction

Provision of excellent health care services should be the key objective for any professional health practitioner. According to health policies and regulations, health care practitioners are required or expected to act within the Hippocratic Oath as stipulated by the governing policies and principles. One of the core principles or standard which a health practitioner is expected to uphold is to ensure maximum life protection is offered or created to the involved clients. Lack of meeting or adhering to such principles can be termed to be negligence of one’s duty. Consequently, the aftermath associated with negligence of duty can be ...

Integration of ABM and ABC in Dow Chemicals Limited

The Dow chemical, an international chemical company, applied activity based costing in order to enable the global business to report the contribution margins according to the geographical area, specific products and customers. The management believed that the system would assist in better decision making in the use and the deployment of its resources. In the traditional accounting system, the costs were assigned to areas such as sales and purchases. However the method was inappropriate as it resulted to fluctuating cash flows since the main focus of costs was on prime costs. It did not provide the manager with accurate ...

Indwelling Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection

In the article, Poudel, Baniya and Pokhrel (2009) conduct a prospective study to investigate the microbiological profile as well as the resistance pattern of the strains that cause urinary tract infection associated with the use of Foley’s Catheter. In the study, 100 catheterized adult patients, all above the age of 16, in a hospital participated. The patients used the indwelling Foley’s catheters for both short and long intermediate purposes. 3 ml urine samples were aseptically taken from the patients at the repeat of the catheterization and repeated on unevenly in subsequent days and weekly until the patient ...

Introduction

Cognitive Behavioral Interventions are approaches that use soft instruments to correct or enhance behavioral characteristics of individuals, either to comply with society expectations or to unlearn a particular behavior. A person with a drugs problem may be trained to handle the urges of taking drugs and avoidance of risky situations, with an aim of solving the problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, commonly referred to as CBT, teaches the subjects a new set of skills designed to increase awareness of thoughts and emotions of an individual. The idea is to re-empower the individual to understand how certain exposures to situations, people ...

American Public University

Organization is a group of people who come together to achieve a set of goals. Each organization develops a structure to function to move towards the set goals for the organization. How the organization forms a structure determines flexibility and agility of the organization. In the volatile business world nowadays, any organization requires developing its agility and flexibility to position the organization against the volatility in the markets. The main factors are the people who feel belonging to the organization because they would like to take responsibility to reach the set goals.
The individuals in the organization would like ...

One’s set of positive, personal values and morals guard against the negative influence of people surrounding him. This is one of the striking points made by this article that struck me the most. Regardless of one’s professional background and experience, we are all prone and susceptible to all kinds of influences surrounding us. If your values are not intact, the more susceptible you are of falling into the suggestions of people around you, the more you do not stand your ground. Leaders are not an exception to this. Being a leader means that you are able to ...

Method

Research Design and Research Tradition
Sample and Setting
The researchers employed purposive sampling which is the most appropriate to use in a qualitative study. They considered the family members of elderly patients and chose those who they judged would be best able to relate their experiences in the ED. They made sure that different age groups, gender, and civil status were represented. The authors did not set a sample size beforehand and is also appropriate in a qualitative study because sample representativeness is not based on the size but on how much participant narratives mirror reality (Everest, 2014). As ...

Introduction

The article written by Auberbach for the USA Today gives a comprehensive description of the situation of domestic violence and sexual assault in American Football particularly within the elite players (Auberbach, 2015). The current problem that this sport faces, which includes university teams as a brand, coaches, and players, is the growing stigma that football players are violent and tend to beat and sexually assault women. Due to several cases of star players that were found guilty of these charges, increased the bad press of this sport. Furthermore, coaches are facing a potential job loss, and universities are being ...

The fundamental strategy of sales forecasting can spell death or life to a business. Angelo Guadagno discusses how companies can master the science or art of sales forecasting to unleash its magic. He associates the activity to politics because of the exhaustive analysis and research that it requires (Guadagno, 16). Sales forecasting is vital to the firm since most operations or plans depend on it, be it competitive positioning, product strategy, staff choices, and budgets. The phenomenon controls the very health of a corporation. This article adopts a deeper perspective of Angelo’s excerpt concerning the usefulness of sales ...

The research article chosen to critique is, “Using Mock Code Simulation to Improve Responder Performance During the First 5 Minutes of a Code” by Delac, K., Blazier, D., Daniel, L., & N-Wilfong, D. (2013).
Introduction: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a lifesaving technique, and is very useful in emergencies like drowning or accidents, where the patient is likely to have a heart arrest. Nurse educators are responsible for training nurses and students on this important technique. Training program differs from real life scenario. In real life scenario, nurses go through a range of emotions like fear, confusion, anxiety, etc., that immobilizes them, ...

Recent scandals involving the corruption of some of the biggest companies in the world has forced the public to call for the teaching of business ethics at universities. Some of the biggest scandals have included Saytam, Lehman brothers, Bernie Madoff, American Insurance Scandal, Freddie Mac, HealthSouth, Tyco, Worldcom, Enron and the Waste Management; the start of an endless list. It is hoped that ethical training will train students make better decisions however it does not address the realities of most organizations. Business ethics is useless in the face of problems with the governance and structures of an organization. It ...

Wesemann, Ed. (2012). Creating a Vision for your Firm. Of Counsel, 31(11), 15-16.

The current article “Creating a Vision for your Firm” by Wesemann, 2012 offers a critical analysis and insights on a wider array of issues that organizational personnel, especially leaders and managers should consider in order to enhance the success of their organizations. In fact, the article focusses on strategic planning as a means by which organizations can leverage their success across various contexts. Wesemann, 2012 asserts that “Strategic planning doesn’t have to be the arduous process that many firms (and consultants) make it out to be.” ...

Based on the two articles, the authors utilized different designs in their respective researches. The study conducted by Marker, et al. (2013) utilized a case study design wherein the development and situation of one particular school is observed overtime. In their study, they considered the budget cut experiences of Stake Elementary in Bakersfield County, North Carolina and its effects on the faculty and students of the school. The use of a case study in their research allows intensive study on the research participants especially when dealing with the observations of the participants’ behavior which is what the researchers what to observe ...

Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease that affects the brain cells. It begins with problems with the individual’s memory, which later on advances to mental dysfunction. Individuals who suffer from the disease experience a slow, but steady loss of memory. They also exhibit changes in behavior and personality, including problems with their language skills, and sense of judgment. If they were once focused and determined as individuals, they gradually show signs of having problems with concentrating. At the moment, Alzheimer’s is said to be the most common form of dementia that the United States of America suffers from. With ...

David Rosenhan’s experiment, conducted in several psychiatric institutions throughout the USA, served to be the topic of his well-known article “On Being Sane in Insane Places” (1973). The experiment has uncovered some serious issues in the field of patient treatment in psychiatric hospitals as well as determining the diagnosis of those who really need psychiatric treatment. With the outcome of the experiment shaking the ground of trust to and competence of psychiatrists, it gave much food for thought in terms of improving ways of identifying psychiatric patients and providing them with suitable conditions for effective treatment.
According ...

Introduction

People engage themselves into employment in order to get compensation in monetary terms, and other benefits that come along with employment. Every organization aims at employing the most qualified employees creating a stiff competition in the corporate world. In addition, any employee would like to achieve higher levels of qualification in their careers in order to attract the attention of best paying companies. Human resource management is a global recognized part necessary in running of any organization. Compensation forms one of the most essential human resource tools used by companies in an effort to manage their employees. Compensation system of an ...

Introduction

The Ghomeshi’s case has affected the image and credibility of CBC radio. While the case has is under the authorities, the Board needs to take some measures to avoid any negative consequences y that the company may suffer from. The Board needs to ensure that there a strong internal control, but be cognizant of the fact that Ghomeshi has a right to privacy. While investigating the case further, the must avoid instances where Ghomeshi’s private information maybe leaked to the media. The internal investigations as stated in the press release must be professional and legal. This will require them to ...