Autonomy Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

It is challenging to fathom exactly what drives people towards accomplishment in life, but there are some reasons to believe that both external and internal forces play significance roles in motivation. “Motivation is the particular word commonly used to describe the situation of self-determination” (Deci & Ryan, 2014). The theory of motivation developed by Deci and Ryan (2014), suggest that individuals are necessarily driven by the need to grow to gain personal fulfillment. However, where does that motivation stems from? Deci and Ryan (2014) explain that “self-determination influences people towards accomplishing such tasks." First, people's activities and efforts are usually ...

Introduction

The role of Nurse Practitioners has expanded extensively over the past few decades. This has been necessitated by a number of factors ranging from the need to cover the apparent nurse shortage, the reforms in the healthcare sector and the increasing number of Nursing Practitioners which has immensely led to massive power and influence by professional bodies that represent Nurse Practitioners. With the primary need to help overcome the apparent challenges in the healthcare sector especially with the increasing population of patients, as well as the increasing demands for quality of care and new models such as the holistic care ...

Introduction

Euthanasia is the act of providing assisted, voluntary or involuntary death to a patient, mostly terminally ill patients (ANA, 2013). Euthanasia can be administered by the physicians and nurses on request of either the patient, the relatives of a patient who is not in a position to make a request or by the physicians and the nurses depending on the condition of the patient. Euthanasia is an issue that has raised questions not only in the health care system but also in the legal system (ANA, 2013). It is surrounded by moral, social, cultural and religious challenges and finding a common ground to accommodate ...

Introduction

The world’s view of the image of a woman is subjected to different directions due to cultural and perceptional variations. The women situation is not yet better even though the world has made a remarkable progress in terms socialization. At different geographical areas of the world, the position of women is always undermined (Johnson & Wilson, 1995). Without a respect to their various economic and political statuses, women always bear the negative consequences of being a ‘woman’. It is evident that no customs or cultural values that favor feminism. Even though some women fall into middle or upper echelons of the society, they ...

Background

Everyone feels hunger especially when there is not much food left to eat. This is a common scenario in third world and developing countries. At some point, hunger could also be seen even in developed and industrialized countries such as the U.S, Japan, and other prosperous countries in Europe. Whenever one feels hunger, it simply means that it is time to eat. But what if there is simply not enough food to eat or worse, there is nothing to eat at all? In that case, that person’s body, although still starving, will try to compensate by turning the body’ ...

Literature Review

Introduction
Employee turnover can be defined as the rotation of individuals around the labor market, between jobs, organizations, and careers. Besides, it is the amount of movement of workers in and out of a company, normally occur in terms of the employee turnover rate (Ronra & Chaisawat, 2010). Employees may involuntarily leave the company as a result of discharge or layoff, or voluntarily because of retirement or resignation. In most cases, voluntary turnover takes place when a worker feels dissatisfaction with his current job and has attractive alternatives in other companies.
Employee turnover and retention have always been key issues ...

Law

THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA IN COLORADO
Introduction
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of the legalization of marijuana in the state of Colorado by covering the following issues: 1.) the positive and negative effects of legalizing marijuana within the state; 2.) the effect of marijuana on public health and safety; 3.) the economic advantages after Amendment 64 was approved in the state of Colorado; 4.) the effect of decriminalizing marijuana to the police and law enforcement agencies. The outcome of the research will be an evaluation of the overall impact of the legalization of marijuana ...

Gaining energy in solitude

On introversion-extroversion, flow, energy, and different activities in solitude, various researchers have developed certain ideas on the subjects. Leary et al. (2002), note that individuals balance their interpersonal involvement with time they spend alone. However, they differ largely in the level to which they involve in and take pleasure in solitary activities. It is clearly noted that people achieve numerous advantages from living and affiliating with others. Even with this fact, most people even those that are greatly sociable spend a significant amount of their time on their own as a result of life circumstance or by choice. Although solitude is ...

The charter school system is a high controversial educational move towards business-run schools. Their influence is already palpable as increasingly, more and more schools, nationally, are becoming privately owned. These schools, invariably, deviate from the government-instated curriculum by adding their own impetus to various topics – for example, the Edison group, who currently own 100 schools across America, place more importance on subjects such as Maths and Science. However, it is this aspect of charter schools that attracts a large amount of criticism: their autonomy enables them to implement a curriculum which is centric to one or two subjects. This immediately raises concerns ...

Introduction

Whatever aims one may have after completing their period in the University, the education is important in helping to open doors for them in areas that would otherwise be impossible without a degree. When one gets into the university, it is believed that this is one of the crucial stages of their professional development and lays down the groundwork for their success in the future. Whether it is at the stage of enrolling in the university to get their first degree or around the end of the student’s education, most students will likely keep an eye on their ...

Ultrasonic sensors play critical role in making robots for detecting obstacles and avoid collision (Yarlagadda & Kim, 2012). Robots have a lot of significance in the modern world (Graetz and Michaels, 2015). Many industries are currently using robots for daily application (Johnson & Hanify, n.d). Gageick, Muller, and Montenegro (2012; King, 2011) study on obstacle detection and collision avoidance using ultrasonic sensors revealed the above. Researchers are constantly making robots for navigating to places where human beings cannot reach. Some devices such as mobile robots can easily perform different tasks without any human intervention when fitted with ultrasonic sensors that easily ...

Abstract

Physical activity (exercise) is largely thought to be an indispensable part of human wellbeing. The growing prosperity, material/food abundance, sedentary transport and sedentary lifestyles is linked with the growing incidence of lifestyle diseases including CVD. CVD is currently among most common diseases in developed nations. In the UK alone, an estimated 7 million people are living CVD, which accounts for 160,000 deaths annually. Treatment strategies (including physical activity) have been rigorously tested in cohort studies. However, the type, intensity, and duration of physical activity remain in question. This review is seeking to find theoretical and empirical support for ...

Introduction and Review

Background
This paper will focus on a systematic review to determine the barriers of implementing TQM approach in health care organizations. Today, there is a need for realizing the TQM concept, essential in indicating the function of organizations, by trying to better put in use resources, and knowledge through individuals sharing and working together in teams. This is by identifying the obstacles hence, helps in the uncovering of management's beliefs, important in developing awareness of duties in daily management, which are regarded as “true”. TQM is a philosophy that proposes uniform obligation to quality, in all organizational areas towards promoting an ...

During the Stone Age period, communication between people was largely dependent on distance. Communication could only take place if two human beings were close enough to hear each other. Human beings progresses and started communicating using smoke signals to their relatives who were miles far away. Discovery of writing created a paradigm shift in communication. Written messages could be conveyed from one empire to the other via messengers. The concept of globalization grew as kingdoms interacted with each other through trade, migration, intermarriages and other social interaction. According to International Monetary Fund, globalization encapsulates four major components. The first one ...

Treating Mental Health Illness – A Literature Review

ABSTRACT
The following literature review explores the capabilities of the nurse practitioner treating varieties of mental disorders as comorbidities of primary care patients. The NP interface with the primary care and outpatient services of different people living on the fringe of society with specific barriers to quality health care connected to mental illness proves valuable. The efficacy of the NP in treating mental illness in patients according to the literature emerges as a valuable intervention with screening, diagnosing, and therapy options for specific patients often isolated from medical care access with mental illness including homeless, geriatric, pediatric, and the ...

Introduction

Motivation is an incredibly important factor in education; it plays a critical role in student learning. This motivation can be intrinsic; namely, the motivation comes from a student’s own desire to learn. However, two other major motivating factors for students include extrinsic motivation from parents and teachers. These outside forces place a great deal of pressure on these students, placing expectations on them to perform in a certain way. However, these expectations may have unknown effects on these students. Students from ages 5 to 7 are in the early stages of education, and so trends and expectations established here can carry through ...