Faculty Literature Reviews Samples For Students

- Desired Mentoring outcome with new faculty
The outcomes that this paper addresses include increasing of retention among new faculty and the maintenance of high standards of care by the faculty. It is important to understand that evaluations are meant to constructively critic the weaknesses that are evident within the faculty. In this way the faculty will be in a position to work on their weaknesses so as to improve their quality of care. In order increase retention of new faculty, it is worth noting that some of the concerns that the faculty might have regarding their work environment ...

How Does the Implementation of a Mentoring Program that Utilizes the Essential Elements of Effective Mentoring Impact the Level of Job Satisfaction and the Retention of Faculty in a School of Nursing?
Raising competitive nurses who would soon take care of the country’s aging population has been proven to be a challenge because of the delicateness of the job and the amount of passion, dedication and hard work required to succeed. People tend to focus too much on the sacrifices that the students undergo in order to graduate and pass the licensure examinations and then finally become a registered nurse. What ...

Introduction:

The implementation of a mentoring program that utilizes the essential elements of effective mentoring impacts the level of job satisfaction and the retention of faculty in a school of nursing in many different ways. A mentoring program that utilizes the essential elements of effective mentoring impacts the level of job satisfaction because it encourages the mentor to teach the rewards of being a nurse this increases job satisfaction for both the mentor and the new staff member. When a mentoring program that utilizes the essential elements of effective mentoring is introduced it impacts the level of job satisfaction because the faculty and staff ...

Section 2: Literature Review

Implementation of Facebook in Nursing Education Programs
2.1 Introduction
The inception of various social networking sites, such as Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Twitter, and LinkedIn, has attracted billion of users from all over the world, bridging geographical barriers by providing a seamless service of communication through which people may build and expand both their professional and personal networks. Especially, Facebook being at the peak of its success and being the most popular social networking site, various businesses have started making use of this great social platform to leverage their business operations and marketing practices. The education sector too is ...

Education

Abstract
Minority students that can be targeted for retention programs include students from the African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Filipino and Hawaiian ethnicities. The issues that need to be addressed in order to retain minority students in higher education nursing programs include more academic preparation, more support from faculty, and the availability of health the insurance. The wrong perceptions about nurses start as young as Kindergarten and last through elementary and high school. Long term solutions to the retention problem can start when nursing associations and university departments need to reach out to local school districts by offering help ...

The practicum success rate will be due to well calculated prior planning in order to tackle the nurse shortage and promote health care. Mentoring, which is a perfect strategy in bettering the process of retention and recruitment of nurses will ensure transition and socialization from the normal clinical setting (McDermid, 2012, p. 37). Subsequently, the good effects will create and establish job satisfaction or enhanced commitment.
Articulating the mentorship program into practice will entail data collection by observation of the mentor-mentee and vice versa to foster learning conditions (Crookes, 2003, p. 50). In addition, surveys and document reviews will ...

Introduction

- Description of the organization’s strategic plan as it pertains to quality improvement.

Design a balanced scorecard for the organization to measure quality.

Evaluation of the scorecard comparing it with the priorities of your organization.
Definition of the value of a balanced scorecard and suggestions for improvements that my organization may need.
Explanation of each measure in the scorecard in terms of standardized data definitions.
Evaluation of external benchmarks and a projection of goals for the next three years.
Conclusion
- Description of how the balanced scorecard reflects the strategic plan of the organization and nursing’s role therein.

Abstract

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Young students who are currently studying in American colleges are an asset to the nation. They are the future leaders and, therefore, it is in the nation’s interest for campuses to encourage healthy habits as they impart curiosity and intellectual discipline. The health status of the mind and the body influence each other. Smoking of cigarettes poses the biggest danger to the health of those enrolled in college campuses. Studies have shown that a quarter of college students smoke tobacco, more than half of them doing it daily. Despite decline in the number cigarette smokers, 18% of college students ...

The Center for Allied Health Nursing Education

This center was established in 2003 in response to an emerging shortage of trained and experienced healthcare workers in New Jersey. This phenomenon is believed to have evolved from increasing health care demands inclusive of a steep growth in the population; diminishing interest of new students within ther health care industry and an aging workforce and baby boom bubble. As such, the focus was towards ‘developing and offering educational programs that (i) provide students with comprehensive instruction and training and (ii) reinforce the humanistic aspects of care in the area of healthcare’ (Strategic Plan, 2013).
Core values encompass a commitment towards ...

Chang, N.-Y., & Liou, T.-Y. (2009). A study of Latino parenting culture and practices: listening to the voices of Latino parents. Hsiuping Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12, 1-36. Retrieved from http://ir.hust.edu.tw/bitstream/310993100/1599/1/12-01.pdf
The article studies culture and practices of childrearing in Latino families. As the authors write, “Traditional Latino parents, in general, may have more rigid parenting values compared to their Caucasian counterparts” (Chang & Liou, 2009, p. 1). The conducted study is based on the qualitative research. First, the authors provide a complete literature review regarding the main values of Latin culture and historical background of their living in ...

Introduction

The contemporary system of medical service has its respective roots in the health care system of the 19th century, where the dominating industrialization has resulted in the occurrence and further development of scientific medicine (Connerley and Wu, 2016). From the historical point of view, medical services have been provided by anyone who possesses enough skill/knowledge to be capable of healing people. In fact the majority of those people were the women (Evetts, 2000). According to the statistics of those days, it was less than 5% of women comprising the number of physicians working in the United States. The highest ...

Chapter 2

LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter is comprised of the review of relevant theoretical and evidence-based literature. The review begins with a discussion of the literature on Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory, Motivational Theory (MT), and Constructivist Theory to establish the conceptual framework. Each theory is discussed in the context of pedagogical practice. The review continues with the discussion of the literature on technology and social media in general, as well as on the technology, social media and learning in particular. The review then concludes with the review of the research literature on using Twitter in EFL teaching with learning in ...

In order to impact change in the nursing profession, it is necessary to provide the necessary facilities that nursing faculty requires in order sustain it. Such facilities are clearly workable through authoritative influence toward a positive working environment and better wages for nurses. One of the key ways in approaching influence over faculty shortage is using high ranking officials in the nursing profession to push for labor concerns as well as the concerns of the public that direly needs nursing services.
It is important to consider mentorship strategies when addressing the problem of faculty shortage in the nursing profession. ...

Abstract

This literature review investigates the aspect of higher education retention among Native Americans. Areas covered include persistence rates among students, higher education funding, change in careers goals and aspirations, Indian race/ethnicity, changed perceptions, regarding college life, and the challenges associated with integrating into higher education. Other aspects that will be addressed in this literature review include retention and student success, equitability of the US education system, and Native American values.
Keywords: Retention, Higher Education, Education funding, Diversity and culture, Education System, Factors influencing higher education, Native American

A Literature Review on Key Issues

The issue of higher education retention is a major subject in academic ...

Literature Review

In education communication is essential. The school, the teachers, and the parents must communicate with one another to educate their students. When there is a lack of communication the students suffer. The modes of communication are evolving every day, because of the advances made in technology. School systems needs to transition into using some of these modern forms of communications to better reach the diverse population of parents present within a school. Connecting with parents using multiple methods could increase parent involvement as well as student achievement. Different styles of communication could be used for different reasons. It must ...

The issue is whether the student based teacher evaluation is gender biased. Gender bias is a common social vice that is described as the subjective perception that some people are better positioned to perform some task based on their masculinity of their femininity. For instance, most societies hold that boys or men are better at academics, rationality and in most cases possess socially unruly behavior while their female counterparts are socially interactive, more disciplined and better in arts and languages (Templeton, 2016). With such gender-based bias ingrained in the society, the fundamental question is whether students are affected by ...

In General Music Class

The first years of teaching may play a very crucial role in the professional lives of teachers. This study tackles the perceptions of beginning teachers in general music class. The existing studies have identified and explored the challenges and issues beginning teachers have expressed regarding their early teaching experience. The issues vary from classroom management, discipline, problems with students, feelings of isolation and ill-fitting preservice programs. This literature review further puts into detail the concerns of beginning music teachers that have existed in various studies.

Perceived problem for beginning music teacher

Most teachers leave during the first four years of teaching (DeLorenzo, 1992). More than ...

A Comparison of Warren’s “A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason” and Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America”
The two poems, “A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason” by Mercy Otis Warren, and “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phyllis Wheatley, are rich in meaning. The poems can be interpreted from a variety of points of view, including political, social, and religious. When the poems are analyzed from a religious point of view, the concept of faith need be discussed. In fact, the two poems, when taken together, contribute quite significantly to ...

Literature Review on Discovery Based Learning and Student Centred Learning with a Focus in Mathematics at a High School Level

Abstract
Mathematics is a logical form of reasoning which involves making of judgments and justifying conclusions. Mathematical behaviour therefore is expressed when we can describe and recognise patterns, manipulate, represent and reflect on ideas while solving problems through the invention of procedures (Battista, 1999). Mathematics, as a subject has never been mentioned as one of the easier subjects – if anything, it is to the contrary as students are more prone to fail mathematics than many other subjects. Many critics have blamed the methods applied in the teaching of mathematics as the reason behind unsatisfactory performance. This essay will look into ...

Impacts of the implementation of a mentoring program that utilizes essential elements of effective mentoring on the level of job satisfaction and retention of faculty in a school of nursing
Research has revealed that the reasons that might cause nurses to abandon nursing practice and education could include inadequacy, feelings of stress, anxiety, disempowerment resulting from horizontal violence, and oppression (Rhodes, 2012). Other factors could also include general apathy with regard to collegial support, low morale, reduced resources, heavier workloads as well as higher patient insight. This research describes the responsibility of a mentorship program as one that assists others to ...

- Problem Statement – Area(s) of Improvement
In any educational process the only way for a student to learn is by actually remembering what they have been taught. This is doubly true in any of the more precise subject such as math, science and technology; all of which rely on solid evidence to prove someone’s point and more importantly, numbers. By this very attribute, math has gained the ire of students around the world despite the numerous improvements and possibilities the field has provided to society.
In this light, the main problem that this research paper is ...

The E-library system has become a common phenomenon as it provides a relatively convenient means of data and information access (Rowley, 1998). Digital libraries utilize the internet as a means of exchange and connectivity among the numerous clients all over the world who utilize the library resources (Cline, 1992). Digital libraries have enabled sharing of a variety of digital collections over a platform that can be accessed on a platform that is international. This paper discusses the Electronic library systems and the impact that they have on the organizations that implement them. The electronic library systems, creation implementation as well as the challenges of such ...