Professionalism Literature Reviews Samples For Students

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. ...

INTO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Every profession entails a certain degree of competence, expertise and professionalism for a professional to cope with and attain in order for this professional to be considered “competent” and “professional” in the practice of his profession. This level of competence and professionalism may be associated or correlated to the professional’s academic preparation, years of professional experience and degree of technical competence and expertise in carrying out skills necessary in the practice of the profession. In the nursing profession, the levels of competence and professional expertise can be summarized sequentially in the following stages: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert ( ...

Introduction

E-learning is usually delivered, enabled or mediated by the use of electronic technology. The explicit purpose of e-learning is training, learning or even development within the organization. Owing to advancement in technology and the popularity of internet, it has become possible to conduct education virtually. The instructor and the learner can interact virtually so that the learner gets information and instruction delivered by the instructor via the internet. There are several advantages associated with e-learning for organizations and individuals. Over the recent past, e-learning has experienced rapid progression whereby it encompasses a wide range of formal course based e-learning packages ...

The growing plethora on the debate regarding the act of compensating collegiate student athletes has interest not only sports aficionados, the academe but the society in general. Many people question the practice as somewhat inappropriate and a precursor to encouraging the youth to lose focus on their academics and their primary purpose for education. Many believe that students are being lured to participate in sports because of the financial reward that they can get from becoming a student athlete. Thus, students’ priorities are divided because of this practice. In addition, many assumes that when a student deemed that the rewards of athletic ...

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Introduction to Burnout

Burnout refers to the condition of exhaustion of physical or emotional strength, or loss of motivation to work. Usually, burnout is caused by prolonged stress or frustration affecting the involvement of employees for meaningful impact on work. Burnout has also been described as extreme fatigue, inefficacy, and loss of idealism and passion for the job. Burnout syndrome can be illustrated by the “feelings of emotional exhaustion, negative attitudes and emotions towards those who are beneficiaries of the service (depersonalization), and sentiments related to professional failure and low accomplishment (lack of personal accomplishment)” (Schaufeli, & Maslach, 1993). Any person with ...

[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees] [Institutional Affiliation(s)] [Include any grant/funding information and a complete correspondence address.] continuing qualification requirement (CQR) I. ABSTRACT II. INTRODUCTION III. THE CONCEPT OF CONTINUING EDUCATION - Changing Concepts 1. Recognising the need for improving professional knowledge - CE as knowledge up-gradation 1. Improving professional knowledge C. CE as a professional requirement 1. Meeting requirements of regulating bodies IV. RADIOGRAPHERS AND CQR

A. Additional Requirements

B. Radiographers and CE C. Radiographers and CQR 1. Importance of Radiation protection ...

The capacity for evidence-based project implementation, evaluation, and dissemination as well as for research and nurse leadership improves with continued practice. Learning from practice is espoused by Kolb’s theory of experiential learning summed up as “constructing knowledge and meaning from real-life experience” (Yardley, Teunissen & Dorman, 2012, p. 161). Such learning is possible by engaging in reflection with the purpose of drawing insights that will enhance future practice. Without reflection, there is very little chance of rectifying prior mistakes or addressing weaknesses. Thus, self-reflection is one strategy that I will use to further my professional development goals. Based ...

The Walden School of Nursing is a learning institution that aims to ensure that its students are practically equipped and towards social transformation. The practicum has had a great impact on my DNPO project, which deals on teamwork towards quality service delivery in the health sector. Working under a supervisor symbolizes how teamwork can be used to improve the skills of nurses and all workers in the health care sector. One can work under a more skilled and experienced person hence there are many lessons that can be learnt from the teamwork. As a nurse leader, I have the responsibility of ensuring that ...

The necessity for the improvement of quality and safety of health care is an essential aspect of the modern day health care industry. Quality healthcare is one in which the services offered increase the probability of achieving desired health outcome and consistent with modern professional knowledge. Measuring the quality of health care presents a challenge due to different actors in the industry as medical errors result from not only from human error, but also faulty systems and processes. Professional nurses face myriad of challenges as it is one of the most stressful profession especially critical care nurses. This results from ...

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Ethics is a philosophical discipline that attempts to answer fundamental questions regarding what is right and wrong in the contemporary society (Von, 13). Ethics define the acceptable code of conduct of an individual. It also seeks ways to determine the right course of action in practical scenarios.

Categories of ethics

Emotive ethics This holds that what is right or wrong should be based on an individual’s emotions and feelings. It falls into the empirical category of ethics. Here, ethical sentences do not express propositions but the emotional attitudes of the concerned.

Ethical Egoism

The idea behind ethical egoism is that all persons have ...

In an organizational set up, expertise entails the skills, comprehension and attributes of employees or systems which make a distinction between them and the novices or the inexperienced personnel. Expertise is a factor of production which resides in individual’s heads but is utilized actively by the organization. Expertise is thus believed to be a power that individuals hold upon a given specialty. Consequently, expertise is held upon different fields within the organization. This explains the fact why individuals cannot have expertise in all aspects or functions that the organization is involved in. Thus, expertise is differentiated along the various departments that the ...

Ensuring Attractive Jobs and Workplaces for the Employees

Introduction – Context and Purpose of the Study For keeping the attractiveness of the jobs and workplaces, employers should design strategies to determine the employees to feel that the workplace in which they are answer their needs and keeps up with their dynamic lifestyle. In the current socio – economic environment, maintaining employees satisfied at their jobs implies both a professional and a social approach. This paper proposes to identify human resources strategies for satisfying the employees’ needs, for maintaining jobs stimulating and flexible, allowing a balance between their work hours and their free time, and for keeping the employees directly interested in ...

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 ...

Retaining Careers Contribute to Child Well-Being and Future

Introduction The purpose of this literature review is to assess various researches into the positive impacts of being a working mother, and to assess whether or not working mothers have positive impacts on their children’s well-being and future when compared to stay-at-home mothers. Evidence suggests that working mothers can serve as good role models and caregivers for their children in comparison to mothers who stay-at-home with their children (Figes 1) (Heinrich 122) (Sherman 1). The labor participation rate of mothers with underage children was almost 70 percent in 2013 (“Latest Annual Data”). These statistics suggest the importance and ...

Introduction

Professional setting: Nursing manager A nurse manager has the responsibility of the clinical and administrative functions of a nursing unit. In my case, I am in charge of the intensive care unit section. There are many challenges that face the sector in specific and the nursing industry in general. The most acute case in this sector is the shortage of nurses. This paper will provide a literature review on the subject through research by use of peer review journals. It will also use bibliographic databases to prove its facts. The concepts of search include the acute and growing nursing ...

Literature Review: Building Health Information Technology Workforce

Introduction Health information technology is an aspect of healthcare that involves the exchange of health data and information via an electronic platform or in an electronic environment. In its broadest form, health information technology encompasses the technology that is used for various operations management, administrative and even direct clinical functions in medical institutions. One of the most recognizable elements of health information technology is the electronic health records commonly abbreviated as EHR. An electronic health record refers to a record of a patient’s health information that includes medications, immunization, radiology reports, laboratory data, patient demographics, vital signs amongst others. ...

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 ...

The Future of Cloud Computing

Introduction Cloud Computing Cloud computing applies to the development of parallel computing, distributed computing, and grid computing (Rad, et al., 2009). Cloud computing refers both to a platform and a type of application (Buyya, Yeo, Venugoplas, Broberg, & Brandic 2009). Cloud computing platforms provide the services necessary for developers to create new SaaS applications; it is a dynamic process that provisions, configures, reconfigures, and deprovisions servers. Cloud platforms provide a pool of resources to host different applications where computing power is delivered on demand (Van, Tran, & Menaud, 2009). Cloud applications use large databases and powerful servers that host Internet-based applications and services. ...

The Future of Cloud Computing

Introduction Cloud Computing Cloud computing applies to the development of parallel computing, distributed computing, and grid computing (Rad, et al., 2009). Cloud computing refers both to a platform and a type of application (Buyya, Yeo, Venugoplas, Broberg, & Brandic 2009). Cloud computing platforms provide the services necessary for developers to create new SaaS applications; it is a dynamic process that provisions, configures, reconfigures, and deprovisions servers. Cloud platforms provide a pool of resources to host different applications where computing power is delivered on demand (Van, Tran, & Menaud, 2009). Cloud applications use large databases and powerful servers that host Internet-based applications and services. ...

Multicultural and Diversity Aspects of Empowerment Counseling

The realization that the demographics of the United States of America will be made up of a considerably large number of ethnic groups who have been considered minorities before has raised the importance of multicultural and diversity training among counselors dealing with mental health (National Association Of Social Workers, 2001). According to Nassar-McMillian & Niles (2010) empowerment counseling focuses on enhancing clients self esteem, decision making skills, and developing his or her social, life, and health skills. This literature review will provide insight into multicultural and diversity aspects of empowerment counseling. The focus of the literature will be why it is ...

Abstract

Contemporary business environment demands from organizations more flexibility and higher responsiveness to the external pressures. Management capabilities cannot address these challenges. In the crisis situations, when there is a need to make fast and difficult decisions in difficult situations, companies have to rely on effective leadership to drive organizational development. The history illustrates various examples of the organizations, which are over managed and under led and it is a challenge and the task of the modern corporations to develop an internal framework for development of the leadership capabilities, which can take the organization to success through crisis. One of the ...

Importance of play in early childhood

Sub-themes that relate to the theme Key theoretical frameworks that relate to each theme Critical analysis of the framework Key empirical studies that relate to each theme Summary of literature - Key aspects of the studies - How studies relate to the research topic? Importance of play in early childhood

Position statement

The Importance of Play to Children’s Learning and Development in Early Childhood Program “Playing to Learn/Learning Literature 1. The Role of Pretend Play in Children's Cognitive Development by Doris Bergen; Miami University.

Summary

This article presents expert opinion pertaining to ...

Possible Causes of the Problem

Grieving among nurses is a common emotion. By grieving, nurses demonstrate empathy that each human being goes through in life whenever a friend or family member is in a dilemma. However, there has been a misconception that nurses are not meant to demonstrate any feelings towards the patients that they serve. It is important to understand that most nurses develop relationships and bonds with the patients that surpass professional ethics. By spending much time with the patients, nurses develop relationships that affect them when the patients succumb to the problems that they are facing. The main problem that will be shown in this ...

A transformational leader is a person influences practice and motivates individuals to perform to their best in delivery of required services that aim to achieve organizational goals and objectives. In the hospital set up, clinical leaders inspire their staff to work towards a common vision, challenge the way things are done in the clinical practice and influence as well as motivate others to practice evidence based nursing. Translating evidence into practice as a nursing leader is a rewarding endeavor to both the leader and the staff. My vision as a leader is to adopt a leadership style that will enhance continuous professional development that ...

TITTLE; Deep insights into how managers deal with cross cultural issues in a multinational company. DHL being the multinational company focused on. - Introduction - Importance of considweragtion of culture - Issues in organizations due to cultural differences - Cultural practices in other multinational organizations: - Cultural discrimination in organizations: - Measures taken by managers to solve cultural issues: - Methods used for employees: - DHL cultural strategy: - Conclusion: - References

Introduction:

Multinational organizations often employ people from various countries across the globe and are often in search of top ...

Increased Competition

Abstract Special events occur for a number of purposes such as celebrations, commemorations, education and promotion purposes. Event planning enables the clients to engage with their audience fully through the creation of design as well as memorable live events as individuals often lack the necessary expertise and time of planning events themselves. The special event planning industry over the last two decades has grown enormously, and the job market in the sector is on the uptick. This industry has played a great role in the human society as it has existed to be of influence in the hospitality and tourism ...

Impact of Technology on Supporting First Grade Students’ Creative Thinking in Mathematics

Abstract: This research provides an in-depth examination of the impact of technology in supporting the acquisition of mathematical creative thinking skills among first-grade student. It examines how technology can be properly integrated with mathematics to promote math’s performance without declining creative thinking skills in mathematics among the elementary students. Social constructivism theory as the method of learning in first-grade mathematics students is advocated; it defines the developmental stages of a child and relates to his or her learning and problem-solving ability. Its requirements can properly be integrated to Computer-aided learning processes. The value and importance of ...

Literature Review

Literature Review

Introduction

Machine learning techniques are based on an explicit or implicit model that enables categorize established patterns analyzed. A unique feature of these schemes is the need to train labeled data model behavior, this being a process that demands resources. Many machine learning-based schemes have been applied to NIDS. Some of the most important are Bayesian networks, Markov models, neural networks, fuzzy logic techniques, genetic algorithms, and clustering and outlier detection (Carbonneau, et. al., 2008, pp. 1140-54). The task of automatic text classification is based on building and using machines called supervised learning. The process of creating an ...

COUN503: Introduction to Research

Abstract Behavioral and psychological problems are common during the adolescent years. Improving self-esteem to healthy levels will minimize or eliminate these issues. It is also shown to have a positive impact on physical health as well. Having high self-esteem has been given a tremendous about of attention lately, and seen as a way to mitigate a variety of social ills. Adolescents with higher self-esteem are proved to do better in school, avoid drug abuse, and have successful social interactions. That is why studies on the influence of self-esteem on the adolescents’ life are not rare. Assessment of self-esteem is required in order ...

Nursing Policy

In American, the subpopulation of the elderly continues to grow profoundly. This has prompted the need of establishing efficiently managed healthcare to cater for the older adults especially the ones with disabilities. The U.S government invests heavily in healthcare to enhance quality of the services provided (Tomoff, 2009). Provision of acute care is a major objective in nursing education leading to competency especially in public health, long term and primary care Lack of the knowledge of the basic policies that regulate the nursing education and professional is essentially detrimental. This may carry both ethical and legal consequences. Setting and ...

The perspective of college Students & Faculty members in department of art education Regarding the Usage of Technology in Constructivist Learning Environment

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Literature Review

Constructivism is a teaching and learning philosophy which states that humans acquire knowledge from their experiences. Using constructivism as a tool in education helps the students to develop and explore their views and ideas (Juniu, 2006). Understanding the way constructivism works, and the benefits it offers to the classroom can help teachers implement the theories into their teaching styles. Incorporating technology with constructivism advances the application of knowledge and the involvement of students, and offers them larger potential for ...

1. Introduction The banking industry is one of the most important and crucial industries in any economy as they perform many vital financial functions associated with the development of the nation’s economy (Scott, 2007). The utility provided by banks to the customers determines the popularity of the bank in the market and likewise also has an impact on the competitive position of the bank in a particular market. As banks are a part of the service industry, the competency of a given banks is largely dependent on the human resources employed in the organisation. This document analyses the aspect ...

1. How Saudi Women Deal with the Challenges In their enthusiasm to succeed as entrepreneurs, Saudi women are resisting the challenges and cultural barriers strategically. Since socializing between men and women after business hours is not permitted in Saudi Arabia, some women are taking a strategic approach to overcome the barrier. For example, Lamia Boutaleb who is a cofounder of Capital Trust, an investment bank based in Casablanca, tried to schedule appointments with her male business counterparts during working hours so that she can exchange information as information is instrumental to success in investment banking and can establish networks without ...

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 ...

Literature Review

Literature Review Automobile is an essential means for social and economic mobility. Cars in particular have brought convenience and transportation benefits and became a significant symbol of culture, innovation, and progress. However, the proliferation of cars presents several opportunities for criminal activities such as theft. Key cities in the United States are experiencing high prevalence if car theft cases and among the regions with the highest rate of cars stolen is the Dallas Country in Texas. Due to the imminent increase in car theft cases in the area, local law enforcement units are finding more effective anti-car theft solutions ...

Biographical information

The text on Olaudah Equiano highlights the issues on slavery and how they affect the human life in the society. In regards to the text, slave trade between the 16th and 19th century was a valued act in the United States. The selected text The Norton Anthology of African American Literature highlights the slave trade of the African population in the United States. In this tale, the author thirstily highlights his experiences in the hands of his owners and his duty as a slave (Henry & MacKay 187).

General summary

This trade led to the rise of the African American population from which people ...

Critical success factors refer to “a group of indispensible activities or elements that enable an organization to achieve its stated objectives, thereby ensuring the successful performance of both current and future operations” (Rothberg and Morrison 2012). These success factors are necessary because they enable an organization to achieve its goals, and they also serve to guide the organization in its operations. For professional services firms, such as law firms, Kaiser and Ringlstetter (2011) assert that the acquisition of high performing young professionals is a success factor as this ensures the profitability of a firm. The firm is able to save on ...

Alexander the great is treated as one of the world’s most experienced war geniuses. He fought several battles in his lifetime which exhibited a great deal of expertise, ingenuity and tactical understanding in war (Ruth, 4). In this paper, I will explore in detail two of his most remembered wars: his conquest over the Persian Empire which had posed a threat to his kingdom and the famous war with the Indian king, the wars that were his first and last big wars with a lot of expertise. The paper also analyses the source of expertise for this war lord who ...

There are two types of offenses that an individual (i.e. a defendant) may be charged with. The first one is a civil case and the other one is a criminal case. Civil cases are charges that are based on allegations that an individual or an organization (i.e. corporation or a government-related entity) has failed to fulfill his legal duty leading to damages or lost opportunities. Criminal cases, on the other hand, are where an individual is charged with an indictment for serious forms ...

Ethical situations require that businesses make choices out of competing interests. It is in the best interests of businessmen to foster virtue oriented ethical mindset. The paper will explore various ethical virtues in business field. The paper proposes the argument that the development if a universal law governing business ethics is difficult. Realization of ethics thus depends on the virtues of the practitioners in the areas of businesses. Still, the paper fosters the argument that ethics is individual born, and depends mostly on how individuals respond to situations.

The exact meaning of ethics is hard to capture. What is “ ...

1- Identification of Theory

Kovach, Hora, Manikas, & Patel (2015) stated that the theory of expansion is adopted by large size firms. The firm is looking for expansion into other geographical areas for its product offerings and to run its operational functions at a suitable location. The firm has collected suitable data from 3857 publicly traded firms from the period of 1991 to 2013. The firm has found that narrow product offerings, low geographical diversification, and low inventory slack are closely connected with the firm’s performance. Tenhiälä & Helkiöb (2015) discusses Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The article discusses the control and improvement of ERP ...

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 ...

Literature Review

Introduction The paper is set to review the cyber age period in relation to the innovations that led to the popularity of the computer games. Since the invention of the computer games, it is clear that there have been major progress in the gaming industry due to the popularity the trend has gained. The gaming industry has grown at a very high rate because of the interest that has been shown in computer games and the advancement of technology that has taken place over the years. It is clear through the review that the computer gaming industry has grown ...

American Life after the Cold War

American family life before and during the Cold War, as well as the changes commenced by the baby boomers have all been the subjects of numerous studies. One of the major acclaimed contributors in this regard is Elaine Tyler May, whose book Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era first published in 1988 contains a detailed analysis of the American family life, perception of gender roles and equality, as well as the results of the Kelly Longitudinal Study (KLS) that gradually reveal the realities of the nuclear families inside life. The central idea of the book is confinement ...

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Research Questions

- How to use Constructivism in making art education effective? - What is the relevance of technology in using Constructivism while teaching art to adult students? - What are the advantages of using Information Technology in teaching art? - Using information technology and Constructivism together, would it make the traditional methods of teaching art defunct? - Should Constructivism be used along with technology in teaching art education, especially in a country like Saudi Arabia? Constructivism is a teaching and learning ...

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION

Business Opportunity Evaluation Introduction Entrepreneurs are always surrounded with different types of ideas every moment. However, it is important for them to recognize ideas that can be converted into real business opportunity. Entrepreneurs should evaluate the commercial viability of the idea before execution of the idea into the market. There are various factors that impacts feasibility of the business opportunity in target market such as identification of the gaps existing in the market, competition level, requirements of the target customers, consumer buying behavior with regard to identified product or service, purchasing power of the target market, and ...

One of the most popular talks delivered by Ken Robinson was entitled “How schools kill creativity” . The speaker was deemed to be effective in asserting that education should focus on developing both, cognitive or intellectual skills as well as creative skills. Robinson used rhetorical elements that persuaded the audience in seeing the veracity of his contentions. The speaker used emotional, logical, and ethical appeal to convince the audience that contemporary educational system kills creativity through focusing only on developing academic abilities. Robinson used emotional appeal through narrating humorous stories that enticed laughter and applause. In the almost 20 ...

Abstract

This paper, is aimed at reviewing literature on the topic of soft skills and emotional intelligence employed by the project leaders in order to improve the outcome of the people working under them. The paper starts with an introduction about the topic while highlighting few soft skills that are exhibited at the workplace environment. The paper then proceeds to reviewing literature available on the topic of soft skills in project leaders. Few books, articles and researches have been selected for inclusion in the literature review. A brief review of each source is mentioned in the literature review section of ...

Literature Review: How to Build Salesperson’s Loyalty for the 787 Dreamliner

According to the Canadian Professional Sales Association (2012), building salesperson's loyalty requires one to understand his or her salespersons. The primary qualities that a manager needs to understand in salespersons include empathy, responsibility, optimism, ego-drive, and focus. It is by understanding the above qualities that a manager will be able to know the ability of a sales person to react accurately to the behavior and emotions of customers. Additionally, the manager will be able to know the ability of a sales person to identify other people's feelings and frustrations, listening skills, curiosity, and the establishment of good rapport. Palmatier, Scheer, & Steenkamp (2007), ...

Introduction

Team foundation server is a Microsoft product that was developed to assist the users in team foundation building, task item tracking, reporting of website and project management. It is a collaboration platform that was designed for Microsoft’s application life cycle. It offers support for multiple integrated platforms and environment, agile development practices and cloud services. It also gives the features and tools needed to facilitate effective control and management of software creation module during the whole information technology lifecycle. The application is used by the Microsoft team foundation to manage application using multiple client server tools with the support of ...

Business Process Management

Abstract The literature review on the topic of enterprise resource planning (ERP) of business process management (BPM) as part of information systems (IS) strategies in South African businesses covers both scholarly and professional management discussions about outsource administration of IT systems operations. The rise of outsource IT in the business sector is predicted to realign business and trade into the future. The trend in emergent market outsource IS data management in and by South African firms is fast becoming a lead topic in a nation formerly characterised as an industrial economy with developing country challenges. The enactment of South ...

Introduction

Employee engagement can be defined in various ways. However, it can be generally referred to as the ability and willingness of employees to help the organization in which they are employed achieve its objectives. This is achieved by the employees providing their services in a discretional way and in sustainable circumstances. Employee engagement entails two main aspects; psychological and HR practice. The psychological aspect involves the kind of job one is doing, the resources at the employee’s disposal and the experience one goes through during the engagement. Furthermore, the ability of the organization to empower its employees and its ...

Abstract

There are many developments that are seen with the handling of health records in clinical settings. Health records are an important issue in managing hospitals. Patient data is important to both patients, doctors, clinicians, the government and medical organizations. This is because they are used to assess the health status of a patient. The government is working hard to ensure that the medical procedures are being automated so that there is accuracy and reliability of the systems is an important aspect when handling patient records. This is the reason as to why automation and development of information systems to manage ...

Earley, Pete (2012). The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers. Touchstone. New York City: NY. ISBN-13: 978-1439199039.

Purpose of the book

The purpose of “The Serial Killer Whisperer” is revelation. The minds of serial killers and serial murders have fascinated us through investigative documentaries, sitcoms and Hollywood blockbusters (Schmid, 2005). The information that is portrayed to us in these mediums is generally violent and usually illogical behavior on part of the serial offender. This book, however, reveals a different side to the readers. The side that eludes investigators and criminal profilers; the ...

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 ...

There is an increasing number of electric cars in the world, with the US expecting to have 1 million electric cars by the end of 2015. Arguably, it is easy to increase the number of electric cars but difficult to increase electricity generating capacity at the same rate. Generating capacity to cater for the number of electric cars. The basic problem with electric vehicles require an overnight charging to ensure the car is fully charged when owners need it to commute in the morning. Any given grid can provide a certain amount of excess electric supply which it can devote ...

Why students don’t use school libraries?

In a study conducted on students in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania, it has been found that most commonly used library sources by students are books and novels. However, it has to be considered that knowledge cannot be acquired only through text books or lectures. Some other resources of information, which are commonly used in present day education, are also required such as different kinds of dictionaries, atlases and maps, poetry books, and audio visual presentations. Sometime, these are not available in libraries; therefore, it becomes difficult for students to find all the required information. Among other difficulties faced by students in ...

Wit was written by Margaret Edson. This one-act play has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is a story which deals with the medical profession as well as with the culture of education at universities. Both sides are brilliant in this story. Vivian Bearing is represents brilliant academic staff whereas, Doctor Kelekian and Dr Jason Posner represent the brilliant side of medical research. None of them have emotions when it comes to work. The only character which feels empathy for Vivian is the nurse, Susie. She is the only character who is acting humane. Whereas Vivian is strict ...

Intercultural Friendship

Introduction Scholars and academicians have paid little interest to intercultural friendships in spite of their obvious magnitude and regularity in the continuously expanding multicultural world. Intercultural friendships symbolize a close linkage between interpersonal and cultural dimensions of communication systems. The hardships involved in sorting them out might be one explanation why they attract so little interest from researchers. In recent times, it has become generally acknowledged that cultural diversity in the backgrounds of communicators contributes to differences in the patterns of communication behavior. This has made several researchers studying intercultural communication to make the assumption that it is a distinctive ...

Anne Crowther’s Why Women should be Nurses and not Doctors compare the differences between female doctors and nurses with respect to a classic example of two of the most prominent figures in their respective fields: Florence Nightingale and Sophia Jex-Blake. The paper starts with the author describing how Nightingale, on return from the Crimean war and already a legend in her field, set up the Nightingale school for nurses. Even though the school was never considered a success, it was able to keep up a good reputation in accordance to the reputation she had made amongst the public. Through the article, the ...