Essays on Absent

Health History

Introduction Health history assessment is a vital part of the nursing process. This process establishes the foundation through which nurses can diagnose and create a care plan for their patients. That said, incorrect health assessments may result in misdiagnosis, hence wrongful care plan development. For this task, I interviewed Anna, L. (not her real name). The following discussion encompasses a review and reflection of this interview.

Demographic Data

Anna is a 26-year-old single female of Japanese descent. She recently moved to the US to pursue her degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her hobbies include traveling, photography, blogging, dancing, ...

Insurance for Arab women migrants v their counterparts in their homelands

In the United States, Arab migrant women are part of an immigrant population from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) regions. Health insurance coverage for this group depends on their legal and income statuses. In essence, several thousand have gained coverage under the now threatened Affordable Care Act, with others covered under Medicare, Medicaid, or alternative sources of private insurance. This group majorly comprises of current U.S citizens of Arab origin (Amer & Awad, 2015). However, non-citizen Arab women migrants fall under the 21 percent uninsured residents. These individuals include both undocumented and legally present Arab immigrants. In essence, ...

2017

Chapter 1 Introduction.1 Background.2 Statement of the Problem3 Purpose of the Research.4 Primary Research Questions5 Research Sub Questions6 Theoretical/Conceptual Framework.7 Nature of Study..8

Significance of the Study9

Definition of Key Terms10 Summary11 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5

References

Feasibility of the Study Introduction Central to the case study into the impact of mining and quarrying activities in the Akamkpa mining region located in Nigeria is a feasibility assessment; an essential component of a doctorial research dissertation (Creswell, 2013). Problematic issues are investigated such as program time management, data and participant availability, site permissions availability, and considerations in terms of ethical conduct ...

Georgia recognizes the doctrine of employment at will. Employment at will means that in the absence of a written contract of employment for a defined duration, an employer may terminate an employee for a good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all, so long as it is not an illegal cause . An employer cannot terminate an employee for discriminatory reasons, a breach of employment contract, or in retaliation for exercising their employee rights. Discriminatory reasons include race, color, sex, religion, national origin, etc. In order to better understand how at-will employment works, I will provide three different scenarios ...

How absentee fathers affect teen pregnancy in daughters

Introduction The family is the basic unit of society. From this structure, individuals learn the tenets of how to integrate into society and cope with other members. Most mammal species live in the family unit, be it nuclear or extended. Within the family, members learn to bond, share and assist each other with difficulties. The human species shows the most sophisticated form of human organization. When children get born, they only get taught how to survive as adults, but there are certain values that parents must pass on to their children. Each family and society have different values and ...

Description

The article at hand refers to the thoughts and ideas of scholars who observed the process of analytical reasoning and found some useful tips and suggestions for making it effective. The first thing that the article pays attention to is that it is better to find approximate answer to the correct question than completely correct answer to the wrong one. The degree of information loss and misleading is far much in the last case. The choice of the problem is crucially important for the effective reasoning and qualitative analytical work. Another striking point is that evidence is crucially important ...

INTRODUCTION

With the changing business dynamics, one has to be on top of their game to make the best out of every opportunity. For maximum profitability, one has to maximize all the resources and most especially the human resource which is the main core of any industry. Human resource constitutes part of the high expenditures. If not carefully handled, one will be running the business at massive losses. The only way to make maximum use of the human resource is to adapt more competitive and cost efficient methods to manage the human resource. It should be noted that they are ...

With four treatment options, the patient must undergo a thorough consultation with the clinician, covering each restoration type. Each treatment presentation will include the benefits and drawbacks the that particular method, risks and/or impediments associated with placement, complications that can arise after placement and daily maintenance protocols. The presentations must be clear and concise and devoid of scientific terminology that may not be recognized by the patient. To enhance understanding, it is recommended that the presentations utilize models, photographs and/or drawings representing the final product; images of previous cases can be used if they comply with all patient confidentiality ...

Sheila Renee White MAYO v. HYATT CORPORATION

898 F.2d 47 (April 10, 1990)

Facts: On February 20, 1987 Jack Mayo, Jr. died. His death was the result of complications pertaining to a fractured skull he suffered three days earlier on February 17 falling down the stairs of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans, where he had been staying. Prior to the fall, Mayo had been drinking heavily off the hotel’s premises. Toxicology reports later confirmed that not only at the time of his fall was Mayo’s blood alcohol content over three times the legal limit but also that he had taken a significant ...

Absenteeism in Workplace

Introduction Absenteeism is one of the reasons that have a negative effect on the employee and the workplace. As the majority of businesses are dependent on their employees working in teams and completing tasks assigned, it becomes challenging for completing work tasks when employees are absent. Employee absenteeism can be expensive when it it becomes habitual as businesses suffers from the non-completing of tasks and increased burden on other employees. Absenteeism is also linked directly to the fall in productivity of teams within businesses, and organization uses other employees and hires supplemental employees to ensure their work is not ...

Introduction

Self-control has been identified has the single, most basic differentiating characteristic that separates human beings from the animal species. In psychological circles as well as in past research on the subject, the term has been used interchangeably with self-regulation and behavioral regulation . Before examining the details of how and why this aspect of human behavior is crucial in ensuring that people are able to lead normal lives, it is important to understand the boundaries of the concept in itself. In the simplest of terms, self-regulated behavior is an individual’s ability to suppress their immediate impulses instead of acting ...

Impact of dollarization in Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, and Argentina

Introduction In the middle of the 90’s, different countries faced the financial crises. Some of these crises were severe and of vital importance. These crises majorly include “Tequila crisis”, East Asian crisis, the Brazilian crisis and the Mexican crisis and these hit the whole world leaving a devastating impact on the emerging markets of the world. These crises not only had an adverse effects on the related countries by which these are associated, but they also had affected the growing economy of the other countries. The emerging economies have suffered a serious setback as a result of the ...

R M. G

Dr. S P. A., a 56 year old Italian male that identifies with the Italian culture with no significant past medical history presents to the emergency department with the chief complaint of recurrent chest burning. P.A. says his wife believes that he is showing symptoms of having GERD but he has never been diagnosed. P.A states that “the chest burning and discomfort began five days ago and just got progressively worse despite his self medicating with TUMS” he presented to the emergency department on 05-31-16 and felt “some improvement” after a GI cocktail was administered. One set of biomarkers ...

Subjective History

The patient is a 10-year-old male with a five-day history of diarrhea and a four-day history of emesis. The brother also presented with similar symptoms. Although there was some language barrier, the father of the patient was able to relay that the two brothers had chicken which they, later on, ate in the next day. However, sine then they have been feeling bad as they presented with the symptoms described earlier. The patient described that he has had diarrhea four to five times in a single day for the last five days as well as emesis quite frequently for ...

The article Eyewitness Accuracy Rates in Sequential and Simultaneous Lineup Presentations: A Meta-analytic Comparison discusses the sequential and simultaneous lineups and their results, as well as target-absent and target-present lineups. Nowadays a simultaneous presentation technique is the most often used by police. However, Lindsay and Wells offer another technique that is called sequential lineup. If to take into consideration twenty-three papers referring to sequential and simultaneous lineup presentations, the identification of perpetrators occurs from simultaneous target-present lineups more often than from sequential ones. Nevertheless, in the real world conditions this situation changes considerably. In addition, sequential lineups correct rejection ...

Roadhouse

Literature Review In older reviews, professional critics believed that the plot and the acting in the movie were simply unbearable. The biggest issue is that the ailing plot line, established early on and never fully developed, is just too campy and lackluster. Professional critics went on to state that Road House suffered largely for its bad acting, which is considered juvenile and not worthy of cinema. In an article published by Caryn James (1989) the author focuses largely on the plot of the movie as his target. He went on to state that the star of Road House, Patrick ...

Dear Mr._________,

This letter is to request for a final grade revision/ appeal for an assignment that I completed for the course The God of Philosophers (LEH355) taught by Professor Carl Brownson during the Fall 2013 semester. (Facts)

Midterm given on 10/2/2013 grade: 86/100

Second exam given on 11/6/2013 grade: 82/100 8-10 page final term paper – (option to exclude final exam in exchange for a 16-20 page final term paper). The first half of the semester was great and I enjoyed Professor Brownson’s enthusiasm for philosophy. At times, my classmates would chat continuously during class making it difficult for others to hear, but I still enjoyed ...

Summary of employment-at-will doctrine from text

The employment at will doctrine is a legal doctrine that states that an employee who is hired for an indefinite period of time, may be terminated or end the employment at any time. Employment at will also means that the terms of the employment with regards to the employee can be altered at any time without notice and without consequences. For instance, an employer can reduce the employee’s wages, make changes in the employee’s benefits or change the terms of paid time off. In many states, employment at will doctrine has exceptions. One of the most common ...

HRM Issues in an Insurance Company

The Cases discussed below are related to Human Resource Management, experienced by the author as a human resource manager in an Australian Health Insurance firm. Each case has some distinct features typical of HR function and are addressed by the author using the relevant theories and practices on the issues. The cases are presented below

Scenario 1

This case represents a situation where a young male employee GS has been promoted as the manager in a regional office which is comparatively smaller than his previous location. His team consists of mainly part time female members, with similar and educational backgrounds and ...

In the English-speaking cinematography, 1995 was the year of Jane Austen. As if trying to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the writer, who since the 20th century became to some extent even a cult figure, the filmmakers created just three versions of her novels “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma”. I like the Jane Austen’s creativity and read almost all her books. I saw a lot of different adaptations of the book “Pride and Prejudice”, and by and large I like all of them. After seeing the film adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility”, directed by Ang ...

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Background With particular focus on Dewar’s book, A Savage Factory, this report examines how the failure in manipulating various organizational behavior principles in the right manner can lead to massive mistakes and the ultimate collapse of the organization. It is the memoir of Robert J. Dewar who has worked at Ford Motor Company, one of the biggest automotive companies in the world. This report aims to summarize the history of workers and managers and their attitude towards work. The workers and managers discussed were mainly responsible for controlling the quality of the products and sale ...

Human Resource Management

Rights of Workers and the Consequences of Unfair Labor Practices The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was enacted in 1935 by the Congress to protect the rights of both employers and employees, to encourage collective bargaining and prevent unfair labor practices that may harm the welfare of workers and the country’s economy (National Labor Relation Board, 2016). The NLRA assures employees of the private sector the rights of being able to organize into trade unions, participate in collective bargaining to champion for better conditions at work and better terms, and take collective action (strike) when necessary. Under the ...

This study aims to identify reasons for growth in female prison population in China and propose possible solution to the problem. One of the difficulties of this study is that little research and data is available on China’s women in prisons.

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Female offenders constitute a small fraction of total number of people in China, however this number is dramatically increasing which is alarming and cannot be negotiated. According to the statistics provided by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, the percentile of female population in prisons significantly increased over last years ("China | World Prison Brief", 2016). Number of women ...

Employer Promises Due to Employee Absenteeism.

Many are well aware that employees have a life outside of the workplace. Sometimes it affects whether or not they are able to work. In many cases they will take a vacation, sick leave or grievance time period off from work. However, there are times when they do not come to work, just because they don’t feel like it. This puts the employer in a tough position as they have to make the final call to either threaten or promise what the final outcome will be. In certain cases an employee can be suspended from work or even ...

Introduction

The way of speaking or writing is important for communication. The message in any literary piece is not just contained in the text only but also the presentation of the text. In the same respect, the message in a verbalized text is not just contained in the words only but also in how the words are verbalized. The analysis of conversations entails the evaluation of the language used by the notion that the use of language by the people involved in the conversation is meant to inform the other person of the intentions that one had in speaking (Heritage ...

SOAP NOTE

Women’s Health / Primary Care SOAP Age Range: 20-30 Gender: Female Occupation: Home maker. Subjective: ID: M.M.

Reliability: Pt is reliable, dependable and a knowledgeable source of information.

Reason for seeking Care (CC): Patient states “I have missed last two menstrual cycles of mine. I just need to confirm if I am pregnant.” History of Present Illness: Patient is a 29-year-old Asian female with no significant medical illness in the past history. Patient is a new patient to the clinic, and has come to confirm if she is pregnant. Travel History past 30 days: Patient has returned from a trip to her home land last week..

Current Medications: She uses some Homoeopathic medicines for constipation and heartburn sometimes.

Allergies (Medication, ...

Abstract

Studies documenting substance abuse have shown that it is deadly. Studies done in these areas have shown a trend in the abuse of substance among the youth. Substances such as marijuana, alcohol and cannabis are continually being abused by the youth. Tobacco consumption by youth is yet to be mitigated. The government, has in some cases, not helped the situation but has served to escalate the crises by making potent substances available to users without regulation. The objectives of this research are to analyze the opinion of researchers I this field and their opinions on the matter at hand. ...

Abstract

The work is devoted to the gender role development. The purpose of paper was to study theories associated with gender stereotypes, introduce practical surveys and prove that the childhood is influenced by gender stereotypes. It considers Albert Bandura's Gender Role development theory, gender stereotypes, gender identity, gender-typed behaviors and provides real-life examples. The paper reveals that gender stereotypes are popular in modern society despite the fact they were absent earlier. The first idea is that children experience prejudices about "male" and "female" behavior since early childhood. Then, Albert Bandura suggests that people behave in a certain way because they ...

Patient Initials: CJ

Clinical Site: Identifying Information: CHIEF COMPLIANT/HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: Mother (What is the patient saying? Quote the patient if possible)

Behavior: Disruptive and impulsive

Depressive symptoms: Detected Anxiety symptoms: Detected Psychotic symptoms: Absent Vegetative symptoms: Absent as patient is motile Suicidal ideation: Absent Homicidal ideation: Absent Compliance: Intermittent Cognitive symptoms: Not consistent with incidences of forgetfulness History of any mania in the past: None Sleeping patterns: Short sleeping hours less than 5 hours a day Appetite: Highly selective (Including any significant weight loss or weight gain)

PREVIOUS PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY

(Including any previous psychiatric hospital admissions): None

Any past suicide attempts: None

Failed medications: None tried before PREVIOUS PSYCHIATRIC FAMILY HISTORY: ( ...

Comparison of W.H. Auden and John Dryden One of the differences in the stylistic choices of the two poets is the use of rhyme. In his elegy, John Dryden employs a rhyme scheme after every two sentences throughout the poem.

Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, While his young friend perform'd and won the race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more?. (Dryden) As seen in the first six lines of the poem, every two sentences maintain the same rhyme scheme. John Dryden employs an intricate and deliberate choice of words ...

Introduction

Management science and organizational behavior are important features in a productive business enterprise. As a part of a team several times in my life, experiences had taught me to place a great deal of emphasis on control either I have been the person in control as exemplified in the playground photo or the person controlled through the administration for the educational system in the form of education. . The third photo is the ultimate control involving money and wealth which people seek in order to facilitate life’s necessities and enjoyments. Financial rewards are very often the controlling factor in ...

Introduction

It has become difficult to distinguish once traditional media from the new media, as the former have integrated all the capabilities of the latter. In such a scenario, it would help to compare a traditional medium of communication with a relatively modern/new medium with respect to the circumstances around their origin, and how did they facilitate interpersonal and mass communication. This essay will discuss and analyze two cases: coffee houses as really old media, and podcasts as new media. While the coffee houses gained importance in Europe the mid-1600, and have been around since then, their importance as facilitators ...

Annotated Bibliography

Bambauer, Jane. "Hassle." Michigan Law Review 113.4 (2015): 461-511. Print. Bambauer suggests that Searches and seizure in schools are in other words a debate about the privacy of individuals and the extent to which the state or anybody is able to invade an individual’s private life. Despite the fact that this may seem insignificant, a student’s locker in most cases is the only private space that a student has in a communal atmosphere of the school. In many occasions, the debate about searches and seizure is seen as an American issue. However, this can apply to ...

We could describe memory as the ability of our brain to not only store but also retrieve the information when needed. The memory could be explained under several different types, and there are also a few categories to the anomalies that could be associated with the human memory. One of the memory types is the Sensory memory which we are going to look into in detail in the following few paragraphs.

Sensory Memory

Any memory before being committed to our brain has to be first picked up by our senses which are our sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. The storage ...

Iran Revolution of 1979

Abstract The Iranian Revolution of 1979 involved the popular uprising in Iran against the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. This paper examines many of the leading explanations for the uprising, including the rise of militant Islam, structural weaknesses of the Shah regime, the coalition of three important social groups (e.g. woman, youth, and the intelligentsia), the composition of the reform movement, and the effect of the Shah’s policies of accommodation and repression, to name a few. This paper also draws on leading theories in social movement theory, contemporary field work involving discussions with the Mullahs and their ...

Plaintiff, Suk Semoon, was an artist who was a professional artist who placed in the National Competition hosted by the National Gallery of the Republic of Korea in 1965. In 1970, plaintiff graduated with fine arts degree from Hong-Ik University. Plaintiff went on to earn a masters degree from State University of New York in 1989. In 1988, the State University of New York awarded a large research grant to plaintiff. Plaintiff used this grant to make seven sculptures. The Wooster School operates a community arts center (WCAC) on its property to exhibit artworks and is part of the ...

I would like to talk about the movie “Mountain Patrol”, filmed in 2004 by the Chinese director Chuan Lu. The peculiarity of this director's narrative is inherent in all of his films, but here he surpassed himself. Merging in one movie two different approaches – the artistic and documentary one was an unmatched idea. At least, hardly anyone else came across this symbiosis. It really turned out a beautiful picture, in which both actors and documentary were involved. I believe that his film was a key moment in the struggle to save the antelope Chiru, not only in China but ...

Scenario 1

What theories of team behavior might assist GS in taking on his new role? In the given scenario, GS has been given a team of 24 employees who all have been working in the office for more than 5 years. This shows that all the team members are completely familiar with the organizational culture and norms, and are also well adjusted to their job roles. Furthermore, GS’s active interest in promoting conformity and harmony is also well-liked by all the team members, which also indicate that everyone is on the same page. These factors indicate that the team ...

Introduction

A labor relationship between parties is regulated by the contract. Any disputes regarding the terms of the contract may be settled in the Court. The Courts established common law rules determining the rights and duties of the employer and employee. Nevertheless, the employment conditions were often unsafe and harmful, hours of work long and wages low. The government started passing laws to combat exploitation of employees by employers. In 1900s government started establishing minimum employment standards, which became the basis for modern labor standards legislation. While the government was taking legislative actions, employees started forming trade associations to increase ...

Literature Review

Prevalence of Absent Fathers In the United States, the number of absentee fathers has been increasing. Whether this trend is due to factors such as work, divorce, out-of-wedlock births, never-married mothers, incarceration, or new family dynamics like changing gender roles in the family, it is known that fatherless children experience much high risk factors than their peers. According to the National Center for Fathering (2016), in the United States there are an estimated 24.7 million children living without their biological fathers. In the 1960’s only 5.3% of children were born out-of-wedlock, in 2010 that percent has risen to ...