Essays on Ballard

The three mental complications that include dementia, delirium, and depression have similar symptoms which make it difficult to determine the exact condition the patient suffers from (Yasin, 2013). As such, it becomes very important to learn the diagnosis procedure. Such practice helps in instilling some sense of accuracy when it comes to differentiating the three conditions (Alonso, Chatterji & He, 2013). This paper seeks to analyze a typical case study whereby the patient has presented her scenario with specific details of the condition as it represents itself symptomatically.

Reflection on Case Study 2 Patient’s Presentation

The case under analysis is the second one which involves an old ...

Health systems are often on the lookout for the best strategies that would help to strategize and improve the quality of service delivery. However, research, including (Mayberry, Nicewander, Qin, and Ballard, 2006) reveal that a huge percentage of their strategies become a failure. Such evidence depicts the challenging nature of successful improvements in healthcare. Nonetheless, there are numerous practices that have become increasingly efficient as health practitioners learn from each other’s successes and failures. This paper discusses such effective strategies ideal in the improvement of healthcare and the nursing practice environment as follows. The first strategic move is ...

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The term ‘globalization’ is widely used nowadays. However, not all of us have thought of or have asked what it means or how it came in our today consciousness. As we see it from the source under analysis, the origin of globalization processes can be traced back to centuries ago (Ballard 2010). In spite of the fact that many believe that entrepreneurial adventurers’ navigational skills of Europeans undoubtedly resulted in world globalization, it is not exactly the way. At the end of the fifteenth century, European seamen set off to apply their shipbuilding and navigational technologies in order to ...

Food is a basic commodity needed to sustain life and as such, it must be safe to eat. Despite the innumerable controversies that abound regarding the ingredients and additives in our food and sage advice from many professional sources and health gurus arguing to the contrary, this paper will support the thesis that, for most people, our food supply is safe. While accepting that prepared foods may contain additives and preservatives, these are necessary to allow manufacturers to bring food safely into our homes. Preservatives and additives are necessary to ensure that our food supply is safe, but ultimately ...

The Institute of Medicine (2001) highlighted that the U.S. health care system harms patients and frequently fail to deliver the potential benefits expected. In this regards, the issue of “culture of safety” is central in most health care institutions including the correctional facilities. Specter (2006) noted that hundreds of prisoners die due to medical neglect, brutality, and suicide stressing the need for safety of the patients in the correctional institutions. In my working station, the nurse leader is the leading promoter of patient safety during medical processes. The nurse manager has the responsibility to communicate evidence-based changes needed to ...

Customer Centricity has been explained as a business strategy where business functions revolve around understanding and satisfying customer needs. MacDonald (2016) terms it as a strategy which means putting the customer first and at the centre of a business that consists of understanding the customer needs, building a relationship with him and retaining him. From the 4 Ps of Management, the focus has changed to ‘get, keep, grow’ – meaning getting customers, retaining them and serving them facilities which help in winning over other customers too. A Customer Strategy focuses on the acquisition of customers, retaining them and increasing revenues ...

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There are many ailments that are often associated with old age. Reduced immunity and other factors lead to the susceptibility to diseases at old age because of increased risk factors. One of the most ailments in people of advanced age is Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer is the most common form of dementia which is a term that denotes sets of symptoms that causes problems in intellectual abilities coupled with memory loss, language, thinking and disorientation, lack of motivation, mood swings, and problem-solving abilities. In some cases, some behavioral issues can be observed in a person who is reporting symptoms ...

A Midwife’s Tale is a detailed biography of Martha Ballard, a midwife in the late period of the 1700s to the early 1800s who wrote a diary of her daily operation’s ranging from 1st January 1785 to 8th May 1812. Ballard’s everyday life can be categorized as being a very extraordinary woman that lived an ordinary lifestyle in the community of Puritan. Ballard’s life represented many women in America in the late 18th century who had less power and minimal rights compared to men. The book continues to illustrate the daily chores of Martha Ballard, ...

Reader Response Based on Film and Readings- Pioneer Women in Medical Front

The book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785-1812, was written by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in reference to the diary of an 18th century American midwife and healer, Martha Moore Ballard (1735-1812). The documentary film, The American Experience, was based on the Ulrich’s book. During the period of 3 decades (from 1785-1812), Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her life as a midwife and healer and housewife with children. Her records illustrate struggles and tragedies that she faced within her family and the society as a whole during ...

The model of learning known as the 70:20:10 is a Development and Learning model that is used very commonly in the profession of training for the purpose of describing the optimal learning sources by the successful managers (702010forum.com, 2015). It states that the individuals are to obtain 70 percent of the knowledge from their experiences related to the job, 20 percent of the knowledge comes from the individuals’ interaction with people and the remainder of the 10 percent of the knowledge is gained from the events pertaining to formal education. This model of Development and Learning was first formulated ...