Essays on Beasley

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Herbivores exclusively feed on plants while carnivores feed on meat. These food preferences mean that there are differences in the oral cavities, the stomach, the small intestines and the entire digestive tract mechanisms of the two types of animals. While carnivores such as lions have short digestive tracts with stronger and more acidic digestive juices because meat is easier to digest, herbivores such as zebras have long digestive tracts that are alkaline to increase the rate of digestion and absorption of plant materials. The basic difference between carnivores and herbivores is that they exclusively feed on meat and plants ...

HITECH legislation and its primary goals

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 forms part of a stimulus package that was approved as law in order to champion the use of EHR (electronic health records). Electronic health records possess the capacity to transform the health care sector from a largely paper based sector to reliance on clinical information and other sources of information in assisting the providers to deliver higher levels of quality care to patients (Beasley and Sinsky, 2014). At its core, HITECH has five primary objectives. First, HITECH seeks to augment quality, the safety, efficacy of health care ...

New business owners often find themselves facing issues they had not previously considered when starting a business. Many new owners have recognized the need for their product or service and have identified a market for it. They are prepared for that aspect; it is how they came to start their own business. Other aspects however, such as accounting, employee oversight, and taxes are areas where most people have little expertise without actively taking the time to learn about these issues, but where many of the struggles small business owners face are originated (Collamer, n.d.). There are several basic areas ...

All Americans are afforded freedom and safety to live their lives, but unfortunately, this is not the case for the LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual and Transgender) community, specifically speaking the use of public restrooms. It is all too common for them to endure harassment and even violence while attempting to live their lives in peace. We owe it to ourselves to discuss a way forward in public policy and our societal norms, so they do not have to continue to live in fear. The originators of our constructed surroundings have made open offices that are isolated by sexual orientation, ...

The EHR is associated with a myriad of benefits for both the staff and the patients in terms of promoting the overall process of care provision. Among the EHR benefits that accrue to the staff include; easy access to patient data as well as a more effective way of sharing and hence coordinating patient care. To a large extent, these benefits have helped in staff motivation due to less strain as it used to be with paper-based records (Lakhan, 2015). On the other hand, patients enjoy a myriad of benefits as well. These include; a more effective and coordinated ...

1. The Committee of Sponsorship Organizations (COSO) of the Tread way Commission developed with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP a Risk Management Framework and an Enterprise Risk process for the organization with goals in four scenarios of the organization:

Strategic: Alignment of the members with the goals of the organization and supporting its mission and vision.

Operations: A correct use of the resources of the organization with efficiency and effectiveness. Reporting: Transparency and availability of the information to all the stakeholders of the organization. Compliance: The framework helps to comply with all the laws and regulations that affect the organization. The components of the Enterprise Risk Management are: Internal environment: The internal environment considers how the internal units and ...

Question 1

The spirometer as well as the peak flow meter are among the key equipment needed in adequate assessment of asthma (Apter, 2014). As such, the spirometer measures the FEV (Force Expiratory volume) and the FVC (Force Vital Capacity) while the peak flow meter measures the efficiency in the flow of air from the lungs.

Question 2

Among the key symptoms and signs associated with asthma include; -Chest tightness -Shortness of breath -Wheezing -Fatigue -Coughing -Sleeping difficulties

Question 3

Asthma is usually associated with various precipitating factors that increase an individual’s likelihood of developing the disease. Among the key precipitating factors include; -Family ...

Sex and sexuality is one of the most important issues pertaining to women and gender studies. While sex refers to an individual’s gender, sexuality refers to an individual’s expression as a human being, which begins at birth and continues until death (Weeks 9). Sexuality is also defined as the relationship between an individual’s gender role and identity, body image, sexual orientation and relationships (Weeks 7). In other words, sexuality constitutes an individual’s values, attitudes, behavior and knowledge, and is mostly influenced by the family, culture and society. Some of the major sources of sexuality are ...

The care that patients receive is dependent on the efforts that care providers put in the caregiving process. To patients whose healthcare needs have been given the required attention, they stand a chance of emerging with desirable outcomes from the process. To this effect, one of the methodologies usually employed in the caregiving process is the use of technological advancements. Charting of patient information is an important process in the nursing field. Therefore, there is the need for having in place a technology that assists in carrying out this role. To this effect, the use of electronic health records ...

It was a few years back that the United States market capital saw the domination of financial fraud revelations performed in so called big Companies of the economy. The stakeholders of the Companies like investors, affiliates in the market, and communities had to incur huge historic losses. The top notch corporate leaders were also the ones affected. The corporate veil was lifted in most cases and many of them had to suffer jail term. Industries were affected in the sense that many big names in the industry, including the biggest American audit firm were desperately out of business. The ...

INTRODUCTION

Being an adult and growing old is an inevitable part of the processes involved in every man’s life. Along with this are the day-to-day challenges that people have to cope with in order to live an easy life in the long term. One of the challenges experienced by most people is stress. Stress is the state of either emotional or mental tension that results from being exposed to extreme circumstances; it may come from the unfortunate events in the family, work, friends or even not meeting your expected outputs for a day. Human beings have their specific stress ...

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The quality of financial reporting by various companies affects the economy of the country in more ways than one. Apart from the economy of the country, the quality of audit and financial reporting affects the operation of the company as well. Effective disclosure and transparent finical reporting provide a necessary condition to maintain and assure the confidence of the stakeholders. This study seeks to investigate the relationship that exists between the type of corporate governance and the quality of audit among listed companies in Australia's Petroleum and Mining industry. It presents a review of previous and existing literature concerning ...

Introduction

There is no doubt that advertisements have meaning: this is the fundamental purpose of advertisements in today’s culture—to impart meaning on the viewer. However, through a thorough understanding of semiotics, it becomes clear that sometimes the meanings contained in advertisements are deeper and more complex than they seem at first glance. Everything that is produced in culture has a cultural meaning—some things, however, are much more culturally resonant than others (Chandler). Some thinkers have even suggested that all cultural realities and productions can be understood as a kind of cultural communication—and that this communication may ...

Electronic health records make patient- centered records to be instantly available and secure to authorize users (Beasley& Sinsky, 2014). Being a nurse manager, I had both good and bad experiences in the implementation of the EHRs in my healthcare organization. Implementing the EHRs was my top priority so that it may end up meeting the legal requirements and that of the complete health records (Nguyen et al., 2014). I realized that for effective implementation of EHRs, leadership, training and communication are essential. Consequently, organizations must also be willing to have an effective mechanism for managing change as well as ...