Essays on Educational Program

Capstone Project Milestone 2

Asthma is the most common cause of in-patient admissions in acute care hospitals. Poor education and training of patients with respect to self-care and symptom management has led to an increase in the number of asthmatic patients reporting to the emergency department (ED) or acute care hospitals. It is empirical to understand the cause or trigger factors that relate to acute exacerbations of asthma. Some of the common triggers that causes asthma include exercise, infections, allergens, smoking, infection, gastric problems, hear burns, and indigestion. Based on current evidence, food allergens are considered as the most common form of allergens ...

English is the main language of communication used in the East Asia as a lingua franca in all types of international contacts. It is, hence, not surprising that the problem of appropriate teaching of English in schools, colleges, and institutions occupies not only the minds of professional tutors and young students’ parents, but also politicians who understand the importance of English in the world. The internationally recognized status of English as the major language of worldwide communication has been formed by a number of historical and economical factors, including colonization periods in East Asia and the international importance of ...

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Abstract

The healthcare providers are focused to enhance the healthcare status in the country by means of remaining responsive towards the healthcare need of the nation. The public healthcare organizations address the healthcare need the residents at the national level by offering the effective healthcare services. The current paper has conducted the situational analysis by means of conducting PESTEL and SWOT analysis to assess the external and internal environment and it has been observed that Hamad Medical Corporation has the potential and resource to extend its healthcare services to address the wellbeing of the nation in a broader ...

1. Statement of interest: Describe your interest in pursuing a career in national security or defense. Include a description of your long-term goals as they relate to that career. My interest in becoming an architect has been expressed long before in my native country, Iran. I was amazed at how architectural objects were able to change the society and build the character of the city long before I got determined in my future professional path. Then I realized that depending on the architectural performance some cities can either promote a green way of life, sustainable development and progress or ...

Global Education

Globalization is a very interesting process, which carries many implications for a favorable both for the situation in a single country and the situation in the whole world. Globalization is the process when the world economies began to unite, when countries started to work and grow together, supporting each other and helping each other in different situations. Globalization has led not only to the fact that the economies have become common, globalization has led to some other consequences. The world is now more open in terms of cultural differences as well as social: people are more tolerant to each ...

Study question/ objective

Gonorrhea is a contagious disease that is often transmitted from one individual to the other one through sexual contact. It is one of the commonest sexually transmitted infections that affect young individuals of between ages 15 years to 24 years since the majority of them do not understand how well to take care of themselves (Kidd & Workowski, 2015). As such, it is vital that a program be developed with the intentions of ensuring that this portion of the populace can receive the utmost care which will satisfactorily address this problem. The purpose of this program, therefore, will be to ...

Parents are the first to guide children in their individual, social, academic and professional development, as they are the first point of contact for their youngsters. Even when they grow up and enter a formal educational program, parents are still important actors in providing children with education and guidance in life. This is why, it is recommended designing a family life educational (FLE) program that addresses parent education and guidance. This FLE program would provide an understanding of how parents teach and influence their children and adolescence to make sound decisions throughout their life. The program is also intended ...

The effectiveness of the educational program would be determined by the positive outcomes it produces. A project would not be viable if it does not achieve the intended results set at the planning stage. The federal government, health facilities, and other health agencies fund many educational programs that are geared at improving the lives of adolescents. However, there is a need for the stakeholders and management of this projects to go an extra mile and evaluate these programs to ensure that the meet the required results; improve the lives of the adolescents (Lopez et al., 2013). The effectiveness of ...

Could Free Trade Agreements be a effective instrument to regulate climate change mitigation measure in the context of missing a comprehensive multilateral instrument?

The recent century is featured with the expansion of the international trade in the global scale. The development of the trade legislation and increase of the volumes of import and export relations between the countries gives rise to the question as to whether globalization of international trade affects the spread of the climate changes. In this regard, the majority of the experts in trade sphere consider the role of the World Trade Organization in the mitigation ...

According to Eisner (1991), there are two concepts involved in educational evaluation, and these are educational connoisseurship and educational criticism. The educational connoisseurship is likened to the art of evaluation appreciation, which purpose is to gain an awareness of the qualifications that comprise an object or a project. Appreciation does not necessarily mean liking something; rather, it means having an understanding and an awareness of what one has experienced, which then becomes the basis for judgment. As an example, conducting a qualitative research that uses the observation method would require the researcher to appreciate and be aware of what ...

The community of Pleasantville is located in Atlantic County. The city was initially incorporated a Borough and whose status was later changed to become a city following a referendum. The city is primarily urban, with a total area of 7.298 square miles. In addition, it is well endowed with facilities such as adequate road infrastructure. Pleasantville is a relatively small city, with the number of residents totaling around 20,000. The city is inhabited mostly by the African-American ethnic and includes compositions from Caucasian and Mexican residents. In this regard, according to the 2010 National Census, the number of ...

Question 1

The process of determining whether an organization requires a formal project management process is usually accompanied by a set of questions. Some of the questions include: Are the tasks complicated? Are there constrictions right? Are there vibrant environmental contemplations? Are there numerous activities to be assimilated? Are there practical border lines to be crossed?

Question 2

Project management methodologies present a number of benefits to an organization; project management enable the organization to achieve more tasks with less people and in short time, it increases the profitability of an organization, project management grants better control of the changes in the scope, ...

Overview of Quantitative and Qualitative Article

Overview of a Quantitative Article

Sarna et al. (2014) article titled “Impact of a Smoking Cessation Educational Program on Nurses’ Interventions” aims to evaluate the effects of a short education program on smoking cessation on nursing interventions used with a smoker. The study also explored the effect of the behavior of smoking nurses on the outcomes of the education program. Sarna et al. (2014) research question explored the effects of nurses who smoke on the outcomes of educational programs that teach on issues of treatment of tobacco dependency. The research question was identified by noting a gap in the ...

Ischemic Heart Disease in Older Adults

Ischemic Heart Disease in Older Adults Older patients frequently suffer from ischemic heart disease either in isolation or in combination with other processes (Butler, 20120). As a common clinical syndrome, heart failure is the result of impaired cardiac functioning of the action of pumping the blood through the body. Signs and symptoms of ischemic heart disease include fatigue and an inability to tolerate exercise and edema of the abdomen, legs, ankles, and feet. Although heart disease has a poor rate of survival, early diagnosis and treatment may improve life expectancy. The goal of nursing intervention is to extend life ...

Nowadays, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental health diagnoses among school children. At the same time, it is a controversial case, as a lot of researchers still argue if ADHD is a real metal impairment. The main problem here is in the difficulty of diagnosis of this condition among children. The acceptance of the disorder is still problematic among both the specialists and families blaming pharmaceutical companies for promoting unnecessary drugs. Though, the supporters assume that the condition severely impacts children’s life and due to the complex symptomatic require special educational program. According ...

Scores on assessments of learners' scholarly accomplishment are presently mostly utilized as a part of educational responsibility frameworks. This utilization ordinarily lays on two suppositions. First, the learners' scores are a sensible evaluation of educational quality, and thus giving the educators responsibility for them will give proper motivations to enhance the execution of instructors and the school operations. The utilization of government standardized testing is bolstered by two essential suppositions – first, state-administered assessments are outlined impartially, without inclination and second, state-administered assessments precisely evaluate a learner's scholarly information. These presumptions have persuaded school authorities, to utilize test information, as ...

The article ‘Administrators of Special and Gifted Education: Preparing them for the Challenge’ by Mulligan, Neal and Singleton can be considered as a timely and relevant piece that has long been ignored. The enactment of the Public Law 94-142 - Education of All Handicapped Children Act also known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1975 is a major milestone in the United States’ education system. However, the act that aims to rehabilitate and educate children with special needs and disabilities through government funding and resources has its gaps and inadequacies. One particular gap that was identified is ...

Theory, Research and Evidence Based Practice

Evidence based Practice (EBP) is the practice of using evidence drawn from scientifically rigorous studies to make decisions. There are various theories and models used in research for EBP. The most interesting theory to me is the Self-care Deficit Nursing Theory. This is because the theory recognizes the need for self-care and treats patients as equal partners in the delivery of quality health services.

Self-care is important in the management of chronic diseases and in disease prevention in primary care and therefore plays central role in modern day nursing practice. The self-care deficit theory was advanced by Dorothea Orem ...

This paper is an outline for an environmental education program that would be taught to sixth grade students as their science course for the year. It would be designed as an inclusive, student-centered learning program and be mostly an in-classroom program, with eight-ten educational trips to an environmental learning center throughout the year to reinforce what is being taught in the program. The main goals of the program would be to educate the students about their local environment and also encourage students who do not already use environmentally friendly practices in their homes to help their families to make ...

The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) was passed to provide a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities. IDEA is constructed from six pillars that ensure educational opportunity for children with all types of disabilities: cognitive; physical, mental and emotional. The six pillars are: zero reject; nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation; least restrictive environment; free and appropriate education; due process safeguards and parent and student participation and shared decision making (Heward 2006). IDEA was first passed by the Congress in 1975 as PL 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children and signed into law by President Gerald Ford (Office of ...

CITIZENSHIP FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Applied Research Project (Proposal Defense)

Introduction

Developing countries of the world today are facing unprecedented challenges in attaining sustainable development. Many developing countries are plagued by issues such as poverty, population growth, terrorism, dearth of qualified teaching staff, and territorial conflicts. To find a solution to this, many economists have devised various strategies both at the macroeconomic and microeconomic levels. Many people around the world will tell you that fossil fuel is Saudi Arabia’s greatest natural resource, but they are wrong because the children are the greatest resource. An excellent education of Saudi Arabian children is the key to ...

The Effect The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act Of 1944, Otherwise Known As The G.I. Bill, Had On The Economic Boom Experienced By The United States Post World War II

Introduction

The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (P.L. 78-446,58 Stat. 248m) was a statute that was aimed at providing a range of benefits to the returning Second World War troupers. The Bill was assented to law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944. The law was aimed at creating pool fund for the active fighters in the Second World War that would enable them to acquire education, houses and ...

Introduction

Consumer choice of college is influenced heavily by a set of cultural, personal and social characteristics. These characteristics are different for every individual and marketers cannot control these factors, making these factors important while taking into account the choice for college program. Thus, the choice of college depends on a complex interplay of the cultural, social and personal factors (Kotler & Armstrong 135).

Characteristics Affecting College Choice

The cultural factors that affect the customer choice for colleges are the consumers’ culture, social class and subculture. Cultural perception of a college such has Wharton or Harvard having better educational program in comparison to a non-Ivy league college has its ...

Abstract

Bullying in schools is an overall issue that can have negative results for the general school atmosphere and for the right of students to learn in a safe environment. Bullying can also have negative long lasting results both for students who harass and those being harassed. A great part of the formal research on bullying has occurred in the America and other parts of the world. The issues connected with bullying have been noted and deeply discussed about wherever formal educating situations exist. Bullying involves immediate practices, for example, teasing, insulting, undermining, hitting, and abuse fellow students. Furthermore, bullying may ...

As the effectiveness model obliges results and destinations to be characterized it just takes after that our perspective of certificates, skills, and different approaches to diminish a human into a capacity would take after. The reasoning runs so profound inside the understanding of instruction hypothesis that I end up a bit at a misfortune actually considering an alternative. Words like effectiveness have an extremely contemporary esteem in my calling, typically referred to from scholars, for example, Richard Clark. Expressed most essentially, why utilize any type of media that is more costly than one that accomplishes the same targets? For business, military and numerous ...

Elements of a Quantitative Research Article

This paper will appraise a quantitative article by Lin and Ma (2009). The article is entitled “Willingness of nurses to report medication administration errors in Southern Taiwan: A cross-sectional survey”. The appraisal will identify the following aspects of the article population, research study design, independent and dependent variables, and sampling techniques. In addition, it will discuss issues related to the internal and external validity of the study. The population in research is defined as all individuals or objects with the same defining attributes (Polit & Beck, 2008, p. 67). The population for the study consisted of all nurses in Southern ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’ Evaluation Design of a New Modification to the Curriculum on Citizenship for Elementary School in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Introduction Developing countries of the world today are facing unprecedented challenges in attaining sustainable development. Many developing countries are plagued by issues such as poverty, population growth, terrorism, dearth of qualified teaching staff, and territorial conflicts. To find a solution to this, many economists have devised various strategies both at the macroeconomic and microeconomic levels. Experts suggest that enhancing the student learning process during early ages can increase the dynamism of the economy. To be competitive, emerging markets ...

Research Question: Do health care workers comply with hand washing strategies at the hospital level?

Annotated Bibliography Asare, A., Enweronu-Laryea, C. C., & Newman, M. J. (2009). Hand hygiene practices in a neonatal intensive care unit in Ghana. The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 3(05), 352-356. In this study, the researchers sought to assess hand hygiene practices and the nature of patient contact in physicians and nurses at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Ghana. The study was descriptive and cross-sectional, lasted two weeks, and the amount time of observation daily was 5 hours. The researchers assessed compliance to alcohol rub as well. Compliance to hand washing before and after patient contact ...

Purpose

The objective of this paper is to investigate on the necessity and feasibility of conducting a consumer privacy education program in colleges, universities, or in any other form of educational institution in the form of a complementary module that will be presented to the students as an addition to whatever subjects and topics are outlined in their course syllabus. In this paper, the author will conduct interviews and focus group discussions with a total of five college and or university students who are taking up any of the bachelor’s degree offerings in their respective college and or university.

Present status of the problem

Consumer privacy pertains ...

Introduction

Some students have trouble at school that includes learning, concentration, and perception to problems, language, and behavior. These difficulties usually arise due to various problems like behavioural problems, psychiatric disorders, emotional problems, physical disorders, and learning disorders. Children with such kind of disorders usually require additional services and accommodations with the least restrictive environment from their educational institute in order to support their ability to receive regular education in schools. Three Federal Laws have been applied in America related to education for disabled students. These include, - Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - The ...

When asked “Who is Doctor Who?” most people today know the Doctor is the protagonist and title character of the BBC television science fiction series. Some may also know that Doctor Who, and was featured in two cinema films and one made-for-television movie. Fans may also know about the wide range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips associated with the series. That is because Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary last year making it the world's longest-running science-fiction program. That was not the case when it premiered in 1963. Back then it was a small budget children’ ...

I adore showing when the adapting in my classroom is substantial: When I can sense it in the animating pace of a roundtable dialog or a scholar's unmistakable have a great time utilizing recently took in language; when I can hear the fervour in scholars' testimonials about mastering abilities that "had any kind of effect" or hypotheses that converted practices and viewpoints (Hennessey 2003). I consider these showing triumphs and make it a propensity to think about their beginnings with the goal that I can reproduce the conditions for their event over and over. My reasoning of showing is educated by the material ...

Even though diabetes is a medical condition, its negative effects are observed only in an individual’s physical health. Diabetes also has far-reaching effects on the individual’s social condition, as well as on his or her financial and economic capacities (National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2010). According to the National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2010), diabetes has been known to cause blindness among older individuals. Diabetes has been the leading cause of blindness among adults 20-74 years of age (National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2010). Worldwide, diabetes is the ...

Introduction

Even though as of late the rate of adolescents who are sexually dynamic has gone down, the U.S. still has a higher rate of sexually transmitted illnesses and teenage pregnancy than whatever available industrialized country on the planet. As per the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, in the ballpark of 34 percent of adolescent ladies in the U.S. get pregnant anyhow once before age 20. This lamentable statistic might be credited to the washout of sex training systems out in the open schools that instruct junior individuals about sex, pregnancy and the dangers included on the grounds that they neglect ...

Introduction

Context and Thesis Statement Although Western countries have issued acts to support students with special needs to be taught in normal schools, as part of the inclusive education program, schools are still reluctant in receiving students with different types of disabilities, facing various challenges that refer to the prestige of the school, to meeting inclusion standards and regular examinations in this purpose or to installing increased bureaucratic educational demands (Konza, 2008). Schools’ attitudes towards the children with special educational needs vary between aiming for an inclusive education and between maintaining the elitist standards, where inclusive education is not ...

Reflective Essay

Introduction The project aimed at creating awareness to the patients through structured educational program. The program entailed increasing the patient knowledge on the background of cardiovascular diseases and causative agents. Through evaluation of the patients, I was able to gauge their weak points and strong point on the subject matter. I then explained cardiovascular risk factors while citing applicable control measures on the same to the participants. Knowledge evaluation on the subject matter was carried out before and after the training. The tools used for knowledge evaluation were questionnaires and clinical measurement such as Basal Metabolic Index of the ...

Introduction

Cardiovascular disease is a common disease that makes it impossible for the cardiovascular system to provide the body with enough nutrients and oxygen during sustained physical activities. The major causes of cardiovascular disease are narrow blood vessels which can not deliver enough blood to the muscles or a weak heart which can not pump enough blood to the muscles. A weak heart is as a result of poor signaling or infections affecting the heart muscles. Healthy blood vessels are strong and flexible. They can with stand the high pressure of blood pumped from the heart. When cholesterol is deposited along the inner walls ...

Implementing a Diabetic Education Program for Patients and Caregivers

Abstract Method: Research question: How does teaming with patients and caregivers to implement a diabetic education program improve adherence and healthcare outcomes? Overview of the Study The study will focus on patients and caregivers who help them manage their diabetes (DM) as outpatient in a clinical setting. The target population is adult patients of all age with type 2 diabetes. The population will also include patients with DM patients, with elevated random blood sugar (BS) above 200 mg/dl twice in one week. The intervention being tested is the educational program for patients with diabetes. The group tested ...

Analysis, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (ADDIE)

In deed, Analysis, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (ADDIE) is a very important approach in the designing of an educational program. An effective adoption of this strategy can be so instrumental in the design, development and use of an educational program. This can be evidenced in the research conducted by Waynesburg College in which it was fully applied in the Master’s of Education (Technology) course. After its full implementation, it came out that it is better than any other strategy. As an educationist, I would like to agree that ADDIE can be so instrumental if used well. I would ...

Learning Styles Inventory

This paper will discuss why learning styles are better interpreted as learning preferences. It will also describe an instructional model related to my personal learning style. In addition, it will discuss how an educator’s personal learning styles and preferences influence the teaching strategies used in the development and implementation of a course, and finally, how personal learning styles influence the development of an educational program. Discuss how Learning Styles may be better Interpreted as Learning Preferences Various definitions of learning styles have been advanced. Many of these definitions contain a common theme that is; a personal learning style is ...

Today, the United States is faced by a number of medical conditions that have proved costly both financially and socially. These medical conditions, not only affect the physical conditions of patients, they also have vast psychological effects on the society. Most of such diseases are terminal and may not be curable and thus put patients and affected families under psychological strains. One such disease is cancer. Diagnosis of cancer has been known to put the patient and family members under extreme psychological strains. However, clinical psychologist have argued that lack of public information about these conditions aggravate the situation. Proper ...