Essays on Safety

Introduction The term ‘privacy’ refers to an individual’s ability to seclude themselves thereby expressing themselves selectively. It, therefore, means that something is sensitive or simply special to a person. Privacy also limits who accesses the places, things or body of another person, hence making it about an individual’s control and security to things like their bank details and medical records. Privacy is thus important to human dignity in all societies as it is a human right of every individual. However, technology is turning out to be a threat to privacy due to its integration to human lives ...

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The latest mortal car crash induced by a speaking on a cell-phone stockbroker caused concerns about safety on a mobile working place. Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported around 1.153 injuries and 9 deaths per day caused by distraction from the road. (National2, 2013.). Thus, the new Corporate Communication Policy decrees no cell phone calls while driving except for emergency, jams or absolute necessity. National sales representatives are also subjected to state laws.

Texas cell phone ordinances are (Cell, 2016; National1,2015):

Ban on all uses of wireless communications devices while driving. Ban on texting while driving. Ban on texting and other manual uses of wireless ...

Abstract

This paper attempts to highlight the prevailing hazards and subsequent safety measures in construction activities. The main elements of accidents in the construction industry are known as fatal four that include falls, caught between objects, electrocution and struck by objects. These elements contribute massive fatalities in the construction industry and "falls" are considered as the frequent cause of fatalities. Moreover, fatal injuries have declined during last one decade. Pre-planning is integral in construction activities, and so safety management and planning should be made an important part of the pre-planning step. All possible hazards at the construction site need to ...

Improving Sustainability: Yum Brands

Business Sustainability is often defined as the process by which an organization manages its financial standing, social risks and opportunities. In short, sustainability is the process through which a company handles its entire business and the influence of its decisions on financial standing, community and the environment. However, in the context of this paper, we believe that this definition is more of a theoretical concept because in a more pragmatic way, sustainability is all about surviving the shocks by sculpting the organizational policies and connecting them to a healthy social, economic and environmental system. Henceforth, in order to discuss ...

Description of the Problem

My community has developed a habit of ignoring their environment due to their careless attitude towards litter disposal. Despite the development and provision of the general dumping site, the community still does not utilize the dump site as provided by the governing body. This has led to the ugly nature of the community environment, and none of the stakeholders have developed an interest in solving the problem. This paper offers a description of the community problem of littering before offering a solution that will help alleviate the problem. Litter scattering within my community has currently formed part of the ...

Executive summary

This paper provides a strategic plan for ERBAKIR CN WIRE Company. The strategic plan includes an analysis and evaluation of integral aspects of Company’s operation. These aspects are company’s background, its organizational mission, vision and value statements. Besides, the paper provides an environmental scan, describing Company’s place on the trade market. The paper reviews current strategies and states the recommended ones. In order to reduce and overcome risks, the paper offers an implementation plan including contingency plans for identified risks. ERBAKIR CN WIRE Company is the largest of Electrolytic Copper Conductive companies in Turkey and one ...

1. Identify each cause of action that is pursued and the plaintiff and defendant to the lawsuit The general procedure of the case will involve investigating the concepts of the case and applying the legal scholarship to the facts that are demonstrated. The specified facts that will allow the families in the case to bring a case against the hospital include a major lack of consideration regarding the potential hazards that were made evident in the report filed by the Joint Commission. The failure of the hospital to develop solutions to these problems resulted in various medical issues This ...

Quality and Safety Practice: Prevention of Patient Falls - Literature Review

Introduction Whether an elderly person is living alone, with others, within a nursing home, or under care in a medical facility, falling is a major threat. For seniors older than 65 years of age living in a community situation, one in three will suffer a fall every year; for individuals over 85 years of age, the rate climbs to half of all residents (Cameron et al., 2010; CBO, 2004; Neyens, 2007; Tinetti, 2003). If an elderly adult is institutionalized, the possibility of falling in a year rises to 1.5 to 2 times (Dijcks et al., 2005) and a serious ...

Introduction: According to Thaden and Alyssa (2008), “human error is the main cause of flight accidents in complex systems. Therefore since errors are inevitable in the commercial airline industry, it is doubtful to assure safety on the air.” On the other hand, Mangla and Haress (2011) claim that - “air travel is the safest mode in the history of aviation.” Whose statement is reliable between them? In aviation, it is true that human error leads to accidents in the sky, but it is also true that for every accident that happens on the air, the airline company reviews their ...

The Olympic Games are very popular today; thus, many countries do their best in order to get a chance to host it. There are both positive and negative impacts of the Olympics on the host country. In the following essay, I would like to discuss the statement that the Winter Olympic Games is a good investment for the hosting country. In my opinion, there are different factors that prove the benefits of hosting the Olympic Games, which are economic and cultural advantages. In fact, it was found that although countries should invest a lot of money into new buildings ...

Analysis of Samsung Corp.

Introduction Samsung Corporations operates as a multinational company operating in electronics industry with the headquarter in Suwon, South Korea. It is a blue chip company listed in Dow Jones. The company makes profits in terms of trillion with over 200 trillion of assets and 168.088 trillion of equity (Michell, 2010). As of 2015, the company had around 307,000 employees contributing to its operations. This makes the company a big corporation thereby forming a platform for practicing how to analyze businesses. The profitability of a Samsung’s operation is dependent on the efforts put by the management towards ensuring ...

The provision of quality healthcare whose value matches the health and safety needs of patients remains the biggest challenge for most health care organizations and centers. With dynamics in the healthcare sector and the introduction of healthcare legislation such as the Obama Care Act that emphasize on the provision of quality and equitable healthcare to consumers of healthcare services, most healthcare organizations have had to device strategies and come up with initiatives for ensuring quality in healthcare delivery to patients. Višnjić, Veličković and Jović (2012) define quality healthcare as one that meets and satisfies that health and ...

Introduction

Pressure ulcers (PU) are also known as decubitus ulcers occur due to the presence of pressure on a particular location of the body for an elongated period of time leading to scarring or other skin injuries. They have been one of the major concerns for several years for nursing professionals especially in the intensive care units because the physical consequences associated with it ranges from mild to severe tissue damage. The major risk factors of HAPUs are long term immobility, old age, sensory deficiency, abnormal circulation, inadequate nutrition, dehydration and other comorbidities . Internationally, PU is a patient safety issue ...

Genetically modified crops – GMOs have been controversial topic ever since its coming into the market. Companies like Monsanto and others are expressing concerns about exponential growing in population and their need to provide food with GMOs and on the other hand the farmers around the world, especially in the United States have raised concerns about patents over seeds and expenses they have because they need to buy the seeds every year. The concerns about the diversity of crops, negative effects on the environment and animals, health concerns and possible food insecurity are coming from different backgrounds. The paper will ...

Nurse Home Visiting Programs

Nurse home visiting programs are used by public health nurses who work with families in communities. The nurses make visits to assess the needs, health status, and the environments in which the families are living in order to make the appropriate interventions and provide the available resources (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson, 2015). The nurses assess the environmental status, such as paint conditions, aged houses, and dangerous equipment in playgrounds that pose safety hazards. The families benefit from the visits by getting recommendations such as the installation of fire extinguishers and smoke detectors in the houses. The nurses also ...

Sustainable management in the hospitality industry is not a new concept. In the past, the industry has been focusing on the importance of sustainability. This supports hotel development and its operations. Moreover, environmental, socio-economic, and cultural impacts of the industry have been emphasized. Sustainable development denotes concepts that currently spin around every industry globally. In the past, the hotel industry had a spectacular environmental impact especially through power and water usage, consumption of durable goods, waste generation-solid, as well as liquid wastes. Energy is consumed during HVAC operations, general lighting, fuel, or normal power requirements. Water is similarly utilized ...

Touted as solution to globally access patient safety, healthcare records and support and enhancement of quality measures for evidence based care provision, electronic medical record advent began with less reviews from all healthcare practitioners sectors. Nurses, who have been protecting their paper documents, have shown resistance to the change of abandoning papers for computers. We have many reasons for the difficulty of this transition, providing educators and administrators with both opportunities and challenges to expand comfort levels and knowledge base of nurses. Therefore, methods for enhancing computerization skills together with clinical software systems development and implementation involvement of staff ...

Abstract

PRN narcotics combined with massage therapy represent a typical clinical practice used to manage acute pain. Nonetheless, PRN narcotics have come under increasing scrutiny because of their association with safety and dependence problems. The present study presents a review of current literature on the use of massage as a pain management technique. Researchers have identified the effectiveness of foot massage, touch massage, vibration therapy combined with adjunctive massage, and rhythmical massage in the control of stress and postoperative pain. In a recent study, patients with back pain have reported experiencing chronic pain for about one to eight years following ...

1. Since it costs $65,000 per person in 1996 to join as participants, it is essential to be a wealthy man. In addition, other participants are the guides (sherpa), paying climbers, tour professionals, media, etc. 2. Ethically, participants are selected on the basis of their suitability and past experience. Especially, those who paid previously but could not reach the summit for health or weather conditions. 3. The basic costs of the climb would include setting camps and equipments on each level and a ground base for communication. In addition, costs will include the equipments such as ropes, oxygen, ...

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.d.), nutrition means consuming the products and foods that help you sustain your health and support your growth. The term can also refer to all the processes relating to food consumption by a living organism. In order to fight both hunger and obesity problems, nutrition and weight status programs were developed by Healthy People 2020 so as to promote a healthy diet and monitor body weight among Americans (“Nutrition and Weight Status”, n.d.). According to the same source, Americans keeping a healthy diet should eat nutritional products rich in vitamins and microelements covering all food ...

Crisis Communication

Background Target Corporation is the second largest discount retailer in the United States and opened its first store in 1962. The first store was located in Roseville, Minnesota and by 1972 there were 46 stores throughout the United States. In 1982 Target Corporation had acquired 33 FedMart stores in Arizona, California and Texas. The company now has 1800 stores across the United States and has extended its operations into Canada since 2013. There were 133 locations across Canada as of 2015 but the company has shut down operations there due to financial difficulties. Wesfarmers began operating an Australian version ...

Introduction

This is a proposal for a policy change with regards to distracted driving due to using cellphones. As a political advocate, one should be able to look into all the matters that affect the nation and one of the significant issues that can be observed in the statistics is cellphone use while driving. Driving while texting or calling a person has proven to be very dangerous and fatal. This is because there have been numerous reports of people who have been injured or killed due to distracted drivers using their phones while driving. The fact that many people have ...

Introduction

Professional ethics is an inseparable part of every profession. According to the definition, professional ethics encompass the personal, organizational and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. To clarify and assure ethic rules disciplinary codes exist for specific fields. These codes are required, because professionals often have to operate private data of their clients to apply their skills for making judgments and decisions unobtainable for the general public. One of the exemplary set of professional ethic rules is the Hippocratic Oath to which doctors have been adhered for about 23 centuries.

Professional aims, that engineers should do:

Firstly keep the safety, health and wealth of ...

Nurses play many roles in the delivery of patient care. One important nursing role is case management. However, consumers will not be able to optimize the health benefits of services from case managers if they do not understand this role and how to access related services. For this reason, access to information about case managers is paramount especially on the internet which has become a primary source of information for many consumers. However, it is important to appraise such information about case managers to determine the accuracy and ensure that patients have realistic expectations. The purpose of this paper ...

Following the occurrence of the deep water horizon disaster, this case study is to evaluate the possible factors that contributed to the disaster at Deep Water Horizon, Crisis communication. This would help in coming up with recommendations and crisis management of such cases.

Organizational factors The deep ocean water was preventable had there been existing practices and progressives guidelines to be followed. Those catastrophic failures was because of multiple violations of laws governing the public resource development and the proper regulatory oversight. Due to occurrence of this deep ocean water disaster, additional weaknesses in the barriers of the system ...

The healthcare system has been undergoing transformation for the past two decades across technological, infrastructural, service provision, quality, safety and costs and research-based care techniques among other visible and hidden aspects. These changes have gradually led to a system that more than anything assures patients, families and communities of recovery, restoration and a high quality of life as well as prolonged lives as evident in the increasing population of senior citizens (Henriksen et al., 2008). Today, the aspect of patient-centered care has taken shape of how healthcare services are disseminated to patient groups. Within this perspective, the provision of ...

Atherosclerosis among African American Teenagers

A summary Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is brought about by heart and blood vessels disorders (WHO, 2015). There are two underlying mechanisms through which CVDs occur. Fatty deposits (plaques or atheroma) can build up inside an artery causing it to narrow and harden (atherosclerosis) or a blood clot (thrombosis) can reduce blood flow to the heart, brain or body (NHS Choices, n.d.).Risk factors for CVDs include the harmful use of alcohol, an unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, genetics, and tobacco use. Cardiovascular diseases include raised blood pressure (hypertension), cerebrovascular disease (stroke), coronary heart disease (heart attacks), heart failure, peripheral artery ...

Executive Summary

Introduction Discussion and Analyses Market Analysis Financial Performance Product profiles Customer Profiles Communication Practices Conclusions Recommendations

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Chipotle Health Issues E. coli Outbreak Executive Summary The loss of organizational trust within the market can render a business volatile. A case involving food contamination in Chipotle Restaurants led to the infection of 55 people. The company loss its credibility to function properly and closed some of its branches after the loss of revenue and decreasing value of shares. This report has evaluated some of the issues that has affected the company in order to establish a reliable solution for future expansion ...

U.S has one of the largest and costliest health care system in the world. Healthcare is the second largest industry in the country. In spite of this achievement, the health status of the people in U.S, does not match the cost and infrastructure put into it (HealthCare.gov, 2016). Both communicable and non-communicable diseases still continue to harm a large sector of the population, when compared to other developed countries. Unlike other developed countries, people in U.S were expected to obtain individual health coverages and pay individually for health services. The right to health was not treated as a basic ...

Abstract

With the increased competition in the airline industry, especially in the low fare segment, Ryanair, the initiator if this segment in Europe, is faced with various pressures, coming from its competitors, external environment or industry trends. While the company has the resources to manage the challenges of the 21st century, which tops with the necessity to become a global brand, it also requires a sound strategy. This report starts with analysing the internal and external environment of Ryanair, in order to identify the strategic directions that it can pursue in its globalization approach and it further proposes a global ...

The past few decades has witnessed a rapid growth and expansion of technology like no other time before. These technological advances have completely transformed our way of life. A complex task that once took days to complete by hand can now be done in just a few minutes, or even a few seconds. While technology has unquestionably made our lives easier, the speed and efficiency has not come without its consequences. Humans have paid a price for the easy and efficiency of technology in that social interactions are much more impersonal and computers now control almost every facet of ...

Introduction

Patient safety is undoubtedly linked to health care quality; patient safety may even be considered as the cornerstone of health care quality. That statement alone, makes the ethical and legal concepts that are required of health care organizations in the delivery of high quality health care highly important when talking about patient safety. Quality health care is an umbrella term that encompasses many aspects. Moreover, many also consider patient safety as indistinguishable from quality health care. Nevertheless, a quality health care has indicators such as safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, time, efficiency and equity. The focus of this paper will ...

Criminal Law

Introduction The term community corrections refers to the supervision and management of offenders within a community settings. It serves a pivotal role in ascertaining the safety and peace and order in the community. The discussion highlights the manner in which the community addresses factors such as arraignment, parole and probation, community and drug courts, pretrial release, sentencing alternatives and treatment, and community service as a sentencing function. Furthermore, the City of Fayetteville in North Carolina was chosen as the subject of the discussion in which the aforementioned factors in community corrections was examined.

Community Overview

The City of Fayetteville is located ...

In this final paper, I would like to summarize all the previous information about handoff process. First of all, it is necessary to remind the definition of handoff. “Handoff - is the transfer of patient care from one health care provider to another or from one health care facility to another” (Medical dictionary, 2009). There are many kinds of patient handoffs, including: “ physicians transferring responsibility for a patient; physicians transferring on-call responsibility; nursing shift changes; temporary responsibility for staff leaving the unit for a short time; anesthesiologist report to recovery room nurse, nursing and physician handoff from the emergency ...

Interprofessional collaboration has been one of the growing trends within the health care sector lately. It involves interdependence of the different health care professionals such as nurses, physicians, laboratory staff, and even patients. The complexity of the patient-care concerns that need to be tackled by these professionals can be efficiently and effectively addressed through appropriate collaboration among the professionals. However, the various evidenced provided by different researches on the benefits of collaboration are yet to be seen and applied in the activities in health care institutions (Porter-O’Grady, 2011). As mentioned, nurses are one of the stakeholders who are ...

Overall score

After completing the game, I obtained and overall A grade for this case study.Decision This case presents a scenario of a unit that is faced with the dilemma of under staffed registered nurses. Even so, it would not be necessary to request and get approval from the CNO for one nurse to extend their working hours. Registered nurses are expected to have adequate time of rest; hence, making a nurse to work overtime would be subjecting them to the possibility of fatigues, which could hinder them in delivering their nursing care duties (Butts, & Rich, 2014). In this case, the ...

Introduction

Vaccines can be considered as wonders of medicine. This discovery has become successful throughout the years in fighting against certain diseases which potentially harm the future of the world, the children. As of now, scientists and doctors continue to create more and more vaccines to protect the health of the children as there are new strains of viruses and bacteria that are surfacing. As a response, it is a requirement that children should comply with taking the mandatory vaccines. Public health is a top priority of local governments in United States. To protect the health and safety of the ...

The most important item for purchase would be the In-car camera systems. Based on the recent reports of alleged racial profiling, excessive use of force by police and increased cases of violence against police, there is need for more openness in police operations to improve safety and restore public confidence in the police service. Even though there are a few cars already fitted with cameras, it would be greatly beneficial to have every police car fitted with cameras to realize all round coverage in every undertaking. In-car camera systems have been seen to be beneficial in ensuring safety of ...

When discussing the hypothetical situation of a Chinese telecommunications company seeking to acquire a US communications company with telecom wires throughout the US and significant information and access to resources important to national security, a number of factors need to be considered. In order to allow the acquisition to take place, the Department of Homeland Security would need to take on a number of tasks, including securing any classified or sensitive information and preventing the Chinese government from being able to access it. As a nonstate actor, it is difficult to regulate the behavior and access of a US ...

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Hospital-acquired infections, also known as nosocomial infections, hospital-onset infections, or healthcare-associated infections are those infections that are usually not present in a patient before admission to a hospital. In hospital-acquired infections, microbial flora of a patient starts acquiring characteristics of the bacterial pool in the surrounding. Most of the infections appear within 48 hours of admission to hospital. However, infections may also appear after the discharge of patient though the organisms that were acquired during the stay of a patient in hospital (Magill et al., 2014). According to estimations of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( ...

Health Assessment Assignment l: Paint a Picture of Your Target Population & Community Assignment #1

Community A health assessment is a care plan that is used for the identification of specific health care needs of an individual and how addressing of those needs will be carried out through health care system or nursing facility. For the purpose of this health assessment assignment, the selected place is the Altamonte Spring-Dade County, which is in the southeastern region of the Florida state (Miami Beach, 2015). The selected region is heavily urbanized due to the excessive development carried out within the last few decades. According to the US Census Bureau (2015), the population of the county is ...

Ratios are important in the health organization in that they show the efficiency and utilization of the assets used in the organization (National Nurses United). In addition, ratios are used to point out the relationship between some variables which in are used to evaluate health organization effectiveness and performance regarding patient’s outcome, asset utilization and public evaluation (National Nurses United). For instance, proper staff ratio in health organizations regarding nurses available and the patients to be attended to by caregivers is one such area where ratios can be used. Maintaining adequate staffs in health organization will determine the ...

Technical communication in workers’ health and safety training

Introduction Technical communications encompasses an array of means used to convey scientific or technical information, that is, the information that has both the qualitative and quantitative aspects as shown by Mehler, Romary and Gibbon, D. (2012). As such, the mobile team division involved in this type of communication is quite diverse with such variations as age, profession, education level, gender as well as experience among other diversities. For instance, the mobile division team will include labor union officers, nurses, safety specialists, health officers and communication and information technology technicians. Therefore, the pre training will have to address the diversity ...

FIRST COMPANY

What Company Did You Choose? In What Industry Do They Operate Company: Starbucks, which operates in the Foods and Beverages Industry. What are This Company’s CSR Practices? Starbucks CSR practices focus on environmental sustainability as well as giving back to communities. On a daily basis, the company demonstrates its belief in doing business sustainably and in a manner that is socially responsible. The company promotes environmental conservation in coffee growing countries. It has well-established recycling programs and in-store “Green Teams” that champion its environmental sustainability agenda. Starbucks’ high environmental responsibility standards are widely motivated by its commitment to ...

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Last year we did grate and crossed vehicle sales level of 200,000 and Audi brand is as powerful as ever. However, the Audi A5 model line is among the outsiders, its YTD lost reached 22%. Still we should not give up, it has hidden potential. Thus, it is time to broad our horizons and to start a new era for Audi A5 I am sure that you know about the recent success of Volvo S60. Their concept was somehow revolutionary as this model was turned from the “old-fashioned slob” into lifestyle vehicle, which suits both young active and ...

In a Clinical Substance Abuse Setting

In a Clinical Substance Abuse Setting Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development sought to explain the way personality develops. Like Freud, Erikson was certain childhood events shape adult personality. Unlike Freud, however, Erikson argued that development continues throughout the lifespan (Miller, 1983). Working on the foundation laid by Freud, Erikson developed the stage theory wherein the lifespan was divided into eight stages beginning at birth and continuing through late adulthood. Erikson theorized that each stage was defined by a “psychosocial crisis” (Weiten, 2005, p. 302). The first five stages occur through the lifespan through puberty. Each stage must ...

The Airline Deregulation Act is a United States federal law which was enacted in 1978 to remove the control the government had over fare, the routes and entry of new airlines. This left the passenger airlines exposed to the forces of the market in the airline industry. The Civil Aeronautics Board which was responsible for controlling entry, exit, the pricing of the airline services and addressing the consumer issues was phased out. This meant that the passenger airlines were only limited to competing only for food, the quality of the cabin crew and the frequency available. This caused a ...

“Food Security of Tomorrow” One of the main problems today is hunger. Due to the high rate of human development in all spheres of its activity the world's population increase comes up. Besides the hunger lies another serious problem - food insecurity. Our agency “Food Security of Tomorrow” is struggling against these two threats to humanity. What are the consequences of food insecurity? Rational food is a guarantee of the health. Chronic lack of proper nutrition leads to physical, social and psychological problems for both children and adults. Moreover, a major problem is the low quality and low-price food, ...

In the recent past, ethics in the context of employment has been considered as universal among employees in both private and public sectors. While courts have solved numerous cases related to the working environment, most ethical issues have remained unresolved. The law stipulates the guidance for making informed decisions concerning ethical issues in working environment, but such issues should also be understood beyond permissible considerations. Therefore, Employment-At-Will Doctrine maintains that in the absence of specific contractual, as well as other legal obligations that stipulate the duration of employment contract; all employees are engaged “at will.” Hence, the statement implies ...

Ethical Dilemma Paper

Introduction In these two preliminary pages, I will describe my personal experience that is related in the workplace. I have experienced and witnessed indirectly decisions and actions that were taken by various stakeholders. I will not divulge the identity of the individuals and company given the confidentiality of the information. Although there could be hints as to the nature of the problem because of the omnipresence of information in the World Wide Web, I would still leave to my readers to find out for themselves who these stakeholders were. Hence, in case some of the personalities were similar to ...

The major health and safety concern facing Riordan Manufacturing is the manner in which the company is protecting its employees, as well as the environment from the hazardous chemicals that are utilized in the making plastics. As a company that is dedicated to success, it is important to ensure that employees are not exposed to the devastating effects of the chemicals of production. Rather than focusing on profits only, the company needs to furnish employees with a safe and healthy working environment. Moreover, the employees of Riordan are vulnerable to accidents owing to the lack of conversancy in operating ...

Chapter II - Literature Review

Section I – Literature Search In this paper, the author hypothesized that one of the major causes of Ford Motors’ demise, in terms of organizational performance, is its inability to address the causes of its product recalls, which consequently led to significant financial setbacks and brand and image deterioration. The recalls of Ford previous products affected its short – term performances and damaged its image, determining prospect customers to shift their focus from Ford to other automobile brands. Nevertheless, the company continuously strives to improve its image, enhance its effectiveness and satisfy customers, through its strategic growth plan (Fleming, 2010). Committed ...

A nurse in a nursing home care facility observed that there is an increasing incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) among its elderly residents. Most of those who got infected happened to be using catheters. Thinking that the UTI may be caused by catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), the nurse looked up the Internet to see if there are ways to minimize the incidence of CAUTI among the residents. The nurse discovered that CAUTI is one of the types of infections in long-term health care facilities that are most common (Nicolle, 2014; Matthews & Lancaster, 2011). Fortunately, the nurse saw ...

Introduction

This paper aims to review a journal article entitled “Data Mining with Big Data” by Xindong Wu, Fellow, IEEE, Xingquan Zhu, Senior Member, IEEE, Gong-Qing Wu, and Wei Ding, Senior Member, IEEE, which was published on January 2014. Furthermore, the paper will be divided into various subsections to provide an organization of the points being reviewed.

Objectives and Domain

The objective of the article was to discuss the limitations of using the HACE theorem as a tool to model Big Data or large data sets. The importance of the proper use of Big Data through careful analysis in many fields including the ...

Healthcare professionals are responsible for not only facilitating recovery of a patient from health issues, but also preventing injuries to the patient during and after care. Despite the immense efforts by stakeholders in health to ensure safety of the patients under care, zero cases have not yet been achieved, as sentinel events are still a major challenge to patients and the healthcare industry. Park-Lee and Caffrey (2009) estimates that 9.2% of all people admitted in hospital acquire one or more nosocomial infections. The Joint Commission (2015) defines a sentinel event as an unexpected situation that leads to the physical ...

Business Torts & Ethics

Standing alone, the intruder is liable for his or her actions. The intruder is liable for a number of crimes independent of the landowner’s liability. While the landowner may be held liable as well, the intruder is most definitely liable for his intentional torts committed against Darryl and Sharon. Simply because the intruder committed the torts on the landowner’s property does not excuse the intruder from personal liability. The intruder is potentially liable for a number of different torts. The intruder can be charged with burglary. While burglary is a tort, not a crime, the intruder has ...

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Introduction:

GPUs that stand for Graphics Processing Units (also called visual processing unit) are used for high-speed image creation in applications that require images or videos to be shown on screen. This is done by manipulating and altering of memory. A frame buffer that is intended for output to a display is used for the purpose of image creation. The most common devices that use Graphics Processing Units include cell phones; both smartphones and some common mobile phones, personal computers and laptops, workstations and game consoles. The newer versions of Graphics Processing Units are very effective, and they ...

Impact of Contraband, Bootlegging and Peddling on Inner City Small Business Success: A Millennial’s Perspective

Abstract Inner cities were the business hub for a long period of time. However, in the last 30 years, many large and small businesses have closed down their shops and moved out of inner cities to more affluent city suburbs. Especially noteworthy is the fact that small essential businesses such as grocery stores and drugstores are closing down their stores in inner cities despite a huge demand prevailing there. There are many reasons attributing to the problem. Contraband, bootlegging and peddling definitely have forced some of the small business owners to shut down their business. They are unable to ...

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND HEALTH EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Abstract This paper analyzes the environmental context of health. It discusses the contribution of environmental factors to the etiology of major diseases. The environment, as defined by the World Health Organization, focuses on the external forces that can be modified (WHO, 2006). It excludes lifestyles and behaviors, but recognizes how these external forces shape lifestyles and behaviors through access to these external forces. Environmental factors can be very significant in health. Access to clean and safe water, safe home and working environment, toxics, air pollution, and climate change are among the factors detrimental to health. In line with this, ...

Affirmative Action Perpetuates Racism.

Affirmative action perpetuates racism. In "Was I Entitled Or Should I Apologize? Affirmative Action Going Forward,” Anita Allen states that affirmative action proves to be socially and politically divisive hence it is morally wrong (255). The ultimate objective of affirmative action is to enhance diversity and racial understanding worldwide, to give minorities a chance to fight in a competitive society. Affirmative action involves distributing opportunities to the disadvantaged communities. Affirmative action especially in colleges divides the nation and segregates racial groups regarding abilities and opportunities. Allen argues that to act as compensation for past discrimination and to improve social ...