Essays on Transforming

Introduction

Social advances at great lengths are the predecessor of technological advancement. Although technological advance is available globally, improved living standard of the people greatly depends on the social achievement, which is a precursor to technological transformation. In the article, The Ménagier's Wife: A Paris Housewife in the Fourteenth Century written between 1892 and 1394 by a Ménagier to her youthful wife to inform her of the moral conduct of a good wife, he clearly depicts technological transformation through the specs of social achievement in the society now and then3. Therefore, the paper will examine various social achievements ...

Lewin came up with a three-stage model that is quite essential in the nursing practice. The model involves three stages: unfreezing, changing and refreezing. The main goal of the unfreezing stage is to create awareness on how the prevailing level of acceptability is impeding the effectiveness of service delivery in the organization. Examination of the previous processes, behaviors, organizational structures, and ways of thinking is significant in showing everyone how necessary change is. Lewin states that after people have been enlightened on the need for change, then the organization can transition into the new state of being. This is ...

Breaking Barriers: Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care

Breaking Barriers Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care With more than 3 million in numbers, nurses comprise the largest section of health care professionals in the US. They spend a huge portion of their time to deliver healthcare services which makes them a viable force in ensuring and safety of care. A careful examination of the nurses’ capacity to support the health reform is essential, especially with the passage of laws such as the Affordable Care Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, among others, which aim to improve the design, financing, and delivery of health services (Sochalski ...

Chapter one of the book “Human-Built world: How to think about technology and culture “discusses the complexity of technology and its effect on the modern society. The chapter one elaborates how technology is confusing and complicated to define and comprehend. Furthermore, it demonstrates how technology is filled with ambiguities, burdened with human craziness and full of unintentional consequences (Hughes 1). The chapter gives the definition of technology from the author’s perspective and discusses how one may define it, its origins and how it is used today. The author praises the ideas of various intellectuals and their thoughts about ...

Recent changes to the healthcare system have called for a variety of transformations, spanning across the different aspects of health care practice. In the recent past, the nursing profession has been sidelined from major decisions regarding health care, leading to a limitation to the extent to which nurses can stimulate changes in healthcare. The Affordable Care Act is the second largest overhaul of the healthcare system in the United States since Medicare and Medicaid. The increasing need to align health needs of the American citizens with the transformations brought about by the implementation of the Act has led to ...

Markers and standards of a high quality early childhood classroom

High-quality programs are defined by a sense of purpose, which means that high-quality childhood institutions know exactly the required standards for their institutions. High-quality early childhood classrooms are marked by various elements which enable them to stand above others. They have well-trained teachers who have received special training to provide professional childhood development and education that reflect quality to the children. Preschool children require a supportive environment for effective learning. Thus, a supportive learning environment is another marker of high-quality childhood classrooms. Additionally, a high-quality classroom should have relevant instructional materials and there should be collaborations between families and ...

Critical Analysis for Management

Introduction Organizations are entities that comprise of people and/or systems. Organizations are neither a completely harmonious setting nor or they battlefields where conflicts define their structure. Instead, organizations can be stated as something which political negotiations define. Essentially, the very survival within an organization is an act that is heavily influenced by politics. Human and material resources together form an organization. Out of these two most important resources, it is the human resources of the organization who work in transforming the material resources into an end- product or service. For transforming the material resources into finished goods or services, ...

Section I: The current impact on nursing practice

The current U.S. health care system has substantial barriers to providing quality and accessible care at a very affordable price to many communities. It is characterized by a high degree of fragmentation across different sectors and this disconnects public and private services. This makes communications between health care providers difficult and this result to providing lesser quality of service to the people. The 2010 IOM report explored how the nursing profession can be changed to help transform the current health care system, so that it can meet the demand for safe, accessible, affordable quality patient-centered care. It focuses on ...

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Introduction Consultation and collaboration are indirect services provided by school counselors which can foster the stakeholders in the educational system to render improved services for children. Multilayered school counseling approach developed for the school counselors today involves the provision of direct and indirect assistance in order to enhance the academic productivity of students. Modern school counseling framework includes multiple components, such as support of educators, guidance curriculum, and direct assistance for students and families. This strategy focuses on various services invented to support teachers, students, and parents. Consultation is considered to be a responsive service, which school counselors implement ...

The telehealth platform is already expanding across the world and has begun to influence the traditional in-person care available in multispecialty hospitals. In light of having various state-of-the-art facilities, our organization has got huge potential for launching telehealth services in the immediate future. Based on my research and discussion with a senior clinician in our hospital about the opportunities in store for our organization in the field of telehealth, I foresee a lot of benefits. Some of the salient advantages are listed below: Telehealth services allow rural patients populated in remote clusters to avail health services from consultants without ...

Foundation Course – Name

Abstract Information technologies are the core components of any organizational studies. Since this phenomenon was introduced into organizational processes, it brought numerous advantages. Incorporation of information technologies into existing business environment has become an indispensable necessity of modern reality due to an ability of informational systems to grant a broad spectrum of opportunities and benefits. Maximization of efficiency, improved services, enhanced manufacturing capacities and supply chain lead to the industry’s growth and economic prosperity. This could hardly be possible without the new information and technological determinants, implemented to control and speed up the everyday business routines. Eventually, information ...

Introduction

Rapid revolution in information and technology is believed to be one of the significant changes that are taking place in the modern society. The emerging technologies have fundamentally redefined the way we live and work, the values we place on social institutions like health and education and even the family. Currently, there are some emerging technologies in the health sector, which are being used to manage healthcare information. It is also widely believed that the technologies have the potential of enhancing health care quality, improve the safety of patients and physicians, and reduce the healthcare cost. However, there are ...

Introduction and Background

The demand for creativity and innovation at the workplace is common for managers and business executives. Innovation and creativity are common tenets of the business strategies adopted by many corporations. Organizations also used innovation and creativity as the element through which they acquire a competitive advantage. Scholars such as Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) find that the concepts of innovation and creativity have gained enjoyed a lot of interest in the recent past. The interest in the concepts has resulted from a shift in how they are perceived. Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) report that the concept of creativity ...

The actionable intelligence research (AIR) process involves the transformation of data into action-driven information in the business environment. In healthcare, the process enables administrators to compile data from different sources for efficient report generation and presentation. As a process, AIR involves six major steps available for data transformation as follows. First, data managers collect as well as organize reinforcement data for ease of management. Next, they convert the data into information using available reporting tools. Third, it would be essential to analyze the information for knowledge extraction. Fourth, the organization them uses the knowledge for prediction purposes. Furthermore, given ...

Mao ruled China for the period from 1949 to 1976. During his leadership, Mao oversaw several initiatives that aimed to put across the progress of the country. Several of these revolutionary changes captured the attention of the media and received intensive debate from professionals and members of the Republic. Among the initiatives that received media attention is the five-year plan that was published in the first week of August 1955. The information in the extracts of the China Mainland Press indicated that the plan was drafted to happen between the years 1953 to 1957 (Pong, 2009). The five-year plan ...

The pros of this acquisition include that it would help ING expand its scale of operations and so compete effectively with other larger banks. Moreover, Oyakank had made significant steps regarding risk management and retail banking hence ING would gain from the former’s expertise in the area. The rate of non-performing loans at Oyakank was very low at 1.5 % compared to the average high rate of 3.5 % set by industry regulators. Additionally, Oyakank had extremely low-risk profile hence the implication that ING would benefit greatly from the techniques used by the former to reduce losses from non-performing loans. ...

The crisis that is being realized all over the world is not just a financial or economic crisis, but one that emanates from the social system. The perceived injustices, war, crime, poverty, diseases, and environmental degradation can all be attributed to the collapse of the social systems. Countries and individuals have all been caught in the circle of injustices. The growing master-slave relationship with countries doing things as per the wishes of the colonial masters has led to conflicting interests on the part of the parties involved. The conflicting issues have led to the increasing injustices, with human rising ...

Discussion

The technological terminologies selected include clinical decision support, EHRs, nursing informatics, software, and Telehealth. As stated, clinical decision support systems (CDSs) are information system-based platforms that offer healthcare workers with patient-specific information to enhance service delivery. The best example of such a CDS would be the Zynx Health system. This CDS acts as a clinical reminder support system used by health practitioners in the consultation room to provide information on care plans given patient conditions (Campbell, 2016). Second, EHRs are digital representations of a patient’s information maintained by providers for ease of access in clinical practice. In the ...

Introduction

Professional nurses play essential roles in providing quality health care to the people. Different nurse organizations are developing strategies as to how nursing profession can significantly contribute to the success of every campaign towards a better future of nurses as professionals. The purpose of this study is to discuss the goals of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in relation to the future of nursing, which influenced the creation of Institute of medicine (IOM) report about the nursing’s future. Such report is important in relation to nursing practice, education, and even on the workforce development. The study will also discuss ...

Technological Change and the Naval Culture in the Era of the Battleship

Revolution took place in the 19th century as the land welfare was changed by the utilization of new weapons. Steam powered ships, however, became sophisticated that paved the way to the revolution of naval battles comprised of board vessel, ram opposing ship, overtaking crew via traditional combat, whereas new methods comprises of disabling or sinking ship via use of the cannon fire. Additionally, ship can be used for transporting weapons for profit motives. However, the mechanization of the ships of navy ineradicably modified the culture of navy. Navy, however, had tradition, which was reduced to automatic procedures with the ...

Implications of Change in Healthcare Delivery System on nurse leadership

Technology drives most of the healthcare delivery system and the changing technology has resulted in the transforming face of modern healthcare system. The practice of nursing becomes quite dynamic when seen in purview of the technological advancements and their implications (Melnyk et al., 2012). For example, genetics and genomic field has encountered a substantial change as large number of diseases, risk factors, therapies and treatments have genomic elements which are influenced by lifestyle and environmental factors, thus having a greater impact on nursing practice. This compels the nurse leaders know more about genomic and genetics to effectually teach and ...

Introduction

Mattel, Inc. is a United States-based international toy manufacturer. By the amount of products sold and revenue accrued, the company remains the largest global toy producer. Starting from the late 1980th, the company has been regularly ranked in the Fortune 500 list, receiving multiple global accolades for operational, strategic and human resources excellence. The brand portfolio of the company includes such internationally recognized products as the Barbie, Fisher-Price, Monster High, Winx Club and many others (Mattel, 2015). Having operational presence in forty countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia and selling its products to almost 150 countries, one of ...

[Author Name(s),First M. Last, Omit Titles, and Degrees] Economic development changes society in a manner that it becomes more and more difficult for the country to remain in the hands of a single man or a group of powerful elite. The change results to transforming the social and economic framework and then moving towards a changed attitude of the population in general. The primary concern of the countrymen is to achieve a commercial greater status and increase their wealth holdings. This changing scenario leads to people taking to skilled professions; they learn the importance of collective effort ...

Homework 5

When submitting this file, be sure the Be sure you have reviewed this module/week’s lesson and presentations along with the practice data analysis before proceeding to the homework exercises. Complete all analyses in SPSS, then copy and paste your output and graphs into your homework document file. Answer any written questions (such as the text-based questions or the APA Participants section) in the appropriate place within the same file. The data in the columns to the left represent IQ scores of a sample of 30 high school students. In the general population, IQ scores have a mean of ...

Transformational leadership is an approach in which leaders and their followers are mutually helpful towards moving to a higher level of motivation and excellence in the workplace (Burns, 1978). The approach of transforming brings about significant changes in the life of both individuals and the organization they work for. The leader being a role model to the followers in transforming both the employees and the organization, Burns’ theory has its own strengths and weaknesses as discussed below. The prime strength of Burns’ transformation leadership theory is that it positively ensures a wide range of performance based outcomes both at ...

Communication in Social Networks

Abstract Everything in world undergoes its continuous changes. Though unknown is always frightening, it also affirms the beginning of something new and thrilling. The same can be said about the invention of social networking. In the midst of social media revolution such social networks as Facebook, Twitter and Skype have opened before their users an amazing world of opportunities and unlimited online communication. Knowledge and information could now be shared among various groups of people and even between different nationalities. People got the possibility to connect with the whole world and highly improve their communication skills. Although social networks ...

Question 1. What is the World System theory and how does it explain the structure of the international system and actions of states? World-systems theory is a macrohistorical paradigm of research of international relations that examines the social evolution of the economies, historical systems and civilizations as a structural relationship within the broad historical and geographic community, the so-called "world-system". World-systems analysis is considered as an alternative to traditional interdisciplinary social sciences, since it criticizes stadial concepts of history, is focused on supranational perspective and rejects the dichotomous opposition between East and West (Halsall, 1997). The key concept of ...

Business and Industry Certification

Business and Industry Certification Education is a cornerstone of the intense and successful development of the world economy. In fact, almost two-thirds of all occupations available on the market require postsecondary education or training. The college graduates’ average earnings are about twice as high as that of the employees with only high school diplomas, what makes postsecondary education and training the fastest pathways into the future prosperity and successfully-built career. Thus, the postsecondary education and training should be more accessible for young people and adults in order to earn a business or industry certification and postsecondary certificate or degree ( ...

Abstract

Multiculturalism refers to the integration of different cultures to confide to a single national culture or social viewpoint. Thus, multiculturalism is an accommodative social perspective that entails integrating divergent social and cultural practices to a unified accord. With regards to the Australian multiculturalism programs, it would be imperative to conclude that it has had a share of challenges in implementing this policy, but at the same time reaped a lot from this policy. Thus, amidst challenges that come with settling people with diverse interests, Australia has had some gains out of its efforts to integrate people of different social ...

IM/IT Analysis

Question one

Patient Care Applications Features The introduction of information technology led to improvements in patient-centered care applications. Patient Care Applications are IT tools used by healthcare organizations that enhance and supplement communication between patients and healthcare providers. The main features include patient information recording (admission/discharge/transfer), report generation, and communication equipment, patient care plans, scheduling, and nurse staffing processes. Patient care applications have many capabilities in a healthcare setting.

Capabilities

The main capability of patient care application includes the support of the delivery of quality care to patients by making available their medical records to healthcare providers in an effective ...

Reflections on How I Became an Entrepreneur

Introduction We live in societies of high unemployment and low real wages and therefore it is inevitable for the economies to increase the demand for labor and create a set of new sources of income. This can be so by encouraging the creation of new firms, thereby generating not only profits for the owners but also new jobs (Bridges, O’Neill, & Cromie, 2013). This is a context that encourages the economy to benefit from the individuals with entrepreneurial abilities to practice such traits and become entrepreneurs. A critical aspect of this process is that the policy option of encouraging ...

Leadership Styles at Blue Sky

The new CEO has proved his willingness to adopt a visionary, collaborative and transformational approach in his efforts to restore the competitiveness of Blue Sky. Unlike in the era of Max Blue when all decisions were made by him since he believed that as the owner, he had the final say on the actions to be taken, Willis has his focus on the need to involve everyone in decision making including the regional directors who were previously denied the opportunity to take part in the executive meetings. Hubres seems to be a visionary leader too considering the fact that ...

The responsibility of fighting against same-sex marriage rests with all and sundry. Gay marriages not only have lasting consequences to the parties advocating for it but also to their communities, nations of their residence and the entire world. For instance, gay men are at a high risk of contracting sexually transmitted ailments since they have a firm belief that such diseases are no longer life-threatening. Additionally, homosexuality can lead to a decrease in the birth rates in a given society while any typical country requires a stable human population base to function properly. In other words, by legalizing same-sex ...

Bullying, while physical in nature, can have lasting social and psychological consequences that can profoundly effect the emotional and cognitive development of young people. Aggressive behaviors, both in traditional settings and in the virtual realm, have been shown to have deep and lasting challenges to their capacity for personal relationships, emotional stability, and overall success. This is true for both the victims of bullying and the bullies themselves. In assessing the research that has been done in the field of bullying it will be possible to establish a general criteria to determine the overall consensus in regards to the ...

Transgender in youth is used to identify a person’s gender either female or male depending on their behavioral character. Gender- nonconforming individuals were those given gender names opposite from their sex assigned to them at childbirth. For example transgender girls being given sex gender as male at the time of birth but later identify themselves as female. Transgender boys are people who on the date of birthgender was female but then transformed to a male. All these changes are usually doneat public or private health hospitals that are licensed and operating under the government legalized rules (Lambda Legal ...

Abstract

Transformation remains, and hugely significant tool in extending the borders of life sciences and medicine. It can be referred as fixing intracellular DNA into a bacteria or organism through the vector, thus transforming it. This paper uses plasmid pUC18, self-reproducing circular/spherical strands of genes that may be modified. After the bacteria absorb the vector, some proteins not usually synthesized will occur. In this study, a system has been developed to monitor the transmittance of different DNA (genes) from a genetically transformed strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to E. coli. This mechanism is centered on yeast strains that contain several integrated ...

TRANSFORMATIONAL V. TRANSACTIONAL:

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS COM221-18 Technical Report Writing Abstract

Abstract 2

List of Figures and Tables 4 Introduction 5 Methodology 7 Results of the Study 9 I. Charisma and the Transformational Leader 9 II. Transactional Management-By-Exception 10 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits: Emotion v. Non-Emotion 11 IV. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation 12 V. Poor Attitude at Work 13

Discussion of Results 15

I. Significance of the Charismatic Personality Trait 15 II. Management-by-Exception Unsuccessful with Employee Motivation 15 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits 16 IV. Significance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Identification 16 V. Poor Attitude at Work 17 Concluding Remarks and Final Recommendation 18

Appendix A 20

Appendix B 22 Glossary 23 ...

The renowned Protestant spiritual resurgence movement known as the Second Great Awakening affected the American culture tremendously. However, this resurgence that spanned about five decades from 1790s to the 1840s is most notable for transforming the very character of the religious culture in the country (Appleby, Cheng, & Goodwin, 2002). Congregationalists, Anglicans, and Quakers were the major denominations at the Revolution’s beginning. However, the world witnessed the Baptists and Evangelists as the most dominant religious groups by the 1800 (Ruben & Casper, 2013). The Second Great Awakening was undoubtedly a triumphant movement that introduced novel organizational methods by evangelical churches. ...

In an article about hip hop music and its intersection with jazz, Jared Pauley writes that both genres have often flirted with each other. Over the years, hip hop artists have utilized the flavor of jazz music through sampling. In the 1980s to the mid-1990s, hip hop acts "took jazz samples to the top of the charts while others worked directly with respected jazz musicians. With the new millennium, this trend continued" (1). One artist that has continued the trend is Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar is an emcee that has been on the scene for a number of years, ...

Rubbish in Design

INTRODUCTION The question of rubbish in design has assumed increasing significance in recent years. The late modernity in artistic expression, particularly in design, has made a strong case of incorporating everyday elements into different artistic expressions including, most notably, painting, sculpture, photography and installations. In so doing, artistic expression has metamorphosed from a rather distanced engagement in "mundane" (made into loftier expressions by professional artistic design) into an actual immersion into day-to-day actualities in order to render "real" objects in different kaleidoscopic representations, particularly in still and video installations. The emergence of rubbish (assuming "rubbish" is disposable objects ridded ...

The History of Banking System in India.

The banking system in India has taken tremendous revolutions in the past years. Trade and commerce have been part of the Indian social organization since the times of civilization. The trading organizations were initially organized into social systems that mostly based their relationships on the exchange of goods and services. Banking is important for the economy of a country to grow at the global pace. The changes that these institutions have made for the Indian commerce are quite significant. Trading activities were formerly held by various social groups and run by the wealthy merchants of the time. Trade and ...

Transforming Taiwanese Economic structure in the 20th Century

Taiwan is the 17th largest global economy, 14th largest exporter and 16th largest importer, and also the third largest economy to be holding foreign exchange reserves, that are more than 180 billion US dollars. In the second half of the 20th century, Taiwan witnessed increased agrarian output because of the land reforms that were initiated, under the Chiang Kai shek’ rule. The 1960s saw a creation of export processing zones with attractive incentives for foreign investors. There was a gradual shift in emphasis from agriculture to technology because of several advantages that Taiwan presented in the international markets, and ...

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Background

Despite the concerns about China’s decelerating economy, the country has remarkable ratings in the online retailing industry. According to McHugh (2015), a recent report released by Forrester Research established that online sales in China amounted to about $307 billion in 2013. In 2014, the Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group, generated approximately $25 billion dollars in the largest initial public offer (IPO) in the world’s history (McHugh, 2015). According to Fung Business Intelligence Centre (2013), online retailing is rapidly transforming China’s commercial landscape. Fung Business Intelligence Centre (2013) further notes that consumers ...

Final Assignment

Final Assignment

Question 1: 10 Tips for Changing Health Behavior in Older Adults (Haber, 2013)

One of the challenges regarding this tip is the lack of motivation by the older adult to adopt the new behavior. Overcoming this challenge will require enhanced understanding of the positive implications or outputs of the new behavior, thus, motivation to adopt the new behavior by the target audience. For example, in case of weight loss behavior, I would consider highlighting diseases, which associate with obesity to motivate the older adults on the need to overcome or prevent such diseases.

Modest

One of the challenges regarding this tip is overstating ambitious goals, which might be beyond capabilities of ...

Leadership is one of the aspects that have been viewed in different angles and different people have had their own explanation of what leadership is. In my opinion, the definition that may be said to be right of what leadership is; is the one that points out all the aspects of a leader. Leaders are said to be rulers, inspiring individuals as a motivator as well as facilitating and guiding them as a mentor or coach. This is the definition of leaders in terms of what they do. Leadership is therefore the view of the future, aligning individuals with ...

Tourism's market shares have massively grown in the last few years. People are more into to the world exploration and leisure traveling. The new trends and patterns in tourism are mainly in entertainment and shopping. Tourism became the most profitable market trend after oil industry. The growth of tourism in the last century can arguably be viewed as one of the most groundbreaking economic and social phenomena, increasing the number of tourists from 25 million to 808 million in the last 50 years (Dixit, Belwal & Singh, n.d.). Consequently, the tourism sector has become one of the largest industries in ...