d. Elements of Negligence The four elements of negligence must be present in order for a plaintiff to recover damages cause by negligence. These are duty to care‚ breach of duty‚ injury‚ and causation. In duty of care‚ there must be an obligation to conform to recognized standard. In breach of duty‚ there must be a deviation from the recognized standard of care and there must be a failure to adhere to an obligation. In injury‚ there must be actual damages. And lastly‚ in causation‚ the departure
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The Four Ways IT Is Revolutionizing Innovation Please note that gray areas reflect artwork that has been intentionally removed. The substantive content of the article appears as originally published. REPRINT NUMBER 51330 I T - D R I V E N I N N O VAT I O N The FourWays IT Is Revolutionizing Innovation MIT Sloan School of Management economist and digital business expert Erik Brynjolfsson tells how the rising data flood and the emerging tools for analyzing it are changing the ways innovation
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Patterns of Knowing and Knowledge Mary J. Slatten University Of Mary TMCCA Patterns of Knowing and Knowledge It is suggested that there are five patterns of knowing and knowledge in nursing. A nurse must develop and balance all of these patterns of knowledge in order to be effective. As in all of nursing‚ nurses refine these patterns with experience and reflection throughout his or her career. This knowledge is interrelated‚ interdependent and overlapping. Nurse‚ as any other profession
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There are four main ways of knowing – reason‚ perception‚ language and emotion. However each one of them have their own strengths and weaknesses and only by knowing them will we be able to better use these ways of knowing to gain knowledge. This essay will seek to examine the strengths and weaknesses of reason as a way of knowing. Reason is often seen as one of the most powerful ways of knowing – for it ‘seems to give us certainty’ (Lagemaat‚ 112). Reason uses logic to form arguments and conclusions
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Great Britain 00X-7489/97 %17.00+0.00 The evaluation of nursing theory: a method for our madness Sharon L. Dudley-Brown Assistant Professor‚ University of Maryland School of Nursing‚ Department of Material and Clinical Health‚ Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ U.S.A. (Received 20 March 1995;revised 13 January 1996;accepted 11 March 1996) Abstract The profession of nursing has‚ in recent years‚ been trying to further develop‚ test and use proposed nursing theory. To utilize theory appropriately‚ in all domains
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‘There can be no knowledge without emotion…’ (Arnold Bennett). Discuss the relationship between knowledge and emotion. Compare emotion with one other way of knowing. However‚ emotion can be an obstancle as a way of knowing. If a person only relies on emotion as a way of knowing‚ the knowledge he/she gains will be very limited as his/her feelings are different every moment. It is because when that person is in a good mood i.e. happy‚ he/she will be more mentally conscious and willing to gain knowledge
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information that you learned about the topic as a result of attending this event. (Be specific. Don’t just say everything was new to you.): I learned that all nursing schools programs in California State Universities are impacted majors and acceptance into the nursing programs are extremely competitive. But I did learn that the admissions into the nursing programs at University of Maine at Fort Kent is not impacted and that I would most likely be acceptance if I applied. 3.) Identify information that
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WEAKNESSES OF REASON AS A WAY OF KNOWING | Word Count: 1‚584 | | Reason is a priori. All humans are born with it. It is a way of knowing as it is used in every area of knowledge and in collaboration with the other ways of knowing. Unlike the implication of the prescribed essay topic‚ reason is not a distinctive way of knowing. To say that is an oversimplification of the complexity of knowing. Knowledge can only be obtained through the inextricably linked ways of knowing. Reason comes to us naturally
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Discipline: Relationship to the Ways of Knowing and Doing Writing in the discipline is founded on a relationship between knowing‚ doing‚ and writing. It is important that we understand the two categories creating disciplines: domains of knowledge and the ways of knowing. The domains of knowledge suggest declarative or conceptual knowledge and the knowing infers procedural or process knowledge. Michael Carter addresses this relationship in his article Ways of Doing‚ Knowing‚ and Writing in the Disciplines
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Explore the strengths and weaknesses of two Ways of Knowing. Introduction- There are many different types of ways of knowing such as language‚ sense perception‚ memory‚ imagination‚ emotion‚ faith‚ reason and intuition. The two different ways of knowing that I will be comparing in this essay are Intuition and Reason. The definition for intuition “is the ability to understand something instinctively‚ without the need for conscious reasoning.” Whereas the definition for reason is“ defined as formal
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