Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory: Analysis and Evaluation In my nursing practice I frequently care for long term elderly residents on ventilators and who suffer from stage 3 or 4 pressure ulcers‚ diabetic‚ venous ulcers etc. Instead of simply providing pain medications and wound treatment to ease their pain or giving medications to relax them‚ I wanted to learn ways to enhance the comfort of these residents. This led me to learn more about Katherine Kolcaba’s theory of comfort. I found her theory to be useful
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initial petition for getting Karen off life support. However‚ they persisted and presented their case to the New Jersey Supreme Court. Finally‚ on March 31‚ 1976‚ Joe Quinlan was appointed as the personal guardian of his daughter Karen‚ and was given the right to discontinue her life support. After long negotiations between Quinlans family and hospital staff‚ Karen Ann was taken off the life support. To everyone’s surprise‚ she continued breathing on her own. Karen Ann was relocated to Morris View
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Marks & Spencer’s repositioning strategy In 2004 M&S was facing a possible takeover by Phillip Green. The management team led by Chairman Paul Myners‚ and the Chief Executive Stuart Rose‚ decided to turn down the offer given by Phillip Green and instead engineer a rejuvenating turn-around for M&S with a new marketing strategy. Stuart Rose and M&S’s executive director of marketing‚ Steve Sharp saw that M&S had gained an unpopular image through the "I’m normal" advertising campaign and knew it
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result from the use of racial profiling by immigration law enforcement and to document the impact it had on U.S. citizens and legal residents of Mexican ancestry by using a critical race theory framework. Romero begins by providing the function of national immigration policies. The author states she will be using a critical race theory framework to analyze the micro and macro aggressions by immigration law enforcements‚ which will be helpful to recognize the discriminatory functions that policing‚ and
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When I first heard Ontario textile artist‚ Karen Trask‚ speak in our class on September 20‚ 2017‚ I was left hanging by a thread. In fact‚ it was Trask’s artist talk‚ combined with my research of Sheila Hicks and Joanna Close‚ that stirred something buried deep inside me‚ a yearning to rekindle my knowledge of textiles and fiber creations. Not as the stereotype of ‘women’s work’‚ but as art in fiber‚ my identity‚ and mindfulness. Traditionally‚ labour intensive skills of knitting‚ spinning‚ weaving
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Analysis of Karen Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for girls Raised by Wolves St. Lucy’s Home for girls Raised by Wolves‚ Karen Russell’s collection of fantastical short stories take all that is mundane and fractures it into a fantastical world with humor‚ dramatic tone‚ or cultural/religious undertones. Russell whirls a reader into her stories with her capability to encase a reader in the story with her repetition of one’s senses. Constantly brining in the senses of a reader brought in the smells of
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A Role for Equity Theory in the Turnover Process: An Empirical Test1 RODGERw.GRlFFETH2 AND STEFAN GAERTNER Department of Management Georgia State Universiw The purpose o f the present study was to examine the role o f equity theory in the context of the contemporary turnover process. A model was developed and tested with 192 hospital employees using structural equation modeling (SEM)‚ which placed satisfaction and intention to quit as mediators of employee turnover. The results strongly support
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In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter-House Five‚ the protagonist Billy Pilgrim is loose in time and is free‚ though not in control‚ to experience any moment of his life. Tralfamadorians have the ability to experience reality in four dimensions; meaning‚ roughly‚ that they have total access to past‚ present‚ and future; they are able to perceive any point in time at will. Able to see along the timeline of the universe‚ they know the exact time and place of its accidental annihilation as the result of a Tralfamadorian
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ED 270 7 April 2015 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT & EVALUATION Scriven’s Consumer-Oriented Approach to Evaluation According to Scriven; the evaluator needs to has skills in obtaining permanent and accurate information and s/he has deeply reasoned view of ethics and the common good. ● Evaluation should meet with the needs of consumers instead of the achieving developers objectives. Pelin Karakoca His practical approach to evaluation is to identify and rank the optional programs and products that are
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file in an orderly fashion. Without this type of organization‚ those in the upper hierarchy of the medical business could suffer because of a simple mistake or overlooking something that appeared insignificant. This paper examines the perspective of Karen Mcllveen in her management position working in the lab at _________.
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