2002‚ the United States government has been forcing educators to give their students more and more standardized tests (Klein 1) . The government does not realize how harmful these tests are to students and their educators. Standardized tests are insufficient ways of ranking and placing students and must be banned. “Teaching to the test” drastically narrows down and lowers the curriculum‚ they put too much stress on students‚ standardized is an inefficient way of ranking educational quality‚ and there
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Challenging RN-BSN Students To Apply Orem’s Theory To Practice Susan Davidson‚ EdD‚ RN Abstract: It is a challenge to engage RN-BSN students in learning to apply nursing theory. In associate degree nursing programs‚ nursing theory is barely mentioned and not discussed in detail. This paper reports the experience of one university nursing program that adopted Dorothea Orem’s nursing theory as the basis for its curriculum. The RNs were introduced to Orem’s theory in their first course. Subsequent
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Thesis The purpose of this paper is to look at stress in the workplace and its effects on family‚ medical and work effectiveness. By looking at a few studies‚ this paper will show the relevance between stress from the job and depression and issues in the family‚ issues with health problems and low job performance. Conclusion Effective tools for dealing with stress will decrease stress‚ improve the physical and emotional/mental health of workers‚ increase worker productivity‚ improve
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Stress and Coping Stress is the combination of physiological‚ psychological and behavioural effects when people are responding to any challenges or threatening situations. Long term stress reduced the capacity of our body to adapt. Stress influence conception‚ development and result of an illness. The source of stress has to change or adapt to balance our body system (Potter & Perry‚ 1997). Overton (2005) illustrates a good example that when our body is stressed due to the exposure
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Files Stress and health By Rafael Castillo‚ MD Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 00:25:00 11/01/2008 Positive stimulus Stressors can come from various sources. And we’re constantly exposed to all sorts of stressors every day. For those who can handle them properly‚ up to a certain level of stress is healthy. It is a positive stimulus for us to do what we need to do as efficiently or effectively as we could. We can do remarkable feats—even break world records—when we’re under stress. This
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The nursing shortage impacts the world in a prodigious way. The nursing shortage has an adverse impact on patient care‚ as well as on nurses. The causes of the nursing shortage are multi-faceted and there is no single measure that influences the declining issues. The most concerning issue of the nursing shortage is the decline in patient care‚ and positive outcome (Buchan‚ 2010). The research question in this study is the following: How does the nursing shortage affect quality of patient care
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is increasingly being recognized as a serious problem in society. Most of the time‚ incivility often makes the work environment a frightening‚ harmful‚ and unhealthy place. Furthermore‚ it has a negative effect on the micro level as well. This paper will define incivility‚ its impacts on the nursing field‚ and what can be done to promote a healthy work environment. According to Matthews and Ritter (2016)‚ incivility is defined as a low-intensity behavior with an ambiguous intent to harm the target
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Tashi Chompel Stress Management 10/01/2014 CAM Interview Question Her current title is Transitional Care Unit Registered Nurse‚ and she holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She practices in Transitional Care Unit. She has been practice in this field for about two years. Professionally she has CPR and ACLS certification. As a treatment for medical issue‚ she said: “I do whatever is the needs of that particular patient like dressing change for any other patient or cardiac or patient
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Running head: CAREGIVER STRESS Caregiver Stress The United States has a significant and growing crisis with caregiver stress. There are about 1.4 million older Americans living in nursing homes‚ 6 million receiving care at home‚ and a significant number going without any help at all (International Longevity Center‚ 2009). The current demand for caregiving services is going to worsen considerably with the aging of baby boomers and the United States has no caregiving system in place‚ which
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Outline and evaluate the research into the effect of stress on the immune system During strenuous times‚ our body undergoes many physiological changes in order to aid our survival‚ and this is an inherited function (Canon’s ‘fight or flight’ theory). Stress in small doses‚ in fact is needed and useful to humans‚ however long term stress can take its toll on the body. The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) model was developed by Selye to explain the effects of exposure to stressor. The GAS model consists
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