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    goal. I graduated from Highline Community College last year with honor degree. Even though I already obtained my AA degree in Pre-Nursing‚ gaining my knowledge in the medical field is not enough for me. I want to gain more clinical patient experience and help people with all my heart. In order to strengthen my clinical experience‚ I also took the CNA class at Blossom Nursing Assistant Training School while studying at HCC and received the CNA license. Currently‚ I’m working at Stafford Suites Senior

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    Definition of Nursing Leslie Burgess Submitted to Sarah P. Combs PhD‚ MPH‚ RN in partial fulfillment of NR444 Professional Role Development Regis University February 1‚ 2012 Nurses have been described as “lacking professional commitment and motivation‚ low in risk taking and change-making‚ having a ‘blue-collar mentality‚’ being cautious and conservative‚ and suffering from lack of cohesiveness and collegiality” (as cited in Chandler‚ 1986‚ p.1). With this definition of what a nurse has

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    1. Social Work as a Developing Profession Social Work as a Profession * What is a profession * No clear definition of the term profession * Describing its attributes * By most criteria and definitions‚ social work meets the requirements * Greenwood’s trait-attributes (1957) 1. Systematic theory * Worked hard to develop this attribute * Continuing – complexity of humanity and other factors * Process of knowledge development (process model) 2. Authority &

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    IQ TEST RESEARCH A Research of the Reliability and Validity of the PSYGAT on Different Linguistic Backgrounds Abstract The issue of cultural bias in intelligence tests sparks debates every time the latter is created or administered‚ resulting to many researches into how the reliability and validity of an ability test may differ when assessed on groups from different cultural-linguistic backgrounds. The aim of this study is to test the reliability and validity of the PSYGAT Verbal IQ Test on

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    patient’s danger of getting harmed and the patient’s wellbeing (Henneman‚ Gawlinski & Guliano 2012). This essay contains a rationale‚ a case scenario of a patient who shows respiratory deterioration and the appropriate nursing actions to be undertaken in such a case. Nurse’s role Nursing assessments and interventions which reduce unpleasant patient outcomes are vital. There are various reasons for worse patient outcomes like improper diagnosis‚ lack of administering the right medication and poor control

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    How is gender performed? Gender is performed through the way people dress their kids. The color that is chosen for the baby’s room or the toys that the baby plays with‚ is all part of gender being performed. From an early age a newborns gender is decided for them. You can divide gender into two parts: the adolescent and also the person’s adult hood. Now a day‚ some people change their gender and become the opposite sex. There are different words for the gender changes: transsexuals are those

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    Gender From “Critical Terms for Art History” The essential feature of gender in representation is not so much "difference‚" as we are often told‚ but "agreement." To focus on agreement‚ as I will do here‚ enables us to deal not only with the genders depicted in a representation (for example‚ images of women) and with their relations of difference (for example‚ depicted distinctions between men and women). It also enables us to deal with the gender of representation - what has come to be called

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    entering the nursing profession has increased word wide‚ (Madoka et al‚ 2006) and most western countries have men working in nursing jobs‚ they usually constitute a minority‚ (Streubert‚ 1994). This imbalance actually was due to historical and cultural rational. For example; Florence Nightingale believed that nursing was a natural extension of women and motherhood‚ and she believed that all women were nurses and men were not capable of being nurses and thus were not allowed to enroll in nursing education

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    EFFECT OF STRESS ON HEALTH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING" October 8‚ 2014 By: Becky Velez One of the definitions of stress offered in literature is: "Stress is the psychological and physical state that results when perceived demands exceed an individual’s ability to cope with them." The profession of nursing has thrived over the past century into a respected and necessary member of the health care arena. However‚ the future of the profession‚ and more imminently‚ patient care and the health of

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    Cognitive Bias Marriages can be seen in many different perspectives. Even though one does not know what love is‚ marriages can be easily understood. Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice conveys various messages that pertains mainly about marriage and love. Most individual correlate marriage with love. However‚ in this novel‚ Jane Austen conveys the readers a totally different perspective of how marriage truly viewed as in her era. Prejudice among individuals due to class and status is one of

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