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    Humor in Latino Culture

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    10 CODES THAT DEFINE LATINO HUMOR The one paragraph about Latino humor “The aspects that characterize the Latino humor are: satire‚ ethnic self parody‚ parody of the dominant culture‚ code switching‚ language plays between Spanish and English‚ mistranslations and the fusion of the profane‚ body functions‚ sex and swear words into a self referential type of catharsis” Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture‚ Volume 1 1- Humor determines how close or far the rest are from our own selves

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    Bedside Rounding: Improving Patient Care and Safety Purpose: * PATIENT SAFETY * Reducing preventable errors resulting in facility acquired illness/injury * Reducing increased healthcare costs related to errors due to inadequate shift change reports * Involving patients in their own care by allowing them to be involved in their own report during shift change * Reducing barriers to communication between patientfamily‚ and staff Benefits: * PATIENT SAFETY * Allows nurse

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    Advancing Effective Communication‚ Cultural Competence‚ and Patient- and Family-Centered Care A Roadmap for Hospitals Quality Safety Equity A Roadmap for Hospitals Project Staff Amy Wilson-Stronks‚ M.P.P.‚ Project Director‚ Health Disparities‚ Division of Quality Measurement and Research‚ The Joint Commission. Paul Schyve‚ M.D.‚ Senior Vice President‚ The Joint Commission Christina L. Cordero‚ Ph.D.‚ M.P.H.‚ Associate Project Director‚ Division of Standards and Survey Methods‚ The Joint

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    Latino Hate Crimes

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    For my topic and potential research paper I chose to do my research on hate crimes focusing on the Latino population. I chose this because I am currently taking Latino/a Struggles for Civil Rights and Social Justice. The course focuses on social movements that have occurred in the past and the effects the social movements have had on social justice and civil rights for Latino/as today‚ as well as other impacts the movements may have had on other minorities. For this course‚ I was instructed to do

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    Spanish-speaking immigrants have rights to bilingual education? With the increase of the Latino population in New York City during the 1960s caused the school system to be faced with a new issue of language rights. My topic of bilingual education is important because with the increasing presence of Latinos it brings an increasing number of Limited English Proficient Students to the country. Being a first or second generation Latino having a bilingual education makes a difference in one life by causing them to

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    death (WHO 2012). The stroke statistics are grim. According to World Health Organization annually there are 15 million people worldwide suffer a stroke. Of these‚ 5 million die and another 5 million are left permanently disabled‚ placing a burden on family and community. According to the Philippine Health Statistics (2004)‚ stroke kills 61.8 per 100‚000 population. It is the second leading cause of mortality in the Philippines‚ next to heart diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that

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    failure to act by a medical professional that deviates from the accepted medical standard of care. Medical negligence does not always result in injury to the patient. Gross negligence is a more serious form of negligence that can be describes as simply carelessness. Regular negligence is seen as a person or company falling below an expected standard of care‚ gross negligence is seen as a complete failure to show care or willful disregard for safety and human life. Medical negligence becomes medical malpractice

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    SMART Goal: Managing Patient-Centered Care SMART Goal: Managing Patient-Centered Care Historically‚ a career in Nursing has not always been one that was respected as a noble and honorable job. Once frowned upon by the elite classes‚ nursing was a job expected of the lower class. In 1853 however‚ a young woman belonging to an elite British family‚ named Florence Nightingale‚ would change that. From a young age‚ she believed that her divine purpose in life was to care for the ill and wounded. After

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    difficulties for parents‚ children‚ and the relationship between them. In a large study of Latino families‚ acculturation was found to have both positive and negative effects. The study found that more acculturated Latino adolescents exhibited higher rates of problem behavior. The causes included higher exposure to discrimination and negative stereotypes‚ a greater susceptibility to peer pressure‚ and lessening family cohesiveness as traditional values were lost and parental authority waned. Because the

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    Latino Gang Policy

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    Abstract Latino Gangs and Policy Introduction Gangs have become an epic problem in the United States. It is very essential important in attempting to solve this problem by fully understanding how we can prevent individuals from joining a gang. A gang is group of three of more people that share a common bond and that are loyal to one another‚ whether it’s for economic reason or violence. The National Gang Center estimates that 32.4% of all cities in the United States experienced gang problems

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