Violence: An advocacy guide for grassroots activists in Uganda Acknowledgments This guide was produced as part of CARE’s Great Lakes Advocacy Initiative (GLAI)‚ which seeks to address gender-based violence in Uganda‚ Burundi and Rwanda. GLAI is funded by CARE Norway. Thanks to CARE staff‚ community-based facilitators‚ sub-county coordinators and partner organizations in northern Uganda who shared their experiences‚ ideas and passion for preventing gender-based violence in their communities. This advocacy
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Analysis: Patient Advocacy Yvette Thornton NURS 502 Grand Canyon University April 24‚ 2013 Concept Analysis: Patient AdvocacyIntroduction The concept of patient advocacy was the focus of the article entitled‚ “Developing a mid –range theory of patient advocacy through concept analysis” by Xiaoyan Bu and Mary Ann Jezewski published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing 2007. In an attempt to clarify the definition as well as the refine the concept of patient advocacy‚ the authors
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Lesson 1: What is Research? Before learning how to determine your research needs‚ let’s first define exactly what research is. Research is the investigation of a particular topic using a variety of reliable‚ scholarly resources. The three major goals of research are establishing facts‚ analyzing information‚ and reaching new conclusions. The three main acts of doing research are searching for‚ reviewing‚ and evaluating information. Learning what research is not may help you fully grasp the concept
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Summation of Advocacy and Inquiry Advocacy is defined as how we take a position (state an opinion or make recommendations) or move up the ladder; inquiry allows us to question (revealing how others reached their conclusions or understanding impacts of actions of others) by asking how others see things different or move down on the ladder. (Balancing Advocacy and Inquiry‚ 2011). The advantage of applying both advocacy and inquiry in team settings is that your group will be able to focus on content
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Patient advocacy is a big part of nursing. According to How To Be An Advocate‚ (2009) advocacy is defined as “one that pleads the cause of another‚ one that defends or maintains a cause or proposal‚ or one that supports or promotes the interest of another” (pg. 2). Nurses are the forefront as advocates for our patients. It is our duty as nurses to stand up for our patients and ensure that they are receiving the care they should and support their decisions holistically. Nurses have the most
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In the essay "Polite but Thirsty‚" Yaping Tang describes her experience as well as the Chinese students’s experience when they first arrive in The United States. The purpose of her writing this essay is to give the ESL teachers who work with Chinese students a comprehensive and more judicious look about the differences between Chinese and American cultures. She explains cultural adjustment process and culture shock in terms of five different customs between the Chinese and American cultures: name
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Empowerment Approach to Human Service Management Karon Hill BSHS/ 425 July 27‚ 2015 Instructor: Harold Dobbins Empowerment Approach to Human Service Management In this paper I will be discussing the principles that characterize an empowerment approach to social service management and how I will apply these principles to the developmental processes at Children on the mend. An empowerment approach is very important for any organization including Children on the mend. It puts good structure into any
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Introduction to Human Services Discussion Questions Week 1 – DQ 1: What are the four major themes of human services? Which theme do you think is most critical for human service professionals? According to Woodside and McClam‚ the four major themes of human services include problems with living‚ the growing number of problems in the modern world‚ self-sufficiency‚ and the three distinct functions human services serve: social care‚ social control‚ and rehabilitation (An Introduction to Human Services). I find
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Causes and Prevention of Burnout in Human Service Staff Paper J. Shan Building Community in Organizations BSHS/462 University of Phoenix Instructor Ursula Davis November 8‚ 2010 Causes and Prevention of Burnout in Human Service Staff Paper Burnout has an undesirable force on staff‚ staff efficiency and consequently on organizational success. Human service agencies cannot risk the loss of efficiency involved when an dynamic‚ passionate staff member burns out. This‚ burnout‚ can never be entirely
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CU299P/CT299 -Understand the role of the social care worker Written Questions 1. Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship. (1.1) • In working relationship there is a hierarchy or chain of command: i.e. you take instructions from a manager because you have agreed to do this and they are your professional superior and supervisor. They are responsible for ensuring you do your job as per your job description. This is not the case in a personal relationship
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