We Can But Should We? Laurel Lotterhos Chamberlain College of Nursing NR361: Information Systems in Healthcare May‚ 2013 We Can But Should We? Technology is an ever-changing part of our society that has affected the healthcare profession greatly. It seems that every few months a new technology is introduced to improve quality care and safety in every aspect of healthcare‚ whether it be inpatient services or emergency services. “Trends in the rise of smartphone adoption and usage by
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We Were Soldiers Once… and Young is a remarkable book written over the account of the battle of the La Drang Valley‚ the United States’ first major war battle of Vietnam. Written by retired Lt. Gen Harold Moore and war journalist Joseph L Galloway‚ the book recounts the ups and downs of the battle‚ as well as the heroic actions made by United States soldiers that led us to victory. I believe the author’s intentions were to redefine the hero narrative and to give readers an emotional understanding
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The excerpt we read of Kath Weston’s Exiles from Kinship. In Families We Choose: Lesbians‚ Gays‚ Kinship is a description of something immediate to my family. Weston describes the alienation of homosexual individuals within their own families and how generic family structures and values are different for homosexuals because of the low tolerance for that lifestyle that families sometimes have. The people described have to leave and find their own family or kinship groups to rely on for support instead
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objective was to tell a story cinematically. For the film‚ I chose the role of the director because I knew a numerous amount of different camera shots in which I could choose to use. The editor was given her role because she knew how to incorporate my ideas into the film. The cinematographer‚ on the other hand‚ was given his role because he had prior knowledge about cameras and could capture my vision for this film. In order to create the desired film‚ a genre was established; therefore‚ I made the executive
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When a person tells a lie‚ they steal someone else’s right to the truth. Stephanie Ericsson in “The Ways We Lie” explains ten specific lies that she believes are prevalent in today’s society. The reading begins by the “The White Lie” being the most harmless lie. Then she describes “Out-and-Out Lies” being the worst lie because it ignores the truth to escape responsibility. Ericsson attempted to go an entire week without telling a lie to analyze how conversation would be if it were all honest
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Where Do We Belong as Citizens? In 2012 at the age of nineteen I migrated to the United States from the Caribbean. I have witnessed cultural citizenship through my personal experience. When I first moved to the United States I have seen a lot of different cultures‚ not just American culture but cultures from all over the world. I still eat the same food‚ listen to the same music‚ and speak the same language as if I was still living back home in Jamaica. Cultural citizenship is to be a citizen of
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The first story in Chapter 2 was We Didn’t‚ written by Stuart Dybek. This story is about a young couple‚ the narrator and his girlfriend‚ Gin‚ who are both virgins. They have both been dating a while and they are ready to finally have sex. They go to a beach for their first time. They have been together for a while. While at the beach the narrator and Gin get ready to have sex. The narrator gets his condom out‚ but drops it‚ he tries dusting the sand off. He is close to getting inside her when the
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“The Men We Carry in Our Minds” In the passage of “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” by Scott Russell Sanders‚ the author discusses about his view on men and women. “When the women I met at college thought about the joys and privileges of men‚ they did not carry in their minds the sort of men I had known in my childhood” (172)‚ the meaning is the way one believes women and men are about‚ along with their experiences with women and men throughout their lives. The author’s perception on men is the
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events‚ but he kept this clip very similar to the plot of the rest of the movie. Another aspect that is interesting in this segment was when Miss Trunchbull threw the little girl. This scene was taken in one shot‚ which means that the single length of film was continuously by one camera. Mise-en-scene was definitely a factor in this one scene from like the costume used and the staging of the fence with the garden of flowers. The uses of these techniques give the viewers different feelings based on these
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We Were Soldiers Once… And Young: I read the book ‘We Were Soldiers Once… And Young’‚ it was about the war in Vietnam. Lt. General Harold G. Moore led the 7th cavalry into a battle against the North Vietnamese army. Joseph L. Galloway‚ was the first American journalist to arrive in Vietnam. Moore and Galloway are the authors of this book and they both experienced Vietnam in person. The book started out with a lot of action‚ right off it talks about how a man is lying dead in the dirt. It then went
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