Research Paper: Integrative Care Therapies and Pain in Hospitalized Children and Adolescents Genna Amado Mount Saint Mary’s University Article Background In this study‚ the authors were trying to see the possible advantages of integrative care therapies‚ specifically massage therapy and healing touch‚ delivered to hospitalized children and adolescents in a Mid-western academic pediatric hospital. By using a retrospective clinical database review‚ they examined patients’ pain and relaxation
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Dear Editor‚ Although much of modern day technology is focused on materialistic things rather than the issues‚ such as animal rights‚ which are more important. “A Change of heart About Animals”‚ by Jeremy Rifkin‚ is an article where he argues how animals have feelings and should have their own rights. He describes how animals have the ability to learn. What he doesn’t do is describe animals as a lower class‚ but as “Our fellow creatures” so he states in his article. In Rifkin’s article he uses
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Tigers have to teach their babies how to hunt and humans have to teach their babies how to walk and talk. Birds have to break down their babies’ food‚ just like our mothers have to start feeding us little by little. Rifkin in his article “A Change of Heart about Animals” offers some compelling evidence that humans and animals share lots of things‚ but not all of his example are convincing. Just how humans use tools wisely Rifkin shows and explains how animals use tools‚ one of that is how birds
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Organizational Approaches to Change The ability to change and adapt is extremely important for any organization to reach its full potential. Influencing people to change is more dependent on showing them a truth that influences their feelings‚ rather than shifting their thinking (Kotter & Cohen‚ 2002‚ p. 1). If leaders can change the behavior of members of an organization‚ the successful large-scale change they are seeking will more likely be realized. According to Kotter and Cohen‚ in order to achieve
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principles of change management addressed by Kotter. Much of what is inherent in Kotter’s stage process of change management is in equal measure reiterated by Ivancevich and his coauthors in their book Organizational Behavior and Management. Kotter postulates a model for leading and implementing change with each stage reflecting a key principle that relates to the responses of people as well as the approach of change in which people visualize change‚ own change and then effect change. Similarly‚ the
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Integrative Reflection Paper I think that all modules‚ including the discussion on interpersonal skills‚ career development‚ emotional maturity‚ leadership skills‚ and service and commitement provided by the course (PERSEF1) are meaningful‚ but there is one module that I think has influenced a lot in my personal development and effectiveness --- which is career development. In this module‚ I realized many things in planning for a person’s professional life. One of them is that the major effect of
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look to determine how traditional organizational behavior is applicable. This paper provides an integrative approach to tying three organizational topics to the Army work environment. The first topic discussed is the consequences of distress. Each individual responds to stressful situations differently and the result is either eustress or distress. Individuals in the Army face three major types of distress and this paper examines how the Army overcomes them. The next topic of organizational behavior
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Kotter’s 8-step change model John Kotter introduced his 8-step change process in his 1995 book‚ “Leading Change”. According to Kotter – the eight steps to transforming your organization are as follows 1 Create urgency Kotter suggests that for change to be successful‚ 75% of a company’s management needs to support the change. Therefore‚ it is essential to develop a sense of urgency around the need for change. This involves extensive internal dialogue regarding the market and competitor
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5590 Integrative Paper: Comparing and contrasting the concepts of IKM and Kotter 1. Stage one: Establishing a Sense of Urgency in our fast paced world‚ things and environments change rapidly. In order to meet the needs and demands of an ever changing marketplace‚ organizations also need to change and adapt very quickly. With success hinging on the ability of the institution to analyze‚ predict and adjust in order to meet the market demands and successfully cope with rapidity of change (IKM
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ADKAR model Lewin’s change model Kotter’s change model - ADKAR stands for Awareness‚ Desire‚ Knowledge‚ Ability and Reinforcement. Each word represents a step in the change process and must be done in order so that the desired change is achieved. - This model focuses on principles of change that are effective on an individual. Its focus is on how to change people. Steps - Awareness: To begin change‚ an individual must know what needs to change and why. What the risks for not changing are‚ benefit
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