Essays on Auerbach

Differences in competencies between nurses prepared at the ADN versus the BSN

The nursing curriculum has been evolving over time to meet the needs and demands of the population which have been changing over time. In a bid to ensure that care delivery meets the optimal goals of recovery, restoration and sustaining a high quality of life, the basic foundation for the nursing profession has been on ensuring that the curriculum adequately prepares the nurses for the tasks ahead (Auerbach, Buerhaus, & Staiger, 2015). A particular response that the profession can refer is the Future of Nursing Report by the Institute of Medicine which required that nurses be allowed to the highest ...

Information Security Governance and Risk Management

This is the foundational domain for professional information security work (Walsh). It provides standards and policies for monitoring information security programs. The domain ensures data quality necessary to support an organization’s objectives. This is critical especially to sensitive and critical information that an organization uses. Risk management is the identification and prioritization of all risks to confidentiality. The most important step in the domain is risk analysis. This involves identification of threats and vulnerabilities on applications and systems. The last phase in the domain is the implementation of the most appropriate and cost-effective security measures and controls to ...

Introduction

With the passage of time, development and increasing concerns for the patient care and safety requires attention. Healthcare institutions are constantly engaged in improving healthcare quality through inducing innovative healthcare practices for the provision of patient safety. For the delivery of improving quality healthcare services, it is important to ensure that the working conditions and working environment is equipped with the standard needs of the healthcare institution. Nursing remains to be core area in the healthcare organization for patient care and safety (Patricia, Mooney-Kane, & Larson, 2007). In contemporary times, with the healthcare worker shortage and reported errors in the ...

The dynamics of the economy when the interest rates are at almost zero are a bit complicated, especially because the monetary policies have very little effect on the economy. However, the interplay between the fiscal and monetary policies will bring the economy to stabilization even though with great difficulty. Some of the factors at play bring a tradeoff between the success and failure of the possible policies. For example, the policies that will bring down the level of unemployment will tend to push up inflation. However, factors that will push the GDP upwards will also lower the rate of ...

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Nationalism is a significant transitional power in the annals of history. Though the concept of loyalty is generally believed to be of a more contemporary vintage, theories as to the actual origins and the development of nationalism as a concept abound. Allegiance in the Arab world and the Palestinians in particular, have remained unexamined not due to lack of significance, but due to deliberate omission. Those who hold that nationalism comes about as a natural sociological process cannot sufficiently expound the segregation of the United States and Britain or the union of the English and French quarters ...

Introduction

The professional organizations and associations in nursing plays a crucial role towards promoting advanced and better health care. They’re charged with the responsibility to generate the energy, organization of ideas, and pre-emptive work required to sustain a healthy profession that promotes the needs and preferences of the nursing profession, nurses, and the patients. The associations improves the trust of society concerning health care matters. The paper will shed light on defining the scope of professional organizations in nursing, examine the scope, discuss the trending issues, and offer an analysis of the future of the nursing profession.

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Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction used symbols and intense imagery to tap into the dark and unknown parts of human existence. Hit gothic tales sought to redefine the ultimate human experience by showing the prevalence of horror in everyday life. Normal individuals are driven to rage and madness and they get to commit the most heinous crimes without reasonable justification for their actions. In “Legia” and “The Black Cat”, Poe relies on symbolism and imagery to show humanity’s relationship with nature and death. Poe explores man’s attempt at rationalizing the irrational. This paper seeks to compare and ...

Part 1

Nurses will continue to play an important role in the health care delivery system. The United States just like any other country across the world is faced with challenges in the delivery of quality healthcare. For instance, an increased in the aging population creates a demand for quality care in the treatment of chronic diseases (Shi & Singh, 2014). To adequately address these challenges, transformation of nursing profession becomes necessary. Health care professionals are needed to take care of the patients in all settings that are; in the hospitals and homes. Caring for the sick is becoming complicated day in ...

Abstract

The Human Variome Project (HVP) is a global initiative to collect, curate and make accessible data on genetic variations that affect human health. The HVP was launched in 2006 following the recommendations of a meeting co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Melbourne, Australia. The meeting came up with at least 96 recommendations that were grouped in 12 categories. The idea of the HVP was prompted by the fact there was a lot of ongoing work on curation of the genetic variation data across the globe but the efforts lacked coordination often resulting in incomplete or inaccurate data. HVP is therefore a ...