Essays on Bernstein

Project 1: Quality Measurement and Assessment

Introduction This QI project looks into improving healthcare outcomes by reducing crowding in my hospital’s emergency department (ED) setting. This QI issue considers adequate staffing and staff education as the necessary drivers towards enhanced patient flow, thus reduced ED crowding. The initiative serves as an encouragement for the facility to grow and develop its staffing and educational requirements for nurses. The idea here is that skilled and adequately staffed nurses can reduce ED crowding, thus advancing care quality and patient outcomes. My hospital recognizes patients and the staffing unit as essential elements in healthcare service delivery. The facility ...

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Watergate was a controversial scandal that rocked the USA in the 1970s, following a burglary attempt at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters located in Watergate Office Complex in Washington D.C. and the alleged involvement of the then US president Richard Nixon in the cover-up. The Watergate scandal marked a historic significance in the US politics as it showed how politicians abused their power to get what they desired. The Watergate scandal brought to the surface an array of secret and illegal activities conducted by the members of the Nixon administration. These activities involved the adoption of unethical means ...

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Overweight and Obesity In the past 3 decades, obesity has been considered as one of the major health issues associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Many developed and industrialized nations have observed similar trends; however, the rate of obesity in the United States is considered to be the highest in the world (Choquet, H., & Meyre, D. 2011) Obesity is known to grow in an exponential rate within the United States. Based on a recent survey, 1 out of every 3 individuals in America are either overweight or obese. The data also revealed that the US was the only ...

The health care utilization data is processed and stored in the Health care utilization project. When a patient visits the hospital, a billing record is created by the hospital. The hospital sends patient data to the data organization stores of the respective states. The information from state database is then sent to the Health Care Cost and Utilization project, where the data is stored in a standardized format and utilized in guiding health care decisions and policies. Factors like socioeconomic status, physician supply, health care beliefs of the person, health status and the risk behavior of the population, will ...

Prior to the Great Depression policy makers in the United States generally tended to accept that business cycles happened and in accord with Adam Smith's "invisible hand," tended to be self-correcting. The stock market crash of 1929, and the more general problem of massive unemployment forced a reconsideration. Smiley (2008) and Bernstein (2016) both point out that the human face of the Depression left no choice but for some government intervention. Jahan and Papageorgiou (2014), discussing Keynesian Economics put it plainly: “The central tenet of this school of thought is that government intervention can stabilize the economy.” The centerpiece ...

Introduction

In recent decades, trends in diets tailored to promote weight loss have resulted in a significant increase in the intake of protein, particular in people with overweight and obesity issues. Accordingly, researchers have questioned the benefits or risks linked to the habitual consumption of “dietary protein in excess of recommended intakes” (Martin et al., 2005). In general, the primary concern has involved the possibility that diets rich in protein may increase hyperfiltration and, hence, exacerbate renal damage. Nevertheless, the potential link between protein-rich diets and renal damage has also been questioned due to an absence of adequate clinical evidence. ...

Does History Matter?

Social ideas and ideals of humanity pass through US history. It is in the struggle for social justice and equality finds its most vivid expression of the social nature of man. As in public life, and accordingly, in the social sciences, the problems in the social justice and equality are inseparable, they are often mixed, identified, although in reality each of these concepts has its own special meaning, its content. Social justice and social equality are the objective quality of social forms of relations of society and citizens. Sami social networks are a set of relations between people as ...

The Cold War was not only a period in American history where the United States was locked in a massive international rivalry and arms race with the Soviet Union but it was a time of fervent technological, strategic and political development. The United States during World War II had developed a massive new process for technical progress with an applied goal. That is to say, the Manhattan project which culminated with the building of the first ever Atomic bomb was a very important milestone. It showed that civilians and the military could work together for a common goal. While ...

US 311: Business Law I

You are the manager of Acme Fireworks, a fireworks retailer who sells fireworks, puts on ground display fireworks, and large aerial display fireworks. The company started in the owner’s garage two years ago and now has 15 employees that you manage. The company started as a sole proprietorship, and the owner has never changed the entity. The owner has informed you that the company has received inquiries from several large businesses wondering if the company could create several fireworks displays on a regular basis. The owner told the inquirers that the company could fill such display orders, and ...

Healthcare Economics is a subset of economics that focuses on how societies produce, distribute, and consume health and healthcare. Since its inception, healthcare economics has been concerned with the efficiency and effectiveness at which individuals and governments value health and health-related products. The discipline acknowledges the numerous stakeholders in healthcare, among them patients, their families, physicians, nursing staff, governments, and educational institutions (Kotsopoulos and Connolly, 2014). This discussion compares macro-and microeconomic healthcare conditions concerning their impacts on patients from a nursing perspective. On one hand, microeconomics emphasizes on the individual and communal economic activities. Conditions under this branch fall ...

Health Belief Model

In the past century, many health-based models have been developed and implemented in order to help nursing professionals to identify and incorporate key factors in improving patient-centric services and health outcomes. The Health Belief Model (HBM) is one such model that is associated with the psychological and health behavioural change model associated to change and predict health-related behaviours. The HBM was developed to be incorporated and adopted by healthcare services (Dardis MR, Koharchik LS, Dukes S. 2015). The HBM was developed by key psychologists in 1950 in the US. It is one of accepted theories in the US with ...

The article “Self Making as Public Spectacle: Bodies, Bodily Training and Reality TV” is written by Bree Hadley, from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. It is published in “Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Media Studies” in Issue 24, October 2012. The article starts with the commentary on how reality TV shows has penetrated the media and its definitions of what real people are like has taken the society by a storm. Reality TV has recently exploded into the mainstream media and has taken over our televisions. It has already been written about extensively how these reality TVs ...

Reflective Journal Template – Topic Reflection

Health is one of the most central parts of our lives, and it is for this reason that healthcare facilities developments have been put at the forefront worldwide to ensure that individuals get the best medical attention at an affordable fee. Additionally, how powerful a country is depends on the health status of its residents, that is, more sickness and increased deaths is equivalent to a weak country (Pugh, 2015). Provision of health services in the United States began early in the late 1920s where the state offered funds to provide medical facilities for the sick even though there ...

Issues Facing Portland Police Bureau

The Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, similar to other police departments, faces some policing issues that hinder the effective performance of its mandate. Examples of the salient issues facing Portland Police Bureau include ethical and effective policing issues, domestic violence issues, drug and substance abuse, gang problems, low police staffing, gun violence, hiring and training problems negative public perception of the bureau and high rates of crime.

One of the greatest issues facing the bureau currently is the low level of police staffing that has negatively impacted on its ability to effectively fight crime in the Oregon region. This ...

Introduction

Hanna Arendt is a one of the philosophers whose viewpoints have been given greater accords and consideration. In fact, her contributions to the field of political philosophy are immense, and she made outstanding manifestation in delivering critical lessons and concepts about the worldviews about politics, power, and its associated influence. Therefore, it is essential to have sure understanding on the Arendt’s philosophical thoughts and perspectives before delving into the book, “Crisis of a Republic”. Arendt philosophy is anchored on the emphasis on maintaining a meaningful distinction among various concepts of “strength,” “power,” “authority”, and “violence,” besides the need ...

Thesis

America should have sounded a warning to people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the attacks, explaining the potential impact of the atomic bombs to reduce casualties.

Introduction

In August 1945, America dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing a total of 129,000 people. The two incidences remain the only known uses of atomic and nuclear bombs in history. The events brought to an end the World War II that had been going on for close to a decade. Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the plane that dropped the two bombs, and up to his death in ...

Article 1: The case for minimizing risk in your bond holdings by William Bernstein

There is always a trade-off between risk and return. Investors are rational and risk-averse hence, they require additional returns when the risk involved in any investment is high. In this article, William Bernstein explains how investors can reduce the risk in their investments in bonds without necessarily interfering with the expected returns on the bonds. One of the risks affecting bondholders is the interest risk. Changes in interest rates affect the return on bonds. When interest rates rise, bondholders lose since the prices of bonds fall. This is because the bond will be paying a lower coupon interest compared ...

World rankings of XIX century depended on many factors, but the most important of them was the military power of the state. The maximum level of development of the military power of a state is determined by the extent of its military capabilities. The military potential of the state is a set of involved and potential material and spiritual possibilities of the state, which can be used for military purposes at the maximum and timely disclosure and use. Each state shall take care of the effectively implementation of its policies, the protection of their interests in international relations, ensuring ...

Analysis of the title of the play “A Raisin in the Sun”

Introduction The title of the play, “A Raisin in the Sun” has in depth meaning based on the literal outlook. First, we can look at the meaning of Raisin. A raisin is a dried grape. So, when we look at dried grapes, when left in the sun, the probability is that they will get worse in such a way that, a person might not admire them. The title thus has a direct connection to the story which is about dreams and realizing them in life. Many times, people often forget about their dreams letting distractions come on their way ...

Citizen Kane (1941) Film Viewing Assignment

Director: Orson Welles Film Editor: Robert Wise The one major and the three main supporting actors and their character names: Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane, a rich and successful publisher of newspapers

Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland

Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein Let us consider the cult film “Citizen Kane” shot by young Orson Welles in 1941. The film is based on the script of the same Orson Welles in a duet with Herman Jacob Mankiewicz. The leading role in the film played Orson Welles himself as Charles Foster Kane, a ...

The 1960s as a historical era recount what can easily be counted as the apogee and the obvious limits of government power to try and affect positive change in people’s lives. Both Kennedy and Johnson were consummate liberal American politicians that had lived through the New Deal, World War II and the Fair Deal how hose government led efforts although completely different had totally changed the landscape of American culture, society and politics from a very libertarian laissez faire and hands of form of government to the creation of what was then an embryonic American Welfare state. Roosevelt ...

In present economic scenario many people are underemployed even though the unemployment rate is low i.e. workers are less unemployed but still the underemployment rate is high. This underemployment is a social problem. It affects the job growth, poverty levels, business growth and career growth. Unemployment rate is the fraction of the labor force that is out of work and looking for a job or expecting a recall from a layoff. But underemployment is the measure of employment and labor utilization in the economy i.e. the way the labor force is utilized in terms of skill , expertise and availability ...

Two of the most important components for a good governance are the establishment of an effective education and health care programs that would benefit the majority. Seemingly, there are a lot of factors to be considered on how every nation can improve the overall value of these programs. This paper will provide distinct comparisons of how education and health care programs both Africa and the United States affect its governance and socio-economic status. Let us first focus on the status of health care for both Africa and the United States. It is a fact that the United States is ...

Proactive planning is defined as taking the initiative of coming up with a plan at an early stage, schedule crucial events and get prepared for success. In proactive planning, desired future is designed earlier enough. Ways through which the set goal can be achieved is then invented. Unlike in the reactive planning where crisis happen and then efforts are put to correct, proactive focuses more on action and result based activities (Eagle, Dahl, Czarnecka, & Lloyd, 2014). Identification of opportunities and looking for the best way to exploit that opportunity is what proactive plan is all about. It involves taking ...

Energy plays a significant role in the life of an individual and even to the entire country. The growth of energy is directly linked to the well-being and prosperity of the country. Therefore, the greater demand for energy must be met in a safe, and an environmentally responsible manner. To ensure a balance between the economic costs of energy and the benefits, it is of fundamental importance to ensure that the electricity and energy are reliable, its availability opens avenues for business and employment opportunities, and there should be a reduced adverse impacts associated with its production and consumption. ...

(Insturctor’s name) Bernstein, Carl, and Bob Woodward. All The President's Men. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. Print.

Book review

Introduction “All the president’s men” is a detective book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who are at the same time its main characters. The story covers the period from 1972 to 1974, and depicts the way The Watergate Scandal was developed, investigated, and resolved. Bernstein and Woodward were working for The Washington Post as reporters, and were directly involved in the Watergate issue investigation. Thus, apart from the fact that the book is a detective, it is ...

CHAPTER I

THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM Introduction As far as human walking is concerned, it has been best described as the progression of the body’s center of mass along a pathway by moving the two legs alternatively. It is generally acknowledged that the development of walking skill in human beings is completed by the age of five (Sutherland, 1980). Locomotion is influenced by interactions between neuromuscular activity as well as musculoskeletal alignment (Perry & Burnfield, 2010). In addition, there are several other factors that can affect the coordination pattern of walking. These include sensory information from somatosensory, visual ...

Introduction

Though personality disorders are described by researchers as being widespread and incapacitating, there have been developments in the field, and they have focused on understanding this disorder with intent to treat (Lenzenweger, 2008). Settling on a comprehensive definition, assessment approaches and the management of these disorders has been problematic because of the varying dimensions and impacts to individuals and the general society (Clarkin, Lenzenweger & Meehan, 2015). According to Widiger (2003), individuals often have self-distinguishing approaches to creating and developing relationships, expressing their feelings and thinking. On the same, while some people are outgoing, others have been described as being ...

Biological Approach

The emergence of psychology as a logical progression has attempted to use science to answer some questions about human nature. Before the current approaches were adopted in understanding psychology, various schools existed all, which attempted to provide their own views relating to this phenomenon. Some of the early 19th century schools of thought in psychology include structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism and psychoanalysis. However, the schools have been modified to suit the current approaches, which are used in the understanding of psychology. These approaches include the biologi9cal approach behaviorist, cognitive, psychodynamic, and humanistic approach among others. This discussion will dwell much on ...

Marcia Lorry, a young civil liberties attorney in the year 1973, challenged the operations of the foster care systems in New York by filing a very controversial law suit against the system. The case later became known as the Wilder case. The young attorney based the law suit on the argument that the foster care was not protecting the children under its care as it was supposed to because the system used a categorization procedure based on convenience and not on the needs of the children. The plaintiff of this controversial case was a thirteen year girl named Shirley Wilder. She was a runaway ...