Essays on Brock

Healthcare professionals have got an obligation of ensuring that future care providers can provide high quality, safe and patient centered care to patients by taking into account the need for incorporating effective communication and collaboration in their practice. Baccalaureate education ensures that care providers can enter the profession ready to provide their services in a proper manner by employing proper communication skills and confidence (AACN, 2008). As such, there is the need for developing interprofessional education in nursing institutions as it encourages the development of trust and respect for all individuals involved in the process of care provision. This ...

One of the developing African countries challenged with severe health problems and requiring special attention from international organizations is Angola which has been marked by increasingly high levels of malaria incidence. Malaria is considered the main health problem haunting Angola (Schwartz et al., 2001) and this tendency has been persistent for years. The number of deaths caused by the disease has been varying but extremely high – around 21,000 cases in 2012 (UNDP, n/a). Moreover, the disease affected non-Angolan residents during the civil war in the country lasting until the early 2000s: the troops of the UN peacekeeping mission ...

Question & Answer: Impact of Victim’s Statement

The current case that is worthy of discussion and analysis concerns the case, now referred to as, the "Stanford Swimmer" case. After midnight on January 18, 2015, Stanford student Brock Turner was caught in the act of assaulting an unconscious 23-year-old woman behind a dumpster while on campus. The corroboration of witnesses resulted in Turner's arrest and subsequent trial. He was charged with multiple felonies that could culminate into a 14 year prison sentence. At the trial, the victim had the opportunity to share her victim-impact statement. In total her statement was more than 7,000 words long and ...

Mass conscription refers the compulsory recruitment of the public to military service. In other words, conscription refers to the ability of established authorities to influence and mobilize the armies and the public of conflicting powers to engage in wars with their rivals. The act dates back to the ancient times and it continues to date in some countries. The authorities involved in the conscription also influence the ability of the military to win the wars by forcing a large number of the army to take part in the fights involuntarily. This type of influence has contributed to the outbreak ...

How is the Meeting structured to facilitate the work of the Team? And Impacts of the Structure on the Team

The meeting is structured to start at a specific time; that is, at 8.00 a.m. in the morning. Some of the team members have provided with a list of data about Rosario, indicating important issues that should be discussed. This is imperative because it will act as a guideline to the meeting ("GITT Case #2 - Mr. Rosario"). Besides, each members is allocated adequate time to express relevant issues concerning the primary agenda of the meeting. The sitting arrangement, characterized by members sitting opposite one another is critical because it enhances verbal and non-verbal communication. However, it appears that ...

The decision to transition from a medical field to corporate America resources is not an easy one considering that the health sector has been hesitant in implementing the principles of corporate America. The resources available for health facilities to facilitate the hiring of a qualified human resources individual are meagre. Consequently, this has led most management teams to opt to overlook the recruiting of HR qualified persons and concentrate on more vital organizational issues. However, organizations are beginning to consider success in the pay-for-performance environment, which has led to the management going for human resource strategies that encourage working ...

Introduction

Experiential learning is one of the most important methods that people from the academe, most especially educators apply to help students develop his/her emotional, cognitive, and social values. Experiential learning is basically learning through first-hand experience, action, discovery, and exploration. It is important for observational learners which needs actual application of concepts to understand it (Brock et al., 2012). Immersing oneself in an unfamiliar territory is an important way to teach people, especially students, on what it is really like to be part of a certain community, and it is also one way for them to understand why people ...

Mirna Salim

Introduction Cats have been living with us for thousands of years. As opposed to other domestic animals like cows and sheep that provide as with food and other raw materials, it has never been clear the main reason why human domesticated cats. Some schools of thought believe that cat was domesticated to help human eradicate rodents which were destroying crops. However, others believe that cats were domesticated just to be pets, to keep human company. This research will not major in the reason as to why cat was domesticated, but rather will focus on the origin of the domesticated ...

It is common for people, especially those opting for prison-related jobs, to perceive the prison as one of the most high-risk places. Such assumptions overlook the fact that compared to the number of prison wardens who die in a year, the number of prisoners who die in prisons is far much higher. It is disheartening to note that a significant percentage of these deaths are far from natural but are rather directly linked to medical neglect, sexual assaults, gang violence, and lack of rehabilitation in prisons among other causes, all of which being preventable causes. These deaths have always taken a plethora ...