Essays on Durkin

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The focus of the research is on determining how the changing role of the field of Transitional Nursing can affect the quality of healthcare that is provided to the elderly population. Initial research has revealed that people above the ages of 50 are considered to be more at-risk for contracting chronic diseases, and also for relapses because of various demographic and lifestyle factors. The focus of this paper is on developing a study design and sampling methodology for the research, as well as formulating flow charts and maps in order to better understand the dependent and independent variables involved ...

Illinois governor has recently signed into law the contentious gun control law that is aimed at combating the increased violence resulting from uncontrolled firearms sales in Chicago. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Governor Bruce Rauner maintained his stiff support of the law in that imposes stiff penalties to all the culprits held responsible for owning guns without the necessary identifications or any individual responsible for illegal transporting guns to Chicago. "We must stand up and help our kids and our communities find safety from violence,” Governor Bruce Rauner said in a statement The August 2016 firearms trafficking bill. The ...

The transition process of nurses from being a student at the university to registered nurse has been of great interest in the recent past mainly because of the challenges encountered. This period of transition is regarded as a time when new nurses experience significant stress as they undertake to gather their nursing knowledge and master the medical skills required at work. The transition period of most new nurses is marked by swift self-development, increased anxiety, and reality shock mainly because of the schooling values that tend to conflict with those in the workstation. According to research, graduate nurses in ...

Each person comes through different stages of development. Thus, there are a lot of theories on psychological development stages. Though, they are different and depend on the different factors. That is why it is not correct to separate some distinct stages of the development. Child development is a complex dialectical process. In psychology, there are the following periods of child and youth development: the newborn (up to 10 days), infant age (under 1 year), early childhood (1-3 years), pre-preschool (3-5 years), preschool (5-7 years) primary school (7-11 years), adolescence (11-15 years), early youth or senior school age (15-18 years). ...

Abstract

This paper explores development of adolescents and young adults by involving adjustments and changes, which can vary in people of the same age. While studying their developments, I have considered emotional, social, cognitive, sensory and physical processes and even their combination. For instance, when individuals enter the puberty period, they may feel some implications for personal development and personality in whole. Although during adulthood and adolescence there are a lot of developmental aspects, wide personal variations occur because of core issues, achievements and circumstances. For example, not all people can attain stages of psychological development in early adulthood. There ...

Social entrepreneurship is where a business aims to achieve a certain social goal other than that of making a profit. Social entrepreneurs are usually concerned about making a positive impact on the society other than their objective of making a profit. For instance in the video entitled “Tom’s shoes”, Blake Mycoskie focuses on improving the lives of the children in Argentina. He observed that most of the children in Argentina were walking bare footed and made it his priority to change this situation.He was keen on making a profit on his sale of Tom’s shoes but also wanted to make a contribution in ...