Essays on Gillespie

Introduction

Nurses play an integral, challenging, and complex role in the healthcare system. Nurses are considered as the backbone of the complex and diverse system that comprises patients and a multidisciplinary team of experts. Nurses are educated and trained to cater to a large group of patients and often seek continuing education and upgrade their skills and knowledge. It is only through clinical exposure that nurses learn and implement new strategies and techniques. Nurses are known to transform the healthcare system by acting as mediators between the patient population and the medical team (physicians and other allied healthcare members). Through ...

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Sickle Cell Anemia or Sickle Cell Disease is an inherited blood ailment. Those suffering from Sickle Cell Disease have abnormal S/ sickle hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in the blood that aids in carrying oxygen throughout the body. The ailment takes its appellation from the shape of the red blood cells of a person affected by Sickle Cell Disease, which have the shape of a sickle. They are stiff and adhesive rather than a disk like normal cells. The misshapen cells tend to get trapped in the small blood vessels hindering the movement of ...

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Management information system [MIS] is an integrated system that helps the management with relevant information to plan and make decisions in order to run the business more effectively and efficiently (Becerra-Fernandez and Leidner, 2014 p.42). The core aim is to make raw data into useful information that helps in managerial decision-making. That being said, the functions of MIS are data capturing, data storage, data processing, data and information distribution, prediction or forecasting, planning, and control (Leon, 2008 p.328). Data processing is the process of gathering data from various sources; this may include customer touchpoints like stores and e-commerce sites, ...

Bebop is a jazz style known for fast paces and complex improvisations based on playing off of harmonies. It developed in the 1940s in the United States of America and symbolized the new stage in the ideas about jazz music and its perception. This paper aims to discuss the history of bebop, its establishment as the major modern jazz movement around the days of the decline of big bands, its fragmentation into the styles of cool and hard bop, and the role African-American musicians played in its development. As Gioia writes, from its beginning, jazz was the genre of ...

Bullying remains one of the most urgent problems for teenagers. It is not some kind of complications – rather a problem we are not able to solve for years, even decades! A phrase “all people are different” sounds like another cliché in this situation. The way things are at schools, for instance, hasn’t change since the middle of the last century. The world develops so rapidly that new technologies become outdated in days, however, people still haven’t learnt how to respect each other and understand that appearance or interests aren’t criteria for judging or even worse, humiliating ...

People need to have certain abilities in order to contribute to society. In this sense, here are many talents and capacities that people can develop throughout their lives. These abilities, also called skills, can help individuals make the most of their lives. Skills are essentially talents or abilities that people can grow or learn, such as social skills, leadership skills and motor skills, among others. Human beings develop and enhance skills from a very early age and all through their lives. The urgency to master a specific skill depends completely on the need and period one is living. Therefore, ...

1. Identify a problem and explain the problem: Background: The project proposal is related to the prevention of fall among elderly. The incidence of falls is high among the elderly population. Studies suggest that elderly who fall once, are more likely to fall in the future. A number of conditions like poor eye vision or transient ischemic attacks or pets or general body weakness or other miscellaneous reasons, can increase the risk of fall in the elderly population. Falls can be particularly serious and life changing for elderly. It can make them dependent on others and also increases the ...

Part A

Maintaining proper care levels among patients is an essential task for a hospital management. However, this task is best achieved if the medical personnel is conversant with the fundamental principles of Nursing-sensitive indicators. These provisions are developed by the American Nursing Association to assist the management of medical facilities in meeting the needs of the nurses and the patients (Matlock, Start, Aronow & Brown, 2016). In the current case, the nurses would be in a better position to offer appropriate medical care to Mr. J if they have a proper understanding of the nursing-sensitive indicators. The nursing sensitive indicators give ...

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Two options are discussed in the paper in relation to mitigation strategy of economic downturn. One strategy was the cutting of jobs i.e. mass layoffs and other option was to cut salaries. It is observed that in the U.S. (individualist culture), the norm is to adopt mass layoffs strategy and in Japan the strategy of pay cuts is used. However, in the U.S. some big companies used the strategy of pay cuts. Mass layoffs help the companies to increase productivity and morale with high profits by not cutting the salaries and terminating the employees. On the other hand, pays ...

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“Song of Solomon” is the third novel written by Toni Morrison and is a very remarkable and rich piece of fiction. Its power lies not only in the representation of African Americans century but also the author’s insistence on the necessity of healing the alienated and broken protagonist, Milkman Dead. His journey to the recognition of the cultural past can be viewed in the context of the mythic quest, as he follows it, first for gold, and then for knowledge about his ancestry. Significantly, in the novel, the writer employs classical myths, specifically that of Icarus and the ...

Senior seminar of Psychology

Fairleigh Dickinson University The main point of this paper is to discuss how Cognitive behavioral therapy can be an effective treatment for Posttraumatic stress Disorder. In today’s world we are able to see how this topic is can be relevant to our lives. Not everybody has the misfortunate of having to go through such a tough disorder. But we never know if there will be a time where it might just hit us or significant others. Therefore having knowledge of this disorder is very important especially for those people that are frequently going through tough times in their ...

The main work of Mark Twain is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" written in 1885. This novel has the broadest aspect of the impact: it talks about democracy and humanity. These properties became fundamental for the American literature of XX century, so Mark Twain served as an example for the future writers. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has the same characters and the same time as in the "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" . But this novel reveals a more mature attitude of the author, it covers all parts of human experience, and has a more profound importance union. The ...

(A case for a parent firm in a net oil exporting country with subsidiaries in a net importing country that has free market economy, politically stable, positive currency speculation and possibility of government defaulting on its debt)

Oil Prices and Exchange Rate

Oil price dynamics have a bearing on the ability of multinational to precisely model the future exchange rates. In most instances, in order to manage the foreign exchange rate risk that the firm is exposed in the international business arena, most multinational will hedge against the risks that are associated with exchange rate fluctuations. As a result, these multinationals minimize the possible ...

Undoubtedly, strategic planning and management have a significant contribution to business success. Planning entails setting of company’s goals and objectives as well as the determination of resources needed to achieve the set objectives. Starting a new venture in a competitive market requires prior preparations and adoption of effective strategies that will help the business to survive. This essay will summarize the basic planning for a new alcohol beverage venture that targets the global market.

Reasons for selecting for selecting China as the target country for the new venture

China has a large market for alcoholic beverages. According to statistics, more than 50% of men and over 15% of women consume alcohol (Wei ...

The Name of Class

The Name of the School The City and States where it is located The petrol industry in the United Kingdom – UK, has seen various changes in the last ten to five years. The market shares and market structure will be examined in more detail for the last five years with representing the main changes in the petrol industry and market shares. The UK petroleum market is composed of various brands. Over the five years similar names have been present in the market. The shares of the petrol companies and retail companies have been changing along with the different composition ...

Theme

Effective communication, problem solving, and critical thinking are three soft skills essentially vital for a staff nurse supervisor to carry out her HR activities in a current day hospital setting.

Introduction

Nursing care has traditionally been an integral constituent of health care because nurses play an indispensable role in enhancing care quality and patient safety. As a result, today healthcare regulators take strong efforts to enhance the quality of nursing care in health organizations. Such efforts to enhance nursing care efficiency are notably limited by staff shortage and staff turnover issues. The situation further leads to a poor nurse-to-patient ratio. ...

Prejudice and discrimination

Summary of the movie A very rich and powerful man known as Philip Colbert who comes from Chicago and who had plans to construct a factory in a rural southern town called Sparta in Mississippi was found murdered. The regional police boss Chief Bill is under pressurre to investigate the murder of Philip quickly. A well-dressed African-American northerner named Virgil Tibbs, who was waiting for a train in a deserted station, is picked up by a police officer who is a racist. Virgil is found with a lot of money in his pocket. After being arrested, he is brought ...

Arturo Sandoval is an outstanding musician who had to overcome a lot of difficulties in order to be able to do the job he was born to – playing the jazz music. Life of Sandoval recalls a musical history book that describes two disparate worlds. For the people who were raised up in the States, it may be hard to imagine what obstacles Arturo Sandoval was faced with to become a jazz musician. He is a great son of Cuba, and this country should be proud of him, but when Sandoval was at the beginning of his career, the government ...

Modeling Exchange Rates

Oil price dynamics will have a bearing on the ability of multinational to precisely model the future exchange rates of the foreign exchange in the countries that they operate. In most instances, in order to manage the risk that the firm is exposed in the international business arena, especially on the foreign exchange rate, most multinational will hedge against the risks that are associated with fluctuations in the exchange rate thus minimizing the possible negative effect that a firm may experience (Jain, 2007). Therefore, in order to take a position in hedging facilities such as currency futures, the firm ...

It has been well documented that Emily Dickinson wrote poetry for herself and her friends, not for publication. Her expression, found in her poetry, is an expression of self, often conflated as thoughts entered her mind from multiple directions creating mature works that bent and formed new visions different and fuller than that original image at the beginning of each poem. Emily Dickinson’s reclusive nature is revealed in much of her poetry. It is in those written lines where she explores her world. Her work, relegated to letters to her friends, was from her soul and not meant ...

Introduction

A team-based structure encompasses a system where employees work as teams with each team mandated to particular specific duties. The teams are self-directed and must complete the entire role such as developing software (Mills, 2007). The assignment focuses on a team-based structure in organizations and uses a selected picture as a reference point.

Picture analysis

Picture analysis The picture (TBOS, p. 384), depicts four people who seem to be discussing and analyzing something work related. All the members are focused on the task. The man in light green polo shirt may be the team director because the attention by other members ...

Introduction

According to Johnson & Rea (2009), bullying in the nursing workplace is a major problem. Based on the data collected by researchers, it is evident that 23.7% of the sample surveyed indicated that they had experienced workplace bullying in the last six months. The article by Johnson (2009) supports this viewpoint since it concludes that bullying is rampant and negatively affects nurses by demoralizing them and affecting their work performance. The most common form of bullying in the workplace is the use of power by superiors against subordinates. The definition of the word bullying means the use of superior strength ...

Introduction

The whole report is all about the employer verses the employees’ expectations in the current labor market. The main purpose o this report is to light some of the employer’s expectations in accordance with the organizational structure and also review the changing employees’ expectations in the current labor markets. The report is structured to have three sections in the main body after the introductions which are; the employers’ expectations in accordance with the organizational structure, the changing employees’ expectations in the current labor market and also how these expectations differ from one company set up to another. ...

Major themes to be tackled:

What is author's fundamental purpose? how does the work contribute to our knowledge of history? What sources did the author rely on? Contain judgements? Emergence of tragedy in the public eye.

Finding Amelia

Finding Amelia is perhaps one of the most controversial stories ever written on the real life case where a woman and her navigator disappeared. This story has a large number of warts and all in it but it is also extremely interesting in the sense that it portrays the author’s purpose in getting to the bottom of things accordingly. The author also relies on several important sources including the ...

For those of us who knew the story, watching Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story could have easily been an ordeal knowing the perilous route the story is going to take. Lena Baker, a 44 year old African-American maid was the only woman to be executed in the history of the state of Georgia, in 1945. Maybe there weren’t so many black women who killed white people, after all. Lena Baker killed her employer, a drunk and a pervert who used her as a sex slave with his own gun in a desperate move of self-defence. She faced trial shortly afterwards where ...