Essays on Leduc

Over the past two decades, the number of elderly people has been on a rise within the US. The improved care services associated with the emerging technologies as well as the emergence of new methods of care delivery such as patient-centered are have all helped develop tailored mechanisms for managing these patients and therefore meeting their health needs (Flaherty, Fulmer, & Mezey, 2014). The needs of this group are typically very unique normally because they are getting into an age where they will lose a significant portion of the independence, abilities and roles and even begin to think about end-of-life ...

In the last years of the 1970s, there was global concern over the discovery of a deadly virus that resulted in outbreaks of a hemorrhagic fever in West Africa (Peters & LeDuc, 1999). The high rate of death and the contagious nature of the disease was a cause of concern to the international medical community and researchers combined efforts to discover the cause, etiology, effective therapies, and methods of control of what would come to be known as the Ebola virus. Although there have been few cases reported outside West Africa, the potential for the spread of the disease prompts ...

1. Introduction a. The outbreaks of the Ebola virus in West Africa have generated significant concern due to the high death rate and contagious nature (Peters & LeDuc, 1999). b. Differences in the fatality rates in Ebola infection over the last decades probably are a reflection of advances in diagnostic accuracy, proficiency in acute care stages, and identification of infection sources (Laupland & Valiquette, 2014). c. Although cases are rare and primarily confined to West Africa, there is concern of a possible pandemic secondary to ease of international transport of contaminated people and goods. d. The transmission is through blood and ...

I would choose Sally and Joan for the 11 PM to 7 AM and 3 PM to 11 PM shifts, respectively. These graduates have individual qualities that fit into the two shifts as follows. First, Sally is a perfect fit in the 11 PM to 7 AM shift. Her profile reveals a young highly qualified nurse in both academic and clinical setups. While she has great clinical judgment skills, Sally lacks social maturity and interpersonal aspects. Also, she is choosy in essence, with a complete bias on a critical care as opposed to regular medical-surgical unit (Marquis and Huston, ...

Should the sale of semi-automatic weapons to civilians be banned? This is a huge question in politics at the moment. It is also a topic that most politicians like to avoid or give patented answers to. This is because they are trying to avoid distancing the NRA and 2nd amendment enthusiasts. This paper will argue that civilians should be banned from purchasing and owning assault weapons. Gun advocates argue that the second amendment and the right of citizens to “keep and bear arms”. This ensures that everyone has the right to own and use a gun. This means that ...

In any given society, the role health sector plays are vital; hence, there is the need for strategies to be incorporated to enhance efficiency level in the system. The management of healthcare organizations needs to lay strategies which ensure that the resources in the enterprise are capitalized entirely for productivity in the organization. Human resource in organizations proves to be critical in the mobilization of other resources such as financing and capital resources. In this article, a model for strategic management of human resource in the health sector will be discussed. The model will attempt to link up variables ...

The bio psychosocial model

Wellness is the positive state of wellbeing and not the absence of disease, research has proven the truth in this by clearly illuminating light to the connection between our different dimensions as human beings(Evers et al., 2015). This includes the physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of man, however the Bio psychosocial model looks at the relationship between health and our physical, social as well as our psychological components. The WHO defines health as state of psychological, social, physical, and spiritual wellbeing and not the mere absence of disease or infirmity all these aspects are intertwined and contribute ...

Introduction

The human resource management function is an organization function whose main concern is to manage people within organizations focusing on the organization policies and systems (Siddiqui & Kleiner, 1998). Siddiqui & Kleiner (1998) argue that effective management of the human resources is essential to the success of the organization. Human resource management function is tasked to oversee the welfare of the employees’ administrative affairs in the organization. Traditionally, in the healthcare sector, the importance of the human resource management has not been fully appreciated (Kabene, Orchard, Howard, Soriano & Leduc, 2006). However, over the years, the benefit of the human resource in ...

Abstract

Lately, the health care sector in New Zealand has been facing challenges related to the old-fashioned method used in offering services. In many occasions, it has made it difficult for patients to access affordable health services since many health hospitals lack the technological capacity to handle the increasing numbers of patients with different ailments. Due to this, the relevant agencies have been pushing health service sector, particularly the public health sector, to embrace modern technology so as to address the health crisis in the country. This has seen many health organizations to launch programs geared towards adherence to the ...

Ebola virus made its way to the headlines for the very first time in the late 1970s as the population of Congo and Sudan suffer from a deadly hemorrhagic fever. While it was thought that such outbreaks were controlled in Africa and the rest of the world, the virus startled the United States once again in the year 1989—ten years after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak in Africa (Peters and LeDuc, 1999). Today, Ebola virus continues to haunt the people all over the world as the World Health Organization disclosed another outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, ...

- Timeline of Ebola Outbreaks The world first came to know about Ebola virus in the late 1970s through a series of hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Congo and Sudan. Since then traditional quarantine methods were employed to control the outbreak from the clinics and hospitals in Africa. Research efforts on Ebola began to diminish upon the report of an isolated case in Tandala and a small outbreak in Sudan. However, ten years later (1989) Ebola virus re-emerged on cynomolgous monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) in a research facility in Reston, Virginia in the United States. Such outbreak prompted several laboratory studies to understand ...