Essays on Soto

Healthcare organizations face a big problem now when it comes to nurse staffing and scheduling. There appears a big scarcity problem in the number of nurses when assigned per patient. Researches done during the past decades have established the importance of having enough nursing staff or registered nurse staffing as they play a huge role in achieving positive patient outcomes, safety, and satisfaction. This means an adequate nurse to patient ratio promotes reduction in patient mortality, enhances outcomes, and improves nurse satisfaction when it comes to their work. For instance, one study pointed out that for every patient assigned ...

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Access to quality, safe, and affordable healthcare is a priority of every person worldwide. Most countries in the world, especially, the United States of America (USA), have continued to put more efforts towards improving the delivery of care to ensure every citizen enjoys quality and safe health outcome. Health disparities act as one of the major issues affecting the delivery of health in the U.S. Health disparities affect different groups of people in the country, but it's more common among racial and ethnic minorities and underserved communities. The increasing documentation of disparities in healthcare calls for an urgent need ...

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It was a unique time in history; slavery had been abolished, Jim Crow las were in effect but the civil rights movement had not yet begun. Voices like Langston Hughes spoke out against the racial oppression. Hughes himself wrote many short stories, poems and plays in his time. One of the themes that repeats itself in the works of Hughes is the word “mulatto”. “Mulatto”, a word used to describe a person of mixed black and white heritage, elicits a negative feeling or response from most people given the prejudiced nature of the word. Due to the negative nature ...

Crime must be punished, no matter the age of a person. Many teenagers are getting involved in crimes such as murder, theft, and drug dealing as a way to make money. Juvenile delinquency is the participation in criminal or illegal activities by minors, and when the teenagers are caught, legal systems give specific procedures to punish them. One of the common ways to punish the under-age criminals is through solitary confinement in juvenile centers. However, some minor cases may be forgiven, finned, and the child warned against committing the crime. Once the kids are taken into juvenile solitary confinement, ...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. (McNeese, 2006, p.105) Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the main representatives of the 20th century art, and the co-founder along with Georges Braque of Cubism. With significant contribution to the formation and development of modern and contemporary art, Picasso is one of the most prominent artists of the previous century, an artistic mastermind who managed to ...

Compare and Contrast Gary Soto's Moving Away and Cold as Heaven by Cofer

Abstract Cold as Heaven begins with a description of the atmosphere which is cool. The poet seems to be having a conversation with her grandmother about the snow. She describes her experience in the snow, her struggles to find a place to shield herself from a blizzard (Cofer 4). The tone here is a sad one; it seems the grandmother can no longer experience these things for herself. Therefore, she has to hear about it from her granddaughter. She is anxious to know what seem to be happening in the places that she cannot reach. The poet's use of ...