¶ … old Chinese proverb that I believe encompasses my feelings for the nursing profession. With the healthcare industry in its current state of disruption, it has become very important to re-evaluate the relationship of patient care and patient satisfaction. "Sometimes patient satisfaction needs to be measured one patient at a time. This usually has nothing to do with the impersonality of the plan, the aloofness of the provider, or the quality of the specialists to whom one is referred. Rather, it involves the basic rationing philosophies of HMOs, particularly the for-profit variety." (Birenbaum, 107) We can't forget that the business objectives of HMO's aim to purchase services and materials at the lowest price possible and trying to lock in a price in advance. HMO's have therefore changed the philosophy of the healthcare industry. As nurses, we have to make the best of this atmosphere. This essay therefore serves as the final writing assignment for our course and represents a culmination of all of our previous class assignments. The underlying focus of this work was to present my new found insights into what professionalism and the responsibilities of nursing are. I have learned a great many things and I now consider nursing professionalism to represent a certain display of confidence because we have acquired unique traits and a base of knowledge from a very specialized discipline of study and practice. Of course many other medical professionals have this attitude because I now understand that the field of medicine entails these specialized skills, a need for constant self-evaluation and self-improvement, constant service orientations, pride in the profession, a covenantal relationship with our patients, creativity, trustworthiness, accountability, ethical behavior, and of course leadership. This attidude is in...
Being a professional in this case also means teamwork.
As emotionally intelligent employees are reportedly more content, conscientious and committed in the workplace, businesses and organizations are repeatedly advised to recruit and retain these individuals. Abraham (2006), nevertheless, reports that the strongest findings emerging from her study was.".. The effect of job control on emotional intelligence." She contends that emotionally intelligent employees will not just naturally thrive in their workplace; that the work environment needs to provide independence in
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(MACV Dir 381-41) This document is one of the first confidential memorandums associated with the Phoenix Program, which details in 1967 the mostly U.S. involvement in counterinsurgency intelligence and activities and discusses the future training and development of South Vietnam forces to serve the same function, that had been supported by the U.S. In civilian (mostly CIA) and military roles. The document stresses that the U.S. role is to
The Title I reading instructor will become familiar with the Plato Learning content library. The Title 1 reading instructor will begin supplementing classroom instruction with the mini classroom lab using software from Plato Learning. Title I reading instructor will assess classroom performance and modify lab use accordingly. The STAR Reading test results will be evaluated. Survey results on student attitudes towards reading and learning will be compared to April 2007 results. The state standard scores
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