Concept Map Ethical dilemma in nursing takes place when the experiences of the registered nurse are conflicting with personal values as well as beliefs and some element of patient care. One of the key moral dilemmas that a nurse can face while providing care is the treatment of a patient at the end of life. Towards the patient’s end of life, there is usually a problem as to which course of treatment ought to be rendered to the patient. The nurse is expected to provide palliative care with the main objective of relieving the suffering of the patients through the extensive examination and treatment of bodily, spiritual, as well as psychosomatic symptoms faced by patients. However, the nurse may face conflict from the family who necessitate aggressive patient care during this time rather than palliative care (Rome et al., 2011).
The illustration above is a concept map that delineates an instance of…...

Patient-Centered Concept MapA patient-centered concept map is a visual representation of a patient\\\'s health status, including their health concerns, medical history, and current health status, as well as their personal goals and preferences. his tool can be used by healthcare providers to better understand a patient\\\'s unique needs and to work collaboratively with the patient to develop a care plan that is tailored to their specific needs and preferences. he patient-centered concept map can be an effective way to facilitate communication between the patient and their healthcare team, and to help ensure that the patient\\\'s care is truly patient-centered and aligned with their goals and values.Creating the Concept MapCreating my patient-centered concept map involved a multi-step process. As the healthcare provider, I started by gathering information about the patient\\\'s medical history, current health status, and any ongoing health concerns or issues. his information was obtained through interviews with the patient,…...

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The article by Corbett (2012) on wound care nursing is also relevant, as it highlights the importance of proper wound care and infection prevention in patients with diabetes. This is particularly important for Roy, who is at risk for infection due to his non-compliance with insulin therapy.The nursing diagnosis and care plan provided by Mammy and Esther (2023) on the risk for infection is also appropriate for Roy\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s situation, as it provides a framework for identifying potential sources of infection and implementing strategies to reduce the risk of infection.To plan my interventions, I used the American Diabetes Association Professional Practice Committee\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s guidelines to develop a comprehensive care plan that addressed Roy\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s specific needs and goals. This involved working with Roy and his family to develop a clear communication plan, providing education on proper insulin administration techniques, and developing a personalized diet and exercise plan. The article by Corbett (2012) informed my interventions related to wound care and infection prevention, while the nursing diagnosis and care plan provided by Mammy and Esther (2023) helped me identify potential sources of infection and implement strategies to reduce the risk of infection.

Map of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Breast Cancer
Lifestyle

Eating Better

Cutting down on alcohol

Giving up Tobacco

Exercising

Controlling Stress

Medications/Surgical

Medications approved to treat breast cancer:

Abitrexate

Abraxane

Ado-Trastuzumab Emtansine

Afinitor et al. (National Cancer Institute, 2016).

Concept Map of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer

ETIOLOGY

Primary

The etiology of breast cancer remains mainly unidentified. isk factors linked with breast cancer can be clustered into three comprehensive contributing factors: i. family history (hereditary) factors, ii. hormonal reproductive factors

environmental factors (DeBruin and Josephy, 2002).

Secondary

Polymorphisms of drug-metabolizing enzymes may influence risk of breast cancer from environmental chemicals, dietary agents, and endogenous steroids (DeBruin and Josephy, 2002).

BEAST CANCE

DIAGNOSIS

History/Physical

Lump or contour change

Skin tethering

Nipple inversion

Dilated veins

Ulceration

Paget disease

Edema or peau d'orange (Medscape, 2015)

Diagnostic/Lab Tests

Chest x-ray (CX) Complete blood count (CBC)

Basic metabolic panel (BMP)

Lactate Urine analysis (UA)

Urine culture (UC)

Blood cultures x2 sites (ischer, 2013)

PATHOGENESIS

Primary

When estrogen goes into the cell, it fixes the E and the complex drifts into the nucleus and results in the production of transcription proteins…...

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References

Lepor, H. (2005). Pathophysiology of benign prostatic hyperplasia in the aging male population. Reviews in urology, 7(Suppl 4), S3.

Roehrborn, C. G. (2008). Pathology of benign prostatic hyperplasia. International journal of impotence research, 20, S11-S18.

Dhingra, N., & Bhagwat, D. (2011). Benign prostatic hyperplasia: An overview of existing treatment. Indian journal of pharmacology, 43(1), 6.

Maps to increase comprehension for ESL's
English as a Second Language Learner

The academic achievement gap between linguistic minority groups and other students is a persistent problem for the American public school system (Thernstrom and Thernstrom, 2003). The pattern of underachievement and a high school dropout rate for Hispanic/Latino students among immigrant groups is particularly pronounced (Wong Fillmore & Meyer, 1992) Of the school-aged English Language Learner (ELL) population, 73% come from Spanish language backgrounds (U.S. Census Bureau, 2002), and their test results in reading are of particular concern as literacy skills are the building blocks for academic achievement. The gap between the test scores of Hispanic/Latino students and white students is a well documented phenomenon, existing throughout grades K-12 in both reading and mathematics (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 2003). According to the NCES (2000), 44% of foreign-born Hispanics fail to complete high school. A much lower percentage of…...

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References

Alper, L. & Hyerle, D (2006). Thinking Maps: A language for leadership. Cary, NC: Thinking Maps.Inc.

Anderson, S., Yilmaz, D., & Washburn-Moses, L. (2004). Middle and high school students with learning disabilities: Practical academic interventions for general education teachers -- A review of the literature. American Secondary Education, 32(2), 19-38.

Ausubel, D.P. (1960). The use of advances organizers in the learning and retention of meaningful behavior. Journal of Educational Psychology, 51, 267-272

Bahr, G.S. & Dansereau, D.F (2005). Bilingual knowledge maps as a presentation format: Delayed recall and training effects. Journal of Experimental Education 73(2), 101-118

This is an important historical communication, noted seventy years after Vespucci's discovery. Columbus indeed landed in the est Indies (San Salvador in the Bahamas), and on Gutierrez' map the cartographer wrote: "This fourth part of the world remained unknown to all geographers until the year 1497, at which time it was discovered by Americus Vespusius serving the King of Castile, whereupon it also obtained a name from the discoverer."
Hieronymus Cock, a Flemish artist, engraved the map in a collaborative effort with Gutierrez, Hebert explains; in fact Cock is believed to be one of the "most important engravers and printmakers in Europe in the sixteenth century."

Maps not only communicated important information - and still do - but, according to an article in the journal Americas, they are witnesses. Authors J.B. Harley and D. oodward write that maps "...may be called the light or eye of history" (the quote they use…...

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Works Cited

Casa de Contratacion (2005). La Casa de Contratacion (the House of Trade), Retrieved May 26, 2007 at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_la_contracion .

Harley, J.B., & Woodward, D. (1991). An alternative route to mapping history. Americas, 43(5),

Hebert, John R. (2002). The 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutierrez, Library of Congress,

Retrieved May 25, 2007, at  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gutierrz.html .

At which point, the students would begin studying composition of functions to verify each other. There will be a brief period of one day, to review the information that was covered during the quarter. (Cox, 2006)
In the first week of August, is when a comprehensive review will take place, covering everything that was presented in the year and preparing students, for their achievement as well as quarterly examinations. At this time, is when the educator needs to be focused on spending more time with the students. In some cases, it may be prudent to set up more recitation / review sessions before or after school. The extra time that can be spent reviewing the material and covering what was presented; will help to ensure that students are prepared for their assessment as well as quarterly examination, at the same time. ("Time and Structure in Curriculum Development, " n.d.)

Clearly, the…...

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Bibliography

Time and Structure in Curriculum Development. (n.d.)

Cox, K. (2006). Georgia Performance Standards: Mathematics 2. Retrieved July 23, 2010 from Georgia Standards website:

https://www.georgiastandards.org/standards/Georgia%20Performance%20Standards/Math-II-Stds-rev-0409.pdf

FORCE
Conduct a mind map for the concept of "Power"

POWER

HEGEMONY

AUTHORITY

PRESTIGE

Force: I used this because a country that needs to take military action to protect its borders uses force, a way of showing their power to protect their homeland.

The authority figures in any company have the power to make policy, change policy, to hire and fire and train people -- all of which results from their power within the company.

An important part of the power that executives and managers hold is their strategic abilities to influence how their company should run, who should be the leader, and what the image should be that is marketed to the consumer and the public.

Hegemony: this is normally seen as an abuse of power; slaves were subjected to the hegemony of their masters, for example. It also suggests domination by one person over another, and some companies are run this way with employees fearful at every…...

Perceptual Maps
Differentiation and positioning are closely related, but they are not the same. Borna and Chapman (1993) argues that differentiation is a form of positioning, but I would argue the reverse. A product can be differentiated in a number of ways. Thorr Motorcycles are differentiated on the basis of bike features and branding, for example -- things that make Thorr bikes unique. Positioning reflects the perception of differentiation that the company pursues.

The perceptual map helps Thorr to analyze how the consumer thinks about the different points of differentiation of Thorr motorcycles and from there it can be better understand if Thorr is pursuing the right positioning. The views of consumers about the different attributes of Thorr bikes -- and whether those attributes are important or not -- help to characterize a best fit positioning for Thorr. Consumers see Thorr bikes as high quality machines with superior design, but not necessarily…...

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Works Cited:

Borna, S. & Chapman, J. (1993). Product differentiation and positioning: Confused concepts. American Journal of Business. Vol. 8 (1) 51-56.

QuickMBA.com (2010). The product life cycle. QuickMBA.com. Retrieved March 29, 2011 from  http://www.quickmba.com/marketing/product/lifecycle/

But the author strikes an alarming note to the reader's ear when offering his most controversial predictions, such as the United States' possible annexation of nearby nations fifty years hence. Perhaps the most controversial assertion of the text is that the "terrorist attacks of 9/11 simply revealed the yawning gap between the military we built to win the Cold ar and the different" military system, strategy, and strategic alliance, "we need to built" to "secure globalization's ultimate goal," which is the end of war as we know it. (2) Although we would like "connectivity" to trump all, this is not an easy thing to achieve -- is the end to war really a valid long-term military objective, and will not the active pursuit of dysfunctional states create more war, rather than less conflict in the short-term?
Barnett's book is interesting to read in view of recent, frequent criticisms of the…...

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Works Cited

Barnett, Thomas. (2003). The Pentagon's New Map. New York: Putnam.

Nursing Concepts and Theory
Conceptual-Theoretical Structure paper

Personal belief about nursing theory and knowledge development process for nursing practice

All nursing theories play an important role in defining nursing and giving the roles that nurses need to play. Originally, the role of nurses was simply to carry out activities as instructed by doctors, however, over the years, this role has been changed to include more responsibilities as the nursing world has evolved. Nursing theories describe, predict and explain the various phenomena in nursing practice and thus create foundations for nursing practice. They also help to generate knowledge in the field of nursing and to point the direction which the field should develop in future. This view is supported by Carper (1978)

who states that nursing theories elaborate nursing practice and create professional boundaries for the profession. Nursing knowledge comes from research that has been conducted on nursing which forms scientific knowledge and experience gained…...

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References

Anderson, A.M. (2005). Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company.

Carper, B. (1978). Fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing. Advances in Nursing Science, 1(1), 13-23.

Clark, M.J. (2003). Community health nursing: Caring for populations (Fourth ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Dayer-Berenson, L. (2010). Cultural Competencies for Nurses: Impact on Health and Illness. Burlington, Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Figure 2: "Information System for Geography" (GIS)

2. The Map View: A GIS consists of a set of intelligent maps and other views depicting features and feature relationships on the earth's surface. Students can use GIS to support their queries, make analyses, and edit information. ith GIS, they can create maps of underlying geographic information and utilize the maps as "windows into the database," as noted by figures (3 & 4).

Figure 3 & 4: Intelligent Maps (GIS)

3. The Model View:

GIS is "a set of information transformation tools that derive new geographic datasets from existing datasets." (GIS) Students can use these geoprocessing functions to retrieve information from existing datasets. The GIS then applies analytic functions, and writes results into new derived datasets.

Figure 5: Example of a Derived Dataset (GIS)

hen students combine data and apply some analytic rules, they can create a model that helps answer questions they pose. "In the example below,…...

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Works Cited www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5015493029

Alibrandi, Marsha, and Herschel M. Sarnoff. "Using GIS to Answer the 'Why's' of 'Where' in Social Studies." Social Education 70.3 (2006): 138+. Questia. 20 Mar. 2008  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5015493029 .

A www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000637589

Andrienko, Natalia, et al. "Testing the Usability of Interactive Maps in CommonGIS." Cartography and Geographic Information Science 29.4 (2002): 325+. Questia. 20 Mar. 2008  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000637589 .

Environmental Program Takes Aim at Weeds: Townsend K-12 School District 1 / Montana." School Administrator Apr. 2007: 12. Questia. 20 Mar. 2008  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5020644157 .

Children's Gate: Of a Home in New York by Gopnik (2008)
Of Maps

The work of Gopnik (2008) entitled "Through the Children's Gate: Of A Home In New York" relates a story about a man that worked for the city and during his employment took a set of aerial photographs and underground schematics and "turned every block, every highway and every awning -- everyone in all five boroughs! -- into neatly marked and brightly colored geometric spaces laid out on countless squares. uildings red, streets blue, open spaces white, the underground tunnels sketched in dotted lines…everything in New York was on the map: every ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway and every abandoned brownstone in the ronx." (Gopnik, 2008, p.3)

Of Mental Maps

Gopnik states in his work that it is not possible to make a life in New York absent the composition of a private map of the city in the minds…...

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Bibliography

Cohen, P. (2011) Thinking Cap: The Zoot Suit: Statement of Style or Protest? Arts Beat: The Cultures at Large. The New York Times. 5 July 2011.Retrieved from:  http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/thinking-cap-the-zoot-suit-statement-of-style-or-protest/ 

Knopf, AA (nd) Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York. Wolcott, James. Smugged by Reality. New Republic. Retrieved from:   Retrieved from:  http://www.newrepublic.com/article/smugged-reality .

Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map it
One of the measurements of the success of an organization is the application of effective and efficient strategies harmoniously directing towards the attainment of its mission, vision and goals. How about if the strategies applied are in trouble? Then there is a need to further the strategies until it is perfectly strategized. In this situation there is a need to map out our strategies.

Maps are directions which lead to a certain point of reality, the point where we are heading to. It is like in an organization, the way to attain our shared hopes and what we want to be known for is mapping out what we really want to achieve putting systematic strategies.

Strategic directions are oftentimes the core of the shell which organization must do in order to unify their vision and mission with their operational plans in which strategy maps are…...

Students, by seeing that a concept can unite so many different aspects of an idea are better able to draw connections between what is learned in the classroom and subjects that are common to their daily lives.
For example, take the broad curricular concept of 'travel.' The most obvious application of this concept is in a literature class, where students can learn about travel from stories about other lands, or about people traveling over the course of a story. But students can also apply the concept to math class, as they learn to budget for a trip, and calculate the speeds of various modes of transportation. They can learn about the science of how trains and planes are propelled, as well as research the weather conditions and geography of a possible destination. They can learn about the different people, cultures, religions, and wildlife of a land, and even create art…...

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Works Cited

Gail G. Muir & Sally S. Blake. "Foundations of Collaboration." (2006). The Professional

Organizational Development Network in Higher Education. Retrieved 19 Jan 2007 at  http://teaching.uchicago.edu/pod/muir.html .

What is concept-based curriculum?" (18 Jun 1998) District 118 Curriculum Design. Retrieved 19 Jan 2007 at http://www.d118.s-cook.k12.il.us/central/curriculum/what.html#generalization

Ornstein, Alan C. & Francis Hunkins. (1998). Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues. 3rd Edition, Allyn and Bacon.

YOLO Concepts Introduction
A majority of businesses prefer to maintain the same status quo and they prefer not to make any drastic changes that would result in changes in the way they conduct their operations. This holds true in the entertainment industry where revelers frequent the same spots every other day and they only get to experience the same thing as they had last time. This becomes monotonous and customers will begin searching for new experiences from other night clubs and entertainment spots.
Business Description
A. Purpose
YOLO Concepts is pop-up format Limited Liability Company that concerns itself with the running, management, and operation of entertainment events in New York City. YOLO Concepts is not a fixed brick-and-mortar establishment. Instead, it is a flexible ‘nightclub on the move’ that seeks to entertain party goers by setting up temporary party spots in unexpected locations like vacant warehouses, building rooftops, private residences, waterfront parks, etc.
B. Values
YOLO Concepts…...

Captivating Essay Topics Related to Planned Intervention SLD

Introduction:

Planned intervention SLD encompasses a range of educational strategies designed to address the specific learning needs of students with SLD (Specific Learning Disabilities). These interventions aim to improve academic outcomes, foster self-regulation, and promote overall development. Exploring the complexities of planned intervention SLD provides fertile ground for engaging and thought-provoking essay topics.

Essay Topics:

1. The Role of Assessment in Planning Effective Interventions:

Discuss the importance of comprehensive assessments in identifying the unique learning needs of students with SLD.
Examine the role of diagnostic assessments, informal observations, and progress monitoring in tailoring interventions.
Analyze the....

1. Question Chaining:

Encourage students to ask questions in response to each other's comments. This creates a dialogue where ideas are continuously refined and expanded upon. Guide students to ask clarifying questions, challenge assumptions, and explore alternative perspectives.

2. Socratic Method:

Use a series of pointed questions to help students arrive at their own conclusions. Start with a broad question and follow up with specific prompts to encourage critical thinking and logical reasoning. Avoid providing the answers directly, but rather guide students to uncover them themselves.

3. Think-Pair-Share:

Break students into pairs. Give them a thought-provoking question and ask them to discuss it briefly. Then,....

Marzano's 9 High-Yielding Strategies in Lesson Planning

1. Identifying Similarities and Differences

Compare and contrast concepts, objects, or events to highlight their similarities and differences.
Use Venn diagrams, T-charts, or other graphic organizers to facilitate this activity.
Encourage students to articulate specific reasons for the similarities and differences identified.

2. Summarizing and Note Taking

Provide students with a summary of the lesson after each section or unit.
Guide students in taking notes during lectures or presentations.
Encourage students to condense and synthesize information to enhance understanding and retention.

3. Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

Acknowledge and praise students for their effort, regardless of....

Strategies for Enhancing Group Discussion Effectiveness

1. Establish Clear Goals and Objectives

Define the purpose and desired outcomes of the discussion upfront.
Share the goals with participants to ensure alignment.
Regularly revisit the goals throughout the discussion to maintain focus.

2. Facilitate Active Participation

Encourage all participants to contribute and share their perspectives.
Use techniques like active listening, round-robin sharing, and brainstorming to foster participation.
Address any barriers to participation, such as silence or dominance.

3. Create a Supportive and Inclusive Environment

Establish ground rules for respectful and open communication.
Encourage participants to feel comfortable expressing their opinions and asking questions.
Celebrate diverse....