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There are a significant number of factors that inspire me as a registered nurse to focus on the lives of dialysis patients. For instance, as a dialysis nurse, I depend mostly on the outstanding interpersonal ability, when attending to dialysis patients as well as dealing with other professionals studying this issue (Daugirdas, Blake & Ing, 2007). In addition, the natural compassion inspires me to maintain the treatment and make essential changes in its ordinary plan. Accordingly, for a person to become a registered nurse, there are various trainings and qualifications required. After going through one of such trainings, I attained the necessary key nursing skills that help me improve the quality of my work and get inspired to focus on saving lives of dialysis patients as well as taking care of them. Furthermore, dialysis nurses are always trained to be team players who coordinate well with individuals from diverse areas. Thus, I got all the motivation and developed the will to stand with the patient throughout the entire process of their sickness due to my training program and skills developed. The toughest challenge I have encountered during my work with the dialysis patients is making decision on stopping the dialysis treatment putting in mind the reaction of the health care team as well as the family. In most cases, from my experience, a considerable number of patients find it hard to talk about putting an end to the treatment. In addition, they worry a lot about how their family will take such decisions and react. However, such patients are always advised to discuss their feelings openly with their relatives close people or even let the health care team be present during the discussion. As a registered nurse, I have met a lot of patients, but I have also encountered one dialysis patient who really inspired me. Lewis of New York was on dialysis for 30 years, and had five children and seven grandchildren. The most inspirational thing in this patient was the way he credited strict devotion to his treatment arrangement of his continuous achievement. His plan included taking his medicines, eating properly, and not missing any treatments. Lewis approached his treatment with a positive attitude and embraced the new lifestyle with the right mind. This is because he understood that the success of his treatment wais in eating healthy foods, being complaint and sustaining an active lifestyle. As long as patients take enough time to understand their diagnosis, they stand a good chance to remain on track with their treatment sessions. Dialysis patients should be independent and self-sufficient to live as normal life as possible. Lewis was an independent patient with a positive attitude in regard to living as long and normal life as possible. The best things that dialysis patients can do to improve their quality of life and contro
As we have already stated, the World of Dance is a unique event in the sphere of art that tries to attract the attention of people across the world. At the same time, it is focused on the youth as one of the most active categories of society. Young people prefer to lead an active lifestyle, which means that their participation in events like the World of Dance is part of their culture. Therefore, regarding the fact that these very people comprise the target audience, there is a need for a specific pricing strategy that will be able to meet this categorys requirements and contribute to the involvement of numerous individuals. These factors introduce the following peculiarities of the pricing strategy. All participants who want to compete and attain success do not have to pay. It is a key aspect of the show, which attracts thousands of people from numerous states. At the same time, it helps to popularize the event and guarantee a high level of interest to it as many individuals want to try their hands in dancing and become successful. Under these conditions, ticket sales and advertising become the main sources of income for World of Dance. However, there are also several factors that impact these aspects. First, the price of tickets could not be too high as the most active fans of the show should have an opportunity to visit a particular concert. For this reason, the average price is about $30-50, which remains affordable for the majority of people interested in it (World of Dance). As for advertising, it is obviously a central issue that guarantees stable revenues. The fact is that any popular show attracts the attention of numerous potential investors and sponsors that could use it as a platform to promote their products and attract spectators attention to services these companies or organizations might suggest. The high popularity of World of Dance and its significant impact on the target audience result in numerous contracts with investors who provide needed sums to support the show and guarantee its existence (Seidman). Under these conditions, due to the sponsors involvement, the World of Dance can introduce comparatively low prices for tickets and guarantee free participation for all individuals who feel they could do it. This well-thought-out pricing strategy results in the increased popularity of the show and helps organizers to preserve the high level of interest. Another critical aspect of the marketing plan is the creation of an outstanding experience that will attract spectators and guarantee a high level of satisfaction. Regarding the peculiarities of World of Dance, it is crucial to ensure that the event contributes to the appearance of especially strong feelings along with emotions related to belonging to a specific subculture. Thus, the creation of experience includes such elements as creative expression, dancing, emotions, authenticity, openness, and connectivity.
Interaction between Social and Cognitive in Social Cognitive Theory While considering the interaction between social and cognitive, specific attention should be paid to changing behaviors. The cognitive dimension strongly relates to the way people respond to challenges. They should practice self-efficacy to generate meaning and values. Regardless of the environment, physical state, psychological characteristics, and social roles an individual performs, it is important to acquire the meaning of life. Human nature, therefore, should depend on external factors, but the main role of a human being lies in changing the reality he/she lives in by exercising such qualities as dignity, respect, and meaningfulness of life. This is at this point that human beings establish interaction between social and cognitive. Humans should respond to consciousness because it defines the actual essence of humanness. Responding to the self means reacting to the things and events surrounding people. In such a way, individuals can evaluate their human potential by cognizing the social realm. Thus, the interactive process implies the constant interaction of an individual with the environment. A person, therefore, can receive responses from beyond that can trigger human potential and change behavioral patterns to be able to face difficulties. The established dualism between the individual and the common stands at the core of all human relationships. Therefore, the individual should realize that the environment depends largely on the thinking and response mechanism. The social setting can either be full of meaning or reflect the existential vacuum of emptiness. Understanding what the definition of a man should cover will allow people to reveal the key to improvement and enhancement of individual capacity. Searching for meaning, therefore, is strongly associated with the ability to overcome challenges and express commitment to the value of life. The difference in Explanation for Behavior in Social Network Theory and Health Belief Model Social Network Theory is premised on the assumption that people are constantly interacting with the social environment. Therefore, the relations between a human and the environment trigger human development, as well as understanding of further purposes and goals in life. Changing attitude is the main pathway to improving reality. Besides, social network theory views human behavior as a reaction of relationships in a social network. Within the context, individuals are represented as nodes tied with external realms. The presented scheme of nodes and ties shapes the social capital of humans. Health Belief Model refers to the social cognitive theory and implies the prediction of behavioral responses to therapeutic approaches during treatment. The attitude to the treatment of both the patient and the person who is engaged in
Background Discrimination has taken many definitions over the years. However it can basically be said to be a representation of prejudicial treatment to a person for membership in a given category or group. It is the relationship that exists between one group to another and the actual manner in which they treat each other. It mostly involves restriction denial and withholding of opportunities or access to such opportunities to an individual of a certain category. Such preferential treatment need not cause harm to be discrimination. It is enough to give worse treatment to an individual over another for some pertinent arbitrary reason. Argument In 1968, Riceville, Iowa teacher, Jane Elliot, watched in horror as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. She was greatly concerned at how discrimination was being perpetrated in society with sheer ignorance of the damage and pain it was causing to the discriminated people. In an attempt at passing the message against discrimination to her 3 rd grade students she attempted to give a lesson to sensitize the class on the effect of the vice. However this was an exercise in futility since like their parents and the society around them they did not understand or have a feel of what discrimination was. In fact some of the children only saw black people on the television. The topic as therefore discussed lightly and with ignorance. She therefore used a practical example of discrimination in which she separated the class into two groups. The first group was made up of children with blue eyes while the other was made of children with brown eyes. She then proceeded to praise the group of children with blue eyes as against those with brown eyes. The children were made to believe that the children with blue eyes were more superior and were more intelligent and therefore deserved to be treated better. The children with blue eyes were given advantages and privileges over their brown eyed friends such as more time during breaks and more teacher attention. They were also warned against interacting with their fellow brown eyed class mates and they were not to play with them. The brown eyed students were also made to wear blue scarf’s that would be used to identify and distinguish them from other children. On the second day, the blue eyed children took their turn and were made to wear the scarfs. Jane Elliot altered the mindset to portray the blue eyed students as lazy and rude. They were also made to suffer lesser privileges such as not going to play as well as a single share of lunch as opposed to going for a second share for those who were not satisfied. The brown eyed students were also given more teacher attention and received more congratulatory remarks form their teacher as opposed to their blue eyed classmates The response at the end of the two day exercise was exhilarating. The effectiveness of this method in delivering knowledge and affecting the learning process was very good. The children voluntarily condemned the vice of discrimination and gave their feel of the activity. The sense o
Introduction The ability of the brain to change following an individual’s experience is referred to as neuroplasticity (Alamacos, Segura, & Borrel, 1998). This characteristic of the brain was discovered more recently and discredits the earlier belief that the brain could never change after a person has gone through the critical period of infancy. The brain is chiefly made up of nerve cells and glial cells which are usually linked. Learning can be achieved through the alteration of the strength of these connections. In the last century, the common belief was that the lower brain and the neocortical areas could not be altered in structure after structure after childhood (Winship & murphy, 2009). This belief has been challenged by the new revelations that indicate that all parts of the brain are plastic and can be altered even in older individuals. This paper seeks to identify the ability of the brain to re-task a different area to perform a function that has been affected by brain damage (Lazar, Kerr, & Wasserman, 2005). Earlier studies Previous studies done by Wiesel and Hubel showed that ocular dominance columns that are located in the lowest neocortical visual area were largely not changeable after one has passed the critical period in development (Black, Cianci, & Markokowitz, 2001). These critical periods were also examined in respect to language development; the findings suggested that all the sensory pathways were permanent subsequent to the critical period (Kaeser, et al., 2010). However, the earlier brain studies had also shown that changes in the environment could result in change in behavior and cognition. This change was linked to the alteration in neuronal connections and neurogenesis in specific parts of the brain such as the hippocampus (Boudrias, Mcpherson, Frost, & Cheney, 2010). Decades of enduring research on the functions and structure of the brain indicate that alterations take place in the lowest neocortical processing areas and that the alterations could result in marked changes in the pattern of neuronal activation in response to experience (Kaeser, et al., 2010). The resulting neuroplasticity theory asserts that experience can result in the modification of the brain’s physical structure and the functional organization (Alamacos, Segura, & Borrel, 1998). Neurobiology and cortical maps The idea of synaptic pruning forms one of the important aspects of neuroplasticity. Synaptic pruning explains that specific links
Executive summary Nestle is a multinational company that is involved in manufacturing products, in the nutrition, health and wellness industry. Since its establishment in 1886, it has undergone through several changes which its CEO, Brabeck-Letmathe, says are steady and well calculated. A recent change is use of GLOBE, system Codification-Based Strategy, in information use and sharing. It was meant to improve productivity, efficiency and increase the quality of customer care services. This system changed the way information is accessed, used and shared among employees in various departments all over the world. This system called for a change in the way employees related with management and vice versa which necessitated a change in the organizational structure of the company. In this report I take a brief look at some of the changes that have occurred at Nestle over the years and the current change due to GLOBE system and the need for it. The structures of the organizational changes that occur at Nestle are discussed in detail. This process presented challenges for the implementers and Nestle in general since it was met with resistance and delay. This was countered with intensified campaigns to create awareness and lobby for the changes. Finally, an action plan of the change management activities in Nestle is outlined detailed what will be done in each program, who will do it, for how long and the cost to the company. The Nestle Change Management Nestle is a multinational company that is involved in manufacturing products, in the nutrition, health and wellness sector. The buzzword in nestle is ‘good food, good life’ which summarizes its mission of providing their consumers with a broad range of food and beverage products for all events that are the best tasting and most nutritious. Another buzz word for Nestle is ‘creating a shared value’ which Broeckx, (2007) explains means that the corporation creates and pursues long term sustainable value in actions, strategies and processes to all stakeholders be it consumers, communities, shareholders, employees and business partners. Beside these, are the corporate, business principles where the company outlines its culture, which has been in use for more than 140 years, and are a manifestation of Nestlé’s thoughts on fairness, honesty and long-term thinking (Nestle, 2011). The company was founded in 1866 by a Swiss national, Henry Nestle in Vevey, in Switzerland. During this time, marketing of products outside the country was through sales agents. This, however, changed in 1900s when the company started buying subsidiaries in foreign countries. In America, the company launched its products after the First World War in response to increased demand for dairy products. This was done through acquisition of existing factories, and soon after the Second World War, many executives in the Vevey headquarters were t
After carefully conducting Porter’s 5 forces analysis for the Chinese Fireworks Industry, the following rating was established. Porter’s Force                         Rating Threat of new entrants                 High   Threat of substitute products          Medium Bargaining power of suppliers          High   Intensity rivalry within the industry  High   Bargaining power of consumers          Medium  Threat of new entrants As it has been observed, the widely spread expertise and knowledge of fireworks manufacturing among the Chinese people has increased the chances of new entrants in the industry (Jiang, 2010). With the manufacturing of the fireworks having its origin at family-level, there are high chances of new firms to be established in the industry. As a result, there is high possibility that profitability in the industry will decline significantly as more firms enter into the industry (Porter, 2008). Threat of substitute products There are moderate chances of the products in the fireworks industry in China to be substituted. The technology adopted in the manufacture of the products is sustainable with the availability of the raw materials being of steady supply (Jiang, 2010). However, emerging technologies have given rise to nuclear-based explosives which are higher expensive that the ones made in the firms in the Chinese Fireworks Industry. With these nuclear-based explosives being less affordable than those from gun-powder, chances are moderate that the products in the Chinese Fireworks Industry will be substituted. As a result, the substitutability of products in the industry can be rated as ‘medium’ as shown in the diagram above (Porter, 2008). Bargaining power of suppliers With the widespread of explosives manufacturing skills among the Chinese culture, right from the family level, there has been sustainable supply of labor in the industry (Jiang, 2010). Further, the high availability of raw materials used in the manufacture of explosives in China has made the Fireworks industry posses high bargaining power of suppliers. As it has been observed, China’s fireworks industry is one of the potential suppliers of commercial explosives in the global markets as a result of the high bargaining power of the suppliers. With high level of expertise and wide availability of raw materials, the industry has been rated ‘high’ in the Porter’s industry analysis. Competitive rivalry within the industry With the availability of expertise in China for the manufacturing of explosives, high level of rivalry has been experienced in the industry (Jiang, 2010). Many firms have been established, with high level of innovations remaining explicit as firms seek to establish competitive advantage. As a result of high level of rivalry in the Fireworks Industry in China, firms have been devising powerful competitive strategies making the industry to remain dominant in the global markets. It is the high level of
The passage from the short story by Jacobs is a literary work, whereby issues of magic and fate are explored. The author uses literary devices and characters in the story to help the reader explore these issues. The story gives a number of angles with regard to the issues. In this story, Jacobs indicates how myths and the belief in negative fate are just in the people’s imaginations, and not logically or rationally possible. The author is trying to examine how different people may perceive magic. He is trying to create an environment that will help the reader understand how different people may believe or not believe in magic. Jacobs tries to create a scenario whereby the reader will examine the ways in which people believe in magic, and how ordinary events can be mistaken to be caused by magic. The author is talking about fate and magic at the same time, and also tries to show the way people surround mythical things with beliefs that make it easy for the believers of such things to end up believing that magic or fate are a reality. In this passage, however, fate is seen as a different from how it is defined in English language. For instance, fate is seen as an outcome that cannot be interfered with by man. This refers to both positive and negative outcomes of events. In the passage, the author uses the word fate to indicate an undesirable outcome that a human being has no chance of changing. This is in connection with other beliefs, such as believing in magic and myths. The author is als
The Geography of Thought Richard Nisbett’s book ‘The Geography of thought’ illustrates how communities differ in norms, values, power distance and intercultural communication among other aspects. The common practices visible from many societies include enculturation, ethnocentrism, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. China and Greece are used to explain the difference between Eastern and Western cultures (Nisbett, 18). A philosopher once argued that the difference between the two cultures is because the West had Aristotle’s influence while the East had Confucius influence. Scholars argue that ancient Greece and China had cultural and social differences because of their environment, ecology, economic practices and political system differences (Nisbett, 20). Greece’s contemporary civilizations featured individuality, personal freedom and objective thought. Their political system influenced these qualities because it was a city-state. Their politics encouraged assembly and persuasion but discouraged rational debate and arguments. Greece’s lucrative occupation was trading boosted by its maritime location at crossroads. Unlike China who believed education was a route to power and wealth, the mercantile class in Greece educated their sons out of curiosity and belief that knowledge had value (Nisbett, 38). Greeks mixed with all types of people, beliefs and customs who practiced diverse religions, politics and ethnicity. Due to their location, they developed logic and formal cognitive procedures that helped them deal with dissonance during assembly and marketplace. China on the other hand has an ethnic group known as Han, which approximately 95% of its population belongs to (Nisbett, 48). The country has ethnic homogeneity and centralized political control thus Chinese population is not exposed to different beliefs, values, religions and practices. Therefore, since they had little difference in opinions they had few procedures in solving conflicts. In summary, China is a Gemeinschaft society mostly due to the homogeneity in their values, norms and practices. China is a one ethnic group society making intercultural communication easy. China’s economic activity was farming which brought people together because of irrigation and other joint activities that required cooperation. Greece, on the other hand, is a Gesellschaft, its main focus is mainly on individualism due to the multiple ethnic groups, mixed practices, religion and norms. Their economic activity being hunting, fishing encouraged