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The Improvement of Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice There could not be found a skill more important than critical thinking in the medical profession. It appears to be a vital element of any competence regardless of the specific domain of health knowledge. It determines health professionals’ abilities in providing adequate help and ultimately defines the quality of their performance and patient care outcomes (Papp et al., 2014). In recent years, the demand for critical reasoning capability has increased due to the progress in biomedical science and technology. The necessary improvement can be made by prioritizing critical thinking in the training process and providing the students with tools to develop this ability during everyday life activities. Therefore, critical thinking should be viewed as an essential capacity ensuring medical treatment efficiency. Critical Thinking in the Clinical Setting Critical thinking relates to the processes of perception, evaluation, and analysis of relevant information. Regarding nursing practice, critical thinking skills involve collecting valid information, distinguishing facts from opinions, evaluating the credibility of information sources, and drawing clinical conclusions. There are specific behaviors that can enable the enhancement of critical thinking. Nursing students should develop “independence of thought, fairness, perspicacity in personal and social level, humility, spiritual courage, integrity, perseverance, self-confidence, interest for research and curiosity” (Papathanasiou, Kleisiaris, Fradelos, Kakou, & Kourkouta, 2014, p. 283). I believe these features could be valuable when resolving everyday problems as well. However, there are different levels of personal and professional responsibility. In clinical settings, nurses have to apply critical thinking to provide adequate medical treatment to patients. The patients’ lives and well-being often depend on the nurses’ ability to come to sound clinical judgments based on informed opinions and empirical knowledge. When a nurse exercises critical reasoning in his or her ordinary life, the responsibility usually shifts to the well-being of just one person. As for me, I consider my critical thinking skills sufficiently developed to solve my problems quite successfully. At the same time, in a complex clinical environment with various nuances to take into account, I often feel like a novice. Therefore, I firmly believe that my critical reasoning development should be continued further during any activities. As a future health professional, I understand that the outcomes of patient treatment entirely depend on my ability to mobilize the best of my skills.
Introduction The book, Snow , by Orhan Pamuk, is based on a historical evaluation of the significance of the veil to the Muslim culture. The book analyzes the plight of women in Turkish society. Pamuk, at 92 exposes societal issues by describing the social, economical, political, and cultural aspects through the depiction of the headscarf or hijab. In this historical piece of work, Pamuk has presented the various challenges that women who wear the hijab are faced within society (Pamuk, 104). Background Information The Republic of Turkey banned the wearing of the burqa , hijab, or the niqab back in the 20 th Century. In 1923, Mustapha Kemal Artaruk declared Turkey a secular state. He promoted secularization in the year 1924. The Turkish government used the law to oppress women by passing unfair legislation . The headscarf according to Mustapha presented resistance to his attempts to modernizing the newly formed Republic of Turkey. 95% of the geographical area of the Republic of Turkey is inhabited by Muslims. The huge percentage of Muslims has in the recent past brought about interreligious clashes like those between the Turkish army and the Muslim fundamentalists. The ban on the headscarf meant that all women working in the public sector like in schools, hospitals, courtrooms, parliament and all government offices would not wear the headscarf. The ban became specifically strict when it came to the procurement of identity cards, passports, or the creation of commercial advertisements by women. An attempt to have the ban on the headscarf lifted has been futile. In 2007, Erdogan the Prime Minister of Turkey tried to formulate a policy that would lift the ban on the headscarf but the motion was not successful. In 2008, the parliament of Turkey also tried to have the ban on the headscarf lifted but the move also failed. Thematic presentations of the book, Snow The purpose of the author is to reveal to the reader of his book the hidden truth about the plight of women in certain states of the world. Fear and oppression are major thematic concerns of the book. Women who do not conform to the law on the headscarf are usually prosecuted. In 1998, there were reports of the expulsion of a Turkish student from the university because of wearing a veil. In certain countries especially in Western countries, veils are just worn for fashion and do not attract any religious conflicts. The author uses his characters to depict the reality, however “harsh” it can be. He analyzes the kind of suffering that women in several states of the world go through in various contextual aspects. Chekhov, a character in the book is used to symbolize the wasteful nature of certain theological doctrines because he upholds certain religious virtues regarding the hijab without really knowing why the headscarf is important. Men are seen to look down upon women as seen in the pastry shop where they spend
Introduction The National Institute on Drug Abuse indicates that soldiers are usually affected by substance use problems (Allen, Crawford, & Kudler, 2016). It is also notable that the use of illicit drugs and alcohol is not high among military professionals in comparison with the other members of the society. Stress and the nature of the working environment are some of the risk factors for alcoholism in the military. Organizational culture and bureaucracy associated with the military encourages more people to use various substances. Sleeper and Bochain (2013) argue that the nature of this problem should be analyzed carefully in an attempt to come up with adequate guidelines to address it. This paper gives powerful guidelines and recommendations that can be embraced by substance abuse social workers to treat and minimize alcohol dependence in the military. Analyzing the Nature of the Problem Statistics indicate clearly that alcoholism has become a major challenge in the military. In 1998, around 35 percent of active duty soldiers were observed to engage in various malpractices such as drinking alcohol (Allen et al., 2016). Binge drinking was also identified as a common practice in the military. The percentage of alcohol users had increased to 47 percent by 2008 (Waller, McGuire, & Dobson, 2015). This is a clear indication that alcohol dependence is quite high among women and men in the military. Interestingly, the percentage is extremely high among soldiers who have been exposed to deadly environments. This means that there is a positive relationship between combat exposure and alcoholism in the military. Pietrzak, Pullman, Cotea, and Nasveld (2013) indicate that specific factors tend to influence the behaviors of different military men. For instance, frequent drinking varies depending on certain attributes such as gender, age, exposure, and race. Military men were observed to have increased chances of taking alcohol. Heavy drinking has also been observed among Hispanics in comparison with whites. The rank of an individual is linked with frequency of drinking. Evidence indicates that those in lower ranks tend to drink frequently compared with their respective supervisors or commanders. Young soldiers below the age of 27 have been observed to embrace the malpractice. This is a clear indication that the rate of drinking decreases with age. The most remarkable observation is
Timothy Hill who is a renowned architect argues that, architects have an obligation to their clients to deliver a good project and commit themselves to facilitating flow of ideas that will help in building of great structures (Abc.net, 2011). However, most often this is not seen as the case by clients since on some occasionally the architects are blamed when things go wrong without even giving them the credit for other great and wonderful projects that the same architects might have designed. Architect Doll Kombumerri raises an issue that should be of concern, he laments that, it is time the Australians address a crisis he refers as “a problem of own identity” that has contributed to people of Australia to adore the English house designs (Abc.net, 2011). Doll further condemns the Australian people for the passion to have “federation, or neo federation” kind of houses especially in Queensland region, because of reasons such as not being environmental friendly, not reflecting Australians cultures and negatively impact on the climate as well (Abc.net, 2011). In the same regard, Glenn argues that, he has a problem in developing the Australian designs because people do not buy these ideas. In fact, according to Peter Mclntyre, the Australians used to stare strangely at one of his work the River-house while wondering what it actually is (Abc.net, 2011). Sugimoto house in Kyoto Sugimito’s house is an old building constructed in the year 1743 under the ownership of the Sugimoto family; today, the Sugimoto house situated in Kyoto town has been reconstructed in a strategy to preserve the house after its destruction by fire in the year 1870 (Copan, 2010). The restructured building was constructed under influence of ideas by “the Chinese capital chang’An” in what was described as a tedious task of restructuring it (Copan, 2010). This house measures about 435m2 of the 1,200m2 plot and is actually smaller than the original building; inside the building consists of a shop, Sugimoto’s family living quarters, and worker quarters as well (Copan, 2010). The entire building is constructed with walls that are made of wooden panels and paper frames designed in a unique way while the floor of the house is build in a way that can allow different functions at different times. The dining room can for instance double up as a dining hall and bedroom by use of flexible cardboard wall that is flexible (Copan, 2010). Looking at the house image, one can see that the Sugimoto house is a town and an artist work that comprise of 15 rooms in average which have been designed in a complex manner with the generation from the family living in there. This house has be
This part of the paper is devoted to the methodology. It reflects ethical approvals and clearance, study design, sampling, data collection, and analytical tool that would contribute to the perspective concise analysis of the study results. It seems appropriate to examine every aspect of the methodology respectively. Ethical Approvals and Clearance The research is conducted according to the ethical principles. The participation is completely voluntary. Before completing the survey, every participant should carefully read and sign a consent form, where all the rules are written in detail. It it stated that answers and the personality of respondents will be kept anonymous. Moreover, all the information provided by participants will be secured by password and destroyed after the research. Participants are free to interrupt the completion of the survey at any time. Thus, the study does not violate human rights and discriminate persons due to their age, gender, or ethnicity providing clear and uncomplicated rules that explain the purpose of the study. The research is to acquire the information directly from participants. It is also should be noted that the study provides participants with the relevant contacts concerning e-mail and phone number in the case if they would like to know more about the research. Study Design Every study needs a research design before starting because it is an integral part of the research. Therefore, we need to determine a research method of the research. In our study, we would use a mixed design of the investigation. A qualitative method involves the collection of information in a free form; it focuses on the understanding, explanation, and interpretation of empirical data that is the source of speculation and productive ideas. A quantitative method comprises conducting various surveys based on the use of structured questions of closed type, which corresponds to a large number of respondents. The main objective of quantitative research is to obtain a numerical estimate of the issue or the reaction of respondents towards it. Consequently, the quantitative representation would be accompanied the qualitative explanation of the situation. Sampling The research bases on the self-evaluation of participants. Namely, they evaluate whether metacognition improves their learning performance or not. In order to study a particular group of students, the research is focused on 22 female students from Zayed University, Abu Dhabi campus. Their majors are psychology and human services. Participants’ age is between 20-24 years. The majority of them are in their third year of education. Therefore, inclusion and exclusion criteria consist of age, gender, and University. Data Collection First of all, we identified a key objective of the study. The research question is: “Do people who monitor their learni
Over the recent past, the issue of climatic change has raised major concern about the well being of the recent as well as the future generation. One of the main issues that have significantly contributed in climatic change is the destruction of the environment. This has impacted negatively on economic activities like mining which plays a significant role in the Australian economy. The climatic change has been characterized by unpredictable weather conditions. These can be extreme temperatures or extreme rainfall. As a result of these changes, it has become very difficult to make appropriate plans. This has led to huge losses economically. Climatic change has led to increased cases of floods which is a very common problem over the recent. The cases of floods have significantly increased a thing that has caused huge destruction of mines (Cooper, Grey, Raymond and Walker 2004). This has particularly affected the mines since most of them become inoperable when covered by water. A good example of adverse impact of the climatic change is the flood that occurred in Australia in 2010 and early in the year 2011. This has significantly affected the coal mining in the country as well as other economic activities (International Standard ISO/FDIS 31000 2009). The flood cost the economy a large fraction, which was lost to the disaster. Although several measures were taken to mitigate the problem, the flood had an adverse impact on the economy. As already noted, this flood
Designing an Online Collaborative Lesson Integrating the elements of TPACK into a collaborative lesson in literature for seventh-grade students might seem rather hard. However, by using efficient techniques, one can achieve impressive results. The topic of the sixty-minute lesson in question being the specifics of Poe’s poetry, it will be relatively easy to thrill the students into paying attention. The goal of the collaborative lesson will be to teach the students poetry analysis in general and the approaches to analyze Poe’s poems in particular. The major objective of the lesson will be to teach the students use their iPads applications for studying purposes. Therefore, in the course of the lesson, such materials as iPads, course books and PowerPoint lecture slides are going to be used. The use of TPACK is vital for the efficiency of the given lesson. The technological knowledge is represented in the given case by the ability to use iPad applications for studying purposes. While students use iPads on a regular basis for entertainment, it is necessary to teach them to use these devices, as well as other technological advances, for their academic performance. The elements of pedagogical knowledge can be traced in the way in which different teaching strategies are applied in the course of the lesson. For different types of activities, different strategies are going to be utilized (i.e., cooperative learning for group tasks, classroom experiments for individual tasks and assessments for the evaluation of the test results). In its turn, the content knowledge (Dehnavi, Sarafi & Nematbakhsh, 2011) will be demonstrated by the way in which the students will apply their newly acquired skills of poetry analysis in their individual and group assignments. E-Learning Case Studies An Offensive Comment Whenever a discussion is started, conflicts are unavoidable (Hageman & Stoope, 2012). Therefore, it is required that the students should learn to handle these conflicts instead of denying their existence. With that being said, it will be necessary to convince the “offended party” that a comment should not be taken personally; instead, it should be viewed as just another person’s opinion, which may or may not be true and only reflects the given person’s broad or, on the contrary, shallow vision of the world. The Lesson That Bridges Nations One of the greatest problems of collaborative lessons concerns the challenges related to organizing the cooperation of all participants involved (Callahan, 2004). The distance and the difference in students’ schedules manifests itself especially clearly when collaborative classes are carried out among the students living in different states. However, there is a way to solve the problem. After figuring out the schedule of each student, one will have to use the days when each student is free as the possible time for classes and let the students agree on time. Comments Theft Unfortunately, the instances of stealing the others’ comments and posting them as one’s own ideas a
Report on the Presentation The report focuses on the strategies that increase the sustainability of forestry in Brazil. To define the degree of damages and ecological situation, the researchers pay attention to such areas as logistics, plan breeding, biological control, genomics, food technology, animal science, and use of industrial residues in agriculture. The main objectives involve restoration and conservation of natural ecosystems, sustainable control of forest plantations, and rational amelioration of forest products. Sustainable forestry also includes changes by integrating silviculture, applied socioecology, and technology of forest products. The concept of silviculture encompasses cloning and hybridization of eucalyptus. The genetic process seeks to increase the adaptability of plants to the dry climate of forest areas in Brazil. Fertilization and nutrition of forest plantation are also among the main sustainability strategies. The socio-ecological approach is described in the report to connect the social welfare of rural areas with the improvement made to forest lands. Specifically, this aspect of research analyzes how carbon sequestration and sustainability forestry can contribute to higher social levels of living. Finally, the technology of forest products is of great importance as well because it contributes to the analysis of plant breeding techniques. Further, the report elaborates on the major problems related to the reconstruction of the forestry area in Brazil. This is of particular concern to water deficiency, old technology, and lack of efficient irrigation systems. The first step to be taken should be site preparation that premises on the introduction of new technological systems for tillage. Such a strategy can contribute greatly to productivity. The statistics for the period from 1990 to 2010 shows that the production of eucalyptus increased from 27 m 3 ha -1 to 42 m 3 ha -1. Similar rates relate to the production of pinus. Site preparation covers the introduction of a new irrigation system that can eliminate areas with low, medium, and high levels of water deficiency. The report defines soil preparation as another approach to improving forest management in the country. Specific attention is given to pit digging and sub-soiling in the most problematic areas. Biodiversity conversation is strongly associated with the planning and reproduction of forest landscape using artificial planting. Understanding how the biodiversity of species contributes to the improvement of the sustainability of the area is also economically important for the development of the country’s regions. Hence, careful management and integration of modified species of plants will allow to preserve the natural resources and contribute to stable ecological development in various districts of Brazil. Research on Sustainable Forestry in Brazil The world’s greatest concern is focused on the disappearance of ancient forests, leading to the extinction of the most precious specifi
Introduction Identity entails an individual’s significant development milestones. In the course of development, a person associates with a group of people that subscribes to particular beliefs and behaviors. However, such inclination may prompt an individual to reject people that subscribe to contradicting behaviors and beliefs. Nevertheless, at one point, a person learns to accept people regardless of their identity, thus creating inclusiveness and diversity in society. Sexual orientation entails one of the most controversial issues in the American society. The main aim of this paper is to evaluate self-awareness on my identity based on sexual orientation. Sexual orientation Sexual orientation entails an individual’s mental, romantic, and sexual attraction towards another person. An individual can be heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual depending on his/her social constructs on sexual identity (Brewster & Melrose, 2014). Although sex identity is different from gender identity, I believe that these two aspects correspond to each other. Gender identity entails an innate feeling of being either a male or female. As a heterosexual female, I subscribe to the female way of conduct as depicted by social constructs. Initially, most societies were patriarchal, and thus roles were designed based on gender. In such communities including the Hispanic society in which I associate, women performed domestic roles whereas men were involved in commercial-related roles. Although most societies have changed in the recent times, some of these aspects remain. In the American society where I was born and raised, people no longer subscribe to the gender-based roles. However, some social constructs concerning sex identity exist especially in the family setup (Brisson, 2012). With reference to this analysis, I believe that I should behave as the society expects me to as a heterosexual female. For example, I am very choosy on my dressing code and I always ensure that I dress in clothes that bring out the feminine traits in me. I am sure that in the current society, I would prompt people to raise eyebrows if I dressed in drooping trousers or office wears, which are meant for the men. Similarly, I would raise eyebrows if I came across a male child dressed in a flowery dress among other forms of women clothes. Furthermore, after school, you will find me doing women-associated chor