Problem: Article: If you have tried a few times to address your boss's bullying behavior immediately after it occurred and nothing changed, it may be more productive to schedule a meeting for a less emotional time. Choose a private setting for your conversation. A neutral location, like a conference room, or an off-site location, such as a coffee shop, is better for the meeting than your boss's office. Invite a representative from your HR department to sit in on the meeting. It may seem intimidating to confront your bullying boss, but it is a vital step in developing a better workplace relationship and standing up for yourself. If you maintain a sense of control over your emotions and speak objectively, you will be more persuasive and can help keep the conversation from becoming overheated. Don't be accusatory. State the issues in your own words and offer ways you both can work together. Stick to the facts and be professional. You can say something like, "I don't appreciate you calling me names, and I hope we can have more productive, professional interactions in the future." Cite specific examples: "It is not appropriate for you to yell at me in front of the entire marketing team." If you stand up for yourself, the bully may back down. After you speak with your boss about the bullying issues, make sure you record what happened at the meeting and what was agreed upon. Follow up this meeting with your boss with an e-mail confirming what transpired. Forward a copy to the HR department, and keep a copy for yourself.
Summary: Schedule a meeting. Remain calm. Document the meeting.

Problem: Article: Unlike the multidimensional scales of pain determined by questionnaires, the VAS is considered a unidimensional measurement of pain because it just represents the pain's intensity, or in other words, how much it hurts. When using a VAS tool, people specify their level of pain by indicating a spot along a continuous line between two end-points. Usually a VAS tool looks like a slide ruler that's not numbered on the side the patient uses. It's appropriate to use for pain caused by all conditions. On the back of most VAS instruments (where the patients can't see), there's a numbered scale typically from 1-10 where the doctor or therapist can make note of in their charts. The VAS is the quickest and probably the most sensitive single-item measure for pain levels, although it doesn't indicate the type, duration or location of pain. Many questionnaires use a VAS drawing to determine the perceived intensity of a person's pain. In a busy health clinic, time is often precious, so another quick and easy tool to use to measure pain is called the numerical rating scale. The NRS is similar to a VAS, except the scale is numbered, sometimes from 0-10 or occasionally 0-100, which is a little more specific. Zero represents no pain, whereas the highest number on the scale represents the worst pain imaginable. The NRS can look like a slide-rule tool or it can be a printed scale on a piece of paper. The person with pain chooses the number that best represents their pain level. Like all visual or numbered scales, the NRS measurement is subjective and based on the person's perceptions. The NRS is useful for health care practitioners who want to gauge their patient's response to treatment by measuring pain levels at specific time intervals (like every week, for example). The NRS is also used in the hospital for acute pain, and to gauge a patient's response to a specific intervention, such as administration of pain medication. Unlike the VAS, the NRS has the advantage of being administered verbally, so the patient doesn't have to move, read or write anything. The PGIC scale is helpful for describing your improvement (in terms of pain) over time or as a result of some sort of therapy. The PGIC asks you to rate your current status based on 7 choices: very much improved, much improved, minimally improved, no change, minimally worse, much worse, or very much worse. The PGIC is helpful for practitioners to understand how their patients are responding to treatment. The PGIC can be used for a wide variety of conditions and treatments, but it lacks more descriptive language to describe pain. The PGIC is often used in conjunction with other scales or questionnaires because it provides information on changing pain levels over time, but lacks pain intensity and pain quality measurements. The Wong-Baker scale is especially useful for children and adults who might have trouble rating pain with other scales. The Wong-Baker scale uses a series of six faces to help patients identify what level of pain they feel. The scale gives patients options ranging from "no pain" to "the worst pain." The first face is smiling and a patient might point to that face to indicate that she is having no pain at all, while the last face is frowning and crying and a patient might point to that face to indicate that she is in severe pain.
Summary: Measure pain with the visual analog scale (VAS). Use the numerical rating scale (NRS) instead. Use the Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC) to gauge pain progress. Try the Wong-Baker FACES pain rating scale.

Problem: Article: A baseball pass is used if you want to throw the basketball far down the court to an open teammate. Take the basketball in on hand and bring it slightly behind your head, above your shoulder. Step with your non-dominant foot and throw with your dominant hand, much like you would with a baseball. Baseball passes can easily be knocked out of your hand because you do not have full control over the ball. Only use a baseball pass if you really need your basketball to go the extra distance. One of the drawbacks from a traditional overhead or chest pass is that you need to set up for the passes which gives the defender a clue on what you are doing. Dribble passes are ones that are made by transitioning from dribbling right into a pass without setting up for a chest or overhead pass. As your ball comes up when you are dribbling, instead of holding it and setting up, push the ball toward your teammate as it is coming up from the ground. You do not have much control with this pass, so make sure to practice it before trying it in a game. Step forward and follow through just as you would with any other pass. The foot you are stepping forward with should be on the same side of your body as the hand you're throwing the pass with. A behind-the-back pass is thrown by gripping the ball in one hand and wrapping your arm around your back. This is one of the most difficult passes to throw, and should only be used if you practice it enough. Square your hips as you normally would with one leg forward. Using the arm on the same side, bring the ball behind your back and snap your wrist so the pass gets distance. Don't look at the teammate you plan on passing it to or else you will give yourself away, and the defender may know your attempting to throw a behind-the-back pass. This is a pass that's used if there's a defender that is right in your face. It is harder to control the accuracy of this pass since it's being performed behind your back, so you may turn the ball over.
Summary:
Throw an overhead pass with one hand for a baseball pass. Throw a pass as the ball comes up from a dribble for a dribble pass. Toss the ball from behind your back for a behind-the-back pass.