...NURSING PHILOSOPHY, 1 NURSING PHILOSOPHY NURSING PHILOSOPHY, 2 Nursing philosophy Definitions Philosophy Philosophies encompass a multitude of value statements and beliefs. Philosophies are based on knowledge derived from reality, personal values, existence, reasoning, and relevant presentation of concepts. According to Alligood (2014), they address concepts such as person, environment, health, and nursing. Philosophies are derived from different theoretical works which affirm general ideas pertaining to those works. Philosophies are all based on individual ideas which conceptualize different views of nursing. Alligood (2014) suggests that philosophies broaden everyday views of nursing. Nursing Philosophy Nursing philosophy is a representation of philosophy as it directly relates to nursing. According to Alligood (2014), specific nursing philosophies encompass theory guided nursing practice. The three different philosophies of nursing that each has their own value system are Nightingale’s, Watson’s and Benner’s. Each philosophy addresses its own concept of nursing care and factors that are associated with that. Alligood (2014) suggests nursing philosophies give us different views to consider when applying nursing care. Each philosophy serves its purpose as an interpretation of a rationalized value system of ideas of nursing care. Metaparadigm A metaparadigm is a knowledge type of nursing. The core basis of nursing is...
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...Nursing Philosophy and Comparison Paper A Comparison of Personal Philosophy and Sr. Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model September 14, 2011 Nursing Philosophy and Comparison Paper A Comparison of Personal Philosophy and Sr. Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model A personal philosophy is what one values for themselves as human beings. It reflects the many faceted realities of their self-concept and is influenced by: culture, spirituality, morals, values, and belief concepts. The relevance of one’s personal philosophy to nursing is significant. One’s philosophy directly affects the interpersonal relationship and care given to patients. For the purpose of this paper, the author will reflect and incorporate her nursing philosophy with the four nursing metaparadigms: person, environment, health and nursing, with the Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) and compare similarities’ and differences. Personal Philosophy The author’s personal philosophy is seeded in spirituality and seeing the world as interconnected with a divine source where all things are possible. She attempts to integrate the core concepts of her philosophy: intuition, altruism, holism, empathy, knowledge, compassion and advocacy into the nursing process. The author will define and demonstrate her nursing philosophy as applied to the metaparadigms. The person is viewed as a unique individual and energetic being (spirit) within a physical and integrated body system connected to a higher supreme source; environment: the...
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...SARAH Student # 640996 3. What is the purpose and what are the benefits of the marketing philosophy? How does it differ from past traditional philosophies? Give company examples (with appropriate referencing) to illustrate. Give examples to explain how companies are moving towards societal marketing within the hospitality and tourism sectors. An establishment of an organizations, business or products constantly applies marketing ideas by understanding customers need and developing the products and services to meet their satisfactions and needs. Peter F. Drucker who is a successful management consultant says “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” Hospitality and tourism industry are rapidly changing and flexible therefore a combination of marketing concept or strategy will be needed and is also due to increasing level of globalization therefore trends and function has been constantly changing over the decades However the basics of marketing philosophy has constantly guiding one’s businesses marketing activities. Purpose of marketing philosophy means giving a complete customer his or her satisfactions by studying and analyze target market theirs needs and wants while still meeting business goals and financial reason. In a simple word, we could say that the “the customer is the king”. Marketing philosophy is made of 5 different concepts which is production, product, selling, marketing and societal...
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...Environmental Ethics Environmental ethics is that branch of philosophy dealing with the major ethical questions regarding the relationships between humans and the environment. This includes issues such as biodiversity, wildlife management, ecological preservation, hunting practices, farming techniques, and food regulations. Emergence of the Field Environmental ethics emerged as a distinct field in in early 1970s. Among its driving forces were the environmental concerns regarding the dependability of our society on natural resources as well as the threat that our use of those resources poses to the integrity of the ecosystem; it should also be noted that the increased attention to an ecological perspective on life was promoted also by the prospect of exploring life on other planets. It should be noted that around the same period a cognate field was also developed: philosophy of biology. In the 70s, in other words, our theoretical perspective on life was deeply transformed and has led to movements such as the green revolution and the contemporary quest for sustainable living. Retrospectively, the emergence of those fields seems almost obvious. A Non-Anthropocentric Philosophy? Although environmental ethicist have applied ethical theories – such as consequentialism – to try and solve environmental concerns, the specificity of environmental problems facilitated the development of some novel ethical perspectives; an example of this is the non-anthropocentric...
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...Philosophy and Personal Profile: A Reflective Statement on My Philosophy of Nursing Since the beginning of time, men and women have engaged in the search for reality and truth and this search is called philosophy. Nursing philosophy examines the relationship between truth and ideals of nursing. Nursing philosophy can be individual or it can be global according to (Edwards, S.D 1997). Individual philosophies belong specifically to the nurses and reflect the nurse’s values, logic, morals and ethics and global philosophy is dynamic and changes over time and with circumstances. It is influenced by the era and the environment in which it is practiced. When philosophy is applied in health it becomes both individual and personal. Health is a dynamic state in which the individual is constantly adapting to changes in the internal and external environment. “A state of health is viewed as a point existing on a continuum from wellness to illness” says (June K.F (1997). The meaning of health varies with the perception of each human being. The purpose of the healthcare delivery system is to assist individuals in achieving their optimal wellness, a state of healing by utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that is sensitive to both environmental resources and constraints. Now this is where nursing comes in the forefront of wellness approach, we have to see individuals and treat them with holistic approach in other to achieve...
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...1. Compare IKEA with any major competitor of home furnishings such as Room to Go, Ashley or any other using the four P’s of marketing. Give examples. a. Product: The IKEA product range is wide in several ways. First, it's wide in function: you'll find everything you need to furnish your home, from plants and living room furnishings to toys and whole kitchens. Second it's wide in style. The romantic at heart will find just as much as the minimalist. And finally, by being coordinated, the range is wide in function and style at the same time, and at all times. No matter which style you prefer, there is something for everyone. Anybody can make a good-quality product for a high price, or a poor-quality product for a low price. But to make good products at low prices, you need to develop methods that are both cost-efficient and innovative. That is why at IKEA we approach things a little differently. b. Price: In IKEA the product are shipper than Rooms to Go. For example sofas in Ikea are approximately $200.00, when the similar sofa in Rooms to Go will be $300.00 more. c. Place: Ikea is a big furniture store localized in Millennia Mall. The location is perfect because it is a commercial area in a safe neighborhood near a well Known mall. It will draw many more customers because it is also a touristic main point. The place is different and there are just a few of them in some cities in USA. Here in Orlando there is only one. It is more modern than Rooms to Go. Rooms to...
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...October 3, 2010 Environmental Ethical Issues History According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (2008) environmental ethics began to come to the surface in 1970s. The environmentalists started urging philosophers who were involved with environmental groups to do something about environmental ethics. Most academic activity in the 1970s was spent debating the Lynn White thesis and the tragedy of the commons. These debates were primarily historical, theological, and religious, not philosophical. Throughout most of the decade philosophers sat on the sidelines trying to determine what a field called environmental ethics might look like. The first philosophical conference was organized by William Blackstone at the University of Georgia in 1972. Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of the environment and its nonhuman contents. In the literature on environmental ethics the distinction between instrumental value and intrinsic value has been of considerable importance. When environmental ethics emerged as a new sub-discipline of philosophy in the early 1970s, it did so by posing a dispute to traditional anthropocentrism. It questioned the assumed moral superiority of human beings to members of other species on earth. In addition, it investigated the possibility of rational arguments for assigning intrinsic value to the natural environment and its nonhuman contents...
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...Educational Philosophies Elizabeth Howell Liberty University What is the philosophy of education? It is a set of ideas and beliefs that guides teachers’ actions and provides a framework for thinking about educational issues. (Kauchak and Eggen, 197) Teachers use philosophy everyday in their classrooms. From the time the first student enters their room until the last student walks out, philosophy is affecting the way the teacher runs his/her classroom and how they interact with their students. There are four different types of educational philosophies: Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism, and Social reconstuctionism. There are also five classroom applications that help teachers decide which philosophies are used while they teach. They are educational goals, curriculum, teaching methods, learning environment and assessment. My educational goal is to develop problem solving, decision making and other life skills. This is progressivism. Progressivism is an educational philosophy emphasizing real-world problem solving and individual development. I feel that knowing the curriculum is important but it is just as important to teach the students how to use those skills in the real world. We have to help students to develop social skills as well as academic knowledge. Progressivism says that the purpose of schooling is to develop students as completely as possible—physically, intellectually, socially and emotionally. I completely agree with this statement. ...
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...marketing strategy. The company may focus on its own needs or on the consumers needs. The Geoffry B. Small Company uses one marketing philosophy on a global scale to let consumers know about their quality product and environmental activism. There are many similarities and differences between the four marketing management philosophies. Production orientation marketing, like sales orientation marketing, focuses’ on the companies own needs, but instead of aggressive sales the company strives to make a better product. Marketing orientation and sales orientation are two philosophies that are a direct contrast of one another. A sales orientation approach focuses on the needs and wants of the company utilizing aggressive sales tactics. Utilizing the marketing orientation focuses on what the needs of the market’s needs and wants. Societal marketing orientation is similar to marketing orientation by focusing on the markets needs and wants. However, societal marketing orientation also looks to benefit society as a whole such as being an environmental activist. (Lamb, 2014) The Geoffry B. Small Company predominately delivers a societal marketing orientation. (Lamb, 2014) The consumers of the Geoffry B. Small Company want a product that is unique and has handcrafted notes. While the company delivers the unique product they also demonstrate activism for the environment. Geoffry B. Small’s concept of marketing is to create a unique and high quality product that the customer needs and will last;...
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...Operating Room Etiquette: Preparing for Perfection Operating Room Etiquette: Preparing for Perfection Patient safety plays an intricate role in the nursing profession. It is through the foundation of a germ free environment in which protocols are set in an effort to decrease patient morbidity and mortality. The operating room (OR) is a major sector of hospitals in which its core is maintaining an environment of sterility in an effort to reduce hospital acquired infections or surgical wound infections (Duncan & Mayo, 2004). The OR is a fast paced nursing specialty requiring expert training and mentorship for perspective candidates. According to Burnette (2007), nursing students felt like they were not adequately trained for the complexity of the OR during nursing school. As an effort to combat this, The Methodist Hospital began the Methodist Advancement into Professional Practice Program (MAPP). MAPP students are senior professional nursing school students with an interest of pursuing a career as an OR nurse. The internship is an aggressive two month program focusing on the skills required to function as a highly trained OR nurse. In an effort to uphold recommended standards and practices, the core curriculum is based on the fundamental elements of the Association of PeriOperative Nurses (AORN). During the first two weeks students began their training in a classroom setting where were introduced to the basic concepts of the OR. The next six weeks students will be engage in...
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...THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES by Tehreem Nawaz Literature review The article emphases in a wonderful form of debate, on the basic importance of a discipline “the curricular” and its prerequisite, the curricular of any discipline which should be recognized universally and must have same core topics to be studied round the world. Then Environment Studies would be called discipline. Until 1960s Environmental studies programs in various institutions at different levels had been studied with all the courses of environmental study offered by each educational institution without pre requisite requirement as free-standing programs. Latterly the environmental programs evolved in to desperate fields within forestry and natural resources, to defined environmental studies and the clear statements about its curricular content and educational objectives have remained difficult to describe. For the environmental studies a specific curricular is to be given, has more important and significant. After more than a quarter century old Environment Studies now is in a new phase of growing and expansion, the need for its distinct identity is being more felt. Because of that it is needed to set its curricular with consciences, lest environmental education should not go in some political interests. Present trend is tending to bring environmental studies into a undefined able discipline. ------------------------------------------------- Debate in this article took start from evolution of environmental...
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...In the philosophy of education when it comes down to teaching as a profession, there are things teachers should take into consideration. Teaching as a profession has many codes they have to abide by inside and outside of the work place. The philosophy of education normally promotes a specific type or vision of education, and/or which examine the definition, goals and meaning of education. While you read this philosophy you will see what I have noticed or feel what teachers should do when it pertains to the student and their education. Behaviorism in the psychology sense is a movement in psychology and philosophy that emphasized the outward behavioral aspects of thought and dismissed the inward experiential, and sometimes the inner procedural aspects. Behaviorism in the educational sense is primarily concerned with observable and measurable aspects of human behavior. In defining behavior, behaviorist learning theories emphasize changes in behavior that result from stimulus-response associations made by the learner. In the book “About Behaviorism” B.F Skinner stated that he believes that certain things about behaviorism or the science of behavior are wrong. For example, 1. Its ignores consciousness, feelings, and state of mind 2. It neglects innate endowment and argues that all behavior is acquired during the lifetime of the individual 3. It formulates behavior simply as a set of responses to stimuli, thus representing a person as an automaton, robot, puppet or machine 4. It...
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...author identifies eight areas of “acute” environmental concern: 1. Global climate/atmospheric change 2. Toxic wastes 3. Loss of land 4. Loss of species 5. Loss of wilderness 6. Devastation of indigenous peoples 7. Human patterns and quantities of consumption 8. Genetic engineering For this project, select one of these areas as your focus in discussing the complex relationships between the environment and the human spirit, as well as how humans respond to or represent nature. The Research Paper will provide the supporting research for the Creative Presentation. The Presentation should be designed to accommodate creative and multiple strategies for representing the selected “environmental concern” and your philosophy or perspective regarding it. Your perspective may be influenced by other philosophies/perspectives that you have researched, accessed through direct experience or derived through culture including literature, film, music and/or art. Periodic progress summaries will be required during Weeks Two, Three, and Four. No Final Project will be accepted without satisfying the requirements. Research Paper Submit a Research Paper that includes the following elements: § Description : Identify your topic and describe the magnitude of this “environmental concern.” § Literature Review : Provide a summary of your research on the significance of the project on the environment or humanity. You should provide a minimum...
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...Ch. 4 Notes Situational Analysis - A process planners use, within time and resource constraints, to gather, interpret, and summarize all information relevant to the planning issue under consideration. Goal - A target or end that management desires to reach. Plans - The actions or means managers intend to use to achieve organizational goals. Scenario - A narrative that describes a particular set of future conditions. Tying plans to a firm’s financials is a key element of success. Bottom line is cost. Strategic planning - A set of procedures for making decisions about the organization’s long-term goals and strategies. Strategic goals - Major targets or end results relating to the organization’s long-term survival, value, and growth. Strategy - A pattern of actions and resource allocations designed to achieve the organization’s goals. Tactical planning - A set of procedures for translating broad strategic goals and plans into specific goals and plans that are relevant to a distinct portion of the organization, such as a functional area like marketing. Operational planning - The process of identifying the specific procedures and processes required at lower levels of the organization. Innovation - New ideas from managers throughout the organization can contribute to a plan’s effectiveness. Strategic management - A process that involves managers from all parts of the organization in the formulation and implementation of strategic goals and strategies...
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...Introduction “Nigeria is a country blessed with both abundant human and natural resources, and we therefore seek partnership not dependency; we seek to build capacity not undermine local initiative. Finally, while government can and should provide for its citizens, ultimately the private sector must be the engine of economic growth. If Nigeria can create an enabling environment for investment, including a frontal assault on corruption and lack of transparency, I am convinced you will find American businesses and investors eager to enter the largest market in sub-Saharan Africa, creating jobs here in Nigeria while offering expertise, innovation and some of the world’s finest products” (Ambassador Terence P. McCulley-July 1,2011) Throughout history, trade provided one of the first impulses for inter-state contacts and agreements. Though emissaries had been exchanged between kingdoms and empires since times immemorial in many world regions, the first form of modern permanent overseas representation took the shape of consulates, around the 16th century; these outposts were established in the Mediterranean, during the Ottoman Empire, when Italian principalities sought commercial markets, and the foreign traders themselves organized a form of joint representation in the ports, to deal with the local authorities. These early consulates saw the advantage of gaining support from their home administrations, and thus were born the first overseas representation offices – the resident...
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