...Management 317: Organizational Behavior Spring Semester, 2012: 12:40-2:00 p.m. Tuesday & Thursday Professor: Dr. Kathi Lovelace Office/Email: Florence Moore 310A, kathi.lovelace@menlo.edu, (650) 543-3848 Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays: 10:45-12:45 p.m., and by appointment. From March 1 to April 19: Thursdays 5:00-5:50 p.m. Required Texts/Materials: 1. Robbins, S. & Judge, T. (2012). Essentials of Organizational Behavior (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. 3. MyManagementLab: This is an additional online resource that goes with our textbook. More information will be provided the first week of class (e.g., how to register, how we will use it). 2. Readings, case studies and other class materials will be posted on our Moodle http://menlo.mrooms3.net and Menlo Library http://apps.menlo.edu/library/courses/reserves.php sites. Please log-in the first week of class to ensure you can access our sites. Course Description and Approach: Organizational Behavior (OB) “is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structure have on behavior in organizations” (Robbins & Judge, 2012; pg.2). Topics include perceptions, personality, team dynamics, problem-solving, communication and collaboration, conflict management, and motivation. Building positive organizational cultures, understanding power and influence and leading and managing change effectively and ethically are also key topics covered...
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...Plan Self Assessments are quizzes that help evaluate employees on their skills, interests, personality, and values. “As ethical problems have increased in organizations, integrity tests have gained popularity. These paper-and-pencil tests measure factors such as dependability, carefulness, responsibility, and honesty; they have proven to be powerful predictors of supervisory ratings of job performance and of theft, discipline problems, and excessive absenteeism” (Robbins & Judge, 2011, pg. 1). As a manager for Riordan Manufacturing, three employees took a series of self-assessment tests for my organization. The analysis and interpretation scores of all three are positive and all three would make a great contribution to the organization. Positive people cognitively process more efficiently and are more productive. Job Satisfaction and Engaged High job satisfaction was above the range that determines lower levels of absenteeism, and their general attitude toward work is positive. Their engaged scores were also high, which defines these employees are in a positive state of motivation and fulfillment. “Individuals who score high in this category are loyal, dedicated, willing to devote considerable time to work, feel inspired by and proud of their work, and become immersed and absorbed while performing their work” (Stephen P. Robbins/University of Phoenix, 2005-2009). My employees are content coming to work and will possess good work ethics and values. They are self motivated...
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...TOPIC 1 NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT 1. Techniques used to assess nutritional status FOOD RECALL METHODS 24-hour food recall Recall of food and fluid intake Information may be collected by interview or self-administered questionnaire Advantages: quick, only short-term memory required, establishes a recent food pattern, easy to obtain a mean intake of large group Limitations: information is based only on one day, not usual intake Diet history Involves an interview to determine usual food and fluid patterns of individual over 2-3month periods Frequently used in adults to establish a basis for dietary modification Advantages: useful measure of usual intake Limitations: time consuming, difficult to standardise, relies on memory, believed to have insufficient quantitative value Food Frequency Questionnaire Self administered questionnaire to ascertain how frequently common foods are consumed Advantages: standardised method, cheap, don’t require trained personnel Limitations: limited number of foods included, reliability of the respondent FOOD RECORDS Involves clients recording current intake over a period of time (1-7 days) Weighed records provide accurate descriptions of food consumed Limitations: time consuming, requires cooperation of individual, may show only the actual intake which may be different from the usual intake, individuals may eat differently because they are recording their intake for a purpose EVALUATING DIETARY...
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...following essay will outline and describe the assessment, care plans and evaluation for an adult patient using Orem’s model of nursing. The patient’s name has been changed in order to protect her right to confidentiality which is a requirement of the NMC code of conduct (NMC 2008). Mrs Ashton is 71 years old and she was admitted to hospital following an episode of severe shortness of breath. She suffers from Asthma and has a history of recurrent chest infections and bouts of bronchitis, which she takes antibiotics for in the winter. She takes Salbutamol 100mgs three times a day. However, over the last week she has been feeling very tired and reports an inability to sleep because of the tightness in her chest, coughing up sputum and wheezing. She has lost her appetite and is unable to carry out her usual activities because she experiences difficulty breathing. Mrs Ashton lives alone in a first floor flat. Her husband died five years ago, her only son lives a few miles away and he visits once a week with his children. Mrs Ashton’s difficulty breathing was noticeable during the initial assessment as she had to take long pauses while communicating, her respiration rate was rapid and wheezing was audible. The care plan for Mrs Ashton will be informed by Orem’s Self Care Model. This model takes an individual and holistic approach to health care; it is underpinned by three inter connected concepts namely: the theory of self care, self care deficit and nursing systems (Cutcliffe...
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...of current thinking on nutritional health particularly relating to users of health and social care services. Learners will then be able to apply this understanding and make recommendations to improve the nutritional health of an individual. Unit introduction This unit builds on learner understanding of the principles introduced in Unit 5: Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology for Health and Social Care. Improvements in the diet of individuals are increasingly being recognised as a significant factor in maintaining, or effecting improvements, in overall health. It is therefore important that people working in the health and social care sectors, or those who are responsible for the wellbeing of others, have a good understanding of nutrition and diet. This unit gives learners an understanding of nutrition from a science-based perspective and of the role that food plays in social contexts. The unit may also provide useful underpinning knowledge for the study of food hygiene and practical culinary skills. Learners will explore concepts of nutrition using the language of nutritional science. Different aspects of nutritional health will be defined and routine ways of measuring this explored. Other aspects of nutritional data will involve describing the general principles on which nutritional requirements are determined in the UK and how information on the nutrient content of foods can be retrieved. Learners will also explore how the nutritional value of foods may be...
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...WRITING A NUTRITIONAL CARE PLAN I. Introduction The nutrition care plan translates nutrition assessment data into a strategy that will address the nutritional and nutrition education needs of a client. Thorough nutritional assessment is vital in order to come up with an appropriate and sound nutritional care plan. It utilizes, summarizes, and correlates all gathered information about the patient including dietary, anthropometric, clinical, and biochemical assessment data. It also takes into account information on lifestyle, motivation and other personal factors. II. Objectives At the end of the exercise, the students were able to: 1. Describe each component of the nutritional care process; 2. Review nutritional assessment techniques; 3. Demonstrate skills in undertaking nutritional assessment; 4. Identify clinical problems that have nutritional implications from the data obtained from the patient; 5. Identify priorities for dietary management; 6. Enumerate objectives for the overall nutritional care of a patient; and 7. Write a nutritional care plan. III. Activities The students worked in pairs. They devised a nutritional care forms. Each interviewed their partner and got necessary information like personal data, clinical impressions, dietary recall and anthropometric data. After which, they assessed nutritional status of their partner and developed nutritional care plan. A sample one day menu was also prepared. NUTRITION...
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...WORD COUNT 4399 The assignment will discuss a critical incident from a nursing management perspective, being an admission assessment experienced during placement. It is not a care study. There will be an overview of the nurse-managers responsibilities during the admission assessment and attention drawn to local and government policy. Particular consideration is given to risk assessment, Essence of Care (DoH 2001) in respect of the Waterlow Pressure Damage Assessment (1985), pressure sores, nutritional screening and delegation. Other issues considered will be communication, partnership working, the therapeutic relationship, and the nurse as an agent of change. Findings will be supported by literature. Identifying factors have been changed to respect patient confidentiality. Mary had no previous psychiatric history. She was eighty-four and lived in residential accommodation. She had two adult daughters who were unable to attend Mary’s admission. Prior to admission Mary’s behaviour had changed over several weeks and she had been refusing to get out of bed during the day. During admission she showed occasional signs of confusion but was able to give consent. Physically, Mary was in a wheelchair, had a history of falls, pressure damage, skin flaps. and needed full assistance with mobility. My mentor facilitated her admission assessment. I observed this in preparation of undertaking future ones myself whilst under supervision. From a management perspective my mentor who was the...
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...Assessment of the Family using Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns Grand Canyon University: NRS-429-V October 06, 2013 Health Assessment of the Jackson’s Family, using the Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns. The Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns Assessment is a very useful tool in assessing and evaluating the family’s established health patterns, allowing the care provider an inside look at the overall health of a particular family and able to assist them in setting goals for better health outcome for the entire family. This paper will discuss the health habits and manner of functioning of the Jackson’s family, which consist of a mother age 41, father age 37, and 3 teenage sons, ranging in ages from 19, 16 and 14. This assessment will be conducted by asking 2 to 3 open-ended questions based on Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns. The findings of Health Patterns of the Jackson’s Family, using Gordon’s Health Assessment. The Jackson’ Family is your typical family with a mother, father and 3 children. They have some set values and beliefs, and yet have some chaotic health behaviors which can become problematic eventually in the future, especially for the mother. In evaluating and assessing this family, it is evident that it is a family in which members care for one another very much. In the Pattern of Health Perception and Assessment, this family has a routine by which they will not seek medical assistance unless in emergency needs, but do follow up annually...
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...Family Health Assessment For this health assessment assignment the system theory was used on a family member from the African American decent as a way of assessing the family as a whole and not an individual. The “Systems theory explains patterns of living among the individuals who make up family systems”( Edelman, 2010, p. 173). The family member was interviewed and open ended family questions that focused on the eleven functional health patterns were asked. The eleven functional health patterns are values, health perception, nutrition, sleep/rest, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive/perception, self perception, role relationship, sexuality and coping. By asking questions about these eleven health patterns the interviewer began to understand the family members values, health status, health practice and health beliefs and the importance of using the system theory for family assessment. The first question focused on family values. The family expressed the importance of having a personal relationship with God and not just a relationship with a place of worship, as a top value in their life. “Meanings and values provide the vital elements of motivation and energy for family systems”(Edelman, 2010, p. 173). They valued having a relationship with God because if an individual does not have a relationship with God they will not be able to overcome the difficulties that they experience in life because they “process information and energy exchange with the environment...
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...Welcome to the BTEC First award in Health & Social care You have chosen this course and this handbook is designed to give you an insight into how the course will be run. The BTEC first award is a 120 guided learning hour course which will give you a vocational qualification. It will give you the knowledge, understanding and skills to help prepare you for employment or to lead on to further areas of study. The course consists of 4 core units for the complete qualification which have specific learning outcomes. Three units have been broken down into assignment tasks which form part of a number of central assignment briefs. In addition, there will be an external examination to assess the remaining unit. The tasks cover different assessment criteria and are designed for you to produce finished pieces of work which also compliment and act as learning tools for each other and produce a complete interrelating body of work. As the course is vocational you will be visiting places of work, meeting and working with practising scientists and learning how to develop science with a set purpose. You will be able to discuss and evaluate the progress and end results of your work. You will also look at a variety of issues within the health and social care sector. The assignment tasks will be assessed and internally verified by your teachers and an external verifier will assess your work. The examination will be assessed externally. You will be given definite deadline dates for...
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...Welcome to the BTEC First award in Health & Social care You have chosen this course and this handbook is designed to give you an insight into how the course will be run. The BTEC first award is a 120 guided learning hour course which will give you a vocational qualification. It will give you the knowledge, understanding and skills to help prepare you for employment or to lead on to further areas of study. The course consists of 4 core units for the complete qualification which have specific learning outcomes. Three units have been broken down into assignment tasks which form part of a number of central assignment briefs. In addition, there will be an external examination to assess the remaining unit. The tasks cover different assessment criteria and are designed for you to produce finished pieces of work which also compliment and act as learning tools for each other and produce a complete interrelating body of work. As the course is vocational you will be visiting places of work, meeting and working with practising scientists and learning how to develop science with a set purpose. You will be able to discuss and evaluate the progress and end results of your work. You will also look at a variety of issues within the health and social care sector. The assignment tasks will be assessed and internally verified by your teachers and an external verifier will assess your work. The examination will be assessed externally. You will be given definite deadline dates for...
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...W8 Assignment: Final Proposal HPI515 Measurement & Assessment Strategies PROGRAM GOAL: Losing weight is never an easy task. Many people tend to avoid the mere thought simply because of how demanding the process can be, but the goal is to have the participants lose 10-15 pounds in 2 months and relieve the symptoms of gluten/allergy/wheat sensitivity. OBJECTIVES: 1. The first step in losing weight is to make the decision that this is necessary for self-improvement and a better, healthier lifestyle. Anyone attempting to lose weight must be careful not to get sucked into the quick gimmick, "easy" weight loss program. Clients with a gluten free sensitivity and those that are overweight will lose 10-15 pounds as well as experience relief of gluten and wheat sensitivity symptoms in 2 months. 2. Practitioner meeting will help to prepare for clients advertise program and recruit clients testing to confirm sensitivity along with a symptom survey. One should also scrutinize the time frame the weight loss program gives in terms of short term, long term, and lifestyle changes. The survey should consist of a person’s height, age, gender, current weight, health status, diet, activity level, and what is their expected total outcome. 3. Schedule weekly meetings with clients’ nutritional response testing to help determine supplements client motivational Facebook group, weekly weigh-in and symptom survey implementation of maintenance program. A person’s height, age, current...
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...Assessment is the first stage of nursing process in which the nurse should carry out a complete and holistic nursing assessment of every patient’s needs, regardless of the reason for the encounter. Usually, an assessment framework, based on a nursing model is used. This assignment attempts to define the points of view of two different frameworks used to collect health assessment data, which are Majory Gordon’s Functional Health Pattern (1994) and The Roy Adaptation Model (2009). The next part would be mentioned about codes of professional, ethical and legal considerations. Finally, I would reflect myself regarding to how to collect and organise patient’s comprehensive health assessment data use these frameworks. The Functional Health Pattern assessment framework is particularly useful in collecting health data to formulate nursing diagnoses (Gordon, 1994, p. 69). Gordon has defined 11 functional health patterns that provide for a holistic client database (p.70). The first pattern is Health perception-health management pattern, is focused on the patient’s perceived level of health and well-being, and how to manage patient’s health. The next pattern is Nutritional –metabolic pattern. This assessment is focused on the pattern of food and fluid intake relative to metabolic need (pp. 80-82). The Elimination pattern is the third pattern. In this pattern, data collection is focused on excretory of the patient. Includes regularity and control of bowel and bladder habits...
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...Family Health Assessment Student Student Students In Christ University Family Centered Health Promotion 429V Janet Wall March 24, 2013 Family Health Assessment An assessment was performed using Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns to gather data about a family. “Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns (2007) help organize basic family assessment information (Friedman et al., 2003)” for the purpose of evaluating and identifying dysfunctional patterns and recognize strengths within the family and to aid the nurse in planning interventions for maintaining health and well-being of each individual within the family (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 177). An interview was conducted with a family consisting of 3 generations living together in one household. The family consists of a 50-year-old grandmother, Janet, her daughter, Holly (age 23), and the 4-year-old grandson, Brandon. The daughter and grandchild recently moved from Ohio to California following a divorce because they needed financial and emotional support. Both adults work and take care of Brandon, with his mother being the primary caretaker. He also goes to pre-school part time (personal communication, 2013). This seems to work and helps give Brandon a sense of security and safety. The review of health functions is as follows: 11 Functional Health Patterns Values, Health Perception Maintaining and carrying on the family cultural health practices is very important to this family, as they are primarily...
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...Health assessment patterns supporting patient focused care Mary Aguon, RN Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Introduction As registered nurses, a fundamental objective of the practice is to provide holistic and patient focused care. A diverse population, varying family dynamics, and distinct personal patient preferences serves as a challenge that nurses must overcome on a daily basis. In order to provide the upmost care for patients, nurses must conduct assessments and analyze data to better grasp not only a patients physical state of health, but also to gage their responses mentally and determine what they are capable of doing. One particular method used to aid in providing proper care is Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns, which assist in organizing the assessment aspect of nursing. Incorporating “… this framework for collecting the data base aids in formulating the nursing diagnoses and planning interventions” (Kriegler & Harton, 1992). To better portray the importance of patient assessments in providing greater quality care, the Brown’s were interviewed using Gordon’s functional health patterns touching on all aspects regarding health from spirituality, psychological aspects, life style factors, and more. Assessment One of the essential aspects of the 11 points of the functional health assessment is the perception of health and patterns. Exploration of health perception, “reveal beliefs about health, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, and level of...
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