...Hearing Impaired Patients Paula Inman NUR 440 October 10th, 2011 Priscilla Aylesworth Hearing Impaired Patients Hearing loss is a common health issue that affects 10% of the work population as indicated by many international studies” (Bento & Penteado, 2010, pg 64). According to Healthy People 2020 three out of every 1,000 babies are born with hearing loss (HealthyPeople.gov, n.d.). As we age hearing loss is caused by colds, earaches, medications, head trauma, and the aging process. At Illinois Valley Hospice most of our patients are elderly, and we wanted to see how we can help the hearing impaired patient feel comfortable in their surroundings even if they have difficulty hearing. The Sample Group We took a three-month sample of our patient. In total we served 57 patients ranging from 44 to 99 years old. Thirty of the patients had no hearing impairment, 19 had mild impairment, five had moderate and three had severe. In hospice, patients get to the point where they no longer respond, but research shows that hearing is the last sense to leave as they are dying. The hospice staff noted the different ways each patient was could communicate. With the mild and moderate hearing impaired patients the staff just needed to talk loudly and look directly at the patient so they had the opportunity to read lips. It was more difficult communicating with the severe hearing impaired. Staff noted that they needed to make sure the patient had their hearing aids in; staff would...
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...How hearing loss affects development of the mind James Garrett Excelsior College PSY235 Dr. Victoria Ferrara June 21, 2015 Abstract Hearing loss can have a tremendous effect on the cognitive development of human beings. Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory can be connected to this issue. Lev Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory can also be tied into the effects of hearing loss on development and the theory of mind is another theory that can help explain the why. Language development is one of the main reasons for a child’s mental growth and is also one of the main areas effected by a hearing deficit. There are many ways to combat the ill-effects of hearing loss including new technologies in hearing aids along with proactive parents, teachers, and healthcare professionals. How hearing loss affects development of the mind Pediatric hearing loss is not a low-incident disability with the educationally significant hearing loss being approximately 12 in 1000 children (Matkin & Wilcox, 1999). Anderson (2015) tells us that usually during the 24th week of pregnancy, an unborn baby begins to hear. Hearing is a vital means of interacting with the family and the world throughout life. A baby starts to distinguish sounds like human speech in the first months after birth. The foundations of language, both hearing and speaking, develop by age two. The development of language from the youngest age is directly tied to cognitive development, primarily affecting reading, learning...
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...Peaceful Evacuation Omar Coley/ Renee Coley BUS 518 – Project Management Leadership Strayer University Dr. Shah Jamali Spring quarter of 2014 Introduction This paper seeks to discuss the leadership styles of two Lieutenant Colonels (Lt.Col.) in the Israeli during a mass evacuation from the Gaza strip. The circumstances of the evacuation are that the Israeli government decided that all settlements in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip would be abandoned, against the wishes of the settlers some of whom had been living there for over twenty years. In addition to the leadership styles topics of discussion will include three examples of leadership actions and behavior and the pros and cons of each example. A comparison and contrast will be made using three similarities and three differences and discuss how each would handle current issues in Israel today. Finally, the paper will take a look at the interrelationship of the Lt. Col’s., using the Jung theory and for personality traits and how each one of their leadership styles may hinder or enhance a complex military operation in the case study. Leadership-Lieutenant Colonel Yaron Lt.Col. Yaron had a Lateral Influencing leadership style, which can be described as “emphasizing teamwork, team building and decision making.”(Rowley) This style can be highlighted surrounding a presentation he gave to senior military officers. “One of the officers did not like what he heard, so he reacted by sending a lengthy email to a Brigadier...
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...In December 2003, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shocked the world when he announce that Israel will disengage from the Palestinians, a Disengagement Plan, primarily from the Gaza Strip. There were several protests that erupted due to this news, as well as a human chain that was created in protest to stop the disengagement. Once it was decided that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) would carry out the evacuation mission, the issue of how this move would occur arose. Major General Dan Harel, head of the Southern Command was in charge of the entire mission. Harel decided to have a roundtable that would decide how this mission was to be executed. Among those that were invited was Lieutenant Colonel Daniel, a chief psychologist of the Southern Command. Daniels leadership proved to be that of someone that is consultative. A consulting leader is one that is concerned about the support dimension, but there is still a high emphasis on the task itself (Kloppenborg, 96). This is demonstrated when Daniel was first given the position and the task. Daniel main focus was first the well-being of that of the people. He gathered the other IDK psychologists, listened to them and their problems, and they all identified how they were going to complete the mission. The importance of listening to the other phycologists was to determine the mental capacity of the evacuators. Daniel also did research on other large evacuations to see what measures were taken during those instances. His research...
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...New http://nms.sagepub.com/ Media & Society Communication, community, crisis: Mapping uses and gratifications in the contemporary media environment Azi Lev-On New Media Society 2012 14: 98 originally published online 8 August 2011 DOI: 10.1177/1461444811410401 The online version of this article can be found at: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/14/1/98 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for New Media & Society can be found at: Email Alerts: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://nms.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav >> Version of Record - Feb 24, 2012 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Aug 8, 2011 What is This? Downloaded from nms.sagepub.com at Judea & Samaria College on February 25, 2012 410401 NMS14110.1177/1461444811410401Lev-OnNew Media & society Article Communication, community, crisis: Mapping uses and gratifications in the contemporary media environment Azi Lev-On new media & society 14(1) 98–116 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1461444811410401 nms.sagepub.com Ariel University Center, Israel Abstract The article analyzes how community members who were evacuated from their homes use various media, and especially the internet, to keep in touch, receive and disseminate information and express their opinions...
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...A Peaceful Evacuation BUS 518–Project Management Leadership Strayer University WinterQuarter of 2015 Introduction A peaceful evacuation of the Gaza strip was the primary focus of Israeli Prime Minister Sharon. In order to accomplish this mission the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Yaron and Lieutenant Colonel Daniel were solicit by the Prime Minister Sharon. The leadership style of both Yaron and Daniels will be described and a comparison will be made to explain the pros and cons to their leadership styles. The use of Jung theory will help explain the interrelationship and how the personality and leadership styles might enhance or hinder their team performance in this case study.. The leadership style of Lieutenant Colonel Yaron I found the leadership style of Lieutenant Colonel Yaron would best be described as Participative Style. The traits of this style are: team member ideas are equal with the leader, everyone’s input is considered, leader is team facilitator who frequently accepts the team’s ideas over his/her own (http://www.leadership-with-you.com/leadership-traits.htm). Yaron displays this behavior during the process of assembling his battalion. Three leadership actions and behaviors for Yaron was first his involvement with the company commanders and platoon commander to identify individuals who were not suitable for the mission. Secondly, Yaron worked with his commanders focusing on the routine operations required to prepare the new battalions. Third, Yaron...
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...in researching 1) Developing a search strategy showed me how to organize my material and stay on topic. It also introduce me to key concepts which I have been using in my classes when studying and taking notes. Ironically I found using this method at work as well. Recently I found a solution to an ongoing network problem and my manager approached me asking me to fully research the resolution draft an email and send it out to the entire team.By using the search strategy I was able to gather the correct information that was needed to draft the email and send it to my team. 2)The Boolean operator AND OR NOT stuck in my head the most. I learned that this method is the main component to an effective statement and to broaden or narrow your search. When I use to search google without using the Boolean operator I always wondered why the search engine always gave me along list of searchs that didnt really relate to what I was looking up. By using this method I was able to get the exact results that I wanted and as I mention above this method was also used when I did my initial search statement for the email I sent to my colleagues on how to properly resolve the network issue. 3)Lastly the most important component of a research project is to cite the resources appropiately. In this course i was introduce to several styles of citing. There are different citing styles for different documentation styles. I had to go back and really study this method thoroughly as suggested by...
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...How would one counter an active attack? b) Give examples of two possible scenarios when one cannot be absolutely certain that an adversary is launching a modification-of-message attack or denial-of-service attack, even when the proper security protections are in place. Explain your answer. c) How could traffic analysis jeopardize security? Give an example to illustrate your answer. Question 2 (a) Is it likely to achieve perfect security for a network (i.e. to have a network that will never fail in terms of security) in the real business world? Give three possible reasons to substantiate your answer. (b) The computing speed is much faster these days compared to that some years back. On the other hand, old algorithms and systems are still in use. Give three reasons to explain this situation. Question 3 a) (i) Explain Security Services and Security Mechanisms. (ii) Suppose the main threat of a network is replay attack. Does the use of confidentiality services protect the network against such attack? Explain your answer. (iii) Is it always the case that only one mechanism can be used to achieve the provision of a particular service? Give an example to illustrate and explain the answer. (b) Explain how the following services ensure security of the systems or of data transfers and give possible example or scenario for each: i) Message authentication ii) Non- repudiation iii) Confidentiality ...
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...Case Study 1: Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company Daniel Michovich Dr. Otto CIS532: Network Architecture and Analysis January 26, 2013 Mission Statement: Striving to be number one fruit and chocolate industry area wide. Introduction “Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company was established in 1935 in the Pacific Northwest of the United States to ship gift baskets of locally grown peaches and pears to customers in the United States (Oppenheimer, 2011)” In regards to the physical infrastructure of Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company, my investigation will reveal many important aspects to aid in the planning of the network design. First, I will determine the number of buildings to be used, as well as the distance between them and what equipment they will contain such as wiring closets or computer rooms and the current network devices. Determining the distance will help in the cabling design and wiring as well as the selection of technologies and devices to meet the design goals. My investigation will further reveal any architectural or environmental constraints, such as tall trees within the path that power lines may travel, that will assist in decisions such as whether wireless technologies are feasible as well as if there are any impediments to communications or installation, to include all hazards. Infrastructure architecture consists of the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when...
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...| | |The most damaging of the denial of service attacks can be a _______________ attacks, where an attacker uses zombie software distributed | |over several machines | | | | | |[pic] | |Bot | | | | | |[pic] | |Distributed denial of service ...
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...customer an opportunity to decide if they want the products or not. iPremier Company iPremier is one of the top retail business that sell the luxury items, profiting $2.1 million on sales $32millions in 2006. Since then sale has grown over 20% annually. There was a decrease, but everything works itself out. Upper management describes working at iPremier as intense. .Qdata is the company that host iPremier computer equipment and provided connectivity to the internet (Austin and Murray, 2007). Although Qdata offers monitoring of website for customer and network operation, they had not invested in advanced technology and was not able to keep staff. During 75-minute attack how well did they iPremier perform. What would you have done differently if you was Bob Turley Bob Turley is new Chief Information Officer and is currently in New York on business. AT 4.31 am he received a call, from the network been hack and wired email received with just the word “Ha”. The site was a DoS attack coming from about 30 locations, the purpose of the attack was an attempt to make the computer unavailable. iPremier was not ready for such an attached and didn’t have anything in order which would help them with such an attacked. The situation was poorly handled, and Bob did not contact anyone higher up to let them know what was going on. He didn’t know who to contact, whether to call police or FBI or who to contact at...
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... | |*Document Date: |[2013-05-20] | | T&A Handbook [pic] Update Notes |Date |Version |Description |Author | |2013-05-20 |V1 |T&A Handbook |Elham Kalantari | Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 T&A Interfaces 3 2-1 Source Availability 3 2-2 Dashboards 4 2-2-1 General Information 4 2-2-2 Over Time Mode 5 2-2-3 Over Network Elements Mode 9 2-2-4 Dashboards Contextual Menu 9 3 Examples 10 Introduction This document will guide you through the Trending&Aggregation (T&A) user interfaces. Some examples are available at the end. T& A Interfaces 2-1 Source Availability [pic] : This icon allows the visualization of source file availability. By clicking on it, below window appears. [pic] :...
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...afford to spend and if anyone is technical in the company or are they going to need some outside help to keep up maintenance after the system is in place. (this can add to the cost of the system) My next step would be to start asking some questions about the law firm. I would like to know what the law firm is in charge of doing. Criminal, civil, family or so on; I think this would give me a better understanding of some of the information I may be working with along the way. As a law firm I am sure they spend a lot of time in the courtrooms and in their home offices so other questions I would ask is if they have cell phones and laptops that will need to access information on the network; this will help in a couple of areas, firstly in deciding if we should consider cloud computing or a private network and secondly, how to set up files access and permissions by departments and depending on size of company, maybe servers. Being a law firm a big consideration would have to be security of the information they access and ways of accessing this information. I would like to talk with the employees also, just to get an idea...
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...Ruben Quinones IT245 - Introduction to Network Management Colorado Technical University Online Professor: Dr. Shawn P. Murray Phase 1 Individual Project Due January 13, 2013 Table of Contents Section 1: Target Organization - Identifying the Network 3 Section 2: Diagramming the Network - Network Architecture 4 Section 3: Network Models 5 Section 4: Network Protocols and Agents 6 Section 5: Network Security 7 Section 6: Network Management 8 References 9 Section 1: Target Organization - Identifying the Network * My organization is located in Pompano Beach, FL with a secondary warehouse location at Sunrise, FL. The company employs around 1,400 to 1,500 employees which 300-400 are computer and mobile device network user. * All of our users must use password protected sign on to access the network which gives access to our main software systems. * The company uses to Dell servers, one for back up and one for daily accessing. * The IT department consists of 5 employees; * IT manager – Supervises all IT technicians and Help desk operators. * Network I technician – overviews and maintains network protocols, ensures regular server maintenance is executed. * Network II Technician – gives back up to Network I and provides different analytical services to users. * Help desk technicians I and II – Executes more regular tasks, such as user maintenance, printer set up, workstation access and set up, and mobile devices...
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...TO: FROM: DATE: February 15, SUBJECT: Server Downtime Problem Statement: This report contains my findings and recommendations as a result of my research. This is a look into the server downtime and problems with the primary network servers here at Widget Company. First we will be looking into the numbers and statistical results I have found. Statistical Results: Based on the data I was given during the month of April the network experienced 5 different problems, they are lockups, memory errors, weekly virus scan, slow startup, and manual restart. The results of these issues are. 22 times the server was down 735 Minutes of total time server was down * * Of those 22 times the server was down the breakdown of how frequently each one occurred is as follows. * * * * This shows that memory errors were the most frequent reason the server was down. Memory errors were also responsible for the most time at 34% or 250 Minutes. What is interesting is that while there were only 4 times the server was down for its weekly virus scan it was responsible for about 33% or 240 minutes of the server downtime. * * * * Aside for the 4 planned weekly virus scans of 60 minutes each. The server was down 18 times for 495 Minutes. Memory errors contributed to over half of this downtime. Next we will take a look at my recommendations based on the data. * * Conclusion * * The server was down for a total of 735 Minutes during...
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