...There are three different models of health and healing for the the human body. All three are useful in the nursing practice to assist patients in the healing process. There is physical-body, body-mind, body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. Of all the three there two I favor, body-mind and body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. They hope for the same outcome, a better patient, but have different style of approaches. Body-mind is one of the oldest health and healing models and originated from ancient healing practice such as Traditional chinese medicine. Nursing that promotes body-mind healing relies on strategies that soothe and relax the mind and body such as yoga, visual imagery, biofeedback and meditation to alleviate pain and stress while preventing infections by boosting immunity (http://www.brainline.org/content/2009/06/mind-body-medicinean-overview_pageall.html) . Being an avid yoga participant I know personally the benefits of mind-body health and healing. This model started becoming widely popular in the 1950’s and focuses on a person’s own ability to heal through becoming aware of their own feelings and beliefs (Koerner, J. 2016). This gives the patient the ability to participate in their own healing process. It empowers the patient by putting the ability to control stress, pain, etc through processes without relying on medicine or other health technology and professionals. Body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social health and healing model treats the entire patient. Its...
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...the information that they give us? Instead of incorporating the information to help us make a decision, we instead take the information and throw it out the window. We are what they call bias when things don’t go our way or we don’t hear what we want to hear. We as a society or as humans’ period are strange at times. Some of us hate to be wrong, and can never admit to being wrong. But I’m not going to touch on that. I’m just writing to show you how people can make decision that are bias. Everything we doing in this world are based on some type of bias ideal. We can never be truly open minded about anything. I myself have been guilty of making bias decisions. But I will say that if we use Critical Thinking skills instead of just shall we winging it we will be more successful in our ventures. I feel that if more people learned this skill then we would be well on the way for making fewer...
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...A). There are three different models of health and healing for the the human body. All three are useful in the nursing practice to assist patients in the healing process. There is physical-body, body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. Of all the three there two I favor, body-mind and body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. They hope for the same outcome, a better patient, but have different style of approaches. Body-mind is one of the oldest health and healing models and originated from ancient healing practice such as Traditional chinese medicine. Nursing that promotes body-mind healing relies on strategies that soothe and relax the mind and body such as yoga, visual imagery, biofeedback and meditation to alleviate pain and stress while preventing infections by boosting immunity (Mind-Body Medicine, 2016). Being an avid yoga participant I know personally the benefits of mind-body health and healing. This model started becoming widely popular in the 1950’s and focuses on a person’s own ability to heal through becoming aware of their own feelings and beliefs (Koerner, J. 2016). This gives the patient the ability to participate in their own healing process. It empowers the patient by putting the ability to control stress, pain, etc through processes without relying on medicine or other health technology and professionals. Body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social health and healing model treats the entire patient. Its focus encompassess gentics, behavior and culture when approaching assisting...
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...Learning Team Reflection Renee Bemis, Michelle D. Franko MGT/311 May 11, 2015 Julie Morgan Introduction As our team progresses through week three we have had lively discussions on a number of topics. Our focus this week involves communication, body language and facial expressions, and strategies to motivate employees. All of these elements help promote transparency between team members and between the team and the management staff. This summary will provide examples of each of these topics and how they affect all involved. Body Language The way one carries themselves, their smile, their posture and their facial expression speaks volumes. How we listen also says many things about your interest in the person that is speaking. “Your nonverbal cues and gestures can make or break relationships, and may have a significant impact on your success.” (Smith, 2014) Sitting with your arms folded, behind a messy desk, focusing on your cellular phone while a coworker is speaking screams, “I am not interested in what you have to say!” On the other hand, making eye contact, sitting a respectful distance away from the speaker with you hands folded in your lap and cellular phone put away conveys that you are ready to listen and devoting time especially for them. Walking through the office with your head down, scowl on your face, anger in your eyes and poor posture relays to others that you do not want to be there and no one had better approach you with...
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...women's movements are limited by the rules of society. In this first chapter, the parrot speaks in "a language which nobody understood" (pp3). The parrot is not able to communicate its feelings just like Edna whose feelings are difficult to understand, incomprehensible to the members of Creole society. In contrast to caged birds, Chopin uses wild birds and the idea of flight as symbols of freedom. This symbol is shown in a vision of a bird experienced by Edna while Mademoiselle Reisz is playing the piano. "When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore. He was naked. His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him." (pp26-27) In this vision Edna is showing her desire for freedom, desire for escaping from her roles as wife and mother, from her husband Léonce who keeps her in a social cage. After these episodes, the images related to birds are...
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...All about me, me and me Woosh. Woosh. Woosh. The fan spins in my excessively hot room. Sweat is dripping off my forehead and I feel like I might pass outtttttttttttttttttttt. Sorry just did right there. Oh fuck! I have to finish this essay tonight and what do I have? Zero inspiration to write something that’s all about me. It seems really easy but damn, my writer’s block is really kicking in. The heat is killing me. I’m sitting in my my room with a refreshing glass of water with two ice cubes, not crushed ice, I hate that shit. I mean why would you want crushed? The pieces are so small you’ll just start to swallow ice. I also have some bad for you poisonous shit chips to my left, but they taste soooo good. I’m listening and singing to some of Coldplay’s great hits on my small little amp. The most notable songs that catch my attention at the moment are: Viva La Vida, Lovers In Japan and Strawberry Swing. Sometimes I try to imagine that there is a strawberry swing on a rolling green hill with the markings of a strawberry on the wood seat of the swing. I love to put myself in the image of what the singer is describing. The lyrics are paint on the canvas of my mind. Thinking about being in someone’s song comforts me. Songs help me get through writing this difficult essay that I wish I weren’t doing at the moment. Wow! I’m almost at two pages. Don’t quit now. Damn. Game of Thrones is on my television. I have to resist! It’s so cool though; I can’t. I get up and turn my television...
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...Motor Graders in Construction The motor grader is a large multipurpose machine used for many different construction operations. These many operations include but are not limited to: grading, shaping, bank sloping, ditching, and scarifying. Graders can also be employed to clear roads of snow and debris without doing any damage to the underlying roadway surface. Graders are much more “gentle” than dozers and other large pushing machinery. Motor graders are designed for preparing the substrate of roads and other flat earth as well as leveling aggregate. By using the blade skillfully, it is also possible for the contractor to use motor graders to finish a slope and dig a ditch. In civil engineering, the grader's purpose is to "finish grade" the "rough grading" performed by heavy equipment or engineering vehicles such as scrapers and bulldozers. Motor graders are commonly used in the construction of dirt roads, paved roads and gravel roads. The motor grader can also be used by the contractor in the maintenance of these road types and ditches as well. In the construction of paved roads they are used to prepare the base course to create a wide flat surface for the asphalt to be placed on. Graders are also used to set native soil foundation pads to finish grade prior to the construction of large buildings. The amount of material that can be pushed by a motor grader is much less than what a dozer can push. This is because motor graders are built for fine tuning surfaces rather than just...
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...The earthen walls shake. My feathers rattle against the cage as another blast startles me. The inevitable screams follow; the wretched sound of men killing men. All that keeps this pigeon sane in this fetid cesspit of death is the inextinguishable thought of home. Home. A dovecot high above the city, surrounded by the bountiful streets of urban London. A loft, filled with the warm, earthy aroma of oats and the soft, inviting coos of my brethren. A place of safety, comfort and companionship, broken only by the occasional excursion with one of the humans that frequented the loft. We had a unique connection with home. No matter where we were in the world, no matter how far or how foreign the lands were, we could always find our way back. Its call, a physical manifestation of our attachment to the place, was a quality the humans found useful. Every once in a while we were coerced into temporary captivity, taken on a weeklong journey, only to be sent home upon arrival with a missive attached to one leg. But this journey has lasted much longer than a week. I was taken first across the Channel, then to hell. For the past two months I have looked on as humans spit fire and death at one another, listened as the incessant explosions tore limbs from bodies and stained the air with shrieks of pain, and now, finally, watched as the humans who accompany me are gradually whittled down, besieged as I am, by bars and bullets of cold iron and hard steel. But most of all I have endured the unbearable...
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...Daphne S. Dela Cruz 2/15/14 HE 150 Section 1 What to Eat when you’re Broke First off, I would like to honestly say I thought this was some kind of article I would not be interested in and would probably read it without taking any consideration and just winging this summary. But no, as I started reading this article, I realized that I was taking in what the author, Daisy Luther was talking about. She actually answered a bunch of questions that I always had coming and going in my mind about nutritional facts, junk food, healthy food, etc. There were words I did not understand so like what Ms. Sara said, I googled it to have a better understanding of the article. I am really angered at these companies that add such disgusting and unhealthy “ingredients” into the food that most people buy. But I also believe that I should be angry at myself and others for being careless to not read food labels to educate ourselves more on the dangers of what we consume in our bodies. I may also like to add about the video my class and I watched last week about the mom talking about nutrition and a lot of other things to, it angers me so much how America the supposedly, “greatest country in the world” actually allows some food, snacks, & drinks to be legal when a lot aren’t proven to not do harm to your body! And we have a bunch of other countries that actually do make them illegal; I mean what’s up with that America?! I remember reading in chapter one how the top three leading causes of...
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...Fact or Fiction? “These people must be piping it, winging it, making up the dialogue … Christ, maybe they’re making up whole scenes, the unscrupulous geeks ..”(Keenan, 2014). Tom Wolfe made this statement back in 1973 when there was an uproar against the up and coming “New Journalism”. This literary movement is when courageous authors want to try something different from the norm. This phrase was coined by Matthew Arnold in the attempt to make a new genre of newspaper history. When that plan backfired, Tom Wolfe changed the meaning. Now it is known to be when authors take a nonfiction topic and weave in literary devices to make it a fiction work. Wolfe and other popular writers during the 1960’s-1970’s participated in the movement, yet Truman Capote stood out above the rest. He changed a factual murder story into a fictional novel by using “New Journalism”, literary devices, and ending up changing the face of fiction novels altogether. “New Journalism” was not an initial hit for the public. Most felt that it was ruining perfectly good literature by emphasizing truth over facts. Capote was bold in his efforts to publish a novel with this style in mind. When Truman Capote first found out about the murder of the Clutter family he was instantly intrigued. He went out to Kansas and followed every step of the investigation and interviewed close family members to even the murderers themselves. This shocked the world because no one had ever interviewed those involved to get the...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Bergetter Harper Western Governor’s University Professional Presence and Influence I’m focusing on the mind/body/spirit health model. I consider myself a spiritual person and I rely on my relationship with God through prayer to help me make the right decision, not only in my personal life, but in my professional life as well. Professional Presence Models of Health and Healing The mind/body/spirit health model is the most interesting health model for me because I believe and depend on a higher power. Era III is the one of the most interesting era’s in health and healing because technology has come a long way in helping our society deal with getting rid of diseases. It has integrated science and technology in a way that is continuing to help us grow and learn about health and healing. Dr. Larry Dossey (1999) explores three eras of medicine. Mind-body –according to Dr. Dossey, the second era of medicine emerged after World War II circa 1950 with the breakthrough knowledge of ailments affecting one’s mind having a direct correlation with physical ailments. Unlike medical practices in era I the physical body model, this was the beginning of medical professionals treating ailments beyond the visible wounds and subjective data. Now practitioners began to look at the patient a whole human being with complex needs and understanding mental defects such as depression could be manifested physically with ramifications such as weight gain, fatigue...
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...as to make it seem like an ideal. Young men hunt and protect; old men govern with the wisdom of experience; women cook and tend to the children. HE isn’t necessarily talking about slavery here as the last two authors have, but he is talking about the different roles as men and women have. He’s talking more about the equality in respect of their rationality. Assignment Four: In Irving’s story “Rip Van Winkle,” he uses some mythical elements throughout his writing. Rip was a cheerful but lazy farmer in upstate New York. Always willing to help others, Rip neglected his own home and chores, causing his wife to nag him constantly. At one point during the story Rip hears his name being called through the woods but can “see nothing but a cow winging its solitary flight across the mountain. The author references the Salem trials when he is suggesting that the supernatural is afoot in the woods. Irving nudges readers toward the mythical reading, in part, by endearing them to Rip, who could hardly be accused of witchcraft. The choice, in other words, that Irving forces readers to confront is whether to make fools of themselves by trying to explain the entire episode as factual history or sink into the metaphorical complexities of the story. And, like a good myth, the story doesn’t really leave much choice in the end, but casts its own spell that carries the reader where it will. There are subtle allegorical references to Salem in many places, most specifically in Rip’s reappearance in...
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...Mengfei Zhou (Candy) English 111-Essay 3 October 23, 2011 Exploring Self Fighting against social expectations and conventional morals on the journey of progressing-liberation, women have to insist on the quest for female identity with unrelenting passion during a male-dominated period. According to Fox-Genovese’s argument that Edna’s immaturity allows her to question her social position as a social truth. However, I would argues that, in The Awakening written by Kate Chopin, Edna sets an impressive example that presents us with a figure who takes a weary and tough journey in seeking liberation and authentic identity in a complex society, along with exploring self. The courageous soul seems to be the essential beacon guiding her through this tough tunnel, whereas, she finally understands that being herself in an authentic society will be the first step in truly achieving liberation. Quite a few people claim that Edna already has an authentic life, since she is well protected by her husband, who looks at his wife “as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage” (The Awakening, Page 4) My view, however, is that this has the same meaning as Edna being a caged bird who is not fully understood by others. The author writes: “Her eyebrows were a shade darker than her hair. They were thick and almost horizontal, emphasizing the depth of her eyes. She was rather handsome than beautiful.” (The Awakening, Page 5) We learn that Edna’s powerful...
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...The Dream Team Living The American Dream “If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call (Ghostbusters)?” Anyone who recognizes this catchy tune will know the answer: Ghostbusters! The film Ghostbusters follows Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) as they run a paranormal extermination service in New York City. They go around catching ghosts until they learn about an ancient pair of evil spirits known as “The Keymaster” and “The Gatekeeper” that summon another destructive, shape shifting creature with the power to destroy the world, Gozer. The ghost assumes the form of a giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man and begins terrorizing the city. By “crossing the beams” of their special ghost-neutralizing weapons, an action Egon stated would be catastrophic, the Ghostbusters save the day. Directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters endures because it establishes a strong precedent for future film producers with interests in combining elements of comedy and supernaturalism. While it has minor setbacks such as the existence of unnecessary characters, Ghostbusters’ success is driven by the time dedicated by the writer to the character development of the Ghostbusters, Ramis’ deadpan expressions along with Bill Murray’s clever dialogue, and the appeal that Ghostbusters, Inc. had to the audience as a story about running a successful business. The movie is a clever and well written...
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...PROFESSIONAL PRESCENCE AND INFLUENCE Western Governments University January 12, 2016 PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE What does it mean to be human, and how do we as nurses provide care to our patients? According to Jean Watson “The future of nursing is tied back to Nightingales sense of calling guided by a sense of commitment and covenantal ethic of human service; cherishing our phenomena, our subject matter and those we serve. It is when we include caring and love in our work and our life we discover and affirm that nursing, like teaching is more than just a job but a life giving and life receiving career for a lifetime of growth and learning” (Watson, J. 1978). There have been many different individual thoughts and theories on what it means to be human and how to provide a healing presence. According to Koerner “western medicine traditionally conceptualized the body as a grand machine controlled by the brain and central nervous system” (Koerner, J.G. 2011). In a sense a living computer! “Physiologic and psychologic behaviors were considered dependent on structure and hardware of the brain and body” (Koerner, J.G. 2011). Healthcare and how we take care of people have changed over the years with the different advancements in medicine and psychology. Health and healing is not only seen as physical but also includes mind, spirit and biopsychosocial including cultural factors. These aspects helped shape the different modalities of how we...
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