...Difference in competencies between Nurses prepared at the Associate Degree level versus the Baccalaureate Degree level. Bernice Brown-Hypolite Grand Canyon University, Phoenix Arizona: NRS-430V-0500 November 24, 2015 Introduction: Education enhances both clinical competency and quality care delivery. Quality patient care hinges on having a well-educated nursing workforce. Research has shown that lower mortality rates, fewer medication errors, and positive outcomes are all linked to nurses prepared at the baccalaureate and graduate degree levels. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is committed to working collaboratively to create a more highly qualified nursing workforce since education enhances both clinical competency and care delivery. The AACN fact sheet looks at today’s nursing workforce, highlights research, connecting education to outcomes and outlines the capacity of four year colleges to enhance the level of nursing education in the U.S. The definition of Associate Degree and Baccalaureate degree is stated below: Associate Degree in Nursing: The Associated Degree was founded by Dr. Mildred Montag in 1956, in order to alleviate the shortage of Nurses after World War 11, by decreasing the length of education to 2 years, and also providing a sound educational base for nurses. Creasia and Friberg (2011). This program was deemed successful because the graduates were able to pass the NCLEX exam and showed sufficient level of clinical nursing competence...
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...since been dropped as a requirement here in Arizona was to obtain your certified nursing assistant license. During my experience in the nursing program the common held belief was that hospitals preferred to hire nurses that had graduated from the community college associate-degree level because they were better prepared in the clinical setting than baccalaureate-degree nurses who spent more of their time in the classroom. A focus group study was conducted at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Nursing that addressed this very question. Completed by Oermann, M., Poole-Dawkins, K., Alvarez, M., Foster, B., & O'Sullivan, R. (2010). Managers' perspectives of new graduates of accelerated nursing. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing , 41(9), 394-402, the focus group had identified that new graduate nurses are challenged by the acuity and complex status of their patients, are overwhelmed with the continually changing nature of the healthcare field, the quick thinking necessary to keep up with the pace, complied with the sheer number of patients they are required to care for. The project...
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...MSSM 517- Critical Infrastructure Weekly Assignment 2.2 Weekly Assignment: Provide a detailed description of the National Response Plan (NRP). How has your local government cooperated with the NRP? Pick a U.S. city if located outside of the U.S. The government of the United States has experienced and continues to establish consistent, often times comprehensive changes to the way it accomplishes Emergency Response operations. The catastrophic events of both September 11, 2001 and the lingering tragedy of Hurricane Katrina proved to be instantaneous prompts for the evolution of governmental amendment to and eventual restructure of the overarching procedural standard for incident response in the country. One of the many important after-effects would become what was labeled the National Response Framework, or NRF. A detailed outline of the NRF structure and intent follows. The template is a doctrinal approach to the domestic partnerships and implementation of resources above and beyond those rules set by the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) (FEMA, 2012). The sole purpose of the 90-page document is to ensure that government executives, private sector, nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners across the nation understand domestic incident response roles, responsibilities and relationships in order to respond more effectively to any type of incident. General administrators...
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...the current generation, system of education was also affected. Major changes were made due to what professionals/critics noticed about the students’ performance in the school. They observed that nowadays, traditional education system may not be that still effective like before. In this kind of system, the teacher is the main source of information and the students act as the audience. Traditional teaching is concerned with the teacher being the controller of the learning environment. Power and responsibility are held by the teacher and they play the role of instructor (in the form of lectures) and decision maker (in regards to curriculum content and specific outcomes). They regard students as having 'knowledge holes' that need to be filled with information. In short, the traditional teacher views that it is the teacher that causes learning to occur (Novak, 1998). Before, students here in the Philippines were exposed to IBE or Input Based Education in which it was a teacher-centred learning process. Now, it was transformed to OBE or Outcomes-Based Education. It was introduced in the Philippines last July 2012 by the CHED or Commission on Higher Education. OBE has become a focal point for critics of educational reform all across the world. It calls for a shift in that paradigm (model, pattern), from content to process in which a child is called upon to demonstrate what he knows and can do against standards established by the traditional education system. Because of this, Philippines...
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...PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION My PHILOSOPHY of education is to ensure that the development of all students is achieved to its maximum potential. To fulfill this goal it is important to be a reflective teacher and to adapt to students that vary in: learning ability, personality, interests, and self discipline. By distinguishing these individual differences it will enable me to adapt my instructional methods to meet the needs of all students. It is important to create a safe and warm learning environment. These conditions will allow for the highest degree of learning. A fair environment would maximize the level of information retention. By securing that every child feels equal in the classroom it will generate the desire to succeed. To be a success educator it is important to provide a base for higher learning. I believe that education and the classroom can be a training ground for the mind and body. It takes children from many backgrounds and experiences to work together to a standard level of knowledge so that all children can have the same chance to achieve. By setting high expectations and encouraging every student we will guarantee each child a fair chance at success. I believe that good teaching is both the modeling of proper behaviors and demonstrating a mastery of the subject matter. Setting an example for children is very important because a child spends most of the day in the classroom. A teacher sets the example in dress, teaching style, attitude and preparedness for the...
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...resources properly. There are two types of volunteers: spontaneous and NGO volunteers. The spontaneous volunteers are those who are not part of any organization but who appear at the scene of disaster. The volunteer group possess skills, training and experience that can not be ignored by those managing the disaster. The problem is that, they make lack the specific training needed for the disaster and inexperienced volunteers tend to hinder rather than help the response and recovery operation. So it crucial to prepare the volunteers appropriately before the disaster occurs. There should be effective public preparedness program that exceeds simply raising the awareness of hazard but also trains the public to perform specialized actions. Public education is the most effective method in involving volunteers in community preparedness programs and activities. Methods of public education includes: mass media, schools, organizations, businesses, libraries, special events(emergency training day) and so on. The first step is creating awareness about the Hazard and risks. The...
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...Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal Emergency response preparedness: small group training. Part 2 – training methods compared with learning styles Henry C. Wilson Article information: To cite this document: Henry C. Wilson, (2000),"Emergency response preparedness: small group training. Part 2 – training methods compared with learning styles", Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 9 Iss 3 pp. 180 - 199 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09653560010335112 Downloaded on: 09 December 2015, At: 11:19 (PT) References: this document contains references to 15 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 1307 times since 2006* Downloaded by Arab Open University Kuwait At 11:19 09 December 2015 (PT) Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Henry C. Wilson, (2000),"Emergency response preparedness: small group training. Part I – training and learning styles", Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 9 Iss 2 pp. 105-116 Piyali Ghosh, Rachita Satyawadi, Jagdamba Prasad Joshi, Rashmi Ranjan, Priya Singh, (2012),"Towards more effective training programmes: a study of trainer attributes", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 44 Iss 4 pp. 194-202 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/00197851211231469 Charles W. Read, Brian H. Kleiner, (1996),"Which training methods are effective?", Management...
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...Compared to the education systems of other countries the United States education system leaves a lot to be desired. While South Korea, Japan, and Singapore uses a qualifications system and are continuously the world leading educational systems,the United States struggles to make the top 20 year after year. Despite being one of the strongest economies in the world and the 1.3 trillion dollar national educational budget the education system in the United States just cannot compete with a qualifications system. A qualifications system is a uniform education system with a series of key gateway exams to test the progress and preparedness of students. By creating a common curriculum set by the state everyone is held to the same standard and given...
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...Running head: A BETTER PLAN A Better Plan Thomas P. Liedel Grand Canyon University The Principalship EDA 540 Bob Kopas March 31, 2010 Abstract After reviewing the emergency preparedness plan for Lookout Valley High School, there were some questions that needed to be asked, reviewed and possibly modified. The school has never had to use the plan, and only practices small sections of it during the year. The plan was updated in 2009, to bring it up to date. Overview of Emergency Plan Before the rewrite of the emergency preparedness plan could be started, the principal sent out forms to all the teachers and staff to find out what different types of special talents were in the building. The staff went through the forms and checked those that they are trained in, or that they could perform in case of an emergency. Some of the items in the check list were, Bi or Multi-Lingual, Construction, First Aid (current card yes or no), and even Food Preparation. These and many other items that could be necessary to support a school full of people in case of an emergency. Emergency kits were placed in several areas that should be easily accessible for anyone to locate. An emergency evacuation plan was in the old plan but, the school had not added a plan to remove people from the location. The location of the school is on a dead end road surrounded by homes and a creek. The closest place to hold everyone that is large enough is a church that is less then a half mile away. With this...
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...ZEID BSA 1-A NSTP: CWTS REACTION PAPER The National Service Training Program, also referred to by the acronym NSTP, is a civic administration and defense preparedness program for Filipino tertiary education students. It is instituted by the Government of the Philippines on January 23, 2002 by virtue of Republic Act 9163, otherwise known as the "National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001". And one of the coverage of the program is the Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS). This program component is designed to provide students with activities contributory to the general welfare and betterment of life of the members of the community especially those developed to improve social welfare services. As I selected CWTS for the first and second semester, I learned a lot from this course. The activities and seminars really change my point of view. At first, I thought CWTS is only about voluntary works, like cleaning in the streets but that is not at all. The class sessions and seminars taught me how practical experiences and theoretical knowledge would come into handy in the real life. But it doesn’t stop there, because there is this program that was currently introduced to us which were tutorials on some things that serve us our practice in preparation for the future use. With the things mentioned even by slowly, I improved myself physically, mentally, spiritually and socially. This program is really helpful to the students and youth. It does not...
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...(for use in the classroom only) ISSUES RELATING TO ADULT LEARNING Learning is the basic objective of all the training and development activities. If people have not learnt what they were suppose to learn from a HRD program; then the program should be called as a failure. It is, therefore, very important for HRD professionals to understand the major concepts and research findings related to learning. Learning may be defined as the process of acquiring, assimilating, and internalizing inputs for their effective and varied use when required, leading to an enhanced capability for further self monitored learning. It is any relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a result of experience. The change often is an increased capability for some type of performance. Basic learning styles of the participants Every individual has a unique way of gathering, absorbing, processing and internalizing inputs for learning purpose. This constitutes an individual’s learning style. It must, however, be remembered that the learning style of an individual is neither always explicit nor enduring. An individual modifies it in light of the situations and experiences. Even in a training program, a participant may change the learning style, depending on the opportunities available for learning. It may be noted that a participant's learning style is not necessarily a measure of his/her intellect and learning abilities. It only suggests a preference for the manner in which...
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...asdsdsAcademic achievement or (academic) performance is the outcome of education — the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has achieved their educational goals. Academic achievement is commonly measured by examinations or continuous assessment but there is no general agreement on how it is best tested or which aspects are most important — procedural knowledge such as skills or declarative knowledge such as facts.[1] In California, the achievement of schools is measured by the Academic Performance Index. Individual differences influencing academic performance Individual differences in academic performance have been linked to differences in intelligence and personality.[2] Students with higher mental ability as demonstrated by IQ tests (quick learners) and those who are higher in conscientiousness (linked to effort and achievement motivation) tend to achieve highly in academic settings. A recent meta-analysis suggested that mental curiosity (as measured by typical intellectual engagement) has an important influence on academic achievement in addition to intelligence and conscientiousness.[2] Children’s semi-structured home learning environment transitions into a more structured learning environment when children start first grade. Early academic achievement enhances later academic achievement.[3] Parent’s academic socialization is a term describing the way parents influence students’ academic achievement by shaping students’ skills, behaviors and attitudes towards...
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...Department of Education (USED) is requiring participating states to revise their NCLB assessments” (p.8). While this alignment of standards promotes a unity between states and helps to promote college preparedness (p.8), it fails at considering the needs of English language learners. Some states, like Illinois and Arizona have created standards that help teachers to understand ELLs and consequently develop instruction that can be differentiated for their various proficiency levels. No two ELLs enter school at the same proficiency level or with the same experiences. This diversity makes it quite challenging for teachers to accommodate every learner. Consequently, teachers can use the Arizona English learner standards to supplement the Common Core Standards in an attempt to differentiate instruction for their ELLs. The standards address all proficiency levels, including pre-emergent, emergent, basic, low intermediate, high intermediate, and proficient. Obviously, the strategies that are adequate for general education students and proficient ELLs would not suffice for those at the pre-emergent or even the low intermediate stage. Therefore, differentiation is absolutely necessary. Differentiation would vary at the different stages as well as take into consideration ELL proficiency levels. For instance, in grades one and two, which is the ELL Stage II, a pre-emergent learner would most likely come into the classroom with very little phonemic awareness whereas general education students...
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...Nursing Informatics has to do with nursing integration, management of information, processing information and communication technology, to support people’s health worldwide (HIMSS, 2007). However, the course facilitators of this program can help nursing students feel empowered by developing creative teaching strategies or enhancing the quality of teaching, learning and preparing students to manage the increasing volumes of existing information. For instance, The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative has an objective to empower the nursing body which includes both nurses and nursing students to fully participate in the digital period of health care. A Delphi study was done to indicate the need for a list of informatics...
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...presented them in an unflattering way (Farley, 2012). To remedy this, a true multicultural approach to learning is needed. This means the cultural bias that weaves its way through the entire educational institution needs to be addressed. Thus, the current stance on educational tracks, bilingual education, textbook development, and testing needs to be reevaluated (Farley, 2012). Likewise, the influence of teacher expectations in regards to learning ability and achievement must be dealt with. Addressing Inequities in Education As previously mentioned, America is undoubtedly a culturally diverse nation. People from all different walks of life make this country their home. However, society has been slow to...
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