...Professional Organizations-Software Engineering Graduating with a degree in Information Technology poses new and interesting challenges. A new career opportunity in a challenging and rewarding field is most often the focus of a student during school and becomes the main objective upon graduation. In reality, a college degree means one thing; that the graduate met the requirements and has learned the fundamentals. It is not unusual for a graduate holding a degree in software engineering to obtain a professional position that requires him or her to perform duties which include other aspects of information technology such as project management, systems administration, or security administration; therefore, it is inevitable that an individual will face situations where he or she must seek knowledge or advice from other professionals with expertise in another specialty (Willson, 2010)). Professional associations, organizations, and societies are non-profit organizations that seek to promote the advancement and interest of a particular profession or field of study; therefore, would be a logical resource for sound advice and knowledge for any professional who is passionate about their chosen profession (Willson, 2010). For example, a professional Software Engineer may wish to consider membership an organization that is specific to Software Engineering. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a non-profit organization that develops, defines, and reviews...
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...Professional Organization: The Tech Republic By: Mike Vignapiano Foundations for General Education and Professional Success/GEN-200 18 February 2010 Prof. Jack Rivituso The professional organizations I am interested in (and belong to) are many. I am a member in ‘good standing’ with The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Network Professional Association (NPA), Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA). However, my favorite organization is Tech Republic Tech Republic is a free website dedicated to issues in the world of the Information Technology (IT). It is owned by CBS Interactive and marketed alongside BNet and ZDNet (formerly ZiffNet). Once a person becomes a registered member on this site, it will allow them to receive several e-newsletters, download certain ‘White Papers’ (authoritative report or guide that often addresses issues and how to solve them), and post comments on the site. Tech Republic provides up-to-date, relevant information for those people in the IT Field. Besides the White Papers, it also provides the member with Newsletters, Blogs, Downloads, Forums, Photos, Videos, Webcasts, Software, and Training. Most of these items are all free. However, there are some items that may need to be purchase (at reduced rates) and can do so at their...
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...Professional organizations and associations in nursing are critical for generating the energy, flow of ideas, and proactive work needed to maintain a healthy profession that advocates for the needs of its clients and nurses, and the trust of society (Matthews, J.H., 2012). These organizations are helpful to get the nurses together from all around the nation and share ideas, thoughts, congregate, talk among themselves, and advocate for their causes. These organizations make it possible for nurse to advocate for the removal of barriers to the use of advanced practice nurses, to allow them to practice to their full scope of practice across all settings and in all states and also to receive just payment for their services rendered. Such organizations provide webinars, scholarly manuscripts and publish the latest advanced knowledge in a specialty area and/or the profession to help nurses maintain current knowledge of changes in practices and Continued Education with Contact hour credits. Very few policy changes take place without the concerted efforts of many advocates working together to bring about a common goal. Joining a professional nursing organization is an important way to enhance individual advocacy efforts. Nurses in an organized professional association have more resources, and are able to strategize more effectively to bring nursing’s perspective to health policy decision makers than do individual nurses. Professional nursing organizations are able to monitor public...
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...Professional Accounting/Business Organizations The benefits of joining professional business or accounting organizations are numerous. Joining an organization can greatly enhance a young professional’s career. One of the main reasons of joining any organization is to network with others of similar interests. By being a part of a business or accounting organization, I can network with other professionals in my industry. Networking is essential to for me to move up the ladder in the accounting profession. Fellow organization members can also be great learning tools. Veteran members who have been in the industry for many years can use their experience to mentor or teach me new things to enhance my knowledge in my profession. Building relationships and bonds with members in organizations can lead to gaining better opportunities, businesses, occupations, and networks. A professional organization that I can join is the Association of Accountants and Finance Professionals (IMA). This organization’s goal is to provide opportunities to gain further knowledge about the industry through research, practice, teachings, meetings, forums. They also stress that professionals be ethical and use the best business procedures in management accounting and finance. They provide education programs, networking events, up to date newsletters, and information that can improve accounting/finance practices. Conferences and meetings are held every few weeks and are posted on their website. The American...
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...PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (AMSN, AADE, WOCNS) Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (www.amsn.org) As an RN at a surgical unit, I was given the opportunity to become a Certified Medical-Surgical Nurse. The hospital I worked with provided my colleagues and me a review class and paid for the certification exam. This is one of the professional organizations that closely represent my position. The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses’ mission is “to promote excellence in medical-surgical nursing.” They wanted to improve knowledge, skills and professionalism by educating and providing new materials to enhance learning. The organizations purpose is to improve patient care, advocate for the specialty of medical-surgical nurses, and being able to connect to others who has compassion and commitment. To improve patient care, they focused on their actions and voice, and provided evidenced-base practice, research and knowledge. Membership is open to everyone who is interested in the care of adults. Annual membership fee is $84.00 but students, seniors, new grads and associates can also become a member at a different fee. The benefits of being an AMSN member includes free journals and newsletters, free online continuing education, discounts on AMSN study resources, conventions, and application for scholarships, awards, and grants. Its professional culture and values of the organization is to improve patient care. AMSN could assist me with my professional development and lifelong learning...
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...Explain the value that professional nursing organizations have in networking and in the legislative process. Provide a rationale for your response. According to Merton, a professional organization is an organization of practitioners who judge one another as professionally competent and who have banded together to perform social functions which they cannot perform in their separate capacity as individual. The America Nurses Association is a national professional organization representing the nation’s entire registered nurse population. ANA is designed to elevate the standard of nursing education, establish a code of ethics and promote the interest of nursing. Therefore, the three foundational documents, formulated by her members and staff, known as the Code of Ethics for Nurses with interpretative Statements (2001), the social policy statement: Essence of the profession (2010a), and Nursing: Scope and Standard of practice (2010b) help distinguish and support nursing as a profession. Membership in a professional association provides many benefits. You being part of a professional association encourages companionship and professional networking; your contact with your fellow nurses, and not just the ones who you already see every day, will open a world of opportunity. Through in-person meetings as well as online social networking venues provided by an association, you can connect with other nurses who work in similar positions and learn how they do things, and you can use...
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...A Nursing Professional Organization The National Association of Hispanic Nursing Name College Abstract This research paper is on The Nurse Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN). I will explain the primary mission of this organization and it’s contributing factor and benefits to nursing. The impact of the organization on the community, the political stand point and supportive issues it has on nursing, the resources it provides on the web and to health professionals and the public, the choices for scholarship and continuing education, if any local chapters are located in the community and participation is allowed, my consideration of joining this organization, and advantages and disadvantages of participating in this nursing organization. A Nursing Professional Organization The Nursing Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) is a non-profit nursing organization that was founded in 1975 to address the needs of the Hispanic nurses. Its mission is “committed to advancing the health in Hispanic communities and to lead, promote and advocate the educational, professional, and leadership opportunities for Hispanic nurses”. (National Association of Hispanic Nursing, 2013) The NAHN focus is on improving the health and quality nursing services of the Hispanic community. This organization contributes to the practice of nursing and the community by providing an opportunity to the nurses to incorporate in the analysis and evaluation of the community needs. They design and promote...
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...Directions: After completing your assignment, you must complete this form and submit it to the Dropbox. The form is expandable and will enlarge the textbox to accommodate your answers. Do not rely only on this form for everything you must include! Please look in Doc Sharing for specific instructions in the Guidelines for this assignment. Category Description of professional organization: Mission, vision, values, membership eligibility, financial implications, workable link to website. Be specific. The professional organization is; American Society for Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN). Their mission statement is, “To advance and promote optimal nursing care for people affected by pain by promoting best nursing practices”. To become a member one must be a staff nurse, Clinical Nurse specialist, manager, administrator, Clinical educator, Academic educator, Nurse Practitioner or researcher. To be an active member and ability to vote and hold office one must be a licensed registered nurse. For an active membership it is $125.00 a year and for a student (such as a BSN student) it is $40.00 a year but the student is unable to vote or hold office (American Society For Pain Management Nursing, 2014). http://www.aspmn.org/Pages/default.aspx Certification requirements: Criteria for initial certification. Be specific. To be certified in Pain Management Nursing, the registered nurse needs to take the examination through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). According...
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...HR Professional Map According to CIPD, the HR Profession Map sets out what HR practitioners need to know and do and how they need to do at every stage of their career. It has the versatility to be used in part, or viewed as a whole, with the core professional areas acting as the key or center that is relevant to all. The architecture of the HR Profession Map includes: PROFESSIONAL AREAS Describes 10 professional areas, 2 areas being the core for any HR profession and other 8 areas identify the activities and knowledge that is needed to provide specialist HR support set out in 4 bands of competence. Core : Insights, Strategy and Solutions Develop understanding of the organization and its con text and use these insights to tailor strategy and solutions to meet current and future organization needs. Core : Leading HR Providing an active and insightful leadership. Be a driving force towards the development and growth of themselves, others and organization activities. Organization Design Ensure organization is appropriately managed to achieve its long and short term objectives and effectively manage structural changes. Organization Development Ensure to develop and retain a culturally fit and committed workforce needed to deliver strategic ambitions of the organization. Resourcing and Talent Planning Ensure that the organization is able to identify and attract key talents to meet changing needs and fulfill long & short term strategies. Learning and Talent...
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...Professional Knowledge and Abilities Rachel Thomas GEN/200 April 11, 2010 Lisa Kempton The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association or ASHA is the professional, scientific and credentialing association for speech and language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally. ASHA’s vision is to make effective communication, a human right, assessable, achievable for all. ASHA’s mission is to empower and support speech- language pathologist’s audiologists, and speech, language, hearing scientists by: Advocating on behalf of persons with communication and related disorders. Advancing communication science and promoting effective human communication. ASHA started in 1925 under the name national association of teachers of speech. The members of this group became interested in the field of speech correction and wanted to establish an organization to promote scientific, organized work in the field of speech correction. In December 1925 the national association of teachers of speech changed the name of the organization to American Academy of Speech Correction. Since then the organization has had many name changes, but in 1987 they changed the name to American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The organization is still called American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. ASHA can contribute to my professional knowledge and abilities because on their website they have plenty of helpful information. A section...
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...1.1 Briefly summarise the HRPM-the 2 core professional areas, the remaining professional areas, the bands and the behaviours. The CIPD HR Profession Map sets out standards of professional competence for HR practitioners, and is a useful tool to help them identify any future learning and development needs, in order to achieve their professional goals at every level of HR profession. The HR Profession Map describes what HR professionals need to do, what they need to know and how they need to do it, in order to be effective and successful in the HR role. The CIPD HR Profession Map consists of three main components-10 professional areas, 8 behaviours and 4 Bands of professional competence. The Professional areas There are 10 Professional areas in HR Profession Map - Insights, Strategy and Solutions, Leading HR, Organization design, Organization development, Resourcing and talent planning, Learning and talent development, Performance and reward, Employee engagement, Employee relations and Service Delivery and Information. The first two professional areas-Insights, Strategy and Solutions and Leading and Managing the Function, are considered as the core areas, and are applicable for all HR practitioners, regardless of their role and position. First core one-Insights, Strategy and Solutions, explains how to develop actionable insights and solution, which are adjusted to a deep understanding of the business. The HR professionals must know organisation’s strategy, vision, what are...
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...its strongest in terms of publications and research outputs and when the environment appears right for HRD to demonstrate clear value-added to key stakeholders. However, in other ways, HRD appears inner directed and without substantial impact: publications seem to preach to the converted; HRD research and, to some degree, practice appear divorced from real-time problems in organizations; HRD professionals see their work being completed by those from other professions; there is limited evidence that HRD has really moved far from the fad-ridden gutters of false short-term training panaceas; and practitioners are still measuring training person-hours rather than the relationship between learning and productivity. Every year, the members of the ASTD Research-to-Practice Committee are given an opportunity to write an editorial for HRDQ. Two years ago, Dilworth (2001) described the committee’s work in exploring the future of HRD. Last year, Short, Brandenburg, May, and Bierema (2002) summarized the main trends identified by that work, focusing on the implications for HRD of the increasing pressure for organizations to deliver shareholder value, the trend toward globalization, and the need for just-in-time products, services, and solutions. Since then the work has been extended and prepared for publication in a forthcoming issue of Advances in Developing Human Resources. From this body of work a number of major challenges have emerged. These are macro issues that address the question:...
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...serves on the treatment team and assists professional staff with the execution of the treatment plan. They also assist with securing community services that might be available to the client and the client's family. The purpose of intensive Mental Health Paraprofessional Intervention is to enable the client to be maintained in the most normalized, least restrictive setting as possible, and to prevent unnecessary, inappropriate institutionalization. This paper discusses an overview paraprofessionals, the impact the paraprofessionals have on the field, the challenges that organizations are faced, and how to manage with the implemented changes. Future Trends in Crisis Intervention As the population in the United States continues to climb the need for human services professionals does the same. Human service agencies are often face the dilemmas of being over-worked and under paid. Professionals in this field are often prone to burnout because of these dilemmas. Sadly, human service agencies are often the first to experience budget cuts. These budget cuts affect the human service professional’s organization, facility, coworkers, pay, clients, and their personal moral. Leading officials of many human service organizations are noticing the affects of these dilemmas and are trying proactive approaches in solving the epidemics. As a result, the paraprofessional is becoming increasingly popular as the organization can fill the much needed worker positions...
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...Professional Identity and Stewardship: Peer Review A professional identity is a method of qualities, and values one has about self in relationship to the professional role, that is fundamental for professional culture assimilation (Slay & Smith, 2011). In this paper, there will be a summary of an interview conducted with a peer named Ms. S, which provide an understanding from her responses to the four questions related to her particular opinions concerning, professional identity and stewardship. Also, it will give a detail about her role, as a registered nurse (RN), how she defines leadership and professional, and as well as how that converts into and influences her nursing career and practice. Her Role It was a pleasure to interview Ms. S....
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...am taking this course Within the HR Profession Map there are 2 core areas, 8 professional areas, 10 behaviours and 4 bands which are required to be an effective HR practitioner. This tool has been developed to be applicable to HR professionals around the world. There are 2 core professional areas for all HR professionals no matter where you are in your HR career. The 2 core areas are: • Insights, Strategy and Solutions - This professional area underpins the direction of the profession as an applied business discipline. This area also allows HR Profession, to develop actionable insights and deliver situational HR solutions that stick. • Leading HR – This professional area focuses on HR Professionals that are active and insight-led and are actively leading others who own, shape and driving the organization. They develop the organization across 3 main areas of leadership: Personal leadership, leading others and leading issues. The other 8 professional areas advise HR what we need to do and what they need to know. The 10 behaviours describe how an HR professional should carry out their actives whilst the 4 bands show the contributions a practitioner should be making at every stage of their career. Out of the 8 professional areas I consider Learning and Development to be the most essential to my role within HR. We need Learning and development to move forward as a company and as an HR Professional. Working in this area you need to ensure all employees throughout the company...
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