...College offers many amazing opportunities to any student that is willing to take advantage of what it has to offer. Along with these new chances also comes some rather difficult obstacles that can be easily overcome with the help of a friend or the guidance of a leader. In most cases that leader is the person right down the hall, the Residence Assistant. Currently as a freshman, know from personal experience that college can be a very scary experience for many reasons. First of all there is a major shift from the home centered family lifestyle to dorm based communal living. This can pose a problem for new students because it takes quite a bit of adjusting to get used to their new surroundings and ways of living. There is also the challenge...
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...OBJECTIVE Seeking a responsible and challenging position within a growth oriented progressive environment where my experience and skills will significantly contribute to the overall success of the organization and provide opportunities for my career growth. PROFILE * Attention to detail, analytical approach to documentation and record keeping * Ability to multi-task with ease in fast-paced, deadline-driven environment * Proven track record of process improvements to enhance productivity, cost efficiency, and overall program effectiveness * Loyalty and strong work ethic; ability to work well independently or collaboratively EXPERIENCE Human Resource Associate (2014-present) American Chemical Society, Washington, DC * Actively recruits new employees to include sourcing, screening, and interviewing candidates. * Makes recommendations to hiring managers regarding where externally to post job vacancies and then posts accordingly. * Schedules candidate interviews to include booking travel and processing travel expenses. * Facilitates comprehensive onboarding process for new employees, including background screening process. * Manages and conducts New Employee Orientation program. * Manages compliance activities related to Form I-9 and immigration cases. * Compiles and analyzes EEO data for annual reports. * Administers Summer Intern program, to include all candidate sourcing and coordination with external vendor and internal managers...
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...known fact in the life of a student seeking college education in a city distant from home and parents in his experience as a room- and- board resident. He becomes a tenant of boarding house. Often without other student resident- boarders. His entire sojourn as a student- tenant is an interesting evocation of his life off- campus life and vivifies one other side of his transformation as a person. It is as much an essential part of his growth no less than the vistas of new knowledge he meets inside the classroom. Here, against the backdrop of a transition home- away- from- home, he encounters new human relationships, cultivates new friends and acquaintances, learns life’s many a struggle and sacrifice. His passage as a form dweller, in time, either makes him the better for it or none better. Past and present observations of student boarders in the city of Naga indicate that a significant majority come from distant towns of Camarines Sur and from even other provinces outside the Bicol region. Most of them seek board and lodging in which they pay a monthly rate, although quite a number pay for room or for bed space only without provisions for meals. City boarding-houses, not surprisingly, are located near school campuses. Thus, student- boarders often choose boarding places closer to their schools. The reason is economic; school short distance from boarding houses save time and transportation fare. Any savings are thus added values to student boarders who cannot afford...
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...For Thanksgiving there is a big dinner held during life skills classes. At Christmas, there is a gift give away where all the AC’s get gifts for their clients. There is also a Christmas party on Christmas Eve every year where current and alumni residents get gift cards and not yet released Warner Brother DVD movies. Gift cards and toys are given to current residing and alumni children. Food and music help solidify the night along with memories and surprises. Other on-site amenities include a fruit and vegetable garden that is maintained by residents and volunteers. Every Thursday there is a career and education meeting where those who are unemployed have to meet. Resume writing and building are offered, job search, assistance applying to jobs,...
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...recruitment and retention. New graduate hires face many stressful challenges transitioning from student to professional RN in the workforce. Loss of a new graduate nurse leads to a great financial loss and ultimately increase in the shortage that in turn can lead to patient safety issues. The leaders of the nurse residency programs need to be vested and continue to follow and mentor these new professionals well into their second or third year of hire. The purpose if this paper is to critique the research article “Are rural and urban newly licensed nurses different? A longitudinal study of a nurse residency programme” by Marilyn Meyer Bratt, Marianne Baernholdt, and Jessica Pruszynski. My examination focuses on specific aspects of the article in terms of process and validity of research methods and results. According to Burns and Grove (2012) the purpose of reviewing literature provides us with evidence in theory and science about a specific problem, alloying is to decipher information about what is known to us and not. The key concept covered in Bratt, Baernholdt and Pruszynski’s article is to determine if there is a difference among rural and urban nurse residency programs that lead to a higher retention rate? The key points of this review is to assess the two different populations of nurse residency programs using sampling data and dissect the strategies used to foster a positive transition of practice for new nurses. (Bratt, Baernholdt, & Pruszynski, 2014). Nurse residency...
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...RESIDENT ASSISTANT POSITION DESCRIPTION Department: Residence Services Division: Student Affairs Reports to: Residence Life Coordinators & Residence Life Team Leader ------------------------------------------------- Updated: December 2015 POSITION PURPOSE: The Resident Assistant provides leadership to their residence community in the areas of academic success and personal growth. KEY POSITION FUNCTIONS: 1. Community Development, Management & Support * Implement Community Development Expectations (i.e. floor/section meetings, weekly visits etc.) in accordance with the Residence Community Engagement Model (set out through Residence Life Staff training) * Orient students to the residence and campus community and support their transition needs * Foster a positive, friendly, inclusive atmosphere conducive to learning and facilitate the development of healthy, friendly relationships among residents * Recognize and refer students with mental, emotional, academic and physical concerns to other professionals on campus or within the community * Help students adjust to the realities of residing with a roommate, suite mates and floor mates and facilitate roommate mediations as necessary * Communicate your availability to students, teammates and Residence Life Coordinators * Be a visible presence in your community and embrace opportunities for meaningful and impromptu conversations with all residents and display flexible time management ...
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...that are causing American students to have higher drop our rates compared to other countries. A study done at Harvard University showed that nearly half of America’s college students drop out before receiving a degree. The reason for these students to be dropping has to do with failing. They are not able to keep their grades high enough to even receive a degree. As stated earlier there are many factors that contribute to a student’s success in college. One of the reasons why students fail college is due to the fact that many teenagers are simply not ready for the rigorous schedule that comes with being a college student. It’s a major transition from high school to college. Students leave there home, high school friends, and are taken out of their comfort zone. They are forced to balance their schoolwork and other activities on top of making major decisions that will affect their career. In some cases, students just aren’t mentally, emotionally or academically ready to succeed in...
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...for the elderly, patients with dementia, etc. it’s very difficult to find the special kind of persons needed for this type of environment. Most facilities have a high turnover rate in nursing, especially CNA’s (certified nursing assistants). This is due partially because CNA’s are usually nursing students, or those who are studying to obtain their LPN (licensed practical nurse) or RN (registered nurse) license. A nursing home is not for everyone. The following staffing standards statistics are summarized primarily from a December 2010 study, “Nursing Home Staffing Standards in State Statutes and Regulations”, by Charlene Harrington, Ph.D. R.N. “Federal Staffing Standards Section 483.30: Nursing Services requires that "... the facility must have sufficient nursing staff to provide nursing and related services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident, as determined by resident assessments and individual plans of care..." MA Staffing Standards Section 150.007: Nursing Services requires that "...all facilities provide appropriate, adequate and sufficient nursing services to meet the needs of patients or residents and to assure that preventive measures, treatments, medications, diets, restorative services, activities and related services are carried out, recorded and reviewed..." Also, "...the minimum staffing patterns and nursing care hours [in this section are] minimum, basic requirements. Additional staff...
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...close schools will always be in the best interest of the safety of our students and staff. Please note that if Columbus Schools are closed unrelated to weather and our schools are open, busses will operate under the normal schedule for transporting our students to their...
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...Nassau is often used as a shortcut or synecdoche for New Providence. There is a logic and history behind this: For most of its history the majority of its residents lived in the City of Nassau and its immediate environs. Understandably, they more easily identified with the town in which they lived rather than the expanse beyond the actual and imagined town-limits. We call residents of Nassau, Nassuvians. Yet, unlike Abaconians, Cat Islanders and Inaguans, what is the demonym for those of us who live at New Providence? During the 20th century the population of Nassau climbed significantly through a combination of high birth rates among Bahamians and an influx of immigrants from Haiti who also tended to have high birth rates. The influx of Family Islanders also boosted the capital island’s numbers. Beginning around the middle of the last century, the mutual forces of majority rule and black economic empowerment ignited an urban expansion. With considerable rapidity, the majority of the island’s population shifted beyond Nassau. Urbanization has engendered many benefits as well as significant challenges for New Providence. These varied challenges include ongoing infrastructural needs in the areas of housing, ground transportation networks, public services and facilities, and reliable utilities, among others. There are also a complex of sociological challenges including increased crime and violence, social alienation by some and the changing nature of social...
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...queen, student body president, an honor roll student, and the list goes on. She always strived for perfection. Life was easy for Jennifer. She always got what she wanted. Unfortunately, this all came to a halt when it was time for her to face an all new reality: college. Jennifer was no longer around her friends and family. She was on her own now, and realized that college wasn’t as easy as high school like she thought it would be. It was all too overwhelming for her. She became lonely and couldn’t adjust to the college lifestyle. Eventually food became her new-found friend. She would consume large amounts of food and then feel guilty about eating so much, and throw it up. This scenario became a habit for her. It consoled her. Sadly, this is a problem several college females struggle with every day. This problem is known as an eating disorder. Eating disorders arise when young college women face new challenges or changes that they just can’t handle. Eating disorders have been increasing among college women. Every student enters college with different feelings and emotions. Some are excited and some are worried and afraid. The College Student Journal maintains that most college women “must adjust to being away from home for the first time, maintain a high level of academic achievement, and adjust to a new social environment” (Ross, Niebling, and Heckert, 1999, p.1). The transition from high school to college can prove to be stressful to most. Furthermore, “transitions present...
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...Independent Living Program Youth and older children at Girls’ Haven are eligible to receive independent living services to help prepare them for self-sufficiency in adulthood. Residents receiving independent living services can be working toward achieving any of the permanency goals (such as reunification, adoption, or guardianship) or may be headed towards emancipation due to aging out of foster care to adulthood on their own. Here are several guidelines that are in place to ensure smooth transition from care to becoming independent. There are several expectations for girls participating in our independent living program. They are as followed: 1. Girls will be required to eat 3 full meals a week with the group. 2. If you are in high school or college full time (12 hours+), girls are allowed to have a part time job. 3. If you are not in college and not in high school and are with CPS, you MUST have a full time job. 4. All upstairs girls are required to complete AT LEAST 4 hours of Community Service per month. 5. Girls’ are required to continue participating in daily chores and household activities such as trips to the library, etc. if an outing is not planned in advance. 6. You are required to participate in all independent living activities such as cooking lessons, resume building, TRAIL, grocery shopping etc. 7. You will create and implement your own monthly budget. Since Girls’ Haven is holding the upstairs population to a higher, more responsible level...
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...changing how families’ live, many other problems are produced in various ways. The cost of college should be lowered because it imposes a burden on parents and their children, causes some students to alter their choice of which college to attend, and prevents some students from even going to college. When the time comes to talk about college, a large number of questions arise. Although many come forward, the first question is if college is even affordable. The main problem families’ face is the difficulty to pay for college, especially with the current economy’s condition. Patrick Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, states “Given the financial hardship of the country, it’s simply astonishing that colleges and universities would have this kind of increases” (Lewin). What if a young adult has a dream to attend a certain university in a different state? Residency regulations cause the cost of out-of-state schools to raise tuition to almost three times the cost of in-state; however, this alters many students’ decisions on where to attend college. While personally experiencing this problem, I was forced to go to an in-state school instead of following my dream and attending Auburn University. The unreasonably high costs of out-of-state tuition cause many students to change their college decision and could have an effect on the rest of their...
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...cultural shock can affect different individuals. INTRODUCTION: * Attention-getter: Do you know that 50 pecents of TCC students are foreigners from different country, for example China, Africa, Korea etc. And also 25 of the reminder of 50 percents are non residents of Texas. * Qualifications: I personally have experience cultural shock when my family and I moved to the United States from Nigeria. * Motivation: According to the Theoretical models of culture shock and adaptation in international students in higher education stated that there are about 10,000 of people who come to the United every month for schooling from different countries and they all have be affected by cultural shock. * Thesis: Today we are going to look at the different areas how cultural shock has affected most people in education, language and lifestyle/culture. And these three main points will help you to understand the areas. BODY I. Education: A. Making adjustment to a new education environment. 1. Most students who come to the United State or go to other countries for schooling had found it hard to adjust when it come to fitting in. 2. Difficulty in making friends. B. According to Kennedy E. in Educational and child psychologists he’s idea was to work to reduce the impact of school culture shock in the. 1. Education system 2. Age Transition: next, let’s look at how cultural shock can affect people when we talk about language. II. Why do people get affected...
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... Generally, location rent is too high downtown for most of the population. Highways and intraurban expressways have enabled many households to move greater distances from their jobs. Suburban retail and service functions have been developed to accommodate the needs of suburbanizing populations. Map 2. “Invasion” and “Succession” is described as the changing spatial patterns of residential areas. In Map 1 (1989) the outer ring had a low population density. In Map 2, the outer ring had a high population density. New home construction mainly took place in this outer ring creating an outward expansion. Different neighborhoods and communities were formed. As the city grows and the CBD expands, lower status residents move to adjacent neighborhoods, and more affluent residents move further from the CBD. Map 4. There are two models to be identified here: Concentric Zone Model – Areas of lowest median income are generally found closer to the CBD, higher income households have the highest density in the outer ring, and the middle groups are found in between. Sector Model – There is a clearly identifiable wedge of high income households that stretches to the southeast. It's common for low-income households to be found in close proximity to the major transportation routes that cities evolve around. Lower-income...
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