Day: September 20, 2020

Imagine you are working on the nightshifts in a nursing home. This is your sixth straight day and youre feeling very tired. One of the residents, Mannie, an 85-year-old male, has been in the home for ten years after having a stroke. Mary needs to be turned every 2-hours to avoid him developing pressure sores, but you and the other nurse you are working with decides to turn him irregularly. Your justifications of these decisions are to avoid disturbing his sleep as well as to protect your backs. At the end of the shift, you turn Mannie and record in his notes that you have done every 2-hours throughout the night. He has not developed a pressure sore, so what is the harm? Now consider this: you turn him at the end of the night and discover that a small area has broken down on his left hip. Is this your fault? If the manager asks if you have turned him every 2-hours, as stated in the care plan, what will you say? You could say you turned him every 2-hours this would not change anything for Mannie but would make your life easier. Alternatively, you go to turn him at the end of the night shift only to discover that he has died sometime during the night. Mannie has been dead for a while based on how cold he is. You know you can just claim that you found him earlier in the night and prepare his body quickly before the day staff comes in to work. Surely this will not change anything; no one will be hurt, will they?

After reading the article, take some time to reflect on cultural diversity in healthcare, then answer substantively to the following questions. ll posts and replies must contain at least (2) professional references, one may be the course textbook, properly cited in the current APA format.

1. Which, if any, of these scenarios are acceptable? Does the blame attached to any of them change because of the outcome?
2. What does your choice of actions say about you?

3.What values are being displayed here? Explain.

Many of you are a registered nurse. Since your graduation 3 years ago, you have worked as a full-time industrial health nurse for a large manufacturing plant. Although you love your family (spouse and one preschool-aged child), you love your job as well because a career is very important to you. Recently, you and your spouse decided to have another baby. At that time, you and your spouse reached a joint decision that if you had another baby, you would reduce your work time and spend more time at home with the children. Last week, however, the director of human resources told you that the full-time director of health-care services for the plant is leaving and that the organization wants to appoint you to the position. You were initially thrilled and excited; however, you found out several days later that you and your spouse are expecting a baby. Last night, you spoke with your spouse about your career future. Your spouse is an attorney whose practice has suddenly gained momentum. Although the two of you have shared child-rearing equally until this point, your spouse is not sure how much longer this can be done if the law practice continues to expand. If you take the position, which you would like to do, it would mean full-time work and more management responsibilities. You want the decision you and your spouse reach to be well-thought-out, as it has far-reaching consequences and concerns many people.

Writing Pompts

Determine what you should do.
Examine both the individual aspects of decision making and the critical elements in making decisions.
Make a plan including a goal, a list of information, and data that you need to gather and areas where you may be vulnerable to poor decision making.
Examine the consequences of each alternative available to you.
After you have made your decision, get together in a group (four to six people) and share your decisions.
Were they the same?
How did you approach the problem solving differently from others in your group?
Was a rational systematic problem-solving process used, or was the chosen solution based more on intuition?
How many alternatives were generated?
Did some of the group members identify alternatives that you had not considered?
Was a goal or objective identified?
How did your personal values influence your decision?

Write a report on a trend in business that youve observed, and highlight at least the main finding. For example, from the rising cost of textbooks to the online approach to course content, textbooks are a significant issue for students. Draw from your experience as you bring together sources of information to illustrate a trend. 
The report will be five pages double-spaced; this count does not including the required cover page, abstract page, and list of references.

You need to use at least four outside sources – no more than seven –  published within the last five years.
Use two integrated quotes per source – quoted material (the stuff between the quote marks) cannot be more than two text lines long. Use no more than one paraphrase per source – the paraphrases cannot be  more than three text lines long.
The report will include  one or two  visual aids; each of these are not to take up more than one-half page of the report.
You will use APA Style to document/credit sources.