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Spiritual care provision by healthcare clinicians and professionals

Spiritual Care Spiritual care could be provided by spiritual care professionals (or designated spiritual providers) as well as by health and wellness care clinicians. This is to say that the provision of spiritual care is not a role strictly reserved for a specific individual.

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Self-assessment in developing a peace action plan for early college dual credit programs

Self-assessment is an important part of the processes of change management and policy analysis.

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Membership benefits and opportunities in the American Nephrology Nurses Association

Flyer: What Membership in ANNA Means Who We Are Since it was established in 1969, the American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA) has remained the definitive nonprofit professional organization for nurses and other healthcare professionals specializing in nephrology (“About ANNA,” 2018).

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Randomized experiments with school principals: benefits, limitations, and challenges

In “An Examination of the Benefits, Limitations, and Challenges of Conducting Randomized Experiments with Principals,” the researchers use a case study method to show why a professional development program for principals failed to achieve its desired outcomes.

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Satire and social criticism in Voltaire's Candide and Swift's A Modest Proposal

This text will concern itself with the use of satire in Voltaire’s ‘Candide’ and Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal.’ Writers have in the past employed satire in an attempt to not only criticize, but also expose the wrongs in society.

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Nursing shortage challenges for nurse leaders in patient care delivery

Leading in a Complex, Evolving Environment Introduction Nurse leaders of today face a wide range of challenges in the execution of their mandate.

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Rousseau's social contract theory and contemporary political issues

Introduction Several theorists have used social contract theory to understand the government’s role in taking care of the public and addressing the public’s needs.

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Attribution theory and expectancy violations in manager-employee conflict

Communication and Conflict Synthesis Part I: Conflict Theories 1 Attribution theory when applied to the manager-employee interview would suggest that both the manager and the employee are attributing feelings, beliefs, attitudes and intentions towards the other in ways that are neither productive…

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Strategic planning in healthcare organizations and mission alignment

Strategic Planning The strategic planning process begins with setting the objectives of the organization, and the mission statement, vision and values can help to frame those objectives at a high level.

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Demographic change and workforce diversity management challenges

Changing Diversity and the Workplace Introduction Changing diversity is a major trend affecting the U.S. workforce and the demographics of virtually every organization. Demographics are destiny, as the common saying goes (Wolfe, 2017), and in the U.S.

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