Nursing as Art and Science: Definition, Values, and Scope
This is a five page paper that answers the question, "What is Nursing?" The first page is the abstract. The remaining four pages answer the central question, using a number of reputable sources including books and journal articles. Nursing is defined as a process, which is both an art and a science. The provision of care is central to nursing, and words like compassion are also critical to the definition of the profession. All aspects of the profession are discussed.This is a five page paper that answers the question, "What is Nursing?" The first page is the abstract. The remaining four pages answer the central question, using a number of reputable sources including books and journal articles. Nursing is defined as a process, which is both an art and a science. The provision of care is central to nursing, and words like compassion are also critical to the definition of the profession. All aspects of the profession are discussed.This is a five page paper that answers the question, "What is Nursing?" The first page is the abstract. The remaining four pages answer the central question, using a number of reputable sources including books and journal articles. Nursing is defined as a process, which is both an art and a science. The provision of care is central to nursing, and words like compassion are also critical to the definition of the profession. All aspects of the profession are discussed.
Montefiore Medical Center Strategy & Balanced Scorecard
This study examines the case of Montefoire, both in terms of the company's original strategic framework versus its new strategic framework within view of the Balanced Scorecard. The new strategy of Montefoire is one that is focused on activity-based management rather than resource-based management and as a non-profit organization, Montefoire has a focus on creating shared value for the organization and those whom the organization serves, or that of the patient population. The focus of Montefoire should be on, rather than building the number of cases that the institution takes annually, on the number of satisfied patients that receive service provision from Montefoire on an annual basis. This focus will ensure that Montefoire is a care center of choice and that not only do patients return for health care service provision but that they additionally relate to others the excellent care they were provided ensuring that others choose Montefoire as well for their needs in health care services. The Balanced Scorecard provides the necessary strategic framework to ensure that patient care provision is effectively and efficiently accomplished. While this may require some time for the organization in terms of employee buy-in, this method has been demonstrated as effective in other health care organizations and institutions as noted in the literature reviewed in this study.
Hospital Therapeutic Practices: Changes from 1800 to 1900
Hospitals as we know them today have changed dramatically on a relatively short period of time. Even just two hundred years ago, a modern patient would not recognize the center of medical care. From 1800 to 1900, there were dramatic changes that reorganized the process of care. More professionalism and specialized care were introduced, yet the holistic approach to therapeutic care was pushed to the side.
Non-Intrusive Monitoring: Types, Applications, and Benefits
Non-intrusive monitoring, developed by George Hart, Ed Kern and Fred Schweppe in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is commonly used in terms of non-intrusive load monitoring, a means of monitoring an electrical circuit which encompasses a particular number of appliances which are all able to turn on and off independent of one another. Instead of attaching a monitor to all of these appliances, non-intrusive monitoring uses electric meters to determine the different uses of power in a given home. Similarly, nonintrusive appliance load monitoring, engages via "a sophisticated analysis of the current and voltage waveforms of the total load, the NALM estimates the number and nature of the individual loads, their individual energy consumption, and other relevant statistics such as time-of-day variations" (Hart).