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The increase in racial and ethnic diversity in the United States and specifically in Anchorage Alaska and the compelling evidence of ethnic health disparities (Smedley, Stith and Nelson, 2002) makes the incorporation of ethnogeriatric perspective into the practice of geriatric health care of critical importance. Reported are the "federally designated racial and ethnic groups…[of]…"American Indian/Alaska Native, African American/Black, Asian American, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino American, and white/Caucasian American…" (McBride, 2012, p.1) Also reported are "vast differences or heterogeneity…found between and within these categories related to health beliefs and practices, access and utilization of health care, health risks, family dynamics and caregiving, decision making process and priorities, and response to interventions and changes in health care policies." (McBride & Lewis, 2004; McBride, Morioka-Douglas, & Yeo, 1996; McCabe & Cuellar, 1994; Richardson, 1996; Villa, Cuellar, & Yeo, 1993; Yeo, McCabe, Talamantes, Henderson, Scott, & Yee, 1996 in: McBride, 2012, p.1) Additionally reported is that the heterogeneity within each of the categories of ethnic/racial minority older persons such as sociodemographic characteristics, modes of social interaction and communication, health and healing belief systems, learning behaviors, and certain values and traditions…" all of which "contribute degrees of complexity to the delivery of culturally sensitive health care." (Yeo, McCabe, Henderson, Talamantes, Scott & Yee, 1996 in: McBride, 2012, p.1) The study reported in this work is a qualitative phenomenological research study that examines the experiences of personal care assistants in Anchorage, Alaska.

¶ … value of qualitative vs. quantitative research is occasionally debated in the natural and social sciences, both are generally acknowledged to be fundamentally useful constructs, although they are used to answer very…

The practice of nursing has come a long way from its humble roots. As it has evolved, there have been different philosophies asserting different methodologies for appropriate care strategies within the contemporary…

Evidence based nursing practice allows nursing students into developing an understanding of evaluation methods for healthcare research and integrating their findings into practice for the improvement of their practice, education and management of nursing practice. For the success of any research, there are governing research components. Evidence based interventions help in developing stronger and meaningful interventions for practice in nursing practice . The use of classical theory helps in generalization of abstract information and making of systematic explanations on relationships existing in phenomenal studies. Ethics in research also demand for the deliberation of the sponsorship of a study, criteria for participants' selection, risks and benefits of the study and any available alternatives for the research

Patagonia has grown from a small back-yard boot-strapped operation to a multinational organization with far-reaching environmental influence. The culture of Patagonia has—as all organizational cultures do—evolved over the history of the organization. This analysis illustrates the efforts of the Patagonia to establish and maintain cultural congruence, and within the scope of this analysis, also highlights that an organization can exhibit many of the structural trappings of a corporation and still maintain the maverick attitude of a band of climbers and surfers. Collective action—collective corporate action—requires some constraining of individual behavior. The question to be answered in this analysis is whether behavior can be constrained for the good of the employees of an organization—and for the apparent good of the global environment—and not follow the corporate template of constraining behavior for the good of those in power. The artifacts, values and beliefs, and assumptions of Patagonia would imply that the answer to this question is a resounding affirmative—and that the critical consciousness of Choinard has carried and directed the organization on a path of cultural congruence.

What Factors in Students Training Enhance Retention

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Husserl, Language & Consciousness: Reconciliation of Edmund Husserl's Fourth Logical Investigation and Fifth logical investigation

This study examines the various research designs and methods in qualitative research studies including those of the ethnography, the case study, the grounded theory as well as others. Qualitative research is descriptive and interpretive in nature. Qualitative research and especially the case study method has a long and a distinguished history.

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