The Effectiveness of Law Enforcement Officers In the history of society, members developed various sets of rules with varying degrees of severity based on the values of the community. Members were expected to adhere to the rules, and violation resulted in a minor loss of status. Once an elite society came into power, they sought to enforce these rules to ensure order in the community. […]

The location and critique of nursing literature is centric to evidence based practice. The purpose of this paper is to analyze, critique and summarize an article in furtherance of the understanding of evidence based practice as a nursing student. The article is by Katon, Russo & Gavin (2014) and focuses on the predictors of postpartum depression and particularly investigates socio-demographic factors, pregnancy associated stress and […]

Sample Setting The study will consider two groups of participants. The first group is healthcare professionals from the community health facilities, the private clinics, and the public hospitals. The study targets at least 100 health professionals who will be approached using a questionnaire, to establish whether patients who attended the facility underwent a comprehensive series of evaluation before beginning treatment. The care providers will also […]

Mental Health in Australia In Australia, each of the five states and territories has their legislation on mental health. The federal government plays a major role in the planning of healthcare. As part of their responsibilities, the federal government has a subsidized insurance program that covers mental health patients’ visits to specialists and physicians, including specialized mental care services in acute and psychiatric hospital settings […]

Nursing leadership is undeniably one of the biggest influences to an excellent healthcare environment. Leadership and management are concerned with making decisions on a daily basis that affect patients and other healthcare staff. It is important for nurses to therefore develop various leadership competencies that enable them to coordinate care, address patient needs and create a conducive environment for working (Hutchinson & Jackson, 2013). The […]

Self-esteem involves the way individuals perceive themselves and is considered an important component of emotional health. Normally, people with low self-esteem have a hard time when faced with problems, are overly critical, and can sometimes display signs of withdrawal, become passive, or depressed. They are also likely to be afraid to try new things, have a negative opinion about themselves, easily frustrated, and often perceive […]

Good Management or Bargaining in Bad Faith Historically, trade or workers unions are organizations formed for bargaining for employee benefits. The associations aim at maintaining and improving the personal and working conditions of staff members in an organization. As Kaufman, & Taras (2016) note, trade unions are organizations formed to represent employees and negotiate with employers over job security, working hours, and compensation. Typical of […]

Specialized and Statistical Functions in Excel Excel contains one of most complete sets of predefined statistical functions to help in performing calculations using specific values and in a particular order. Ideally, some of the common functions contained in it can be utilized quickly to find count, find the sum, average, the maximum and minimum value from a range of cells (Harvey, 2010). Along with the […]

The presence of ethical dilemmas in the provision of human services is commonplace. These often emerge in the context of direct services professionals both clinical and nonclinical in the course of their operational practices. Though such professionals exercise their own discretionary powers to act appropriately in resolving such dilemmas, there is an oversight responsibility on the agencies that deploy them to offer guidance in all […]

Educational preparations As per the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) definition, a clinical nurse leader is a generalist clinician who has attained education levels of a master’s degree on higher. The education level is set at the masters’ level to ensure that the leader has high level of clinical expertise and knowledge. The education program for the CNL covers issues such as liberal […]