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 […]

United Health Group is one of the largest health groups, dating back to more than three decades since its formation. The diversified healthcare organization was founded in 1977 by Richard Burke and has its headquarters in Minnesota, U.S.A (United Health Group, n.d). Over the years, the organization has exponentially expanded and spread its presence in several other nations all over the world. In the United […]

Classical conditioning is a major concept in psychology that emerged as an attendant to the behaviorism school of thought. The latter envisioned human behavior as a subject of learning, and reprised earlier beliefs of the unfettered control of the mind and consciousness. Proponents of this school of thought proposed that humans could interact with environmental and natural stimuli to learn certain behaviors. Thereby, classical conditioning […]

The emergence of several challenges in the healthcare landscape today has led to the prominence of the role of the nurse as an advocate. Whether working as a nurse manager, at the point of care or as a nursing educator, the nursing professional is today presented with a plethora of scenarios that require them to advocate for patients, the profession and even the institution. These […]

The fundamental principles of social inequality theories are that resources are unevenly distributed, through norms of allocation, which engender along specific categories of individuals. The guiding proposition of the social inequality models is the differentiation in access of social goods or services in the society brought about by various elements such as class, gender, power, ethnicity, kinship, and sexual orientation among others.  In particular, social […]