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Interestingly enough this primary source does not overly saturate the historical interpretation with irrelevant exposition of the emperor’s gender. Instead Song Qi propagates the interpretation that “ she was a capable, decisive leader who had mercy for those beneath her… ” In doing so, Song Qi contradicts many of the assertions that Suma Guang put forward; which primarily emphasises that the core of Wu Zetian’s power and authority were derived not from her leadership capabilities…

Visual Explanation This surrealistic painting by Tetsuya Ishida is one of his many dark portrayals of life; similar to the way Aldous Huxley, in his novel Brave New World portrays life. One of the key themes presented in the novel would be the dangers of an all powerful state. In the painting above, this idea can also be easily pointed out. The people living in the world portrayed in the painting appear to be brainwashed, mindless and only concerned with fulfilling their assigned roles in…

Leadership for Quality In operating a successful healthcare organization, leadership is a defining factor in that success. The quality of leadership that is present, will define that success by awards of excellence or be detrimental with failure in outcomes. Leadership has developed theories to result in outcomes that create excellence, those theories can be categorized into two separate levels (Joshi et al., 2014). These levels are known as individual leadership and organizational leadership…

Grabbing a Seat Introduction Type; 3D animation Time; 2’53’’ Director:Xu Guangtong Animation producer: Xu Guangtong, Qi Yuehui Image design: Yuan Qi Sound effect: Zhang Yue Software:3D Max 6.0, After Effect6 6.0, Premiere 6.5, Photoshop 7.0 Hardware: PC Production cycle:3 months (April, 2004-July, 2004) The outline of the story: The play Grabbing a Seat is a story about two persons, one is fat and other is thin. In order to occupy a seat, they used tricks and even resorted to fighting.…

The joint commission inspected the Community memorial hospital to evaluate if the standards of quality were met or not. Accordingly what was discovered was that the staff specifically the nurses were not reporting medication errors either not on time or not even done at all. Frances Ballentine RN, MSN, VP for Nursing Services at this hospital assigned by the CEO to fix the problem and the problems resulting from not completing these necessary regulatory forms. She was given a six month period to…

3. Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Human Dimension Leung holds a PhD in Health Sociology and currently works as a clinician in Queensland Government in Australia. She grew up in Macau and Hong Kong where TCM was an integral part of people’s daily life. Therefore, her research is from a perspective of social science, emphasising the human expression and connection via TCM, in order to present the best core values of Chinese culture (p. viii). Her primary sources are the interviews with 48…

In the case of a Quality Improvement (QI) team member’s procrastination, a mindful resonant leader will critically assess the situation and own flaws that could possibly enable a procrastinating behavior in a team member. In managing procrastination, the first step of a compassionate resonant…

My world is called Hei’an meaning darkness since they live in a dark cave. There are seven cities the greatest being Shenghuo Hei'an, the other six are called Siwang, Qi si, Buxing, Huo, Shui, Wu Xing. Each city is a separate nation with its own government and laws. Connecting the cities is a series of bridges. To pass from each city you must have a passport or other papers. If you are an outlaw you will have to use the caves to get from city to city. The rules are pretty much the same from city…

measures, the results reflect in the stakeholders (patients, payers, healthcare organizations). Quality improvement includes measuring whether or not core measures are met on each patient that meets the clinical criteria. Often considered part of the QI department, is Risk Management (RM). RM is a comprehensive program intended to minimize injury (risk) to patients’ staff and visitors. Risk Management is responsible for risk analysis, event and incident management, and minimizing the risk…

CVM was first introduced by Ciriacy-Wantrup in 1947 and Davis used it for the first time in 1960. It was utilized in research pertaining to valuation frequently. The method, however, was mostly used in forest ecosystem valuation. The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) is used to estimate economic values for all kinds of ecosystem and environmental services. It can be used to estimate both use and non use values, and it is the most widely used method for estimating non-use values. The…