Standardization

Reflection: A Day in the Life of an RT “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Mahatma Gandhi. The health care profession is a noble profession, there is something honorary about serving people at a time they are in the most need. Providing them with quality help is doing our job, but to the patient and the family receiving our help, we are known as the life savers. The amount of gratitude and appreciation in most situations are very rewarding. That is just…

General Hap Arnold’s 6 December 1945 memorandum to General Tooey Spaatz is timeless. At the time, the United States was coming out of a lengthy world war and there were many lessons to be passed on to someone who would face a very different environment – one of peace and stability. The key tenets and lessons highlighted by General Arnold would not only pertain to the immediate future General Spaatz would soon encounter, but indeed they would be and are still relevant almost 75 years later.…

you’re doing things correctly. There’s nothing better than thinking outside of the box,” Said Dan. “So often you run into people who are doing things and you ask why there doing it and they say that’s how it’s always been done. That’s great for standardization of protocol but could be bad in the long run. If a standard for eDNA can be produced that reveals consistent results across all boards then maybe it can be used as a tool for wildlife management. “There is an error when using [eDNA],…

Legitimacy During the brief interview between an employee at the organization she attested to the legitimacy of an organization (her particular organization as well) being the main factor in whether or not an organization will scale successfully. In order to gain legitimacy organizations, have to prove impact and have to be able to do so for. Through proof that nonprofit organizations have an are successfully creating the impact they state in their goals, mission, and objective. The organization…

individuals unfamiliar with obesity intervention techniques (Sacher et al., 2010). Not only does the program have a high acceptability rate amongst participants, but the costs with administering such an intervention, can be greatly reduced through standardization of teaching materials. • The results of this study showed increases within the participants’ self-esteem. These findings are stark in contrast to the notion of obesity stigma associated with weight bias (Ramos, 2014). As such, let it…

26. There are some very clear cut and distinct rights that all participants of psychological tests are privy to. Discuss the importance of adhering to these rights.  It is important to highlight that APA code of conduct standards are mandate and must be followed to its maximum extent. Standards are regulated by law and any psychologist or person involved administering psychological tests or assessments must abide them. The lack of any of these standards could lead to disciplinarian actions from…

The wide-spread adoption and use of the LMS can reduce some “institutional pain” through standardization; however, it does little to reduce the pain on the individual user, particularly if a novice user. This is a challenge for organizational leaders who serve as change agents during the implementation process. Once an optimal LMS platform has…

On January 8, 2002, The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was signed into law by President George W. Bush. The No Child Left Behind Act is a federal law which gives money for educational assistance to improve students which have not reached expected academic level. Even though, The No Child Left Behind was signed into law it’s main attempt was to illuminate the National Standards. The National Standards are tools that provide teachers with accurate utensils to understand the estimated expected…

students need to know what is “right”. “ It is probably inevitable that school curricula will reflect the contradictions between a society’s myths and realities. But while a critical multicultural approach attempts to examine these contradictions, standardization tends to paper them over” (Au, 129). Testing also does not always give the appropriate score for a student because there are students who are not good test takers or freak out when they have a test so are tests really that…

renaissance, and was fueled by Charlemagne’s perception of having received a divinely ordained mission. As a result of the sheer extant of resources that Charlemagne used to back this mission, there was a significant increase in the circulation and standardization of basic Christian literature. Additionally, advances in bookbinding and handwriting; the letters we print today were derived from the Carolingian miniscule. And, all of this was despite the fact that Charlemagne himself couldn’t read…