The Criterion Collection

Criterion 1: Tanners Clinical judgement model is based on 200 or more research studies, which explore the way nurses think in their practice. There are 4 criteria including noticing, interpreting, responding and reflecting. This week in clinical I had the job of helping to feed the homeless, unemployed, and/or people that can’t afford to have more than one meal a day. This was a challenge because I noticed that so many people were asking for a second plate of food, but Catholic Charities didn’t…

Definition 1.1 A random forest is a classifier consisting of a collection of tree structured classifiers { , k=1, ...} where the are independent identically distributed random vectors and each tree casts a unit vote for the most popular class a input x . Use of the Strong Law of Large Numbers shows that they always…

One example of this would be the theory of relativity, which later replaced the two fundamentals of Newton's theory. Finally, a hypothesis must agree with some but all empirical possibilities, so that it is falsifiable or meets the demarcation criterion. An example of falsifiable hypothesis would be to claim that enzymes are the only proteins that catalyze the chemical reactions but is later proven false because certain RNA molecules can function like enzymes and catalyze their own reactions.…

Research data shows that there was a 6% risk of death for patients when a shift with a nurse staffing shortage of 8 hours occurred. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released a report, Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Nursing Work Environment, which identifies solutions to problems in work environments that threaten patient safety through their effect on nursing care including hospitals, nursing home, and other health care organization. According to the American Nurses Credentialing…

The referent-based method, focusing on comparing the student map with a criterion, has been used in related studies and the research results indicate it is valid and reliable, but this method does not pay attention to the degree of importance of different propositions, and assumes that all of the propositions in a student-created concept map are equally important, which is not always true in reality. Weighted concept maps were created for scoring the degree of importance of different…

A competency model is a framework for defining the skill and knowledge requirements of a job. It is a collection of competencies that is needed by a person to have successful job performance in a particular leadership position. The two assigned articles titled; A leadership competency model: Guiding the NAON process and Leadership Competencies from the SHRM website, attempts to define and give examples of a leadership competency model. As per Hughes, Ginnett, and Curphy (2012), “Competency…

Motivational Interviewing: Annotated Bibliography Barnett, E., Sussman, S., Smith, C., Rohrbach, L. A., & Spruijt-Metz, D. (2012). Motivational Interviewing for adolescent substance use: a review of the literature. Addictive behaviors, 37(12), 1325-1334. Retrieved November 19, 2016, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496394/ Summary of the article The author has used Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a research support to address on substance abuse among the adolescents. The key…

Related legislation and standards How it helps to achieve organizational outcomes Copyright act Copyright protection is provided under the Copyright Act 1968 and gives exclusive rights to license others in regard to copying once work, performing it in public, broadcasting it, publishing it and making an adaptation of the work. Rights vary according to the nature of the work. Those for artistic works, for instance, are different from those for literary and musical works. Depending on the material…

Based on the readings and your own research, answer the following questions: 1. How do pathogenic organisms get into a water source? Human and animal wastes (feces) are major source for pathogenic organisms (such as bacteria, viruses, and protozoa) into a water source (surface or groundwater). As water (surface runoff) resulting from the storm or precipitation or snowmelt runs over the land surface, it will pick up potential pollutants include pathogenic organisms as it runs over livestock…

On February 18th, 1930 the dwarf planet known as Pluto was discovered! It was discovered by an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh and named by an 11-year-old girl. It was the farthest planet and the smallest. However when it was discovered it was named a planet because they did not have much information about it. They assumed it was a planet. It looked like a planet so they thought it was a planet. 76 years after Pluto was discovered on August 24th, 2006 astronomers demoted Pluto from planet status…