Workplace Violence Suffered by Nursing Workers at XYZ Hospital Violence is a major cause of both mortality and morbidity. The World Health Organization (WHO)‚ the International Council of Nurses (ICN)‚ public services international and the international labor organization have campaigned for nurses to come together and fight workplace violence (International Council of Nurses 2001‚ p.3). Nurses and health care workers are more exposed to workplace violence. According to the Bureau of
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Throughout Jack’s diary there is a consistency‚ of home cooked meals in the evening with a dessert‚ the fact that he always spreads his bread with a butter or sauce and his fluid intake which contained of a lot of warm drinks with whole milk. To identify two key sources of fat in Mr Whittle diet‚ butter and whole milk was selected. These food products was selected as they were consumed throughout Mr Whittle’s food intake‚ high in fats including saturated fat and products that are easily able to be substituted
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Discuss research into the workplace as a source of stress? (12 marks) Workplace is considered to be one of the major sources of stress for many people and different levels of stress are different for everyone depending on their environment of work. One study carried out was by Johansson et al (1978) who investigated whether work stressors such as machine regulated pace of work and high levels of responsibility increases stress related physiological arousal and stress related illnesses. The study
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CHAPTER 7 & 8 – Psychosocial Hazards & Workplace Violence So far‚ Bill 168 Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the workplace 2009‚ which took effect from June 15‚ 2010; requires that employers have to include in their organization policies‚ procedures and training which help to identify the psychosocial hazards caused by harassment and workplace violence. The question about if Does Bill 168 go far enough to protect employees and is there a limit
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Date: 20th February 2014 1.1 Identify specific legislation relating to health‚ safety and welfare in the workplace. The Workplace (Health‚ Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 cover a wide range of basic health‚ safety and welfare issues and apply to most workplaces. Here are a few examples. Ventilation Workplaces need to be adequately ventilated. Fresh‚ clean air should be drawn from a source outside the workplace‚ uncontaminated by discharges from
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sociologists identify class as a primary source of identity‚ secondly explain how sociologists also identify this source of identity as a primary pattern of inequality‚ thirdly it will refer to key sociological studies on institutional inequality and provide statistical data to illustrate how such inequalities are sustained and finally‚ refer to appropriate theoretical perspectives such as‚ Marx and Weber when explaining the causes of this primary patterns of inequality. Sociologists identify class as
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Identify and explain two reasons for an increase in cohabitation [17] One reason is changing social attitudes. Religion regarded cohabitation as ‘living in sin’‚ but today there is less shame attached to it. Barlow et al found increasing acceptance of cohabitation. This shows that the change in religions social attitude‚ cohabitation is accepted more‚ leading to an increase in cohabitation. Some people prefer love that focuses of on intimacy‚ closeness and emotion rather than the duties of marriage
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Identify and describe three strategies you can use to manage your time. Create a Prioritised to do list. To do this‚ first you must identify the goals or current tasks and list them. Then you must prioritise them on a scale of 1 to …. (1 as the most important)‚ considering urgency and difficulty. Create a work Schedule. This is a list of tasks that have all been allocated a timeframe in which to be completed or contributed to. These schedules can be reviewed and also set out on a daily‚ weekly or
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Discrimination often reflects an abuse of power within an organisation‚ where members of one group of people yield greater power than others‚ generally women. It is linked with women’s disadvantaged status at work and‚ more generally‚ in society.(Frazier‚ P. A. and Cohen‚ B. B. (1992) ‘Research on the Gender bias against women: implications for counsellor training’. The Counselling Psychologist. 20: 141-158.) The matters of blatant employment dicrimination or sexual harrasment at work seems to be
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from Erving Goffman (1959) and Jonathan Raban after his visit to New York to support how some identities have impacted negatively within our society whether this is included or excluded. You may see a group of teenagers that have a collective identify as they have similar interests for example make up‚ clothes therefore will target certain shops like high street brands such as Superdrug or 17 Cosmetics located in Boots as they are making a statement as certain groups would like to wear certain
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