assessing patients‚ handing out medications or assisting doctors. Nurses are also a counselor‚ an agent of change and a patient’s advocate. Nurses can also be an educator in a classroom setting‚ during clinical practice of student nurses or through public presentations. In addition‚ nurses can also take up roles as part of the administration. Even though nurses’ workloads are constantly changing‚ they are still governed by a set of ideals and moral norms which nurses are expected to adhere to and embrace
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Public Relations Interview University of Phoenix Marketing for Health Care HCS 539 Public Relations Interview Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium based located in Oakland‚ California. Kaiser Permanente evolved from industrial health care programs for construction‚ shipyard‚ and steel mill workers for the Kaiser industrial companies during the late 1930s and 1940s ("Kaiser Permanente‚" 2013‚ para. 1). Kaiser Permanente is consists of three distinct entities‚ the
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The Evolution of Public Relations Introduction In order for us to understand how public relations have evolved through history‚ we must first understand what public relations are. Public relations as defined by (Wilcox and Cameron 2004) that Professors Long and Hazelton believe it to be‚ “ a communication function of management through which organizations adapt to alter‚ or to maintain their environment for the purpose of achieving organizational goals”(p.5). With that said we could now go back
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In any professional field‚ there are codes of conduct put in place that are meant to discourage unethical behavior. These rules are commonly retaught or reinforced so people within a field are continuously aware of what society expects of them. Usually people get tired of being reminded of these rules as some of them seem like basic curtesy or something anyone with decent parent was taught during youth‚ but that attitude is what lead to one of America’s biggest financial scandal‚ Enron. Enron is
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Public relation (PR) is active managing of communication of an organization or business to create and maintain a positive image. Public relation involves popularizing successes‚ downplaying failures‚ announcing changes‚ and many other activities. The term Public Relations was first used by the US President Thomas Jefferson during his address to Congress in 1807. Today “Public Relation is a set of management‚ supervisory‚ and technical functions that foster an organization’s ability to strategically
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Public Relations What is public relations? There seems to be many different answers to that question. Merriam-Webster ’s online dictionary defines public as "of‚ relating to‚ or affecting all the people or the whole area of a nation or state." It defines relations as "the state of being mutually or reciprocally interested" (Merriam-Webster‚ 2005). These two definitions indicate that public relations affect all the people of a nation or state that are mutually interested. This paper will provide
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MKT 438 Defining Public Relations University of Phoenix Your Name: xxxxxxx Date: xxxxxxx‚ 2011 Defining Public Relations Effective relations between an organization and its publics are one of the keys to business success. Given the fact that today’s society is now completely flooded with both electronic and traditional communications‚ the practice of public relations has never been of more value. In fact‚ “In the United States alone‚ public relations is a multibillion-dollar business practiced
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Functions of Public Relation It has been reported that Public Relations or PR is the art of managing communication between an organization and its key publics to build‚ manage and sustain a positive image (“”‚ 2006)‚ and is an important function in the desire of any business organization or company to establish its reputation and brand image to its target market. For this reason‚ it is essential to determine the several functions of public relations‚ categorized as organizational and societal. This
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Defining Public Relations The ability to adhere to one worldwide definition of public relations is a challenging and one might say impossible task‚ and has concerned many public relations specials and scholars alike. They seem to agree that while individuals’ actual definition of public relations might vary in strategy and technique‚ the end goal is always the same‚ to influence public opinion favorably for one’s organization. Public Relations in My Own Words Public Relations deals with a broad
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Professor Wolfe Comm 201 22 April 2012 Does public relations in sports do more harm than good? Professional and collegiate athletics have been becoming more and more popular every year. The problem is‚ it is not just the athletic aspect of the games that audiences are interested anymore. Every day people look for new gossip and/or scandals in the sports world‚ and unfortunately other people are giving them exactly what they want. The Public Relations industry was originally supposed to be used
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