Article : Multicultural Competence by Paul Kivel Cultural competence is to understand another culture well enough to be able to communicate and work with them. This article talks about cultural competency and how it is important to have cultural competence to be able to help people of minority groups and become allies with them. Learning to be open and sensitive to other cultural expression takes lot of time. In addition‚ for those who are able culturally competence in their own culture along with
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patients receive (Betancourt et al.‚ 2002). When we achieve cultural competence‚ we remove cultural barriers among patients that might affect the quality of care they receive. Conclusion There may be various definitions and ways to be cultural to be cultural competent. Although some of us may have cultural competence‚ there are still many ways we can improve to become more culturally competent. When we improve on cultural competence and provide more culturally competent health care‚ the outcome is
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The form is a proxy advance directive because it assigns another person the ability to make decisions on behalf of the person in a situation. Proxy advance directive involves another third party who will be responsible for the decisions that will be required to be made in future. The above advance directive form is meant for planning important health care decisions. The forms asks the one filling of what will be done when they are incapacitated and they are unable to make decisions for themselves
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4/7/13 Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for Optical Super Computing - Spr ing er Find outdeoGeto cces s s preview-only content Look Ins i h w t A acces Optical SuperComputing Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 5172‚ 2008‚ pp 9-32 Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for Optical Super Computing Abstract The twentieth century has been the era of s emiconductor materials and electronic technology while this millennium is expected to be the age of photonic materials and optical
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Technological Advances During World War II No other war has had the profound effect on technological advances on our current lives than those that took place during World War II. The technological advances that emerged as a consequence of constant warfare were very significant for that decade but especially for today’s daily life. Some may look upon the negative effects of the Second World War‚ but technological advancements served many benefits for humanity. The role of scientific inventions
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Cultural Competence Care and Lack of Communication Swasti Lewis NUR/531 March 23‚ 2015 Instructor Annette Marget “Hola‚ coma esta‚ Me llamo Swasti Lewis‚ Yo soy enfermera por la noche”‚ this statement translates to‚ “hello‚ how are you? My name is Swasti Lewis‚ I will be your nurse for tonight”. Language‚ a beautiful notion in life defining people by their origins‚ culture and countries. Language means‚ “the words‚ their pronunciation‚ and the methods of combining them used and understood
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Technology Advances in Retail: Improving Margins using Wireless Networks Introduction The retail industry is one that lives and dies on margins‚ with managers on a never-ending quest to increase revenue and decrease costs. Technology has been an area of intense focus in retail industries as a way to accomplish both goals. Improvements have been made in areas such as supply chain management‚ inventory management‚ customer experience‚ and loss prevention. Wireless technology‚ permitting communication
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On Developing Students’ Communicative Competence Lou Ruijuan Most Chinese students‚ especially those with low foreign language levels‚ are used to memorizing the language but reluctant to speak in the target language. They may be familiar with the sentence patterns but do not know how to start and end a conversation and how to express themselves in a particular situation. So it is a main task for a teacher to develop students’ communicative competence. I. Obstacles in Communication While it is difficult
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Composition I 19 Feb 2008 Advances in Medical Technology Medical Technology has developed to a great extent over the course of many centuries. Since the days of Hippocrates‚ considered the “Father of Medicine”‚ advances in the medical field have brought us into a brave new world. With the advent and application of modern technology‚ the medical field seems to have evolved more in the last 10-20 yrs than in the previous 1000 years. Recently‚ new ground has been broken throughout the field
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Intellectual Property Table of Contents Overview of Intellectual Property 3 Types of Intellectual Property Rights 3 Industrial property 4 Copyright 5 Controversy of Intellectual Property 5 Intellectual Property in the Digital Age 7 No Electronic Theft Act 9 Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 9 Case Study Involving Intellectual Property – Domain Names 9 Conclusion 11 Overview of Intellectual Property The term intellectual property refers to the innovations of the human mind. Intellectual
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