Nursing administrators play an integral role in the leadership and functioning of healthcare systems. For example, a director’s role is to maintain efficient and safe functioning of the nursing units by ensuring adherence to national accreditation standards and nursing standards, and supporting the hospital’s strategic plans as well as performance improvement activities. The director is responsible for planning, guiding, directing and coordinating departmental activities for the unit with a continuous…

Bipolar Disorder and Impairments in Cognitive Functioning and Behavior Bipolar disorder is behavior disorder that results in shifts of mood, lack of energy, low activity levels, and difficulty performing day-to-day tasks. There are two types of Bipolar disorder. Bipolar 1 Disorder, is when the primary symptom is manic, or cycling episodes of mania and depression. Bipolar 2 Disorder is reoccurring depression alongside hypomanic episodes. Manic episodes are periods of elevated, expansive, or irritable…

Executive summary The purpose of the report is to discuss the role of the central bank, the Bank of England. The most important role of the Bank of England, the way it is run to maintain the overall financial stability of the UK economy. For purposes of sustaining the ongoing economic activities. This report will be focusing on the Bank of England role 's in the United Kingdom. One of the many roles of the Bank of England is to ensure that financial institutions do not collapse. The report will…

The Effects of Short Term Cognitive Training on Episodic Memory and Executive Functioning in Healthy Seniors As humans begin to get older, there is a strong association between age change and the decline of cognition. This a concern that many individuals have as they start to get older, especially with the media coverage that Alzheimer’s disease has been getting. There are many causes of this decline, and it often varies highly between individuals based on their lifestyle and physical activity…

Executive dashboard is a powerful, customizable, efficient useful, web-based Executive information system that provides a consolidated insight of a firm or organization’s actions and performances. Executive dashboard as a management tool, setting expectation for the organization behaviors at each level, with clear board information expression and easily understandable report of the status of organization. Measure and understand organization’s key performance indicators and metrics, data…

The connection between bilingualism and cognitive functioning has been greatly studied in the field of psychology. It is believed that people who speak more than one language have enhanced cognitive abilities, compared to monolinguals, which put them at an exceptional level of being communicatively and perceptually successful in life. However, in order to study such abilities that bilingual individuals might have in greater depth it is important to look at development specifically and where it all…

the notion that the amygdala plays a significant role in the recognition of emotional and social relevance of sensory stimuli. In 1995, Bechara conducted a dissociation study that concluded that amygdala function is dissociated from hippocampus functioning. In other words, Bechara clarified that the amygdala is responsible for the acquisitioning of fear conditioning whereas the hippocampus is responsible for memory of conditioning procedures. In the year 1990 up until the year 1996, LeDoux studied…

help rebuild brain cells and activate proper and healthy cognitive functioning in adults. This relates to cognition in psychology because the studies show that there is a physical change in brain capacity, memory and cell growth from regular and efficient exercise. One of the more important aspects of the paper that I will focus on is the effect that exercise has on attention in children which helps regulate cognitive functioning and promotes further development and learning. These articles go over…

study sought to determine whether or not anxiety and/or depression (emotional well-being) of young adults with high-functioning autism is impacted by the possession or lack of a transition plan prior to their leaving high school, by comparing t-scores from the Beck Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory, Second Edition. A sample of 32 (N = 32) young adults with high-functioning autism ages 18 to 25 participated in the study, which included an initial online survey, followed by the Beck Anxiety…

This article examines the associations between ADHD and social functioning with the use of a longitudinal aging study. A diagnostic interview to diagnose ADHD was given to a subsample of 231 people, age 60-94 years. The ADHD diagnosis along with the levels of their symptoms were assessed. The results were that those diagnosed with ADHD were more associated with never being married/divorced, having a smaller family network, and emotional loneliness. The article concludes with the study revealing…