Improving Instructional Outcomes For Overall Effectiveness

ABSTRACT As organizational development gained popularity, there was a need to improve the overall assessment and communication process. The traditional way of assessing people in an organization relied heavily on downward feedback. The 360 degree assessment tool has since evolved to include multiple assessors to give feedback regarding an individual. The benefit of such a feedback is that the assessment includes inputs from all the stakeholders in an organization including self, superiors,…

ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, socio-economic status, physical abilities and religious beliefs. Diversity in the police force is one of the most important aspects that should be looked at. This is due to the outcome that it is most likely to have on the effectiveness and the overall perception of the police force. Policing is one of the most vital requirements of a non-violent living of society. Policing can be seen as overseeing others ensuring that they keep to law and order. As a result the…

Integration of the Pharmacist: Improving Health Outcomes The Joint Commission of Pharmacy practitioners (JCPP), a group that represents eleven professional pharmacy organizations, recently issued a revised vision statement for the practice of pharmacy. The Vision Statement declares - "Patients achieve optimal health and medication outcomes with pharmacists as essential and accountable providers within patient-centered, team-based healthcare." I agree with this revised vision statement for several…

Patient Centered Outcomes Nursing 300: Foundations of Professional Nursing By: Jayme Shulman, RN 0ctober 28, 2012 America’s health care system has become very complex with a rise in health costs, patients with complex medical issues, and Medicare cuts. Nurses must find a way to juggle the health care industry while maintaining positive patient outcomes. Patients will either have good or bad outcomes during or after their care based on the decisions of the nurse and the interdisciplinary…

When seeking approaches to improve business outcomes, training has long been an exceptional method, granting managers many significant advantages towards organizational improvement. The following will explain those advantages, the reduction of organizational disadvantages, as well as a clarification as to how this approach is able to offer such enhancements. Finally, consideration will be offered which helps describe how the desired outcomes that related to the training approach can be managed through…

educators have laid emphasis on understanding factors that contribute to improving the standard and effectiveness of education in impoverished neighborhoods. A lot of studies have aimed to ascertain the benefits that various safety network programs have for at-risk children living in poverty stricken areas of the country. This paper seeks to highlight the host of elements that have a positive bearing on the academic outcome of children belonging to the poverty stricken counties in the state of Ohio…

the 2002 National Education Act (NEA). The purpose of this reform focused on improving efficiency and effectiveness of learning. Students were encouraged to become creative and critical thinkers, acquire facility with information technologies, and improve their learning and individual potential based on the student-centered learning approach. The purpose of this reform is focused on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of learning. Students were encouraged to focus on the skills of the 21st century…

Improving Academic Outcomes in Mathematics Classrooms with Whiteboards Introduction Because resources are by definition scarce, it is important for educators in general and mathematics teachers in particular to use the most effective teaching tools that are available. Many young people entering the classroom for the first time today bring with them a valuable set of information technology skills that can be used to good effect in improving academic outcomes. Likewise, computer-savvy older students…

There are several standardized terminologies in the nursing practice. Some of these are the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA), Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), and the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC). I have selected a patient scenario that will further explain these elements. There was a 27 year old man that was admitted to the hospital one week after a chemotherapy session, he had a fever of 102.5F, his white blood cell count was 0.3, and his absolute neutrophil…

statistics and trends concerning adolescent obesity in our nation. Geographic location, racial and ethnic status, and socioeconomic status (SES) all impact the disparities in obesity among the nation’s adolescents. Despite the disparities, there is an overall growing trend with this problem nationally as well as globally. This epidemic continues to be the most prevalent in the south. As Mississippi, for the seventh year in a row, has had the highest adolescent obesity rate in the nation (Trust for America's…