Susan's Personal Philosophy

In Susan Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It, life for Miranda and her family comes to a screeching halt after a meteor collides with the moon, triggering calamitous natural disasters. After the initial tragedy, humanity is left with unanswered questions, to which no one seems to have answers for. As a result, Miranda must forget about her normal, mundane life and focus on the hardship ahead of her and her family. With her world collapsing around her, she is left with choices and responsibilities that affect her loved ones as much as herself. Through literary devices, Pfeffer emphasizes the emotional struggles and physical battles Miranda must surmount before and after the misfortunate collision.

Susan Eloise Hinton, one of the world's most respected authors was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 22, 1950. Also known as S.E Hinton, best known for her young adult novels, especially The Outsiders. Antoine Wilson’sbiography The Library of Author Biographies: S.E Hinton highlights some of the problems Hinton endured on her path to become one of the most influential authors in America.

It is evident that many different types of knowledge influenced Allison’s decision-making process when caring for her patients. There were also contextual factors that played a role in each nurse-patient interaction. The first contextual was the intrinsic nature of the nurse and the patient as individuals. Working in an understaffed nursing environment can cause nurses to experience burnout. Allison ensures she cares for herself physically and emotionally; allowing her to come to work refreshed and prepared for the stressful environment. She also focuses on the positive aspects of her work, such as believing that a busy shift will go by faster, rather than dwelling on

Planned Organizational Change: In this situation, University Hospital underwent a significant planned organizational change. They took traditional nurses and put them into “care coordinator” positions. This planned change is defined as a process where an organization explores the need for change and possible solutions, plans for how that change is to be instituted, implements the change and disseminates information about the change, and integrates those changes into the day to day operation of the organization. It seems as if University Hospital did not implement this change in the best way possible. They seem to have thrown care coordinators into their roles without giving them much input into what their job would really entail.

Being alive is very precious, which many people take for granted as it goes for that one quote “You’re alive but are you really living?”. Death is something that people fear and will always be inevitable. With that in mind, how would one know if they were alive unless they knew that they could die? Living forever is overrated, and life itself being a race against death. This is why we must create a meaningful life, actively engaging in something of value to us and ultimately succeeding, preventing death from taking anything away, and depriving us from further experiences.

Mrs. Peters, on the contrary, looks much more aristocratic. She is small, fragile blonde-haired woman, about the same age as Mrs. Hale. She wears a fur neckpiece and a pencil skirt with pride and grace and that is clearly differs her from her co-worker. Mrs. Peters was childless, and that was her second marriage to Sheriff Peters, so she had spent all her free time taking care of herself and her husband. In addition, in contrast to Mrs. Hale, this woman used to being “on the sidelines” of her husband, Mr. Peters, and so she is easily influenced by others. It is interesting - and, I hope Susan Glaspell did it deliberately; - the name of Mrs. Peters was not marked in the whole play. I would have left this technique in order to make it clear to the viewer different characters of the two women. Apparently, the power of the spirit and a keen sense of justice of the Martha Hale gave her the right to have the name, unlike the Sheriff’s wife, who did not intend to argue with anyone, and the woman was satisfied that her capabilities were not perceived by men at all.

The purpose of this discussion is to complete the critical thinking exercise for chapter 9 in Huber (2015). This case is regarding a non-verbal patient that is to go to the operating room (OR) to have a radical mastectomy at 8:30AM and is being cared for by a newly hired nurse (James Fair) who starts his shift at 7:00AM, a nursing assistant (Julie Coggeshall), and Sherry Trader the charge nurse. The aspects of care discussed include the problems in this case, when to delegate and assign care, dimensions of power and conflict and two solutions are provided, along with two communication techniques. Furthermore, the delegation plan, and Sherry Trader’s options if the staff refuse to accept the delegated tasks. The included staff have only an hour and a half to assess, plan, and implement tasks to prepare the patient for her surgical procedure.

“The service we provide, I mean the relational service, is kept to a minimum.” This isinteresting to me because nurse assistant should have conversation with residents but do not haveenough time. This is relevant to my role in healthcare because I need to learn time managementin order to provide not only the best care to my patients but also engage in conversation withthem.The article refers to change at the working group level as “mandated in a rigid manner”. Thisshould not be the case in long term care facilities. The five-step innovation plan described in thisarticle is a sound way for managers to apply teamwork to their nurse assistant’s job. It allowsnursing assistants to propose a change since they are the people caring for the patients. It alsoallows the work team some freedom as to how to reach their goals on the job. New targets aremade with this plan based on teamwork of the nursing assistants.For Further StudyI would like to know more about the interviews the authors conducted. The article contains onlya few responses from their in-depth interviews with nursing

I’m inspired by Susan Anderson because of the hard struggles she must have had to come through. Susan Anderson was a doctor in the late 1800. Anderson was born January 31, 1870 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and later decided to move to Kansas. Her parents divorced when she was a child. She lived with her father, younger brother, and grandmother. After her graduation from high school in 1891 she and her family moved to Cripple Creek, Colorado. Anderson was convinced by her father to go to medical school, She graduated in 1897.

This quote shows the reader that in this world, the line between good and evil is defined and, that there are no gray areas. Hale believes that evil is certain, and that the faith that God works through ministers is absolute. What readers can take away from this, is how black and white the perception of good and evil were during that time; specifically, Hale’s perception. Throughout the book, Hale believes the lies of people without question or hard evidence, which resulted in the death of multiple people.

In this listen passage, Susan talked about her experience when she was young. She met a car accident when she was 17 years old. She got the injury on her brain and lost the reading ability. During her recovering period in the reading skill training class, Susan met a 27-year-old guy who seemed like have some disabilities. When Susan introduced herself, the guy just wrote what Susan said. Such situation happened repeatedly. One day, Susan decided to figure out a way to solve this quandary. Susan started to ignore him and pretend teaching an invisible student to learn the word. Suddenly, the old guy realized that everything has a name. Finally, Susan used her way to help the old guy read the word and recover successfully.

For my research paper assignment, I was stuck between two works that seemed equally worth spending time on and analyzing thoroughly. I have decided to use Trifles by Susan Glaspell for my paper. As a person who loves literature, I tend to gravitate more towards the seemingly simple but very complex plots. I ended up loving the concept and the base for the short play.

Coulter, Decenzo, and Robbins (2014) said that “planning involves defining the organization’s objectives or goals, establishing an overall strategy for achieving those goals, and developing a comprehensive hierarchy of plans to integrate and coordinate activities. It’s concerned with ends (what is to be done) as well as with means (how it’s to be done)” (p.123). To assess how planning assists Mrs. Kirby 's ability to be more effective, she discussed defining goals, establishing a strategy, developing plans to manage activities and encouraging organizational members to keep attentive. Mrs. Kirby stated that the goal for the nursing staff is

Conflict management and delegation are two areas encountered daily by nurses. Knowledge, experience and communication skills are vital aspects in the nursing repertoire that enables the adaptability and adjustability to get things done. This discussion involves a critical thinking exercise involving staff regarding the progression of a recent admitted patient being prepared for surgery. Appropriateness of staff assignments and delegation of duties that are known to be within the scope and practice of ancillary staff will aid in the prevention of problems and conflicts. A problem occurs in this exercise and I will present strategies that would prevent this from occurring and ideas to resolve conflicts when they do occur. The scenario involves the admittance of a non-verbal cancer patient at shift change whom is scheduled for a radical mastectomy shortly after.

Having read the story written by Susan Minot we come across a rather complicated character, to be precise the narrator herself. The girl in the story has been studying in the boarding school. It is the educational establishment of close type, so the process of growing proceeds differently. For example if we compare the girls from public schools and the girls from boarding schools the latest will be more dissolute. The main reason for this is the closed social environment which fluencies the young girls’ minds. So let us look closer at the narrator she was “…good at such things like math or painting or even sports, but the second a boy put his arm around her, she forgot about wanting to do anything else…” This phrase indicates the author’s real attitude towards men and studying. She loved being in relationships with young boys. Moreover, while being in the boarding school she had at least 5 or 6 partners. At the same time the narrator stresses that: “Lots of boys, but never two at the same time. One was plenty to keep you in a state.” So for her a man is a tool, which can keep her in shape. To our way of thinking it is a rather thoughtless attitude towards the relationship. Furthermore, from the conversation with the headmistress Mrs. Gunther it becomes obvious that the narrator is astonished having known that she has had only the one man for her life. But to be honest the headmistress has her own understanding of the relations between the man and the woman, and it is