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    “Despite enormous changes in society and the way that nursing education and training are delivered, nursing is arguably still underpinned by professional and key personal values and beliefs” (Kaya, Isik, Senyuva, & Kaya, 2016, p. 1). There is an expectation from the public that nurses are honest, caring individuals. According to Gallup’s yearly review, nurses have been rated the highest among professionals for 15 years straight, with 84% of the public rating them high or very high for being honest

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    others in terms of that individual 's own culture”. Wilson talked about this term extensively in his class and he noticed a common trend within his classroom. The trend was that his students warned him, “Not to be 'judgmental ' or to 'impose your values on other people.”(Soccio 2007). This is a common trend found with a lot of people in my opinion. In fact, I have the same belief as many of Wilson’s students. Cultural relativism is important for many reasons. First, having a sense of cultural relativism

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    In “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays a married man disillusioned by the townspeople’s complicity in evil. In the tale, Brown discovers that every wholesome person he knows, including his wife, are in league with the devil. His life after the night that he discovers this truth is one of cynicism and depression, as he regards everyone to be a facade of who they truly are. Conventional wisdom would uphold this condemnation of dishonesty. However, in Judith Viorst’s “The Truth About

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    other terrorist organizations operate financially” (Ehrenfeld, p. 192). The Saint Leo core value of integrity means to uphold an honest and truthful spirit towards others around you. It means to steadily portray yourself true and trustworthy. In relation to transnational terrorist and the concerns of terrorist financing the core value of integrity can be instituted into each person and organization that values the conception of freedom, honesty, safety for their country and safety for the lives of

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    clothing, language, music, morals, and greetings. Because of its extensive range, it is easy to see how much culture impacts a person’s life. One’s culture vastly affects how he or she views the world due to ingrained traditions, stereotypes, and values within his or her heritage. First of all, every culture has different customs implemented on its community. This is especially evident in “Matrimony with a Proper Stranger”, which details the circumstances of arranged marriage and its application

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    found the topic of informational interviews very interesting, as it was all new information to me. I never realized that informational interviews existed and assumed that the only way to experience an informational interview would have required a personal connection. I valued this suggestion highly and look forward to trying to conduct informational interviews in the future when looking to gain more information about a specific position or a company. Throughout the book, Combs uses celebrities

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    Specialization has always been a topic that many have not been able to comprehend. It is simply defined as one becoming an expert on only one thing and depending their life on that. It is common knowledge that Mother Nature dislikes specialization due to the fact that humans will eventually abuse of Mother Nature and they will take life for granted. Nature has always specifically disliked specialization due to the lack of human interest in other jobs leading them to be ultimately miserable in their

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    health and safety, a nurse has to respect patient’s values as it represents their human character and finally be prepared to focus on the standard of care giving to a patient, but also promoting healthy lifestyle (Battie, 2014).     This essay examines key aspects to professionalism such as how the Nursing and Midwifery Code guides nurse’s in their role, how nurse’s use value based approach and the impact on practice it has and conclusive how value based approach supports compassionate care in practice

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    The Jataka Tales

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    represented to demonstrate the ideas of karma and rebirth to stress the importance of good moral values. The authors of these fables are unknown, however the fables were recollected and retold by the interpreter Ellen C. Babbitt. The Jataka Tales reconstructed the best fables with the most relevance to modern societies, especially children, to be taught the important human values in order to achieve personal goals and

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    Social Exchange Theory The main principle of social exchange theory (Blau, 1964) is built upon a quasi-economical model and the basic elements of reinforcement psychology (Homans, 1961), where interactions can be explained based on the rewards and the positive reinforcement they offer. Emerson (1976) explains that when a particular action is rewarded, it is more likely that the person will repeat that action or similar ones to achieve the reward. This is the main principle of Skinnerian reinforcement

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