front desk. While arriving early and well-dressed are key points that are often overlooked, there lies more in professionalism than the face value. Now as I’m faced with the opportunity of becoming a student professional in a physical therapy degree program I am asked to define professionalism. Professionalism, according to the American Physical Therapy Association, is broken down into five core values: integrity, accountability, excellence, compassion and caring, and
a literacy specialist, I chose the literacy Master’s Degree program because I wanted to help all children, especially struggling readers, develop a love for reading and become successful readers and writers. If I had not seen children struggle with reading, I am not sure if I would have ever chosen literacy for my Master’s program. I know each child I meet comes with different experiences and needs. Prior to the classes I took in this program, however, I did not consider how those experiences would
I am a senior in the Business Administration Online degree completion program and currently working in the Accounts Receivable department at Fayetteville Technical Community College. I chose to research and write on Duke University Hospital for two reasons. First, my youngest daughter and sister-in-law were both patients at Duke that received excellent care. My daughter had a pediatric brain tumor and had surgery at Duke in 1999 and my late sister-in-law had terminal cancer and unfortunately passed
Critical Pathway: Hyperthyroidism Patricia Howard NURS 5103 Advanced Pathophysiology Regents Online Degree Program Middle Tennessee State University November 8th, 2014 Critical Pathway: Hyperthyroidism Introduction Mrs. J.P. is a 30-year-old African-American female who presents to the local health department for her annual women’s health exam and establishment of primary care. Mrs. J.P. requests a pregnancy test be performed due to her recent absence of menses. Mrs. J.P. states she and
Benefits of a Baccalaureate Education in Nursing Nurses that complete nursing school at a baccalaureate degree level will be more prepared and have higher competency levels than nurses graduating from an ADN program. Grand Canyon University follows the guidelines from the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) for the curriculum regarding the nursing education, including the RN-BSN program. (Grand Canyon University College of Nursing Philosophy, 2011) The American Association of Colleges
Laura: Why Are Internships Important in Social Work Degree Programs? The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) recommends accredited social work degree programs to offer internships and practicums. The CSWE’s Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards states that internships are a kind of field education that must meet certain requirements. Internships must be directly associated with an accredited social work program at institution of higher learning. The internship should have academic
career forward through a distinguished master’s degree from your university. My passion for programming has taken me from an eventful bachelor’s degree in computer science, to an innovative professional career with one of the biggest conglomerate of the world. Now, my zeal for learning medicine and its association with computers brings me here to you. With this letter I wish to apply and state my motivation for admission to Biomedical Computing (BMC) program. My objective is to become an expert in the
was selected to participate in a preparation program, called Mara American Degree Preparation Program, which include selected students across Malaysia and requires us to take college-level mathematics and English classes, as well as to organize and perform community outreach programs on our own. This program is one of the opportunity I took to achieve my ambition, that is to further my studies in Environmental Engineering field. After finishing this program, I was admitted into Peninsula College. The
At the completion of my degree program at Northeastern State University, commencement exercises were rapidly approaching. As most of my classmates and friends were filled with excitement, I was experiencing mixed emotions, most of all fear of the unknown as to where I would end up. To be completely honest, I was fearful of leaving Tahlequah and Northeastern State simply due to so many unknown variables as to what steps I would take next in my life. I dreaded the fact that I was leaving Tahlequah
learning that is mediated by a computer (Jones, 1997). Although the motivation for enrollment and retention in an online program for adult students is discussed in the literature review, the types of instruction may vary from simple correspondence or asynchronous communication through electronic mail, chat rooms for classroom discussion, and video-taped classes. Online programs and virtual universities are an answer to adult students who are very busy with their lives in their careers and family