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Recommendations for Providing Competent Nursing Care to Individuals with Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Their Families
Get PDFoai:digitalcommons.ric.edu:honors_projects-1014Identifies some of the major nursing implications described by parents of children diagnosed with a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD). Presents data compiled from questionnaires distributed to parents and the resulting recommendations for providing competent nursing care to affected children and their families
A Tale of Two Investigations in Molecular Biology: the Use of PCR Technology to Identify Bacteria Containing Genes for PHA Synthesis and the Antibiotic Sensitivity Profile of Vibrio Species B-18
Get PDFThe Vibrio species, B-18, produces PHA, a bacterial storage material with application as a biodegradable plastic. Phase one of this project aimed at determining if PCR technology could be used to find other bacteria that produce a similar type of PHA. Results showed that the primer sets utilized were not able to identify bacteria with PHA genes. Phase two hoped to discover if it would be possible to introduce Escherichia coli plasmids into B-18 using electroporation. Results demonstrated that electroporation was not useful for introducing plasmids into B-18
Eye on Ethics: Administrative Challenges
No full textSeasoned social work administrators know that their jobs are sometimes fraught with ethical challenges. It is not enough for administrators to know about budgeting, program planning, grant writing, marketing, and personnel management. They also need a keen understanding of moral dilemmas in administration—that is, circumstances requiring hard choices among competing values, duties, and obligations. To be competent administrators, social workers need a comprehensive and firm grasp of ethical dilemmas in administration; ethical analysis, moral reasoning, and decision-making strategies; and ethical risk-management protocols to protect clients and prevent ethics complaints and litigation
Eye on Ethics: Defamation of Character
No full textSocial workers must always be careful to treat clients respectfully and avoid using insulting or insensitive language with or about them. Social workers’ use of offensive language in their communications can be hurtful and undermine their efforts to help people in need
Eye on Ethics: Deception in Social Work
No full textDeception in social work can be motivated by diverse factors. In many instances, social workers are earnest about helping vulnerable clients who otherwise may not receive the assistance they need. In addition, social workers may conclude that some forms of deception are justifiable because of seemingly unjust regulations or laws that limit clients’ access to services or violate their rights. Occasionally, social workers’ deception may be self-serving, such as when it is designed to increase the number of clients who seek their services and enhance their income
Social Movements in Organizations
Get PDFThis article reviews the literature on social movements within organizations such as colleges and universities, corporations, religious orders, and governmental agencies. It brings together work from disparate fields to advance an understanding of how movements happen within organizations to introduce students and scholars to the promise of such research
Complementary Institutions and Reflexive Governance in Autonomous Social Law
Get PDFWe approach institutions as stabilizing structures with consequences of functional incorporateness. Yet we also imagine, assert and enact claims and warrants as institutionalizable practices. There are functional supports. And there are the warranted claims of categorical normativity. Normativity in itself can be understood in terms of compliance with or acquiescence in legitimating structures. Yet normativity itself can be understood as a solidarism we intersubjectively co-constitute. The challenge in political thought has been dealing with the disincorporateness associated with modernity, specifically how a new order and dialogue may be of heterogeneous social values. A new way of ordering socioeconomic relationships of necessity must involve a heteronomy of perspectives and discourses in need of coordination. All this revolves around a core conceptual challenge of the past century--the rise of the autonomous social in all its heteronomy, and its pluralist provocation to the sovereignty of either the State or the Market
What\u27s News At Rhode Island College
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What\u27s News At Rhode Island College
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