Friday, March 18, 2016

RELATIONSHIPS COME IN MANY FORMS

                                                         

                  Ethos Values Standards



  
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Ethos: the guiding beliefs of a person, group, or organization (“Merriam-Webster Dictionary,” 1828). Policy grounded on honesty clenches groups to an extra powerful standard. Passivity surrounds the invasion of lawful approvals. However, administrative honesty is grounded on the notion of self-regulation in agreement with a set of governing philosophies (Paine, 1994). Who said honesty was the best policy? Oh yes, that was MAMA. Well, this Harvard writer says that Mama was right.  We strive to be transparent but in that transparency, we need to have integrity at our core especially when we are with patients who are at risk for vulnerability. 

Values:  Quality that gives something special worth <defending the democratic system's intrinsic values(“Merriam-Webster Dictionary,” 1828). Expressing values are actions that can be influential in the workplace and especially in a system organization. Bond reports in an empirical study that values do have dissimilarities based on our culture(Bond, 2016). We see this from one patient to the next. Regardless of the dissimilarities of personal values, these values determine individuality and the core of being. To infringe on the values of a patient would be disrespectful even if you have an opposite point of view. Values of an organization should be consistent.
 
Standards: Something set up or established by an authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality(“Merriam-Webster Dictionary,” 1828). Employee retention has a direct effect on how an organization qualifies social and cultural coordination (Rasidah Arshad, 2016). The employees culture has a significant effect on how relationships work as a standard. The values, especially cultural values play a tremendous role in the relationship of ethos and standards.
 

The review considers all cultures have different Ethos Values Standards. 

In forming a relationship for a program, one must evaluate all three of these elements to see which makes the most sense for the benefit of the whole group and not just an individual.


Reference

 Bond, Michael H. (2016). Finding universal dimensions of individual variation in multicultural studies of values: The Rokeach and Chinese value surveys. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 55(6), 1009–1015.

Managing for, Organizational Integrity, & Lynn Sharp Paine. (1994). Managing for  Organizational Integrity. Reprint 94207 Havard Business Review. Retrieved from http://actoolkit.unprme.org/wp-content/resourcepdf/201106171723110.Managing%20organizational%20integrity.pdf

Merriam-Webster Dictionary. (1828). Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/

Rasidah Arshad, (2016) “Psychological contract violation and turnover intention: do cultural values matter?”, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 31 Iss: 1, pp.251 - 264. (2016). Psychological contract violation and turnover intention: do cultural values matter? Journal of Managerial PsychologyVol. 31(Iss: 1,), pp.251 – 264.

Friday, March 4, 2016

Advanced Professional Seminar

CREATIVE PRACTICE 1


The Skloot interview brought about new awareness and questions to ponder. While a thousand attempts were made to reproduce the human cell and failed what made Henrietta Lacks different? The discussion regarding the birth of the Hepatitis vaccine formed from the blood of a person with hemophilia also was intriguing as I am a recipient of that vaccine. After reviewing both of these cases, I started thinking about red blood cells and liver functions and began drawing red circles to represent cells. My cells grew into a cluster of grapes. However, Henrietta Lacks cells may one day grow into a cure for cancer.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Creative Post Final 



Bridging my path through Arts and Medicine depicted by the painting titled ”Purpose”. Continuing my journey with this painting, it becomes clear I should share my motivation. Browsing through the internet thinking about this project and looking for inspiration I paused in the architectural pages. The photo that caught my eye regarding a journey was an escalator flowing through a glass enclosure supported by circular beams. I held this image in my mind as I thought how transparent my journey has been.   The journey started as a five-year-old child with a desire to become a nurse and artist. In designing the background, I am reminded of my roots seeing farm lands from an aerial view. Each field a total composite of something greater integrated as the creation of a patchwork design which is my life. The geometric shapes create a matrix working together to help complete my goals represented by the semicircle or arches over my pathway. Feeling that every moment has been piece milled together in the past and present to ignite the force driving the elevation of the journey of life or my purpose. Another metaphor would be quilting which is a colorful sense of play with fabrics in commitment in a creative organization. Heidegger uses this patchwork process in a more philosophical way in Meaning of Suffering stating “the situations of everyday activities with their embedded knowing, which involves the person-world that both shapes us and is shaped by us” (Scholler-Jaquish, 2007).
My first step away evaluation of the composition was that I used many hard corners as the background and that I should interject more evidence of contour plowing keeping with landscape scenario by incorporating the use of roundness and circle. When I synch this aesthetic observation with my emotional one, I synthesized that hard corners and circles were symbols of what I am all about because nothing has ever been easy. Reflecting corners and slopes of my journey has certainly molded me into who I am today.
                First-year graduate program memories reviewed as I recall a bit of scrambling in the first class trying to learn about Canvas. Even now Canvas is revealing new things to me.  The secret blogging experience was a challenge for most of us as I recall. The deepest understanding regarding Art came from Ellen Dissanayake book “What Is Art For?” planting my takeaway memory art is to make special (Dissanayake, 1988). No formal training in typing or computer my technical skills has always been a challenge, thinking an improvement would come with this class and I do have to say my ability is better now than when first started. Insights into utilizing the creative process have only strengthened as I recognize this practice truly heals.

References

Dissanayake, E. (1988). What Is Art For? Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press.
Scholler-Jaquish, N. E. (2007). Meaning in Suffering Caring Practices in the Health Professions. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=1DPdcxwz6gQC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP1: