Communicating with a Professor, Good Vs. Bad Examples
Bad:
Yo teach, I wasnt in class. its whatever i heard we didnt do anything important c u tom.
Good:
Dear Dr. Walts,
I am not going to be able to attend your 10-10:50 class this Wednesday February 4th, I have already read the syllabus and completed such assignments, I have also been in contact with another student from class in order to ensure that I receive all the notes and handouts.
Thank you and see you soon,
Morgan Surma
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Sunday, January 25, 2015
MLK's Letter From Birmingham City Jail Passage-Based Free Write:
The passage from which I free wrote was: "I hope this letter finds you strong in the faith. I also hope that circumstances will soon make it possible for me to meet each of you, not as an integrationist or a civil rights leader, but as a fellow clergyman and a Christian brother. Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."
What I decided to write about was how captivating the imagery was in this passage. I continued to find myself amazed by the image that appeared in my head by these statements. The way he used dark clouds, deep fog, radiant stars, and shine over all brought about this image of clearing skies after a storm and the wonderful feeling of a new beginning. I think this passage speaks to everyone in the fact that everyone can relate to seeing the skies clear and happiness erupting. The passage also illustrates each image with a relation to feelings and emotions coming from both the black and white communities.
The passage from which I free wrote was: "I hope this letter finds you strong in the faith. I also hope that circumstances will soon make it possible for me to meet each of you, not as an integrationist or a civil rights leader, but as a fellow clergyman and a Christian brother. Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."
What I decided to write about was how captivating the imagery was in this passage. I continued to find myself amazed by the image that appeared in my head by these statements. The way he used dark clouds, deep fog, radiant stars, and shine over all brought about this image of clearing skies after a storm and the wonderful feeling of a new beginning. I think this passage speaks to everyone in the fact that everyone can relate to seeing the skies clear and happiness erupting. The passage also illustrates each image with a relation to feelings and emotions coming from both the black and white communities.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Here are different examples of some sentence structures:
Complex: To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
Complex/Compound: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Simple: They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity.
Compound: In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
All sentences were taken from the Declaration of Independence
Complex: To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
Complex/Compound: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Simple: They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity.
Compound: In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
All sentences were taken from the Declaration of Independence
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Thesis
Although a career in nursing is extremely
rewarding, some often miss the struggles that those kind, caring nurses must
endure. The education they must receive is extremely rigorous, and even post
college they maintain hectic lifestyles in order to ensure that the lives that
are left in their hands are being properly cared for and attended to
Thursday, November 13, 2014
1. What about nursing was the most rewarding?
"Being able to help make a difference when someones not healthy, the ability to help make their situation not as bad"
2. Did you feel at all during any point in your career that the job was too hectic, if so what about your job felt so stressful?
"One mistake can be disastrous, somebody could die, so it's that, if you feel like you don't have enough help, when there's not enough help there, and that worry about making a mistake and huring somebody."
3. In one study, it was stated that nearly 46% of registered nurses left nursing because the hours were too stressful, having witnessed this first hand, did you ever personally dislike the shifts you were given, if so what were they like?
"There used to only be eight hour shifts, now there are twelve hour shifts. It wasn't so much the shifts as much as the rotation of the shifts. The hardest part is finding the area of the hospital that you want to stay in, and whether or not they have openings with the shift that you are looking for."
4. Due to increasing reliance on technology, did you ever notice any effect that may have had on the available jobs for nurses?
"It has definitely made nursing safer, do not feel that you could ever replace what nurses do. Theres too much empathy there, something that technology cannot replace."
5. Did you ever feel that your job requirements affected your home-life?
"Yes and no. You have to adjust to it. You must learn to work your sleep in around the hours and things you have going on in your life. But if you let it, it can have a huge difference on your home life. One of the best careers for having kids because you have different openings at odd hours [compared to other typical careers], where it is made possible that you do not need to have your children in daycare."
6. Overall, at the end of the day, nursing is about caring, can you recall an experience you had with a patient, that made you think to yourself that this was something you wanted to be a part of?
"Yes, I had been a nurse for about three years. I was working in critical care and a young lady in her twenties came in, she was having a stroke, which was very unusual. It so happened that I was her primary nurse. I remember she had this thick long red hair, and I wanted to make her feel more comfortable so I did her hair, I braided it, and her family came in and just started crying because she always had her hair like that, something that I didn't know prior to doing it. The longer she was there the more I got to talk to her and get to know her family situation, and I learned that she had a stroke because she couldn't afford to take her medicine for high blood pressure. And then a year later she came back, walking in, not because she was sick, and she found me and she thanked me. You get those rewarding 'goosebumps'."
"Being able to help make a difference when someones not healthy, the ability to help make their situation not as bad"
2. Did you feel at all during any point in your career that the job was too hectic, if so what about your job felt so stressful?
"One mistake can be disastrous, somebody could die, so it's that, if you feel like you don't have enough help, when there's not enough help there, and that worry about making a mistake and huring somebody."
3. In one study, it was stated that nearly 46% of registered nurses left nursing because the hours were too stressful, having witnessed this first hand, did you ever personally dislike the shifts you were given, if so what were they like?
"There used to only be eight hour shifts, now there are twelve hour shifts. It wasn't so much the shifts as much as the rotation of the shifts. The hardest part is finding the area of the hospital that you want to stay in, and whether or not they have openings with the shift that you are looking for."
4. Due to increasing reliance on technology, did you ever notice any effect that may have had on the available jobs for nurses?
"It has definitely made nursing safer, do not feel that you could ever replace what nurses do. Theres too much empathy there, something that technology cannot replace."
5. Did you ever feel that your job requirements affected your home-life?
"Yes and no. You have to adjust to it. You must learn to work your sleep in around the hours and things you have going on in your life. But if you let it, it can have a huge difference on your home life. One of the best careers for having kids because you have different openings at odd hours [compared to other typical careers], where it is made possible that you do not need to have your children in daycare."
6. Overall, at the end of the day, nursing is about caring, can you recall an experience you had with a patient, that made you think to yourself that this was something you wanted to be a part of?
"Yes, I had been a nurse for about three years. I was working in critical care and a young lady in her twenties came in, she was having a stroke, which was very unusual. It so happened that I was her primary nurse. I remember she had this thick long red hair, and I wanted to make her feel more comfortable so I did her hair, I braided it, and her family came in and just started crying because she always had her hair like that, something that I didn't know prior to doing it. The longer she was there the more I got to talk to her and get to know her family situation, and I learned that she had a stroke because she couldn't afford to take her medicine for high blood pressure. And then a year later she came back, walking in, not because she was sick, and she found me and she thanked me. You get those rewarding 'goosebumps'."
Quote Integration
Smith, Mark; Eastman, Charmane. "Shift work: health, performance and safety problems, traditional countermeasures, and innovate management strategies to reduce circadian misalignment." Nature and Science of Sleep, 2012(4), 111-132. Web. 13 Nov. 2014.
Two members of the team working out of the Biological Rhythms Research Lab at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have teamed up to explain and offer helpful solutions on how to make the night shift safer, especially for those working in the medical field who have lives in their hands. Their job is to look at patterns with sleep, more importantly "circadian rhythm", which is the pattern in which humans sleep. They emphasize, "There is no way to reduce circadian misalignment for a rapid rotation that includes both night shifts and day shifts, because the circadian clock cannot phase-shift fast enough" (Smith). There research brings up two main problems....
Two members of the team working out of the Biological Rhythms Research Lab at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have teamed up to explain and offer helpful solutions on how to make the night shift safer, especially for those working in the medical field who have lives in their hands. Their job is to look at patterns with sleep, more importantly "circadian rhythm", which is the pattern in which humans sleep. They emphasize, "There is no way to reduce circadian misalignment for a rapid rotation that includes both night shifts and day shifts, because the circadian clock cannot phase-shift fast enough" (Smith). There research brings up two main problems....
Friday, November 7, 2014
Interview with past nurse, Mrs. Martin, COMING SOON!
1. What about nursing was the most rewarding? And do you feel that the job could be becoming less rewarding?
As nursing used to be a lot of personal interaction, it now seems as if there has been a shift towards less empathy because of the stressful nature of the job, do you think that many nurses are losing sight of what they initially began nursing for.
2. Did you feel at all during any point in your career that the job was too hectic, if so what about your job felt so stressful?
Although I do understand that having peoples lives in your hand can be stressful in itself, was there anything else that really stood in the way of making sure that the patient was the number one priority?
3. In one study, it was stated that nearly 46% of registered nurses left nursing because the hours were too stressful, having witnessed this first hand, did you ever personally dislike the shifts you were given, if so what were they like?
Here I am just curious as to how many nurses leave nursing, even though they understand through school how demanding the job can be,
4. Due to increasing reliance on technology, did you ever notice any effect that may have had on the available jobs for nurses?
As with any career, technology is continuing to grow and grow, especially in the health care industry, and I was wondering if you could tell me about the impact it has had on the need for nurses in the healthcare industry.
5. Did you ever feel that your job requirements affected your home-life?
I am asking this question because I was wondering what balancing a nursing career and a family will be like in the future? Is it stressful, manageable, unmanageable, etc.?
6. Overall, at the end of the day, nursing is about caring, can you recall an experience you had with a patient, that made you think to yourself that this was something you wanted to be a part of?
At the end of the day nursing is about caring for those who are ill, and I want to note in my paper that even though the education and stress can be a huge factor in nursing, I want to note the positive outcomes that happen because of nurses.
As nursing used to be a lot of personal interaction, it now seems as if there has been a shift towards less empathy because of the stressful nature of the job, do you think that many nurses are losing sight of what they initially began nursing for.
2. Did you feel at all during any point in your career that the job was too hectic, if so what about your job felt so stressful?
Although I do understand that having peoples lives in your hand can be stressful in itself, was there anything else that really stood in the way of making sure that the patient was the number one priority?
3. In one study, it was stated that nearly 46% of registered nurses left nursing because the hours were too stressful, having witnessed this first hand, did you ever personally dislike the shifts you were given, if so what were they like?
Here I am just curious as to how many nurses leave nursing, even though they understand through school how demanding the job can be,
4. Due to increasing reliance on technology, did you ever notice any effect that may have had on the available jobs for nurses?
As with any career, technology is continuing to grow and grow, especially in the health care industry, and I was wondering if you could tell me about the impact it has had on the need for nurses in the healthcare industry.
5. Did you ever feel that your job requirements affected your home-life?
I am asking this question because I was wondering what balancing a nursing career and a family will be like in the future? Is it stressful, manageable, unmanageable, etc.?
6. Overall, at the end of the day, nursing is about caring, can you recall an experience you had with a patient, that made you think to yourself that this was something you wanted to be a part of?
At the end of the day nursing is about caring for those who are ill, and I want to note in my paper that even though the education and stress can be a huge factor in nursing, I want to note the positive outcomes that happen because of nurses.
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