How Would You Like to Visit a Nursing Home?

H ow would you like to visit a nursing home? Is your gut reaction, No way, No thank you, or Not today ? Why? What images come to you when you think of visiting a nursing home? Do you remember a relative who lived in one? Do you think of people who are sick and dying in a depressing hospitallike room that is sterile and smelling of chemical cleansers and urine? Do you think of your volunteer activities in high school when you performed with the high school choir during the holidays for the old people in the home down the block? Perhaps you worked as a candy striper or visited a nursing home with a youth group? What do you remember? Is there one particular image that jumps to mind? A smell that fills your nostrils? A story you remember? A memory that haunts you

Would You Like to Motivate Software Testers? Ask Them How

Considering the importance of software testing to the development of high quality and reliable software systems, this paper aims to investigate how can work-related factors influence the motivation of software testers. Method. We applied a questionnaire that was developed using a previous theory of motivation and satisfaction of software engineers to conduct a survey-based study to explore and understand how professional software testers perceive and value work-related factors that could influence their motivation at work. Results. With a sample of 80 software testers we observed that software testers are strongly motivated by variety of work, creative tasks, recognition for their work, and activities that allow them to acquire new knowledge, but in general the social impact of this activity has low influence on their motivation. Conclusion. This study discusses the difference of opinions among software testers, regarding work-related factors that could impact their motivation, which can be relevant for managers and leaders in software engineering practice

How Would You Like to Die? Glossip v. Gross Deals Blow to Abolitionists

After capital punishment opponents’ pressure on drug suppliers reduced the lethal injection drug supply, Oklahoma began using midazolam, resulting in botched executions. Condemned inmates sought to stop use of this lethal injection protocol. In Glossip v. Gross, the U.S. Supreme Court found inmates failed to establish such protocols entail a substantial risk of severe pain compared to available alternatives, undermining the supply side attack strategy and leaving inmates facing the possibility of an unnecessarily painful execution. This article places the Glossip decision within the context of method of execution jurisprudence and discusses implications for the ongoing battle over capital punishment

Lone Peak Drill Initiation

Okay, when I was a freshman in highschool, I, auditioned for the drill team, and I made it, and each year, like we did like a team retreat, and that year we went up to Bear Lake to our coach’s cabin, and, I think it was like the first night we were there, like all the returners and like the captains were like oh we have to do this initiation thing. And, um, so all of like the new people that made the team had to like sit upstairs, and they would call us downstairs like one by one, and so, when I got down there all of like the returners were like sitting in a circle and I had to go sit in the middle. And like they put a blanket on top of me, and then they did this whole like, story kind of, thing, about how you are in a desert and you are hot and you have to take, like, take stuff off of you, to stay alive, and so you would like sit under there and you would like slowly take off one like, thing at a time, and then, um, finally you discovered that you could take off the blanket, cause that is something that is on you, you could get sit on the outside with like all of the returners and then the next person could come down, and they would do the same thing. And ya, and also the next year I was on drill and we had to go to like the same, retreat thing, and we were not allowed to do invitations because the school board banned them from happening

The Hunger Games are playing on loop— And I am tired of watching

Say you wanted to take over the world—how would you do it? Let’s agree it looks much like the world we live in today, where some countries hold inordinate power over the lives of people in others; where global systematic racism, the shameful legacy of colonization and imperialism, has contrived to keep many humans poor and struggling. Now, let’s add climate change to that picture. How would you take over the world as landmasses slip underwater due to rising ocean levels, storms become more and more destructive, droughts decimate the agricultural stability of multiple countries (like in Syria, for example), and resources become more and more scarce

Healthcare Reform Symposium September 18, 1992

I would like to talk a little bit about what the right questions are when we go about looking at the reform of health care. Should everyone be guaranteed a health care plan? If you\u27re going to have a universal health care plan, how do you provide universal coverage, how will you expand coverage? How can we pay for it? Who do you think should administer the health care program

Body Image in Long Distance Runners

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. How would you describe the ideal runner’s body? Would you say it is tall or short? Skinny or fat? Muscular or lean? Is it the same as society’s ideal female’s body? A Division 2 collegiate female distance runner recently stated, “The ideal runner’s body is having a six pack and muscular quads and an overall skinny physique. The ideal female body, from what I gather from society, is having larger breasts and a butt, nice hair and a nice face. Runners do not always have the biggest extremities, so that makes me feel more self-conscious about my body because I definitely look and feel like a distance runner.” This runner’s response is just one of the many examples of how there is a conflict between what it means to want an ideal runner’s body, and the value of it for competing in the sport verses the reality of the American societal ideal

Guide to working in further education

"We hope that the information provided in this guide will encourage you to think about teaching or assessing in the further education sector – either on a part-time or full-time basis. We aim to answer these questions: What is the further education sector and what would it be like to work in it?; What kind of opportunities can it offer you? ; What could you be paid and what are the working conditions like?; What qualifications and skills will you need?; How will the training be paid for?; How do you know it’s for you?; If you have more questions, where can you go?; Is there any support available?; What is Skills for Life and could you also teach literacy or numeracy?" - Page 4

Caregiver Superstition

Me: Are there any superstitions at your work? Informant: Yes. I’m a nurse and when I first started working as a nurse I didn’t know...but, if you – if you said something like “it sure is quiet”, you’d get a whole bunch of other people that worked with you looking at you like why did you say that...Because it was believed that if you said “it sure is quiet around here” that suddenly things were gonna happen like your patients would start to not do well or...ya, something to make the rest of your shift busier, so it was kind of like jinxing yourself, and I learned that pretty quick and it seemed to be fairly true, it’s like ya, people said it’s quiet around here, you just knew it wasn’t going to last. So, we’d have to knock on wood...and that would kind of be like the remedy...hopefully, the [smiling] superstition nursing gods, whoever they are, would ignore it if we knocked on wood or something. Me: Do you get told outright to not say this when you start the job or do you just learn it? Informant: No, you just learn it. I don’t think anyone ever said in nursing school or while I was learning how to be a nurse that that was a superstition. It wasn’t until maybe I was even a CNA, that I was in that occupation of caring for, you know, elderly or sick people, being in a medical field, but...I happened to say it one day...and that’s when I learned it. Others taught it to me in – in the job environment

What No One Mentions

Is how the birth comes together and in waves and you come to know one another in those hours like you’ll know one another ever after: which of you is afraid of pain, which of you is angry, which of you is stubborn, which of you is cautious and swaddled in memory. I knew Phoebe’s reluctance even while she was being born, and in it, I understood her intelligence. I knew then her life would be a burden to her, that she’d blame me for it, but also that she’d never let up, that she’d hold each one of her days fiercely in her teeth. Her birth took fifteen hours, and it was like we were working against each other, like she was raging for the remainder of darkness that she knew then as light. Womb-light, deeper than a bruise. She fought, and she knows in her muscles how I wanted her born, how I worked and wailed just to get her here