Integrated Water Law: Local to International

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION PART I: WATER ALLOCATION: LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER 1: LOCAL WATER LAW CHAPTER TWO: INTERNATIONAL WATER LAW COMPARISON OF RESTATEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL FACTORS FOR REASONABLE USE CHAPTER 3: THE VERMEJO RIVER CHAPTER 4 WATER LAWS: ENTITLEMENTS, RIGHTS, DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES CONCLUSION TO PART I PART II: NEGOTIATING WATERCOURSE ENTITLEMENTS CHAPTER FIVE: WATERCOURSE NEGOTIATIONS ARE DIFFERENT CHAPTER SIX: THE ROLE OF LA

The Rio Grande as an International River

The Rio Grande is divided into two major river reaches and has different legal regimes for each. New Mexico is primarily concerned with the Rio Grande from the headwaters in Colorado to Ft. Quitman in Texas, a distance of approximately 670 miles. This section of the river is the subject of the1906 Rio Grande Convention (Treaty) between the United States and Mexico. The lower section of the Rio Grande from Ft. Quitman to the Gulf of Mexico is the subject of the 1944 Rivers Treaty between the United States and Mexico; the 1944 Rivers Treaty also includes the Colorado and Tijuana River. As with many international and interstate rivers, the Rio Grande’s history, particularly that leading up to the 1906 Rio Grande Convention, helps explain the law of the river t

Integrated Water Law: Local to International

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION PART I: WATER ALLOCATION: LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER 1: LOCAL WATER LAW CHAPTER TWO: INTERNATIONAL WATER LAW COMPARISON OF RESTATEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL FACTORS FOR REASONABLE USE CHAPTER 3: THE VERMEJO RIVER CHAPTER 4 WATER LAWS: ENTITLEMENTS, RIGHTS, DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES CONCLUSION TO PART I PART II: NEGOTIATING WATERCOURSE ENTITLEMENTS CHAPTER FIVE: WATERCOURSE NEGOTIATIONS ARE DIFFERENT CHAPTER SIX: THE ROLE OF LA

Compassion in Healthcare – National Tertiary Learning and Teaching Conference 2015 Title: A measure of compassion in health care students Authors: Margaret Vick, Gudrun Dannenfeldt and Bill Shaw Institution: Wintec, Hamilton, New Zealand

It appears with the increasing expansion of the role of the health care workers as well as advances in technology, health care may have lost some of its previous emphasis on compassion. The importance of compassion as a core attribute of health care has been highlighted by a recent worldwide movement (political and professional). However, in New Zealand, the word ‘compassion’ is rarely mentioned in major policy documents or professional competency guidelines. Compassion is often compared to empathy, altruism, mindfulness and sympathy. Compassion, however, also involves sensitivity to self and others, as well as motivation to action with a goal. There are theoretical approaches to compassion, there is a neurobiological basis, but to measure compassion and its impact in the context of health care is difficult. Components of compassion include instrumental (psychomotor skills, behaviour and knowledge, cognitive) and expressive (affective, emotional, motivational and interpersonal) aspects. The purpose of the study is to measure the perception of compassion amongst students in a variety of health care degree programmes. Quantitative data will be collected using a ‘Compassion for Others Scale’ administered to three different cohorts of students in two health care degree programmes (nursing and social work). We will present preliminary findings from our research that shows the compassion perceived by the students at different levels of their education. This will allow comparison between different cohorts of students and could lead to the expansion of the project into a longitudinal study. This presentation will be of interest to others teaching health-related programmes

Undergraduate nursing students’ understanding of professional boundaries in relationships with clients, families and communities.

Understanding how to judge appropriate degrees of closeness and distance in professional relationships is an ongoing challenge for all practitioners. A critical element of being able to practice as a nurse is the ability to successfully establish, maintain and conclude therapeutic relationships. In the Waikato region, nurses are employed in rural towns, where they also live. These nurses may have family connections and/or limited ability to socialise with people other than those people who are likely to be users of the health services they provide within these communities. This presentation reports on the findings of the qualitative arm of a larger project exploring 3rd year undergraduate nursing students’ understanding of how to manage professional boundaries in relationships with the clients, families and communities they will work with as graduates. The qualitative approach was guided by Kruger and Casey’s (2015) approach to focus group research. Three brief case studies on professional situations with clients were used to stimulate discussion within the focus groups. Focus groups were video recorded and transcribed verbatim. The ‘long table’ approach was used to organise the transcribed data, and data interpretation was undertaken using five criteria including frequency, motion, specificity of responses, extensiveness and big picture. Three key themes were developed from the data including Community responsiveness, Trust and integrity, and Professional mandate and therapeutic purpose. Overall, students had a good understanding of the professional responsibilities involved in maintaining therapeutic relationships, though challenges in informal consultations with family, neighbours or members of their community were not identified