Community service has always been something close to my heart since I was young. Over time, I have come to help my community in numerous ways which have been immensely beneficial. The activities I have been involved in mainly target the environment and disadvantaged peoples’ personal lives. This has ensured a continuous improvement of the community around me. I am a member of the green belt movement that was formed by the late professor Wangari Maathai. The organization is big on environmental conservation
Aboriginal Child & Family Service Society (VACFSS) is a local child welfare agency in Vancouver. The society is funded by the Ministry of Children and Families Development. Their philosophy of service delivery is based on ensuring the rights, safety, well-being and spirit of Aboriginal children and families are upheld, honored and protected. The society acknowledges and honors the inherent wisdom, capacity and resourcefulness of the community in designing programs and services to care for children and
originates from the positive experiences that I have had with nurse practitioners throughout my career. During my tenure in social services I have worked parallel to nurse practitioners in providing care to child victims of physical and sexual assault and I have long appreciated the holistic and collaborative approach that nursing allows for. While my experience in social services cemented my decision to pursue a career as a family nurse practitioner, it also helped me develop qualities that will serve
modern world note the importance of education. Macionis and Plummer (2005) suggest that education is the “social institution guiding the transmission of knowledge, job skills, cultural norms and values”(2010: 514). The importance of adult and further education is stressed by national, European and international policy documents as being critical to economic, social and cultural initiatives, capable of benefiting all sectors of society. Historically Ireland has had a strong community based adult education
Introduction The Primary Community and Continuing Care (2009) state that public health nurses (PHNs) provide preventative and curative care within specific geographical regions to people of various age groups. Mulcahy et al (2012) describe PHNs as ‘population based generalist nurses’. Public health nurse’s areas of care vary from wound dressing clinics to postnatal home visits. Placement in this area involved experiences such as the addiction clinic, breastfeeding clinic and first postnatal visits
My interest in membership of the esteemed Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. is because it would be the achievement of a dream, allow me to give back to my community, utilize my talents, and enable me to be a part of the organization of ladies who I owe my debt of gratitude. As a child of a single parent home, life at times became difficult due to the lack of resources and money, but I was fortunate enough to have joined the Ivy Rose Club, a high school mentorship group under the Chi Upsilon Omega chapter
increasingly suggests that many Canadians do not have fair and equal access to certain precision and preventative services, causing health care in Canada to resemble a two-tier system, not distinguished by rich and poor, but by urban versus rural. About 30% of Canada's population lives within rural and remote communities, including more than half of Canada's Aboriginals; this is of particular importance, as Canada's rural populace tends to be older, sicker, poorer, and more accident-prone than their urban
employees, local community, and their local business partners. While being in business for over 40 years they have built an organization with strong roots that translate their business culture into the customers as an attractive organization to do business with, having their stakeholders as one of their most trusted resources. Southwest Airlines have established an environment in the workplace that encourages its employees to be Socially Responsible in caring for their community. Their Corporate
the benchmark of high quality, patient-centered, holistic nursing care. I believe that to provide high-quality care to those in need, we must first make an effort to purposefully include the art of caring (Jasmine, 2009). This does not negate the importance of including medical and nursing scientific knowledge in the care provide. Schrock (1981) stated that, “philosophy is an attitude toward life and reality that evolves from each nurses beliefs.” The simplicity of this definition provides me latitude
As a social worker, one is to adhere to the following ethical principle attributed to service: “Social workers' primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems.” (NASW, 2017) Organization x focuses on the social concern recidivism. Competence refers to the ability of social workers to possess the knowledge and skills