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perceived organizational and colleague support, are argued to anchor nurses to a particular hospital and support them to stay nursing. Workplace relationships also influence nurses’ engagement; important to healthcare managers because engagement captures emotional and intellectual involvement, producing nurses who embrace their work tasks (Brunetto et al., 2013). Workplace social support is derived from the broader social-support. Social support is as an individuals’ belief that she

Practice of Health in Social Care Principles and Practice of Health and Social Care Assignment In health and social care settings there are principles which govern the practice of healthcare workers to ensure that quality care is provided for service users. This essay will discuss how principles of support are implemented in health and social care practice. It will also explain the theories that underpin health and social care practice and

Instrumental Support – A Type of Social Support In order to maintain a good and close relationship with family, friends and loved ones, good communication skills are necessary. How can you keep these relationships ongoing, close and successful? By providing social support will guarantee a long term, close and successful relationship. One concept of giving support to another is “Instrumental Support,” which reflects one of the types of social support. Social support has three support concepts that

patient…” (Bickford, 2015). Social justice lists the “rights of all people in our community which are to consider to be fair and equitable” (Social Justice Principles, 2003). These rights are justified through equity, fairness and equality in marginalized groups of society that can be visualized in the healthcare system. The basic principles of social justice, which promotes safe care, are as follows: equity, access, participation and rights (Social Justice Principles, 2003). Social advocacy plays a vital

Summary Zynga was the leader in the social game with the support of Facebook. The demographic representation of the social games extends to women and elderly. The lack of creativity of Zynga pushes the consumer away. This decline is also due to the fact Zynga had failed to change its strategy toward the mobile platform. Zynga relies its sales on virtual goods, which are very limited and difficult in the mobile environment. A lack of diversity to another social network and its subordination to Facebook

Social Support and Spirituality When using the FICA spiritual History tool (Pulchalski, 2006), M.L. discussed both spirituality and social support (Appendix H). M.L. considers herself to be spiritual, but not religious. Being close to nature, her family, and her pets gives her life meaning. She prays to God, but feels deviated from a church environment and does not want to belong to a church. She did not want to disclose further information, but summarized her preferences by having a past of traumatic

that social factors may play a role in the aging process (Uchino et al., 1992). The researches results as described on this chapter suggest that social support has ben-eficial effects on physiological processes across different age groups. The net effect of such processes may be to biologically age the individual at a slower rate. Consistent with this hy-pothesis, it emerge that social support predicts age-related differences in blood pressure. More specifically, individuals low in social support

to investigate the relationship between positive social support and cognitive functioning in parents of a child with a disability. It is hypothesized that an intervention of positive social support will reduce the accelerated decline of cognitive functioning in nonnormative parents, especially among parents who report the highest levels of chronic stress. The between-subjects factor will be whether or not a participant received the social support intervention. A longitudinal design will be used for

2009, Matthey 2009). Social support is a psychosocial therapy acceptable to mothers that improves PPD symptoms and rates (Dennis & Chung-Lee 2006). Social support is effective because mothers with PPD have low or deficient social support (Beck 2001, Xie et al. 2009, Sawyer et al. 2010, Dennis et al. 2012, Eastwood et al. 2012), low partner empathy (Fisher et al. 2012) and greater social isolation (Eastwood et al. 2012). Social support improves PPD through decreased social isolation (Nielsen Forman

college. Social support, ethnic identity, and individual factors all play a pivotal role in Latino/a college student self-efficacy. These strengths help to assist students in adjusting to college life and to further persevere through the many adversities that they may encounter throughout higher education. One of the strengths and protective factors that Latino/a college students have to help them cope and buffer stress during their time in college is through social support. Social support can come