Samuel Edem Cofie

Exercise 1.1 What is Nursing Administration? Answer: It is both an art and science that engages leadership practice and values which influences the future and overseas health care delivery and inspires clinical practitioners and promotes health among individual, significant others, population and community. OR It is the blend of science and art that involves the application of leadership practice and values to influence the future, overseas health care delivery and inspire clinical practitioners and promote health among individual, significant others, population and community. Exercise 1.2 Explain Nursing administration as an art. Answer: Nursing Administration as an art refers to the operational part of nursing administration. Hence, it is basically what the nurse administrator does. OR Nursing administration as an art is the ability to sense a situation, to respond to its nature and demands in terms of the inner or intuitive senses, which are capable of handling in...

Exercise 1.1 Define the term administration? Answer: It is an enabling process involving the whole art of carrying into effect any policy, plan or undertaking, whether conceived by government, public and private sector. For in its widest form administration embraces leadership, policy-making and planning. In any work situation the three factors of administration involves: Policy: what shall be done? Organization: the co-ordination of the effort of the persons involved. Execution: the carrying-out of the operation. Exercise 1.2 Distinguish between administration as an organization and administration as a system. Answer: Administration as an institution refers to a group of people in charge of creating and enforcing rules and regulations. While Administration as a system refers to the various activities relating to the running of an organization. Exercise 1.3 Define the term management. Answer: Management is the art of getting things done through others by directi...

Take a moment. What makes you smile? Who makes you happy? Comment below and share with your friends and love ones. Growing up, many things and people easily fascinated me. I sometime thought these things and people had some magical effect on my happiness and smiles hence my vulnerability to be easily amused by them. I really don’t know how they did what they did but they always did get the plug to activate my smiles and happiness. Although not magical as I may have perceived them to be, I am pretty sure they were special. Hence, my reason to keep living and striving through each day of childhood. A smile is usually a big expression denoting pleasure, happiness, amusement, contentment, sociability and inner peace as many may describe it. I shall simply put that a smile is the daintiest cloth you might want to put on anytime to boost your self-esteem or confidence. It is the little things or people in your life that make you smile and happy. From waking up to read a lovely ...

Are you a student nurse or a professional nurse practitioner seeking to commence your own business aside your regular job to earn some extra cash to supplement your income? If yes, then you should be absolutely ready to take the next step in the entrepreneurial journey. The nursing profession as you may know is one of the hot cake jobs in Ghana and some part of the world. In this regard, many perceive the profession as one which does not provide room for extra career opportunities. This means that approximately 95% of a nurse activities of daily living revolves around the work place and home with about 5% for rest to await the next shift. Hence, the nurse inability to entertain any extra career opportunity. However, the above is not entirely true. This is because, the sweet aspect about nursing is that it is a flexible profession hence you commencing a business will not interfere with your job as a nurse. Reasons being that nurses can work full time, part time or ...

Is it the sole responsibility of businesses to take charge of the problems pertaining to global food wastage? Do you believe that you can equally contribute to promoting food security? Well, I hope you leave your comments below after reading this. My Opinion I do not believe it is the sole responsibility of purposeful businesses to take actions on global food wastage although some businesses may contribute enormously to promoting global food security. I believe that the problems of global food wastage and food insecurity should be a matter of concern to all world leaders, presidents, stakeholders of nations, and individuals worldwide. I am of the view that the issue of food wastage and food insecurity should be addressed with keen, pragmatic policies that will effectively manage food wastage and food distribution in a sustainable way to all global consumers. Therefore, our global focus should be on developing appropriate measures and policies to be implemented to...

I was half as excited as an auditionee who gets a golden buzzer on American or British got talent when I attained admission to read Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University Of Cape Coast. In my first year, second semester, I had the opportunity to listen to debates over the topic: Nursing as a calling or as a profession. Many viewpoints brought on enormous information that magnified my knowledge on the topic.  Nonetheless, whether nursing is actually a calling or a profession, the question is- how sustainable is nursing now or how relevant will nursing be few decades from now when automation and AI (artificial intelligence) forms of nurses have been manufactured to take over the job market? - I shall allow you to do the imaginative calculation of how many nurses will be displace of their jobs some decades from now. The job market and the world at large is evolving at a pace which mid- level and senior level employees with masters, PhD, doctorate and many years of ...

Somewhere on the other side of  this barrier, on the other side of a break up where we were stuck in a stink of love... I remember it hurts, looking at her hurt. Somewhere beyond this room i lay wondering whether the universe was humongous to fit into our hearts or our ego has made our hearts too small to collect our shattered love in the universe. Somewhere beyond my immediate vision where i can only imagine the audibility of your whisper i hear as I remain propitious and keep my crossed and hope that someday our odds become even. Somewhere on the other side of your WhatsApp page , against all odds where all i can see is your last seen as your dp changes with different smiles. Somewhere on the other side of this world, where distance separate us, as I get jealous of the way you living without me with smiles nourishing your sweet face. And i am trapped here as a child as chances ebbed away moment by moment, minute by minute while i say to myself it's all my fa...

The challenges brought on by a rising population globally create opportunities for the generation of conceptions that are essential for sustainable development. In response to united nation projection on an expected rise in world population to 9 billion by 2050, a post by Paul Polman (CEO at Unilever) on the need for food production to be doubled by 2030 alone invited many interesting arguments and questions. In reaction to Paul Polman’s post, Jordan fengel stated that the world is already over-producing and wasting tons of food, enough to feed the current global population and coming generations, he argued that the problems of food insecurity are within the existing policies and procurement factors that prevent proper distribution of foods to those in need and thus what is needed is  #circulareconomy as well as # blockchain technology to apply transparency and ease-of- access to all global consumers. According to Gianluigi Cuccureddu, the 9 billion population growth by 20...

When I was growing up my mother used to tell me I was amazingly pretty. She didn’t say it overly much but enough to give me a good sense of myself. In my life then, sex was a secret land behind a veil that would not be lifted until marriage. But look at me and tell me how many time you think I have unveiled that secret land. In some unknown deep place I suspected that my Sweet love lay in a land I might never explore. Little did I know that I have already been positioned in the garden of my dream. Her name, SUGARPIE ! Was as sweet as it sound with a honey ending taste on the tongue that makes you desire for more. Our first date was a study date.  And a study date is a date with a dual purpose, you could either study your date or your books. On that day, she was gorgeous, wearing a tight T shirt and a blue jeans trousers, I could see her boobs and tooshie bogging out because she had an absolutely perfect figure. Sweet face, Curved body, Great legs, Small feet, ...

“What does following in the footsteps of everyone else get you? It gets you to exactly the same conclusion as everyone else”- Ryan Holiday. Holiday explains that if you read what everyone else is reading, you will think like everyone else thinks and if you think like everyone else thinks, you won’t be able to come up with anything unique. In the article, 21 behaviors that will make you brilliant at creativity and relationships by Benjamin P. Hardy, Benjamin P. Hardy emphasizes the need for us to follow our curiosity, chase down obscure leads, and find stuff that no one else has found to make us valuable to others. In case you asleep, or wallowing in the footsteps of everyone else and still expecting a change in your life by some form of religious miracle then prepare to be wiped off by an unexpected miracle in your proximity. This is because the world is evolving faster than expected and creating enormous competition in all aspects of lives. One moment you are “this and here”...