Explain the scientific and technical concepts related to nuclear medicine.

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Explain the scientific and technical concepts related to nuclear medicine. Consider the following questions when you construct your response: What type of radiation is typically exploited in most nuclear medicine procedures? How are patients prepared for nuclear medicine procedures? What are the advantages and limitations of nuclear medicine? What ailments are typically diagnosed and treated via nuclear medicine procedures? Evaluate a minimum of three applications of nuclear medicine relating to any of the following topics: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans Gallium scans Indium white blood cell scans Iobenguane scans (MIBG) Octreotide scans Hybrid scanning techniques employing X-ray computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Nuclear medicine therapy using radiopharmaceuticals Support your statements with examples. Provide a minimum of three scholarly references.

How has the patient been affected by the changes?

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Patient health data and technology
Your local newspaper has asked you to write a 700- to 1,050-word, two-part article regarding patient health data and technology.
Part 1
Identify components of a patients health care record.
Part 2
Examine the influence of technology and reform in the health care industry.
Consider the following questions as you write your article:
What has changed over the last 20 years? Have the changes been positive or negative?
How has the patient been affected by the changes?

Instructions: You will submit a sentence outline of your research paper, following the example in this weeks reading. The student example is attached here. Your outline must include your thesis statement, a description of the problem, alternative solutions, and the solution you are advocating. Be sure that the elements of the outline are complete sentences. Please note that, if you have one subheading in a category, you should have a second subheading.

What do the nurses do and why?

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Mrs. B, an 88 years old woman, was hospitalized with anemia, lower leg edema and ascites. She was living alone while receiving care in a day-care center for seniors. Mrs. B’s only family was her son, who lived in the same town, but it was a health care worker who brought Mrs. B to the hospital. The son arrived at the hospital later. The Doctor said to Mrs. B: “Your hemoglobin level six months ago was 12, but now it is only 4. Your anemia may possibly be caused by stomach bleeding, so a thorough examination is necessary. If not treated, terrible problems might occur, and no treatment means you will likely die.” The patient, however, refused the treatment by saying that she was too old, and the gastric camera was terrifying. The son added, “I want to respect my mother’s decision. I knew that her legs and her abdomen were swollen but because of her age I did not want her to be brought to the hospital. As far as she does not want treatment, I agree with her” What do the nurses do and why? In the event that other treatment options were available for Mrs. B, how would the nurse approach Mrs. B about it? Should the nurses simply respect the patient’s choice? Why? Why not? What reasons given by Mrs. B need further exploration?

Identify a patient care situation and describe how nursing care

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The field of nursing has changed over time. In a 750‐1,000 word paper, discuss nursing practice today by addressing the following:

1. Explain how nursing practice has changed over time and how this evolution has changed the scope of practice and the approach to treating the individual.

2. Compare and contrast the differentiated practice competencies between an associate and baccalaureate education in nursing. Explain how scope of practice changes between an associate and baccalaureate nurse.

3. Identify a patient care situation and describe how nursing care, or approaches to decision‐making, differ between the BSN‐prepared nurse and the ADN nurse.

4. Discuss the significance of applying evidence‐based practice to nursing care and explain how the academic preparation of the RN‐BSN nurse supports its application.

5. Discuss how nurses today communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and how this supports safer and more effective patient outcomes.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

What is the role of the DNP-prepared nurse in advocating

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What is the role of the DNP-prepared nurse in advocating

Is healthcare delayed, or is healthcare denied?

Is there an ethical basis for the decision?

What is the role of the DNP-prepared nurse in advocating for this man and other patient’s in similar situations?

What response might you give this patient regarding the potential value of national health insurance?

What response might you give this patient regarding rationing of healthcare and responsible medicine?

What healthcare intervention might you explore on behalf of this patient?

What healthcare policy models and frameworks are justified in light of this scenario?

Discuss how a bill becomes law.

Discuss the importance of the legislative arm of the government.

Discuss the importance of health policy and advocate to make changes in the best interest of patients.

Discuss the steps of effective lobbying: Identify supporters, contacting policymakers, and building relationships.

Building relationships is one of the best strategies that any lobbyist, nurse, person can employ.Discuss.

 

What is the name of the program that stores and updates immunization records in Indiana?

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The goal of this assignment is to locate and use public databases that can be useful for decision making for nursing practice such as management and research. What percentage lived below poverty in Marion and Scott counties in Indiana during the years of 2009-2013. What is the name of the program that stores and updates immunization records in Indiana? What is the objective of the program? What are the 6 goals of the WIC for 2015? What are the 4 core attributes that illustrates the contents of an effective program listed on the Indiana Commission on Public Health Records website that relate to the electronic health record? Identify 6 vaccine-preventable diseases. What is the name of the federally funded program that provides vaccines at no cost to children who are unable to afford them? What does IHIE stand for? Whats the vision of IHIE? Who are the key healthcare stakeholders supported by IHIE? Directions to student: You do not need a title page or separate reference page. Type your answers for each question above, with the answer in red font. You MUST provide the citation and reference within each answer for full credit. Rubric Database Retrieval Database Retrieval CriteriaRatingsPts 1. What percentage lived below poverty in Marion and Scott counties in Indiana during the years of 2009-2013. 2 pts What is the name of the program that stores and updates Indiana immunization records? What is the objective of the program? 2 pts 3. What are the 6 goals of the WIC for 2015? 2 pts 4. What are the 4 core attributes that illustrates the contents of an effective program listed on the Indiana Commission on Public Health Records website that relate to the electronic health record? 2 pts 5. Identify 6 vaccine-preventable diseases. What is the name of the federally funded program that provides vaccines at no cost to children who are unable to afford them? 2 pts 6. What does IHIE stand for? Whats the vision of IHIE? Who are the key healthcare stakeholders supported by IHIE? 2 pts Grammar and professional writing (APA) 3 pts Total Points: 15

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (n.d.), the main issues in the American Indian population is diabetes, obesity, and tobacco use.

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Identify a population to assess and develop an evidence-based, primary care health promotion recommendations to deliver in their own communities (Ex: Hispanics-Diabetes, Africanamericans and Prostate Cancer,etc).

This an example of an student Posting:

Each population has some specific health issues that can require health promotion programs. American Indian population attracts attention in this context because of the specific state of affairs. Although this population has several main health issues for which health promotion can be required, all these issues can be solved by following the directions that cause a generally healthy lifestyle.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (n.d.), the main issues in the American Indian population is diabetes, obesity, and tobacco use. Even though those are three different issues, the health promotion for solving them is quite similar. Such promotions have to be generally focused on a healthy lifestyle. This means healthy nutrition – less fat and sweet food and more healthy food and balanced nutrition. The next item is physical activity – starting with such common advice as more walking and ending with making sport a healthy habit. This advice is also helpful for coping with tobacco use. This habit often appears when a person has stress with which it is hard to cope. However, sport is helpful in decreasing the level of stress, and therefore, it can be useful to break the smoking habit. Therefore, one can see that advice directed on causing a healthy lifestyle is helpful for coping with health issues, widespread in the American Indian population.

This way, one can see that even though the American Indian population has several main health issues that can require healthcare promotion programs, all these issues can be solved by following the directions that cause a generally healthy lifestyle. The issues of diabetes, obesity, and tobacco can be solved with healthy nutrition and physical activity.

Reference

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Health Promotion. Retrieved 20 March 2020, from https://www.ihs.gov/communityhealth/hpdp/

What is the probability that the sample mean score falls within 2 points of the population mean score?

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The scores of students on the ACT college entrance examination in a recent year had a normal distribution with a mean of 18.6 and a standard deviation of 5.9. A simple random sample of 60 students who took the the exam is selected for study. A) What are the shape, mean(expected value), and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean for samples of size 60? B) What is the probability that the sample mean score will be 20 or higher? C) What is the probability that the sample mean score will be between 18 and 20? D) What is the probability that the sample mean score falls within 2 points of the population mean score? E) What value does the sample mean score have to be in order for it to be in the top 5% of the sampling distribution? 2. Last year, a national opinion poll found that 43% of all Americans agree that parents should be given vouchers good for education at any public or private school of their choice. Assume that in fact the population proportion is 0.43. This year, a random sample of 350 is to be selected and asked the same question. A) What are the shape, mean(expected value), and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion for samples of 350? B) What is the probability that the sample proportion will fall within 0.03 of the population proportion? 3. Redo part B) of problem #2, but assume that the sample size is 700. By how much does your answer change and WHY?

Describe cultural barriers to disease prevention and health promotion in the population

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Describe cultural barriers to disease prevention and health promotion in the population

Create an educational program, event, or piece of literature (for example, a pamphlet) that incorporates best practices in health promotion and disease prevention for a diverse population. Then, explain how you developed your educational program, event, or piece of literature and address any barriers to disease prevention and health promotion for the population. From your own professional experiences, as well as your work in this program, you have come to recognize that the goal of community or public health nursing is to improve and maintain the health status of individuals and families; cultural, racial, and ethnic groups; and communities and populations. Show Less Caring for a population involves identifying the factors that place at risk a population’s health, as well as developing specific interventions to address those factors. The roles of nurses in this regard include preventing illness and injury, teaching clients, promoting wellness, surveilling disease, shaping and formulating health care policy, collaborating and partnering with communities, advocating for clients, evaluating nursing care, and promoting positive client outcomes. In addition, the use of evidence-based strategies and models facilitates the successful implementation of nursing interventions or health programs, along with the tools and methods to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency, and appropriateness of nursing-care processes and outcomes. Part I To prepare for the first part of the assessment, complete the following: Review the literature or use health assessments to determine health care needs of a diverse population in your community. Explore things that could influence success, such as cultural attitudes toward alternative forms of healing, religious beliefs, or other individuals. Examine the impact of current health promotion and wellness initiatives on health outcomes and health disparities. Review the literature to identify best practices. Once you have identified a diverse population, develop an educational program, event, or piece of literature that promotes wellness and disease prevention. If you choose an educational program or event, be sure you outline the basic content of the program or event, as well as how you would structure it. If you choose a piece of literature, be deliberate in the points you highlight. Be sure that your choice is appropriate for the population. For an educational program or event, prepare and submit an outline of the content and structure. For a brochure or pamphlet, prepare and submit the brochure or pamphlet using a simple Word document or a Microsoft Publisher document, if you have that software available. Part II Explain how you developed your educational program, event, or piece of literature and address any barriers to disease prevention and health promotion for the population. Complete the following: Explain why you chose the particular educational strategy. Why is it an effective strategy for the population? Describe cultural barriers to disease prevention and health promotion in the population. This might include things such as CAM, language, religious beliefs, and so on. Explain how your educational strategy can help overcome some of the barriers you described. Support your work with valid scholarly resources. Additional Requirements (Part II only) Format: Include a title page and reference page. Use APA format. References: Cite at least three current scholarly or professional resources. Font: Use double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font.

Leadership Reflective Journal

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Comment:
This assignment requires you to write a reflective journal consisting of four (4) learning events. The purpose of the journal is to show your developing understanding of leadership concepts and theories as they relate to the set text, recommended texts, lectures, guest lectures and stream readings. a) Two learning events must relate to leadership concepts discussed in Ladkin (2010). I suggest you focus on certain chapters that either resonate with, or are at odds with, your own reflections and practical experiences of leadership. Ladkin?s book is philosophical and it is aimed at people like us who are grappling with what it means to enact leadership today. Therefore it requires us to approach it with openness becoming engaged critically with the essential ideas she discusses. This will require you to read beyond the text so that you more fully understand the ideas within it. Ladkin offers references that enable you to read more widely. b) One learning event should relate to leadership concepts discussed in an academic journal article referred to in class. c) One learning event must relate specifically to ethics and how it relates to leadership. The ethics component of this assignment is worth 10% of the final grade for this paper. This is because business graduates should be able to identify and evaluate ethical dilemmas and provide reasoned alternatives for their resolution. d) Please include a short introduction and provide a succinct conclusion that reiterates the key learning points from your journal. Each entry will be approximately 750-800 words. Your journal will be marked on the rigour of your critique, the elegance of your writing and the depth of your personal responses. Use APA 6th edition for your references. See the paper written by Kathryn Pavlovich, Eva Collins, and Glyndwr Jones from the University of Waikato for a description of the value of using reflective practice in academic study. Pavlovich, K., Collins, E., & Jones, G. (2007). Developing students? skills in reflective practice: Design and assessment. Journal of Management Education, 33 (1), 37-58. Words: 3,500 Due Date: Thursday October 28. Additional files about this Reflective Journal: Concepts Summary.pdf Journal writing workshop.pdf Leaders from the past – journal starter.pdf Martin Hampton Reflective Writing Guide 2010.pdf Mindfulness notes.pdf Pavlovich Collins Jones 2009.pdf Reflective Journal Examples.pdf Ripamonit Galuppo Gorli Scaratti Cunliffe 2015.pdf Taylor Rudolph Foldy 2007.pdf

Concepts
summary
School of Management
Leadership and Governance
Keith Grint…
Professor Keith Grint argues that leadership is
socially constructed and can be understood
through different lenses.
? The person
? The results
? The position
? The process
? Grint is most likely to be cited in assignment one
and three (hint!).
Four lenses…
Grint?s four arts of leadership
Leadership is critically concerned with establishing
and coordinating the relationships between five
things: who, what, where, how and the why:
? Who are you? ? An identity
? What does the organisation want to achieve ? A
strategic vision
? Where is the action ? Structure and hierarchy.
? How will they achieve this ? Organisational
tactics
? Why should followers want to embody the
identity, pursue the strategic vision, and adopt
the organisational tactics ? Persuasive
communication
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Historical
Ancient advice- Sun Tzu
?Those who win every battle are not really
skilful – those who render other?s armies
helpless without fighting are the best of all?.
The concept of the ?Golden bridge? is natural
consequence of this philosophy.
Sun Tzu also offers the seemingly paradoxical
advice to burn your own bridges, in other
words to commit yourself or suffer the
consequences.
Ladkin states…
Leadership scholarship has been dedicated to
understanding leaders; those individuals who
grab our attention amidst what is perhaps a
much more complex intersection of contextual
and person factors (p. 11).
The follower role… is highly implicated in the
quality of leadership (p.12)
Variety of possibilities available to all actors
within hierarchical systems to initiate,
influence or create significant instances of
leadership (p.12).
The leader?s side
Transactional v Transformational theories
Transformational – MLQ
Multifactor leadership questionnaire (Bass,
1985) measures 4 transformational behaviours:
?Idealised influence
?Inspirational motivation
?Intellectual stimulation
?Individualised consideration
Plus 2 measures of transactional dimensions
?Contingent reward
?Management by exception
Transformational – TLI
Transformational Leadership Inventory
(Podsakoff et al.), 4 key behaviours:
?Core transformational dimensions
?Identifying and articulating a vision
?Providing an appropriate model
?Fostering acceptance of group goals
?High performance expectations
?Providing individualised support
?Intellectual stimulation
Plus one contingent reward behaviour
Transformational – critique
Ladkin critiques transformational approaches.
Why?
1. Too much credit given to leader ? one ?side?,
one ?aspect?, piecemeal
2. Methodological concerns
Measurement instruments
Positivist, scientific approaches
High correlation between the factors
Lack of qualitative support
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Modern
Theories
Towards a definition
Ladkin alerts us to the importance of
?collective mobilisation towards an explicit or
implicitly determined purpose?? p. 28
Compare to other definitions?
Rost (1993, p. 102) ? an influence relationship
among leaders and followers who intend real
changes that reflect their mutual purposes
Striving for a ?once and for all? definition for
such a phenomena is an impossible task.
The leadership moment
The
leadership
?moment?
Leader
Context Purpose
Follower
?Leadership is a moment of social relations?
Relationship side – LMX
LMX (Graen and Uhl-Bien, 1995)
?Stranger phase
?Acquaintance phase
?Mature phase
As we examine the LMX Model next, keep in
mind Ladkin?s critique of this type of
approach?
(Aspects, Identity, Moments).
LMX
Relationship side – Servant
Servant Leadership (Greenleaf, 1977; Liden et
al., 2008).
Servant leadership stresses personal integrity
and serving others, including employees,
customers, and communities.
?It is based on the premise that to bring out
the best in their followers, leaders rely on
one-on-one communication to understand the
abilities, needs, desires, goals, and potential of
those individuals? (Liden et al., 2008, p. 162).
Complexity theory
CAS = complex adaptive systems
?Neural like networks of interacting,
interdependent agents bonded in a
collective dynamic of common need? (UhlBien
& Marion, 2009, p. 631).
Three functions
Administrative leadership
Enabling leadership
Adaptive leadership
Key words: Interconnectedness and dynamic
interaction.
3 Leadership behaviours
Inside the ?CAS?
Source: Uhl-Bien and Marion (2009)
Complexity dynamics
Non-linearity ? ?A? does not always lead to ?B?
(Recurrency ? any activity can feedback
into itself).
Bonding ? linking up, interaction, aggregation.
Attractors ? are ?phenomena? that arise when
small stimuli and probes resonate with
people.
Enabling conditions
Dynamic interactions occur as individuals
respond to immediate needs, preferences,
pressures, conflict and demands.
Interdependence ? there needs to be some
sort of shared need.
Heterogeneity ? difference is important.
Adaptive tension- pressure must be exerted so
it can elaborate and adjust. (Pressure
from who???).
PARADOX OF CONTROL ? ?in control? v ?not in
control? ? can create tension.
The paradox of control
Adaptive leadership is related to the human
desire to control, while CAS dynamics are
?uncontrollable? or emergent. This can
result in TENSION and this can be +ve
Adaptive leadership is related to the agenetic,
or deliberative, nature of human activity
(enabling conditions) and CAS dynamics
(mechanisms driven) represent the
inevitable, uncontrolled processes that
emerge from complex interactive forces.
Enabling leadership
Enabling leadership serves two roles:
? Fosters conditions that enable complexity
dynamics and adaptive leadership
(What conditions?????)
? Mediates between bureaucracy and CAS
How can leaders do this?
? Championing ideas
? Issue selling
? Protect from stifling control
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Gender
?We don?t see things
as they are, we see
them as we are?
Anais Nin
Ready-to-hand v Present-at-hand
?Ready-to-hand? ? everyday, unexceptional, taken for
granted. This makes leadership hard to describe and
difficult to study.
?Present-at-hand? (p. 44-45) involved interacting with ?the
thing? as we see it as it freezes for a moment under
closer scrutiny. This happens when leadership fails?
Hurricane Katrina is her example. What NZ examples
can we use???
Identity and absence
Identity is important because there are many contributing
factors.
For example, Ladkin discusses her desk ?(p. 37) she
alerts us to the idea of negative presence ? that we
can think about as ?absence?.
Leadership has three ?absent? aspects (p. 38)
? Expectations
? Stories
? Invisible role played by multi-layers of culture
Expectations
?This is what I expect of you: I expect
you to sort out the interpersonal
difficulty I have with the guy who
sits next to me in the office, I
expect you to notice everything I
do well and always praise me for
it and I expect you to negotiate
me a substantial raise in the next
year. In short, I expect you to
make my life so much better?
(Ladkin, 2010, p. 39).
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Culture
Culture
Leadership is a socially constructed phenomenon?
How does culture impact on leadership?
Absent expectations are carried by both
the ‘leader’ and the ‘followers’, through the stories that
are told about the ‘leader? and through the culture
from which leadership arises.
What is your story???
Watch ?leanin.org? expert lectures?
?Harnessing the power of stories? by
Prof Jennifer Aaker
Cultural Intelligence
1. Knowledge of culture and of
the fundamental principles of
cross-cultural interactions
2. Mindfulness, the ability to
pay attention in a reflective
and creative way to cues in
the cross- cultural situations
3. Behavioural skills
(Thomas & Inkson, 2004, p. 15)
Concept checks…
1. Organisational culture(s)
?The way we do things around here? (Deal &
Kennedy, 1982)
2. What about the cultures of people?
Shared mental programmes… Software of the
mind (Hofstede, 1980)
These mental programmes condition our
responses to they way we live…what we eat,
how we dress, our mannerisms, ways of
speaking, social behaviours….
Mental programming
Personality
Culture
Human nature
Specific to individuals
Universal
Specific to groups
Inherited and learned
Learned
Biological
Culture is…
? Shared
? Learned and is enduring
? A powerful influence on behaviours
? Systematic and organised
? Largely invisible
? May be ?tight? or ?loose?
(Thomas & Inkson, 2004, pp. 24-27)
Ladkin Ch 4
This chapter focuses on the ?space between?
the ?follower? and the ?leader??
She introduces the concepts of
?Immanence – embodied
?Transcendence ? beyond the body
?Reversibility ? percipient-perceptible
?Flesh ? the place where immanence and
transcendence coincide
Ladkin Ch 4
The leadership dynamic is constantly in a process of coconstruction
occurring between these mutual
perceptions. As ‘leaders’ see themselves through their
‘followers? gaze, they construct how they operate within
the ‘leader’ role.
Followers do likewise, creating their own ways of
operating within the field of their perceptions and
expectations of themselves intermingled with the way
they experience themselves to be perceived through
the gaze of those leading them (Ladkin, 2010, p. 66).
The in-between space
The ?flesh? (in-between part) is sensitive and
subtle.
How can we strengthen it?
Flesh alerts us to the way that perception is
embedded in particular places, historical times
and cultures.
The concept of flesh fits with the leadership
moment? It makes us think of something
material something physical that we can hold
and touch.
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Emotional
intelligence
Empirical support
Emery and Barker (2007) surveyed 77 branch
managers from regional banking institutions
and 47 store managers from one national food
chain. They used Bass? (1985) MLQ-1.
Charisma highly correlated with job
satisfaction and organisational commitment.
Charisma was the only factor to predict
organisational commitment.
Expert 1: Ladkin
Weber?s ?Charismatic authority? (p. 76)
??Gift? from the divine
?Co-constructed
?Role of context ? crisis
Ladkin cites…
Beyer (1999, p. 316) Charisma is rare
Bass? (1985) transformational theory includes
?charismatic influence?, along with inspirational
motivation, individual consideration and
intellectual stimulation.
Aesthetics
Aisthitikos ?Perception by feeling?
taste, hearing, seeing and smell (p. 80)
Aesthetic perception is informed not only
through the rational, conscious part of
ourselves but also from a more bodily,
physically based sensitivity…
Anaesthetic ? puts us to sleep, stops us from
feeling… (p. 81)
Expert 2: Goleman
Emotional intelligence: the ability to manage
ourselves and our relationships effectively.
Goleman (2000) explains the four
fundamental capabilities in full (p. 80):
?Self-awareness
?Self-management
?Social awareness
?Social skills
EI and leadership styles
The leader?s ?modus operandi? is linked and is
categorised in terms of style. See the EI
competencies and outcomes (Goleman, 2000,
pp. 82-83).
For example, a coercive style, ?do what I tell
you?, is linked to a drive to achieve, and a
need for self control. This works best in a
crisis…
However the overall impact is often negative.
Expert 3: Kellerman
Kellerman (2012, p. xxi) defines these concepts
as:
Power: A?s capacity to get B to do whatever A
wants, whatever B?s preference, and if
necessary by force.