Hospital Classifications, Services, and Pharmacy Roles

Hospital Roles and Classifications

Weeks 1-3: Role of Hospital Care

  1. Patient Care: Diagnosis and treatment of illness/injury, preventative medicine, rehabilitation, convalescent care, and personalized services.
  2. Education: Education of all staff and patients, providing support (social, occupational, physical, psychological).
  3. Research: Advancement of medical knowledge, improvement of hospital services, animal research, clinical trials (not always related to medical personnel).
  4. Public Health.

Classification

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Management Theories, Leadership Styles, and Team Dynamics

Management Theories and Leadership Styles

People Management and Behavior (Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Y)

  • Theory X: Assumes some people are inherently lazy and irresponsible, requiring strict control and authority.
  • Theory Y: Assumes people are motivated and capable of self-direction, suggesting that persuasion, professional help, and motivational factors yield better results.

Leadership and Conduct (Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid)

This theory categorizes leadership behavior based on two dimensions:

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Understanding Language Registers: Standard, Literary, and More

Standard Language Register

Standard: Generic and specific topics, oral and written channels, objective intention, medium reliability. Characteristics:

  1. Variety: Supradialectal, used by the public, oral and written.
  2. Facilitates intercommunication for the whole linguistic community.
  3. Associated with media, education, publishing, information, and dissemination areas.
  4. Holds a first degree of formality.
  5. Conforms to grammatical regulations.
  6. Neutral, not marked by jargon, colloquialisms, or vulgarisms.
  7. Pretends
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Intriguing Encounters: Jobs, Afterlife, and More

The Day I Met the Strange and Inscrutable Steve Jobs

  1. d) Steve Jobs hardly ever granted interviews.
  2. a) Jobs was a very strict person.
  3. a) He was quite different from what I had expected.
  4. c) Still influenced by the incident with the fans.
  5. b) Jobs simply repeated the same explanation he always gave.
  6. d) Simply did not answer.
  7. a) Followed a well-established routine.
  8. d) Difficult to define.

Death Sites: How to Log In Your Afterlife

  1. d) Keep your online profiles safe after your death.
  2. c) Any kind of personal online
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Digital Time Capsules and Web Development

Digital Time Capsules

  1. What is the aim of the e-time capsule? Who will be your audience? (Pg. 40-41)

a) To create a time capsule in the form of a website with multimedia information and digital resources that reflect what life is like for people in your age group today.

b) Your completed website will be locked away for ten years until another group of students of your age can open it and look at how life might have changed.

Understanding HTML

  1. What is HTML Code? What do the letters HTML Stand for? (Pg.
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Social Integration Programs for Disadvantaged Groups

Lines of Action for Social Integration

1. Craftsmen Network Program

This program offers a one-year scholarship for individuals undergoing treatment at drug rehabilitation centers. Participants attend a workshop to learn a trade, working up to 35 hours per week. During training, students receive a financial scholarship, and the craftsman-employer receives payment.

Objectives:

  • Facilitate and enhance the social integration of individuals recovering from drug addiction.
  • Facilitate the acquisition of knowledge
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