Patient Teaching

The post has two assignments

Wage earners

1: write a paper that explores the experience of wageearners in one particular occupational group over the past half century (that is, since the 1940s). Present an analysis of changing working and living conditions for the kind of worker you select, based on library and internet research and at least TWO interviews with workers (you are free to do as many more as you would like). A special bibliography is available on the course Moodle site.

1. Industrial context: what has been the state of the market for the goods or services being produced? How has it changed?
2. labour market: what kind of labour has been needed for this work? How plentiful or scarce has it been? How much competition has there been for the work? Where have most of the workers come from (e.g., city, countryside, other countries, etc.)?
3. Training: at home? In school? On the job? Through apprenticeship?
4. Management: what kind of management policies have governed this work? How tightly have they controlled the worker? How have these policies changed?
5. technology: what kind of tools and/or machinery is used? How has the technology been changing? What kinds of skills are involved? How valuable are these skills and how have they changed?
6. terms of employment: how well paid has the work been? Have wages increased along with the cost of living? Have they kept pace with other workers? What benefits have been received in addition to wages?
7. Working conditions: what hours of work have been expected? What have the health and safety conditions been like? What holidays and vacations have been possible?
8. resistance: what evidence has there been that workers have resisted their employers’ goals and tactics on the job? How much state involvement has there been? Is there a union and a collective agreement governing the terms of employment? What differences has unionization (or lack of it) made? how much is the worker involved in his or her union? Have these workers carried any of their concerns into politics?
9. family: what kind of family life have the wageearners been involved in? What have their domestic responsibilities been and how have they changed? Where have these responsibilities fit into the overall patterns of their life?
10. leisure: how have these workers had fun off the job? With whom have they socialized? Have these patterns changed at all?
11.?aspirations: what have these workers wanted out of life? How have they gone about trying to get it?

2: Peri-operative patient teaching

Order Description

Identify three issues or problems that could be explored using three (3) different qualitative research methodologies:
two interpretive methodologies and
one critical or post-modern methodology.
For each of the issues or problems / methodologies you have identified:
Generate a problem statement AND a research question/s that could guide research and provide a brief argument as to why such research would be important and useful to health and human services practice (ie. its significance).
Provide an argument as to why the methodological approach is suitable for answering this particular question/problem.
Discuss the major theoretical and/or philosophical underpinnings of the methodology and how it would inform the conduct of this research.
Identify the nature of knowledge that would be produced by answering this question using this methodological approach.

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