What are HIV and AIDS? After taking this course you will understand that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV attacks the immune system by destroying CD4 positive (CD4+) T cells, a type of white blood cell that is vital to fighting off infection. The destruction of these cells leaves …
This course gives a historical overview of the HIV Pandemic. The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic was one of the key international health and demographic events of the late 20th century. When AIDS first appeared in 1980-1981, few would have predicted the worldwide burden of disease, death, and orphan-hood it would precipitate by the turn …
The number of people in the United States currently infected with hepatitis C is triple that of HIV/AIDS, more than five times that of Parkinson’s and more than ten times the number of Americans with multiple sclerosis. One to five people will die from the consequences of long-term infection: liver cancer or cirrhosis. According to …
With this course you will cover three aspects of an effective performance review system: Planning, Execution, and Review and Learning. These set the context around which everything in our new performance review system was done. During this discussion you will notice that when we talk about our managers, we refer to them as “tribal leaders,” …
Execution shows how to link people, strategy, and operations together, the 3 core processes of every organization. This book shows the importance of leaders being deeply and passionately engaged in the organization they run and why healthy dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism. Execution, written …
“Everyone Communicates Few Connect” John Maxwell says, “To be successful, you “must work” with others. To do that at your absolute best, you must learn to connect.” Connecting is a crucial skill anyone can learn, Maxwell offers his proven method: Five Principles and Five Practices so you can connect one-on-one or in a group. The …
Throughout youth and middle age, few consider the vision of someday taking up residence in a nursing facility. When the issue painfully comes to reality, more often than not a relative needs the security that a nursing facility offers. We respond with a mingling of fear, simply because it could happen to anyone. Anxiety because …
The literature on treatment of terminal patients, euthanasia, brain death, and other issues related to dying has expanded significantly in recent decades. There remains a paucity of publications on how these issues are handled across countries. The few cross-national studies that have been published usually include several countries especially the western ones. This course brings …
Having tough discussions with your employees will always be one of the most daunting tasks that you’ll ever face. As a general rule, the path of least resistance is avoidance, and how many of us haven’t been guilty from time to time of allowing problems to go on, hoping they’d simply fix themselves? This course …
Instead of condemning people, try to understand them. Try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. It’s dangerous …
