I appreciate the accountability that Proven Experience officers. As a health care provider in hospice care for many years in the community in which I live, satisfaction and successful measurable outcomes where the aim of our non-profit program. Unfortunately, this was not the same game for the for-profit organizations that came in and took over the industry in our community, putting the ‘little guys’ out of business with no regard for our community members.
Now as an educator I find the same to be true, at the level of being an instructor, with supportive relationships with my students, the same cannot be said of about the instructors and the Deans that manage them. In bureaucracy, there is always red tape and you experience the hierarchical trickle-down effect, which keeps the lineage of power in its ranks, which according to Burns (2010) limits the “idiosyncratic ideals” of the purposed population, the students!!! This is most common in healthcare as we continue to call ordinary people Doctors or Nurses instead of by their first names. After becoming one of the mistreated numbers of this system after being diagnosed with breast cancer, I can assure you, any doctor and I do mean any, is called by their first name, just like I am. …show more content…
Yet, it is more important to the upper entourage to keep their rank embedded in power, then to relinquish it to the underserved population they are meant to serve.
As a social worker, my role is to relinquish power differentials between myself and the individuals I work with, and so I do the same with students, after all we are all experts at something, are we not? Thus, I do not ‘fit the mold’ and I tarnish the image so valued to be upheld, yet built on a
Now as an educator I find the same to be true, at the level of being an instructor, with supportive relationships with my students, the same cannot be said of about the instructors and the Deans that manage them. In bureaucracy, there is always red tape and you experience the hierarchical trickle-down effect, which keeps the lineage of power in its ranks, which according to Burns (2010) limits the “idiosyncratic ideals” of the purposed population, the students!!! This is most common in healthcare as we continue to call ordinary people Doctors or Nurses instead of by their first names. After becoming one of the mistreated numbers of this system after being diagnosed with breast cancer, I can assure you, any doctor and I do mean any, is called by their first name, just like I am. …show more content…
Yet, it is more important to the upper entourage to keep their rank embedded in power, then to relinquish it to the underserved population they are meant to serve.
As a social worker, my role is to relinquish power differentials between myself and the individuals I work with, and so I do the same with students, after all we are all experts at something, are we not? Thus, I do not ‘fit the mold’ and I tarnish the image so valued to be upheld, yet built on a