Strengths-based nursing (SBN) is an approach to care in which eight core values which guide nursing action, thereby promoting empowerment, hope and self-efficacy. In caring for patients and families, the nurse focuses on their inner and outer strengths-that is, on what patients and families do that best helps them deal with problems and minimize deficits. SBN creating environments and experiences that better enable patients and their families to take control over their lives and health care decisions. SBN respects a person's self-knowledge and values choice and self-determination, even though there are always limits to the choices available and a person's ability to act in her or his own interest is affected by circumstances, knowledge, and predisposition. it is as important to consider patients' deficits as it is to consider their strengths; both are essential aspects of the whole person. The current health care system is changing into a new system that focuses more on community-based and primary care with the hospitals forming the pillar of the health care system although they are not the primary service (Lind and Smith, 2008). This change has brought about a strength based nursing care which is aimed at developing an individual’s strength to encourage and help in healing. From the perspective of SBN, the nurse's role is to help patients achieve their goals in the healthiest possible way. SBN sees the nurse's role not as deciding for others but rather as listening attentively and deeply in order to clarify, elaborate, explain, provide information, make suggestions, connect people with resources, and advocate for patients and their families so they may hear their own voices and make their voices heard. Strengths-Based Care (SBC) requires that the nurse use a process to uncover the person’s concerns, get to know the patient and members of the family as individuals, and discover their strengths in order to plan and carry out nursing care. Nurses require strong nursing leadership to enable them practice strength-based nursing care. Strength based nursing care has a prospective of becoming a game changer in nursing and also revolutionize healthcare. In this approach the focus is redirected from shortages and crisis to use of strength of resources to deal with problems and overcome any shortcomings (Gottlieb, 2012). The medical model need not be a deficit model. The two are not mutually exclusive. Physicians can diagnose and treat problems and also have a strengths perspective and practice whole-person care. HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION HS1031 Introduction to Programming – Assignment I Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines Trimester T1 2019 Unit Code HS1031 Unit Title Introduction to Programming Assessment Type Individual Assignment Assessment Title Assignment I Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) Assess student’s ability to develop algorithmic solutions to programming problems.

1. Strengths-based nursing (SBN) is an approach to care in which
eight core values which guide nursing action, thereby promoting
empowerment, hope and self-efficacy. In caring for patients and
families, the nurse focuses on their inner and outer strengths-
that is, on what patients and families do that best helps them
deal with problems and minimize deficits. SBN creating
environments and experiences that better enable patients and
their families to take control over their lives and health care
decisions.
SBN respects a person's self-knowledge and values choice and
self-determination, even though there are always limits to the
choices available and a person's ability to act in her or his own
interest is affected by circumstances, knowledge, and
predisposition. it is as important to consider patients' deficits as
it is to consider their strengths; both are essential aspects of the
whole person. The current health care system is changing into a
new system that focuses more on community-based and primary
care with the hospitals forming the pillar of the health care
system although they are not the primary service (Lind and
Smith, 2008). This change has brought about a strength based
nursing care which is aimed at developing an individual’s
strength to encourage and help in healing. From the perspective
of SBN, the nurse's role is to help patients achieve their goals in
the healthiest possible way.
SBN sees the nurse's role not as deciding for others but rather
as listening attentively and deeply in order to clarify, elaborate,
explain, provide information, make suggestions, connect people
with resources, and advocate for patients and their families so
they may hear their own voices and make their voices heard.
Strengths-Based Care (SBC) requires that the nurse use a
process to uncover the person’s concerns, get to know the
patient and members of the family as individuals, and discover
their strengths in order to plan and carry out nursing care.
Nurses require strong nursing leadership to enable them practice

2. strength-based nursing care. Strength based nursing care has a
prospective of becoming a game changer in nursing and also
revolutionize healthcare. In this approach the focus is redirected
from shortages and crisis to use of strength of resources to deal
with problems and overcome any shortcomings (Gottlieb, 2012).
The medical model need not be a deficit model. The two are not
mutually exclusive. Physicians can diagnose and treat problems
and also have a strengths perspective and practice whole-person
care.
HOLMES INSTITUTE
FACULTY OF
HIGHER EDUCATION
HS1031 Introduction to Programming – Assignment I
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T1 2019
Unit Code HS1031
Unit Title Introduction to Programming
Assessment Type Individual Assignment
Assessment Title Assignment I

3. Purpose of the
assessment (with ULO
Mapping)
Assess student’s ability to develop algorithmic solutions to
programming problems
using Python language.
Weight 15 % of the total assessments
Total Marks 15
Word limit N/A
Due Date Week 8 (14, May 2019 11:55pm)
Submission
Guidelines
• There are five questions in this assignment which require you
to write and
submit five Python scripts. Please save each script in two
different
formats: .py and .txt prior to submission. For example, for the
first question
you need to submit triangle.py and triangle.txt.
• Code must be appropriately commented. Make sure to add
comments at each
segment of your code to explain what it does.

4. • Make sure that your code runs successfully for all possible
entries.
• Try to approach the solution with the least number of steps.
Your code must be
clear, logical, and easy to understand.
• All work must be submitted to Blackboard by the due date
(Tuesday, 14 May
2019 11:55PM).
• You are encouraged to avoid last minute submission so that
you do not run into
technical problems.
• You can only submit once. Thus, ensure that your work is
final prior to
submission.
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HS1031 Introduction of Programming
Assignment I Specifications
Purpose:

5. This assignment evaluates your understanding of basic
programming principles using Python
language. In particular, it assesses your ability to develop
algorithms to solve simple problems,
successfully develop and run python programs, and your ability
to write meaningful comments when
necessary.
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HS1031 Introduction of Programming
Marking criteria
Marking criteria Weighting
Appropriate commenting 5%
Sound logic 5%
Code running successfully 5%
TOTAL Weight 15%

6. Assessment Feedback to the Student:
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7. HS1031 Introduction of Programming
1. Write a program triangle.py to determine whether a triangle
is a ‘right triangle’. A right
triangle is a triangle where the square of one side equals the
sum of the squares of the other
two sides. Your program should prompt the user to enter the
three sides of a triangle – one at a
time – and then print a statement indicating whether or not the
triangle is right. (3 marks)
2. Bit shifting is a process where the bits of a given string are
moved to the left or to the right.
For instance, the bits in the string 1110 becomes 1011 when
shifted two places to the left.
Notice that the leftmost two bits are wrapped around to the right
side of the string in this
example. Write a program shift.py which take a bit string as an
input. The program prompts
the user to enter a string of binary bits. The program allows the
user to determine the
direction of shifting by entering L for left shift or R for right
shift. Once the bits string is
entered and the shift direction is specified, the program shifts
the bits two places either to the

8. left or to the right according to the user choice. Finally, the
program prints the resulting
string. (3 marks)
3. The mathematical value of π can be approximated using the
following equation:
π/4 = 1 – 1/3 + 1/5 – 1/7 + . . .
The higher number of iterations, the more accurate the
approximation is. For instance, and
iteration of two (π/4 = 1 – 1/3) yields a value 2.66 of for π,
while an iteration of 100 yield a
value of 3.13. Write a program pie.py that prompts the user to
enter the number of iterations
in this method of approximation and prints out the resulting
value of π. (3 marks)
4. Company A keeps a record of its employee payments in a text
file. Each line in the file is
formatted as follows:
<first name> <hourly rate> <hours worked>

9. Write a program wage.py that prompts the user to enter a
filename as an input and prints a
report of the payments made to employees. For each employee,
the total payment is
calculated by multiplying their hourly payment rate by the
number of hours they worked. The
report must be formatted in a tabular format with the above
header. (3 marks)
5. Design a game where the player rolls a couple of dices. The
rules of this game are as follows:
if the total dots of the two dices add up to seven, the player
wins four dollars. For any other
value, the player loses one dollar. The casino claims that there
are many ways for the players
to wine. For example, if the dots of the two dices are (1, 6), (2,
5) … (5,2), (6, 1). In reality,
there is a very little chance for anyone to win this game. Your
task is to write a program
dice.py which demonstrates that playing the game is pointless.
Your program should prompt
the user to enter the amount of money they wish to invest in this
game, and play the game

10. until this amount is depleted (becomes zero). At this point, the
program prints a message that
shows the number of rolls it took to break the player and the
maximum amount of money the
player won throughout the lifecycle of the game. (hint: you may
need to import the random
module and randint function to solve this problem). (3 marks)