...INTRODUCTION Health and wellness in the workplace is crucial to business success. Increasingly, it is recognized that the workplace itself has a powerful affect on people’s health. When people are satisfied with their job, they are more productive and tend to be healthier. When employees feel that the environment at work is negative, they feel stressed. Stress has a large impact on employee mental and physical health, and in turn, on productivity. Companies that promote healthy lifestyle habits for employees to improve their health, often take the success of the company to heart and are likely to be absent less often for health related reasons. Employers are now offering a wide range of wellness initiatives; such as health risk screenings and assessments, healthy food choices in cafeterias and vending machines; weigh management programs on-site at employers' expense, subsidized or discounted off-site fitness courses, smoking cessation programs, on-site massage therapy and health fairs. This research paper will focus on the physical impact that unhealthy or healthy workplaces have on employees and the different programs to promote long-term wellness. There can be several benefits received as a result of a wellness program. A workplace wellness initiative can help a company to: • attract and keep employees; • reduce the costs of disability, drugs, and absenteeism; • reduce the effects of a stressful workplace; • reduce health costs or keep them contained; and •...
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...Dimensions of Wellness Model OCCUPATIONAL The occupational dimension recognizes personal satisfaction and enrichment in one’s life through work. At the center of occupational wellness is the premise that occupational development is related to one’s attitude about one’s work. Traveling a path toward your occupational wellness, you’ll contribute your unique gifts, skills, and talents to work that is both personally meaningful and rewarding. You’ll convey your values through your involvement in activities that are gratifying for you. The choice of profession, job satisfaction, career ambitions, and personal performance are all important components of your path’s terrain. Occupational wellness follows these tenets: • It is better to choose a career which is consistent with our personal values, interests, and beliefs than to select one that is unrewarding to us. • It is better to develop functional, transferable skills through structured involvement opportunities than to remain inactive and uninvolved. PHYSICAL The physical dimension recognizes the need for regular physical activity. Physical development encourages learning about diet and nutrition while discouraging the use of tobacco, drugs and excessive alcohol consumption. Optimal wellness is met through the combination of good exercise and eating habits. As you travel the wellness path, you’ll strive to spend time building physical strength, flexibility and endurance while also taking safety precautions so you may travel your path successfully...
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...Over All Wellness Program An Over View Steps to create wellness plan 1. ------------------------------------------------- 2. 3. 4. 5 ------------------------------------------------- Assess your wellness - The many dimensions of personal wellness overlap and work together to create an integrated system of well being. Think about the aspects of personal wellness and how they relate to you, then valuate the amount of wellness, or fulfillment, you feel you have in each area: * Emotional wellness. This pertains to how well you are aware of, accepting of and able to deal with your feelings. Relationships, stress, self-esteem and life outlook are all factors that play into emotional wellness. * Social wellness. This aspect of personal wellness has to do with how you see your place in the world and in society, and how well you adjust to your personal role in society. * Intellectual wellness. This dimension refers to the amount of information and knowledge you take in, and the amount of creative, analytical thinking you put out. Learning, problem solving and mental productivity are important aspects of intellectual wellness. * Spiritual wellness. Wellness plans include spiritual wellness not as a reference to religion, but rather as an indication of what you perceive to be the meaning of life and how you fit into it. Beliefs and value systems are a part of spiritual wellness. * Mental wellness. This pertains to your mental health, and...
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...WGU Community Health Clinical Time Log for Students in Unregulated States Use this form to document clinical hours in Community Health. Include the date, activity, location, contact (as appropriate) and time spent in hours. Upon completion of your time log, sign your time log and enter your RN License number. Attach additional sheets if needed. Log Instructions: This log must be submitted no later than the 25th of the month in order to be graded and processed by the end of the month to be passed in the term. Entries that are not legible or complete may cause the log to be returned to you for correction and resubmission. Be sure to review the sample time logs for some ideas about how to complete the log. The time log will be returned if the following unapproved activities are included: • • • • Exercise courses such as Zumba and Yoga and cooking courses are NOT approved clinical activities Drive time, research time and time spent on writing the project are NOT approved clinical activities Interviews of an hour or less are acceptable activities for established community agency leaders and community experts (by title) Observation at fast food restaurants are NOT acceptable activities nor is attendance at sporting events Topic: Prevention of obesity through healthy nutrition and physical activity Date Activity Location & Contact (as appropriate) Hours Relevance to Topic 1/5/16 Windshield Survey Orange County, CA 10 Topic selection activity 1/25/16 Cultural Survey Orange...
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...Developing an Organizational Employee Wellness Plan Sample Outline This outline is intended to be a starting point to guide state agencies in developing their own agency-specific wellness plan. The provided outline addresses specific points to consider in developing the agency plan, but each agency will need to add additional content to define adequately what and how each activity will be implemented in the agency. While the outline is presented in this format for ease of reading and brevity, a more narrative format is recommended to serve as the actual agency wellness plan. Additionally in some sections, such as Program Objectives and Program Content, the outline provides suggested objectives or program content for agencies to consider. In these sections, agency wellness planners may need to delete or add language to reflect agency-specific objectives and content. If you have any questions about the outline or developing your wellness plan, please contact: I. Program Purpose This voluntary program of formal and informal activities is designed to improve the health and well-being of all employees and reduce or eliminate health issues affecting employee health and work productivity. II. Program Objectives A. Primary Goal 1. The Employee Wellness Program will strive to increase the well-being and productivity of all employees by enhancing all aspects of health. The program seeks to increase awareness of positive health behaviors, to motivate employees...
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...Formulate a talent management strategy to encompass the entire talent requirements of the organization. Epperson Fit Factory is a wellness center consisting of 200 employees in which 20 of those employees are in leadership positions. The talent management strategy of the wellness center is that employee engagement is the organization’s first priority because without the motivation of employees productivity goals will not be met and the customers we serve will not be loyal. In order to motivate employees Epperson Fit Factory not only formally and informally recognizes employees; we also offer a competitive benefits package, competitive salary and an effortless sense of family. In order to offer a competitive salary and benefits package, Epperson Fit Factory will research other wellness centers in the region. We will offer at least a 5% increase in pay and ability to increase pay through higher productivity and exceeding goals. The organization will offer vacation pay, sick pay, discounted child care and monthly after hour gatherings where employees may bring family members and mingle amongst one another. Epperson Fit Factory will also work with employees to find out what their goals are and how we can help them meet them through tuition reimbursement, on the job training, networking and shadowing. Determine the key components of talent management, including identifying, assessing, and developing talent. Talent management is defined as the implementation of integrated...
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...Understanding Fitness and Wellness Professor Katherine Cabai 26 May 2013 Every day the fitness world is becoming larger and larger. Everyone is trying to work towards having that “perfect body”. With that in mind, there are some important aspects an individual must understand about fitness and wellness in order to achieve their goals. Usually the best place to start is with themselves, by having figuring out their current fitness status. They need to also evaluate the exercises and activities they have been doing and improve their programs that will help make improvements towards their goal. Fitness and wellness isn’t all about working out, the individual needs to work on a diet plan and ways to control metabolic functions. Exercise and eating healthy are inseparable and come hand & hand with one another. Many people in the United States have struggled to eat healthy and also stay with a work out routine, which has resulted in an increase in obesity in America. Good health is just as important as fitness is, so it is important to create a good balance in order to achieve a high quality of life. To get a full understanding on where you stand on your health and fitness levels, you should regularly assess yourself. There are some specific attributes that an individual should check often to properly judge where they stand on their health and fitness levels. Doing an assessment on your fitness level is a great way to find out how healthy you are and your physical abilities...
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...Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction Nutritional status is a measurement of how well the nutrients in your diet are meeting the physiologic needs of your body. Health care professionals like registered dietitians, nurse and physicians are trained to review and assess many different parameters to assess a persons nutritional status. They do this through the use of medical tests and other tools that provide dietary information. Nutritional status is the balance between the intake of nutrients by an organism and the expenditure of these in the process of growth, reproduction, and health maintenance. Because this process in highly complex and quite individualized, nutritional status assessment can be directed at a wide variety of aspects of nurtures. These ranges from nutrient levels in the body, to the products of their metabolism, and to the functional processes they regulate. Nutritional status can be measured for individuals as well as for populations. http://www.answers.com/topic/assessment-of-nutritional-status#ixzz1zFO5MZFB/06-30-12 In children, growth charts have been developed to allow researches and clinicians to assess weight-and-height-for-age. For children, low height-for-age considered stunting, while low weight-for-height indicates wasting. Accurate measurement of individual nutritional status is required in clinical practice. Population measures are more important in research...
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...throughout the course. In turn, the student will be able to help others modify their diet and activity, and improve overall wellness. An examination of a personal food and activity assessment will provide the student with essential data from which to change their health and wellness behaviors. Course Outcomes This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: CO #1 Assess whether nutritional intake provides basic nutrients for optimal health and wellness. (PO #1, PO #2) CO #2 Describe nutritional needs for optimal health and wellness throughout the life span. (PO #1, PO #2) CO #3 Discuss the psychological, sociological, economical, and cultural implications of food on nutritional status. (PO #1, PO #2) CO #4 Describe evidence-based interventions and modifications in nutrition therapy that can positively influence the outcome of disease and illness. (PO #1, PO #8) Due Date Refer to Course Calendar for campus requirements. Online will submit by Sunday, Unit 7 11:59 pm MT. Total Points Possible: 100 Requirements 1. Create a concept map document based on the food and activity journal throughout the course using www.chooseMyPlate.gov. The discussion questions in units 1, 3, 5, & 7 will provide you with questions on what aspect of diet to focus on. You are not being graded on your personal habits; you are being graded on your understanding how good personal choices lead to optimal health benefits. 2. In the “Assignment” page of Unit 1...
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...Marsha Ricks Grand Canyon University Family Health Assessment Functional Health Patterns Many different people due to their cultural and ethnic background can define family in many different ways. But one thing that is shared by all families is value and health perception. Families are as diverse as the members that make up the family unit. The Family is the primary social framework in which health promotion of wellness and disease prevention and management takes place, and which the belief system influences the health behavior of its members. The purpose of this paper is to analyze family function health patterns using Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns assessment tool. Gordon’s health pattern tool is used to obtain a family nursing history that consist of eleven areas of function to assess and to promote areas of wellness as well as identifying health pattern problems. By using this framework the nurse can combine the cumulated data both subjective and objective, build patterns reflective of their lifestyle. (Edelman & Mandle 2010). If nurses assess functional trends and interactions among patterns, then nurses can accurately predict and diagnosis current or potential issues. By doing this they can more effectively facilitate movement in the positive direction of outcomes to promote an ultimate feeling of well-being. Health Perception/Health Management In interviewing the Family members I found that their perception of their overall health is described as decent...
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...I think the issue you address and your proposed solution in this week’s discussion board is incredibly relevant and timely. With increasing health care costs it is imperative that as healthcare professionals we shift our focus to wellness and population health and not merely the reactive treatment of disease once it occurs. I am involved with a program at our hospital called Imagine Perfect Care and one of the objectives of this program is to provide seed funding for innovative ideas to improve care. One of the projects we have funded in the past year was with the department of Urology. They are providing their cystectomy patients with health trackers for the first 30 days after discharge. They have found that this particular patient population,...
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...THE SPA WELLNESS Mission: The Spa Wellness at the Fort has introduced natural healing practices that help you achieve optimum health and well-being. The Spa wellness promotes an alternative approach to attain holistic wellness through Traditional Chinese Medicine treatments such as Accupuncture, detox treatments and a state of the art Infrared Sauna Facility. Vision The Spa is one of the Philippines’ premier centers for healthy and holistic spa services. It is one of the pioneering health facilities in the Philippines that offer a complete array of services, such as massage therapies, facial, foot and body care treatments. Conforming to high standards of excellence, The Spa has been accredited as a member of the International Spa Association (ISPA) and the Spa Association of the Philippines, Inc. (SAPI). It is also the first spa in the Philippines to be awarded the Superbrand status. The Spa’s first outlet was built in 1996 on a 2,400 sq.m. lot along Acropolis Green Subdivision, 80 E. Rodriguez Jr. Avenue, Libis, Quezon City. Its therapists and aestheticians are trained to provide the kind of treatment that each guest requires. A modern, ultra-hip Gym Center located at the second floor of its four-story building is equipped with the latest gym equipment . The Spa is one of the Philippines’ premier centers for healthy and holistic spa services. It is one of the pioneering health facilities in the Philippines that offer a complete array of services, such as massage...
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...QUESTION 1 To assess teacher wellbeing at a school, I would follow the interview guidelines by McMillan and Schumacher (2010) as follows: 1. Select a quiet, private space: I would choose a quiet staff room or an empty classroom to conduct the interviews, ensuring minimal distractions. 2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Dress appropriately: I would dress professionally, similar to the teachers' attire, to establish a sense of familiarity and comfort. 3. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Explain the purpose and use of the interview: I would clearly explain that the interview aims to understand their wellbeing, experiences, and challenges, and that the information will be kept confidential and anonymous....
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...emphasis of media that smoking kills, it still remains as the most addictive vice that begins early in childhood and adolescence which results to a lifetime habit. Tobacco use is one of the preventable causes of death, yet, will be the leading cause of preventable and premature deaths globally in next few years (Salazar, 2004). As years come, the average age of smokers is declining. The youth is greatly and easily influenced by smoking especially if proper guidance for them to avoid it was not established. Indisputably, smoking creates a big impact on people, and year by year, the population of smokers increase thus tobacco-related illnesses that may lead to death also increase. Even the expression that “Warning: Smoking is bad for your health.” is not enough to encourage people especially the young to pick up the habit. It is seriously evident that the several programs or regulations formed to avoid and quit smoking needs more “press on” to switch down its impression to the people Background of the Study There are 1.25 billion smokers around the globe and consequently, one-third to one-half of it, which is almost 6 million people, will be killed in the year 2010 from the disruptive effects of smoking. According to the nonprofit research and advocacy organizations, smoking rates have declined over the past few years in developed countries such as United States, Britain and Japan while increasing in much of the developing countries (Fox, 2009: 11). According to the...
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...Psychological disorders o Models of human nature/therapeutic change WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL/MENTAL HEALTH? WITH DR. MIKE CONDRA Dr. Mike Condra (Retired) Director Student Wellness Services Queen’s University http://youtu.be/aNQBdIMM3mQ PSYCHOLOGICAL/MENTAL HEALTH IS NOT… o Whether a person seeks help for their psychological health o Whether a person’s ideas and attitudes vary from yours or others in society oBased on how a person looks or acts PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH EXPERIENCED AT PINNACLE OF MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS SENSE OF IDENTITY = unified sense of self, characterized by attitudes, beliefs, and ways of acting that are genuinely your own o Who you are, what you are capable of, roles your play, place among your peers o Can change over time, with experience and interactions o Early on? Teen years? Young adulthood? o Early identities not permanent, solidify in adulthood* People who have a strong sense of identity: o Sense of self-esteem and personal values, capable of intimacy o Can assess strengths and weaknesses without relying on opinions of others o Know what is common with others, what is unique to them o Can maintain identity when in relationships with others ENHANCING PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH Maintain honest communication Strive for spiritual wellness Be optimistic Achieve healthy selfesteem Avoid defence mechanisms Deal with loneliness Deal with anger PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS (PP. 44-53) Anxiety disorders ...
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