...Communicable Disease Outbreak - Hat Task 3 Essay 9 Environmental and Global Health Issues 8 Emergency Response Final Steps The WGU Library Center for Writing Excellence: The WGU Writing Center Feedback Course Material Learning Resources All Notes SZT1 - Community and Population Health This course supports the assessment for SZT1. The course covers 4 competencies and represents 3 competency units. Introduction The study of community health nursing includes multiple issues, including vulnerable populations, families, violence, safety, disaster preparedness, communicable disease, and immunization. The content of this course will provide you with an opportunity to expand your practice perspective from the individual level to that of the community and system level. The activities in this course are directed to enhance your appreciation of the effort of making the United States a healthier nation. Watch the following video introduction for this course: Competencies This course provides guidance to help you demonstrate the following 4 competencies: •Competency 725.8.1: Community Health EpidemiologyThe graduate assesses and analyzes the health status of populations using data, community resources identification, input from the population, and professional judgment; and determines...
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...Approach Practically speaking, what does it mean when we say that WGU’s programs are competency-based? Unlike traditional universities, WGU does not award degrees based on credit hours or on a certain set of required courses. Instead, you will earn your degree by demonstrating your skills, knowledge, and understanding of important concepts through a series of carefully designed courses. Progress through your degree program is governed not by classes but by satisfactory completion of the required courses that demonstrate your mastery of the competencies. Of course, you will need to engage in learning experiences as you brush up on competencies or develop knowledge and skills in areas in which you may be weak. For this learning and development, WGU has a rich array of learning resources in which you may engage under the direction of your student mentor. You will work closely with your mentor to schedule your program for completing the courses. You will also work closely with additional faculty members as you proceed through courses of study that are designed to lead you through the content you must master in order to pass the assessment(s) for each course. The benefit of this competency-based system is that it makes it possible for people who are knowledgeable about a particular subject to make accelerated progress toward completing a WGU degree, even if they lack college experience. You may have gained skills and knowledge of a subject while on the job,...
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...WGU AFT2 RAFT2 (Accreditation Audit) MBA Graduate Programe - Complete Course All 4 Tasks http://www.homeworkminutes.com/question/view/41054/AFT2-RAFT2-Accreditation-Audit-WGU-MBA-Graduate-Program-Complete-Course AFT2 Accreditation Audit Task 1 1. The purpose of this executive summary is to outline the current status of compliance of the organization for the priority focus area of communication, namely the standard UP.01.01.01 which is named the “Conduct a Pre-procedure Verification Process” as noted by the Joint Commission standards. A.2. The primary area of focus I chose to review was the communication aspect. I feel that communication is vital in any business, especially health care. Clear communication improves patient care and the quality of care. This is evident when time is taken to verify a patient or a procedure. When things go wrong due to misidentification of a patient, not only does that cost time and money for the patient as well as the extra burden of having that wrong fixed, but it also costs the hospitals too. Their costs are increased by trying to fix the issue and then legal issues to follow. The best way to avoid any mistake and/or injury is to adopt a more vigorous verification system. AFT2 Accreditation Audit Task 2 A.1. An unexpected occurrence that involves serious bodily or psychological harm including death or the risk leading to these is known as a sentinel event. (Sentinel event, 2013) A.2. Several people were...
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...Task 1 A. Describe your chosen organization by doing the following: 1. Describe the organization and its objective(s). Reflect * Think about the organization you have chosen to write about and describe its purpose. Why does it exist? What are its objectives? What are the vision and mission statements of the organization? Write * Write one paragraph describing the organization’s background, purpose, vision, and mission * Write one paragraph describing/listing the objectives of the organization A.1. Harrison Medical Center is a non-profit, community based hospital that serves four counties west of Seattle, Washington. The hospital was founded in 1918 as small community hospital and has grown into the primary care facility for nearly the entire north western quadrant of the state. The concept of a non-profit, community based hospital is that if a local resident needs a procedure or treatment; the funding will be located to provide the needed medical intervention (Charity Care). Their mission statement is “We make a positive difference in people's lives through exceptional healthcare.” Vision statement is “We will be the premier health system in the Pacific Northwest.” (Directors, 2016) citation but no foot note Harrison must stay medically relevant and financially competitive with other hospital systems to remain the dominate medical partner in the region. To accomplish this, they have to expand their services as well as continuing to provided top...
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...Kayla Redd, RN WGU VWT1 Student ID 339433 Task 2 The potential for global health crises is a real threat to community populations all over the world. Advancing technology and modes of travel allow populations that prior had no or little contact, now have the ability to interact. Despite the advances in technology, global health is still lacking in vaccinations and prevention of communicable diseases. Many diseases are preventable through vaccination. Vaccines, by definition, is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease . Vaccines typically are the most effective way to fight or eliminated infectious diseases. Vaccines have limitations due to various clinical factors like steroid use, chemotherapy, HIV, age or diabetes. For a vaccine to have optimal effect, a person needs to complete the scheduled vaccination regimen as well as obtain the appropriate boosters as scheduled. Vaccine efficacy is dependent on the disease, the vaccine strain, if the vaccination schedule has been adhered to, immune response to vaccination, and assorted factors such as ethnicity, age, or genetic predisposition. Some individuals are nonresponders to certain vaccines, meaning that they do not generate antibodies despite being vaccinated correctly. “If a vaccinated individual does develop the disease vaccinated against, the disease is likely to be less virulent than in unvaccinated victims.” (Préziosi, 2003). There are multiple types of vaccine: inactivated...
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...VWT Task 2 MB WGU 1.The measles is a very contagious viral illness. In 2002, USA announced that measles virus was eradicated in our country. Despite the fact, that the world has made enormous progress in the fight against measles in the last decade, this virus seems to be attacking and killing people again. The measles outbreak started in the Disneyland California in December of 2014. It is still unknown, who brought the virus to the “Happiest place on earth”, but according to the CDC, measles most likely was brought to the park by an infected foreign visitor (Centers For Disease Control and Prevention .Measles Cases and Outbreaks, 2015). The virus was first reported on December 28, 2014 in the case of a not immunized 11-year-old child. On January 5, 2015 four additional measles cases in California and two in Utah were linked to the Disneyland in Orange County. From December 28, 2014 to March 15, 2015 total of 125 people from several states including California, WA, AC, CO, NE, UA were reported to be infected with the same measles virus. After further virus examination, CDC determined that this virus is linked to measles genotype B3 2014 epidemic outbreak in Philippines. In the last six months, same measles virus was also reported in Mexico, Canada and 12 other countries around the globe( Centers For Disease Control and Prevention .Measles Outbreak — California, December 2014–February 2015). 2a. The measles virus remains in the infected person...
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...SZT1 – Task 4 WGU Preparedness is vital in managing any disaster situation. During the simulation, Disaster in Franklin County, the role of the public health personnel was fundamental for its success, particularly the public health nurse, since the nurse often times is a first responder in disasters like this. It’s especially helpful to observe the actions and techniques that were used by a nurse during this disaster simulator. Role of Public Health Personnel Maintaining emotional and physical safety of the community is part of the role of the public health personnel during a disaster situation. During the Franklin County disaster, the Public Health Department personnel ensured safety and basic needs for survival for its community. Basic, and yet essential, necessities such as shelter, clean water and food as well as medications were provided. The Public Health Department has the responsibility to maintain and distribute the most current information on how the community can get help, how to obtain basic supplies, and if there are any health threats and concerns. The public health nurse uses skills of assessing and prioritizing, assuring that all needs and concerns within her scope of practice are met. Other members of the Public Health Department team operate and maintain all the other jobs that aren’t in the scope of practice of the nurse. The health educator helped direct those evacuated to the closest shelter; the bookkeeper is responsible for maintaining...
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...RTT Task 1 WGU Nursing –Sensitive Indicators In the case of Mr. J, a 72-year-old retired rabbi with a diagnosis of mild dementia, the nursing sensitive indicators include restraint use, hospital acquired pressure ulcers, and patient-family satisfaction with nursing and overall care. Not understanding and identifying nursing-sensitive indicators contributed to adverse outcomes, which included the development of a pressure ulcer and the likely unnecessary use of restraints. Lastly, family dissatisfaction with care was evidenced when the daughter called the patient’s physician to complain that her father had not received the ordered kosher meals. If the hospital nursing staff had understood and identified nursing-sensitive indicators, the negative outcomes cited above may have been avoided. The nurses would know that through data collection, measurement, and evaluation of nursing practice it has been recognized that nursing care has a direct impact on specific patient outcomes. Because of this research, the profession has been able to elevate the quality of nursing care by developing and implementing evidence based practice, which has been demonstrated to improve patient outcomes (American Sentinel University, 2014). Quality Patient Care Collecting hospital data from each unit on specific nursing-sensitive indicators could advance quality patient care throughout the hospital. Staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel (RN, LPN’s, and CNA’s) on a unit can have a...
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...Organizational Management WGU JFT2 Task 1 June 4, 2014 Task 1A1 Adam’s equity theory stresses the importance of maintaining a balance between an employee’s inputs and outputs. Common inputs can include hard work, tolerance and enthusiasm and common outputs can be salary, benefits and recognition or rewards. The maintenance of this balance between inputs and outputs results in more productive, efficient and content workforce. A good way to look at this is that a worker will feel equal if he or she perceives that the reward received for their hard work is the same as that of an employee of the same level. If the reward received by the second employee ends up being greater or if the second employee receives the same reward for less work, the first employee may feel neglected and may even become less productive to match the second employee’s performance level. Looking at the merger scenario between the Utah Symphony and the Utah Opera we can see that Bill Bailey, the chairman of the board of the Utah Symphony organization should use the Adam’s equity theory to stress his opposition to the merger. Currently the opera is financially stable while the symphony is not. The opera has also been utilizing funds wisely, while the symphony has been acting to the contrary. If a merger should occur, the opera employees may perceive that this is an inequality and that the symphony will be making out since the merger will surely put the symphony in a better position financially...
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...TASK 1 Application of Community Health & Population-Focused Nursing AngelitoArguelles WGU Student No. 000476784 A. The community that I have chosen for the assigned community assessment is Broomfield county in the state of Colorado. This particular county is fairly new in its inception. According to the city and county of Broomfield website’s constitutional amendment section (n.d.), the city of Broomfield became the city and county of Broomfield on November 15, 2001. Before then, the city of Broomfield was in four different counties namely Adams, Boulder, Jefferson and Weld counties. Geographically, Broomfield is located about 17 miles north of the city of Denver and about 14 miles east of Boulder. There are no hospitals in the county due to its small land area, but multiple hospitals are close by within 10-15-minute drive anywhere in Broomfield. B. Using the population economic status assessment tool and using data from the US census bureau (2016), the population of Broomfield county on 2014 was 62,138. Population-wise, Caucasians make up about 78%, Hispanics 12%, Asians 6.3%. African-Americans 1.4%, and the rest below 1%. The median household income from 2010-2014 was $80,430; 6.3% of Broomfield residents were at or below the poverty line (United States Census Bureau, 2016). Broomfield's unemployment rate was at 3% far below the national average of 5.0% in the year 2015 (Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2015). There are no homeless ...
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...Community Health C229 1 ! ! ! ! ! ! CKA Task 1 Sharon Wiggins Western Governors University ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Community Health C229 ! ! Date Spent ! ! 6/19/15 ! 6/19/15 ! 6/19/15 ! 6/29-7/2 ! 7/11/15 1200-1700 ! 8/30/15 1100-1600 ! 9/4/15 1100-1200 ! ! 9/9-10/15 0800-1700 0800-1200 ! ! Fieldwork Study Activity Location and Contact Time Windshield Survey Dakota County, Minnesota 10 Cultural Survey Dakota County, Minnesota 5 Scavenger Hunt Dakota County, Minnesota 10 Childhood Obesity attended conference, interviewed other attendees and exhibitors 8757 Rio San Diego Dr, San Diego, CA 92108 (619)692-3800 30 Festival of Farms attended festival interview with community members and exhibitors Lakeside Prairie Farm 20503 180th Ave Barrett, MN 56311 320-492-2526 5 Minnesota State Fair attended & interviews and surveys 1265 Snelling Ave St Paul, MN 55108 (651) 288-4400 5 Dr Koch interviewed Dr. Koch Physician Fairview Ridges Clinic 303 E Nicollet Blvd # 160 Burnsville, MN 55337 (952) 460-4000 1 Communities for Health attended conference, interviewed other attendees, exhibitors Duluth Convention Center 350 Harbor Dr Duluth, MN 55802 (218) 722-5573 12 1 Community Health C229 ! 9/12/15 1200-1500 ! ! 9/18/15 0800-1200 ! 9/19/15 0800-1300 Farm Fest attended, interviewed ...
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...The Art of Nursing Nicole R. Penkalski Western Governor’s University May 8, 2016 “A nurse who is totally present sees the subtle, perceives the whole, and co-creates with the person—and the health team—a creative response to the uniqueness of the situation,” (Koerner, 2011). Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring established a framework of core concepts that assists in understanding the concept of “being human”. Personalities, life experiences, and core values allow an individual to become a certain type of provider. Being aware of personality traits and how they impact us as individuals can help us to become more efficient providers of healing for the diverse population as it stands today. Fostering a healing environment that can encourage excellence for nursing practice that involves mindful presence can create greater outcomes for patients. Models of Health and Healing The history of nursing dates back centuries with different eras of health and healing that have led us to this moment in time and the way nursing is currently practiced. Although there are many types of health and healing, in the United States predominately conventional medicine is practiced. There are three Eras that require review to gather information and understanding that help to redefine how health and healing has arrived at its current form. The first Era is Era I which took foothold in the 1860’s and focused on biomedicine. Era II, which began in the 1950’s, focused on mind and body healing...
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...Falls in the Elderly Dana Painter 000339195 WGU Falls in the Elderly A. 1. Kings Mountain, North Carolina is located in Cleveland County, the Piedmont region of North Carolina, close to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Kings Mountain is about 30 miles from Charlotte, NC. Cleveland County contains a total area of 469 square miles with 465 square miles of that being land and 4 square miles water. Cleveland County has eleven townships. The 2013 census reflects a population of 98,078 people, 37,046 households, and 27,006 families. The population for Kings Mountain is 10,296 people with 3,821 households, and 2,674 families. ("USCB," 2013) The ethnic structure of the city is 74.85% White, 21.55% African American, 0.15% Native American, 1.81% Asian, and 0.65% from other races, and 2.42% were Hispanic or Latino of the population. ("USCB," 2013) Of the 3,821 households for Kings Mountain, almost 50% were married couples, a little over 172% had a female as the head of household, and 30% were non-families. 12.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average family size was a little under 3. The median income for a household in the city was $31,000-$32,000 with a family income of $39,000 - $40,000. About 19% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21% of those age 65 or over. ("CC Chamber,") Our county has a Job Ready Partnership that offers tax credits for new corporations. With the availability of a skilled labor force and support services...
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...Incorporating Mindfulness into Practice Staci Dobson WGU Professional Presence Healthcare requires many attributes to excel as a caregiver. Historically caring for the physical body has been our focus. Research has shown humans require care of the body, mind, and spirit to obtain optimal wellbeing. As a caregiver to be able to provide for the needs of the patient, we need to grow in our self-awareness and increase the mindfulness in our practice. Models of Health and Healing. We have seen many advances in medicine over the last decade. Over the last century, technology has improved rapidly. With the technological advances made the importance of the awareness of the interconnectivity of the mind, body, and spirit for a person’s wellbeing. Dr. Larry Dossey describes three eras and how medicine has progressed. He referred to the first era as the “mechanical medicine” era, only ailments of the physical body were recognized and treated. The second era recognized how emotion and feelings can influence the body’s functions. The third and most progressive era includes our consciousness. Dr. Dossey states that consciousness is not confined to just the individual, but is boundless. (Dossey, n.d.) The main difference between era two and three is the realization that caring for a patient’s spirituality is equally as important as caring for their physical body and their psychosocial well-being. The discovery in era two of psychosomatic illnesses and the inclusion of treating...
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...LWC1 - Fundamentals of Business Law and Ethics Course of Study Your competence will be assessed as you complete the LWC1 objective assessment for this course of study. This course of study may take up to 10 weeks to complete. Introduction Overview There are the two major subdomains of study within the Fundamentals of Business Law and Ethics Course of Study: business law and business ethics. The exam covers 11 business law and ethics concepts, including the following: contractual relationship government regulation of business dispute resolution labor and employment law hiring and employment practices warranties, negligence, and liabilities Sarbanes-Oxley Act ethical issues in business ethical leadership ethics programs use of company resources You likely have had some experience with the legal system, either through your own encounters or merely through listening to the nightly news, and you have probably read or heard about various ethical and legal issues causing financial upheaval in today's business world. This background will serve you well in this study. Now you can expand on that experience, and perhaps refine and enhance your own views on these issues. Once you complete this course of study, you will have demonstrated a level of competence that you can immediately use in your work setting and career. Outcomes and Evaluation There are 10 competencies covered by this course of study; they are listed in the "Competencies for Fundamentals of Business Law and Ethics...
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