...Directions: Community and Population Health Windshield Survey This assessment is a foundational exercise for you to learn about your environment and explore where you live. Take some time to intentionally explore your county. Look at your county as the home and the place of work for the county residents. While driving through your community, stop for coffee or have lunch in a neighborhood. Find a place to eat where you can sit down as part of the community. You may want to walk around your community as well so that you can explore it from both a driving perspective and a walking perspective. Once you have observed the area, write about your impressions of the county in your notes. Reflect on any surprises and whether the county looks different to you now after taking the time to note the various elements. What would you like to learn more about related to your topic and population of interest? You may want to sketch a map related to your topic area for future reference when writing your community description. Take notes on the county using the following questions as a guide. These questions are only to provide guidance; you may discover other areas that you want to note. Include your findings in the community description section of your paper. You will use this information to complete task 1 for your “Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing” course. Collecting this data will help you define your population of interest and prepare for your practicum experience...
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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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...New England, to use as a fabricating plant. New Oxford population is mostly hardworking, calm people who are very proud of their residences and area. A lot of of the people of New Oxford receive the new fabricating plant, as a new way to raise income for the town and generate employment. M-Core is trying to construct the new plant by buying the homes of the people who presently reside in the terrain for a cost higher than what the homes are valuable. The majority of the people have been content to get the corporation up on its offer but three residents have been indisposed to move and put up for sale their houses. M-Core has requested the mayor to assist convince the people to put up for sale their terrain. This paper will study the difficulty facing M-Core and several of the potential solutions to the dilemma. In the end I will suggest a solution for M-Core to employ to resolve the conflict among the corporation and the residents and how the corporation can assess the consequences of the solution. Describe the Situation Issue and Opportunity Identification M-Core is sustaining a fragile balance because the corporation desires to construct a new plant that will in fact do well to the population although it also wants to construct the facility immediately with the...
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...residential treatment facility in Azusa Canyon. River Community is part of the Social Model Recovery Systems. River community is a coed facility, that houses up to 38 residents. Social Model Recovery Systems is a non-profit 501(c) 3 that provides direct treatment services (at 12 locations in Los Angeles and Orange counties) for those whose lives have become unmanageable due to alcohol and other drug use and/or whose mental health issues are interfering with leading productive lives. River Community itself is a unique residential treatment program providing recovery services to individuals with concurrent mental health and chemical dependency problems. The current director of River Community is a LCSW and ACSW. Social Model Recovery Systems ascribes to the principles and practices of social rehabilitation. The social rehabilitation approach is one in which addiction is viewed as being centered in the reciprocal relationship between...
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...community. Value/Belief Pattern Predominant ethnic and cultural groups along with beliefs related to health. * All of the persons in the community are retired from the military. They have multiple nurses and medical facilities onsite to assist with the resident’s health concerns. When interviewing my patient she states she gets a regular check up and is reminded by the staff when her checkup is due Predominant spiritual beliefs in the community that may influence health. * My patient is Christian and she states that the majority of the residents are either Christian or Catholic. Availability of spiritual resources within or near the community (churches/chapels, synagogues, chaplains, Bible studies, sacraments, self-help groups, support groups, etc.). * There are 2 churches on the property and they have a weekly bible study she attends, additionally there are a multitude of activities for the residents to partake in Do the community members value health promotion measures? What is the evidence that they do or do not (e.g., involvement in education, fundraising events, etc.)? * They have weekly heath and maintenance workshops such as increase flexibility and endurance What does the community value? How is this evident? * The community value is as follows: An active and gracious lifestyle with access to continuing health care. Inviting retired and former...
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...План-конспект вечера общения в 9 «Б» классе Метод: игровой. Форма: чаепитие с играми и конкурсами. Цели: Практическая – 1. Развитие навыков говорения в непринужденной для учеников обстановке. Воспитательные – 1. Формирование благоприятной психологической обстановки в классе. 2. Снятие психологического напряжения. Развивающие - 1. Развитие умения работать в команде. 2. Развитие воображения и логического мышления. Оборудование: распечатки с играми и конкурсами, призы для конкурсов. Часть вечера | Содержание | Форма работы | Время | Приветствие | This year’s first academic quarter is finished. Today we are going to have a . We hope that it will leave good memories. | Учитель - Ученик | 2-3 мин. | Игра «Крокодил» | Let’s play the game “Crocodile”. One of the students thinks of a word and shows it using gestures, pose, etc. Other students should guess the word. | Учитель – Ученик,Ученик1 – Ученик2 | 15 мин. | Игра «Стулья» | Let’s play the game “Chairs”. A few chairs are put in a line. The number of chairs is one less than the students involved in the game. When music is turned on, the students start to walk around the chairs. When the music stops, the students should take free sits. One who doesn’t take a sit should leave the game. One chair should be removed. The chairs should be removed as long as there will be one student. | Учитель – Ученик,Ученик1 – Ученик2 | 15 мин. | Игра «Мафия» | Let’s play the game “Mafia”. The host hands out the playing cards face down...
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...Associate Level Material Communication Process Worksheet Think about a misunderstanding you have experienced with another person at work, school, or in a health care environment. Write your answers in paragraph form. 1. Briefly describe the misunderstanding, including the setting and the people involved. There was a misunderstanding about physical therapy nurse that came into the facility to have physical therapy with one of my residents. 2. Complete the following table with information from your described misunderstanding. Question | Answer | Who was the sender? | The manager | Who was the receiver? | Physical therapy nurse | What was the message? | Letting the nurse know that when she came into the facility that she had to write in the residents chart to let me know what type of progress that the resident was making. | What channel was used to send the message? | I asked her to please write in the chart of the resident that she was performing therapy with | What was the misunderstanding? | The nurse would not write in the chart she said it was because of the HIPPA law | How could you have avoided the misunderstanding? | Needed to sit down and explain to her the notes that she wrote was only seen by staff, and the doctor that we where following the HIPPA law, but that we needed to know the progress as well. | 3. The perception model in Ch. 2 of Communicating in the Workplace shows that prior knowledge and experiences combine with your psychological...
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...inform all residents living in or around Bayside that we have had many of our residents become ill with similar extensive symptoms. We have been doing thorough research to get down to the bottom of the problem, and have narrowed the illness down to a possible improper chemical disposal at a nearby company. We are doing everything in our legal power to get this unfortunate matter taken care of. II. Diagnosis The first thing I would do would be to contact those residents whom I know have been contracted with the illness, and ask them questions related to, where were they at the on-set of the illness? How long have they had said symptoms? Did anyone who may have been with them get sick as well? Were they exposed to anything unusual that may have gotten them sick? I would ask many questions that could help me get to the cause of the problem. a. Symptoms Here I would keep a book and log every symptom from every person I interviewed. This would allow me to find a possible pattern in related symptoms. I would also document ages and genders of residents who got the illness, so to see if there is a difference in children versus adult symptoms. b. Medications/Vaccines After evaluating ill residents’ symptoms, I would then ask them questions about what they have done to fight the illness. What medications have they tried? Has their doctor prescribed anything? What, if anything, has helped? What hasn’t helped? This way I can recommend these options to my residents who have...
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...without first dealing with the nonemployment disputes that have arisen as a result of their expansion project. The three holdout residents are similar in that they are steadfast in their beliefs to stay in their homes, although their reasons why are much different. Not only does M-Core have a responsibility to their parent company, Silatel Corp., they also have significant ties to the community leaders within the New Oxford City Council. A third party constituent, The Nature’s Gift Society, has also pledged funds to come to the aid of the holdout residents if need be. Addressing the conflict and resolving the disputes must be handled in an efficient and timely manner. Concerns over broken friendships, animosity, and lack of trust with the company and the Council are all valid concerns the company and community leaders have. By resolving the issue with the holdout residents first, the conflict or interference from the society should go away. Stakeholder Perspectives/Ethical Dilemmas [Triple click anywhere in this paragraph to begin typing.] Frame the “Right” Problem M-Core, Inc. will become the world leader in the development of the next generation of multi-core processing chips by resolving the nonemployment disputes that have arisen between the company, holdout residents, the city council, and a third party constituent. Senior management believes success hinges on the development of the land donated...
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...short story “The House Behind” recounting a murder that took place between two houses, the author uses the motif of the trashcan, the distinct shift in residences’ behavior and smell imagery to explore its effect. Through detailing the increased anxiety between the pair of houses that differ socially and economically and residents’ deteriorating spirits, the author emphasizes the consequences an event can have on those involved. The motif of the trashcan is symbolically used in “The House Behind” to express the growing unease between the house in front and the house behind after the murder. The narrator, a resident of the house behind, states: “Tenants in the front house are high civil servants, while the house behind is filled with shopkeepers, salesmen, retired post-office employees…” (1). The narrator then continues: “the trashcans were always a source of embarrassment” (1). Upon the murder, “the atmosphere has sharpened: the tenants from the house in front are afraid to empty their trash” (1). Clearly, the house in front and the house behind had always— even prior to the murder— been distinguished by their contrasting social and economic states. Though residents in the back house “can’t really blame the people in the front house for their wealth”, the well-established disparities triggered the “ill will that has always existed between the two houses” (1). Thus situated in the courtyard— “a sort of no-man’s-land” (3)— the trashcan that is shared between the two houses is symbolic...
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... Acre Woods Retirement Community Case Study Acre Woods is a private retirement community with 275 senior residents. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of its residents through physical and emotional care. Sarah Armstrong, Acre Woods’ resident physical therapist, manages the retirement community’s activity program. Recently, Acre Woods added a pool to its rehabilitation center to facilitate resident exercise and aquatic therapy. The residents’ monthly rent was raised to help finance the pool. After the pool was constructed, Sarah immediately contacted the director of Acre Woods, Mark Adams, with concerns that the pool did not meet some important specifications included in the original design, such as nonslip treads on the stairs and improved wheelchair access to the pool area. Mark advised Sarah that the residents would be happy to have a pool, even if it did not incorporate all the requested special features. When Sarah asked why the new ramp and stair treads were not provided even though they were included in the budget, the director remarked that Sarah’s job was to provide physical therapy, not to worry about the budget. Over the next month, four Acre Woods residents had minor falls using the pool stairs. While the accidents were not serious, other residents began to express fears about using the pool. Sarah contacted Mark again to relate resident complaints and to stress the need for pool accessibility and safety improvements. Mark informed Sarah that she...
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...rounds and wake the residents up and make sure they were all okay before breakfast and showering. I walked into an elderly woman’s room, she was already awake and looked as though she was in pain. I asked the resident how she was feeling and if she was in any pain. She responded with my back hurts, I asked why and if I could take a look. After the resident allowed me to look, I lifted the blankets and noticed she was lying on a bed pan. I immediately removed the bed pan and put underwear and an incontinence aid on the resident. I asked the resident how long she had been on the bed pan and she told me all night. The patient told me that the night shift nurse forgot to come and remove the bedpan before the resident fell asleep. I apologised on behalf of the other nurse and checked the residents back for any skin damage or bruising and told the supervising nurse and wrote on the resident’s progress notes what had happened. I felt very empathetic and sorry for this resident. Lying on a bedpan all night would be extremely uncomfortable and painful and it should not have happened. Exemplar 2: 22/07/2015 During lunch time a male patient seemed very upset. I went and sat with the patient while they ate and tried to talk to them. I asked how they were feeling, how their day has been, etc. the resident told me that they were just having a bad day and missed their family. After eating the resident went back to their room. I told my supervising nurse that the resident was quite upset and...
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...California's history contributing to severe water shortage. You surely wouldn't know this is happening if you came for a visit. It is time for the residents of California to take off their rose-colored glasses and see the seriousness of the water shortage. They need to educate themselves on how to conserve water and learn to apply some of the techniques into their daily lives. It is estimated that California residents will run out of water within the next twelve to eighteen months if no one takes action right now. California is in the third year of this devastating water drought, and there seems to be no weather related relief in sight. There are many time-consuming and costly solutions to fix this ongoing water shortage, but these solutions will take years. Building a new aqueduct, accessing new water resources, and converting saltwater to usable water will make an impact and help the water shortage further down the road. Farmlands are drying up in the north, making the land unable to grow food. Reservoir lakes being used as a quick fix are now starting to dry up. At this point, it is up to the residents of California to conserve water daily or face the reality of having no water at all. Knowledge is power, and California residents need to learn ways to conserve water. One myth that scares residents away is...
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...important business area making more attractive for residents to work in. All the services public services are available in this area like potable water, sewer, trash services, electricity, police station, firefighter station, food bank, public schools, public library and public transportation. This community counts with numerous free clinics, vision and dental centers and other specialties such as dialysis and chemo centers. On the other hand the area doesn’t count with hospitals but there are several available around the area and within five to ten minutes of distance. Community services such as food and stamps programs, women’s care centers and day care centers are available in the area as well and most of them are free for the residents if they meet the income requirements otherwise they charge by the residents income. English programs are available for free for residents who English its their second language. In overall the community has a multicultural population, offers a variety of places to eat and buy groceries primary from local business and count with several local, national and international companies. Although this place doesn’t not provide open areas like parks, bike trails or playground areas for recreational activities for kids and adults, there are several outside the community within minutes of distance. Perhaps one of the cons that many residents seems to not like it’s the traffic but other than that many residents in this area seems quite satisfied with what...
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...forbidden to them, they set about creating something else to be.” They would be black women. That means something different to each of them. For Nel, it means becoming a wife and mother, sustaining the values of the community. For Sula, it means living an “experimental life,” rejecting commonly held values. Nel tells Sula, “You can’t do it all. You a woman and a colored woman at that. You can’t act like a man. You can’t be walking around all independent-like, doing whatever you like, taking what you want, leaving what you don’t.” Sula will not accept such limitations. When Nel demands to know what Sula has gained from her choices—having no husband and no children; her grandmother put away in a nursing home; her mother, father, and uncle dead; residents of the Bottom all despising her—Sula responds, “Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.” Nel, on the other hand, has loneliness, an empty space that Jude used to fill, and another one Sula formerly occupied. Sula’s self-knowledge and Nel’s connection to other people are both essential to human existence. Each woman, even if only momentarily, comes to understand that. Fire and water are recurrent devices throughout the novel, demonstrating the destructive forces always threatening the individual self. Two of Eva Peace’s children die by fire. Plum burns in a kerosene conflagration, and Hannah, her beautiful skin burned and melted, dies while Sula watches. Eva “remained convinced that Sula had watched Hannah...
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