...Family Health Assessment Family is the structural support of society. Family shapes everybody’s character and supports a person’s emotional, physical and psychological development. “Family is set of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, cohabitation or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions by fulfilling expected role” (Edelman, Mandle, & Kudzma, 2010). The family plays a vital role in a child’s progression. A functional and loving family is very necessary for the society. “Gordon’s functional health patterns are an exceptional tool for gathering data, organizing the intervention unique for the family and identifying nursing diagnosis. Nursing assessment defines the health status of an individual. Gordon’s eleven functional health make possible a standardized and organized approach to data collection, and enable the nurse to determine the following aspects of health and human function: Values and health perception, Nutrition, Sleep/Rest, Elimination, Activity/Exercise, Cognitive, Sensory-Perception, Self-Perception, Role Relationship, Sexuality and Coping” (Gordon, 2013). By using both Gordon’s frame work and the nurse’s assessment data, nurses are in a position to improve patterns which mirror many different lifestyles. Gordon’s utilitarian health patterns help nurses to focus on effective nursing interventions and outcomes. Interview of the Family: Mrs. John is a 43 year...
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...THE STUDY Preventive care and health information education has been the advocacy of several hospitals in the Metro for the past few years due to the rapid increase in spreading illnesses in the city. One of the most dedicated in the advocacy of disseminating health care information is the hospital located at the heart of Quezon City, the Capitol Medical Center. Their commitment in excellent medical health care brings about the duty to provide equally excellent and accurate health care information. The medical center has come up with several methods as to how to disseminate information, from leaflets about different kinds of diseases and what you have to know about them to community seminars that discuss about several significant topics like family planning, Vaccination and the likes. However, current methods of spreading information about health care have many evidences that it successfully penetrates at a certain location at a time, thus, making information dissemination slow-paced and easily forgettable once the information reaches the next location. The case writer wondered if it was possible to make the information much more accessible to the people so that information would not only be disseminated fast but at a larger scale as well. KEY MESSAGES The goal of the campaign is to help doctors, nurses and other health proffesionals to be more accessible to the people who need them in order to be able to advise them about health care and disease prevention, because...
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...INTRODUCTION Life today is so full of stress. Whether it is the urban lifestyle or rural, everyone has some form of stress. However, the rural population has some consolation of living in a green and lesser polluted environment. But the urban population has no such luck. They are, and specially the more aware and educated and the upwardly mobile executive is on the lookout for a health alternative with which he/ she would be better able to handle the daily doses of fixed stress for self and family, through usage of health products, yoga meditation, and perhaps textiles. The work environments are heavily packed with schedules, targets, meetings. The stress is ever increasing for not only people with normal health but worse for those people who are not at the best of health and have other health problems like asthma, acute stress disorders, high blood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acne or psoriasis. Stress Stress is the emotional and physical strain caused by our response to pressure from the outside world. Common stress reactions include tension, irritability, inability to concentrate, and a variety of physical symptoms that include headache and a fast heartbeat. Stress is simply a fact of nature - forces from the outside world affecting the individual. The individual responds to stress in ways that affect not only the self but environment. Hence, all living creatures are in a constant interchange with their surroundings (the ecosystem)...
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...Heritage Assesment The first defense against the "if" factor is to take charge of your health and learn what you need to do, and when you need to do it, to keep your body running at tiptop shape. After all, when you buy a car, you maintain it according to schedule. So why not have a similar schedule to maintain your body (Danoff 2013)? This statement makes a great point when addressing health maintenance. Health maintenance should be a priority for all of us, it allows us to do preventive medicine such as annual physicals, vaccines, safe sex, and a huge array of other health preventions. So often now primary physicians are increasing the push for maintaining healthiness. When I visit the doctor, the routine is to ask a variety of screening questions that it prompts the provider to offer health maintenance to each patient. Whether I’m over due for annual bloodwork, mammogram, or pap-smear these items are always discussed during any visits. Keeping their patients healthy hopefully will eventually allow the insurance companies to one day lower premiums. Health protection refers to "ensuring safe food and water supplies, providing advice to national food and drug safety regulators, protecting people from environmental threats, and having a regulatory framework for controlling infectious diseases in place. Ensuring proper food handling in restaurants and establishing smoke-free bylaws are examples of health protection measures." (Health Canada, 2005). Health protection...
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...people living with mental illness and their families, family and friends turning their back on people with mental illness, as well as prejudice and discrimination (NAMI, 2013). People dealing with mental illness try to avoid public stigma and drop out of treatment because they don’t want to be associated with negative stereotypes. Not only can public stigma affect the individual dealing with mental illness but also it may affect the beliefs and behaviors of family and friends (APS, 2014). The following three programs help reduce stigma associated with mental illness among college students; JED...
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...Running head: Heritage Assessment Heritage Assessment Rose Opondo Grand Canyon University Date June 7, 2013 HERITAGE ASSESMENT In this paper, the writer will look at how Personal Heritage assessment evaluates the needs of a person as a whole. By looking at the three identified families heritage assessment tools discussed below, different cultures and different traditional opinions will be brought to light. This includes health maintenance, protection and restoration. Their customs and cultures and how these items affect as a whole. Heritage Assessment Tool can have impact on owns personal awareness when delivering health care. Heritage Cultural beliefs can described as a way in which one’s lifestyle reflects ones tribal culture. Health heritage is the value one possesses both in norms and traditional living. (Spector, 2004) It is important to recognize the cultural background and understand how people came up with remedies of health promotion and maintenance. Heritage can be acquired through birth as a way of life, or passed on down from generation to generation. Through identification and protection, we gain understanding of one’s place in the world (Council of Europe, 2005) America is a home of diverse cultures. (Richer & Anis, 2007)Providing culturally competent care one has to have understanding of the difference in cultures, respecting those differences, and operating within their beliefs. ((El-Amouri, 2011)A Heritage Assessment Tool helps...
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...demographic, survival rates for testicular cancer have increased in the recent years during “the periods of 1982–1987 and 2006-2010, there is a five-year relative survival increased from 90.7 per cent to 97.6 per cent.” (government, 2014) As well as this, 706 new cases of testicular cancer was presented in Australia during 2010. During this time period, a frequency rate was also conducted which shows a strong increase of 4.2 to 6.5 in a cases of one hundred thousand men who has testicular cancer. Additionally, mortality rates for testicular cancer have also decreased in the past 30 years from 0.5 to 0.1 deaths per one hundred thousand men. The main priority involving testicular cancer would be educating young men on how to improve their health, learn how to look for symptoms and having the confidence to get it checked. The Knowledge of detecting the cancer earlier by young men is proven that Testicular cancer is a highly treatable type of cancer with a very high cure rate which is estimated around 95% if found and treated early. This will then also help boost up the survival rate of cases of testicular cancer presented in Australia. Since testicular cancer is not a preventable cancer in comparison to other cancers such as lung cancer, early dedication and treatment will have...
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...“making the best possible ice-cream in the nicest possible way” (Ben and Jerry’s website, 2010). The organization has an impeccable record of meeting social responsibility goals evident by its commitment to donating a minimum of $1.1 million annually of pre-tax profits to philanthropic causes to help improve the quality of life domestically and globally (Ben and Jerry’s, 2010). The organization continuously strives to achieve its social mission of “operating the company in way that actively recognizes the central role that business plays in society” (Ben and Jerry’s, 2010). To accomplish this mission, the organization financially supports partner shops, non profit organizations such as good will industries, global warming initiatives, saving family farms, gun control initiatives etc. (Gunther, 2008). Ben and Jerry’s steadfast commitment to social responsibility is clearly illustrated by several actions undertaken by the organization since its inception. Some of the organizations social...
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...Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING ASSESSMENT Community Health Nursing Assessment Alison C. Jessup Saint Joseph’s College COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING ASSESSMENT Abstract COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING ASSESSMENT Prior to becoming a nurse five years ago I didn’t really give much thought to the community that surrounded me. I independently went about my daily life without really considering my neighbors or municipality and I certainly wasn’t geared towards thinking about how I can give back to the community. It wasn’t until I began working in a local hospital that I started to contemplate the community and those I serve not only within the confines of the brick and mortar but far beyond. I initially started to become involved in the Jordan Hospital community and today I currently participate in various committees such as our Unit Based Council, Service Excellence, Meditech 6.0 Computer Implementation and our Stroke Resource Team. Exposure to various teambuilding opportunities has enhanced my relationship with senior leadership and also allowed me to be a voice for staff nurses and implement positive change. A particular area that I saw the greatest opportunity for change with the most impact to patient care and safety was with our stroke team. It is not unusual to have patients admitted to my floor with a diagnosis of Cerebral Vascular Accident or Transient Ischemic Attacks. Rarely do we see the inpatient stroke victim, but it does happen. The first inpatient stroke...
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...Table of content Introduction Description of business Justification of location Selection of appropriate labor Sources of fixed and working capital Role of the entrepreneur Type of production Levels of production Quality control measures Use of technology Linkages Potential for growth Government regulations Ethical issues Bibliography Introduction The SBA will be on the topic of production, the production will be a sole trader business which is a haberdashery. The SBA will have all answers required to the questions, so then it will give all information about the business. The research was properly done and will tell the establishments about the business also its description, location, selection of appropriate labor, fixed/working capital, role of entrepreneur, Type of production quality control measure, Use of technology, linkages, government regulations and ethical issues all revolving and pertaining to the establishment. Description of the business A haberdashery business will be established by the name of ‘Kash Haberdashery’. The manager of the soul trader business will be Mr. Campbell. The business will supply persons with sewing tools, cottons, towels, kitchen and bedroom sets etc. The objectives of ‘kash haberdashery’ will be to provide top of the line products from good sources, affordable. Best qualities and comfortable settings, affordable for all class. Justification of location ...
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...Dioxin, Furans, & PCB Emission for Residential Trash Burning MOS 5425 Advanced Toxicology Dr. Brooks McPhail October 7, 2014 Dioxin, Furans, & PCB Emission for Residential Trash Burning In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated in 2006 Americans generated 300 million tons, 12.5 percent burned in incinerators. Countless of the hundreds of thousands of tons are burned in residential backyard burn barrels in rural areas, are never accounted for. To the residential homeowner burning trash has been for centuries the means of disposing refuse in areas that do not have organized garbage collection. As the modern industrial chemical production continues to increase, making products that make everyday life in the modern world more accessible, burning that waste stream at low temperatures products highly toxic compounds releasing not only in the air via smoke but also in ash runoff, and smoke fume condensation on possible food sources. Countless toxicological studies have been conducted on dioxins, furans and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs). That information will be leveraged here to compliment the toxicity and pollutant effects of these chemicals, yet the emphasis is not political, environmental, nor humanitarian. It is about highlighting the non-industrial emissions, choices in some cases, and for others the realization, that these toxic chemicals are a result of disposing product we receive from the modern industrialized world. Dioxins...
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...department of education worked with an organization called the Van Leer foundation. This organization promotes the early education of children in economically disadvantaged areas. They both set up the pre-school in Rutland street. They were known as early pre-schools. 40 pre-schools had opened nationally. Their aims were to combat the effects of economic and social achievements. These aims were achieved by giving a good start to a child's education. (Flood and Hardy,2015) In 1973 the bar for marriage was lifted which allowed woman to return to work, it was lifted as there was nobody to look after children in families. This then created a need for child minders and childcare services. The preschool education was mainly in the private sector for children with the need of specific intervention and with special needs. The ECEC needs for babies, young children and their families were all met by the community, private enterprises and voluntary. (Flood, E. and Hardy,2013) According to early childhood Ireland, 2015 in 1992 Ireland ratified the UN convention on the rights of the child. The convention stated that a 'child' as a person is below the age of 18, unless a particular countries law set the legal age below the age of 18 for the age of adulthood. The convention states that all children should be entitled to basic rights, no discrimination. The child's interests is the center of everything, primary concern of making decisions. It also rules out the basic human needs which all children...
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...Running head: SPRITUALITY NEED ASSESMENT Spirituality Need Assessment Elsamma Philip Grand Canyon University HLT- 310 V Verree Laughlin June 10, 2012 Spirituality Need Assessment Introduction Numerous studies conducted showed positive correlation between spirituality and treatment outcomes (Oakley, P.T., D.H.Sc, Katz, Sauer, Dent, & Millar, 2010). Therefore spiritual needs of the patient must be meet by the healthcare professional. The spiritual needs of the patient can be analyzed and recognized in the process of spiritual assessment. The spiritual assessment consists of a survey/ questionnaire that helps the caregiver get information on the patients spiritual demands. The spiritual assessment allows the healthcare provider to meet the spiritual demands of the patient and their family. This enables the patient to receive holistic treatment which includes recognizing and responding to the physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional needs of the patient (Bruce, 2007). According to the joint commission anyone who is trained on the value of spiritual assessment and tools such as physicians, therapists, nurses, and clinical pastoral staff can assess the patient’s spirituality (Evaluating your Spiritual Assessment Process, 2005). The Joint Commission has also provided some guidelines to create a spiritual assessment that would meet the spiritual demands of the patient. Using these guidelines, a spiritual assessment is made to assess...
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...Risk Management Assesment Risk Management Assessment Baptist Hospital of Miami is currently analyzing the possibility of developing risk management strategies that will ensure to meet all needs or the organization related to quality management. Every plan needs to be approved by every member of the board of directors. The purpose of the Clinical Risk Management Plan is to support the vision and mission of Baptist Hospital of Miami as it pertains to risks associated with the safety of employees, patients, visitors, volunteer, staff, third parties; also operational risks and property risks. The risk management plan will basically guide the process of development and implementation of a risk management program. The risk management promotes the philosophy of Baptist Hospital of Miami that the risk management and patient safety is responsibility of members of the organization and team cooperation is essential for an effective and efficient functioning. Baptist Hospital of Miami believes that organizational errors should be addressed through the implementation of evidence-based practices, constructive feedback, and learning from error analysis. Clinical errors should be addressed by using the following: • Proper report and analysis of errors related to medical or patient care. • Proactive identification of hazards and unsafe conditions. • Open discussions of mistakes. • Open acceptance of system improvements. The...
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...INTRODUCTION HIV and AIDS pandemic in the African continent has had a short but devastating history. Sub-Saharan Africa is more profoundly affected by HIV as compared to any other part of the world. Approximately 23 million people are said to be living with the deadly virus in the region which translates to about two thirds of the universal total. In 2010 alone, around 2 million people contracted the disease while 1.2 million died in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the onset of the pandemic, over 15 million children have lost one or both of the parents to HIV and AIDS. The social- economic effects of AIDS pandemic have not only been experienced in the health sector but also in agriculture, transport, human resource, education and the economy as at large (UNAIDS 2010). HIV and AIDS is therefore a major burden and challenge to the social, health and economic development of the African continent. There can be no significant growth in the region as long as the issue of AIDS is not addressed urgently. The impact of HIV and AIDS in the African continent and the world at large cannot be down played. This means that immediate measures should be taken by the general public and governments in order to curb the ever increasing effects of HIV pandemic to the African continent. Due to the economic standing of the African continent coupled with socio-cultural practices, HIV continues to spread at an alarming rate. Any further delays to address this issue will turn out to be detrimental not only...
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