...Health Traditions and Practices as it Relates to Health Maintenance in The Culturally Diverse. M. Gabrielle Kuehl (aka Maria Kuehl) Grand Canyon University NRS-429V August 17, 2014 Promoting a health wellness plan to that effectively addresses the needs of a culturally diverse community, requires heritage based evaluations and considerations to address the varying diverse values, traditions or practices within the family unit. Understanding the family’s cultural heritage in addition to health promoting traditions is key to achieving positive outcomes in the development of an effective health maintenance, protection and restoration wellness plan. Gathering information specific to heritage health values, beliefs and traditions to assist in determining a current health practice baseline, is valuable information to be referred back to throughout the plan. Grand Canyon University substantiates the importance of cultural considerations as mentioned in their lecture regarding cultural competency in nursing by suggesting “Cultural beliefs and values influence health decisions and must be taken into consideration. Therefore, cultural diversity in health education is as important as any other sector of health maintenance.” (Grand Canyon University, 2011, p. 1.). Hence the importance in using an assessment tool in determining a health practice baseline within populations that possess beliefs differing from that of standardized western medicine. The basis for health traditions and...
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...Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic are key elements of individual learning styles. Learning styles is a term used to refer to the methods of gathering, processing, interpreting, organizing, and thinking about information. How people best learn and communicate can be measured by using a simple questionnaire called VARK that assesses the Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic learning and communication styles of individuals. VARK in itself is not a learning style but a measurement tool that focuses on ways that people best receive information and the way people best deliver their communication. By understanding a preferred learning style an individual can use their own strengths to better process information, and coordinate their learning and communication. VARK: Measurement of Learning Styles By focusing on ways that people learn and the way they communicate what they’ve learned is the premise of the VARK inventory. It is a simple sixteen-question test that uses real world questions in dynamic setting. VARK uses four different sensory categories: visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic. In some learners a combination of categories exists and is classified as multimodal. The Visual learner, characterized by “V” is an individual who processes information best if they can see it. They have strong visualization skills and like to utilize charts, graphs and pictures. Aural, “A” is defined...
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...Health Promotion among Diverse Populations *************** Grand Canyon University NRS 249-V February 25, 2015 The most recent estimate shows that the Hispanic population as of July 1, 2013 is roughly Fifty-four million, living in the United States (U.S.). This is approximately seventeen percent of the total population. It is estimated that by the year 2060 they will grow to 128.8 million, thirty one percent of the U.S. population (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 2015) (CDC). This population will test the health care community to keep up with their growth, needs, and cultural challenges. This author has chosen to analyze the health status of this growing Hispanic community. Hispanics are made up of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, South or Central Americans, or other Spanish culture or origin. Mexicans are ranked as the largest percentage of the group at sixty-four percent (CDC, 2015). As a health care provider, gaining cultural insight for this ethnic group will help to ensure that you can communicate and understanding their needs. Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status and education can all effect the health of the Hispanic community. Socioeconomic status is linked to nearly all health outcomes. A large percentage of Hispanics do not complete high school and their income is less than the federal poverty level in comparison to white, non-Hispanics. People with both of these factors have the worse health outcomes...
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...Health Promotion Prevention Adrianne Gorman Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-0104 August 10, 2014 The health promotion includes strengthening the skills of individuals to encourage healthy behaviors, and it also includes constructing the healthy social and physical environments to support these actions (Green 1979). It includes any mixture of health instruction and associated organizational, economic, and political interventions designed to facilitate behavioral and environmental changes promoting to health (WHO, 2011). Health promotion involves all different countries from around the world to join together in collaboration to ensure that all the people from each and every community have the resources and information available to educate and further advance their participation in healthy lifestyle. This should be an opportunity available to all individuals even if they are financially dependent, old, uneducated, educated, affluent, or young to name just a few. The green health promotion gives the idea of improving the ecological health and sustainability of the community, school, or business. Green health promotion has been a term since 1986 when the Ottawa Carter for Health Promotion was involved in the ecological public health movement. Green promotion is heard throughout the country. Addressing the green health promotion in schools shows that there is a lack of collaboration between groups educating and the nursing professional. We must begin working on...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Sara Currell Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Hortense Turner May 3, 2013 VARK Analysis Paper The VARK questionnaire, designed by Flemming in is a tool to provide scores relating to prefeences for learning. The author of this paper, Sara Currell, completed the online questionnaire and received scores in the following categories: Visual (13), Aural (10), Read/Write (13), and Kinesthetic (12). Since VARK is about one preference for taking in and putting out information, according to Sara’s scores she has a multi-modal approach., which is the most popular result. The multi-modal preferenece may be placed in two group;, the context specific approach and whole sense approach. Sara’s results indicate a score with three – four similar score which indeicates a whole sense approach. In addition those who have a total VARK score greater than 30, (Sara has 48) tend to use their preferences in combination, needing all their preferred modes to get a good understanding (flemming) This preference employs the use of each category decriminatley before coming to a decision or understanding of a learning situation. The multimodal learner needs a broader slection of information input and takes longer to leanr or make a decision, since a variety of perspectives may be utilized. This group may get bored or frustrated with just one teaching style presented to them. When considering online learning this may be a challenging environment...
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...Health Promotion Jennifer Canole-Jackson Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Patricia King April 23, 2013 Health Promotion There are several definitions one can find for health promotion. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. The WHO goes on to state in order for health promotion to be reached, “one must be able to identify and realize aspirations, satisfy needs, and to change or cope with environment”. The basic necessities and conditions required for health consist of peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable eco-system, sustainable resources, social justice and equality (WHO, 2013). The purpose of health promotion in nursing is to support and educate patients to better understand what they can do to maintain optimal health and/or achieve better health. There are three levels of health promotion and include primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary health promotion is the education to prevent disease. The goal is to reduce the patient’s risk for disease. This can be done through several different ways of education. One example is preventing childhood obesity. In an article in the American Journal of Public Health, (AJPH), August 2012, it discussed a project called Be Our Voice. The project was created by several organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the California Medical Association Foundation...
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...Health Promotion Among Diverse Populations Kristi Donau Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Dana McKay May 3, 2015 Health Promotion Among Diverse Populations The United States has seen much transformation within its healthcare advances and delivery system over the last century. It has also demographically transformed from a nation of a predominantly white population to an ever growing culturally diverse population. Many of these cultural groups are documented minority groups, which face many problems with accessing and receiving adequate health care. Looking at the 2010 U.S. Census, close to 36 percent of the population was a part of an ethnic or racial minority group. These minority groups include American Native Indian, African American, American Asian, Pacific Islander, and Latino or Hispanic. Some minority groups have increased risk factors and experience a greater and disproportionate burden of disease, preventable illnesses and disability and morbidity rates compared with non-minority groups ("Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," 2014). In this paper, the author will compare and contrast the health status for the minority group of Hispanic/ Latinos to the national average, describe how health promotion is defined and what barriers and disparities exist for this minority population, and will describe three levels of health promotion prevention and which would be optimal for teaching the Hispanic/Latino people. ...
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...Running head: VARK Analysis VARK Analysis: How Do I Learn Best? Jolanta Nietupska Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429v Date: January 21, 2012 Summary: VARK learning styles theories were designed by Neil Fleming in 1987. These theories describe learning styles, distinct types of a learner’s processing information, and identify the best ways to study. The VARK learning styles theories divide learning components into four parts including: visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic styles. What’s more, VARK learning styles help to identify people’s preferred learning styles so that their work achieves the best outcome. Furthermore, VARK helps people develop study skills which benefit learning and teaching experiences. This paper will discuss VARK analysis learning styles, determine my preferred learning strategies, and changes that I need to make in my study habits in order to become a successful student. First, the VARK learning styles theory is based on the idea that different people learn in different ways. The VARK theory uses four main sensory receivers (acronym VARK): visual, aural, read-write, and kinesthetic in order to best serve the needs of a successful student. Neil Fleming said:” VARK learning styles are based on modalities-channels by which human expression can take place and is composed of a combination of perception and memory” (Fleming, 2006). The VARK analyses believe that visual learners learn best...
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...NRS, Tamarra Matos Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V January 26, 2014 VARK Analysis Paper VARK is a model developed by Neil Fleming in 1987, to help students and others learn more about their individual learning preferences (Fleming & Mills, 2011). This model determines styles that help people build useful strategies for learning and enhancing communication skills. The assessment is done by completing 16 multiple-choice questionnaire. The answers determine a persons learning preferences. The styles determined are Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic, or Multimodal, which is a combination of many preferences. After taking the VARK questionnaire you’ll be provided with a score divided into each style. The writer of this paper is multimodal like the majority of people whom take the questionnaire. Multimodal learners simply have more than one preferences of learning. Majority of people have a multimodal learning preferences when making decisions regarding learning. A method to learning and decision-making are seen in two groups with an unclear margin among them. Some have preferred ways to learn that looks at the information that has to be learned or conveyed to an alternative person and decide the mode they think is best for that circumstance. These people are found to be more context specific because they choose the mode that best suits their need. For example, if they are legalizing an important document they change on their read/write preference....
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...VARK Analysis Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion September 21, 2012 L earning is only complete when an individual can reproduce the knowledge gained from educational institutions, self-study and observance. Retention of knowledge depends on the way students have gained the knowledge; learning style varies from person to person. One method that may be highly appealing to a particular student may not be appealing to another student. So learning style is a very subjective matter and there are different ways to categorize learning styles, this paper focus on VARK learning analysis quiz and learning styles as well as the implication of understanding an individual’s learning style. VARK abbreviation stands for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. VARK model is one of the most prevalent learning style analyzing tools. Neil Fleming developed it in 1987, to help students and others learn more about their individual learning preferences (Fleming & Mills, 2011). This methodology was the first organized arrangement of questions with ideal responses that could be used to identify students, teachers, and employers learning styles. Under Neil Fleming’s model, learners are identified according to their preferred learning style that are visual learning (images, films, pictorial representation), auditory learning (audio tapes, conversation, speeches), reading and writing (taking notes, manuals, creating list), or kinesthetic learning...
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...VARK: Learning Strategies Susan Changala Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429v Linnette Nolte November 9, 2013 VARK: Learning Strategies Neil D. Fleming developed the VARK Learning Style module in 1987, it has since become one of the most popular representations of learning strategies and continues to be used by educators and students alike to help them to distinguish their learning preferences, thus helping them to learn and retain material better. (K. Cherry) VARK was designed to be a starting place for a conversation among teachers and students about learning. VARK is an acronym for visual, auditory, reading and writing, and kinesthetic. It consists of a simple questionnaire of approximately 16 questions. How you answer these questions will determine what kind of learning style works best for you. If you are a visual learner you would rather see material presented in a visual rather than a written form. Charts, diagrams, handouts and videos are helpful to you. You use highlighters and underline things that you want to come back to. If you are an auditory learner you tend to like lectures and are able to absorb the information and remember it well. Reading out loud also helps you to retain information. You enjoy attending classes to listen to lectures, and frequently have discussions with your teacher and other fellow students. Your notes may be poor because you prefer to listen. If you are a reading and writing learner you prefer...
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...Running head: Health Promotion Health Promotion Tina Butler Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Kimberly Stout July 28, 2012 Health Promotion The responsibility to increase quality and years of healthy living can be challenging, each individual as well as the United States Health Care Delivery System plays an important role in improving our Nations health. “Health promotion is defined as helping people to discover the interactions between their core passion and optimal health, enhancing their motivation to strive for better health, by making positive behavior and lifestyle changes (P.O'Donnell, 2011).” Health promotions are utilized to improve and maintain a balance of emotional, social, physical and spiritual health thru education and counseling, for individuals, their families and the community as a whole. Health care is delivered in a complicated environment. The nurse spends the majority of time with patients and their families, advocating in the acute care, long-term care setting, as well as the community. Nurses must be well educated on theories and models to assure that the appropriate theories and models are being utilized, for example, Newman’s Health Care System model relating to the Total Person Approach. “To ensure high quality care, our care as nurses should be centered on our patients, meaning we should focus on our patient’s needs and preferences not what complements our needs (F.Cipriano, 2012)”. We as nurses must...
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...The VARK Analysis Paper Maureen O. Omoaghe Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V November 3rd , 2013 The VARK learning style assessment is a questionnaire that was designed by Neil Fleming in 1987. It provides those who take the test with an idea of what learning style they have. There are four scores that can give a person up to five study strategies: multimodal, visual, aural, reading and writing and kinesthetic. (Fleming, 2011). The learning style can also help students develop, explore, and advance their learning strength. After taking the assessment, the writer’s strength was recognized by the score which is 10 on the reading and writing learning style. The reading and writing learning style make up 65% of the population (Acc.ccconline.org, N.D). Leaners who use the read/write learning style are good observers, they like to see and observe things to aid with learning, examples are pictures, diagrams and demonstrations, they also like to take notes while learning and rehearse it over and over again to reinforce learning. They comprehend better with written words, drawing and written instructions. The read /write learning style incorporates visual approaches to writing by using different highlighters to categorize and connect different thoughts. They also highlight headings in a book for easy remembrance. He/she also can list out important points from a book while reading, search for the correct spelling of words from a dictionary or the internet for accuracy, use handouts...
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...How do I learn Best? Angela Patterson Grand Canyon University NRS- 429v Family-Centered Health Promotion March 9, 2015 When beginning the Verk assessment you may wonder why the professor would require the class to complete this assessment. Then as the learning style was presented it was shocking and very interesting. It was unbelievable how just a few questions could paint a picture of your learning skills. The Verk assessment stated that one’s learning style is as follows, auditory learner and a kinesthetic learner. Auditory Learner, often talk to themselves. They also may move their lips and read out loud. They may have difficulty with reading and writing tasks. They often do better talking to a colleague or a tape recorder and hearing what was said. To integrate this style into the learning environment.(UNP 2011) Kinesthetic Learner, do best while touching and moving. It also has two sub- channels: kinesthetic (movement) and tactile (touch). They tend to lose concentration if there is little or no external stimulation or movement. When listening to lectures they may want to take notes for the sake of moving their hands. When reading, they like to scan the material first, and then focus in on the details (get the big picture first). They typically use color high lighters and take notes by drawing pictures, diagrams, or doodling. To integrate this style into the learning environment.(UNP 2011) When the Auditory learning is your learning style of choice...
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...Family Health Assessment Wilson K. A Nyamwatta Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V (NRS- 429V) Family Centered Health Promotion November 25, 2012 Page 1 There are three methods of data collection employed by community nurses to obtain community assessment data. They include observation, interviews and measurement; the observation method also referred to as the windshield survey that includes the use of all the senses i.e. sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste to ascertain community appearances, noting the status of residential buildings, the people and their physical and biological surroundings. The second method is the measurement technique that utilizes tools to quantify information obtained from the community. They type of data obtained using this method includes mortality and morbidity rates, census, population statistics and other epidemiological statistical data. These types of data can easily be obtained from private and public or government agencies. Lastly, the most famous source of information from the community is talking to people in the particular community. The residents form a very important way of learning about the community concerns, strengths, weaknesses and their perception of their community as a whole. This method requires formulating a set of questions specific to target areas. This assignment used the interview method of data collection to complete my family’s assessment of the Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns. Under the values and...
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