...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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...INTRODUCTION STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Equity may be defined as the requirement that individuals of unequal ability to pay make different payment (Vertical equity) or those of the same ability to pay make the similar contribution (Horizontal equity) (1). Preserving equitable access to health services under a system of user fees can be accomplished in three steps. First, the poor population to receive preferential treatment with respect to user fees must be identified. Second, a protection mechanism must be selected and implemented. Third, to ensure that the protection policy is working adequately, an evaluation of its performance is required (9). A waiver is used to reduce or eliminate fees for the poor based on an assessment of their inability to pay. Exemptions are used to describe when services are automatically provided free because the patient has the characteristic being targeted (2). Targeting is a welfare concept and a strategy for identifying any group(s) of Persons in a population who are eligible for an intervention or assistance. Two errors often arise in targeting;1, Error of exclusion: excluding those Intended to benefit from a program and 2. Error of inclusion: including those not intended to benefit from a program (3). There are various administrative issues on achieving equity under cost recovery through direct targeting these range from identification of responsibilities for certifying and verifying eligibility, designing the means for assessing eligibility...
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...Family Health Assessment Felicia Allred Michelle Filardi Sarena Humbert Joy Myers Sandra Ortega Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V XU0811WA Brenda Geisler October 12, 2014 Family Health Assessment In this paper, a family health assessment was completed. A telephone interview was conducted with the head of the family Leonard Brenyah. Within the assessment thirty-three open-ended questions were asked according to Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns. Two-wellness diagnosis were identified and identified within this paper according to the family’s individual need. Values and Health Perception Health perception and values are a component of a family health assessment within Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns (FHP). Its function is to evaluate how a family relates to healthy behaviors and lifestyles that feature preventative measures and promotion of health efforts ("Gordon’s," 2011). His values and health perception are both positive and “humble”. According to Leonard, his family takes a “proactive approach” to management of family health status (Leonard, personal communication, October 8th, 2014). Although there are no specific cultural practices, Leonard participates in church programs that teach health and healthy living and is very active in the Seventh Day Adventist church he and his family attend. He also exercises with his family at least two times per week. These behaviors are instrumental in maintaining...
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...According to Taylor (2008) “For those who argue that a nurse with an associate’s degree has enough education, consider that nurses prepared at the graduate level demonstrate a significant difference in competency compared to nurses with associate degrees. The previous is supported by a study published in 2003 that clearly identified a relationship between higher degrees of nursing education and proven better patient outcomes (ie, lower mortality rates, failure-to rescue rates)” ( p. 612-613). The main difference is the emphasis that is put on additional education in leadership and management, wellness and community nursing. The BSN provides nurses with a vast knowledge for promoting health, disease prevention, disease prevention and risk reduction. . The BSN nurse has more opportunities to work in many health care areas allowing for opportunities for professional growth. The BSN degree focuses on the emphasis of evidenced-based clinical practice and leadership. Thus allowing for more career opportunities, more responsibility and career growth (Moore, 2009). The BSN nurse is able to provide a more comprehensive physical assessment and use evidenced –base practice for improved and better patient outcomes. The Baccalaureate Degree prepares its students for graduate studies. The BSN degree requires more credit...
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...GENERIC RISK ASSESSMENTS CONTENTS PAGE 1. All educational visits 2. Travel on educational visits 3. Residential visit accommodation 4. Use of tour operator or provider of activities 5. Ski trip 6. School exchange visit with a school abroad 7. Walks in normal country 8. Walks in remote terrain 9. Indirectly supervised walks (Duke of Edinburgh expeditions and similar) 10. River walks, gorge or stream scramble as an adventure activity 11. Field study by or in water 12. Rock climbing 13. Swimming during educational visits 14. Visits to coastal locations 15. Visits to farms 16. Cycling 17. Standing camps 18. Lightweight camping (Duke of Edinburgh expeditions and similar) 19. Canoeing/kayaking Assessments completed by. Rob Brindley | Date. January 2010 | Reviewed. | GENERIC RISK ASSESSMENT 1 – ALL EDUCATIONAL VISITS HAZARD OBSERVED | RISK BEFORE CONTROL MEASURES | PERSONS AT RISK | CONTROL MEASURES | COMMENTSACTIONS | RESIDUAL RISK RATING | Exposure to weather. | Cold injury, heat injury, over-exposure to sun. | Pupils and staff. | Consider possible weather conditions and plan appropriate programme, clothing and equipment. Plan for pupils who may not bring suitable clothing – check before departure and/or bring spares. Daily weather forecast obtained and plans adjusted accordingly. | Provide clear information about suitable clothing and equipment to pupils and parents. | Low | Pupil lost or separated...
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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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...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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...pressure ulcers with long term care. They can occur during a long surgery. As nurses we need to be sure that we are doing our part to prevent them no matter what the setting. If the patient has poor nutrion status or certain other qualifiers their chances for receiving a pressure ulcer increase significantly. With keeping this in mind we need to ensure that we do what we can to prevent pressure ulcers. Even in acute care pressure ulcers occur. They can happen in as little as an eight hour shift. With different health conditions making it easier for someone to acquire a pressure ulcer. The risk of acquiring one in acute care is a stagering “2.7 percent to 29.5 percent” (AHCPR Supported Clinical Practice Guidelines). As a nurse we have a responsibility to our patients to give them the best care available. With that we have to prevent harm from our clients. As nurses we need to be aware of what is happening to our patients. We have to know what is their acute health care problem and then prevent any more harm to them. “Guidelines suggest that our overall goal is prevention of pressure ulcers which is less costly.” (AHCPR Supported Clinical Practice Guidelines) If we prevent pressure ulcers from happening with an overlay mattress, and it will cost less in the overall...
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...This organization works with the public and leaders in higher education, mental health, and research (JED Foundation, 2015). The JED Foundation wants to promote awareness and make the public understand that well-being is attainable, mental illness is treatable, and suicide is preventable. The JED Foundation also wants to increase awareness of the warning signs of mental illness as well as suicide. The organization encourages help seeking from individuals who need help or who are referred by a peer. The JED Foundation also teaches students, families, and the community coping skills for dealing with mental health. The organization facilitate a community based approach to encourage emotional health and protect students who are at risk or are dealing with mental health on campus. The JED Foundation wants to raise awareness of the importance of mental health services as well as programs in the college selection of students and parents (JED Foundation, 2015). The JED Foundation spreads their word about the importance of checking out for their mental health and lending a hand to peers who are struggling with mental illness by social networking sites, college newspapers, and...
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...Introduction The New Yorker named Jean Nidetch, who is at the start of Weight Watchers in 1963, when she decided to invite her friends to hers in order to give them the possibility to lose weight "together". From there, the first Weight Watchers meeting was born. Quickly, the reputation of this program was spreading across the United States. It made thousands of followers. By 1970 it spread on to Germany, the first European country to import the Weight Watchers diet. In 1973, it followed by France and Switzerland and Belgium in 1974. The company is now present in forty countries across the world and hasn’t said its last word. In 1978, the company was sold to the famous U.S. food group H. J. Heinz until 1999, best known for the manufacture of ketchup and canned food. Since 2001, it went public and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The Weight Watchers program, in addition to the weekly meetings that have been develop in all countries where it operates, brand extension of products created under the logo of the brand through partnerships (105 products from 12 different categories in 2011). In 1993, Weight Watchers has developed additional services, including concept correspondence "Weight Watchers at home." But the revolution came in the 2000s with the development of the Internet, which hasn’t escaped to Weight Watchers. Weight Watchers International is the global leader in weight management services, operating in all the market through a network of owned...
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...is not what we say, but it is how we say it. A quality education and career training are sound investments for a bright future, an illustrious career, and a successful life. Individuals who complete more years of education have greater access to higher paying jobs-such as management, professional, and related occupations than those with fewer years of education. “Where one goes to college can have effects on one's future education, occupation, and income” (Karen, 2002, p. 193). Self-discipline, sacrifice, patience, perseverance, and positive attitude should be sufficient motivating factors, and a reminder that a good education pays off eventually by reaping the fruits of hard work. Physical well-being, personal wellness, and good health are part of personal responsibility. “Participation in physical activity should remain a high priority to facilitate maintenance of healthy body weights” (Liebman, 2005, p. 95). Personal drive, ambition, and desire to succeed are necessary attributes that help in overcoming any obstacles. Volunteering, part of personal responsibility requires time, and flexibility to help less fortunate members of the community, and may work in homeless shelters, children’s, and nursing homes, hospitals, churches, correctional institutions, and schools. Learning from our past can help avoid repetition of mistakes in the future. Responsibility means doing the right thing and not blaming others for our actions. People who drink and drive risk getting...
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...mostly define a child’s acceptance and good relationship with things within the environment. Good socialization skills are developed when humans are exposed to as many things as possible. The more events that a child encounters and has positive reactions to, the better response he/she will have when these events are repeated throughout the course of life. It is important that you make the socialization process as entertaining and rewarding as you possibly can. This means that during this process, your infant will need to accept being handled and being touched by other humans so that she will not fear strangers (healthcare providers, or people whom they are introduced to.) This will prove beneficial when you have to take the infant to the health clinic per se. Make sure that all the experiences a child is introduced to are pleasurable experiences. That way the child will build a good association between the event and the reward. Human contact us necessary not only for the infant’s physical well-being, but for healthy social and psychological development as well. As infants grow, their inborn...
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...University of Phoenix Material History of Community Nursing Matrix Complete the matrix with the following concepts, and relate the concepts to two different periods of time in history and the present time: • Describe each period briefly. • Clarify the differences during each period with public health nursing and community health nursing. • Describe the key health issues. • Identify community health partnerships used during this period of time. • Describe how Watson’s Theory of Human Transpersonal Caring is related. | |Historical time |Nursing role in |Major health issues |Partnerships used |Watson’s theory | | |period |community | | | | |Past period 1 |Colonial period |Nursing care was |-Poor sanitation |Early colonial public |A nurse is able to detect | | |America |informal and was |-Small Pox |health effort included the |the other person’s condition| | |1600-1700 |provided by household |-Yellow Fever |collection of vital |of being (Watson, 1995). The| | | |women. They were |-Cholera |statistic, improved |theory relates to this era | | | |responsible for taking |-Typhoid...
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...The weight loss industry is making millions every year on Americans. So why are so many Americans continuing to gain weight at increasing numbers? Could it be diets and weight loss supplements are detrimental to the overall health of so many Americans? The unhealthy reliance on appetite suppressants and the restrictions of certain food groups generally don’t work in the long term and can even be dangerous. The low cost of diets and the promise of fast results can certainly encourage many Americans to diet. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more than 20 million Americans use dietary supplements, including multivitamins, minerals and herbs. The rise of diet supplements from 42% in 2006 to 62% in 2010 has only fueled the growth of dietary supplements and diet plans to a multimillion dollar industry (Center for Disease Control, 2011). The weight loss industry encourages individuals to improve their overall health by dieting. The industry approach suggest people can eat poorly and just take a diet supplement and have the same results of someone who eats well, exercise and takes care of their health by getting regular checkups. This is farthest from the truth according to a CNN report. Dr. Roberta Anding, a registered dietitian and director of sports nutrition at Texas Children Hospital, stated “while some supplements can be helpful in losing weight they are not match to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. “ Studies haven’t shown any significant difference...
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...Axia College Material Appendix A Final Project Overview and Timeline Final Project Overview Describe briefly a current health problem or nutritional need that you are experiencing, or a health or nutrition problem you can foresee experiencing because of your family history. Using insights from the My Pyramid Plan Web exercise, the Recommended Dietary Allowances, Recommended Dietary Intakes for your age group and gender, and information from readings, develop a realistic nutrition and exercise plan to summarize in a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper. The plan should be plausible enough to be initiated within the next 30 days and continued throughout your life. Be sure to include the following: • Identification of the health/nutrition problem targeted • Four nutritional or physical exercise goals • Actions taken to meet each goal • Anticipated setbacks or difficulties, and methods to overcome them • Outcomes by which to measure success • Evidence of the plan’s effectiveness in addressing the identified problem or need • Identification of potential health risks that may develop if the plan is not implemented Your paper should also address how your plan may be adjusted to fit your changing nutritional needs as a result of age, pregnancy (if applicable), or changes in physical capabilities. Be sure to include information about physical activities, and how they may be altered to accommodate different seasons of the year and changes in age. Include all applicable references...
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