...Family involvement plays a crucial part in prevention of disease or healing processes. McCubbin and McCubbin (1993) developed the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation which identifies how families cope with hardships and/or stressors such as chronic illnesses, addictions, deaths, etc. Stress is a concern central to most families. Family involvement provides a greater overview of the care patients should receive to cope with stressors. Therefore, nurse practitioners (NP) have the duty to involve each individual patient in his or her care as well as any identified family member. This paper will focus on the importance of implementing the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation as a foundation to...
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...Transitioning into residential health care is a huge life event for Greta, especially as it can decrease physical health and welling being as well as emotional implications on the patient’s family members in a conducted study (Eriksson & Lindstrom 2012, p.17). Due to Greta’s current situation, some problems/issues may arise for the health care professionals providing care for Greta, such as ineffective delivery of health care services that can lead to implications due to her current status. An example of this is the involvement of health care participants who are treating and caring for Greta. Considerations that would need to be in place is that Greta is a migrant and therefore may have different cultural systems, health issues, physical...
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...Crisis Management Communication Plan Katherina Fabi HCS/350 February 4, 2014 Djuanique N. Slaughter, MPA, RHIT Crisis Management Communication Plan Crisis is defined as an unexpected, sudden turn of events or set of circumstances requiring an immediate human response. The word crisis comes from the Greek root word krisis, meaning “turning point.” There are different types of crisis: developmental, situational, and adventitious crisis. In health care settings, most crises are situational. For example, while working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a client who was awake and alert two hours ago, suddenly became unresponsive. The client was assessed for responsiveness. The client was not breathing and pulseless. Immediately, a code blue was paged overhead, and the team rushed over. The team consists of the primary nurse, emergency physician, respiratory therapist, critical care nurse, recorder, and the emergency medical technician (EMT). The House Supervisor and charge nurse are also available to direct traffic and assist with the code blue. Each team has their own roles and responsibilities during a code. A team leader is usually the critical care nurse until the emergency physician arrives, and he or she takes over the role as team leader. The team leader designates the recorder, the nurse who is administering the intravenous medications, someone doing the compressions, and someone giving breath to the client. Each one working together as a team to resuscitate...
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...Lesson Eight Paper Assignment – Family The most interesting article I read from this section was “Coming to the U.S. for Baby, and Womb to Carry it” by Tamar Lewin. I really loved this article, because there are so many things to talk about with surrogacy, good and bad. There is also a lot to talk about pertaining to the cost, health, and legal aspects that have to do with it all. Before reading this article I was totally supportive of surrogate pregnancies, and I still am, but they raised a lot of good points against it as well. The biggest part of the article for me is giving anyone who is straight, gay, infertile, or in between the right to have a child. I fully support all of it, I think everyone should have the opportunity to start a...
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...heritage attachment that is comprised of a lot of different customs and values. It is almost impossible for anyone or group of people to live everyday by not practicing according to their beliefs or cultural background. Being born to a person depending on whom they are or where they live means so much in some cultures. For example, I was born into a family where my parents were both educated and good practicing Catholics. This automatically puts me in a middle class family or made my statues a little higher than so many people whose parents are not educated. I consider myself fortunate and that is mostly why I am always humble in life. I was born in the eastern part of Nigeria; the westerners and the northerners make up the rest of the population. Nigeria is the largest country in West Africa; most of the people are farmers and could not afford to go to college and at least get a formal education. In my culture, not many people could afford to go to a hospital for health reasons. Instead, more people rely heavily on herbal medicine, which is part of our tradition. Some people use modern medicine depending on what their families could afford. Growing up in the mist of both traditions, I have learned to practice not only one but two of them respectively. I believe that one’s heritage or culture is a practice no one can afford to forget because it is embedded into our lives. Living in America for seventeen years now, I still use herbal remedies. For example, when I notice signs...
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...Multicultural Families Tammy Thomas Liberty University Abstract This paper discusses the dynamic issues involving the diversity of multicultural families in regards to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic, gender and sexual orientation. This paper will also highlight same or different minority or cultural backgrounds, identity and biases involving multicultural families. How multicultural families incorporate their beliefs, cultures and values into a family unit as well as the transformation of acculturation. Challenges involving racial identity, ethnicity; where do people with different cultures fit in and make it work; the population of multicultural families has risen and continue to do so. Socioeconomic status in multicultural families varies from household income, occupation, education level, and upper, and middle or lower class standard of living. Certain barriers may contribute to multicultural families such as language, behavioral, health and mental stress, depression, roles of husbands and wives, gender, sexual orientation; family values are very important in interracial families, are the collaborations among families discussed to blend values from each culture. This paper will portray the dynamics of multicultural families. Keywords: multicultural, families, race, ethnicity, acculturation, mental stress, and values. Multicultural Families Multicultural is an integration of different cultures identities belonging to vary subgroups from diverse countries and or...
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...opening up a closed-minded individual's beliefs to include new choices. On the other hand, social influences on attitudes can be negative and include destructive or coercive concepts leading to poor choices or even criminal behaviors. Teen Peer Pressure * Peer pressure is most commonly found in teen or high school society, in which one person or group influences another. Peers, or other people close in age, play a large role in the daily life of the teenager, even more so than that of the teen's own family. As the teen develops into a more independent person, she may attempt to break away from the family structure, opening herself up to the influences of friends and peers. Peer pressure comes into play when other teens attempt to influence someone else in social situations. This can be positive, providing good examples of behavior that pushes the teen into new experiences such as academic clubs or sports. In contrast, many teens succumb to negative peer pressures involving drug use, risky sexual behaviors or even criminal actions. * Sponsored Links * International MBA Online Convenient & Affordable Online MBA from the Comfort of Your Home! ucpmarjononline.co.uk/MBA-Zambia Products and Buying * Social pressures and influences can, to some degree, impact human buying behaviors. Advertisers and marketing professionals often play into this concept by creating commercials...
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...non-profits around the area for those families with low income? If so, where are the closest available and what kind? 7. What kind of recreation is available for children in your community? 8. How does the community support the schools in the area? 9. How are the schools rated in your community? 10. Is your community recommended for growing and raising a family and why? Kayla Carlin EMT1- Task One Summary For this task, I chose two different members of the community who are involved in the early childhood community. My first interviewee was a preschool director from a local preschool in Sammamish, Washington. She has been working in early childhood for over twenty years, serving as a teacher, program director, then a director of a preschool. She also has one child of her own that attends school in the same community that she works in. My second interviewee is a nanny in the area. She has been working for families in the area for the last five years. She has worked for families of different cultures and different family types. Being a nanny, she has experienced many of the community’s recreational events and facilities for young children. When working with young children it is important to know about your community and the education your community provides for children. Whether you have grown up in your community or you are moving into a new community it is important to know the strengths and weaknesses so you can prepare your family for any problems or situations you may...
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...schedule. If expressing milk into a bottle is a possibility, you can take turns getting up to feed the baby at night. Siblings Who does what around the house? Photo Credit Little girl is cleaning the floor image by Ivonne Wierink from Fotolia.com If there are other children in your family, they may need some preparation, as they will also be tremendously afftected by the newborn's presence. According to an article U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: "Birthing and Parenting Classes," some hospitals offer sibling classes that can prepare children for the arrival of a new brother or sister. This may be a good way to prepare a child for the responsibility of an older sibling. An article on Childnparent.com "Getting Ready to be a Big Brother or Big Sister" suggests that any necessary furniture movements or other changes in the household need to happen at least six weeks prior to the newborn's arrival in order to allow siblings to get used to it. As children may need more help getting used to the new family dynamics, it is very important to guide them in this process. Asking the older siblings to help around the house or with the baby can be a good method of involving them in family duties,...
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...Violence is defined as the behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Shirley Jackson conveys violence to the reader in “The Lottery” with the tradition of the “black wooden box”. Everyone knows that this box is just a death sentence, if they draw the wrong paper...they get stoned by the people that they thought you once knew. Violence can be expressed physically and mentally. One example of a mental violence was when Bill Hutchinson drew the paper out of the cursed-black wooden box. Tessie Hutchinson “shouted to Mr. Summers. You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!” she exclaimed this because she was so distraught over the foolish paper-picking of...
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...With the advances in assisted reproduction technology (ART), such as surrogacy and in vitro fertilization, more people both inside and outside the traditional relationships of a biological mother and father have a chance to have a child. These families consist of single parents and also same sex couples. With same sex relationships, a third party has to be involved, which could be either a surrogate mother or a male donor. Unfortunately, there are still many people in society that are homophobic. Lesbian co-mothers are growing in population. ART has contributed to a significant increase in the number of lesbian and gay individuals choosing to raise children. Most lesbian couples obtain a child from either a past heterosexual relationship or by alternative insemination where the child then has two mothers and a male donor. People within society are concerned about this because it is not a traditional type of family. They feel that a child should have both a male and female figure represented in a family to make an ideal environment. Gay couples also have a hard time involving ART and children. One reason for this is because gay male couples have to go through both artificial insemination and surrogacy laws. The way that this usually works is that a gay male couple will find a woman who is willing to be a surrogate mother. The woman is artificially inseminated with semen from one of the two males and delivers the baby to the couple after the birth. One of the major problems...
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...join the YMCA. The YMCA’s focus is to bring meaningful change in individuals and communities. Success is measured on how well they engage communities in the following three areas: * Youth Development: Nurturing the potential of every child and teen * Healthy Living: Improving the nation’s health and well-being * Social Responsibility: Giving back and providing support to our neighbors. The YMCA has an Advocates Action Network that influence policies that help youth develop healthy behaviors, values and life skills. Advocates can help build trust among community members and members of the city council and stress important issues involving the nation and community. The YMCA offer families a place to come together and have a good time whether its movie night, family swim, arts and crafts or family exercise classes. Families are welcomed anytime, just check the activity board and choose a day and show up. The YMCA offer summer camps for children and provide activities such as archery, canoeing, crafts and camping. The purpose of the camps are to help children develop character, build learning skills, create friendships and how to contribute to a group during physical activities. Specialty camps are also available to children with physical or mental disabilities. Other wonderful services the YMCA offer are education and employment training and food programs which both are available to all members of the community. The YMCA is a great organization for more information...
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...these families who struggle to understand where they fit in the overall situation. Through research, we find the children are often the bigger picture, when it comes down to the actual divorce. Parents who separate, struggle more with the divorce because they put the children in the middle of the legal decisions. Many people in the world today do not realize how much of an emotional pull divorce has on the child as they emerge into adulthood and other relationships. They do not realize that the child’s feelings and internal emotions generally are overlooked throughout the divorce. It happens because...
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...Breakdown of marriage is possible. Often the young couple is immature to shoulder major responsibility and end up fighting with each other. Adjustment problems may arise. Education also gets affected. The young couple may not be able to pursue higher education as they have to take on the responsibilities of family budget. Work opportunities are limited for the youngsters. Since their education levels are low, they cannot get highly paid jobs. Bringing up children may be difficult. Their knowledge of child care may be limited and parental guidance is also not there. They may not be able to provide the appropriate care for their child. When your young your not yet mature, and haven't had the chance to live life, and at a young age, you haven't always finished school or secured a good job, your not financially ready and this causes many young marriages to end prematurely. At a young age, you really don't know what u want from life until your older. And you are not yet sure if the one you marry is really loves you or just marry you for a reason. At young age, you are not physically, mentally, and financially ready. You dont have enough money to satisfy the needs of your family. You are not yet sure if you are ready to be a mother or father, you are not yet ready to face the real world of being married. Responsibilities of being a wife...
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...Child Protective Services: The Social Worker Introduction Family, many would agree, is the one of the most important values in an individual’s life. For most, their families are their backbone constantly supporting, teaching, and accepting them since they were children. However, not all families provide the ideal setting for children to be raised, and sometimes these families endanger the child. This is where a social worker from child protective services steps in protecting children from neglect and abuse to provide a safe nurturing environment that children have a right to. A social worker from child protective services not only has to meet current and specific requirements, but, fulfills certain roles in regards to the clients and...
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