...caring for a child who could be cured if given blood transfusions, but whose parents refused permission to give the transfusions due to religious beliefs, what would you do? HLT 324V Week 5 Discussion 2 Some parents are refraining from giving certain immunizations to their children. How will this affect diseases in the United States in the future? How as medical professionals can we embrace these nontraditional practices? HLT 324V Week 5 Benchmark Assignment – Nontraditional Health Care Practices Research different popular nontraditional health care practices. Write a 1,000-1,200 word paper exploring nontraditional health care practices and include the following: 1. Describe nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least three cultures. 2. Explain how these practices affect wellness and prevention in different cultures. 3. Identify the nontraditional health care options in your areas, and identify the number of people choosing to use them over traditional medical practices. Propose reasons why the number of people using nontraditional health care options is rising. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer...
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...Nontraditional health care practices are becoming more and more popular in many different cultures. There will be several different cultures that will be will discussed concerning their diverse health care practices and how these practices influence their culture regarding their health and what they do to avoid health problems. Furthermore, I will investigate different nontraditional health care choices that are existing in my region, along with the number of people choosing to use those choices over traditional medical practices. Hmong Hmongs believe in both traditional health care practices and non-traditional health care practices. However they fear American medicines because of their serious side effects (Purnell, 2013). Hmong’s use many herbs to heal themselves. Usually when children are sick they will give the herbs and plants. Sometimes they will add these herbs to their children’s food which consist of only chicken and rice and no vegetables (Carteret, M. 2011). Most Hmong families try herbal remedies before doing anything else. They fear that if surgery is done that good spirits will leave the body and that bad spirits will enter (Purnell, 2013). Korean Koreans believe in many options for healing most of these options are non-traditional. Herbal medicine which is used for creating harmony between oneself and the larger cosmology (Purnell 2013). Koreans believe that having harmony will allow the body and soul to heal. Koreans like to use Acupuncture, herbal medicines...
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...Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by CCNE and AACN using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, their specific care discipline, and their local communities. As the country focuses on the restructuring of the U.S. health care delivery system, nurses will continue to play an important role. It is expected that more and more nursing jobs will become available out in the community, and fewer will be available in acute care hospitals. Write an informal presentation (500-700 words) to educate nurses about how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change. Include the concepts of continuity or continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), medical homes, and nurse-managed health clinics. Share your presentation with nurse colleagues on your unit or department and ask them to offer their impressions of the anticipated changes to health care delivery and the new role of nurses in hospital settings, communities, clinics, and medical homes. In 800-1,000 words summarize the feedback shared by three nurse colleagues and discuss whether their impressions are consistent with what you have researched about health reform. A minimum of three scholarly references are required for this assignment. While APA format...
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...Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by CCNE and AACN using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, their specific care discipline, and their local communities. As the country focuses on the restructuring of the U.S. health care delivery system, nurses will continue to play an important role. It is expected that more and more nursing jobs will become available out in the community, and fewer will be available in acute care hospitals. 1. Write an informal presentation (500-700 words) to educate nurses about how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change. Include the concepts of continuity or continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), medical homes, and nurse-managed health clinics. 2. Share your presentation with nurse colleagues on your unit or department and ask them to offer their impressions of the anticipated changes to health care delivery and the new role of nurses in hospital settings, communities, clinics, and medical homes. 3. In 800-1,000 words summarize the feedback shared by three nurse colleagues and discuss whether their impressions are consistent with what you have researched about health reform. 4. A minimum of three scholarly references are required for this assignment. In addition to submitting...
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...Health Care Careers Diagram and Summary HCS/531 Health Care Careers Diagram and Summary Pharmacists play an important role in providing and supporting pharmaceutical care. Providing pharmaceutical care includes, but is not limited to, establishing patient relationships, obtaining medication history information, preventing, identifying and resolving medication related problems (MRP), dispensing medications, and educating and counseling patients and healthcare providers (japha, 2010). This paper highlights the pharmacist role in various services, the workforce roles within those services, and the impact pharmacists play in health care organizations. Role of a Pharmacist Pharmacists interpret prescriptions and dispense medications prescribed by a credentialed provider. In cases where patients receive multiple medications, an in-depth understanding of drug interactions is required. Pharmacists monitor the pharmacologic effects of medications for certain disease states including, but not limited to, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, seizures, hyperlipidemia, anticoagulation, and infectious diseases. The rapid, dramatic advances in medication therapy created a niche for pharmacy practitioners that specialize in specific treatment and care (rheumatology, 2013). Medication Therapy Management Pharmacists have a broad knowledge base to assess and respond to a patient's medication therapy needs, thereby contributing to the inter-professional management of patients...
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...including health care industry, require their employees to connect with their coworkers and employees within and outside their organization. According to "Effective Communication In Hospitals" (2013), “Good medical care depends upon effective communication between patients and providers; ineffective communication can lead to improper diagnosis and delayed or improper medical treatment” (para. 1). Even though it is critical to share any kind of sensitive knowledge for the success of any organization, it is always difficult for the employees to not share knowledge with their coworkers, consultants, off-site employees, and other types of workers and resources. It may seem and sound easy to not share any type of sensitive information with the coworkers, but it is difficult to acknowledge which information may or may not be sensitive for the organization’s success. There are many organizational structures for all types of industries. Several health care organizations use traditional structures such as functional, divisional, and matrix structures; and other use nontraditional ways that give emphasis to teams and set of connections (Lombardi, Schermerhorn, & Kramer, "Introduction," 2007). The functional model is one of the model structures that best describes the health care organization such as hospitals. According to Lombardi, Schermerhorn, and Kramer (2007), people who have same skills are put together in functional structures; in functional structure, health care organization...
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...Foundation is this nation’s largest health care related charitable organization with clear objectives which are directly focused on only health care issues and ways to transform and improve the overall health of every American. This foundation supports Universities, public agencies and charities which fall under the tax exempt sec. 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code . The type of projects the foundation supports are related to higher education, hospitals and institutes specific to certain research. The foundation gives support by giving out around 1,000 grants annually that range in total from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. The foundation provides a list of all the grants which applicants can apply on an annual basis. The applicants can also apply for multiple grants at one time, but only if they are specific to separate and entirely different projects. The amount of time you must wait before getting any word on a grant being awarded could be as long as four to seven months. Clinical Scholars is one of the most successful of the foundations programs. The program provides young physicians an opportunity to study non-clinical topics such as management or economics. This program gives each of them a rather unique responsibility and capability at confronting the most important health care issues which immediately threatens society. The efforts derived from this program are to improving both the actual health care and the health of everyone in America specifically...
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...organization that is direct focus on health care issues. The foundation support public agencies, universities and public charities that fall under tax exempt sec. 501 (c) (3) of the Internal revenue code. The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Their goal is clear: To help our society transform itself for the better. The foundation does numerous projects throughout it organization. Every year the foundation gives out approximately 1,000 grants totaling hundreds of millions of dollars to hospitals and research institutes. The RWJF (Robert wood Johnson Foundation) does provide annual reports containing its complete list of grants awarded each year. You have the ability to apply for multiple grants at one time as long as it for different projects. You do have to submit an application form in for applying for certain grants. The entire process can take anywhere from four to seven months before it’s approved. Clinical Scholars is one of the most successful foundation programs. It provided young physicians the opportunity to study on non-clinical topics such as management and economics. They have a unique capability and responsibility to confront the most pressing health and health care problems threatening our society. Their efforts focus on improving both the health of everyone in America, and their health care—how it's delivered, how it's paid for, and how...
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...Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V Christy Lundy June 15, 2014 Review of Literature Health Promotion Defined Health promotion is a discipline that seeks to improve the health of individuals and communities through education, behavioral change, and environmental improvement (The University of Oklahoma). Health promotion does not include education alone. It consists of proactive decision making taken by individuals, families, and communities to promote and sustain an optimal level of health. Health promotion can be broken down into two parts, active and passive. In passive health promotion, the individual is not actively participating. An example of passive health promotion would be government regulation, including FDA approvals or sanitation programs. Active health promotion involves the individual actively participating. Active health promotion would include an individual choosing to eat a proper, healthy diet or performing daily exercises. Purpose of Health Promotion in Nursing Nurses play a very influential role in health promotion. As health educators, nurses provide their patients, families, and communities with the necessary information and tools to take responsibility for their health. By implementing the education bestowed upon them, the patient and their families are empowered to make healthier choices and take action to live a healthier lifestyle. This in return, holds the best promise for lowering cost of health care (Edelman & Mandle...
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...registered nurses (RN) and the increasing demand for health care services. There is a higher demand for registered nurses because of the increase in population, aging baby boomers, and increase in chronic diseases. The shortage of registered nurses impacts the health status and quality of life of the population. Factors that impact health care are the importance of supplying adequate nursing personnel and retaining RN’s in the workplace. There is a need to provide resources to educate registered nurses along with recruiting future registered nurses. “Economists use the concepts of demand and supply to inquire how the quantity of services used changes as price changes” (Getzen, 2007, p. 24). The purpose of this paper is to discuss demand versus supply of registered nurses and the effects of consumer demand versus the economic variables of cost, access, and supply. Demand Registered nurses are in more demand than ever before because of the continued nursing shortages. Factors contributing to the shortages are advancements in technology, people are living longer, and the health care needs are more complicated. In the early years nurses were trained to take vital signs, administer shots, and insert catheters. Nurse training in the past was more focused on bedside nursing compared to today’s nurses are doing more specialized care and training is more technical. “Today’s shortage, however, is exacerbated by an increased demand for health services required by the aging population and...
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...Latangela Stewart SOC -358: Health Disparity Paper 2 April 23, 2013 How Can Diabetes In Low Income African Communities Be Resolved It’s hard to fathom the affects that diabetes has taken in our low income African American communities. Now we have to look at what we can do and have done to help the people who are a part of this health disparity overcome this socioeconomic tragedy. We first have to look at clinical barriers which play a large role on how physicians are interacting with their patients. Even though there are the sociocultural differences between the patient and the provider we have to look at the fact that they both have different health and medical beliefs. With that being known that is where the level of trust has to be obtained. Due to sociocultural difference the physician’s knowledge of the needs of their patients has to be well rationalized. There is an obvious and direct link between these structural barriers and quality of care that remains a fertile area for intervention (Betancourt, Green, Carrillo, & Anaheh-Firempong, 2003). With the racial disparities in the U.S. health care system, there has to be many ways that this health disparity can be prevented. Many low income families feel that they receive the shorter end of the stick when it comes to good decent healthcare. Socioeconomic has it many disadvantages and advantage and what it meant by that is when you are living in a poor rural area; you more likely to be less educated or unhealthy, which...
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...Learning Healthcare Organizations MHA601: Principles of Health Care Administration (NBA1407A) Instructor: March 17, 2014 Week 5 Assignment: Learning Healthcare Organizations Transformational change is a radical shift in culture for the healthcare industry. It is an organizational wide, new way to strategize and update old theories and skills that are less reliable than the old processes and systems that were used in the past. The new changes are meant to be rolled out over a period of time because it is associated with the restructuring of an organization and it relies on collaboration of all its employees. It is about interdependence and working relationships within the organization for a collective purpose. Organizational learning in the healthcare industry is of particular interest to many organizations that are concerned with making transformational changes because it is viewed as a source of competitive advantage, it recognizes the link between improved patient outcomes, and it is a way to stay relevant in unpredictable markets. One of the key features of this new type of approach in building a learning organization is the focus on teamwork. Management may be redefining these changes within their own organizations in a way that stays consistent with the learning organizational theory. There are many challenges in the design of such change because it is hard to find working examples in place and leaders must understand this in order to guide, and influence such transformations...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals The Future of Nursing In October of 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) made a press release concerning the release of the report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. There are over three million nurses making up the largest sector of healthcare. While nurses spend the greatest number of hours providing patient care, nursing as a profession has a great impact to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Institute of medicine, 2010). Three of the key topics discussed in the report are the IOM’s impact on nursing education, nursing practice and the nurse’s role as a leader. The impact of the IOM report on nursing education The key message of chapter four, Transforming Education of the IOM report simply states that nurses should achieve higher education. They should accomplish this through an improved education system that makes is a smooth transition. There have been many changes in the U.S. health care system. With these changes, the report suggests that to be able to accommodate the changes nursing education must improve as well. Nursing education should just not stop when one passes the NCLEX exam. Nursing education should be a lifelong process of continuing education. The associate degree programs were developed in the past to attract more nurses during the nursing shortage. Today...
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...Family Health Assessment In order to provide proper care to families, one must be able to assess the patients holistically. As well as evaluating the patients physical, social, environmental, and spiritual domains (Grand Canyon University, 2011). The “ family defines health, makes decisions regarding health practices, and is the most frequent provider of health care to family members” (Nettle et al., 1993). Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns serve as a framework for clinical assessment and can be applied to the individual, family, and community (Grand Canyon University, 2011). Furthermore with the functional health pattern it will allow the nurse to develop interventions and a health care plan for the patient to prevent and treat...
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...the Health Belief Model, to understand the use of alternative medicine in the United States. The author examines the need for social workers and other health care providers to further assess the roles of folk medicine in an Appalachian client population. The author creates linkages among the limited writings in the literature regarding folk medical practices of Appalachians and also draws examples of folk medicine usage from qualitative research and professional intervention with this client group. The author focuses on how mainstream health care professionals may assess the role of folk medicine in the lives of their clients by approaching folk medicine as a focal and culturally-imbedded component of their clients' overall health care. Moreover, the author addresses the need for health care professionals to become not only aware of folk medical practices, but to act as advocates for culturally competent health care within the larger health care delivery system which largely overlooks or downplays the significance of folk medicine. In an age of expensive and constricted mainstream health care services and the implementation of managed care, the author examines how folk medical practices factor into primary health care. PMID: 9418440 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] This article presents an approach to the evaluation of patient-held beliefs and behaviors that may not be concordant with those of biomedicine. Physicians and patients often hold discrepant models of health and...
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