...few feet from any desk. Each student had a laptop except for the student with cerebral palsy. All students were intellectually disabled, and one had autism. Assisting the students were one male teacher, one male and one female teacher’s aides and an 8th grade female student teacher’s assistant who was with the student with cerebral palsy the entire time. All of them were active throughout the class. I witnessed little to no student’s disruptions and when there were, the students responded appropriately. I noticed that one of the assistants had a code phrase for the student with autism when he was distracted. The assistant would say “on track J” and he would automatically go back to his assignment. When a different student was bothering his classmate, the teacher asked him if he needed to be relocated and the student quickly changed his behavior. Another student would not look the teacher in the eye and the teacher calmly told her that he needed to see her face so that he knew she heard him and understood him. Another student kept wanting to hug the teacher who mindfully let him know it wasn’t appropriate. Half way through the class all students changed groups and seats and the student assistant took the student with cerebral palsy to the restroom after procuring a pair of gloves. The learning environment was extremely supportive, and I heard constant affirmations from the teachers. Observing one group, the teacher read a story and stopped to ask questions after ever paragraph...
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...Today’s Physical Therapist: A Comprehensive Review of a 21st-Century Health Care Profession Prepared by the American Physical Therapy Association January 2011 Foreword The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) created Today’s Physical Therapist: A Comprehensive Review of a 21st-Century Health Care Profession to provide accurate information for government entities and the public about the history, role, educational preparation, laws governing practice, standards of practice, evidence base of the profession, payment for physical therapy services, and workforce issues unique to the physical therapy profession. As government, private health care entities, and provider groups pursue solutions to the considerable health care provision challenges the United States faces, it is imperative that accurate information about the qualifications and roles of specific providers, in this case physical therapists, be available to inform all entities as they engage in these discussions. APTA is the national professional association representing more than 77,000 physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students nationwide. The association acknowledges and thanks the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy, the national organization representing 51 boards of physical therapy licensure, for input and assistance with this document. © 2011 American Physical Therapy Association. All rights reserved. i | American Physical Therapy Association Table of Contents ...
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...undergraduate education have discovered the need to address teaching strategies that focus on the new generation of students. In teaching an undergraduate course on Nursing the Client with a Mental Illness, the affective domain of learning is used to develop interpersonal competence, self-awareness, and self-reflection. The teaching technique used is an experiential exercise that asks students to create group mandalas using art materials on circular pieces of butcher-block paper. The mandala concept is derived from the Buddhist tradition and means “circle” or “center” in Sanskrit. Carl Jung introduced this technique to the United States and incorporated it into his therapy. As a creative, active learning strategy, the mandalas helped the faculty meet the clinical objectives for the course and the learning needs of a new generation of students. They also helped students learn about Eastern philosophy, group process, self-awareness, and Jungian therapy. F Received: June 20, 2002 Accepted: May 19, 2003 Ms. Marshall is Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. Address correspondence to Margaret Cole Marshall, MS, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, 7702 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7951, San Antonio, TX 78229; e-mail: marshall@uthscsa.edu. aculty in undergraduate education are finding the need to address teaching strategies that focus on students’ learning styles, technological expertise, and...
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...Code With Proper dress Code Versus Versus With improper dress Code: * Block smock with colorful braided rope belt and tucked in her smock at the waist * open sandals would be on her ankles * made a bracelet, dangling earrings and a necklace of large metallic blue beads to complement the smock color With improper dress Code: * Block smock with colorful braided rope belt and tucked in her smock at the waist * open sandals would be on her ankles * made a bracelet, dangling earrings and a necklace of large metallic blue beads to complement the smock color Reflection: CASE 4.1 Is a "Jazzed-Up" Out professional? Chelsea completed a program of study as a physical therapy assistant at a technical institute and accepted a position at a local hospital where she would support several physical therapists. The reaquired attire for everyone working in the physical therapy unit is a blue smock and matching slacks. Chesea received information about the required attire. While in school, she enjoyed buying clothes in vintage shops and accessorizing with wild-print handbags and lots of jewelry to achieve her own individual look. Needless to say, Chelsea found the required smock and slacks pretty dull clothing. After purchasing the required clothes, she began to think about how she could "jazz up" the outfit. She excahanged the drawstring in the slacks for a colorful braided rope belt and tucked in her smock at the waist. She made a bracelet, dangling earringsand...
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...High-Fidelity Simulation Opal Nutter Chamberlain College Instructional Methods NR522 Susan Walsh November 18, 2012 High-Fidelity Simulation There is a global concern regarding health care education. Budget constraints, faculty shortages, and lack of clinical sites are just a few concerns of nursing programs. Nurse educators seek teaching strategies that promote students that are highly skilled practitioners. Students must learn how to transfer their knowledge and learned skills into their clinical practice. It is the nurse educator’s goal to “produce safe and competent registered nurse” (Reid Searl, Eaton, Vieth, & Happell, 2011, p. 2758). Sufficient clinical experience is challenged as there is an increased demand for nursing schools to produce nurses that are competent, with the increasingly “ill population, coupled with the shortage of faculty” (Sportsman et al., 2009, p. 67). High Fidelity Simulation (HFS) is a method of providing students with clinical experience that is essential in developing the skills and knowledge. Many nursing programs are now using HFS in their curriculum. These simulators “allow students to experience high-risk, low volume patient problems in a realistic setting” (Tuoriniemi & Schott Baer, 2008, p. 105). The HFS are full size mannequins that can respond verbally and physiologically to the students interventions as well as omissions of care (Leigh & Hurst, 2008). The HFS offers students many advantages. This method...
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...Exploration of a Professional Journal Article in Psychology Lestia Reese John Lynch Psychology of Adjustment March 03, 2013 1The purpose of the article of descriptive phenomenological study was to identify and describe the essential meaning structure in the experience of postpartum depression (PPD). 2They interviewed four women diagnosed with major depression and analyzed the data with Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological method. Their analysis revealed two essential meaning structures of PPD. The first structure describes the mother as throw into a looming, dangerous world, coupled with a restricted, heavy body that hindered her attunement to her baby. Tormented by anxiety, guilt and shame, she tried to deal with her pain by analytical reflection and social isolation. The second structure describes sudden lapses into intense feelings of alienation from the self, the baby, and from the social and material world. With a distorted primordial self-awareness, the mother no longer felt that she existed as herself in the world. 1PPD involves a temporary collapse of fundamental structures of consciousness, that is, how they experience self, body, the social world, and time. These structures become more or less deformed, reorganized in a new interconnected gestalt, which sustains and strengthens itself if not identified and treated. Their subjects lived their postpartum depression in different ways and in different contexts. One essential meaning structure encompassed three participants...
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...INFERTILITY: Complimentary and alternative medicine for women Annayra Banks Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, Fall 2008 November 25, 2008 ABSTRACT Many women, in the United States, suffer from the inability to conceive a child. Common causes may include pregnancy later in life, ovulatory failure, anatomical anomalies of the uterus, Turner’s syndrome, and eating disorders. Stress and anxiety also contribute to the decrease in conception rates. Diagnostic measures include a thorough comprehensive exam of both partners, hormone and anatomical screening tests, and physical examination. Western medicine has developed various pharmacological and surgical procedures to increase fertility rates amongst women with the desire for pregnancy. Complimentary / Alternative medical treatments include many stress reducing techniques, such as Reiki and message, herbal therapies, and acupuncture. CAM has shown to be very effective in increasing the chances of conception, provides little harm to the patient, and is very inexpensive. DEFINITION / SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS According to the National Centers for Health Statistics there are 6.1 million women between the ages of 15-44 who have an impaired ability to have children. In the United States, about 20% of all couples are infertile.1 Many studies attribute the growing numbers of infertile couples to a shift in social ideology, including the average age for marriage and starting a family at a later age. More specifically...
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...Introduction The medical field is full of numerous jobs that are continuously growing. People can become doctors, anesthesiologists, nurses, certified nursing assistants, lab technicians, physical therapist, or work in house keeping. The opportunities for employment are endless, no matter the position an individual chooses to work, they are all equally important for total patient care. However, the majority of the time nurses are the individuals who spend the greatest amount of time with patients and provide the most care under doctors and other staff members orders. In The United States, each state has a nurse’s association that advocates and provides support for nurses. The Wyoming nurses’ associations mission is “to promote the profession...
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...to prohibit a physician from referring a patient for designated health services (DHS) to any organization that the physician or a member of his/her immediate family has a financial relationship. Exceptions to the law exist and will be examined in later sections of this reflection. Originally the Stark Law (Stark I) only applied to referrals of Medicare Beneficiaries, but Section 1877 of the Social Security Act (the Act) (42 U.S.C. 1395nn), also known as the physician self-referral law, or Stark Law, intends to prevent the misappropriation of or over utilization of healthcare that could result from incentivized diagnostic ordering protocols that may be a direct result of financial relationships that could influence healthcare decisions. The law is named for its author, United State Congressman Pete Stark, a Democrat from California, who authored and supported the creation of this piece of legislation. The law’s purpose is to prohibit a physician from referring a patient for designated health services (DHS) to any organization that the physician or a member of his/her immediate family has a financial relationship. Exceptions to the law exist and will be examined in later sections of this reflection. Originally the Stark Law (Stark I) only applied to referrals of Medicare...
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...have provided health-care services to patients for more than 40 years. The nurse practitioner role was introduced in the mid-1960s in response to a nationwide shortage of physicians. NPs provide primary and some acute care, and are qualified to meet the majority of patients’ health-care needs. They promote a comprehensive approach to health care and emphasize the overall health and wellness of their patients, including diagnosis, treatment, and consultations. They work independently and collaboratively on the health-care team, and they may work at inpatient or outpatient settings. Generally, nurse practitioners perform the important task of educating patients about preventative care and the prescribed treatments. They may also conduct physicals, order tests and serve as a...
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...how conditioning, reinforcement and social learning influence behaviour. It does this through laboratory experiments and observations. In witch they use animals and humans. It is a scientific approach to measure behaviour and investigate how behaviour is learned. They argue that the environment shapes behaviour. Also argued that genetics and cognition are deemed as unimportant in determining behaviours. There are three main theories to this perspective which are: Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Social learning. Classical conditioning: Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) was working with dogs to investigate their digestive systems; he noticed that one dog began to salivate when Pavlov assistant entered the room with food. Pavlov thought the dog had learned to associate the assistant with food. This meaning food automatically lead to response of salivation, this is called an unconditioned response. The food was the unconditioned stimulus. As the production of saliva was automatic and not learnt. With this, an unconditioned stimulus leads to an unconditioned response. Pavlov then introduced a bell at feeding time, the bell was a conditioned response as the dog then produced saliva on the bell ringing as the dog associated the bell with feeding time. This happened over several trails and then the dog learned this. Eventually it began to salivate when only the bell was rung and no food was presented. Bell ringing is a conditioned stimulus. Three key points about classical...
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...ESE 633 Week 6 Final Paper To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/ese-633-ash/ese-633-week-6-final-paper After completing this assignment, you will have demonstrated your understanding of the following objectives: Analyze the value of co-teaching as an inclusion model of instructional delivery. Analyze the value of collaborative consultation as an inclusion model of instructional delivery. Analyze ways to create a collaborative school culture to promote professional growth and leadership. Determine some of the causes of education-based conflict. Evaluate problem solving and negotiation strategies to resolve education-based conflict. Recognize the importance of knowing personal strengths and weaknesses in conflict resolution. Evaluate verbal, non-verbal, and para-verbal cues that impact communication with educators, administrators, parents, and community members. Analyze the range of placements and services offered to students who have a disability. Additionally, this assignment demonstrates your mastery of the Course Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 and the MAED Program Learning Outcomes 2 & 8 and will have reinforced your competency with the MAED Program Learning Outcome 7. As you have learned throughout this course, it takes a team to educate a student. The team is composed of stakeholders who have a professional and/or emotional investment in the student’s education and post-graduation success. Although everyone has the same...
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...Pathopharmacological Foundations for Advanced Nursing Practice Competency Assessment WUT Task 1 Pamela L. Taylor RN-C(OB), BSN Western Governors University June 2016 A. Disease Process For the purpose of discussion of pathopharmacological features of a specific disease process, this paper will provide information related to heart disease in the form of coronary artery disease (CAD). A1. Pathophysiology Analysis Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of mortality worldwide and becoming a steadily more investigated problem due to its prevalence. Much research is going into genetic, inflammatory mechanisms and neuro-hormonal factors related to CVD as scientific knowledge evolves regarding complexity of this broad pathophysiology. Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of the subsection of CVD called CAD. This is a form of arteriosclerosis where there is progressive thickening and hardening of the vessel walls of the two major coronary arteries and their branches. The thickening is an accumulation of lipid-laden macrophages inside the wall of the artery leading to the formation of lesions and plaque buildup (McCance, K. & Huether, S., 2014). When the plaque develops on the coronary artery walls the pumping ability of the heart becomes impaired as oxygen and nutrients needed for heart function may be partially or completely impeded. Complete occlusion of a coronary artery or one of its branches leads to a myocardial...
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...and a serene inner courtyard. We feature an outstanding rehabilitation team that includes speech, physical and occupational therapy with 85% of our residents returning home. Their skilled nursing service’s resident-focused approach provides those who have suffered from a prolonged acute or chronic illness or have recently been injured or undergone surgery with the best care possible. In these cases, residents' conditions are often stable, but they continue to require assessment and treatment. And whether it’s nutritional support or assistance with self-care and the activities of daily living, our team is committed to meeting the needs of each resident at every stage of recovery. Their full range of rehabilitative services assists residents with physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and/or communication impairments. Respiratory, physical, occupational, and speech therapy programs use the coordinated efforts of an interdisciplinary team to contribute to each resident's rehabilitation – helping to ensure a successful return to home or work. We also offer specialized services at an intensity level based on each resident's unique needs. These benefit residents of all ages who are admitted directly from a hospital ICU setting, physician's office, home health, emergency room, or medical/surgical settings. Primary and specialist physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants lead our...
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...perspectives and encourages learners to apply these approaches to the study of health and social care. The value of psychological studies to the understanding of health and social care will also be examined. Learners will initially consider the meaning of the term ‘theories’ in the context of psychology, and will begin to appreciate the diversity of psychological theories as they progress through the unit. Learners will examine the principal psychological perspectives and then apply them to the health and social care sectors to gain understanding of the potential value of psychology in these sectors. On completion of this unit learners will have considered the psychological approach to studying health and social care. The unit encourages reflection, and will be valuable to those learners intending to work with people in a caring capacity. Learning outcomes On completion of this unit a learner should: 1 Understand psychological perspectives 2 Understand psychological approaches to health and social care. Grading criteria for the unit: To achieve a pass grade the evidence must show that the learner is able to: P1 explain the principal psychological perspectives P2 explain different psychological approaches to health practice P3 explain different psychological approaches to social care practice. M1 assess different psychological approaches to study M2 compare two psychological approaches to health and social care service provision D1 evaluate two psychological approaches...
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