Heritage Assessment Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University NRS-429V January 22, 2011 Heritage Assessment Heritage is as individual as a fingerprint when it comes to some cultures. Every individual has their own heritage, and this is very different between different cultures. Heritage consists of determination of one’s ethnic, religious, and cultural background (Spector, 2009). When we look at someone’s heritage, we look at traditional health methods used to maintain health, protect
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Environmental Protection Agency. (2001). Class I Underground Injection Control Program: Study of the Risks Associated with Class I Underground Injection Wells. Retrieved from https://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2011/11/29/burying-toxic-water-texas-community-keeps-on-plugging-to-halt-it/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. (2015). Unemployment
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Community Health Nursing Assessment Western Governors University Community Health Nursing Assessment A1. Community Description Hernando County is located in west central Florida. The county was officially established on February 27, 1843. It was created from portions of Alachua, Hillsborough and Orange Counties and centered between Citrus County to the north and Pasco County to the south. Its county seat is Brooksville
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Community Health Nursing Reflection NUR/405 2012 Diane Schlicke RN MSN Community Health Nursing Reflection The role of the community health nurse in the participating family’s community is to focus on the health needs of the aggregate or group. Community health nursing refers to a systematic, comprehensive focus on wellness, health protection, and disease, and injury prevention for the population residing in a specific area. The nurse functions as advocate, case manager, consultant, health
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Managing Healthcare Ethically March 1, 2015 Managing Healthcare Ethically Healthcare professionals are faced with a multitude of issues that are not just clinical in nature, they encompass the whole patient experience. The ethical self assessment is an assessment of my own ethical decision making process. The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) has developed a set of questions designed to identify individuals' ethical decision making. "The American College of Healthcare Executives
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Acknowledge Thru Heritage Assessment Tool Denise Streater GCU Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Hortense Turner March 23, 2012 Cultural Diversities Acknowledge Thru Heritage Assessment Tool Cultural diversities have facilitated challenges with in health care. To educate our clients there must be recognition of traditional heritage practices. The Heritage Assessment Tool has been devised to discover cultural characteristics of individuals, families along with communities. This tool allows
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individual. Health cultural values “shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status, how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek health care” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Transcultural nursing is a practice to transform health care and help people of diverse cultures. An analysis of Leninger's vision for the work of transcultural nursing indicates that there are many barriers and issues in health care,
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Population/Economic Assessment: Dawson County is in southeast Montana, the town of Glendive is the main town of the county. The population of the county is 8,966 residents, 5,177 of those people live in Glendive (Glendive, Montana, 2013). The population is almost equally divided between male (50.4%) and female (49.6%)(Glendive, Montana, 2013). The average age of residents is 41.2 years (Glendive, Montana, 2013). The community is mostly white (92.4%) with the rest of the community a mix of races:
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This practice based learning is a case study that involves discrimination towards a patient who is part of the traveling community. This practice based learning is a case study that involves discrimination towards a patient who is part of the traveling population within our society. My group colleagues and I decided to use the same methods of collecting information as in the previous case studies. I feel very frustrated because there is a lot of ignorance within our society, lack of information
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organization Overview of nature of organization Identify stakeholders in organization Organizational culture Analysis Analysis tools used to perform assessment Assessment needs to contain measurement and benchmarks Tables and graphs to demonstrate findings Risk Analysis Identify risks or challenges will be identified as results of organizational assessment Can project be undertaken within boundaries of state and federal regulation? Are there any potential stark or anti-kickback concerns Are there
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