Mental Health Act 1983 * The Mental Health Act is the law which sets out when you can be admitted, detained and treated in hospital against your wishes. It is also known as being ‘sectioned’. * For this to happen, certain people must agree that you have a mental disorder that requires a stay in hospital. There you will have an assessment and be given treatment if needed. * This is only done when you are putting your own safety or someone else’s at risk. * You can sometimes be given
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Jack Mendez Community Assessment RN 402-Community Health Nursing March 10, 2010 One of the most significant assessment findings within North Minneapolis is the prevalence of crime. When asked, many people around the metro will say that North Minneapolis is a “bad area” or that it is “unsafe”; this usually comes with a non-verbal look of concern from the person giving their input. How much worse is North Minneapolis than other metro areas? To find the answer to this question statistics and
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1 July 2010 (18 October 2010 in Western Australia). These are YOUR standards — developed using the best possible evidence, and using information and feedback provided by nurses in a variety of settings. Included also are the principles of assessment to help you understand how these standards may be used to assess performance. We believe you will find them user-friendly and easy to understand. With the onset of the National Scheme, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of
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everyone in the team is competent at their role. When emergency planning is undertaken by category 1 responders, a great deal of thought is given to identifying possible risks. A risk is a hazard or threat that could cause serious harm to; * The community * Organisations * Individuals * The nation * The environment A hazard is anything that can cause harm and a threat is something that is likely to cause harm. Once the risks have been identified, measures can be put into place to
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Assessment of Community Chilton County is a rural community located in central Alabama. Chilton County was originally named Baker County but was renamed after a native of Chilton County, Judge William Parish Chilton, was elected as Chief Justice of the Alabama supreme court (Alabama Department of Archives and History [ADAH], 2014). Chilton County, formerly known as Baker County, was established on December 30th, 1868 by Alabama legislature and was made from lands taken from the surrounding counties
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Nurses Impacting Lives: Health Promotion in a Community Setting Christine Resler Grand Canyon University: NRS 429 May 18, 2014 Nurses Impacting Lives: Heath Promotion in a Community Setting The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated, “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to
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Assessment & Defining Characteristics of Community • Poor healthcare maintenance • Lack of access to transportation • Financial strains • Insurance through Medicaid • Minimal healthcare visits Diagnosis Ineffective health maintenance r/t lack of access to healthcare resources AEB lack of knowledge about basic health practices Definition Inability to identify, manage, and/or seek out help to maintain health Goal To promote healthy behaviors, and increase access to quality healthcare by
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become the worldwide concern. The oral health status had been decreased in the end of century, but the prevalence of dental caries is still being the significant problem with varying prevalence in many countries, particularly in developing countries. World Health Organization recorded that 60-90% children in the world had suffered dental caries (Petersen et al., 2005). In Thailand, prevalence of dental caries in 12 years old based on recent National Oral Health Survey showed that more than 50% children
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The heritage Assessment Tool is a questioner design to assist individual to determine his or her ethnic, religious and cultural background in relationship with health, illness and diseases. Heritage and culture are different just like individual fingerprint. When looking at someone’s heritage and tradition, it consists of methods used to maintain health, protect health, and restore health. These concepts deal with person’s physical, mental and spiritual belief. Every individual
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INTRODUCTION The focus of social constructionism is to uncover the ways in which individuals and groups participate in the creation of their perceived reality. It involves looking at the ways social phenomena are created, institutionalized, and made into tradition by humans. Socially constructed reality is seen as an ongoing, dynamic process; reality is re-produced by people acting on their interpretations and their knowledge of it. Social phenomena include all behavior which influences or is
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