The Physical Health of Older People with Learning Disabilities: The Nurse’s Role Student Professor Course Date Introduction In the UK, the term “learning disability” is used to depict people who have an impairment of intellectual ability that strongly affects their daily activities. For that reason, they need constant supervision, help and care from authorized nursing personnel, in order to lead a rather normal life. Other countries use terms such as “intellectual disability” or “mental
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Providing a nursing care to a client with terminal disease it can be one of the most intimidating jobs for any health professional. Generally caring for a person that knows is dying, it is going to be difficult no matter a one is professional nurse, family or someone just happened to be there to care for the palliative patient. Leaving this world has never being an easy job and a palliative care nurse will be someone who is very much aware of the dying phenomenon. Unfortunately, or maybe necessary
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This is Water David Foster Wa!ace There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and “Morning, boys, how's the water?” And the two young fish swim on bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and “What the hell is water?” meet says, for a goes, If at this moment, you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the
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Abstract Jean Watson is a nurse theorist who has impacted the modern nursing in a great way. Her publication, research, and books have helped to bring the profession of nursing to the forefront. This paper is aimed at looking who Jean Watson is, her contribution to the nursing field and the impact of her work in the modern nursing. Introduction Dr. Jean Watson is known as a professor, nurse, theorist and a founder director of Watson Caring Science Institute, which is a non- profit organization
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September 11, 2015 Question no. 1 1. Visual/Spatial - Involves visual perception of the environment, the ability to create and manipulate mental images, and the orientation of the body in space. 2. Verbal/Linguistic - Involves reading, writing, speaking, and conversing in one's own or foreign languages. 3. Logical/Mathematical - Involves number and computing skills, recognizing patterns and relationships, timeliness and order, and the ability to solve different kinds of problems through
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There are three different models of health and healing for the the human body. All three are useful in the nursing practice to assist patients in the healing process. There is physical-body, body-mind, body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. Of all the three there two I favor, body-mind and body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. They hope for the same outcome, a better patient, but have different style of approaches. Body-mind is one of the oldest health and healing models and originated from ancient
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The world of nature is colourful and bright and human ingenuity cannot hope to match it. Right from the sky above to the sea below, nature abounds in the richness of colour. The human eye and the human mind respond to this world of colour and identify themselves with it. When a person is cheerful and bright we refer to him as a 'colourful personality', similarly the different colours are used to indicate human moods and attitudes: blue is associated with depression, white is likened with serenity
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UnitedHealth Group Human Resources Executive Summary HRMG 5000 October 14, 2013 Mohammed Alzahrni David Hill Amber Wherry Tiffany Williams Table of Contents Introduction 4 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) 5 Compliance 5 Diversity 6 Staffing 7 Job Analysis 7 Recruiting 8 Selection 9 Talent Management 10 HR Development 10 Orientation 10 Trainging 12 Career Planning 14 Performance Management 15 Total Rewards 16 Compensation 16 Incentives 19 Benefits 20
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The specialist practice nurse is employed as a British Heart Foundation (BHF) Heart Failure (HF) nurse and is based in secondary care. Along with networking with a wide range of health care practitioners providing a seamless service between primary and secondary care her role also involves evidence-based care to clients with chronic heart failure (CHF). CHF is a complex syndrome that results from a structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to function as a
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1.A) Sensitive periods are specific, limited time when the child shows a strong attraction to a particular activity. The activity child is drawn to aid the child in his/her physical, mental and emotional development. Sensitive periods can be long, short, some overlap or run parallel. When a child is gaining new skills or knowledge during a sensitive period, he/she does so with great ease and with deep concentration. * The first one is the period of Sensory awareness. It originates at birth and
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