Research Center that offers many different services from childcare to surgical services. The childcare service provides parents with full details of how to administer their children’s medicine and how to care for the child at home. The surgical staff explains to the patients how to do self-care at home like what they can and can do, how to change bandages and how to clean the wounds (University of Kentucky2011). UK Healthcare supplies the community with information about secondhand smoke, which
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is important and appreciated. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011, December 2). Vital Signs: HIV prevention through care and treatment. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 60 (47),1618-1623. This comprehensive journal article reviews recent HIV testing and prevalence patterns among the U.S. population. The importance of the care continuum for HIV-positive patients is discussed; from prevention and testing, to diagnosis and treatment. Strategies for viral suppression among
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usually have basic principles that validate the purpose of the proposed theory. Nursing theory is a well thought out scholarly structure of concepts. These concepts are created to help guide nursing practice. They explain the fundamentals of nursing care. Multiple clinical decisions are based upon nursing theories. There are many different types of nursing theories developed primarily by nurses. Nursing theorist’s main goal is to examine nursing practice and explain the working or non-working parts
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in Health Care Future Trends in Health Care Twenty years ago no one in the health care industry could have dreamed of the advancements we are experiencing today. The technology has advanced treatments, equipment, and delivery of care. Information is key to successful problem-solving and health service delivery (Hovenga & Heard, 2010). Combining and progressing in the information technology field has and will continue to advance care. Change and potential progress in health care are influenced
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2013 Professional Development of Nursing Professionals In 2010, comprehensive health care legislation was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. These laws were the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act, collectively known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA represents the largest changes to health care since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid programs 45 years prior. It is expected to allow
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Affordable Care Act, or PPACA gave many Americans the opportunity to have health care coverage that previously may have not been available to them. The reform is primarily aimed at decreasing the number of uninsured and underinsured Americans. The landscape of health care is changing and nursing is evolving alongside it. This health care overhaul gives nurses a vital role in leading the reform revolution. With more than three million strong, nursing is the biggest sector of the nation’s health care labor
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process that can be thought with creating an atmosphere that is positive. Understanding the process of communication you will have to focus on what the word communication means. I will talk about fundamentals of communication, communication in health care, ways of how to send a clear message to patients and the cultural aspects that affect communication. Communication can also mean to send a clear and successful message to the person being communicated by either spoken, written, or nonverbal means
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states “to respond to the demands of an evolving health care system and meet the challenging needs of patients, nurses must achieve higher levels of education.” Registered Nurses (RN’s) should change their educational status from ASN to BSN to remain in the competitive healthcare requirements. Our generations are growing older. Patients are being admitted to hospitals with increased co-morbities. Patients are coming to see their Primary care provider with more complex, severity, and complicated
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pantry designed to help others. My behavior was altruistic. Why? My act was voluntarily to help needy families with no expectation of a reward in any form, except perhaps a feeling of having done a good deed. Prosocial behavior ranges over a continuum from the most selfless acts of altruism to helpful acts that are motivated entirely by self-interest (Taylor, Peplau, Sears, 2006). The fact that I was directly gaining a tax deduction for my charitable donation did not affect my feelings about
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from religious icons and rarely leave their home during their menstrual cycle. Dinsa Sachan then goes on to discussing how a young couple, Gupta and Paul, use comedic comics to educate little girls on what the menstrual cycle is and how they can take care of themselves during that cycle. The idea of the menstrual cycle being an “impure” is not just found in India -- many other countries and individuals across the globe use this belief to put women at a social disadvantage. An example of political inequality
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