Closing the Gap in Health Disparities of African Americans Rosie Vasser Grand Canyon University Closing the Gap in Health Disparities of African Americans Historically speaking African Americans have had harder access to healthcare due to a number of socioeconomic reasons. Many are unable to even get to a facility. When thinking about poverty in America one must associate African Americans with poorer health, less access to medical care and higher risk factors than others. Stressors alone within
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the 4th floor to see what the situation was. The nurse taking care of the woman in room 420 gave me a report about her patient. The woman was a 75 year old who had been admitted with a diagnosis of pneumonia. She had a medical history of CHF, HTN, COPD, NIDDM, and GERD. I went into room 420 where this lady was receiving a nebulized albuterol breathing treatment. She looked frightened and appeared very anxious. Her oxygen saturation on 4L of oxygen via nasal cannula was 90%, her respiratory rate
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Respiratory Therapy is a health profession that specializes in Cardio Pulmonary functions and health. Respiratory therapists help with prevention, assessing patients, treatment, diagnostic evaluation, education, and care. They treat patients from all ages, from babies to the elderly. The requirements in becoming a Respiratory Therapist are taking Human Anatomy, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Microbiology, and Mathematics at a high school or college level. To begin the Respiratory Therapy Program out
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Breath sounds can divided into three type, normal, abnormal and diminished (Alexandra Hough, 2001). Breath sound is useful in diagnosing or monitoring respiratory disease and airway abnormalities, such as asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia and so on. It can be auscultate across chest wall with a stethoscope. A physician can auscultate breath sounds to detect
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“If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.” –Matthew Gray Gubler. About 20 percent of Americans population smoke cigarettes. There has been reports of the Heart Association that tobacco smoking has caused more than 440,000 death each year
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Physical Treatments What is physical treatment: Physical treatment, as it is said in the name, is a treatment that is given to you when you have health problems that make it hard for you to do everyday tasks; doing this physical treatment will makes it so you move better and relieves the pain. And it is also and a good treatment that can get you back to physical functions and fitness level (the level of fitness your body can sustain e.g how much you can lift).and doing physical therapy can change
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ASSESSMENT & CARE PLAN CLIENT CASE STUDY #2 Student: Fall 2010 Client Initials: VC Age: 82 Gender: Female Date Admitted to Nursing Home: 12/14/07 Assessment Date: 12/3/10 1. HEALTH HISTORY Brief description of health history and reason in nursing home: VC has a history of malignant neoplasm of her large intestine which lead to her colostomy status. She also has a history of fracture and fall. She was admitted to the nursing facility secondary to her alzheimer's diagnosis
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The Role of Transcultural Nursing Nur 502-Theoretical Basis for Nursing Brigette Lander February 20, 2014 Abstract The core of nursing at its simplest application is to cause no harm and restore a person to health when possible. For years now, nurses have been working to close the health disparity gap and become culturally competent for our “melting pot” of minority cultures. Forbes magazine (2010) said only 18% of Americans speak a foreign language, compared to 53% of Europeans and growing
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NUR 641E Complete Class Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/nur-641e-complete-class/ Advanced Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for Nurse Educators Discussion Questions week 1-8 Week 1: Question 1= Find an article on a genetic disorder and summarize in two or three paragraphs the genetic component causing the disorder and any multifactorial inheritance components that may contribute to the disorder. Discuss the usual age of disease onset and if the sex-specific
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