Running Head: CODE OF ETHICS PAPER Alzheimer's Association Code of Ethic’s Learning Team A HCS/335 August 1, 2011 Professor Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia that causes an individual to have trouble with thinking, memory, and certain behaviors. More than 50 to 80 of people in the U.S. who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Currently no cure is available. But over the last 15 years, much has been discovered about Alzheimer’s that has helped researchers to
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Study of Different Cultures Heritage could be described as something that has been transmitted from the past or handed over or followed by tradition. Every individual practice and follow their own heritage based on one’s ethnic, religious and cultural background. United States being a open minded country, welcomes all immigrants and is rich with multiracial and multicultural people from various parts of the world. It is becoming more challenging to practice nursing due to the multicultural diversity
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High Risk Nutritional Behaviors within Cultures Denise Harper Grand Canyon University Abstract The objective of this paper is to compare and contrast high-risk behaviors of various cultures. The cultures that will be outlined are (African American, Amish, Appalachian, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and, Russian). Influencing factors such as; education, family roles, and health care practices will be discussed in order to give a better picture of the high risk behaviors
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towards healthcare practices. “A cultural competent health system must incorporate the importance of cultural assessment and provide nurses with tools that will help them with their planning care and treating patients from different cultures” p.16 (Green & Reinckens, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the usefulness of the Heritage Assessment Tool to evaluate the needs of a person as a whole; identify and evaluate common health practices based on cultural beliefs and values of three different
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THE HERITAGE ASSESSMENT TOOL: A CULTURAL VIEW OF THE PATIENT The Heritage Assessment Tool: A Cultural View of the Patient Grand Canyon University: 439v March 11, 2012 The Heritage Assessment Tool: A Cultural View of the Patient The Heritage Assessment Tool is a series of 29 questions designed to determine a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious background. The tool gives nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and
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has become a melting pot of many different cultural backgrounds, which has led to changes within the system to accommodate the patient base. Unfortunately, not all changes have been able to effectively reach any and all persons from every background. We still see language and cultural barriers that have direct correlation to the inability to seek healthcare and or the ability to change cultural perspectives to ensure healthy lifestyles. Within this paper, the health of American Indian and Alaskan
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Assessment Norma Garcia Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Serina Madden February 25, 2015 Multicultural Assessment The author of this paper is a student at Grand Canyon University who is currently taking Family Centered Health Promotion. The topic discussed in class this week was, Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion. The corresponding assignment to this course was to perform a heritage assessment; three families of the community were interviewed. The
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states that minority groups “experience a disproportionate burden of preventable disease, death, and disability compared with non-minorities.” This paper will concentrate on health promotion among the Asian American population, compare and contrast the health status of this minority group to the national average, and describe suggested health promotion prevention techniques tailored to the specific needs presented in this paper. Comparison of Asian Americans to the National Average According to the
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The Beriberi disease is suitable for applying the scientific method for many reasons. For example to use the scientific method a question is needed and the primary question for Beriberi is, "What caused this illness?". This question is what lead researchers to the Dutch East Indies to find out how the illness came about. While it took years to research, it is completely possible to apply the scientific method to this disease and it has already been done multiple times throughout the years. Another
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cause a high risk of cross-contamination. This can cause sporadic cases of infectious intestinal disease among customers (Michaels). Earliest studies showed 13% of US coins and 42% of paper money had potential pathogens. They identified E. coli, P. aeruginosa, Klebsiella, Proteus, and Staphylococcus species.Studies after that saw that 18% of coins and 7% of currency tested had organisms that could be disease producing. E. coli and salmonella enteritidis were shown to transport pathogens even a few days
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