Assessment: A Comparison of Three Cultures America’s growing diversity is increasing day by day as it is considered to be the “land of opportunity”. People from all over the world are here with different cultures. As United States has increasingly cultural diversity -Asian are 3.6 %, one tenth % of US population will be foreign born by 2050 (Gregory Juckett, 2005). It has become very important to understand and respect this various cultural beliefs especially in the healthcare system. All cultures have
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terms of ethnicity, age, religion and shares both rural as well as urban areas. After conducting an extensive research, I discovered multiple health problems that required the intervention of Community Health Nurses. I selected three common community nursing diagnosis. The first diagnosis is the rise in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, stroke , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and obesity. The second diagnosis is the lack of physical activity leading to obesity. The third is, fall in the elderly
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Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity: First Draft “Spirituality is the aspect of humanity that refers to the way individuals seek and express meaning and purpose and the way they experience their connectedness to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, and to the significant or sacred” (Pulchalski & Ferrell, 2009). INTRODUCTION It is important for the professional nurse to recognize the unique spiritual beliefs and individuality of each patient and family who enters the hospital setting
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locker, activates her Vocera, and gets her clipboard ready for a brief morning meeting and shift report. She walks into each of her patients’ rooms in the early morning with the night shift nurse, introducing herself and discussing today’s plan of care for each patient. When she arrives to her last patient’s door, the night shift nurse explains that this particular person will be ‘difficult’. She hears “he is quite a handful,” “he’s really sick but just hasn’t died yet,” “the room is full of family
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Health Promotion in Nursing The World Health Organization (WHO) describes health promotion as allowing society to control elements of personal health, through intelligent, healthy decisions. Health promotion improves the resourcefulness of people to be accountable, and the capacity of organizations and communities to guide the determinants of health. Due to the multitude of determinants of health, health promotion needs cooperation of community and healthcare professionals (Jadelhack, 2012). Health
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notified kitchen staff) Kitchen staff apologized to dtr. Dtr asked nurse, who blew itoff. Nursing Sensitive Indicators….Discuss how an understanding of nursing-sensitive indicators could assist the nurses in this case in identifying issues that may interfere with patient care. (pressure ulcers, patient satisfaction, “paucity of scientific evidence linking nursing with hospital patient outcomes”, nursing-sensitive performance measures are processes and outcomes – and structural proxies for these
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Cultural care diversity refers to the differences in meanings, values, or acceptable mode of care within or between different groups of people. Culture influences every aspect of human life, including beliefs, values, and customs regarding health care (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) as nurse it is our duty to be culturally competent in order to provide our patients with the best holistic care we can. Additionally, I believe it’s not only by understanding someone’s culture that as a nurse I can be able
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Nursing Shortage Abstract Healthcare industry in United States has always been passing with the issue of shortage of Healthcare professionals . Many of these positions are filled by professionals from different countries . Nursing shortage has been a huge concern since many years and expected to continue in coming years. In past years, country had been dependent on supply of nurses from
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most important decisions of our life (even some that are not) revolve around dialogue, some personal influence. Analysis Communication is how people ideas, information, opinions and feelings. Health professionals, services (dietetics, nursing assistant, or the environment) necessary for effective communication skills. These skills are used in conjunction with patients, residents, staff and management. Communication skills include listening, hearing ( understanding the message), talk (verbal
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chamberlain.edu/locations for location specific address, phone and fax information. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING DEGREE CURRICULUM SAMPLE 3-YEAR CURRICULUM PLAN FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED PRIOR TO JANUARY 2016 YEAR 1 Session I Session II SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 BIOS-251*: Anatomy & Physiology I with Lab MATH-114*: Algebra for College Students NR-101: Transitions in Nursing (T=1) Credits 2 4 1 BIOS-252*: Anatomy & Physiology II with Lab SOCS-185*: Culture & Society ENGL-117*:
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