Culturally Competent Care for Mexican-Americans Terry A. Stevens Grand Canyon University: NUR 502- Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice January 13, 2016 Culturally Competent Care for Mexican-Americans For centuries nursing has been a dynamic, this is constantly evolving and adapting in response to a wide range of stimuli. A recent circumstance that has influenced nursing considerably is the consumer mandate for culturally competent care in an increasingly diverse, multicultural
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Community Health Nursing-C228-Task 1 Western Governors University Teresa McDonald SI# 000460708 12/29/15 Identification of Community In Southeast Tennessee, you will find most of Hamilton County between the Appalachian and the Cumberland mountain ranges. It is the fourth most populous county in the state of Tennessee (Wikipedia, ND). Within Hamilton County, there are many different towns. The most populous city is Chattanooga that is also the county seat (Wikipedia, ND). Hamilton County
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Health Promotion Initially when health promotion was developed it grew and improved the healthy status and health conditions of the public. Health promotion is a relationship between actions, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior and health outcomes from the individual to the societal level. In the past the focus was more on disease prevention and control of communicable disease, when contagious and communicable disease like measles, polio and small pox were present. As government and health care agencies
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9 Environmental and Global Health Issues 8 Emergency Response Final Steps The WGU Library Center for Writing Excellence: The WGU Writing Center Feedback Course Material Learning Resources All Notes SZT1 - Community and Population Health This course supports the assessment for SZT1. The course covers 4 competencies and represents
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job for mental health counselors to know how to assess properly and provide effective interventions for those experiencing a crisis. The knowledge and skills of knowing when and how to apply various therapeutic models, assessment tools and interventions to each individual's own perception or experience not only affects the clients' likelihood for wellness but is also an ethical and moral responsibility of the counselor. The counselor's job is to help those who face mental health challenges and
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focus entailed. For instance, mental health and behavioral management among primary physicians is not as sound as I would have hoped. In fact, the CDC says that 1-7 children aged 2 to 8 years old had a diagnosed mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder (CDC, n.d.). These statistics prove that teachers should understand how mental health and behavioral disorders are being treated. Part of this advocacy focus is to get the word out that yes mental health does exist among our young children,
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patient’s individual health goals for his or herself. I also plan on remaining committed to the patient and his or her decisions even in the presence of conflict with others such as friends or family. For example, if the patient’s friends and family disagree with the patient’s decisions, I will remain loyal to the patient and focus my care plan on achieving the patient’s specific health goals. Provision 3 is about the nurse promoting, advocating, and protecting the rights, health, and safety of the
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INTRODUCTION This essay is all about discharge care planning and will be discussed in two parts, the first part will highlight patient profile, assessment and discharge care planning with evidence based rationale using a framework based on Roper- Logan-Tierney (2000) model of nursing which involve giving nursing care holistically by using 12 activities of living (AL) and also incorporate nursing process to carry out care plan in this essay, which are maintaining a safe environment, communicating
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with concerns about the meaning or motives behind offending and replaces these with an emphasis on ‘technologies’ of ‘risk minimization’ and the elimination of potential threats to social order. The Risk Factor Prevention Paradigm (RFPP) uses risk assessment and survey to identify factors in the key domains of a young person’s life that statistically increase the likelihood of offending or decrease its likelihood (Case, 2007. p. 92). Youth justice today is increasingly dominated by risk management
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Health History Assessment Travis Humes Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 302: Health Assessment I May 2018 Health History Assessment A health history assessment was conducted on G.F, a patient that frequently visits the emergency room for treatment. He was approached after being discharged from the emergency room following treatment. He was assured that his information would be kept confidential. He consented to the interview and was ready to get started immediately. Demographic Data G.F is
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