head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT USING FUNCTIONAL HEALTH Family Health Assessment using Functional Health Patterns Micaela Simon Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Melanie Escobar RN, MSN September 6, 2012 Family Health Assessment using Functional Health Patterns Assessment is the first tool in the nursing process in formulating health care plans for the individual as well as the family. A through assessment lays groundwork to promote family health (Edelman
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Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing and ADN means Associate Degree in Nursing. Both degrees will qualify a student to take the same NCLEX exam for a practicing license. There are different competency levels in these two programs. BSN is a four year university program with focus on knowledge, theories, research and clinical and an overall emphasis on the entire field of nursing. The program tend to expose the student to human diversity, global perspective, ethical, legal, health promotion, spiritual perspective
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Family Health Assessment Shaila Rahman Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Melanie Gray MSN October 19, 2014 Family Health Assessment Gordon's Functional Health Patterns provide a useful structural guideline that help nurse or any health care provider to assess any family’s health status and develop a nursing diagnosis according to their need to improve their quality of life. Through each of these eleven patterns of health assessment, nurse can create a systemic
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FINAL PROJECT Develop a paper that is a comprehensive overview of the topic and its relationship to nursing leadership and or management (any of the topics reviewed in the course can be used). Critically evaluate the current impact of the topic upon nursing practice and the evolving health care system. Include recommendations for the future of nursing and nursing leaders. The paper is to be eight to ten (8-10) typed pages excluding the reference page and the title page. Use APA format including
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(Spector, 2009). When we look at someone’s heritage, we look at traditional health methods used to maintain health, protect health, and restore health; these concepts deal with a person’s physical, mental, and spiritual beliefs. This paper will compare these health methods among the Chinese, Hispanic, and Navajo heritages and look at the differences between the health traditions, as well as look at the author’s heritage. Health maintenance deals with what different cultures do in their everyday lives
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Challenges Facing Nurse Practitioners Over the last decade, the changing demands in health care have resulted in a significant demand for Nurse Practitioners. A nurse practitioner (NP) is a nurse with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. The NP has completed a nurse practitioner program in primary health care and has advanced knowledge and clinical expertise in assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and health care management. The nurse practitioner provides wide-ranging and constant care to
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The definition of Nursing per the ANA is Nursing is the protection, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of the illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of the human response, and the advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and populations. The metaparadigm of nursing addresses nursing in four basic terms person, environment, health and nursing practice. The ANA definition is more specific to where we are today and touches
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differences between regulatory agencies and professional nursing organizations as they pertain to my professional nursing practice. I will discuss examples of how provisions from the American Nurses Association’s code of ethics influence my practice. I will also discuss four professional traits, outlined in the American Nurses Association’s code of ethics, that I will bring to an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. I will identify a nursing theory that has influenced my professional practice
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Professional Development of Nursing Professionals In 2010 the United States Government passed into law the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Passage of this act enacted broad sweeping changes across the health care system focusing on expanded coverage, control of health care costs and improvement in the health care delivery system (Kaiser Family Foundation [KFF], 2013). This represents the largest change to the nation’s health care system since 1965 with the creation of Medicare and Medicaid programs
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NUR 403 Theories and Models of Nursing Practice January 8, 2012 Mary McGill, RN, MSN DOROTHEA OREM Nursing Theorist Grid Theorist Selected: Dorothea Orem Description of Theory: “ The central philosophy of the self-care deficit Nursing theory is that all patients want to care for themselves, and they are able to recover more quickly and holistically by performing their own self-care as much as they are able. “ ( Nursing-theory.org, 2011) There are three
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