Journal Article Review # 1 Sherry Moore Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 305 Health Assessment Professor Kettley November 10, 2013 Introduction “A guide to taking a patient’s history” is an article which was written by Hiliary Lloyd and Stephen Craig, published in volume 22, issue 13, of Nursing Standard in December 2007. Lloyd and Craig describe the process of taking a health history and explain how environment and other factors affect the accuracy of the health history obtained. This
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understanding of the client’s cultural needs, language, beliefs, and health practices. “Cultural care takes into account the context in which the patient lives, as well as the situations in which the patient’s health problems arise.” (Spector). A person’s heritage encompasses culture, ethnicity, and religion. (Edelman &Mandle, 2010). Culture is the shared patterns of values, behaviors, and traditions of a group that are handed down from generation to generation. Ethnicity highlights the culture and social
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ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Electronic or manual submission UNIT CODE: SWK2111 TITLE: Aboriginal Histories of the Present | NAME OF STUDENT FAMILY NAME: SMITH FIRST NAME: MARY | STUDENT ID NO.10355079 | NAME OF LECTURER Dr. Gus Henderson | DUE DATE11/3/2016 | Topic of assignment Presentation-personal stories | Group or tutorial (if applicable)
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MUSEUMS: THEIR ROLES AND IMPORTANCE In this section of our presentation we will discuss the roles and importance of museums in relation to art and the society in general. Museums were an early form of public education intended to enlighten the general population. The creation of the Public Museum was an expression of the 18th century enlightenment which generated enthusiasm for equality of opportunity in learning. According to the declaration made in the Copenhagen 10th General Assembly of the International
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Therefore, how does one gauge the superiority of a school? This very difficult question has no easy answers. The most common and maybe the only way researchers can create and measure the effectiveness of a school is by measuring achievement. The American Heritage Dictionary seems to define achievement as “something that has been accomplished successfully, especially by means of exertion, skill, practice, or perseverance” (Lubienski and Lubienski, 2006). This definition is not exactly what researchers are
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and remain unnoticed. He does not want to meet for face-to-face counseling currently and will be handling all communication through web-based technology. Alistair has been given the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the Strong Interest Inventory. Assessment Results The results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are as follows; 1) on the Extraversion to Introversion scale, Alistair scored a 26, putting him very clearly on the Introversion side; 2) on the Sensing to Intuition scale, Alistair
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express the Asian culture and his experience to the British audience. I watched this performance on 15th January 2015. In this controlled Assessment, I will be analysing the performance of East is East. The key characters in the play were: Ayub Din Khan (George), Jane Horrocks (Ella) and Micheal Karim (Sajit). George (Ayub Din Khan) is the head of the Khan family, who tries to enforce his culture in a different society. He rose and grew throughout the play with is humour. I believe he is an obvious
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The U.S. Census Bureau states that in 2008 minorities represented approximately one third of the US population and by 2050 will represent one half of the United States population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008). Before we investigate several cultural families, their needs as patients, traditions and health practices, we must consider what role culture plays in the nursing process. Culture remains to be a vague concept that is often not well understood or explored. Culture can be referred to as the way
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development, consumer protection; involvement of stakeholders eg developers, tourism industry, tourists and host community; public/private partnerships and advantages/disadvantages of; effective use of resources eg infrastructure; natural, cultural, heritage, human resources https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5649485182751853952#editor/target=post;postID=3748877749371906313 LO2 Understand different approaches to tourism planning and development Planning: environmental; economic; social; international;
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Family Health and Nursing Practice University of Phoenix NUR 542: Dynamics of Family Systems May 25, 2010 Traditional hospital based nursing care is most often care provided to individual patients. Individual patients, however, are members of a family. Family nursing practice has evolved over the past 20 years as a way to approach and work with families. Effective nursing care ensures that the entire family’s situation, not only the illness of the loved one, is considered (Maijala & Astedt-Kurki
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