Macro Systems Angelica Bever BSHS 325 June 18, 2015 Maria Perrotta Macro Systems According to Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, & Thomas (2012), “macro practice is a professionally guided intervention designed to bring about planned change in organizations and communities.” This paper will be discussing the concept of personal, interpersonal, and political, the ways individuals react in a macro, mezzo, and micro environment. As well as the macro system in response to child maltreatment
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introduction of new ideas that the nursing profession can do for healthcare (“The Future of Nursing”, 2010). The report states that there is a need to revolutionize education and nurses should acquire higher levels of education and training through a system that encouraged consistent academic advancement (“The Future of Nursing”, 2010). The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) believes that education has a great influence on the skills and knowledge of the nurse (“The Impact of Education”
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Transcultural Nursing Theory Applied Vulnerable Populations I "Nowhere are the divisions of race, ethnicity and culture more sharply drawn that in the health of the people in the United States. Despite recent progress in overall national health, there are continuing disparities in the incidence of illness and death among African Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Alaskan Natives and Pacific Islanders as compared with the US population as a whole." --National
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Would Be Arranged in Terms of the Depth and Breadth of Their Product Lines: Discuss how the following organizations would be arranged in terms of the depth and breadth of their product lines: A solo-practice family practitioner who does not deliver babies A multi-specialty group practice that provides primary care at five (5) satellite locations An academic medical center Shouldice Hospital in Toronto, which specializes in short-stay surgery for hernia repair According to our text
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many family types that can be considered high-risk. When dealing with these high risk families it is important to not make assumptions, get to know the members of the family, identify family strengths and needs, and implement a plan that has the most benefit the family and can accomplish the best outcomes. Teen pregnancy, especially in the Latino/Hispanic community is on the rise and higher than most other ethnicities and races. This paper will discuss teen pregnancy as a high risk family type
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INTRODUCTION History has it that Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was brought from Jerusalem to Alexandria on the Egyptian coast by Mark, one of the four evangelists, in 60 AD. This was around the same time or possibly before Christianity spread to Northern Europe. Once in North Africa, Christianity spread slowly West from Alexandria and
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impact people with I/DD and their families across a lifetime. While it is not possible to become an expert in every resource or topic that impacts a person with a disability, there are some key resources which I&R professionals should be familiar with: The Arc’s most common referral is to a local chapter of The Arc or another local service organization. Chapters of The Arc and other service organizations frequently have expertise in providing connections for families to local resources. In an urgent
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are limited empirical studies about child maltreatment among Asian Americans. Chang et al. (2006) examined the characteristics and patterns of child abuse in immigrant Korean families and correlates of placement decisions. They collected data from the Los Angeles County, California. The study found that immigrant Korean families are more likely to be changed with physical abuse (49.4%) and less likely to be charged with neglect (20.6%). The emotional abuse is kind of witnessing domestic violence. Also
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ASQ-SE completed by the Psychologist and if motor was indicated as an area of concern the Peabody is completed by the Occupational and/or Physical Therapist. The online resource that provides the Ohio perspective on the diagnosis and eligibility practices that I found resourceful was
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Chinese proverb. Sadly, this ancient saying remains true in the modern American medical system. At the start of the third millennium of Western culture and progress, the suffering of medical illness arguably may be higher than in the centuries past. Until the last 50 years, illness—often combined with poverty—was a greater shortener of lives. But death, compared with today, came more quickly. In practice, an internist sees the local viewpoint of national statistics: 90 million Americans alive
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