The professional role of the nursing profession varies, as nurses play a variety of roles within the healthcare system. The professional nurse as a leader and manger, bring a significant amount of value to the healthcare system and society. They play the leadership role by influencing individuals to accomplish their goals and dreams, whereas they manage individuals by coordinating, planning and organizing the team (Blais & Hayes, 2011). As a leader, nurses mainly focus on the people they work with
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Heritage Assessment of the Three Culturally Diverse Families Olga Kormuskina Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V December 21, 2014 Heritage Assessment of the Three Culturally Diverse Families To deliver high quality health care services to an increasingly diverse population, it is vital to be culturally competent. This approach is especially applicable in the United States where a big part of the population consists of immigrants coming from all over the world (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle
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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 equal values and are different from one another. Heritage Assessment is a tool to help us know about one beliefs and the health tradition. Heritage tool help the author recognized different cultures thoughts, beliefs. This
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High-Risk Family Assessment and Health Promotion Paper Corey Hollmann University of Phoenix NUR/542 6/30/2014 Danielle Patrick High-Risk Family Assessment and Health Promotion-Suicidal Ideation Suicide and ideation to commit this final act, is a grave public health concern that is multifaceted and responsible for significant family risk. Suicide is a behavior that has worldwide resulted in nearly one million fatalities annually. Suicide is commonly an act driven by impulsivity and followed
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Welfare System Victoria Chatman BSHS 301 July 2, 2012 Pamela Hardy History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare System The United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. It comes as no surprise that out of the 20% of poverty stricken children in America, African American, and Latino children exceed 40%. In fact, children of color are overrepresented in the foster care system and are the least likely to be reunited with their families. This overrepresentation
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Services are also devoted to help people meet their basic needs as well as to place them on the path to independence. Even though Human Services incorporates wide-range of systems, this paper will discuss a more universal view of this model. As well as the long term goal and history of Human Services, the nature of the generalist practice, theoretical frameworks, common intervention strategies and finally, ethical considerations will all be discussed in this essay. The Goal of Human Services As previously
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by giving care to terminally ill patient. Palliative care is given to patient in relation to their cultural practices and spiritual needs (Davis and Kuebler, 2007) as the perceptions of a person about health and illness is defined by the cultural beliefs and values which are practiced in society (McGrath et al., 2006). Cultural diversity among various cultures is dependent upon belief system of people regarding death and dying (Clark, 2010). The following article has been focused on the role of different
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Their journey began by moving to Holland to live with a family member when she was four. The reason for doing so was to establish residence in the European Union. They would then move to the United Kingdom in order to do the paper work for immigration to the United States. She said going about immigration this way made the process easier than trying to immigrant straight from Ghana. Her, and her family, finally immigrated to the United States by the time she was six. They immigrated
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOMENT OF NURSING PRACTICE Femi ISEMEDE NRS/430v February, 23 2014 Introduction. The impact of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2010 report as it affects the future of nursing in relation to nursing education, nursing practice, particularly in primary care and the nurse’s role as a leader will be our subject of discussion. The IOM is not a profit organization but an organization founded for the purpose of providing national advice with regards to biomedicine science, medicine
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Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), reflects the cultural impact of basic beliefs and traditions of church members practices and activities. The culture is geographically concentrated in the Western North American area, but is present to a lesser extent in many areas of the world where LDS live. Church members are encouraged to marry and have children, and as a result, LDS families tend to be larger than average. All sexual activity, both heterosexual and homosexual, outside of marriage is considered
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