In “Next-Generation Psychiatric Assessment: Using Smartphone Sensors to Monitor Behavior and Mental Health”, a study was conducted to determine whether the use of smartphones would be useful to monitor mental health and behavior. The team conducting the study hypothesized that sensory smart phone data would be associated with daily levels of stress in individuals, and that the data would also be associated with changes in stress, depression, and loneliness over time. The study took place over the
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Using the Amputee Mobility Predictor and the Prosthetic Evaluation Questionnaire in Conjunction Gives the Best Overall Outlook on a Patient’s Quality of Life Sarah Norman University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences October 2014 Word Count: Like any patient population, improving the overall quality of life for lower limb amputee (LLA) is the priority for physical therapists. The difficulty comes when trying to narrow down the most beneficial interventions and prosthetic devices
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Family Health Assessment Family Health Assessment Health Assessment Questions 1. Health promotion a. What do you do to improve or maintain your health? b. What do you know about the links between lifestyle choices and health? 2. Nutrition a. Do you have any diseases that effects food choices? b. Do you consider yourself well nourished? 3. Sleep and Rest c. Describe your sleep wake cycle? d. Does this person appear physically relaxed and rested
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0d8e-4cc4-97c5-ec0c3cbd1e4a%40sessionmgr115&vid=32&hid=104 Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of short term hippotherapy on functional gait changes in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Participants were two boys (ages 12 and 13) with spastic diplegia and a girl (14 yrs) with athetoid CP. Single-subject (ABA) design was used to determine quantitative changes in functional gait parameters (velocity, stride length, and cadence) following three weeks of hippotherapy. The two boys demonstrated improvement
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What are Functional Health Patterns? A functional health pattern is an assessment tool used to help identify family needs in regards to their health. The assessment evaluates weakness and dysfunction within the family that could increase potential risk factors in association with overall health and wellness (Edelman, 2010). By identifying the problem areas allows for intervention and promotional strategies to alleviate the dysfunction. Health Pattern for my family There are eleven areas
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difficult for a patient or/and family member to understand the different choices that are available to them. Working as an AGNP in an internal medicine clinic would typically include adult patients only with many of the patients having chronic and complex health conditions. My first response to this important question is to ask the patient if he/she has any family members that are involved in his/her care and/or has any involvement in helping to making this type of decision? From my clinical experiences
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| |Unit Grading System |Pass | |Sector/Subject Area |01.3 Health and Social Care | | | | |Purpose and aim of unit |To
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REMEMBER: You should not use the web page copyright date as a “publication date” - you will use the term “n.d.” if no publication date for the article/publication is listed. How to document a Lecture: The health assessment of infants [Lecture 1]. (2012). In Health assessment. Retrieved from Grand Canyon University website: https://lc-ugrad1.gcu.edu/learningPlatform/ How to document an article from a Journal: Graves, S. & Larkin, E. (2006). Lessons from Erikson: A look at autonomy across
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Running head: Theories of Aging Theories of Aging Nate Aungkuldee Milwaukee School of Engineering –School of Nursing Abstract Gerontological nursing may be viewed as the nursing management for older population. Knowledge of nursing care and competency of caring for elderly become more important as the result of increasing population of old age people in the past decade and expecting in ongoing increasing in the next twenty years. There are many theories
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Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns Health perception-health management pattern – Perception of personal health & well being, & how health is managed; understanding of how health practices contribute to health status – Assess general health status & usual health behaviours • Nutrition-metabolic pattern – Patterns of food & fluid consumption relative to metabolic need; skin assessment, fluid volume, thermoregulation – Assess eating patterns, appraisal of appetite, weight loss or gain, changes in skin
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