N435 Virtual Family Health Assessment Project Winona State University Family Structure and History: "Tom" is a 44 year old male with a 42 year old wife and a 13 year old son. Tom, his wife and son are Caucasian, with Tom's parents being first-generation German immigrants. His father died from a CVA at 72, and Tom's only sibling died in a motor vehicle accident. His mother-in-law died at age 64 from ovarian cancer. Tom's mother and father-in-law are retired and in overall
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rigour of measures found in nursing and health-related literature used to assess and evaluate patient spirituality as more than religiosity. Background. Holistic healthcare practitioners recognize important distinctions exist about what constitutes spiritual care needs and preferences and what constitutes religious care needs and preferences in patient care practice. Data sources. Databases searched, limited to the years 1982 and 2009, included AMED, Alt Health Watch, CINAHL Plus with Full Text,
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The purpose of this paper is to perform a holistic assessment of the older adult using the SPICES tool. What is SPICES? The acronym SPICES stands for Sleeping disorder, Problems with eating and feeding, Incontinence, Confusion, Evidence of falls, and Skin breakdown (Fulmer & Wallace, n.d.). Each area of the tool is important to assess in order to address problems and develop interventions or solutions to the problems to ultimately provide quality patient care. Sleep is important not only for promoting
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Instructions to Candidates All candidates must demonstrate competency through verifiable work experience. Candidates must be able to apply the acquired knowledge and skills from the CMA Competency Map at an overall CS-2 level. The duration of work experience will be twenty-four months and all experience must be pre-approved by the Provincial/Territorial Society, as must any changes. Provincial and territorial offices may continue to monitor work experience throughout the duration of the candidate’s
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University of Tasmania Annual Teaching Matters Conference Sharing practice 10th Teaching Matters Annual Conference 22nd-23rd November, Hobart, Tasmania Suggested format for citing papers: Author, I. (2011). Title of paper. In J. Skalicky, A. Adam, D. Abbott, & G. Kregor (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Teaching Matters Annual Conference. Sharing practice [online], Hobart: Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, University of Tasmania. © CALT 2011. The works included in these conference
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Interview the special educator who works with this student and the child’s parent. Write a 2,000- to 3,000-word summary of your observations in which you address the following: • Describe characteristics of the student’s disability. • What types of assessments are used to provide you with information on the student’s strengths and needs? • What are the student’s present levels of educational performance? Describe academic, processing, and communication strengths and needs. • How do you teach this student
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As the population ages, there is an increasing number of families affected by chronic illness. In response to this trend, health care organizations have increased efforts to prevent disease and promote health (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). Nurses are well-positioned to help families lead healthier lives by offering ways that they can support their loved ones during illness. The family nurse considers the family as a unit when planning care because all members of the family
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Lifelong Learning 4/7/13 When you become a teacher you will be working with students with numerous disabilities and each student that has a disability must go through several different procedures. As a teacher or a parent we want to make sure each student and/or child is ready for the next step in their lifelong learning process. Getting the students with disabilities ready for their life you must follows many procedures and each procedure is different because it is a stepping stone giving each
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studies performed so far, could still yield highly significant gains in health care with huge resource implications and better use of acute hospital beds.1 Unfortunately, none of the included trials assessed communication with primary care staff about patient transfer of care. This is an important aspect of discharge planning and another potentially important advantage for patients. On a patient’s initial contact with health services, discharge planning should be started.4 This is often difficult
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teaching approaches: pedagogy/andragogy, ice breakers, ground rules. * Deliver/Facilitate is about how you will impart the knowledge; group/one-two-one or combination your delivery must consider all learning styles and teaching approaches. * Assessment: relates to how you will measure the retention or understanding of imparted knowledge, but also ground rules, your conduct/behaviour. Maintaining records is another key element of your responsibilities * Evaluation: relates to how you can improve
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