Unit 022. Sarah Enston. Understanding Child and Young Person Development. 3.1. Explain how to monitor children and young people’s development using different methods. • Assessment Frameworks. There are frameworks in place to asses a child’s development, especially their academic performance. • Observation. Observations can be made at any time to record what a child is doing. The observer can either
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Community Health Assessment. Preventing the occurrence of genital herpes in the community can be accomplished by educating and targeting changes in sexual behaviors in high-risk populations; young adults aged 20-29 years old. Educating individuals on signs and symptoms, morbidity and mortality data, associated with the disease have increased effectiveness when individuals of high risk groups are targeted. Primary prevention strategies of genital herpes in at-risk populations of young adults can be
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THE HERITAGE ASSESSMENT TOOL: A CULTURAL VIEW OF THE PATIENT The Heritage Assessment Tool: A Cultural View of the Patient Grand Canyon University: 439v March 11, 2012 The Heritage Assessment Tool: A Cultural View of the Patient The Heritage Assessment Tool is a series of 29 questions designed to determine a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious background. The tool gives nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and
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III. Nursing Assessment……………………………………………………………. 8 A. Personal History Patient’s Profile Family and Individual Information Level of Growth and Development Normal Development at Particular Stage The Ill Person at Particular Stage of Patient B. Diagnostic Results…………………………………………………... 16 C. Present Profile of Functional Health Patterns ……………………. 17 Health Perception / Health Management Pattern
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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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be to critically explore recent Health and Social Care policies in relation to the family unit, and the implications of the policies for health and social care practitioners. The assignment will attempt to discuss relevant biopsychosocial theories which when impacted on the family, influence health status outcomes, including resilience factors. It will also highlight and focus on attributes of vulnerability within the family setting, using specialist assessments skills. The family which the
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called “Mono” or “the kissing disease” because it is most often seen among teenagers or young adults between the ages of 15 to 17.” EBV infectious mononucleosis has also been linked to the cause of viral pharyngitis. According to the CDC, “at least 25% of teenagers and young adults who get infected with EBV will develop infectious mononucleosis” with approximately 12% of susceptible college-aged young adults converting each year and half of whom will develop acute infectious mononucleosis. Mononucleosis/EBV
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associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Intense distress is often experienced, particularly in adolescence. Gender identity disorders can be seen as states in which, in the course of the young person’s psychosexual development, there is an atypical gender identity organisation. The young person experiences their phenotypic sex as incongruous with his or her own sense of gender identity. This predicament, which is commoner in boys, is characterised by: • A desire to be of the other
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Family Assessment and Teaching: LMA Family The purpose of the family assessment is to identify the family problem areas, and the family strengths. These are used as building blocks for the provider to use for interventions, and to strengthen the family. The use of family-identified problems and the provider’s interventions allows for commitment on solutions, and ensures more successful interventions (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014, p.319). The Family Development and Life Cycle Theory is a framework
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Health visitors play a key role in child protection services. They work mainly with the well population and maintain visits and contact with families over a substantial period of time. They are ideally placed to identify changes in parental and child behaviour patterns and are trained to recognise deviations from the norm in health, child development and family relationships, including the identification and support of young carers. This enables them to recognise the need for a referral and to initiate
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