1.0 Introduction 1.1 Purpose What is obesity, how do people get it, what are the impacts and cost, how are we treating it and how can we treat it? This Report will not only answer these questions but evaluate obesity in Australia as well as Terrace and what programs are in place to help minimize this current health epidemic. The purpose of this report is to not only inform readers on the current issue and provide programs to help assist sufferers with obesity but it aims to prevent obesity before
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Women and Heart Disease Coppin State University Abstract Heart disease is a leading cause of death for women and men worldwide. Women are more vulnerable to myocardial infarction because of the size of their coronary arteries. They have unique risk factors such as a high level of cholesterol, hypertension, and smoking that cause heart disease, which leads to the high mortality rate. To reduce the high mortality rate among women, nurses must play their roles as educators because they interact
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Nightingale defined nursing as "the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery”. Nightingale considered a clean, well-ventilated, and quiet environment essential for recovery. She raised the status of nursing through education. Nurses were no longer untrained housekeepers but people educated in the care of the sick. Concepts of Nursing There are four concepts of nursing: Human beings (people), the environment, health and nursing. (Kearney-Nunnery, 2012, p. 4) People
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Heart Failure Christy Harding Western Governors University C155- Pathopharmacological Foundations for Advance Nursing Practice Heart failure affects nearly 6 million Americans. It is the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than 65. Roughly 550,000 people are diagnosed with heart failure each year (Emory Healthcare, 2014). Heart failure is a pathologic state where the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the demand of the body’s metabolic needs or when the ventricle’s ability
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Review of Literature Nancy D. Guerrero Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion March 31, 2013 Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2005 as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health.” Health Promotion is focused on bringing awareness to the public in order to prevent an increase in disease. Health promotion can also give the individual the tools
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Patient Education Plan for Larry Garcia Timber L. Keys NURS/427 January 14, 2013 Amy Prichard Patient Education Plan for Larry Garcia An important component of a nurse’s daily responsibilities is to provide the patient with the knowledge base he or she will need to improve their quality of life after the illness. Patient education is a central part of the practice of all health professionals. Patient education services are delivered during direct care given by health care practitioners
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diomyopathy Topic presentation on Cardiomyopathy Topic presentation on Cardiomyopathy INDEX S.N | CONTENT | PG.NO | 1 | Introduction | 5 | 2 | Definition Cardiomyopathy | 5 | 3 | Classification | 6 | 4 | Risk Factors
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Higher Education for Nurses Means Safer Care for the Patients Ethan Hu May 29, 2014 Higher Education for Nurses Means Safer Care for the Patients I. Introduction: In today ever changing world of healthcare, where technologies become more advance and patients become sicker, there is an urgent call from many nursing associations, especially the American Nurse Association, which encourages nurses to pursuit higher education. While two-year prepared nurses have the same set of clinical skills
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and it can be caused by many things. If you are obese people don’t realize how it affects your health and how sick it can really make you and that’s why we need programs to get people educated on what they can do to keep themselves healthy from getting sick. Children are on the rise of being obese and they are the number one group that is being affected. If the child is over weight we need to teach the parents as well how to eat right and exercise wit h your kids so that they wont be obese and at
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(pg306) does this not tie into what we are trying to achieve in this decade and future health promotion and prevention. Yes it does. When we use our nursing theory we understand that with any theory we must have proof of what we have done and how we have been successful. We can use our theories as a guide for research as well collecting data analyzing that data and coming up with
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