Health Promotion Pamela McFall Grand Canyon University: Family-Centered Health Promotion November 10, 2013 Health promotion as stated by Chambers & Thompson (2008, pg. 131), “Within the health promotion movement, empowerment has come to focus on promoting equality in health and public participation in decisions affecting health. Empowerment has come to mean a process by which: individual people are encouraged to assert their own autonomy and self-esteem sufficiently to be able to identify
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with self-respect and empathy, treating each person as unique by preserving their dignity and rights. Nursing profession and its practices are based on the philosophical theory of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, veracity, confidentiality, justice and fidelity. These ethical principles help a nurse to build up a philosophically reliable structure by which a base to consideration, action and judgment can be achieved. With the rapid development and change in health care
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Sheri Meyer Vista Health Fort Smith, Arkansas July 14, 2013 I live in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and the only halfway house that we have is Harbor view, or better known to others as Vista Health. Vista Health is located at 10301 Mayo Drive, Barling, AR 72923. The telephone number is (479) 494- 5700. A friend of mine from elementary school works there and she is who I interviewed to find the facts out about Vista Health. Her name is Hannah Yarborough. Vista Health looks forward to assisting anyone
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criticism, degradation, insulting, humiliation, among others. The abused children respond by internalizing the insults, distancing from those insulting them, self-blame, passive behavior, among others (Almond 18). On the other hand, physical abuse involves shaking, poisoning, throwing, drowning, suffocating, hitting or any kind of physical harm directed towards a child. Effects associated include withdrawal, chronic pain, guilt, anxiety, and depression, among others. Child neglect happens to be the most
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need to address teaching strategies that focus on the new generation of students. In teaching an undergraduate course on Nursing the Client with a Mental Illness, the affective domain of learning is used to develop interpersonal competence, self-awareness, and self-reflection. The teaching technique used is an experiential exercise that asks students to create group mandalas using art materials on circular pieces of butcher-block paper. The mandala concept is derived from the Buddhist tradition and
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attention to the language of change, It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.’ Miller & Rollnick (2013 p. 29) The main idea of motivational interviewing is to purposefully create a conversation around change, without attempting to convince the person of the need to change or instructing them about how to change. Motivational interviewing
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state in the health triangle. Spiritual health is very important to our well being and we also want to have a wellness or an overall state of well being or total health. many americans suffer from chronic diseases such as heart disease, obesity, and cancer. Hereditary, the environment, peers and culture all affect your health. The most powerful influences are media and technology because many people see celebrities as role models when they are actually saying to do bad things.Risk behaviors are actions
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This driving force is produced by a state of uncomfortable tension, which exists as the result of an unsatisfied need. All individuals have needs, wants, and desires. The individual’s subconscious drive to reduce need-induced tensions results in behavior that he or she anticipates will satisfy needs and thus bring about a more comfortable internal state. Motivation can be either positive or negative. Innate needs—those an individual is born with—are physiological (biogenic) in nature; they include
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To go into further detail employers must provide the same pay and health insurance to disabled workers, just like every other worker receives pay and health insurance. Disabled workers cannot be segregated from other workers in the building, and reasonable accommodations MUST be made unless the employer can prove “undue hardship”. Basically disabled workers
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Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS 437V July 26, 2012 My Professional Moral Compass A professional moral compass is something everyone has and lives by. It helps assist in making decisions and is based on morals or virtues. My personal moral compass is directed by various inspirations, passions, and values that I try to live by. Compassion, loyalty, integrity, honor, faithfulness, hard work, service unto others, self-discipline, accountability, and a good sense
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