Introduction According to the World Federation of Occupational Therapy, occupational therapy is a profession which is concerned with the promotion of well-being and health of individuals through engaging them in occupation. It is a holistic healthcare profession with an aim to promote health in individuals by enabling them to perform purposeful and meaningful activities across their lifespan. Occupational therapist by using different treatments help their patients with a mental, physical or developmental
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Midwifery Council guidelines (2004) state; ‘you have a duty to protect the confidentiality of the patient or client record’, therefore it is vital to value every patients’ record details and personal confidentiality as well as their views and beliefs. ‘Healthcare professionals should make all efforts necessary to ensure that a patient can give meaningful and properly informed consent before treatment is initiated. This is especially important when a patient has a more severe depression or is subject to the
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Running head: Jean Watson A Reflective Look at Jean Watson Thomas Bair NUR403: THEORIES AND MODELS OF NURSING PRACTICE Theories contain concepts, definitions, models, propositions, and are based on assumptions rather than concrete facts (Nursing Theories, 2012). They are used as a tool for reasoning, critical thinking and decision making. The nursing profession uses theories as the framework and foundation for practice to strengthen our nursing knowledge. As
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maintenance, protection, and restoration. Heritage Assessment Usefulness In assessing one’s heritage, cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds and preferences, and how it may directly relate to the person’s views on health and illness, the healthcare professional will be able to understand the individual as a whole and be able to tend to their needs better rather than just focusing on the illness itself. Being culturally competent means providing health care based on the understanding of the
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Cultural heritage is an expressions developed by a community and passed through generation to generation including practices, customs, objects, places and values. (ICOMOS, 2002). Cultural Heritage is ones unique and unbreakable bonds to the root, it defines who they are and where their origin lie. Health care has to be specific with patients need and patients traditional and cultural values should be consider. Individuals here in United States came from different cultures, however they still sustained
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a culture heritage assessment tool. This tool consists of twenty nine questions about culture, “the greater the number of positive responses, the greater the individual’s identification with a traditional heritage.” (Spector, 2009) In order for healthcare providers to provide optimal health outcomes, the evaluation of different cultures will reveal what similarities and differences are in traditions in all three cultures. It will also help identify the approach that needs to be made in teaching,
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Incorporating Mindfulness into Practice Staci Dobson WGU Professional Presence Healthcare requires many attributes to excel as a caregiver. Historically caring for the physical body has been our focus. Research has shown humans require care of the body, mind, and spirit to obtain optimal wellbeing. As a caregiver to be able to provide for the needs of the patient, we need to grow in our self-awareness and increase the mindfulness in our practice. Models of Health and Healing. We have
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Abstract Human beings develop throughout their lifespan, as they make good choices to meet their physical, spiritual and emotional needs. While development is not sequential, it is progressive as the story of life molds and shapes the beliefs and choices of the future. When humans are compared and evaluated, what is it that influences one person to make good choices and another to make bad choices? The ability to adapt and handle times of crisis is a good indicator of a healthy, well-balanced
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Comparison and Contrasting of the Book of Job and the 5 Stages of Grief by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Candie R. Cuneo Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Healthcare HLT 310 V Vernon Meyer October 08, 2010 Comparison and Contrasting of the Book of Job and the 5 Stages of Grief by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Introduction Have people only been able to progress through the stages of grief since 1969 when Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross put a name to the model of processing grief or have people
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American Indian and Alaska Native Populations: How They Fair vs. the National Average Kari L. Singer Grand Canyon University: NRS- March 1, 2015 American Indian and Alaska Native Populations: How They Fair vs. the National Average There are many different ethnicities and cultures in the United States. This paper will be comparing American Indians and Alaska Natives health to that of the national average. We will be looking at the current health status of this ethnic group compared to the
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