Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Hillsborough County, Florida is the 4th largest county in Florida. It is comprised of 1,048 square miles of land and 24 square miles of inland water area for a total of 1,072 square miles located midway along the west coast of Florida. It has a diverse culture of people cohabitating in a large community. Assessing the community allows you to see a broader picture of diversity and layers of multicultural issues that affect
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couple things that I found to be interesting about nursing. Did you know that Jan 27th is school nurse day? Or did you know that in 1783 a black slave named James Derham worked as a nurse in New Orleans, eventually earning enough money to buy his freedom and move to Philadelphia, where he studied medicine and became a doctor? And I also bet that you didn’t know that the largest demand for Licensed Practical Nurses through 2110 will be in nursing homes? Or that the 4th week of May is National Nurses
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Nursing Professional Reflections Elham Kowsar Antelope Valley College Mrs. Cox Nursing Science 201 A good nurse needs certain skills in order to operate effectively in a psychiatric setting. Although there are many attributes essential to excellent nursing care, this paper specifically focuses on empathy, self-awareness, and building of trust in the professional relationship between a nurse and her patient. In the mental health setting it is important to understand
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J. A. Care Plan Tamara Parker South College Medical Dx: Depression Allergies: Demerol, Oxycodone Hx: 91 y/o female brought to Shannondale from Blount Memorial with multiple fractures which she sustained from falling out of her bed. Patient suffers from chronic back pain and has hx of osteoporosis, muscle weakness, glaucoma, hyperlipidemia, kyphoplasty with bone fusion, back fusion, stemi, OA, and depression. |Neuro:
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Scholarly paper on HIV in women Student name: Institution: Introduction Relevant nursing issue Some of the questions that arise from women living with HIV are barrier to social services. It affects the livelihood of women; thus, they are unable to acquire some essential services. Another issue is that they have mental health problem; thus, they are placed
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stayed in hospital for two weeks or more, were present on the ward when the survey was conducted, were safe enough to be approached as judged by the ward staff and gave informed consent to take part in the study” (Stewart et al., 2011, p. 1006). The nursing staff helped to identify eligible patients and once these patients gave informed consent, the researcher completed the Patient-Staff Conflict Checklist (PCC), which is a device used to record the number of conflicts and containments during each shift;
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Nursing communication should always be patient centered. guidelines for self-disclosure. To self-disclosure there has to be a safe and secure environment where everybody, all staff, whether they choose to self-disclosure or not, feel comfortable doing so
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Criminal Case Scenario and Assessment Tools Name of Student Institution affiliation Criminal Case Scenario and Assessment Tools Case Scenario of Mary and Richard Mary is a third-born in a family of three siblings. Richard, her husband understands that Mary is easily irritable and can get angry expressing her temper in very regrettable ways and so he tries to live with in such a way that she does not make her angry. The origin of Mary’s unexplained anger can be traced back to her childhood
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need constant supervision, help and care from authorized nursing personnel, in order to lead a rather normal life. Other countries use terms such as “intellectual disability” or “mental retardation”. (Perry, Hammond and Marston, 2010) According to Doctor Nicola Davies (2008), older patients that suffer from learning disabilities have greater physical healthcare need than other patients, however due to a lack of proper training of the nursing personnel or a misunderstanding of their requirements, their
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circumstances. VSMMC-Center for Behavioral Sciences is for in and out patients. Services for in-patients are being offered in the Psychiatric Center also known as their Psychiatric ward where patients catered commonly has Schizophrenia, Bipolar I and II, Substance abuse disorder. There are many philosophies, theoretical approach and framework of reference used by the center. Their viewpoints states that the institution provides comprehensive, accessible and quality services for all social status. Some of these
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