1. Assess your community’s access to health care technology and determine how that access (or lack thereof) impacts your community economically. For people living in the rural areas, the distance to main metropolitan centres often places restrictions on access to essential services, including specialist healthcare. Telemedicine provides one possible answer. Many different terms such as telehealth, telecare, online health and E-health have been used but they all have a common meaning, i.e.
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ages zero to five makes up 5.1%, young people under the age of 18 makes up 21.5%, and adults 65 years of age or older makes up 16.6% of the population. The attitudes toward the elderly in the south in general seem to be mostly respectful. Families care for their aging parents in the home as long as possible and sometimes even grandchildren are identified as caregivers. The age of adulthood is generally reported as 18 but children much younger are sometimes put to work on family farms or get part
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Technology helps to deliver care by providing access of information to the provider. It helps to bridge the gap of experts and the geographically dispersed. Technology helps to create a supportive network of professionals in healthcare. It allows for a continuum of care through the access of past and present treatments. There needs to be safeguards in place when protecting patient information.
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adherence to care regimens. Providing patient forms and educational materials that are appropriate from cultural, linguistic, and literacy standpoints (Singleton 2009), or providing, if necessary an interpreter, would ensure along with return demonstration that the client can adhere to care regimens. I could make a difference in the APN’s role compared to my present role in professional nursing by enabling me to diagnose, manage, treat and deliver primary care equal to physician-provided care, but in
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Health promotion in Nursing Care Grand Canyon University NRS 429v April 29th 2012 Health promotion in Nursing Care Health is a condition of a sound mind, body and spirit. It is a state of physical, emotional and social well being, not just absence of disease (April 26th 2012). In this paper, the subject of health promotion will be defined
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The purpose of health promotion in nursing is to support and educate patients to better understand what they can do to maintain optimal health and/or achieve better health. There are three levels of health promotion and include primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary health promotion is the education to prevent disease. The goal is to reduce the patient’s risk for disease. This can be done through several different ways of education. One example is preventing childhood obesity. In an article
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Quality assurance was born in the industrial setting in the 1950s. There it stayed, evolved, and thrived until the early 1990s when it made the crossover into the health care arena, (Sollecito & Johnson,p 20 2013). In the modern era, striving for excellence and the assurance of quality is a staple of health care and, with the transition to pay-for-performance and evidenced-based practices in medicine, it is becoming more important and more visible. In the healthcare setting, quality assurance (QA)
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population. The World Health Organization (2014), defines Health Promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health”. Health promotion and disease prevention involves methods of care that are classified into three categories: primary prevention, secondary prevention and tertiary prevention. As nurses are advancing their careers to public health nursing (PHN) advanced practice nursing (APN), and are taking on leadership roles, nurses now more than ever,
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will greatly benefit our operation. The number of patients needing compounded prescriptions has risen in recent years, and we aim to capitalize on this growing demand. Our patient population will largely consist of patients from the clinics of Baptist, but we hope to expand our patient base to include anyone that could benefit from our unique approach to compounding; we are willing to expand our supply of compounded products as our patient population grows and changes. Most independent
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Dhaka City College INTERNSHIP REPORT ON “Measuring the Effectiveness of Grameen Phone’s CSR Programs in Creating the Brand Awareness” Supervised By: Ms.Nasrin Sultana Lecturer Department of Business Administration
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