Homeless as a Vulnerable Population Sara Williams Nur/440 9-5-2011 University of Phoenix The Homeless as a vulnerable population This article discusses a framework for understanding the nature of the homeless population. It discusses four pathways‚ increased heat waves‚ and increased air pollution‚ increases severity of floods and storms‚ and it also talks about the distribution of the West Nile Virus. The article discusses why the homeless are amongst the most vulnerable groups to be affect
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(2012)‚ in her book ‘Nursing Theories: A framework for professional practice’ describes a person as “individuals‚ families‚ communities and other groups who are participants in nursing” (Masters‚ K‚ 2012‚ P3). This statement refers to patients as individuals in need of the care of nurses. In fact‚ these individuals can have very complex needs and health problems requiring specialized and attentive care to facilitate healing and improvement of their condition. The term patient can represent a multitude
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Safeguarding a vulnerable older adult This essay will discuss the older adult whose illness referred them to palliative care and onto safeguarding. I will first explain what safeguarding a vulnerable adult on palliative care is and explain my scenario and discuss what had happened and what could have helped the patient who was at the end of life care. The Department of Health‚ (2011) defines Safeguarding as a multi-disciplinary work that works together to minimise and manage risks to vulnerable adults
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Compare policies used in China to control rapid‚ population growth with the policies used in one other named country The two policies that I have studied are the One Child Policy in China and the Population Control Program in Kerala‚ India. In 1978‚ china decided that they needed to control the population and introduced a law that only one successful pregnancy was allowed per couple and rewards were given if couples followed the rules such as pay rise‚ free education for child and healthcare as
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Practitioner (ANP) when assessing and analysing the health needs of a specific population. The author will focus on one specific disease‚ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in relation to South Asian men living in both the United Kingdom (UK) and in South Asia. In view of the large demographics of South Asia the author will specifically focus on Indian‚ Pakistan and Bangladeshi groups also making a comparison with the population residing in Ireland. The author will provide a critical and analytical
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“ideas often flow from radio and print to the opinion leaders and from them to the less active sections of the population” (Lazarsfeld 1944). This assumption‚ challenging the popular idea of strong direct media effects on the public (Stimulus–Response Model)‚ turned out to be one of the most influential ideas in communication research from the 1940s to at least the 1960s. THE THEORY The power of the mass media therefore is indirect and is reduced by the influence of local opinion leaders. The
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Comforting the Neonate; application of the Comfort Care Theory Introduction An anonymous author once said‚ "In the last stages of a final illness‚ we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family." The comfort care theory by Katharine Kolcaba exemplifies this by creating a baseline of quality care that both nurses and doctors can utilize in providing care to a dying patient. Comfort has been called a distinguishing characteristic of the nursing profession yet‚ until Katharine Kolcaba‚ had never
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Community Health Nursing HAT 2 Western Governors University Community Health Nursing HAT 2 Section A I feel that the quality of life has more importance than the quantity of life. It is important to make decisions together that family members can live with after the death of their loved one. While I would support a persons right to pursue further treatments‚ medicine can only do so much and in many cases reduces the quality of the time you have left. Spending time together‚ talking
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THE OLDER POPULATION Gray is the new color of the world population. Today the globe is home to two billion people over the age of sixty‚ a group that is growing five times as quickly as the population as a whole. Of those‚ one hundred and eleven million are in the United States alone. With our elderly population increasing; we will have to find ways to care for them. According to the Census Bureau‚ more people were 65 and over in 2010‚ and increased at a faster rate than the
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Motivation theories are primarily divided into two major types which are the content theories and the process theories. This report aims to critically evaluate two process theories of motivation which is the Expectancy Theory by Victor Vroom and the Equity Theory by John Stacy Adams. The methodologies used in this report include a study and analysis of textbooks‚ writings and journals from the internet. As a conclusion‚ the question is not whether each of these approaches
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