Vulnerable Population in Current Events Michele M Maiorano NUR/440 February 11‚ 2013 Nita A. Magee-Cornelius‚ RN‚ MSN‚ PhD(c) Vulnerable Population in Current Events A way of defining a vulnerable population is addressing it as a group of people who are at risk for developing health problems (de Chesnay & Anderson‚ 2012‚ p. 5). It is not partial to age‚ gender‚ or nationality. In this case‚ it is the pediatric population. According to Allison Kempe‚ who was the lead in a recent research
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Vulnerable populations in the United States include economically disadvantaged‚ racial and ethnic minorities‚ low-income children‚ the elderly‚ homeless‚ people living with HIV and other chronic medical conditions that include mental illness. Other factors that contribute to these populations are a lack of healthcare‚ poverty‚ social‚ environmental factors and lack of education. Vulnerable populations divided into three categories physical‚ psychological‚ and social. The vulnerability may arise
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Assessment Tool Analysis Paper Direct participation with vulnerable populations often causes students to develop a better understanding of self and their own strengths and weaknesses. Students develop skills in problem solving‚ critical thinking‚ leadership‚ and ethical decision-making. An increased sense of civic responsibility‚ increased political and global awareness‚ and development of cultural competence may also be outcomes (Mueller & Norton‚ 1998) developed the Perceived Stress Scale
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Vulnerable Populations in the Workplace Nursing 440 Depression in the Oncology Patient Imagine you are going to the doctor for an annual check-up. No real problems have plagued you over the past year‚ except a few colds. However‚ the past few weeks you have been extremely tired. The doctor‚ being thorough‚ decides they want some blood work drawn. A day after getting the blood work the phone rings. The doctor wants you to have more blood work done because there has apparently been a mistake
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RUBEN DARIO Y. CALMA JR. City Add: Blk. 11 Lot 2 Phase 3 Villa Roma Subdivision Brgy. Saog Marilao‚ Bulacan Mobile.: +63 922-3844252 +63 922-9815569 ------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES Sta. Mesa‚ Manila BACHELOR in ACCOUNTANCY 1985-1989 DR. JUAN G. NOLASCO HIGH SCHOOL Manila
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Vulnerable Populations Kathleen King- Materio BSHS/302 10/01/2012 Maryann Sorrell Vulnerable Populations All communities contain a mentally ill population. Their behavior is considered to be inappropriate and abnormal. Every society has cultivated solutions in which to treat the mentally ill in order to prevent disruption of the strong civil function. Normal behavior varies through generations and societies. When deciding if a person is mentally ill‚ the generation and culture must be taken
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Capstone project‘s paper‚ I will answer the next question; what is the impact of the Human resource management (HR) practices in the success of the big companies’ management such as Proctor and Gamble (P&G)? .To answer this question‚ I will follow a qualitative analysis by taking the company Proctor and Gamble (P&G) as a study case. I will find out‚ how the company uses the talent management perspective which is defined as the goal-oriented and integrated process of planning‚ recruiting‚ developing
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at least one undocumented parent increased over the decade to 4 million in 2009 (Passel &Cohn‚ 2009). PERSONAL AWARENESS As a Hispanic female nurse‚ daughter of Latino immigrants‚ I feel frustration and anger at times‚ when at the hospitals where at work I see how so many patients play with the health care system and their lives. It gets me very upset and sad when I see patients specially those from my same culture not taking care of themselves‚ not taking advantage of the opportunity they
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Priorities and Responses Fire can be a very dangerous thing and is very unpredictable‚ this is why it may cause panic in the if you are at the scene of one. The first step in when a fire is happening is too let everyone in the building know what is going on‚ you do this by raising the fire alarm for everyone to hear‚ and then for someone to ring emergency services. Although it may cause panic and distress it must be done so people start evacuating the building. However the health care professional
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1 NMIMS Management Review 2004‚ Vol 16 No 1 & 2‚ pp. 1-6. Impact of Gender and Transformational Leadership on Organizational Culture Shelly Kawatra and Venkat R. Krishnan Abstract. An experiment was conducted to study the impact of leader’s feminine traits and transformational leadership on organizational culture‚ using a sample of 109 MBA students from a leading management institute in India. A 2x2 design with four leadership scenarios—transformational feminine leader‚ transformational masculine
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