Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing NUR/405 University of Phoenix Material Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Event or Influence: 2001 No Child Left Behind Act Key health issues This law was signed into law by George W. Bush on January 8‚ 2002 (Frontline‚ 2013). This law is a check point or educational average that measures improvement or decline in student ability through grades 3-8 annually in math and reading (Frontline
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Significant Health Care EventAmy DiZio University of Phoenix HCS 531 Significant Health Care Event There are many events that have influenced health care and the way it has been delivered throughout the years. These events have helped shape and change health care with the ever changing needs of the population at large. Some of the influences are society‚ culture‚ finance‚ religion‚ politics‚ health trends‚ environment and population (Shi and Singh‚ 2012‚ p.9). For the purpose and focus of this
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Heart Healthy Family African American and Heart Disease Heart disease is the #1 killer for all American’s‚ and the fourth leading cause of death. As scary as this sounds African-Americans are at a much higher risk for getting heart disease‚ 44% men and 48% women. There is good news however‚ African-Americans can improve their odds of preventing this disease‚ by taking simple steps to prevent them. First you need to understand how the heart works. The heart is muscle‚ with blood vessels leading in
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Conflict management processes 1. SARS When dealing with the SARS crisis in 2003‚ SIA took action not only in changing their long standing policy of not retrenching staff unless necessary‚ to laying off 414 local employees so as to cut cost after already having staff take a 11% pay cut and taking a 24 day unpaid leave per year. This was to ‘reduce staff costs and increase its (SIA) competitiveness in a rapidly changing industry‚’ said Loh Meng See‚ the airline senior vice-president for human resources
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Community and Public Health Nursing Reflection Courtney Austin NUR/405 8/11/2014 Community and Public Health Nursing Reflection Maricopa community schools are the local schools for the Gila River Indian Community. Native American children attending these schools are generally obese and do not participate in extra-curricular activities. The Leading Health Indicator (LHI) that applies is Children and adolescents who are considered obese. Recognizing this LHI‚ nursing diagnoses can be generated
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Yanik Desai Anthrax Research Paper 3/31/11 The outbreak I will be studying is the anthrax bioterrorism of 2001. The outbreak began in the Florida Postal Service and spread throughout the entire nation over a short period of time. The epidemic unofficially began on October 4th when there were findings of anthrax in the mail‚ but the first reported case/illness was on October 12th‚ 2001. The causative agent of anthrax is Bacillus Anthracis (American Anthrax). Although the anthrax issue was unknown
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members of the genus Vibrio are Gram-negative‚ motile and most of the members have a single polar flagellum‚ when grown in liquid medium (Kaysner & DePaola‚ 2004). Vibrio cholerae lives naturally in riverine and is the causative agent of cholera outbreaks and epidemics. Vibrio cholerae is comma-shaped. Initial isolates are slightly curved‚ whereas they can appear as straight rods upon laboratory culturing. Vibrio cholerae is a facultative anaerobe and can undergo respiratory and fermentative metabolism
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Public Health Nurses are known to bring his/her leadership and management expertise to the community for a better recovery after catastrophic events. According to Stanley et al.‚ “public health nurses are leaders in policy and planning to ensure that the communities they serve received prioritized and actionable solutions to their health and social problems.” The long-term environmental effects of catastrophic event are healthcare infrastructure loss such as damage of hospitals‚ clinics‚ pharmacies
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Ebola Outbreak Timeline http://www.newsday.com/news/world/theebolacrisis15importantmomentsin20141. 9454173 December 6th‚ 2013: A twoyearold child died in Meliandou in southern Guinea and was later identified as "patient zero". The virus remained localized until February 2014‚ when a healthcare worker in a neighboring province died. First ebola patient ‚ the outbreak started with patient zero contaminated two more people which caught the attention of the general public once r
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staff or patients. During my SLIP visit at Kleinvlei Community Health Centre‚ I had an opportunity to be assisting in the PREP room. In the PREP room‚ patients belonging to different clubs receive their appointment dates for the repeat of their chronic medications. Patients on chronic treatment also receive their lab results together with their new prescription to be filled at the pharmacy. In this division of the health care center‚ different health care professionals are found‚ although the custodians
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