For my clinical experience today I shadowed an RN‚ at the Ashe County Health Department. The RN was participating in the flu clinic today. She administered many flu vaccinations. Most of the individuals that came in today for the clinic were over the age of 65 and were given the high dose flu vaccination. The RN also worked with a Spanish interpreter during several visits throughout the day. She would first assess a Spanish speaking individual’s ability to speak English‚ then if deemed necessary
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The Children’s Bureau introduced a campaign that began on April 6‚ 1918 that is proclaimed as “Children’s Year”. This wartime campaign was made to remind the people that we must protect the children as our duty‚ a popular slogan that revolved around this was “Save 100‚000 babies”. The bureau and its partners gained 11 million volunteers all across the nation to help decrease the number of infant deaths. To help reduce this risk‚ the campaign measured and weighed children to make sure they are healthy
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Populism and progressivism Populism and progressivism were two big movements that caused major transformation in the history of the United States. Both movements participated in creating reforms in order to help making the overall conditions of the United States better in variety of domains. Populism and Progressivism were similar in some ways but different in other ways. Populism stated in the 1892s in St. Louis by a group of farmers and poor white people. Populists demanded the improvement of
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promotion for the community as a whole. Epidemics‚ pandemic and outbreaks make public health an essential part of healthcare. Public health dates back to Biblical times. An example of this is the isolation of a contagious disease like leprosy. Lillian Wald the mother of Public Health Nursing led the crusade of helping provide medical care to the poor in the United
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passed the first state nursing registration law (Delaune 6-8). In 1923‚ Yale University School of Nursing was founded (Delaune 6-8). In the 1960’s Medicaid and Medicare was created (Delaune 6-8). Some interesting people who influenced nursing are Lillian Wald‚ Isabel Hampton
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Rose Cohen’s “Out of the Shadow discusses about a Russian Jew who immigrated to the U.S. for equality and opportunities. She provides her personal aspect of immigration in the late 1800s. It also addresses the effects of rapid growth of industry‚ population‚ role of women in the social and economic system and also the complications of religion and society in America. However our other textbook “Give me Liberty” by Eric Foner has a lot of similarities to Out of the Shadow‚ Foner talked about many
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Abstract Lavinia Lloyd Dock is a nurse leader that had a huge influence on the profession of nursing. Her actions throughout her life categorize her as a nurse leader‚ suffragist‚ and social reformist. She found herself becoming a nurse when she recognized her passion of caring for the suffering. One of her goals was to improve global health. Lavinia accomplished much in her lifetime for females and the nursing community. She can be considered a great pioneer in the evolution of nursing.
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Comparison Paper Cynthia Caston NUR/408 September 30‚ 2013 Amy Reagan Comparison Paper This paper will explore county‚ state‚ and national public health resources as compared to community health resources. We will look at the public health time line but‚ in order to do this properly we need to define public and community health. Community health deals with an individual or sub population and public health has to do with a whole community as you told me and explained in my feedback. Duval
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Triangle is a title of a book that was authored by a journalist David von Drehle in 2003. In his book‚ David Von Drehle wrote about the fire at Triangle company in March 1911 which left 146 workers dead most of the perished being young immigrant women (Otfinoski‚ 2014). The fire that broke in Triangle shirtwaist factory consumed upper three stories of the company consuming employees who were preparing to leave within minutes. David Von Drehle works for The Washington Post as a journalist‚ and he
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also from poor use of the tenement and construction. In 1900‚ arose the New york State Tenement House Commission who created a separate Tenement House Department for the City of New York which would later help pass the Act of 1901. Jacob Riis and Lillian Wald were two City reformers that showed concern for the wellbeing of the non wealthy immigrants. The terrible health conditions within tenement houses was brought to the public’s attention after The Tenement House Committee investigated the premises
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