from confinement of the mad during colonial times‚ into the biomedical balancing of neurological impairment seen in these modern times. There were eras of mental health reform‚ medicalization‚ and deinstitutionalization sandwiched in between (Nies & McEwen‚ 2011). Regardless of the stage of understanding and development‚ communities have not been completely successful in dealing with and treating persons who are mentally unwell. Fortunately‚ treatment has become more compassionate; social and
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focus also involves a scientific approach to community health nursing: an assessment of the community or population is necessary and basic to planning‚ intervention‚ and evaluation for the individual‚ family‚ aggregate‚ and population levels” (Nies & McEwen‚ 2011). The purpose of this paper is to establish a priority health problem of the community of Harlingen‚ based on demographic‚ epidemiological data and a windshield survey of the area. Community The community assessment for this
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Focusing on the public nurse and the rendering of immunizations to the local population sparked my curiosity. I started researching more on this aspect of this public nurse service and will share some of this information. I found it interesting that the public health nurse not only provides vaccinations to children and families protecting them against preventable diseases‚ public nurses are also vital recorders for the research and trends of diseases in the community. As a mother of two young children
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Obesity- Texas’s Number One Epidemic Health Problem Joe Thomas Obesity- Texas’s Number One Epidemic Health Problem Introduction The obesity in children and adults is a serious issue for Texas in the current time. The occurrence of obesity among Texas people is greater than the national average‚ and remains increase (DSHS‚ 2010). This epidemic health problem increases a possibility of cardiac disease‚ stroke‚ high blood pressure‚ diabetes‚ certain neoplasms‚ and other severe
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suffering from the same medical or health care problem and should be in search of similar medication or health care services. Aggregate in nursing setting literally is defined as the entire‚ whole‚ or the sum of a given group with similar problems‚ (Nies & McEwen‚ 2010). Differences Between Aggregate and Community There are those people who use the term community when referring to aggregate. Aggregate and community are two different concepts but are closely connected. Community in nursing health care
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in my community. The population to be focused on will be a centering group in an outpatient clinic. Lastly‚ listing two teaching strategies for the education of the group. There are three learning theories‚ Humanistic‚ Cognitive‚ and Social (Nies & McEwen‚ 2015). The humanistic theory encourages people to be self-directed and holistic. The cognitive theory is the patient’s ability to learn. The social theory is based on how behavior affects learning. The social learning theory proposes that
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more than 6 million men and women experience stalking during a year. These findings indicate that intimate partner (IPV) violence accompanied with sexual violence‚ stalking are a widespread public health issue in the United States (CDC‚ 2012). Nies and McEwen (2011) state the largest single cause of injury to women between ages 15-44 in the United States is domestic violence. What can be done to change the outcomes of the above statistics? As mentioned before intimate partner violence is a hidden
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focus also involves a scientific approach to community health nursing: an assessment of the community or population is necessary and basic to planning‚ intervention‚ and evaluation for the individual‚ family‚ aggregate‚ and population levels” (Nies & McEwen‚ 2011‚ p. ). The purpose of this paper is to establish a priority health problem of the community
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Poverty in Rural Georgia: The Working Poor Introduction Pictures of rural America portray a quaint‚ friendly‚ family oriented towns where fields are green‚ everyone is happy and life is easy going. At first sight Cedartown‚ Georgia completely fits the picture. Cedartown is a rural town in northwest Georgia with a population of just under 10‚000. The community origins were farming and mining iron ore in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. In the mid 1900’s industries began coming into the area
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After reading about all the 5 determinants of health‚ I have chosen to describe the Social Factors. The social health determinants encompass both the physical conditions and social factors pertaining to the environment in which individuals are born‚ work‚ play‚ learn‚ live and age. It is also imperative to note that physical and social health determinants affect a broad scope of health‚ quality‚ and functioning of the outcomes of life. On one hand‚ there are a number of social health determinants
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