Public Health Nursing Public health nursing (PHN) is looking at and supporting the health of the whole community. PHN takes responsibility for improving population health (Garcia‚ Schaffer‚ Schoon‚ 2014). They work in lots of different areas of government and a variety of community agencies and organizations. PHN use three core functions and ten essential services to care for the communities they service (Garcia‚ Schaffer‚ Schoon‚ 2014). Compare and Contrast A family care nurse would care
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HEA 9083 LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE LEARNING OUTCOMES 1 Good leadership is vitally important in the current climate of health and social care. Leadership skills will be needed to drive forward an ever changing structure and service development as set out in numerous development plans and Government white papers (Department of Health‚ 2003‚ 2008‚ 2009‚ 2011. Leadership Academy‚ 2012). The style of leadership required to carry out such tasks is frequently debated and lamented‚ but it would
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the overall health of the public was extremely poor‚ children and babies were dying in their thousands‚ and adults would work in the most horrific of conditions. Families of 8 or 9 would live in 1 room where they all slept‚ ate and washed if they had the water to‚ the sewage was all over the place as there was no proper sewage lines‚ People had to bath in the same water they urinated in‚ they also had to drink this dirty water as it was the only water they had access to. The working conditions were
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Final Project: The Role and Life of a Mental Health Counselor For the Final Project‚ you will apply the information learned in this course‚ as well as in an interview you conduct‚ to your understanding of what it means to be a mental health counselor. Interview (in person) a mental health counselor who works with a population in a setting that interests you. For example‚ if you are interested in working as an in-home therapist with children in need of supervision‚ interview someone who does
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The role of the health and social care worker Outcome 1 - Understand working relationships in social care setting 1. Working relationships: these are relationships that are formed whilst within the workplace‚ such as work colleagues‚ and it is necessary to maintain a professional nature whilst at work. It involves the concepts of teamwork‚ working with colleagues towards common goals of which is set out with the companies agreed ways of working‚ and therefore sharing same goals and purposes. Personal
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the origins of public health in the UK M1- Compare historical and current features of public health Public Health has been developing from the 19th century and is still developing in the present day. Public health was best described by the Yale professor Winslow in 1920 who described it as ‘the art of preventing disease‚ prolonging life‚ and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment‚ the control of community infections‚ the
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Throughout history public health effort has been directed to the control of transmissible diseases‚ reduction of environmental hazards‚ and provision of safe drinking water. The Greeks believed that ill health developed from an imbalance between man and his environment‚ not unlike contemporary public health theories of multifactorial disease causations‚ in which environment plays a prominent role (pg 5). In the middle ages (AD 500-1500)‚ epidemics of infectious disease spurred collective activities
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After reviewing the case study of Nursing Malpractice in a Mental Health Setting. There are many different factors that had led to the unfortunate death of this child. I would begin with inaccurate documentation of this child severe airway disease‚ as being listed as mild reactive airway disease. Later‚ after developing symptoms of an increased cough and wheezing without the presents of a fever‚ the nursing staff dismissed it as his attempt to avoid group therapy. The next situation that is concerning
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I wrote about diabetes for my biology research paper. I need someone to proof read for me. It is in APA style. Thank you! =) In America‚ the fact that fast food restaurants are located at every corner many people becomes obesity leading to huge risk factors. The various issues of unhealthy living lead to multiple life threatening diseases‚ such as diabetes. When people hear the news that they have been diagnosed with diabetes‚ it makes them feel frightened. In 2011‚ statistics show that in United
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Massachusetts on Public Health PBHE426 Professor Lucas February 19‚ 2012 Abstract In the 1905 Supreme Court case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts‚ the court ruled that the state had the right to compromise a person’s right to due process in the name of the common good of society. This case was controversial because it brings up a question of whether or not the ruling was ethical. More than one hundred years later‚ the ruling still plays a role in the authority of public health officials and has
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