abuse include relatives and family members‚ professional staff‚ paid care workers‚ friends and associates (Leuckenotte 2000). Nurses play an important role in protecting older people from abuse. Their roles include reporting the abuse‚ assessing the patient‚ ensuring there is a safety plan in place and assessing the frequency‚ severity and intent of abuse (Mauk 2006). Nurses need to be educated in abuse so they can clearly and quickly recognise the signs and symptoms of suspected abuse and begin to
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Community health workers serve as the link between medical providers and their patients for minority and cultural communities. These workers are typically considered bicultural and bilingual as they are members of both the medical workforce and the specific cultural community of the patients with whom they interact. Thus‚ community health workers are able to help remedy the disconnect that clients may have with the medical system by working closely with patients in their homes and everyday community
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divergent values and interests‚ needs and expectations. This paper emphasizes that dialogue and negotiation among stakeholders are the vehicles through which sustainable community development projects are established‚ implemented and monitored. Bottom-up CD programs which emanate from the grassroots level and closely involve community members are more successful than those that are developed top-down. Who is a stakeholder? There is not much disagreement on what kind of entity a stakeholder can be
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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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The World Health Organisation states that “Health is a state of physical‚ mental and social well-being. It involves more than just the absence of disease or infirmity.” Health is evidently more than just the absence of disease‚ as achieving wellness requires an adequate balance of various aspects of the whole person. There are several crucial dimensions of health that need to be taken into consideration before forming the beliefs of the nature of health – physical‚ social‚ emotional and spiritually
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NUR 420 Fall 2013 Final Exam Focus Areas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Health care for homeless‚ why is it so costly? They typically have to stay in the hospital for a longer amount of time because they have a lot more co-morbidities that need to be treated. Being brought to the ED is extremely expensive. Critical interventions are very costly‚ and so are all the diagnostic tests that must be done. They usually don’t have
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The role of the immune system in Parkinson disease Last semester‚ I took a class with Professor Jia Shi‚ Pathophysiology of Disease‚ and we covered the role of the immune system in many diseases and in our body. This phenomenal system‚ the immune system‚ defends us when we are awake and asleep. It works around the clock without rest to keep all the invaders away like bacteria and viruses. Scientifically at the molecular level‚ there are proteins called Cytokines that are produced by
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can explore a variety of specialties in the field of nursing. Amongst them are four significant roles of advanced practice that perform and provide a great amount of care to the population beyond the status of Registered Nurse (RN). The four Advanced Practice Registered Nurses are Nurse Practitioners (NP)‚ Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS)‚ Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA)‚ and Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM). “Advanced practice RNs represent about 8 percent of the nursing workforce‚” (Kurtzman
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The Ministry of Health’s role is basically to lay the policy and the direction of health services in the country and to show the commitment of the Government‚ and the powers-to-be‚ that health is of utmost importance in nation building. And the role of the ministry is to enforce regulations and be the regulator. Imagine if there is no Ministry of Health‚ anybody can make the claim that their product is the best for health; anybody can set up a hospital. Nobody to regulate the quality of the workforce
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WHAT IS NURSING? AN EXAMINATION OF THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL NURSE. INTRODUCTION Nursing is a profession‚ the depth and breadth of which is to meet different heath care needs of the population (American Nurses Association(ANA)‚ 2010). This demand to clarify what professionalism or profession mean in the health care field. The term ‘professionalism’ has autonomy and self-regulation as the characteristics central to it. It signifies that a profession has authority to establish standards of conduct
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