than one billion adults are overweight and at least 300 million adults are clinically obese (World Health Organization‚ 2010). According Boyle‚ M.A et.al‚ the World health Organization (WHO) report Obesity – Preventing and managing the Global Epidemic first highlighted obesity as a worldwide problem that now affect the most countries. More recently‚ WHO has declared overweight one of the top ten health risk in the world‚ Countries in Asia‚ Middle East and Latin America are already experiencing a double
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PRODUCT INFORMATION It’s been a few weeks and so it seems the dust has settled–if only a tad–on the great Android takeover of 2013. The business of regime change is a sobering one for Cupertino’s Apple. Yet Androids is just a tough nut to crack‚ and getting tougher with every update. Here are some back up with another comparison. This time the digital catfight will place Samsung’s Galaxy S4 in the squared circle against Apple’s tried and true iPhone 5. Each was surreptitiously bested by the HTC
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Peplau (1952) observed the nurse as a fundamental tool for change whilst explaining how powerful the nurse-patient relationship is. The nurse approaches the relationship with understanding and experience obtained personally through their lives but also through their training and work. Generally‚ it is considered the more training and work experience a nurse has‚ the more therapeutically effective they are likely to be but this is not always the case. Stuart and Sudeen (1997). There are many influences
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Nursing and nurses‚ the paragon and paramount of healthcare‚ the helping hand and the leading constant through ailment and illness‚ the men and women who care for those in need‚ and yet we push them to their limits and ask everything of them for the impossible. The amount of patients a nurse receives needs to be reduced to better improve level of care and safety for a patient. The need and or necessity for such action come from the very stressful environment that is nursing. Nurses become overworked
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Help Belief Model (HBM) - - Hochbaum‚ Rosenstock‚ & Kegals (1950)   CONCEPT DEFINITION APPLICATION Perceived Susceptibility One’s opinion of chances of getting a condition Teenager’s who were deemed overweight or obese would more than likely be only too aware of the Social and Psychological aspects and not the ramifications of their morbidity rate lowing by their condition and the ensuing health problems in later life. The data and facts above speak for themselves and provision
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Behavior Change Theories and Planning Models Melinda Green HCA 331: Introduction to Health Care Education Instructor: Sandra Gaston December 22‚ 2014 For this assignment I will describe the difference between theories and models. Why it is important to use theories in health education. Then I will describe the socio-ecological approach and which levels can be applied to reasoning. Then provide a description of behavior change theories. Then provide information regarding one theory from
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Using James Marcia’s Identity status model‚ which focuses on the stages in which an individual develop helps with understanding how individuals look at the current stage of living. The identity status model indicates the stage of moratorium‚ the stage that looks at the individual dealing with current crisis with no commitments and are unsure of the future ahead seems to reflect one current identity status. For example‚ currently unemployed‚ struggling to stay in college‚ plus caring for a family
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The ecological models of health behavior is based on the premise that behavior has multiple levels of influence. These levels are: - Intrapersonal factors: characteristics of factors at the individual level. It includes knowledge‚ attitudes‚ behavior‚ self-efficacy‚ developmental history‚ gender‚ age‚ religious identity‚ racial/ethnic identity‚ sexual orientation‚ economic status‚ financial resources‚ values‚ or goals. - Interpersonal factors‚ including family‚ friends‚ peers‚ co-workers‚ religious
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Push for Mandatory Nurse Patient Ratios Continues Mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios have been a hot topic of discussion for over 15 years. As of today‚ California is the only state with actual state mandated nurse- patient ratios in place. I support mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios because research has shown that patients have better outcomes when cared for by nurses who practice under state mandated nurse-patient ratios. According to the article Mandatory Nurse-Patient Ratios “support
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1. Nurse-Patient Relationship Phases a. Orientation (beginning) i. Therapeutic Relationship 1. Develop trust 2. Establish goals 3. Therapeutic contract 4. Nursing diagnosis b. Working (Middle) i. Planning and Implementation 1. Communication skills to help client 2. Work on behavioral changes 3. Explore feelings and problems c. Termination (End) i. Evaluation 1. Inform client of other sources of help available 2. Evaluate therapeutic outcome 3. Evaluate nurse-patient relationship
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