Community Health Assessment Alex Goenaga Lehman College Assessment of a community for health care purposes revolves around the goal of treating the community as a client and improving its overall heath. This involves knowing the customs of the community‚ identifying their needs‚ and the usage of their current resources and optimally applying them. Beyond these measures nursing intervention can also include advocating for the community through legislative procedures
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The population of Hillsboro County is‚ overall‚ growing‚ with projected growth of over five percent in the next five years. However‚ significant disparities exist among the towns in the area‚ resulting in two communities with very different make ups – the town of Middleboro and its surrounding villages‚ which on the whole is not growing in population and is generally older than the US population as a whole‚ and Jasper‚ a geographically remote town that is almost singlehandedly driving the population
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Community And Population Health Task 1 San Diego County WGU April 19‚ 2013 Community Assessment San Diego County is in Southern California. Mountains‚ beaches and deserts are all within an hour’s drive from anywhere in the county. San Diego is the second largest city in California measuring 4200 square miles. Average temperatures are 60-80 degrees Fahrenheit year round. (Wikipedia‚ 2013) We have warm dry summers and mild winters with relatively low rainfall
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Project Part 1 Task 1 Draft Risk Management Plan Ernest Martinez Jr. C. Flack IS3110 October 22‚ 2012 Purpose The Senior Management of the Defense Logistics Information Services (DLIS) has decided to update the previous risk management plan with a developing‚ new risk management plan. This new risk management plan will not only minimize the amount of risk for future endeavors‚ but will also be in compliance with regulations such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
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Governor Arthur Philip should be considered an Australian Legend because he was the first to interact with the Indigenous Australians in respectful way. Governor Arthur Phillip interacted with the Indigenous Australians in a positive and polite way‚ he meant them no harm: he believed that he could communicate with them without any violence; he didn’t want innocent people to die due to a small misunderstandings. Phillip wanted to learn about the Aboriginal culture‚ food and language and he wanted
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Community Health Assessment of 78382 Chamberlain College of Nursing NR-443 Fall Session‚ November 2012 Audrey L. Hendrix Community Health Assessment of 78382 Introduction In an effort to promote the health needs within a community‚ a successful community health nurse (CHN) must focus on the entire population. In order to accomplish this task‚ the CHN utilizes a scientific approach to determine the priority population focused health needs for the community. According to Nies & McEwen
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Comparison of Public and Community Health: Pertinent History and Available Resources Comparison of Public and Community Health: Pertinent History and Available Resources The terms public health and community health are oftentimes mistaken to have the same definition; however‚ the terms although similar have different meanings‚ as well as implications in application as it applies to health. Both public health and community health serve the health needs of individuals within communities; however‚ each service
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Without occupying a formal leadership position there are many strategies the nurse can utilize to exert leadership. These strategies can help the interdisciplinary team without that nurse being in a leadership position. The potential to be a leader exists in everyone. Nursing is no exception. Leaders simply look for a better way to do things. Strategies The nurse as a leader looks to achieve a workable unity. (Gardner‚ 2007) In an interdisciplinary format this is vitally important. There
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Profit maximization from the total revenue to total cost approach is at the point of the largest difference between total revenue and total cost. Profit maximization from the marginal revenue to marginal cost approach is where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. The calculation used to determine marginal revenue is the change in total revenue divided by the change in quantity. In this scenario‚ marginal revenue decreases by $10 at every additional increment of widget production. The calculation
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We as a society shouldn’t rely on the legal system to legitimize whether specific actions are right or wrong. The ability to determine an action is ethically or morally right or wrong; it should be an inept characteristic that is instilled into each of our moral compasses. The society that we live in today is completely different from that of 20 years ago. Today‚ it is frowned upon when an individual is treated unfairly based on his/her sex‚ age‚ race‚ and even a person’s sexual orientation more
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