The article I chose is “Nurse-led detox in primary care. In my paper I will be discussing how alcohol detoxification works in London in a primary care setting. In the case of this article the primary care setting is considered working together with a nurse specialist in a community detox center. In most cases a referral is made by the primary care physician to the nurse specialist. There are two different referral categories’ that are used in London. The first referral is for patients with
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A better future: Primary Health Care Primary health care is a term used to describe a system where a patient’s health care needs are attended to by the most appropriately trained individual. This method of health care delivery has been called a “team based approach” (Health Canada‚ 2006). Instead of seeing the doctor for every health concern‚ other health professionals such as nurse practitioners‚ pharmacists‚ dieticians or physiotherapists may be called upon to take care of your concerns. In this
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older adults move to retirement communities there are major life transitions that occur. While these communities vary considerably in their focus‚ the types of housing available‚ and the services offered‚ they are primarily designed in the United States for well elderly who are able to provide for their own basic needs. In Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)‚ there is the option of moving from independent living to assisted living and then to skilled care. Residents move their personal
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My design mission began with a series of focus groups to gather as much information possible. Focus groups were used as “a data collection method used to reveal people’s thoughts‚ perceptions‚ and experiences” related to this project (Wayne 2013‚ 264). We returned to the homes of the families that opted into the focus group and asked them to meet us at certain locations based on whether they were men‚ women or children. The women were to meet in my quarters on that Friday night while the children
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The biggest mistake in America between 1865 and 1929 in my opinion was the Comprise of 1877. This Comprise set the civil rights for African Americans back for years to come. If only they had worked a better deal for the future of the African Americans in the Southern states. America could be whole different country today. When you go back to see what the civil war was truly about‚ it was too free the African American slaves and to give them the freedoms and rights they deserved. These people
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Foundation Degree Community Health & Social Care Course Guide 2009-2010 School of Health & Wellbeing CONTENTS 1. WELCOME 2. ABOUT THIS GUIDE 3. TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES 4. KEY SKILLS 5. WHERE ARE MODULES TAUGHT? 6. WHO WILL TEACH ME? 7. ARRANGEMENTS FOR STAFF-STUDENT LIAISON 8. PATHWAYS 9. MODULE DESCRIPTIONS 10. CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM 11. GLOSSARY
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It aims to reduce the risks or threats to one’s health. The role of prevention includes a primary‚ secondary‚ and tertiary prevention. Primary prevention is the process in which a disease is prevent or stopped in its earliest stage before it progresses. Physicians and staff members of a medical team‚ come together to promote a healthier lifestyle or offering immunizations against infectious
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The characteristic of Community Care Center Plan Precisely‚ even ‘care’ is written in Community Care Center‚ neither professional long-term care nor life care is offered by Community Care Center. Relatively‚ the elderly feel concerned is the core characteristic of Community Care Center‚ bases on the concerned feeling‚ encouraging the elderly out of their closed doors and mind‚ to participate in community-based club activities which offered by Centers. Four official services‚ health promotion‚ food
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born into is the small group to which most of us owe our primary allegiance for the first fifteen or twenty years of our life‚ and‚ indeed for many people in our society‚ it remains a focus for allegiance throughout their lives." (Douglas 1983: p86 Quoted from Tajfel 1978:p179) People can establish or grow their social structure‚ status and leadership abilities just by being a part of a group of people. Many theorists have discovered and revealed reasons why people join group‚ as Carl Jung stated
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The last 50 years has seen a major shift in how care is delivered to service users particularly those who suffer with Mental Illness. It was as recent as the 1960’s the concept of community care as opposed to institutionalisation was first considered and asylums began closing. Strains on resources and works such as those documented by Goffman and referred to by Miller 1996highlighted how institutions didn’t aid services users back to health but made them dependent on the system and incapable of making
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