Vulnerable Population Assessment Christine Anderson Chamberlain College of Nursing NR443 Community Health Nursing January,2018 Elderly the Vulnerable Population Noticing a group of middle age men, smoking and drinking aside a low-income apartment complex during week daytime hours is not a typical activity for the normal middle-class population. A certain uneasiness or concern comes over a person when you walk or drive by, especially with the elderly population present in the same low-income housing
whole and not just about the people around them when making judgements and decisions. The individual will become more aware of the rules and laws of society, to uphold the law, do one’s duty and to respect authority. If my friend gets into a drug war, and the only way to help him is to bring a gun and join him, I would have to think and consider my decision. It is not right to bring a gun even it is to help my friend. If the whole society did the same thing there would be chaos. So at that point
Patient empowerment: Patient empowerment in the international point of view is seen as a portion of the human side of healthcare. To gain the empowerment requires time and patients need to be strong in order to gain greater outcomes. With mutual trust gained from the nurse and patient, both nurse and patients will gain the confident. Being a Malaysian I am proud to say that our Malaysia Ministry of Health, had strongly support patient empowerment and each individual are responsible for their own
There are a few research studies and related pieces of literature that concerns disaster preparedness of nurses. This important due to the fact that nurses is a big chunk in health workforce. Moreover, nurses are considerably the first-line health professionals in giving health care services. As such in times of disaster, preparedness on a personal and professional level is important. As a result, it will enable nurses not only to ensure safety, health and well-being of their client or patients but
Professional Reflection Due to the high relevance of FCC to pediatric nursing, Stollery Children's Hospital's mission and my personal interest, I decided to conduct some research and prepare myself to become a sufficient graduate nurse who can deliver compassionate, competent, individualized family-centered care to my patients. Some of the professional activities that I have implemented during the preceptorship include: (1) determined my weakness regarding FCC and developed a learning plan with
Introduction The course NURS 4102 Coordinating Nursing Practice offers a chance for me to learn how to corporate and apply nursing theories and knowledge learnt into real nursing practice. A variety of useful and practical knowledge for nursing practice were delivered by different lecturers and guest speakers. For example the leadership and management skills, theories and application in nursing and also resource, risk and crisis management in daily nursing practice. These knowledge prepared professional
The preventive care is usually diverse especially when it comes to controlling the roundworms in places which are not good with hygiene. Most of the nurses usually advise the patients to stay in clean environments in order to prevent them from contamination (prevention, 2016). This is because the preventive measure which is taken are considered to be better than the cure methods. In the prevention of roundworms, the nurses play a very big role in ensuring that the conditions are mitigated completely
In Community Health there are three levels of prevention. Primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary prevention is prevention of problems before they occur. Here health promotion and health protection is focused. Immunizations and health promotion are examples of primary prevention. In Warren County, Family and community health services offer immunizations for infant and school aged children up to age 18. They also offer evaluation and education of Child growth and development
Healthcare Professionals are facing a complex variety of potential health and safety hazards while them doing their job in a hospital every day. The hazards are included musculoskeletal diseases, back injuries, latex allergies, violence, needlestick injuries and stress. Some of the hazards are unavoidable and healthcare professionals have to take precaution to prevent, reduce or eliminate these occupational hazards. According to a statistics of occupational accident prepared by the Malaysia Department
Nursing Theory According to Chinn & Kramer (2011), theory is defined as “creative and rigorous structure of ideas that project a tentative, purposeful and systemic view of phenomena” (as cited in McEwen & Wills, 2014, pg. 25). In addition, a theory is a set of assumptions, principles, or propositions that explain or guide actions. Before nursing theory, the nursing practice was not guided by any research or rational but mostly by traditional or ritualistic tasks. Therefore, the nursing theory emerged
Before beginning my nursing education, I only thought nurses worked in hospitals and doctor offices. I never knew that nursing opened up so many different opportunities. For example, I didn’t know public health nursing even existed until I began my education. I never in my life heard such thing and I feel like not many people out there are aware of community nursing. Public health nursing has made me view nursing from a different perspective and I think it’s great that some decide to make it their
Knowing that uterine fibroids are prominent in women, especially pre-menopausal women, yet there has not been any preventive care setup for this issue is very alarming. Using research like study done by Martin-Merino et. al. (2016) preventative care can be established to diagnose uterine fibroids early with the use of an ultrasound and possibly treat the patient, like
The Institute of Medicine Model provides insight to specific descriptions of intervention. These strategies include the categories of universal prevention, selected prevention, and indicated prevention. I believe that this systemic foundation allows programs to determine their best course of action on a narrow basis. However, I think that my service learning placement incorporates all three phases depending on the circumstance at hand. The Springer and Phillips article states that, “universal prevention
Regular semi-truck maintenance and repairs are necessary to ensure fleets are safe and operational. It's just a fact of life for trucking companies. The main objective is always to get the vehicle back on the road in the shortest time possible. Lack of communication, improperly completed paperwork and unavailable parts can all cause costly delays. Using VMRS Code Key 24, however, trucking companies can better track the progress of maintenance and repairs, thus, enabling them to make adjustments to
of emergency and war. One such case is that of George W. Bush and his stance of preemptive strikes on Iraq known as the Bush Doctrine. The doctrine was met with much support, however, caused much controversy later. The Bush Doctrine, although allowed, was in violation of the Constitution and lacked approval from congress. Although the use of preemptive strikes was allowed due to lack of clarity in the constitution regarding presidential power, it was technically an act of war that was not approved
Introduction War is costly but nonetheless it recur this is the central puzzle of war , scholars have attemped to resolve this puzzle in three types argument which is people state leaders is irrational so that they neglect the cost of war the second argument of the scholar says that the state leaders enjoy the benefits from war but do not pay the cost The third one which took most of fearons attention is the rational state leader who consider the cost and risk of war as a summary of the article titled
Civil War Medicine Hundreds lie down dead or dying on the battlefield, but that is not even the worst of it. Hundreds more are lying severely ill on in hospital beds just miles away, but this time it is due to the poor training methods, useless treatments, and shortage of knowledge about different diseases that the doctors during the Civil War had. The surgeons and nurses during this time period were incapable of giving the sick and wounded proper care due to their lack of knowledge about these
Preventive and preemptive war in Utopia, Book II. When we saw the title of the chapter for the first time, we thought that it would deal with how Utopians prevent war, but what More is trying to say goes far away from this. In fact, the chapter is a detailed exposition of casus belli, military strategies and techniques. The meaning of Utopia is connected to America’s discovery, the world that serves as the location of fictional presentations of political ideas. At the same time, “this production
different opinions in legal, ethical and moral domains of war. In some situations, when war methods are not conventional, under internationally acceptable conditions, key legal documents, such as Chapter of the United Nations, can become insufficient or irrelevanct. This unconventional sphere requires radical changes in existing legislations or completely new world wide acceptable definition of combatant, adversary and war. Framework of war conditions, which we usually call conventional, becomes more
Russet, and Lebow mainly focus on war and peace theory from an international relations perspective. Why does war occur, or what can prevent war from happening? Can states bargain to reduce the costs and risks of war? Fearon claims that rationalist explanations for war do not really bring effective clarifications for why war occurs. The five traditional rationalist explanations include ‘anarchy’, ‘expected benefits greater than expected costs’, ‘rational preventive war’, ‘rational miscalculation due