The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), and The Joint Commission (TJC) require that health care organizations maintain risk management programs to address infection control. Detail three measures that your health care organization (or any health care organization) needs to address in the delivery of safe health…
1. Describe the organizational characteristics of the facility in which you currently have a clinical assignment. Include the following: a. Type of organization b. Overall climate of the facility c. How the organization is structured d. Formal and informal goals and processes of the organization 2. Why is the work climate of an organization important…
The first steps toward narrowing the gap between research and practice are recognizing that one exists and educating oneself and others. Social workers must realize the benefits and eliminate the misconceptions surrounding evidence-based practice. In the Bradley episode featured in the resources (ATTACHED), the social worker combines her assessment of Tiffani. Bradley’s individual situation with…
You are the registered nurse performing a health assessment on a newborn infant. From the functional health pattern portion of the assessment, you learn the mother is reluctant to breastfeed her baby. How do you respond? Explain the approach you will take to ensure adequate nutrition for the newborn, with or without breastfeeding. Provide rationale…
Think for a moment about nurses who relocate because of professional opportunities. How could such a seemingly personal decision have a detrimental impact on global health care? As presented in this week’s Learning Resources, nurse migration is of global concern. In response to this issue, international health care organizations such as the World Health Organization…
Select one of the health care service providers identified in your Week Three assignment, Health Care Providers and Products. Choose from one below. “Dental Hygienist” “Home Health Aide and Personal Care Assistant” “Occupational Therapy Assistant” “Respiratory Therapist” Prepare an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes that discusses the health care service…
1) You will be providing care for patients of different cultures. Choose a diet that would be cultural specific for a patient with new onset of hypertension. Identify the culture of the patient and discuss how you would explain this diet to your patient. For example, how would you adapt the D-A-S-H (dietary approaches to…
Health services continue to affect the gross domestic product, and this dramatic transformation has great demands on each dollar spent to deliver patient-centered products. Health care marketing must be repeatedly applied and practiced strategically to include environmental dimensions, such as technology, socioeconomics, competition, and regulatory. That being said, in today’s global economy, investors and potential…
You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the diagnosis and treatment for this client. Be sure to consider co-morbid physical as well as mental factors that might impact the client’s diagnosis and treatment. At each Decision Point, stop to complete the following: · Decision #1: Differential Diagnosis o Which Decision did you select?…
Post an explanation of the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus. Describe the differences and similarities between resulting alterations of hormonal regulation. Select two of the following factors: age, genetics, behavior, gender, and ethnicity. Then explain how the two factors might impact the diagnosis and prescription of treatment for these two types of diabetes.
Discuss what is primary care, and the ten (10) most common diagnosis seen in your clinic setting. Share with your peers what guidelines and tools you will become familiar with when preparing for your clinical. Hypertension, Diabetes, hypothyroidism, GERD, Respiratory Infections, headaches, back problems, anxiety, depression, arthritis
Write a 500-750-word paper discussing various approaches to parenting based on the information provided in the scenario. Address the following in your paper: Discuss how a parent, using authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles, would manage the behavior in the scenario. Discuss the effects of each parenting style on the child. Based on Piaget’s theory,…