...experience in social work, case management and advocacy services. Excellent interpersonal skills, with proficiency in providing counseling and emotional support; conducting individual assessments; and providing quality crisis line phone support. Demonstrated success in managing diverse cases, collaboratively developing treatment plans and working with multi-cultural groups. Software proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology. AREAS OF EXPERTISE [pic] |Case Management |Treatment Planning |Records Maintenance | |Advocacy Services |Individual Assessments |Data Entry | |Crisis Intervention Services |Psychotherapy Services |Case Documentation | |Counseling & Emotional Support |Crisis Line Phone Support |Medical Terminology | VOLUNTEER/INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE [pic] GWINNETT SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY CENTER, Duluth, GA 2015 – Present Volunteer Victim Advocate ▪ Respond to a 24 hour crisis line; provide quality support, resources and referrals to sexual assault victims. ▪ Provide advocacy services to victims of sexual...
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...The readings this week discussed Milstead (2013) six case studies regarding the roles and scopes of APN’s. Case study four reflected upon Medicare and Medical Home Health Services (HHS) with regard to the APN’s scope of practice. NPP’s are all subjected to the same financial restrictions as physicians under the HHS guidelines (Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2015). Chapter seven explained the Medicare policy manual and the regulations related to patient eligibility for home health services and physician certifications. Section 30.5.1.1 described the qualifications of a non-physician practitioner (NPP) for patient face-to-face encounter. The policy revised and implemented in May 2015, stated nurse practitioners, clinical nurse...
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...increasingly begun to allude to something of a “Los Angeles model” of worker advocacy. Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy, edited by Ruth Milkman, Joshua bloom, and Victor Narro, serves both to refine and expand our knowledge of employee representation in Los Angeles through a collection of chapters related to union and worker center led efforts on behalf of low-wage earning individuals. On the one hand, this book offers a nuanced study of specific instances in which unions and advocacy groups have sought to organize low-wage workers, describing the tremendous challenges, successes, and sometimes failures associated with these efforts. On the other hand, the collection takes us beyond the well trodden ground of union advocacy in Los Angeles, introducing readers to the importance of worker centers within the region, the vast majority of which have received very little scholarly attention until now. In so doing, the authors cover tremendously varied terrain while concurrently interweaving numerous threads of commonalities across the campaigns and organizing efforts to create a portrait of the intricate links between union and nonunion worker groups, a picture that most fully emerges in the excellent afterword. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which introduces the reader to the role played by worker centers in Los Angeles, focusing on the ties between advocacy groups and immi- grants. Many readers may be aware that immigrants are considered...
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...BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Preventive care and health information education has been the advocacy of several hospitals in the Metro for the past few years due to the rapid increase in spreading illnesses in the city. One of the most dedicated in the advocacy of disseminating health care information is the hospital located at the heart of Quezon City, the Capitol Medical Center. Their commitment in excellent medical health care brings about the duty to provide equally excellent and accurate health care information. The medical center has come up with several methods as to how to disseminate information, from leaflets about different kinds of diseases and what you have to know about them to community seminars that discuss about several significant topics like family planning, Vaccination and the likes. However, current methods of spreading information about health care have many evidences that it successfully penetrates at a certain location at a time, thus, making information dissemination slow-paced and easily forgettable once the information reaches the next location. The case writer wondered if it was possible to make the information much more accessible to the people so that information would not only be disseminated fast but at a larger scale as well. KEY MESSAGES The goal of the campaign is to help doctors, nurses and other health proffesionals to be more accessible to the people who need them in order to be able to advise them about health care and disease prevention...
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...Epidemiology NUR 408 October5, 2015 Epidemiology Epidemiology is the basic principle of public health. According to Hilfinger Messias, McKeown, and Adams (2012, p. 255 ), “Epidemiology has been defined as the study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states or events in specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such states, and the application of this knowledge to control the health problems” (Porta, 2008, p 81). The goal of epidemiology is optimal health for the entire community. It is important to remember that health does not merely mean medical treatment for specific diseases, but also assurance of available services and development and implementation of policies and programs to meet the needs of the population as a whole. Descriptive epidemiology is the study of the “association of health events to person, place, and time” (Stroup, D. & Thacker, S., 2009, p. 262). Analytical epidemiology studies the causes and risk factors of health events. In order to evaluate the health events in a population, both descriptive and analytical epidemiology are important (Stroup, D. & Thacker, S., 2009). Three categories of data sources commonly used in epidemiologic studies including surveillance data, census data, and vital records, data collected for other purposes, and epidemiologic data (Hilfinger Messias, McKeown, and Adams 2012). The epidemiological triangle is composed of three elements of disease, and includes...
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...Disseminating Health Care Information A PR Case Study Submitted to the College of Mass Communication In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the course FUNDAMENTALS AND PRICIPLES OF PUBLIC RELATIONS Submitted by: Dianne B. Gabunada Submitted to: Prof. Ludmila “Ludz” R. Labagnoy I. Background Information/additional perspectives Preventive care and health information education has been the advocacy of several hospitals in the Metro for the past few years due to the rapid increase in spreading illnesses in the city. One of the most dedicated in the advocacy of disseminating health care information is the hospital located at the heart of Quezon City, the Capitol Medical Center. Their commitment in excellent medical health care brings about the duty to provide equally excellent and accurate health care information. The medical center has come up with several methods as to how to disseminate information, from leaflets about different kinds of diseases and what you have to know about them to community seminars that discuss about several significant topics like family planning, Vaccination and the likes. However, current methods of spreading information about health care have many evidences that it successfully penetrates at a certain location at a time, thus, making information dissemination slow-paced and easily forgettable once the information reaches the next location. The case writer wondered if it was possible to make the information much...
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...ASAN AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK POLICY BRIEF • MARCH 2013 Organ Transplantation and People with I/DD: A Review of Research, Policy and Next Steps Ari Ne’eman, Autistic Self Advocacy Network Steven Kapp, University of California, Los Angeles Caroline Narby, Autistic Self Advocacy Network Introduction Since organ transplantation was introduced as a viable treatment option, people with disabilities have faced significant barriers to accessing the life-saving procedure. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibited discrimination on the basis of disability by entities receiving federal funds, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 extended this protection more broadly across other areas of society. However, it has historically been difficult to enforce federal civil rights law within the area of medical decision-making. Due to the lack of medical knowledge on the part of the average patient or family member, people with I/DD often face little recourse when denied transplantation or even referral for consideration for such a procedure. In the last twenty years, some progress has been made on this issue, yet the need for further action on the part of activists and policymakers remains exceptionally clear. Background … it has historically been difficult to enforce federal civil rights law within the area of medical decision-making. People with I/DD and Organ Transplantation: A History of Discrimination In 1995, Sandra Jensen, a 34-year...
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...Advocacy Program on Childhood Obesity Name: Institutional Affiliation: Date: Part 1: Childhood Obesity Statistics and studies on childhood obesity indicate that obesity disproportionately affects individuals from racial minority groups and that the prevalence of the condition is increasing among such populations. Childhood obesity is a significant health issue that has numerous consequences on the affected persons and their families. The increase in childhood obesity incidences among minority populations arises from economic, cultural, and political conditions that have had an impact on the environments in which children from such groups grow. According to Caprio, Daniels, Drewnowski, Kaufman, Palinkas, Rosenbloom, & Schwimmer (2008), minority populations such as Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and African Americans experience higher prevalence rates of childhood obesity than other ethnic groups. For instance, non-Hispanic whites had 14.1%, non-Hispanic blacks had 20.2%, and the Hispanics recorded 22.4% of childhood obesity (Ogden et al., 2014). The prevalence of childhood obesity also depends on other factors such as the literacy levels of the household heads and the gender and age of the children. Members of minority populations experience numerous challenges accessing affordable health care, healthy foods and live in neighborhood environments that predispose them to obesity. Although childhood obesity is caused by several factors, the...
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...resource center is service that provide AA and NA meetings and job...
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...It was a warm sunny day and I was in the backyard playing on my homemade wooden swing-set. My stepfather was a general contractor, so he built me and my younger sister a new swing-set. The slide was made out of copper and it had wood as the rails. As I was sliding down it my leg got to close to the side of the rail and I got a huge splinter in the side of my leg. I was crying very loudly because it hurt so bad, my mom heard me so she ran out there to see what had happened. I had to go to the emergency room to get the splinter removed so it wouldn’t get infected. I knew right then at that very moment that I wanted to be a nurse. Here are a couple things that I found to be interesting about nursing. Did you know that Jan 27th is school nurse day? Or did you know that in 1783 a black slave named James Derham worked as a nurse in New Orleans, eventually earning enough money to buy his freedom and move to Philadelphia, where he studied medicine and became a doctor? And I also bet that you didn’t know that the largest demand for Licensed Practical Nurses through 2110 will be in nursing homes? Or that the 4th week of May is National Nurses week, which is coming up pretty soon. And May 8th is national Student Nurses’ day (Start a nurse staffing agency). Well I didn’t know any of that either until I started my paper on my nursing career. In December 2010 I finished my schooling for a Licensed Practical Nurse at the JCTC Campus in the accelerated program. I chose to start...
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...Teresa Flanagan Individual Transition Plan Shenandoah University Transitions for Students with Disabilities SED 575 June 25, 2014 Individual Transition Plan OVERVIEW: Student J is a 14-year-old eighth grader at Seneca Ridge Middle School. He was found eligible for special education services in September 2008 as a student with Other Health Impairment (OHI) and a secondary label of an emotional disability (ED). When student J was in his late elementary school years he experienced inability to interact with his peers and maintain social relationships, and was observed shutting down and displaying self-destructive behaviors. There were interventions and accommodations implemented in elementary school including a behavioral plan, which was revised each year he was in middle school, based on what his interests were which were used as the motivators and rewards he would receive for displaying appropriate behavior and completing work. Student J became academically successful and was showing great progress at the end of seventh grade. During his 8th grade year he went through the reevaluation process and was found continued eligible under the same primary and secondary labels. The areas of concern for Student J were identified as problems with using appropriate language, and the same behaviors of shutting down when he was experiencing frustration. This cased a lack of progress in content subject areas during his eighth grade year. Student J receives special education services...
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...A PR Case Study submitted to the College of Mass Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the course FUNDAMENTALS AND PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC RELATIONS Submitted by: Kathrina S. Mendoza BMC I-4 Submitted to: Ms. Ludmila R. Labagnoy March 25, 201 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Preventive care and health information education has been the advocacy of several hospitals in the Metro for the past few years due to the rapid increase in spreading illnesses in the city. One of the most dedicated in the advocacy of disseminating health care information is the hospital located at the heart of Quezon City, the Capitol Medical Center. Their commitment in excellent medical health care brings about the duty to provide equally excellent and accurate health care information. The medical center has come up with several methods as to how to disseminate information, from leaflets about different kinds of diseases and what you have to know about them to community seminars that discuss about several significant topics like family planning, Vaccination and the likes. However, current methods of spreading information about health care have many evidences that it successfully penetrates at a certain location at a time, thus, making information dissemination slow-paced and easily forgettable once the information reaches the next location. The case writer wondered if it was possible to make the information much more accessible to the people so that information...
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...Student Name Lecturer’s Name Course Name and Number Date Submitted Bipolar disorder Description Bipolar disorder is a major health concern that has drawn interest from the general public, media and the scientific community over the past decade. Bipolar disorder, sometimes referred to as manic-depressive illness is a neurological disorder that causes anomalous changes in energy, mood and ability to function in an individual. The disorder distorts moods and thoughts, interferes with rational thought and incites dreadful behaviors in an individual. Bipolar disorder symptoms often lead to deteriorating results at school and work, damaged relationships and sometimes suicide (Treatment Advocacy Centre 1). Bipolar patients experience moods swings ranging from the lows of depression; extreme sadness, hopelessness and loss of interest in most activities to the highs of mania when one feels full of energy and euphoric. Bipolar disorder is neither a viral, fungal, parasitic nor bacterial disease the disorder is not caused by any pathogen. The disorder is not infectious and cannot be spread from one person to another. Bipolar comordities are classified as either medical or psychiatric. Some of the common comordities of bipolar disorder include Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Anxiety disorders, substance disorder, obesity and metabolic syndrome (Furham and Anthony 254). Epidemiology National Institute of Mental Health (1) estimates that Bipolar disorder affects 5.7 million...
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...Elder Abuse One of the most recent social problems to impact people all around the world that many people are unaware of is the abuse of elders. Whether it’s by trusted friends and family members or mistreatment by a hired care taker, elders are not being given the same respect they were many years ago. Like most things this maltreatment has always been around, but in the last few decades it has shown its face much more often. According to Gibbs (2010), “In the past 30 years, awareness of elder abuse has been raised by a minority of professionals in healthcare, social services, law enforcement and public service” (p534). To help give a more adequate view of this issue, the definition of elder abuse and mistreatment, the effects on the elders themselves, what some of the causes are, and what is being done to help prevent and/or solve this problem will be covered in this essay. After reading and understanding this issue, from the causes and effects, to the possible solutions, spotting and doing something to help stop the problem may be much easier. Before knowing and understanding the effects of this blossoming issue one must be fully aware of what it actually is. Elder abuse is best defined by Laura Mosqueda (2010) as “The mistreatment or neglect of an older adult. The mistreatment/neglect may be intentional or unintentional, and may either harm the elder or put them at significant risk of harm” (p214). There is usually a specific group of people that commit the acts of...
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...Enterprise IT at Cisco Case Write-Up | Summary: Enterprise IT at Cisco Systems is an interesting case that demonstrates what happens when a company’s IT infrastructure is decentralized. In the case of Cisco, the word decentralized was demonstrated in how the individual departments conducted business in their own ways and not in conjunction with other business functions. At one point, this approach was encouraged as it was believed to allow departments, and the people running them, the ability to avoid company politics, to ensure their priorities were met, and to encourage each department and individual the opportunity to be creative and innovative, which is a fundamental component of Cisco’s company style. Brad Boston, CIO of Cisco, believed that it was possible to retain that company attitude of innovation in a more centralized manner to decrease redundancy and formally integrate systems. While there was a great deal of pushback from employees, and the full centralization will take a great bit of time, Boston was making the best choices for the company. 1. How did Cisco find itself in such trouble with regard to its internal IT in 2001? Why didn’t the single ERP system help more? Why didn’t this ensure more consistency? As briefly mentioned above, Cisco found itself in such trouble as a result of allowing every department and employee operate freely and with little regard for what others were doing. As stated on page 4 of the case study, “Boston also discovered...
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