...Running Head: Nontraditional Health Care Christina L. Seitsinger Grand Canyon University Transcultural Health Care November 13, 2011 Nontraditional Health Care When the words health care are thought about, it typically forces one’s mind to think of a doctor, nurse, or hospital. This is the typical Western idea of what health care is. The author has first hand experience of the typical health care, being she is a radiology technologist and works within a hospital. However, the author has research other forms of health care that are often put in a substandard category and looked down upon by Western medicine practitioners. These forms include natural and holistic approaches that use chiropractic, meditation, kineseology, homeopathic supplements, sound healing and holistic massage therapy, and energy medicine to awaken, heal, and transform from the inside out. Lotus of Light is global wellness boutique that use holistic massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and many other alternatives to help people reach optimal person health and wellness. The practitioners at Lotus of Light “are committed to bringing balance, wellness, and less pain through the wonderful world of therapeutic massage and other natural healing modalities” (Duffy, 2009). Lotus of Light is also committed to teaching their techniques to individuals who are seeking to learn and practice natural medicine. DONA birth doula training is one of the many training class the author found interesting. Debbie Lavin...
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...| | Book 1.(ed), Howard Frumkin. "Chapter Eighteen - Food Safety".Environmental Health: From Global to Local, Second Edition.Jossey-Bass. © 2010 Food safety professionals protect and promote public health by investigating foodborne disease outbreaks to learn about their causes and by implementing foodsafety strategies to prevent future outbreaks from occurring. They also inspect production facilities, food-processing plants, and retail food establishments to ensure that products are safe, wholesome, and suitable for human consumption. Food safety professionals work in a variety of settings including private industries, governmental agencies, health care facilities, and academic institutions. 2. Wheeler, Cass. You've Gotta Have Heart: Achieving Purpose Beyond Profit in the Social Sector. AMACOM. © 2009. People often ask me how the American Heart Association came to the idea of the heart-check seal of approval found on over 800 products on grocery store shelves. This program is a significant piece of the American Heart Association brand, and it is a good example of how we do things in nontraditional ways. There is a certain amount of risk in any program, and in this case we ran into quite a few roadblocks. I believe that in every crisis lies an opportunity, and that was certainly the case with the AHA's food certification program. 3. Rosinski, Philippe. ( 2010). Global coaching: an integrated approach for long-lasting results. Serious research findings...
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...charitable organization that is direct focus on health care issues. The foundation support public agencies, universities and public charities that fall under tax exempt sec. 501 (c) (3) of the Internal revenue code. The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Their goal is clear: To help our society transform itself for the better. The foundation does numerous projects throughout it organization. Every year the foundation gives out approximately 1,000 grants totaling hundreds of millions of dollars to hospitals and research institutes. The RWJF (Robert wood Johnson Foundation) does provide annual reports containing its complete list of grants awarded each year. You have the ability to apply for multiple grants at one time as long as it for different projects. You do have to submit an application form in for applying for certain grants. The entire process can take anywhere from four to seven months before it’s approved. Clinical Scholars is one of the most successful foundation programs. It provided young physicians the opportunity to study on non-clinical topics such as management and economics. They have a unique capability and responsibility to confront the most pressing health and health care problems threatening our society. Their efforts focus on improving both the health of everyone in America, and their health care—how it's delivered, how it's paid for, and...
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...were caring for a child who could be cured if given blood transfusions, but whose parents refused permission to give the transfusions due to religious beliefs, what would you do? HLT 324V Week 5 Discussion 2 Some parents are refraining from giving certain immunizations to their children. How will this affect diseases in the United States in the future? How as medical professionals can we embrace these nontraditional practices? HLT 324V Week 5 Benchmark Assignment – Nontraditional Health Care Practices Research different popular nontraditional health care practices. Write a 1,000-1,200 word paper exploring nontraditional health care practices and include the following: 1. Describe nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least three cultures. 2. Explain how these practices affect wellness and prevention in different cultures. 3. Identify the nontraditional health care options in your areas, and identify the number of people choosing to use them over traditional medical practices. Propose reasons why the number of people using nontraditional health care options is rising. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer...
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...Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by CCNE and AACN using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, their specific care discipline, and their local communities. As the country focuses on the restructuring of the U.S. health care delivery system, nurses will continue to play an important role. It is expected that more and more nursing jobs will become available out in the community, and fewer will be available in acute care hospitals. Write an informal presentation (500-700 words) to educate nurses about how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change. Include the concepts of continuity or continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), medical homes, and nurse-managed health clinics. Share your presentation with nurse colleagues on your unit or department and ask them to offer their impressions of the anticipated changes to health care delivery and the new role of nurses in hospital settings, communities, clinics, and medical homes. In 800-1,000 words summarize the feedback shared by three nurse colleagues and discuss whether their impressions are consistent with what you have researched about health reform. A minimum of three scholarly references are required for this assignment. While APA format...
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...Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by CCNE and AACN using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, their specific care discipline, and their local communities. As the country focuses on the restructuring of the U.S. health care delivery system, nurses will continue to play an important role. It is expected that more and more nursing jobs will become available out in the community, and fewer will be available in acute care hospitals. 1. Write an informal presentation (500-700 words) to educate nurses about how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change. Include the concepts of continuity or continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), medical homes, and nurse-managed health clinics. 2. Share your presentation with nurse colleagues on your unit or department and ask them to offer their impressions of the anticipated changes to health care delivery and the new role of nurses in hospital settings, communities, clinics, and medical homes. 3. In 800-1,000 words summarize the feedback shared by three nurse colleagues and discuss whether their impressions are consistent with what you have researched about health reform. 4. A minimum of three scholarly references are required for this assignment. In addition to submitting...
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...Family Health Assessment In order to provide proper care to families, one must be able to assess the patients holistically. As well as evaluating the patients physical, social, environmental, and spiritual domains (Grand Canyon University, 2011). The “ family defines health, makes decisions regarding health practices, and is the most frequent provider of health care to family members” (Nettle et al., 1993). Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns serve as a framework for clinical assessment and can be applied to the individual, family, and community (Grand Canyon University, 2011). Furthermore with the functional health pattern it will allow the nurse to develop interventions and a health care plan for the patient to prevent and treat...
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...Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V Christy Lundy June 15, 2014 Review of Literature Health Promotion Defined Health promotion is a discipline that seeks to improve the health of individuals and communities through education, behavioral change, and environmental improvement (The University of Oklahoma). Health promotion does not include education alone. It consists of proactive decision making taken by individuals, families, and communities to promote and sustain an optimal level of health. Health promotion can be broken down into two parts, active and passive. In passive health promotion, the individual is not actively participating. An example of passive health promotion would be government regulation, including FDA approvals or sanitation programs. Active health promotion involves the individual actively participating. Active health promotion would include an individual choosing to eat a proper, healthy diet or performing daily exercises. Purpose of Health Promotion in Nursing Nurses play a very influential role in health promotion. As health educators, nurses provide their patients, families, and communities with the necessary information and tools to take responsibility for their health. By implementing the education bestowed upon them, the patient and their families are empowered to make healthier choices and take action to live a healthier lifestyle. This in return, holds the best promise for lowering cost of health care (Edelman &...
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...their interpretation of what they consider dietary messages to be without further prompting. The portion of research obtained from the control group also gives dietitians a starting point for communicating dietary messages. There still remains a shortage of research on the weight that communication carries in influencing the consumption of food and beverages and how the sources behind this information resonate with the intended audience. The data within this study will contribute to a list of seldom represented and understudied factors associated with the influence of communication strategies on health behaviors. The investigation team will utilize ANT to acknowledge these factors and their role in shaping a healthy lifestyle. In this form of social theory, all objects are interconnected within social networks. ANT assists in the reveal of previously undetected networks, such as nontraditional relationships between people. This theory is particularly enlightening in the case of this study, as participants may rely on more informal networks to determine their dietary habits. The study first considers the socioeconomic status of the participants and the relation to their food purchases. Due to the specific location of the participants as addressed in the study's requirements, the results will reflect areas of a similar environment and population number. The data will also illustrate how dietary messages are most commonly expressed, as well as the paths that nutrition information travel...
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...Foundation is this nation’s largest health care related charitable organization with clear objectives which are directly focused on only health care issues and ways to transform and improve the overall health of every American. This foundation supports Universities, public agencies and charities which fall under the tax exempt sec. 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code . The type of projects the foundation supports are related to higher education, hospitals and institutes specific to certain research. The foundation gives support by giving out around 1,000 grants annually that range in total from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. The foundation provides a list of all the grants which applicants can apply on an annual basis. The applicants can also apply for multiple grants at one time, but only if they are specific to separate and entirely different projects. The amount of time you must wait before getting any word on a grant being awarded could be as long as four to seven months. Clinical Scholars is one of the most successful of the foundations programs. The program provides young physicians an opportunity to study non-clinical topics such as management or economics. This program gives each of them a rather unique responsibility and capability at confronting the most important health care issues which immediately threatens society. The efforts derived from this program are to improving both the actual health care and the health of everyone in America specifically...
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...that gauge employee desires and needs can be a critical factor in employee access to programs. Ensuring that employees have a clear understanding of program offerings can increase employee productivity, decrease employer health related costs and loss of outputs while increasing the knowledge and buy in of employees. If employees have limited understanding of benefit programs and the programs themselves are obsolete to employee needs and current trends, the sponsoring organization is wasting financial resources and contributing to the potential decrease in employee productivity due to unmet health and wellness related needs. Martocchio (2014), discusses the responsibilities of benefit professionals as providing assistance to employees surrounding education on the various options of benefit programs as well as their need for expertise in designing and administering benefits programs. He further discusses the importance of benefit professionals remaining current on trends and innovative approaches to practices and development of benefit programs. The text additionally states that many employees have minimal understanding of the wordage and regulations attached to the components of the benefits packages. Traditional approaches to developing and marketing health and wellness benefit programs in the organizational culture can prove to be financially costly to employers and unbeneficial to employees. Traditional approaches have focused on the employee having to decipher things,...
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...Health Care Careers Diagram and Summary HCS/531 Health Care Careers Diagram and Summary Pharmacists play an important role in providing and supporting pharmaceutical care. Providing pharmaceutical care includes, but is not limited to, establishing patient relationships, obtaining medication history information, preventing, identifying and resolving medication related problems (MRP), dispensing medications, and educating and counseling patients and healthcare providers (japha, 2010). This paper highlights the pharmacist role in various services, the workforce roles within those services, and the impact pharmacists play in health care organizations. Role of a Pharmacist Pharmacists interpret prescriptions and dispense medications prescribed by a credentialed provider. In cases where patients receive multiple medications, an in-depth understanding of drug interactions is required. Pharmacists monitor the pharmacologic effects of medications for certain disease states including, but not limited to, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, seizures, hyperlipidemia, anticoagulation, and infectious diseases. The rapid, dramatic advances in medication therapy created a niche for pharmacy practitioners that specialize in specific treatment and care (rheumatology, 2013). Medication Therapy Management Pharmacists have a broad knowledge base to assess and respond to a patient's medication therapy needs, thereby contributing to the inter-professional management of patients...
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... including health care industry, require their employees to connect with their coworkers and employees within and outside their organization. According to "Effective Communication In Hospitals" (2013), “Good medical care depends upon effective communication between patients and providers; ineffective communication can lead to improper diagnosis and delayed or improper medical treatment” (para. 1). Even though it is critical to share any kind of sensitive knowledge for the success of any organization, it is always difficult for the employees to not share knowledge with their coworkers, consultants, off-site employees, and other types of workers and resources. It may seem and sound easy to not share any type of sensitive information with the coworkers, but it is difficult to acknowledge which information may or may not be sensitive for the organization’s success. There are many organizational structures for all types of industries. Several health care organizations use traditional structures such as functional, divisional, and matrix structures; and other use nontraditional ways that give emphasis to teams and set of connections (Lombardi, Schermerhorn, & Kramer, "Introduction," 2007). The functional model is one of the model structures that best describes the health care organization such as hospitals. According to Lombardi, Schermerhorn, and Kramer (2007), people who have same skills are put together in functional structures; in functional structure, health care organization...
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...Introduction The New Yorker named Jean Nidetch, who is at the start of Weight Watchers in 1963, when she decided to invite her friends to hers in order to give them the possibility to lose weight "together". From there, the first Weight Watchers meeting was born. Quickly, the reputation of this program was spreading across the United States. It made thousands of followers. By 1970 it spread on to Germany, the first European country to import the Weight Watchers diet. In 1973, it followed by France and Switzerland and Belgium in 1974. The company is now present in forty countries across the world and hasn’t said its last word. In 1978, the company was sold to the famous U.S. food group H. J. Heinz until 1999, best known for the manufacture of ketchup and canned food. Since 2001, it went public and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The Weight Watchers program, in addition to the weekly meetings that have been develop in all countries where it operates, brand extension of products created under the logo of the brand through partnerships (105 products from 12 different categories in 2011). In 1993, Weight Watchers has developed additional services, including concept correspondence "Weight Watchers at home." But the revolution came in the 2000s with the development of the Internet, which hasn’t escaped to Weight Watchers. Weight Watchers International is the global leader in weight management services, operating in all the market through a network of owned...
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...is not what we say, but it is how we say it. A quality education and career training are sound investments for a bright future, an illustrious career, and a successful life. Individuals who complete more years of education have greater access to higher paying jobs-such as management, professional, and related occupations than those with fewer years of education. “Where one goes to college can have effects on one's future education, occupation, and income” (Karen, 2002, p. 193). Self-discipline, sacrifice, patience, perseverance, and positive attitude should be sufficient motivating factors, and a reminder that a good education pays off eventually by reaping the fruits of hard work. Physical well-being, personal wellness, and good health are part of personal responsibility. “Participation in physical activity should remain a high priority to facilitate maintenance of healthy body weights” (Liebman, 2005, p. 95). Personal drive, ambition, and desire to succeed are necessary attributes that help in overcoming any obstacles. Volunteering, part of personal responsibility requires time, and flexibility to help less fortunate members of the community, and may work in homeless shelters, children’s, and nursing homes, hospitals, churches, correctional institutions, and schools. Learning from our past can help avoid repetition of mistakes in the future. Responsibility means doing the right thing and not blaming others for our actions. People who drink and drive risk getting...
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