...Nicole Arango Required Uniform Assignment The Health History Project Health Assessment: NR302 February 7, 2016 1. Biographic Data Name Todd Matthew Riddick Phone 609-577-9068 Address 8264 SW 179th Terrace, Palmetto Bay, FL 33157 Birthdate February 28th, 1972 Birthplace Trenton, NJ Age 43 Gender Male Marital Status Divorced Occupation Radiology Technologist Employer Baptist Hospital of Miami Race/ethnic origin Black 2. Sources and Reliability Client arrived to appointment alone. Client claims to be woken by his own snoring on occasion. Client’s girlfriend scheduled the appointment due to annual checkup. Client claims that he is not hypertensive, but is on preventative medication due to family history. 3. Reason for Seeking Care Client claims appointment was made as an “annual checkup/follow-up.” 4. Present Health or History of Present Illness Subjective: Client claims he believes to be in good health. Participates in gym routines minimum of 4x a week. Client claims to eat relatively healthy. Objective: Client has a BMI of 24.3, otherwise, normal. 5. Past Health Client claims to have improved his health over the past 10 years. Client was hospitalized 3 years ago for left should reconstructive surgery due to a motorcycle accident. Describe general health Client claims to be a smoker for the past 25 years. Client smokes roughly 6-8 cigarettes a day...
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...Introduction There is an increasing need for better management of Long Term Conditions (LTC) within Primary Health Care (PHC) that requires practice development processes and adaption to models of care that are person centred. Within my clinical setting implementation of a pilot scheme is underway with a common vision to work alongside the accompanying community pharmacy for better sharing of knowledge and information to enable optimum care for our mutually registered LTC patients. Analysis of evidence based practice, facilitation of roles and responsibilities, and appropriate health care frameworks will support how a plan is being developed that reflects nursing management and integrated service collaboration towards best health outcomes. Important to note that throughout this essay, reference will be made to Long Term Conditions, Chronic Conditions and Chronic diseases, these terms all relate to the same context. Evidence Mismanagement of chronic conditions is the leading cause of hospitalisations in New Zealand (NZ) (National Health Committee, 2007). The mantra ‘better, sooner, more convenient’ targets the role that primary health care in NZ must assume in order to reduce acute hospital admissions, through better management of patients with chronic conditions and, active support of high needs populations (Ministry of Health, 2011). The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2005) define long term / chronic conditions as having one or more of the following descriptions...
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...Running head: Community Health Project 1 The Community Health Project and Proposed Intervention Yvette Sanford Hall Loyola University of New Orleans Fall 2011 Community Health Project 2 This paper discusses the summary of the community health project carried out in the Eastern New Orleans Community in New Orleans, Louisiana, to encourage health promotion and disease prevention. This discussion includes a profile of Eastern New Orleans Community with its strengths and challenges as noted during the windshield survey conducted in the community. I will share with you a few problems identified in the community and plans proposed to address them. Also included will be a brief description of the aggregate group, a summary of the interventions, and practicum activities based on a health indicator chosen from Healthy People 2010. The theoretical framework or model that guided the interventions will be discussed. Profile of Eastern New Orleans The community identified throughout this paper is within eastern New Orleans area and its resident boundaries are Read Boulevard, Chef Menteur Highway, Dwyer Road, and Crowder Boulevard. Eastern New Orleans is a large section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Developed from the 1960s onwards...
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...Project Scenario The following report contains hypothetical organizational information for the strategic planning project. While it is fictional, many different “real” sources were used to create this scenario. Organization Name: ABC Organization Size: Small Healthcare Organization with less than 100 beds MISSION "ABC endeavours to provide comprehensive, quality healthcare in a convenient, compassionate and cost effective manner." VISION ABC is consistently at the forefront of evolving national healthcare reform. Our organization provides an innovative and integrated healthcare delivery system. We remain ever cognizant of our patients' needs and desires for high quality affordable healthcare. VALUES Compassion: We provide an environment that is caring and conducive to healing the whole person physically, emotionally and spiritually. We respect the individual needs, desires and rights of our patients. Quality: We believe in continuous quality of care and performance improvement as the foundation for preserving and enhancing healthcare delivery. Effective communication and education of our patients, physicians, staff and the community we serve are essential elements of this process. Comprehensive: We are committed to an integrated healthcare delivery system that encompasses the entire spectrum of healthcare delivery. This continuum of care encompasses all aspects of an individual's healthcare. Cost-effectiveness: We offer high quality healthcare that is accessible...
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...The Health Care Reform Project Michele Anne Campbell, Nadine Avelar, Melissa Bishop, Patricia Estrada, Ora Taylor HCS/440 June 22, 2014 Caryn Callahan The Health Care Reform Project A current health care economic issue is medical care for an aging population. Because of the baby boomers, the current population of aging Americans is increased from previous years. This is a growing trend that shows no obvious signs of slowing down. With each generation, more people are born and each generation will continue to have a larger population than its predecessor. The result is an increase in the need for funding the medical care for this aging population. We currently have Medicare and Social Security, but just like every financial source, it has its limits. It has been predicted that by the time the baby boomers grandchildren reach the age for retirement, there will be a lack of or absence of the resources necessary to fund their Medicare and Social Security benefits. There does not seem to be any resolutions to this issue. The only possible solution to this current issue is prevention. There are two different types of prevention. The first is preparation for the financial deficit toward health care for this group is a pre-meditated and sustained savings plan. Most people save their money for retirement, but not for medical care. The reality is that people spend more money on health care during later years that on vacation or retirement. Today’s retirees are often still working...
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...MEMORANDUM TO: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, U.S. Department of Health and Human Service FROM: Tiffany Hunter, Health Services Administrator, Intern SUBJECT: Childhood Obesity in America DATE: October 30, 2015 Childhood obesity is a driving force in the deterioration of health in adulthood. For the first time, the next generation of Americans conceivably will be the the first to have shorter, more disease prone, and less healthy lives than their parents. Obesity in America’s children has tripled since 1980, and current research suggests that one-third of children aged two and older are already overweight or obese. (Russell, Sekhar, & Whelan, 2010) Being overweight was at one time considered something that a child would outgrow. However, that is no longer the case. In the twentieth century, through medical research, it was revealed that children who suffered from obesity were susceptible to a lifetime of various health concerns. A child who carries superfluous weight is at risk for illnesses ranging from asthma to cardiovascular disease. In short, childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions. Childhood obesity is intricate in its complexity because it has multiple influences, including: biological, behavioral, societal, economic, and environmental, which together have shaped an atmosphere in which it has become difficult to sustain a healthy body weight. These environments are categorized by: * The influx in the number of American families having...
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...Erectile Dysfunction Erectile dysfunction is one of the most common forms of male reproductive health problems. Most men do not discuss their erectile dysfunction, although if they would, they would discover that there are reasonable treatment options available that can enhance their relational life. Men were brought up with the misguided notion that real men didn’t have such issues. This is terribly misguided, and a lot of men experience erectile dysfunction at least once in their life. As researched erectile dysfunction can be caused by other health conditions, medication, or even psychological problems. The purpose of this paper is to critique the research on erectile dysfunction mentioned below. Critique of Research The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) were the first pieces of literature researched on Erectile Dysfunction (ED). Stating that ED is usually associated with medical conditions physical and or psychological. The report gives information regarding what is ED and how ED occurs and how is it diagnosed, and treated. The information presented was consistent with other research on ED. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is defined when a man has trouble getting or keeping an erection. This definition is also consistent throughout the research reviewed. ED is said to be more common as men get older. But male sexual dysfunction is not a natural part of aging. This finding was not mentioned in any of the other literature reviewed....
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...Health Care Reform Project Part 1 David Chambliss HCS/440 - Economics January 12, 2016 Professor Kamal Faour Health Care Reform Project Part 1 The Price of Progress: Drugs In The Health Care Market This is a review of the above fore mentioned article. The U.S. health care system in the new century comes with good and bad news both stemming from the same source; medical innovation. The good news: life expectancy and health status in the United States are improving; infant mortality is declining and disability rates among the elderly have been falling. These improvements all point to one source: major pharmaceutical breakthroughs in the 1990s. The bad news: This medical progress is expensive meaning better medicine increases cost in the long run. Debate over our specific choices seems always to devolve back to a list of competing alternatives: restrict patient access; shift costs to the recipients of progress; shift risk to providers; or share through higher premiums the cost increases. . Unnecessary Regulations That Increase Prescription Drug Cost This is a review of the above fore mentioned article. As drug coverage has become more widespread, so too have calls to impose additional regulations on drug plans and the firms managing them. A reason sometimes given for increasing drug plan regulation is the need for transparency to prevent drug plan managers from excessive mark-ups for drugs at the expense of patients and health plans. In the...
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...Community Health Advocacy Project-Part Two Soeurette Joseph University Of Phoenix Population-Focused Health Care NUR/544 Louama Driscoll July 14, 2014 Community Health Advocacy Project-Part Two Prescription misuse is the non-medical usage of prescription drugs without doctor’s prescription. This has become a significant health concern among adolescent group ages” between “12 to 19. One-third of individuals over the age of 12 who have used drug for the first time, started by using prescription drugs for non-medical purposes (The National Survey on Drug use and Health, 2010). The epicenter of an epidemic of prescription drug abuse in United States is the State of Florida. The sales of prescribed pain killer per person in Florida is three times higher than the sales of Illinois that holds the lowest sales rate (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). Definition and Differences of Community and Aggregate A community is a group of people or collection of people who interact, form a sense of unity with others. In addition to sharing a geographical location, they also share social ties. The three types of community include those that: a) share similar or common interest of which a professional organization is an example, b) community of solution, a group of people joining or coming together to formulate a solution to a problem, and c) geographic. Nies and McEwen (2011) define an aggregate as a subgroup of a group or population that share similar...
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...HV Date: 21.06.2017 Project Category: WISE Community Mental Health - PHaMs. Support Description: N/A Session: N/A Information and Reminders: 1.- P/C to Hayley: The writer called Hayley to check on her mental wellbeing. Hayley stated that she is not copping well, as the doctors decided to keep Rubben at the hospital, as they do not know what causes his high temperature. Hayley’s other concerns are her other two sons, as she has not provided them with the quality of time they need it. During the day Ealih is at the child care center and during the night with Hayley’s male friend’s mother and Sebastian is at his school and then with his paternal grandparents. 2.- Financial support: Hayley struggles with money and has requested some support from the Hospital’s case workers (clouts for the boys, and groceries). A social worker was able to provide her with some vouchers to buy food from the hospital canteen, nothing else, but this had run out....
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...There has been a slow change in the patient’s habit of relying on the family physician for all the healthcare needs. Health systems are slowly recognizing one of the most important elements of PHC or Primary Healthcare and it is the team approach. In this approach all the healthcare professionals from different disciplines work in sync with one another to enhance the care, bring down the service duplication and at the same time ensure that patients have access to healthcare professionals at the time of their needs. The Hudson Bay team has been working for the past 6 ½ years and comprises of many healthcare professionals. The team has physicians, nurse practitioners and even addiction and mental health specialists (Hudson Bay Team, 2007). The official website of the Hudson Bay Team (Heartland Health Region) is http://www.hrha.sk.ca/phc/default.html. The PHC is based on the 5 principles of the Canada Health Act and the Hudson Nay has adopted the following ways in compliance to the act: 1. Accessibility: HealthLine and Smoker’s Helpline, that work outside of regular office hours HealthLine OnLine with website access on 24/7 bases Whether residents need with their medication, rehabilitation exercises, cleaning, or meal preparation, team works tirelessly to provide home care clients with the specialized care they need. 2. Intersectoral Collaboration In addition to medical professionals, the team also enlists the help of other community members...
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...senior citizens. For health care organizations any type of demographic change will automatically bring economic and social challenges. Almost 80 million babies were born in the United States from January 1946 through December 1964. This segment of the population is known as the Baby Boomers. In 2011 the first wave of Baby Boomers began reaching age 65, the age of entitlement. Every day from today for the next 16 years approximately 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn age 65 and become entitled to Medicare (www.politifact.com, 2011). With an increasingly older population come the need for a greater number of prescription drugs, a greater number of medical office visits in order to extend the aged quality of life, and a greater need for long term care. 80 million Americans within the next 16 years will receive some form of government funding for health care adding to the already fraught health care economy. Ageing population puts strain on medical costs: Bernanke warns of ‘fiscal crisis’ With more than 10,000 Baby Boomers reaching the age of retirement and Medicare eligibility every day for the next decade and a half the nation’s and states’ government are facing a disastrous fiscal crisis. The Congressional Budget Office made a projection in 2007 that the federal debt held by the public to gross domestic product ratio will have ballooned to 100% in 2030 however the nation has surpassed this figure as of 2012. The government’s dilemma is how to decrease health care spending while extending...
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...MARKET SHARE OF “HEALTH DRINKS” SUBMITTED TO PUNE UNIVERSITY BY CHIRAG G PATEL AS PART FULFILLMENT OF B.B.A. (3RD YEAR) APRIL, 2010 SINHGAD COLLEGE OF COMMERCE, PUNE - 411048 C O N T E N T S |Chapter No. |Title |Page No. | | |Declaration |3 | | |Guide Certificate |4 | | |Acknowledgement |5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |I |Executive Summary |6-7 | | | ...
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...Running head: COMPARATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT: DISCUSSION AND Comparative Research Project: Discussion and comparison of health promotion and prevention levels Nathan McCain Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V Kimberly Stout June 24, 2012 Comparative Research Project: Discussion and comparison of health promotion and prevention levels The purpose of this paper is to discuss the application of the three levels of health promotion: primary, secondary, and tertiary. To be included in this discussion, how health promotion is defined, the purpose of health promotion in nursing practice, nursing roles and responsibilities evolving in health promotion, and comparison of the three levels of health prevention. Three current journal articles relating to youth violence were chosen for examination of content and comparison regarding their methodology in their use of health promotion and prevention, at specified levels of care. Health promotion is defined in different manners. The general consensus within the health care community is that any model should reflect healthy actions and positive outlooks regarding health and well-being. The client should play a large part in the design of how their health goals are assessed, evaluated, and implemented. The client should be taught self-directed actions of care that improve their ability to magnify well-being, by enhancing their physical activity, improving their diet, managing stress, and eliminating...
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...2013, Jeff Magone, the new senior health care executive of Yorkshire Clinic, set the goal for the HCO to implement an electronic health record (EHR) system. Currently, the clinic still conducts patient care using paper health records. Mr. Magone and the physicians have discussed the option, and they realize that EHR usage is proven to improve the quality and safety of patient care. In fact, they all believe in implementation of the EHR so much that Mr. Magone has incorporated EHR implementation into Yorkshire Clinic's strategic plan. Recently, the company determined that your organization qualifies for government incentives—under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical (HITECH) Act of 2009—with successful EHR implementation. Mr. Magone and the physicians realize that EHR implementation will be costly and will take time, but they are willing to make the investment. There is widespread support for the endeavor, and everyone has agreed to be part of the steering committee to guide project development. The various stakeholders include physicians, nurses, administrators, and patients. There have been several meetings in which the end-users have been afforded the opportunity to ask questions and provide their feedback about the initiative. There is growing enthusiasm among physicians and clinicians about the possibilities that EHR implementation will bring. Mr. Magone has made it clear that patient needs are driving the project. He wants to ensure that EHR design...
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