...practice nurse is employed as a British Heart Foundation (BHF) Heart Failure (HF) nurse and is based in secondary care. Along with networking with a wide range of health care practitioners providing a seamless service between primary and secondary care her role also involves evidence-based care to clients with chronic heart failure (CHF). CHF is a complex syndrome that results from a structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to function as a pump. This results in the heart not being able to pump enough blood to meet metabolic demands of the body (Clinical Resource Efficiency Support Team (CREST), 2005). The most common cause of HF is coronary artery disease, hypertension and valvular disease. It is a chronic condition, which may fluctuate, and result in repeated hospital admissions. The incidence and prevalence of heart failure is on the increase and with the current ageing population it is likely to continue along this trend. It is currently the most common cause of hospital admission in clients over the age of 65 years and accounts for 1 - 3 % of the National Health Service’ expenditure, the majority of which is associated with inpatient care (CREST, 2005). The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2010) defined specialist practice as “...the exercising of higher levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care” and requires that specialist practice nurse is competent in clinical assessment and diagnosis in their area...
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...identified themselves as a member of a visible minority group representing 19.1% of the total population. The second largest group within this population is Chinese. They make up 21.1% of the visible minority population and 4.0% of the total population of Canada. It is imperative that within a multicultural society such as Canada we act in a way that is culturally sensitive and nonjudgmental. Nurses, in particular, have the opportunity to interact with individuals from various cultures. However, in order to provide meaningful care to the client, nurses must demonstrate individual cultural competence. Culturally competent care requires the ongoing assessment of the nurses’ ability to provide care within the cultural context of the client (Andrews & Boyle, 2012)....
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...Holistic Health Care Center | Kneading Choices, LLC | Reba McBride January 23, 2012HCA 311Richard Burke | | Holistic Health Care Center BUSINESS PLAN KNEADING CHOICES, LLC 1616 Bear Paw Lane Cherokee, North Carolina 28719 The mission of Kneading Choices is to bring preventative and restorative lifelong health solutions to the whole consumer. We believe in providing essentials for a healthy body, both on the inside and the outside, using natural methods that are chemical-free and allow the consumer to take responsibility for their health. • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • PROGRAMS • MARKETING • COMPETITION • BACKGROUND ON PRINCIPAL PARTNERS • OPERATING PROCEDURES • PERSONNEL • BREAK-EVEN ANALYSIS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Description of the Business Kneading Choices, LLC, is a wellness studio. The partners, Raven Cailleach and Willow Cailleach, are both professionals in a health/wellness field and they are teaming up to put several health/wellness services under one roof. Kneading Choices will offer holistic skin/personal grooming care services, personal fitness training, nutrition classes and counseling, Yoga/Pilates classes, and therapeutic massage. We feel these are a good combination of services because as a person becomes interested in one aspect of a healthier lifestyle, it naturally leads to interest in other phases, and we feel the components we offer are part of a larger healthy lifestyle continuum. This holistic healing business plan is...
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...its comedic exterior, contains some very relevant social commentary. But this is exactly what Douglas Adams created when he wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a science fiction comedy novel written by Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The plot is based around the murder of Richard Macduff’s employer, Gordon Way, and the associated events that come along with the investigation. Although it’s set up with a serious event marking the start of the plot, the book is anything but serious. The detective hired by Richard to investigate the murder is Dirk Gently, a self-styled holistic detective, who solves mysteries based on “the fundamental interconnectedness of all things” (p. 132). He claims to “solve the whole crime (and) find the whole person” (p. 127). His approach to detective work gives the book a very jumbled plot, with many seemingly irrelevant occurrences happening along the way. Despite all this, Dirk , however strange he may seem, is a very good detective, and all the seemingly unrelated parts come together to form a conclusion involving time travel, a spaceship, ghosts, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the romantic era poet. However, all these events and characteristics of the book were the second focus of Douglas Adams’ writing. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency was written primarily as a medium through which Douglas Adams could express his own opinions on subjects he was passionate about...
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...Unit 9 P1 Holistic care is when every aspect is considered when giving care, this includes their physical, intellectual, emotional and social needs. Beryll and Whitehouse 2010:9 support this definition because they state that holistic care is ‘physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual and providing opportunities for these to be met. ‘ Empowerment of individuals Empowering individuals means that services users are given choice and control over their lives. This can be done by ensuring that they are involved and informed about every decision concerning their care plan. A way in which you can empower an individual is for example in Roger and Alysha case study, when discussing and making important decisions about Rogers care plan, he was involved. As well as him and his wife were in the meeting. Another example is making sure when providing care for an individual they have a say in for example what clothes they wear, this promotes choice and allows them to have control over certain aspects of their lives. This provides a holistic approach because it allows health care professionals to consider every aspect of the individuals care. If an individual is empowered, they’re more likely to follow their care plan, which means...
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...Robin Smith Advanced Composition for the English Major Karen Lawler 03/14/2016 Holistic Medicine Vs Conventional Medicine In this day in time, an increasing number of people are turning to a holism lifestyle. People are acknowledging the successfulness of holistic medicines. Holism combines experience and science, mind and body, and cross-cultural and traditional methods to diagnosis and treat patients. People are now opening their eyes to the many limitations that conventional medicines narrow view of the body. Conventional medicine focuses on dividing and sectioning the body and prescribing man-made chemicals to address the symptoms. These are the differences of conventional medicines and holistic medicines. "No single method or model of healthcare is capable of meeting the entire range of human needs at the time of illness and disease." (Sewell, 2008). Holism creates motivation by educating patients to take personal responsibility to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Holism instructs patients to learn effective ways to treat spiritual, physical, and mental conditions. Helping them to experience more joy and energy in being alive. "However, if care is approached through practices that are committed to holistic care there is a greater chance to influence healing and of people feeling better about themselves—both practitioner and patient." (Sewell, 2008). Conventional medicine focuses on the infectious origin of a disease and not the upkeep and construction of physiological...
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...Florence nightingale was one of the first to look at health from all angles regardless of wealth or social standing. This was done in a way which would later be termed as a holistic approach to health care. There are still considerable strides to be made in shifting the focus of today’s healthcare to a holistic and well-rounded approach. Nightingale was considered a visionary and one of the first to recognize the focus on the ill with little effort aimed at preventative care in the community. An emphasis on the wellbeing of individuals should be used as the driving force behind the delivery of health care. Shi & Singh bring to light that the medical model and current care standards still remain highly focused on the ill. This can be improved upon and changed with the incorporation of a holistic nursing approach and an emphasis on preventative care to improve community health (Shi & Singh, 2015, p....
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...medicine from different parts of the world are coming together to enhance our ability to battle disease and live optimal healthy lives. Two of the more common fields of medical thought are holistic medicine and allopathic medicine. The two terms allopathic medicine and holistic medicine are becoming more relevant when it comes to making proper health care decision. Allopathic medicine is the practice of conventional medicine that uses pharmacology active agents or physical interventions (like surgery) to treat or suppress symptoms or pathophysiologic processes of disease. Holistic medicine represents the idea that all the properties of a given system (physical, biological, social, etc.) cannot be truly determined or explained by its component parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines how the parts function together. Holistic medicine approaches your health by looking at the whole person, mind, body and spirit. It incorporates traditional medicine and also attempts to go beyond it by focusing on the "mind/body connection." This means that you focus on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of yourself as you work with your health-care provider to determine the root causes of your illness and find solutions through allopathic and/or alternative medicine. A holistic approach prescribes lifestyle, diet and activity plans that will promote overall health for the long term. The main emphasis in this health model is prevention of illness and proactive healthy...
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...Running head: Healing Hospital 1. Introduction Healing hospital is a place or rather a holistic and integrated environment where "Healing will take place more quickly, thoroughly, and meaningfully" with the entire staff ".... charged with the promotion of healing by creating an overall healing environment" (Jacobs, 2009). In essence therefore the healing hospital differs from the conventional hospital in that it provides for a multitude of levels of advancing the healing process; which includes, the community, the staff and a variety of technical and design aspects for placing healing into an advantageous context. Therefore, a healing hospital will provide not only for the physical aspects of healing but will also make provision for the psychological, social and spiritual aspects that integrate the various components into a comprehensive and inclusive process. In this sense the healing hospital has been described as an overall healing environment 2. Components of a Healing Hospital The healing hospital has been associated with the vision of a "Culture of Health" and with a more daring and innovative approach to healthcare than is usually the norm in our complex and often overly specialized and compartmentalized world (MCDH Adopts “Healing Hospital” Wellness Program). One of the central components of this culture of health is education. The education process is used in an integrated way to assist patients in the hospital as well...
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...Domains, the College of Nursing’s (CON) Mission and Program Competencies and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN) Essentials for Master's Education for Advanced Practice Nursing, similar components are discussed below. Mission GCU mission is to prepare student learners to become global citizens recognizing differences in cultures, living values and having the ability to give care nonjudgmentally, to be critical thinkers, effective communicators, and responsible leaders by providing an academically challenging, value-based curricular framework of Christian culture (GCU, 2014). The College of Nursing and Health Care Professions faculty believes in educating nurses within a dedicated and supportive community of Christian values and a holistic patient centered approach. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has the same mission in the form of research, policy, organization, finance, ethics, and professional development with nursing practice in human diversity, social issues, and health promotion and disease prevention by implementing a comprehensive holistic care model. (AACN, 2011). Curriculum GCU uses a challenging curriculum to prepare learners with the knowledge and skills needed in the current career arena by pushing learners to utilize and maximize personal intellectual motivational tools. GCU offers flexibility to students from various backgrounds, situations and workforce necessities and has created the best learning modality for their needs...
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...There are four key components in nursing that make up the metaparadigm of Watson’s Theory of Caring model. Human being, or person, is the first major concept described in the metaparadigm, and is defined as “the unity of mind-body-spirit” (Watson, 2008, p. 246). The second concept is health, and represents the overall physical and mental aspects, as well as social functioning that patients need in order to obtain genuine holistic care (Petiprin, 2015, Philosophy and Science of Caring section, para. 6). The third concept is environment, which Watson said that caring was not instilled from generation to generation, but was established in a unique way by which culture played a role in coping with its environment, and accepts people for who they really are, or may become (Petiprin, 2015, Philosophy and Science of...
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...The definition of caring that shows my perspective on how I choose to my interpretation of the concept of caring for patients in my future practice as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) involves providing the best possible care to my patients, remembering to attend to the “whole” patient, and be the patient advocate. FNP’s utilize the opportunities to think independently but also gain a better understanding of patient needs to in order improve patient outcomes (Adams, 2016, pg. 2). This holistic way of caring for and treating patients encompasses listening, connecting, and healing which affects the experience of patients positively. The concept of caring and holistic nursing work hand in hand to meet all needs of patients including but not limited...
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...solution to many ailments in the society. It centers in providing care focused on the patient wellness. Complementary and alternative medicine is now acceptable by healthcare providers as a way to offer healing through therapies. The existing type of medicine cannot satisfy the needs for the growing demand for healthcare in the world. The economy of countries is sickling and this calls for alternative ways to offer treatment to chronic and serious ailments. Determinations to ensure that the society is free of society work best than using many funds to look for cure and healing. Complementary and alternative medicine now offered in the current healthcare system includes the massage, acupuncture midwifery, naturopathic and traditional medicine (Mariano, 2007). Patient self-care now is the primary aim of physicians. The patients manage their health with the help of the physician. Patient empowerment is now the key driving force to the physicians to help the patients know their health needs and requirements. The nurses receive education and training on patient centered care. The society faces chronic illnesses and conditions like stress that eventually lead to depression and finally death. If patients have that power to manage their health through complementary and alternative medicine, such cases cannot arise in the society. The patient collaborates with the health practitioner and ensures wellness through managed care. Stress management is best achieved through collaboration of the...
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...Community Health Nursing: Quality of Life and Functioning A. Personal Perceptions After reviewing the case of Mrs. Thomas and her situation, there are many feelings I have about the final outcome. As nurses, we always have to take our feelings into account and rationalize what we feel about the health and well being of our patients. After a BRAC analysis was performed, significant results were indicated. I feel empathy for Mrs. Thomas because this technology showed what her odds were for future recurrence of breast cancer. I’m disappointed that a radical mastectomy was not suggested to be performed with Mrs. Thomas’ first surgery to help avoid a further decline. It appears almost obvious that this should have been encouraged by her medical team. I do, however, understand that it is easier to look back on this than to look forward with what options remain. What is most important is Mrs. Thomas’ quality of life for the duration of what time she has left. I define quality of life as the ability to be as emotionally, physically and mentally fulfilled as possible. Quality of life is finding all the moments that matter and cherishing them on a daily basis. There will be better days than others, but what is key is to understand the big picture. The major challenge is promoting the best quality of life when the big picture ultimately has a poor outcome. Health promotion is crucial to increase Mrs. Thomas’ quality of life. Interventions will be initiated in all areas...
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...Running Head:HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healing hospital : A Daring Paradibm Ancy Thomas Grand canyon University HLT 310, Spirituality in Health care july, 2012. HEALING HOSPITAL: A Daring Paradigm As I ventured reading about the Healing Hospitals, I became very appreciative and enthusiastic about the very concept. It only made me realize that we have come one full circle to integrate and merge spirituality, alternative and complimentary medicine with traditional practices to enrich patient care. In today’s world that is so commercialized, this integrated approach revitalizes the very intension of the medical mission by considering the subject as a whole person. It does not renounce the modern medicine but recognizes the spiritual components of healing and wholeness. None of us would disagree with the fact that compassionate care is a golden thread for complete cure. Characteristics of Healing Hospital:(components of healing hospitals) ‘Healing Hospital’ is a formalized approach to healing and it has three vital components as follows: 1.A healing physical environment 2.Integration of work design and technology and 3.A culture of radical loving care. This is a holistic approach that meets not only patient’s physical needs but their emotional and spiritual needs as well. As per wftv.com news(Feb, 2008), Parrish Medical Center was the #1 Healing Hospital for third straight year, and its CEO George Mikitarian was awarded too...
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