...and public areas are helping our childrens future and promoting a clean air future. Lets help support clean air with smoke free areas so, that our kids can breath healthy clean air– Government policies that support smoke-free workplaces and public areas are helping our childrens future and promoting a clean air future. Retrieved From http://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/health-effects/pregnancy/index.html http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/stateandcommunity/ http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/index.htm Retrieved From http://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/health-effects/pregnancy/index.html http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/stateandcommunity/ http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/index.htm Resources Available * www.azdhs.gov/tobaccofreeaz (website that offers different resources in the community and throughout arizona to help quit smoking) * WWW.BeTobaccoFree.Gov (Community and National web base resources to help quit smoking) * Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW ( toll-free number operated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that will connect you directly to your state’s tobacco quitline ) 1-800-QUIT-NOW is a toll-free number operated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that will connect you directly to your state’s tobacco quitline * * Resources Available * www.azdhs.gov/tobaccofreeaz (website that offers different resources in the community and throughout arizona to help...
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...Heritage Tool Assessment Grand Canyon University Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion Heritage Tool Assessment There are challenges with cultural diversities and competencies in the United States, as we have grown into a melting pot of many different cultures and ethnicities. Nurses make a positive difference in a patient’s life every day by providing high quality healthcare. But now, in the 21st century, nurses are providing that quality within an increasingly multicultural society. Doctor Madeline Leininger, founder of the field of transcultural nursing, says that when providing culturally competent patient care, it must be customized to fit the patient’s own cultural values, beliefs, traditions, practices and lifestyle. ((Leininger, & McFarland, 2006). The heritage assessment tool helped me to identify that families with diverse cultures have different perceptions on wellness and disease. Using this assessment tool, can help the healthcare provider determine how to care for their patient based on their cultural needs, it will also help identify the approach that needs to be made in teaching, health maintenance, health protection and health restoration as the provider can use the results as a baseline for treatment. The basis of this paper is to familiarize myself with the Native American, African American, and Hispanic cultures. The heritage assessment tool helped me to determine the needs of the whole person based on their beliefs and practices. As I...
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...National, State, and Local Human Service Organizational Structures and Processes Summary National, State, and Local Human Service Organizational Structures and Processes Summary Team A selected three organizations to analyze and understand their organizational structures and processes, and also to compare and contrast their similarities and differences. The organizations selected include the Red Cross, Arizona Child Protective Services, and Native Connections. Each organization will be examined for their organizational structure and whether the organization is governmental, private, for-profit, or nonprofit. The paper will analyze the departments, divisions, or specific areas of program delivery and how the organization builds community. How building community affects the value of the organization will also be discussed. The organizational culture will be examined and why the culture is important to the organization. The Blake and McCanse’s Leadership Grid and Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Model will be related to the each organization’s human relations model. A relevant strategic plan or organizational chart for each organization will be examined and a summary will be given of the differences between the national, state, and county or local human service organizations selected. Organizational Structure Organizational structure defines how the organization is arranged and operates (Lewis, Packard, Lewis, 2007). The Red Cross is structured in a combination...
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...Introduction This paper is our proposed plan for teaching those of all ages about obesity; its detrimental effects on the body, short and long term, and how to avoid associated problems, using a healthy varied eating plan and incorporating a daily exercise schedule. The health risks of obesity are the same for all people and the interventions for weight loss are also the same. These interventions are basic, eat healthy and be active. But educating communities and enabling them to make these changes are not basic tasks in themselves. It takes knowledge, planning, creativity and time to ensure that this teaching is effective. Proposed Community Teaching What is obesity? “Obesity is defined as an abnormal increase of fat in the subcutaneous connective tissue. This means that there are a lot of fat cells gathered in the tissue under the skin. Eating greater amounts of food than the body can use for energy causes this deposition ("Obesitynursing care," 2012). Why? And what is it related to: • Weight 20% higher than optimum body weight • Observed/reported eating patterns that are dysfunctional, food eaten is more than body requirements • Social/economic status • Psychosocial factors Physical /mental health problems associated with Obesity • Metabolic syndrome, this is a combination of conditions that includes: high cholesterol, high blood glucose levels, high blood pressure, and central obesity. • Coronary heart disease, the risk factors are increased with obesity • Diabetes...
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...Demographic Paper HCS490 Demographic Paper The Tri-state area is rapidly growing and is only going to continue. Not only because our community is nestled along the beautiful blue waters of the Colorado River where California, Arizona, and Nevada meet but also because we are across the river from one of the nation’s most popular gaming communities. With year round sunshine that attracts not only vacationers but also retirees. The aging population in our community is substantially large and is about to explode. Those born in the baby boom era following the end of World War II, between the years of 1946 and 1964 are just hitting the retirement age. We can expect to see our aging population grow and challenge our local health care facilities and the health care market in general over the next few years. Although the U.S. Census Bureau population estimates are not available for 2011 as of yet for our community, we can see on the quick facts chart below where we stood in 2010. People Quick Facts | Bullhead City, Arizona | Population, 2011 estimate | NA | Population, 2010 | 39,540 | Population, percent change, 2000 to 2010 | 17.1% | Population, 2000 | 33,769 | Persons under 5 years, percent, 2010 | 5.4% | Persons under 18 years, percent, 2010 | 19.6% | Persons 65 years and over, percent, 2010 | 23.9% | Female persons, percent, 2010 | 50.6% | (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). As shown above, our small community grew by 17.1% over 10 years between...
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...stationed in Frankfurt, Germany in 1954, O’Connor was serving as a civilian attorney with the United States Army Quartermaster Corps (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). In 1957, she was now known for being in the local law office, in Phoenix, Arizona (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). After her middle son was born, she left the law practice to take care of her family, but became involved in local politics and community service (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). She was also involved in many civil rights movements, women's equality movements and other stand out Parties (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). O’Connor had many accomplishments during her time. In 1965 she was an assistant state attorney for a general while actively involved in Republican Politics (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). In 1969, she served three terms on the Arizona State Senate (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). In 1972 Sandra Day O’Connor was the first U.S. woman to be a majority leader in the state legislature (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). From 1975-1979 she served as a trial judge in Maricopa County in the Superior Court (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). In 1979 O’Connor was part of the Arizona Court of Appeals (Supreme Court of the United States, n.d.). O’Connor’s first confirmation into the Supreme Court was intense and nerve-racking. After being confirmed on September 21, 1981, she then took her seat on the Bench (Biskupic, 2005)....
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...The rise in popularity of specialty or gourmet food trucks (where at least some preparation is done in the vehicle) has led to code revisions in communities eager to acknowledge this business model but cautious about food safety, traffic, and neighborhood compatibility. So far, the debate and the regulatory activity have been most active in large urban centers and in smaller cities in large metropolitan areas in California and Texas. Because most vending regulations focus more on licensing procedures and operations and not land use or design, relatively few places choose to put these standards in their zoning ordinances. It is more common to add provisions for mobile food vending to business or public health standards. Most places limit mobile food vending to nonresidential districts, and some communities have specific requirements for different types of carts or vehicles. A number of jurisdictions also have operations standards such as distancing requirements from other vendors or brick and mortar restaurants, limitations on hours of operation, or limitations on the vendor’s tenure in any one location. Below, I’ve included links to a number of examples of local regulations for mobile food vehicles. Examples of Food Truck/Mobile Vending Studies Cameron, Hawkins & Associates. 2011. Review of Toronto A La Cart Pilot Project. Toronto, Ontario: City of Toronto. Available http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2011/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-37419.pdf. · Summarizes the regulatory context...
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...MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES PROGRAM Arizona State University GENERAL STUDENT INFORMATION MANUAL MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES PROGRAM Arizona State University PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT FOR THE MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES PROGRAM The profession which you are entering is dedicated to one major purpose, the welfare of the patient. The laboratory is that part of the health care team which serves the primary function of assisting the physician in the diagnosis and treatment of disease by means of qualitative and quantitative analysis of body fluids and tissues. The responsibility of the laboratory is to provide the physician with reliable laboratory data, always cognizant of the primary concern, the PATIENT. At times, the convenience and private life of each laboratory professional and student must be of secondary concern. The patient's needs continue day and night, weekends and holidays, and must be met by all health care professionals. A career in the Medical Laboratory Sciences demands your time, your sincere efforts and your sympathetic interest in other people. These demands must be met by you in a mature and responsible manner. Your education in the Professional Study Program will be a challenging and rewarding experience. By applying for this program of study you have indicated your sincere desire to become a competent Medical Laboratory Scientist. You have been accepted as a student in the Arizona State University Medical Laboratory Sciences Program because of your qualifications...
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...The Relationship of Spirituality in Hospital Healing Marilou Loisel Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Dr. Friederike Doak August 26, 2012 The Relationship of Spirituality in Hospital Healing This paper is going to explore the challenges encountered by medical institutions that incorporate an integrated approach of spirituality toward the healing process of an individual. In today's economic struggle, healthcare is having to face different challenges, including expensive new advancement in technology, new governmental regulations, and expensive new medicines. As the health care industry obviously deals with patients that are sick or dying, they may want to be compassionate, but they have to deal with everything that affects the institution's bottom line. There is a daring new approach that allows the health care industry to help patients with their suffering in an environment that is patient centered, loving, caring and compassionate. This new approach, called a Radical Loving Care, makes it conducive for every patient, and every employee to feel comfortable and valued. Because the focus is to care for the caregivers, they in turn do extraordinary patient care (Eberst, 2008). It is a win-win situation, because it promotes a healthy environment without affecting the bottom line. Unfortunately, this daring approach is not the normal practice of every hospital. Mercy Gilbert Medical Center (MGMC) was built in 2006, with a vision of creating...
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... With up to 4,000 Filipinos being born every day, the Philippines is the 12th most populous country in the world. The country which has the approximate size of the state of Arizona at 116,000 square miles, has an estimated present population of 94 million and could possibly be at 154,000,000 in the year 2050 if the current annual population growth is maintained at about 2.0%. The Reproductive Health bill, or popularly known as RH bill, is Philippine Bill aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. It is a way of helping people to be more advance, well prepared, and to widen up each and every individuals mind setting about our society nowadays. The bill mandates the government to “promote, without bias, all effective natural and modern methods of family planning that are medically safe and legal”. Although abortion is recognized as illegal and punishable by law, the bill states that “the government shall ensure that all women needing care for post-abortion complications shall be treated and counseled in a humane, non-judgmental and compassionate manner”. The bill calls for a “multi-dimensional approach” integrates a component of family planning and responsible parenthood into all government anti-poverty programs. Age-appropriate reproductive health and sexuality education is required from grade five to fourth year high school using “life-skills and other approaches”. The new law passed after acrimonious debates in the...
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...48 Years Of Nigeria’s Underdevelopment: A Fruit Of Failed And Recycled Policy! * By L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu * Published 09/27/2008 * Nigeria Matters * Rating: L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu Arizona-Ogwu writes from Oyigbo, Rivers State, Nigeria. View all articles by L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu All over the world, there has been progress in many areas over the last 48 years -- life-saving medicines, the Internet, oil boom and , under-water exploration, airbus, the advent of mobile phone and whatsoever -- yet the same poor way of doing things as seen within October 1960 looms even today in Nigeria. Instead of coming up with better innovations and development strategies, this government makes life miserable and put across one of the worst ideas ever: confused, drawing plans, postponing and re-introducing bills yet the years were exhausting. Even if our governments are not the only ones that are bad, they have ranked low for decades on most international comparisons of corruption, state failure, red tape, lawlessness and dictatorship. Our platform "nigeria4betterrule" does not recognize such lousy but tyrant government-- this would be an insult to the many of us who risk their lives to protest this government. Instead, corrupt and mismanaged governments inside this country reflect the unhappy way in which our colonial masters artificially created most nations, often combining antagonistic ethnicities. Anyway, the results of states economics by bad states was a near-zero rise in GDP...
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...providers, research bodies, funding agencies, and regulatory agencies, among others. To enhance patient-centered care, business practices, regulatory requirements, and reimbursement regulatory procedures have been adopted. This is evident by the regulations of Joint Commission and the provision of services by Medicare Medicaid services (CMS). In this paper, the impact of business practices, regulatory requirements, and reimbursement procedures on patient-centered care is discussed. A multidisciplinary approach on a process improvement enhancing Patient and Family Centered Focus Care is outlined in a hospital located in Arizona. Regulatory Requirements and Healthcare Business In 1996 the Institute of Medicine took on healthcare improvement to resolve unsafe care by ambitiously moving toward quality initiatives. The release of “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System19 (1999) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001)” focused on the fails of the healthcare systems pointing out that over 98,000 patients die in hospitals annual due to some sort of medical error (Roussell, 2011). This report was the source of the new transformation of healthcare delivery brigding gaps from a state of broken system to an ideal state of evidence based care. Consumers are well aware of the possibilities of hospital errors and quality care and have become aware of number of business case practices, regulations, and reimbursement...
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...Leadership and Management Collage of Staten Island Nursing 411 Introduction This paper is based on leadership and the management styles that I chose to do research on. I will apply a leadership management theory I think best represented my leader. It will comprise of an observation part; that deals with who this leader is, what they are famous about, who did they lead, inspire, entices or irritate and how people react to their leadership. The theory part will describe the leadership and management theory that best represented them and the Analysis part will describe their actions, beliefs, how effective their goals were, and was this the best leadership style for the group or era they were practicing in. Observation: Margaret Sander born in 1879 is the famous for her role in getting contraceptives for the poor in an era where only the “affluent and the educated in American society were the only ones to have reliable contraception” (Allender et al 2010, p. 32).She was inspired individually after her own mother died in her 18th pregnancies at the age of 48years battled Tuberculosis, but her “pregnancy contributed to her both contracting the disease and eventually succumbed to it”(Allender 2010, p.32). She then went to White Plain Hospital as a nurse probationer, and later became a visiting nurse. She is a social reformer, sex educator, and a nurse. The issue of contraception was...
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...Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT USING FUNCTIONAL HEALTH Family Health Assessment using Functional Health Patterns Micaela Simon Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Melanie Escobar RN, MSN September 6, 2012 Family Health Assessment using Functional Health Patterns Assessment is the first tool in the nursing process in formulating health care plans for the individual as well as the family. A through assessment lays groundwork to promote family health (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 175). The purpose of this paper is to examine one familys view of their health. The author will use several family focused questions addressing the 11 health patterns outlined by Gordon’s functional health patterns ("Functional Health", 2010). With completion of the family assessment, s summarization of findings and wellness nursing diagnoses will be formed. The questions addressing all 11 functional health patterns (Appendix) and how it related to the family. The older couple chosen for this assignment are from English, Irish decent living most of there life in Nebraska now reside in Arizona. Husband 73, wife 68 married 43 years with three grown children a oldest son 43, daughter 41 and youngest son 39. Two of the children are out of the house, have spouses and children of there own. The oldest son is not married and lives out of state solely supported by his parents and has developmental and psychological issues from a childhood traumatic brain...
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...Healthy Communities Cross-sector partnerships are sparking widespread action to improve community health COATESVILLE , PA SEATTLE, WA Access to healthy foods Access to preventative care and healthy housing LOS ANGELES , CA Quality early child care and education CHICAGO, IL Data and evidence to build health into all policies and practices MIAMI , FL Opportunities for physical activity and healthy living health community development • community development finance • community planning • early child care/education • human services • housing Introduction “ Building a healthier America is feasible in years, not decades, if we collaborate and act on what is making a difference.” —Robert Wood Johnson Foundation In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened a commission of nonpartisan leaders to identify opportunities to improve the health of all Americans by creating environments that protect and actively promote health. Their report, Beyond Health Care: New Directions to a Healthier America, included 10 recommendations for improving the health of our communities, several of which focused specifically on the health of children. Because of the large role that social and economic factors play in shaping the health of communities, the Commission issued a call for collaboration that emphasized the need for leaders from all sectors— not just health...
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