...I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as a Level I occupational therapy assistant student from HCC-Coleman Health and Sciences. I was assigned by Mr. Gibson P. Gelladuga, the school’s Academic Fieldwork Coordinator, to a placement at your hospital. It is an exciting opportunity for me to spend my first two weeks in this setting. As you will note in my resume, I have volunteered at Spanish Meadows Nursing Rehab, and I got a chance to shadow an occupational therapy assistant, and from there, I learned the creative aspect of a health practitioner. It showed me a lot of room to explore different interventions and treatments. I also learned that I am a tactile learner, I learn best when physically engaged in a “hands on” activity....
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...Mentoring Introduction According to Schemm, R.L. and Bross, T. (1995), the act of mentoring is defined as a process where a younger individual is paired with an older, person for the purpose of attaining guidance and support. Mentoring is becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s work force, and becoming more of a necessity rather than a consideration. It is likely that most, if not all, individuals will form one of these mentor-mentee relationships during some point in his or her professional career. There are several advantages, as well as possible disadvantages, to forming one of these relationships. When thinking of mentoring, a one on one relationship usually comes to mind; however, multiple-mentor relationships make another valid option available. In any mentoring relationship, there does come a great deal of responsibility. You are responsible for molding that person. Mentoring is a growing trend among working professionals; it has many benefits, and will help individuals gain success, and provide a fulfilling role for the mentor. Disadvantages/Problems Unfortunately, not all mentor-mentee relationships assist in the professional development of an individual. Occasionally, but not always, there can be problems in a mentoring relationship. There is always a chance that personalities and communication styles may not mesh, or poor advice be given by the mentor (Nolinske, 1995, p. 40). Creating an environment in which the mentee is evaluated based solely on...
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...Hospital (AJH) incorporates holistic practices in a clinical setting and animal-assisted therapy (AAT) or pet therapy is only one conventional method used. However, let’s review the connection between this health system and the core values of American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) Core Values and Standards of Practice. The vision of Abington Hospital is to be the most trusted healthcare partner and the mission is to promote healing, prevent harm and be kind. According to Erickson (2012), AHNA’s Core Value the backbone of Holistic Nursing vitality and interdependence of all things, including consciousness, the nurse as a healer, being available and caring, operating with purpose, and unconditional...
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...Business Plan for a Physical Therapy Clinic Benita Hodgson HCA 311: Health Care Financing & Information Systems Instructor: Garlyn Lewis March 17, 2012 Table of Contents 1) Executive Summary 3 2) Services and Equipment 4 3) Organizational Structure 6 4) Marketing Plan 7 5) Financial Analysis 8 6) Summary 11 Business Plan for a Physical Therapy Clinic Executive Summary Living Well Physical Therapy clinic is a privately owned business with one owner. The owner has a four year degree in healthcare specializing in physical therapy rehabilitation services. The clinic has been in operation for approximately 3 years in a small building located downtown in Fayetteville North Carolina. The business has outgrown the current space and is in need of an upgrade to a bigger building, new equipment, and more therapists...
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...A. Background of the Study B. Statement of the Problem This study aims to answer the following questions: 1. What is suicide? 2. What are the manifestation of a person with suicidal behavior? 3. How is suicide prevented? C. Scope and Delimitations This study about the prevention of suicidal behavior will cover the prevention and the many causes of suicidal behavior as well as the circumstances that may lead to possible suicide attempt. However, in this paper, we will not be covering the therapy approaches for a person who’s already committed suicide. This research will also not cover the developmental factor that may lead to suicidal propensity. D. Significance of the Study This study will be beneficial to the following groups of people:...
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...Organizational Leadership and Interprofessional Team Development Natacha Joseph RN Western Governors University I am currently employed as a community health nurse by a Managed Long Term Health company, Elderserve Health in New York City. Elderserve Health is a subsidiary of The Hebrew Home at Riverdale. Elderserve Health offers a variety of services including Care Coordination, Nurse services in connection with home health care, Therapies, including physical, occupational and speech at your home and in other settings, Social Work Services, Personal Care, Nutritional Counseling, Respiratory Therapy, Durable Medical Equipment, Medical and Surgical Supplies, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Orthopedic Footwear, Enteral and Parenteral Supplements, Personal Emergency Response System, Non-Emergency Health-related Transportation, Adult Day Health Care, Social Day Care, Podiatry (Foot Care), Hearing Exams and Hearing Aids/Batteries, Dentistry, Eye Exams and Eyeglasses, Home-delivered and Congregate Meals, Social and Environmental Supports, and Nursing Home Care (Institutional Medicaid required). As said by Hebrew Home (n.d.) “Our goal is to provide care in a warm, homelike environment and in a manner, which preserves and enhances independence and dignity. Such care should be provided on the basis of a continuum of care in which older people can live, learn and flourish. In fulfilling its mission, The Hebrew Home believes in a person-centered philosophy of service, celebrating our...
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...Topic: Autism General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience about autism. Thesis Statement: “I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover”. Jenny McCarthy Main Points 1.The autism spectrum represents a different way for minds to operate but it is not a defective way. 2. The rate of autism is rising because of environmental changes" or "the rate of autism is the same, but the rate of diagnosis has gone up". 3. The autism spectrum is a disability and anything that can be done to make children 'less autistic' should be done" Introduction: 1. Autistic spectrum disorder. 2. About 1 in 68 child has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) according to estimates from CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. 3. ASD is reported to occur in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. 4. ASD is almost 5 times more common among boys (1 in 42) than among girls (1 in 189). 5. Studies in Asia, Europe, and North America have identified individuals with ASD with an average Prevalence of about 1%. A study in South Korea reported a prevalence of 2.6%. 6. About 1 in 6 children in the United States had a developmental disability in 2006-2008, ranging from mild disabilities such as speech and language impairments to serious developmental disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and autism. BODY Main Point 1: 1. The autism spectrum...
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...Characteristics of effective teams: a literature review Characteristics of effective teams: a literature review SHARON MICKAN AND SYLVIA RODGER Sharon Mickan is a PhD student and Sylvia Rodger is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy at The University of Queensland. Sharon holds a NH&MRC Public Health Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Abstract Effective healthcare teams often elude consistent definition because of the complexity of teamwork. Systems theory offers a dynamic view of teamwork, in which input conditions are transformed via optimum throughput processes into maximal output. This article describes eighteen characteristics of effective teams across input conditions and teamwork processes, which have been identified from the literature. Background Research into team effectiveness has traditionally searched for characteristics of effective teams. Quantitative evaluations of specific interventions have largely been inconclusive and emphasised the need for further research (Schwartzmann 1986). The complexity of team functioning precludes reducing teams to their least number of components. Rather, a systems theory approach recognises the relationships and interdependence between and within teams. Given the importance of teamwork to delivering healthcare, a better understanding of how teams function effectively will be invaluable for educating and developing teams. This article will summarise and evaluate characteristics that create and maintain teams...
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...Chapter One: What Is Health Psychology? Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. •Definition of health psychology •The mind-body relationship: a brief history •The rise of the biopsychosocial method •The need for health psychology •Health psychology research •What is health psychology training for? Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 2 •Studies psychological influences on people • How they stay healthy • Why they become ill • How they respond when they get ill •Health: Complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being • Wellness: Optimum state of health Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 3 •Health promotion and maintenance •Prevention and treatment of illness •Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction • Etiology: Origins or causes of illness •Improvement of health care system and the formulation of health policy Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 4 •Disease during prehistory - Considered to arise when evil spirits entered the body •Humoral...
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...Organization and Management of a Health Care Policy HSA 515 – Health Care Policy, Law, and Ethics August 13, 2015 With lives in their hands, hospitals have to function very precisely, executing high-quality services every hour of every day. Organizations that have this sort of requirement usually take on a vertical organizational structure that is having many layers of management, with most of the organization’s staff working in very specific, narrow, low authority roles. The numerous layers of management are designed to make sure that no one person can throw the system off too much. This structure also ensures that tasks are being done exactly and correctly. Organizational structure of a hospital refers to the levels of management within a hospital. Levels allow efficient management of hospital departments. The structure also helps one to understand the hospital’s chain of command. Organizational structure varies from hospital to hospital. Large hospitals have complex organizational structures while smaller hospitals tend to have much simpler organizational structure. A typical organizational structure of a hospital would usually be a combination of a hierarchical and divisional structure, since there is a chain of command where some levels are under another level, but employees are organized in departments or divisions that have their own roles. At the top of the structure would be the administrators, followed by the information services and therapeutic services. Both...
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...Title: Pain, Coping and Sleep in Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease (Quantitative?) Abstract: Purpose The study examined the relationships among pain, pain coping, and sleep, and assessed factors (age, gender, frequency, and intensity of pain) that affect pain, coping, and sleep in children with sickle cell disease ( SCD). Methods Participants (66) were 39 children ( M = 11.5 years) and 27 adolescents ( M = 15.5 years) with SCD who completed an electronic visual analog scale ( eVAS), Pain Coping Questionnaire, and Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index. Results About two-thirds of the children reported pain the previous month. No significant differences were found between pain and age, gender, pain intensity, or frequency. Most children coped with pain by seeking information, problem solving, seeking social support, and positive self-statements. There were significant negative correlations in males between worse pain severity and behavioral distraction and internalizing or catastrophizing. The majority (91.2%) had mild to severe sleep disturbances, with 18.2% requiring sleeping medication three or more times a week. There were no significant differences between sleep and age, gender, pain intensity, or frequency. Conclusion Children with SCD experience pain that affects sleep patterns and the way they cope with pain. Nurses need to concurrently assess pain, coping, and sleep and promote sleep hygiene and positive coping strategies during pain episodes. Graves, J. K....
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...Quiz 5 Study Guide 1. Private logic includes which of the following: a. lifestyle goals, b. hidden reasons, c. immediate goals. d. All of the above 2. Adler believed that problems that come to therapy are related to: a. Career, love relationships and friendships b. Attention, power, inadequacy c. Career, sex, and power d. Revenge, career, relationships 3. Adler believed people need to be educated to value and exhibit: a. superiority b. social interest c. achievement d. career competency 4. Adler’s concept of style of life refers to: a. A person’s picture album b. The way a person meets personal needs c. The direction in which the person is moving d. The family constellation 5. Which of the following is a personality priority according to Adlerians? a. Disputing others b. Emotional liability c. Seeking revenge for inferiority d. Pleasing 6. Which of the following did Adler consider a barometer of mental health? a. Social interest b. Goals of misbehavior c. Lifestyle d. Inferiority complex 7. Which of the following is an Adlerian concept? a. a few people develop some sense of inferiority b. masculine protest - a striving for power is common to both sexes c. sexual pleasure is the prime motivator of behavior d. individual interest is more important than social interest 8. Which of the following are true of Adlerian psychology? a. behavior is mechanistic b. one's level of social interest is not a good measure...
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...be a direct result of financial relationships that could influence healthcare decisions. The law is named for its author, United State Congressman Pete Stark, a Democrat from California, who authored and supported the creation of this piece of legislation. The law’s purpose is to prohibit a physician from referring a patient for designated health services (DHS) to any organization that the physician or a member of his/her immediate family has a financial relationship. Exceptions to the law exist and will be examined in later sections of this reflection. Originally the Stark Law (Stark I) only applied to referrals of Medicare Beneficiaries, but Section 1877 of the Social Security Act (the Act) (42 U.S.C. 1395nn), also known as the physician self-referral law, or Stark Law, intends to prevent the misappropriation of or over utilization of healthcare that could result from incentivized diagnostic ordering protocols that may be a direct result of financial relationships that could influence healthcare decisions. The law is named for its author, United State Congressman Pete Stark, a Democrat from California, who authored and supported the creation of this piece of legislation. The law’s purpose is to prohibit a physician from referring a patient for designated health services (DHS) to any organization that the physician or a member of his/her immediate family has a financial relationship. Exceptions to the law exist and will be examined in later sections of this...
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...HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Instructional Overview The instructor may, by way of introduction, make a few comments regarding the importance and relevance of understanding the historical background of a profession and then briefly highlight the important points in Chapter One, adding any statements from his or her own background plus any appropriate comments. The major points of this chapter (which could be covered in an instructor’s introduction of the chapter) are as follows: 1. Occupations, including counseling, develop because there is a need. 2. The need for such personal assistance - advice, guidance, counseling - has existed, and in various ways been attended to, over the ages. 3. Many of the well-known historical figures (e.g. Plato, Aristotle, Charlemagne, Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson) have expressed “counseling” points of view. 4. Psychology emerged as a field of study and psychiatry as a specialized branch of medicine in the late 1800s. 5. The development of programs of guidance and counseling in American education began in the years just prior to World War I. Frank Parsons is usually credited with much of the success of its early beginnings. 6. Parsons considered three factors necessary for the wise choice of a vocation. They were: (a) a clear understanding of self; (b) a knowledge of the requirements and conditions for success, compensation, and opportunities in different careers; and (b) true reasoning on the relationships...
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...C304 A. Functional Differences The Illinois Board of Nursing is a regulatory agency that has 13 appointed members, which are appointed by the Governor’s office (Board of Nursing, n.d.). The roles of the Illinois Board of Nursing are “making recommendations on the adoption of revisions to the rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act, conducting hearings and disciplinary conferences upon charges calling for discipline of a licensee, and recommending approval or denial of nursing education programs” (Board of Nursing, n.d.). The American Nurses Association Illinois (ANA-Illinois) is an organization that advocates for all nurses. The board is elected not appointed by a state agency. The purpose of ANA-Illinois is “to protect the practice of nursing by ensuring that nursing’s priorities are incorporated into legal and regulatory decisions” (ANA-Illinois, 2015). B. Nursing Code Examples The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics influences my nursing practice daily. The respect for human dignity is a code that I follow with every patient and family member. It helps guide me in situations where I may be frustrated with the choices a patient makes regarding his or her health, or the lifestyle the patient chooses to live. A nurse is not a judge. We are there to advocate and care for our patients. We, as nurses, are to “practice with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person”...
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