Cultural Competency during Pediatric Assessment Tina M. Schwartz Worcester State University Cultural Competency during Pediatric Assessment A 3-year old child presented to the Emergency Department after a fall down a four-stair flight of steps. The child’s right arm was swollen and discolored at the wrist. The parents brought the child to the Emergency Department. Information obtained revealed that the family had just recently immigrated to the United States. The mother indicated that
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Unit 18 1.1 Assessments are used to find out the beliefs, preferences and needs of the client. This enables us to meet their needs and promote their aims and objectives. A pre-admission assessment is carried out to ensure that we can meet their needs within the home, once admitted this is then extended to look at all aspects of the client’s needs and to develop a support plan. The assessments are all about the person and reflect their needs and wants and are user led. Information is gathered about
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out what to look into diagnosing different disorders and help build a good rapport with the client. The self-report measures family-report measures and parent-report measures in case of a child (Goldfinger & Pomerantz, 2010) will be administered. Since the individual being assessed is showing signs of OCD, a clean, tidy, and quiet and private room will be used for the assessment to accommodate any germ, untidiness or cluster obsession or compulsions. Consent will be obtained to have the interview recorded
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dates and other details have been altered or obscured to make identification impossible. Following the introduction of the knowledge and skills framework (DH 2004a) and emphasis on quality of health care and patient centred, interprofessional, health and social care (DH 2000; Leathard 2003; Thompson et al. 2002) health care professionals and students will need to be able to demonstrate the quality of our care and team working abilities. There is a connection between practice and thinking about practice
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Community Health Paper C228/VWT Task 1 By: Ericka Barrera November 20, 2015 A.) Identification of Community Depending on how you drive around, LA County can look very different in various parts of the community. As California’s largest county, with 10,116,705 people in the county, it is not hard to imagine that there are vast differences in even a localized area (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000-2013). With Hispanics making up almost half the population, the remaining Whites, Asians and African
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Case Manager Interview Case Manager: Merventine Scott Organization: Family and Youth Services Assessment and reassessment 1. When clients are referred to your organization, what process or procedure is followed to assess your client (such as psychological, social, medical, et cetera)? When clients are referred to Family and Youth Services an initial assessment is performed, which includes information on a clients demographics, residential status, income, insurance coverage, mental or medical
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Welcome to Community Connections! Community Connections provides comprehensive, respectful and effective mental health and residential services to residents of the District of Columbia and Montgomery County, Maryland. Our Mission Community Connections provides comprehensive, respectful and effective mental health and residential services to residents of the District of Columbia and Montgomery County, Maryland. Our Philosophy Community Connections was founded on the premise that service
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Heritage Assessment Melody Tejada Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V April 17, 2011 Heritage Assessment Throughout the years, people and families from a diverse group of cultures and religions have developed many health traditions and practices based on their culture and heritage. Most people that grow up having followed certain practices continue to do so into adulthood and also pass those traditions down to their children and so on. However, there are also those who break out of the
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Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION Community Health and PopulationFocused Nursing (C228) June 29, 2016 1 Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION A. Identification of Community 2 Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION The community that I will be presenting a health assessment status of for this task is Collierville
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competence of a local long term care / skilled nursing facility (LTC/SNF) located in Harker Heights, Texas. The inability to access numerical or percentage totals of the demographics of either the staff or residents directly resulted in observational assessments by this writer as the basis for this evaluation. The observations took place during the clinical experiences of students from the local public school district’s CNA course. Based on the various readings associated with the nursing 531 course
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