(2009) state that public health nurses (PHNs) provide preventative and curative care within specific geographical regions to people of various age groups. Mulcahy et al (2012) describe PHNs as ‘population based generalist nurses’. Public health nurse’s areas of care vary from wound dressing clinics to postnatal home visits. Placement in this area involved experiences such as the addiction clinic, breastfeeding clinic and first postnatal visits. These areas are of importance to the maternity services
population and while the biology of frailty is generally understood, there exists major divergence of opinion in its conceptual definition, technicalities and operationalization.1 Its multidimensional nature impacts on the interconnected variables of health and quality of life (QOL) which has necessitated the development of multiple clinically applicable tools for the detection and quantification of frailty. Multidisciplinary approaches have been developed to manage its wide spectrum of effects. These
Sleep health, the reasons why is it so important? Sleep is defined as the natural delay of consciousness during which the powers of the body are restored. Healthy People 2020, a national campaign geared at setting goals and objectives with a 10-year target; which is designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts that seeks to improve the health of all people in the United States. One of the objectives of Healthy People 2020 is sleep health. The campaign seeks to bring
(TBI) has been considered as a signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of particular importance is the concept of mild TBI, wherein the brain injury is associated with transient alteration of consciousness. Mild TBI also represent a major public health issue with an incidence of 100-300/100,000 per year of hospitalizations. Recent attention has been focussed on the psychiatric health problems, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following TBI. Numerous studies have identified
enablers and barriers to their motivation in donating blood at present or in the future. The enablers in the list include: (1) family, friends and relatives; (2) health status; (3) knowledge on blood donation; (4) their known benefits on donating blood and (4) others while the barriers in the list include: (1) family, friends and relatives; (2) health status; (3) knowledge on blood donation; (4) their known disadvantages on donating blood and (4) others. These enablers and barriers are chosen as part of
when a doctor makes decision for the patients, independent of their will, limiting their liberty to make vital choices for themselves, but doing so for the good of the ill. Alan Goldman, a critique of this philosophy, in “Medical Ethics: The Goal of Health and Right of Patients,” claims that the Hippocratic principle of “do no harm” overpowers the patient’s right to self-determination (1, Goldman, CC 2015, p. 274). Goldman argues that the ultimate flaw in medical paternalism is that it assumes that
Contemporary Society and Learners, the prevalent health problems in society related to social determinants of health include heart disease, cancer, and personal injury, type two diabetes, asthma, risky sexual behavior, tobacco use, alcohol use, and drug use. The social determinants of health that effect the prevalence of these health problems include environmental factors in which the population lives such as cultural demographics, socioeconomic status, public health polices and laws, geographic location,
SECONDARY RESEACH HEALTH INSURANCE NAME OF STUDENT:…………………. UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE 11/24/2015 This paper entails information gotten from secondary research such as encyclopedia, websites and articles. However, the table below describes the comparison of the result I found under the topic health insurance, the definition of terms, the URLs, complete bibliographical information, names of the authors and their backgrounds, quantity of relevant information, depth of analysis, objectivity
Bits’Bites cafe is an italian cafe chain that is founded in 2002.It is owned and operated in H & D LKY, which has its corporate headquarters in New York.The founder of the company was Elle Asher, a woman with dreams and goals of making a place that is not only cozy but would also make her customers feel more than just a cafe but a home to them and serves the best coffee that she herself created. She started her first cafe outlet in Albany, and her business flourished and has since led the
interact with small children. They are so eager to learn, that they absorb everything like sponges. I think that taking the time to do this type of community work truly will make a difference in the lives of these kids. We taught them about the importance of teeth, the difference of healthy and unhealthy food, the caries process, and how brushing and visiting the dentist will help prevent decay. According to statistic from the CDC, 1of 5 children aged 5 to 11 years have at least one untreated decayed