Vulnerable Populations Introduction to Human Services‚ BSHS 302 June 21‚ 2010 Introduction Chronic illnesses are disorders that require ongoing care and treatment for much of the patients’ life to manage the illness. Examples of such illnesses are diabetes‚ high blood pressure‚ or heart disease. When discussing chronic mental illness‚ such diseases or disorders would be those that require ongoing treatment and care throughout much of the patients’ life. Examples would be schizophrenia
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Teenage Mothers a Vulnerable Population Joy Carr Nur/440 April 24‚ 2011 Maria Mendez Teenage Mothers a Vulnerable Population Teenage Mothers‚ a Vulnerable Population While there are a number of vulnerable populations in the world‚ very few receive the publicity‚ funding‚ and assistance that they need to survive in today’s society. There is a vast amount of media coverage on the elderly population and homeless children. However‚ most vulnerable populations are not recognized and assisted
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A Vulnerable Population the Homeless Veterans Patricia Dilbert NUR/440 April 7‚ 2014 Deanna Radford‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CNE A Vulnerable Population the homeless Veterans In this presentation‚ we will explore a vulnerable population with the focus on the homeless veterans. According to Mckinney Act”(1987) A homeless person is one who lacks a fixed‚ regular and adequate nighttime residence. One who has a primary nighttime residence that is a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter
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Vulnerable Population and Self Awareness One of the most common vulnerable populations are those individuals with a cognitive disorder such as Alzheimer’s disease. People with advanced AD are more challenging to assist in a health care setting because of their difficulty with expressing their needs. Health care professionals must use their strong assessment skills to determine what the persons needs are. My personal experience in working with patients with AD has rarely been the best. When
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Vulnerable Population in the Workplace Ronya Bentz NUR/440 February 27‚ 2010 Pauline Rogers Vulnerable Population in the Workplace Most staff members become anxious when asked to speak with a group of teachers about educating children with Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder
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Differential diagnosis includes Tinea versicolor‚ Vitiligo‚ and Pityriasis rosea. The diagnosis of Tinea versicolor is most likely the cause. Tinea versicolor is a chronic‚ asymptomatic and superficial fungal infection. The manifestation is common in young adults. The disorder occurs to the change in resistance to the organism Malassezia furfur
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Theory Evaluation Exemplar Environmental Theory of Florence Nightingale Theory Description Scope of theory:Grand Theory Purpose of the theory:“everyday sanitary knowledge‚ or the knowledge of nursing‚ or in other words‚ of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease‚ or that it can recover from disease.” * Main focus was the control of the environment of individuals and families‚ both healthy and ill. * Because it explains the totality of the behavior.
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Related to the Theory of Comfort Introduction Practicing as a nurse‚ I realize I follow my own metaparadigm of nursing. In this paper‚ I relate my own personal beliefs with that of a popular nursing theorist. Though my research on theory is just beginning‚ I feel my metaparadigm most relates to that of Katharine Kolcaba and her theory of comfort. I will seek to illustrate my philosophy with the knowledge and nursing experience I have. Origin of Theory The idea of comfort and theory started to
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Comfort Care Theory Nightingale described comfort as first duty of nurses. Since then comfort theory is flourishing in nursing and medical field. The first article on comfort theory was published in 1994 (Oliveira‚ 2013). Katharine Kolcaba first published her book on comfort care in 2003. This theory has been published and accepted at many health care authorities (Kolcaba & Dimarco‚ 2005). Kolcaba defined comfort as “the immediate state of being strengthen through having the human needs for relief
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Abstract As a young woman‚ Nightingale often accompanied her mother when she visited the sick. This inspired her to want to be a nurse‚ and against her parents’ wishes she entered a nurses’ training program. During the Crimean war she was asked by a family friend to come and care for the British soldiers at the army hospital. While there she witnessed filth‚ vermin‚ and death. Upon seeing the unsanitary conditions and the health risk to the soldiers she began her crusade to establish an environment
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