Interventions Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Health psychology is a fast-growing sub-discipline of psychology that borders on what causes illness and how to such illness is treated. Noticeably, healthy psychology shifts the responsibility of disease prevention to individuals arguing that diseases such as HIV/AIDS are caused by certain personal behaviors (Murphy, 2010). In addition, health psychology disregards a simple linear model of health and examines the combination of factors involved in illness- social, biological (e.g. a virus) or psychological(e.g. beliefs and behaviors). Because the illness is caused through a combination of many factors, the individual is never seen as a passive victim of some external disease causative agents such ...

Reflection on Clinical Practice

Reflection on Clinical Practice

Introduction

In advanced nursing, acute care of pregnant women is an important part. The challenge that is common in this field of nursing is that the nurse must consider the wellbeing of the developing fetus in addition to that of the mother before taking any interventions. One of the first cases I handled was that of Mr. & Mrs. Peterson. I met Mrs. Jessica Peterson, 31 while she was 4 months pregnant after she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus. From her medical records, this was her second pregnancy with the first one having ended in a miscarriage ...

Health promotion takes various approaches. In practice, health promotion involves increasing the control that individuals, communities, and populations have on healthcare. Such increase is attainable through addressing various factors that determine health. Health promotion activities aim at improving health outcomes within individuals, communities, and populations. In a bid to attain this objective, governments, stakeholders, and other interested parties have developed benchmarks for promoting health. Ottawa Chatter and Jakarta Declaration are amongst the benchmarks for promoting health. In the Ottawa Charter and Jakarta Declaration, various health promotion principles or aspects have been addressed (Dixey et al., 2013). The following analysis aims ...

Health promotion takes various approaches. In practice, health promotion involves increasing the control that individuals, communities, and populations have on healthcare. Such increase is attainable through addressing various factors that determine health. Health promotion activities aim at improving health outcomes within individuals, communities, and populations. In a bid to attain this objective, governments, stakeholders, and other interested parties have developed benchmarks for promoting health. Ottawa Chatter and Jakarta Declaration are amongst the benchmarks for promoting health. In the Ottawa Charter and Jakarta Declaration, various health promotion principles or aspects have been addressed. The following analysis aims at identifying the relevance ...

Critical analysis of The Influence of a Post discharge Intervention on Reducing Hospital Readmissions in a Medicare Population by Costantino, M. E., Frey, B., Hall, B. & Painter, P. October 2013 16(5), 310-316.

Interventions Reducing Readmissions

Abstract
Discharging patients from a hospital is a complex and intricate process that should be handled with a lot of attention and care to avoid the unnecessary readmission of patients. The study states that some reasons cause hospital readmission in Medicare patients between 30 days of discharge and they may include failure to follow the physician’s directions, reoccurrence of the condition, lack of follow-up care ...

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As I understand it, social work is the pursuit of increased wellbeing for individuals and groups through direct and concerted intervention in a number of ways. The overall goal for someone in social work is to help combat social injustices and various inequalities in education, psychological awareness, and the like through determined effort and intervention on one's part (Agnew, 2004). This is typically performed through dedicated and complex interactions with those who require social work, and theories of human development and social systems and theory are used to investigate a client's social situation. After this analysis, strategies are decided ...

(Professional/nursing care plan)

Introduction

- A brief introduction to setting and the chronic health condition

Critical application of a chronic disease model of care used to inform self-management.

Articulation of short and long term goals.
Identification and critical examination of specific strategies/interventions to support self-management.
Identification of the tasks/actions necessary to complete each strategy, as well as who will
Conclusion
- Examination of the effectiveness of the self-management plan (i.e. how the achievement of goals will be evaluated)

Abstract

This report contains a self-management care plan for a diabetic patient with an associating chronic condition. A brief introduction to the setting and chronic health condition will be outlined. Critical application of the ...

JagjotDulay

Healthy Communities Nursing Theory and Practice
Debora Spartaco
d) Primary Health Care‐how have the values and principles of Primary Health Care been reflected in the work you are involved with? How does it directly influence your clients?
The Values of The basic principles of primary health care identified in the Alma Ata declaration are to be modified into national health policies so as to sustain the vision of primary health care as part of a comprehensive health care system which is in consonance with other sectors, these principles include
Equitable distribution of health care, Community ...

Modern agricultural practices and technological advances have led to tremendous success in food production. Despite the success, efforts to increase the production of food have had negative and far-reaching effects on the ecosystem. The persistent decline in biodiversity is affecting food production as well as other food related services (GRiD par 8).
Biodiversity can be defined as the various forms of life on earth regarding the number, distribution and composition (species, alleles, groups, etc.) of the biota (Nair par 9). Agricultural activities have a direct and significant effect on biodiversity while the decline in biodiversity is negatively affecting food ...

In the organization, several challenges can result that require proper management and change. A diverse workplace comprises of the employees having different genders, races, ages, abilities, traditions, religion, and culture (Cummings & Worley, 2009). An organization that lacks the diversity usually experiences the weakening of the employee morale, decline in the productivity, and a static bottom line. However, in order to combat this situation, an organization requires as well-planned and a well-managed diversity plan, which contains details regarding policies of diversity, its effective implementation and ensures that every member within the organization adhere to the set plans and strategies.
The workplace ...

Introduction

The social norms theory states that human behavior is influenced by inaccurate perceptions of the manner in which other members of social groups act and think. In recent times, prevention approaches that are based on the social norms theory have grown in popularity. Evidence now indicates that they can be very effective if implemented correctly. According to the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA, 2002), there are promising initial results obtained from programs that adopt an intensive social norms approach. According to NIAAA, there are reductions of up to 20% in the levels of high-risk drinking in a ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

Q1: Prioritizing patient care will help to complete nurse’s shift duties without any adverse patient complication. Prioritizing will help to plan out the day and in managing the cases in the most effective way (Alfaro-LeFevre 2014). The best path to plan care for the patient with different medical and surgical priorities is to set timed objectives and meet the discharge goals based on the urgency of the medical or surgical condition. The handover from the staff of the previous shift provided the information for 4 patients, of which Lucy’s condition is more of an emergency that will ...

Team Nursing

Team nursing is a system where patient care is distributed among nurses working in a coordinated approach. Craig (2015) defines team nursing as two or more people interacting interdependently with a common purpose, having measurable goals and encouraging mutual participation in problem-solving. It is the shared purpose that makes it possible for teams to implement ways through which they promote desirable health outcomes by sharing patients’ results and jointly participating in discussions to enhance performance. In such cases, the nurse in charge can delegate authority to a team leader who then works closely with the rest of the team ...

Homosexual Couples’ inability to express

Their love in public
Homosexuality has been a topic of much heated debate and it still is in the world today, the controversy is still in the hearts of those who feel strong about it whether they are for it or against it. Despite the fact that same-sex marriage is legal, there are a lot of gay couples coming under fire for certain activities that they are doing or not doing and it has gotten to the point where some of those couples feel as if their very livelihood is threatened from a social perspective because people have a ...

The central aim of the research was to proof through randomized control experiments the ability of mindfulness meditation compared to relaxation training interventions to reduce ruminative and destructive behaviors and thoughts. An ability that consequently provides a distinctive mechanism to reduce stress. Through the brief training in somatic relaxation or mindfulness meditation, the researchers attempt to prove that MM greatly improves positive moods and reduces distress.

The significant feature of MM is its unique qualities and difference from traditional methods of relaxation due to its focus on relaxation during the practice. In the recent past, there has been an increasing ...

Corporal punishment has been practiced in human society since the civilizations of the ancient world, but corporal punishment is not an effective long-term strategy for modifying human behavior because it can cause developmental issues and behavioral issues in all stages of lifespan development. Corporal punishment is a significant issue for children and adolescents because they are mainly the targets of physical abuse at home or in school under the assumption that it will result in reducing misbehavior.
Three types of corporal punishment include parental corporal punishment, school corporal punishment, and judicial corporal punishment. Other than the death penalty, judicial ...

Analysis of a Cardiovascular Case Scenario

- Careful monitoring of factors such as weight, fluid intake, electrolytes and renal functions
- Careful scrutiny for renal dysfunction development
- Fluids and sodium restriction,
- Administration of a raised dosage of loop diuretics either orally or intravenously
- Administration of supplemental oxygen
- Positive pressure ventilation that is non-invasive
- Intravenous vasodilators
- Additional drug therapy , for instance the adminsartion of beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, amongst others

Rationale for the Administration of Medications

IV furosemide (Lasix) - This is a loop diuretic that inhibits the sodium and chloride ions and water absorption in the nephron’s convoluted tube ...

Approaches to Health Promotion

Executive Summary
The purpose of this paper to require the students to be able to critically analyze a recent health promotion program that is in conformity with the Ottawa Charter and the Jakarta Declaration under the supervision of the World Health Organization. The intention of this paper is to be able to present the WHO principles based on the student’s understanding. The analysis will contain the intervention program and to measure its effectiveness in accordance with Ottawa Charter by showing how the WHO principles were implemented. At the same time, the same treatment will be applied to determine ...

Part -1: Discuss responsibilities of the nurse, related to health promotion, risk factors and disease management.

(a) How does the nurse use nursing process to plan care in promoting health, risk reduction and disease management?
(b) Explain the benefits of using evidence- based practice in planning care.
(c) Discuss strategies for including evidence -based practice in planning care.

Part- 11: Choose a disease and compare the evidence based pathophysiology; diagnosis and treatment applied to two different age groups.

(a) Explain the pathophysiology and etiology of the disease, including impact of age.
(b) Examine the impact of age on risk factors.
(c) Differentiate between the diagnostic processes for the two age groups.
(d) Compare treatment of the disease based on age, using scientific evidence based information.
(e) Explain how the nurse uses evidence-base information ...

Prof:

Abstract
This paper describes HIV, its effects on the body, how it is transmitted, the associated nursing, medications, side effects and possible interactions. The paper also discusses the virus, how it can operate undetected within the human body and the different stages of the virus’ activities within the body. The various available drug treatments are described and how they are used to target a particular stage or aspect of the virus behaviour such as multiplication. Possible side effects of the drugs are listed and how nursing care is crucial in the treatment and management of HIV/AIDS. The risks of ...

How can Child Support Enforcement be Improved in the U.S.?

Differences between the Welfare System of the 1970’s and the Current System.

How can Child Support Enforcement be Improved in the U.S.?

Throughout the history of making public policy to support children with the social services (welfare programs) efforts have been made to mirror changes in family dynamics. For the most part policy makers have shown a willingness to incorporate the suggestions based on social science research into public policy.

The 1970s were a big turning point for how child support problems were to be handled. Up until that time ...

According to Gulanick and Myers (2013), the nursing process has been identified as the most appropriate strategy which can be employed in trying to ensure that the most suitable care is provided to a particular individual. Ensuring that the patient gets the best out of the Caregiving process should form the primary objective of any nursing undertaking. Addition studies (de Oliveira et al. 2012; Weber and Kelley, 2013), show carrying out a thorough assessment of a patient is a significant step as it forms the basis of a care plan. Studies by (Papathanasiou et al., 2013; Morrissey, 2016) showed ...

Introduction:

Physician assisted suicide is the act of destroying one’s own life with the assistance of a physician. According to Walker (25), in Oregon based on a terminally ill patient’s request a physician can prescribe a lethal dose of medication to take the life of a patient. To stop the pain what ethical issues surround the termination of the life of a terminally ill patient? Who bears the responsibility of making this decision? Is it the patient, the medical practitioner, or the patient’s relatives? What considerations are required before making the decision to end a patient’s ...

Introduction

In this paper, the article titled “Effect of 2-yn− 3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementations on cognitive function in older people: a randomized, double-blind, controlled” by Dangour et al., 2010 will be critically appraised. The article describes a study that sought to establish whether 2-yn− 3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation has an effect on cognitive function in older people. In the study, a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial was used. Reduced cognitive function and dementia in older people continues to increase and pose a significant challenge to the elderly. Several studies have reported an association between the intakes of ...

Transgender and the Use of MMPI-2

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test is a self-report measure of psychopathology and the personality structures in adults. As opposed to other similar tests, it is difficult for those subjected to it to give a false impression or deny` the existence of a problem. It is also possible to conduct empirical research using the MMPI-2 tests, as it gives an opportunity to give quantitative evidence. Therefore, it is more practical when evaluating psychological issues. It is especially the case in addressing the psychological issues of the diverse transgender population (Tellegen, et al., 2003).
Interventions such as hormonal treatment ...

Criminal Law

Introduction
This paper looks at the claim by Cullen and Gilbert (1982) that “Rehabilitation should be the major goal of any correctional system” (p. 5) and seeks to determine if rehabilitation is the most efficient method to attenuate crime. From the onset of the 20th century, efforts to combat crime have seen a rise in the implementation of rehabilitation as a preferred philosophy or methodology enacted by the justice system in order to reduce this societal challenge. The treatment of criminals was perceived as both efficient in terms of crime prevention and also the treatment of offenders was considered a more ...

Introduction

Strategic formulation is defined from the context of organizational goal derivative, examined success and framework development needed to provide anticipated results as per given plans. This involves utilizing significant communication strategies, examining the required provisions that would be purposefully utilized in order to strategically develop a model within which the changing environment will need in view of resource, budgetary and organizational development.
A critical assessment of key aspects of strategic formulation and implementation is captured within the pretext of Zara’s success by identifying strategic direction and developing the applicable metric which would evidently ignite its development process. Direction ...

Job Stress and Job Stress Interventions

Job Stress and Job Stress Interventions
1. The most important idea of Part Eight was the role of the lack of control in causing job stress and the resulting possible ways of combatting that issue. In particular, the experiment described where just the mere presence of an on-off switch for distracting noise resulted in significantly better concentration and performance, even when the subject did not actually use the switch to stop the noise, was very interesting. The reading describes three approaches to combatting stress labeled primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Primary intervention aims to remove fundamental environmental causes ...

CLC Assignment: Home Visit with Sallie Mae Fisher
CLC Assignment: Home Visit with Sallie Mae Fisher

Part A: Home Visit Essay

Introduction
Sallie Mae Fisher, 82 had been discharged after three day hospitalization to treat increases dyspnea, weight gain and angina. She has a history of congestive health failure (CHF), atrial fibrillation and hypertension. She is windowed and lives alone with limited family support since her daughter has a full time job and personal family problems. A home visit is conducted after her discharge to evaluate her status. In this essay, the identified problems are prioritized and rational interventions discussed to ensure that Ms. ...

Introduction

“Children with Special Health Care Needs” (2005) article summarizes the findings of a research developed in Los Angeles County that investigated the children with special health care needs (SHCNs) in the period 2002 – 2003 and the challenges related to their health conditions. A series of interesting findings were reported in this article. In Los Angeles County, in 2002 – 2003, there were 15% of children that required SHCNs, with different racial, ethnical, cultural or income levels. Actually, these categories were found to determine the children’s access to the appropriate treatment. As such, the study found that for Latino population or ...

Philosophy:

Introduction
In the contexts of the three highlighted articles, they all focus on the various societal norms that should be followed by the individuals and the general relationship with the divine creature who is god. Robert c. Mortimer’s article on “the divine command theory and relativism” and “morality is based on god's commands” highlights the individual moral ethics in relation to god divine interventions to the matter. “A defense of ethical relativism” by Ruth Benedict argues that morality is ultimately tied up to the socially approved customs. And “morality without God” by john Arthur argues that morality ...

Forum 1

Human rights are always respected at all cost and that is a human need. But there are instances where this policy ceases especially when violation comes in. Like in instances of genocide, it is obvious that respect for human rights is never there and in its place reigns disregarded of this fundamental right. In cases like this, it is obvious that the sovereignty of a country is never respected for the sake of the citizens who are subjected to the genocide. It is therefore thought that such interventions are not unacceptable assault on any gi9ven state but rater constructive intervention to ...