Essays on Health Assessment

Introduction

A community health assessment is a vital practice that determines the various aspects that either promotes or deter sustainable health practices. As such, it is essential to analyze the community for the people's needs, the available resources that could be used in providing a solution, the assets in the community as well as the strengths that the particular community exhibits and could be used in facilitating the problem-solving process. In this respect, the paper shows an analysis of Riverside County, California for these elements that could help identify and solve the health issues that affect the county.

Resources in Riverside County

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Subjective data refers to the information from the patient's point of view concerning the health care condition he or she is suffering from which provides the nurse with the basis of the problem (Milligan & Neville, 2001). In particular, this helps in determining the appropriate diagnosis recommendation. These types of information include pain levels, feelings and perceptions encountered by the patient levels, for example, chest pains and headaches. On the other hand, objective data refers to evidence-based aspects of the patient's health conditions. These aspects require physical proof for the nurse to determine the appropriate treatment procedure for the patient. ...

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 ...

Differential diagnosis

The patient presents with the a 3-day cough and primary signs including a productive cough with yellow mucus, afebrile indications, no cervical adenopathy, enlarged nasal turbinates and moderate clear rhinorrhea. The father is in fear that the child has bronchitis. However, the patient has does not indicate cervical adenopathy ad is able to take deep breaths without coughing. The respiratory rate is at 18 indicating to be within the normal range (Dains, Baumann & Scheibel, 2007). Bronchitis could be a possible condition in this case as the patient presents with a productive cough, yellow in color as well as afebrile ...

Introduction

Fair play in business practices is essential to the maintenance of a self-sustainable corporate environment. Precisely, all the parties involved in any business activity need to embrace ethical principles while following the legal provisions in any commercial venture. With this in mind, it is worth acknowledging the fact that Kallestad breached the fundamental provisions of an implied warranty by selling substandard products to Peter and Tanya Rothing. According to Murthy and Blischke (2006), an implied warranty is a contract arising from the operation of the law guaranteeing that the goods to be sold are merchantable and are appropriate for ...

{Author Name [first-name middle-name-initials last-name]} {Institution Affiliation [name of Author’s institute]} The present essay is based on an interview based evaluative session that is originated from eleven health patterns. The focused family is a Hispanic family of four members. The senior most member of the family is a sixty-seven-year-old mother who is living with his forty-year-old son John. John is married to Suzanne who is 36 years old. They have a son aged 11 years. All the people are living together following Christianity as their faith. John is suffering from obesity with a high BMI. He visited the ...

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Acknowledgements

This project paper demonstrates the integration of the knowledge I acquired from the courses in Master of Health Administration and Leadership Program and the collaborative application with this project’s community partner, MidMichigan Health to improve the community health in Gratiot County, Michigan. I am thankful for getting this valuable opportunity to work with a large healthcare organization. First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents who worked really hard to financially and emotionally support me in pursuing further education overseas. They comfort me every ...

Over the years, the nursing profession has undergone various changes that have expanded as well as reshaped the concept of nursing. The evolution of the nurses’ roles have subsequently led to changes in the scope of practice. For instance, most of the current nursing functions were initially within the domain of medicine and other related disciplines (Barker, 2015). As such, this metamorphosis is part of the gradual maturity as well as evolution of the profession over time. In the light of this, Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) is one the key nursing specialties that has significantly evolved to become one ...

Obesity

Q1.) One of the most serious problems modern society face is obesity, especially childhood obesity. Within the past thirty years, childhood obesity has grown at a terrifying rate. Obesity is associated with high rates of chronic diseases, even much higher than drinking, smoking and living in poverty. Women endure a disproportional burden of diseases attributed to obesity and overweight, including ethnic inequality. In the year 2009, the economic expense of obesity and overweight in Canada and the United States caused by medical expenses, disability and excess mortality was almost $300 billion. ("KCMO Community Health Assessment 2011 | Open Data | data.kcmo.org", ...

INTRODUCTION

The given study involves a 25-year old girl who has met with an accident and fell off the bike on a mountain her right side, while jumping over a curb and presents with a significantly large abrasion and ecchymotic area on the right thigh. She reports to have been wearing her helmet and no loss of consciousness and absence of any swelling. The patient may be evaluated and diagnosed for occurrence of musculoskeletal disorder for pain in her hip, arms and thigh.

ANATOMICAL COMPONENTS OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

The musculoskeletal system comprises of bones, muscles, joints, and the other connective tissue constituents combining these structures . ...

America has a great diversity in terms of culture; this is due to different ethnic and racial communities living in the United States. The same also applies to Washington Dc, a city that is made up of diverse racial communities. For every research or an assessment, the demographics of the target population or certain geographical area play a very vital role in determining the data collection and assessment methods. For this cultural mental health assessment, we shall therefore first analyze the demographics of Washington DC, northwest area. According to the U.S Census which was carried out in the year ...

Public or community health can be defined as an array of measures, both of private and public nature, that are targeted at preventing diseases, fostering health and trying to prolong life in general as well as make it more healthy. The goals of these activities are creating healthy conditions of life for the entire society which can positively reflect on personal health of each given person, focusing on overall trends in the health stance of the entire population of a given state or globally (Public Health). This leads us to the idea how public health differs from private health. ...

In the article “Standards of Practice and Care in Forensic Mental Health Assessment. Legal, Professional, and Principal Based Consideration” the authors discuss three key principals that according to the them, "should help minimize arbitrariness in the legal decision-making process through promoting thoroughness, consistency, and impartiality." The goal is create a sense of consistency among forensic analyses.

In forensics, it is very important to produce legal sound consistent data. The use of reliable data is paramount in forming opinion. There is also a deep need to provide third party sources to insure that information is valid. Strategies are required for ...

A plan for community health assessment has the main intention and agenda of accumulating, evaluating and utilizing necessary information and details to instruct and gather together people in the community in order to expand precedence and acquire various resources that can help in the development of people’s health. Data that will be collected and analyzed in the community health assessment plan can provide a source and foundation in the decision making processes. Also, community health assessment is a traditional observation with an educated approach regarding the primary purpose of public health awareness. This will be a analysis of how the community ...

Community health assessment is important in assisting communities become healthy.

Although communities are different, there are similarities by which communities mobilize and affect developmental changes. Assessment is one of the common components that collect data and input on community needs and provides a way to produce intended change in the community. There are two common community development approaches, including health planning and community development approaches. The health planning approach is more of a top down approach where public health professionals make important decisions. On the other hand, the community development approach is more of a bottom up approach where community stakeholders make important decisions regarding health programs that directly affect them. This ...

As a cohort study, the article “Development and evaluation of a short 24-h food list as part of a blended dietary assessment strategy in large-scale cohort studies” provides information about how German residents were used as samples for developing a longitudinal research on their food intakes in the last 24 hours. Freese, Feller, Harttig, Kleiser, Linseisen, Fischer, Keitzman, Six-Merker, Michels, Nimptsch, Steinbrecher, Pischol, Heuer, Hoffmal, Jacobs, Boeing and Nöthlings aimed to investigate the validity of dietary assessment. The authors of this study followed two objectives: to identify the foods consumed by German people during the previous 24 h and to assess the ...

Background

Polypharmacy is defined as “taking multiple unnecessary medications.” According to , the percentage of Americans using multiple prescription drugs in the past month showed increased preponderance among those who were of the age 60 or over. In that age-group, 36.7% had 5 or more prescription drugs and 76% had 2 or more drugs. It is very likely that a large percentage of such people might be taking unnecessary medications. In general the use of prescription drugs was found to be higher in the elderly; women; and non-Hispanic white population and the lowest in Mexican-Americans. Further, those with a regular place of healthcare ...

Studies show that stroke survivors with poor oral hygiene have a poor quality of life (Armstrong and Mosher 2011). (Lam et al. 2014) have explored the effect of clinical oral health and socio-demographic factors on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in patients following stroke. Oral health-related quality of life results were received before and after provision or oral health promotion interventions. Eighty-one patients faced a stroke rehabilitation ward. OHRQoL have also determined the outcomes after in-hospital oral health intervention programme. They observed a significant association between the absence of regular daily brushing and majority of measurement scale items (6 out of ...

Introduction

The article that formed the foundation of this analysis is “Taking patient history: the role of the nurse” by Tonks Fawcett T and Sarah Rhynas. The article was published in 2012 under the Nursing Standard Journal. The article examines the importance and skill in taking the history of patients before they are examined for ailments. In the contemporary nursing care provided, history taking, coupled with the right communication skills is what makes nursing care complete. The article goes into depth about the how the care is planned, the process of assessment and the how history taking facilitates all these ...

In this family health assessment, the family interviewed hails from Kisumu County, which is part of the western belt of Kenya. This family is of low-income comprising five members; a father, mother, two sons and a daughter. Theirs is a fairly young family with the parents in their mid-thirties. The two sons are nine and seven years whereas the daughter is five. They own a small plot of land, about a half an acre, where they practice subsistence farming growing maize, legumes, sweet potatoes, and traditional vegetables. They also rear a single cross-breed cow that produces milk for sale. This forms a crucial source of this ...

Introduction

The practice of Family health assessment is important in ensuring that a good healthcare plan is put in place for families. If properly conducted it helps in evaluating the health matters of a family for a better understanding of family health choices which can be analyzed and then in return used to assist the family in making improved health choices. Each family is different from the other with each having a its own unique lifestyle choices, however members of the family need to stick to the family health decisions and see to it that every member adherers to them .health behaviors and decisions ...

INTRODUCTION

Family health assessment plays a vital role in the formulation of a suitable healthcare plan within a family setup. It aims at using a holistic approach to ensuring that the health of various individuals, communities and families remains client-centered. Since every family is unique in its own way, therefore, it is imperative to have a tool for evaluation that is appropriate for a target family by ensuring that health-related choices , perceptions and their general way of life of the family members has been put into consideration. In the context of family health assessment, the term family is simply meant to represent the biological parents and ...

Introduction

This article is authored by Hilary Lloyd and Stephen Craig. Hilary is a principal lecturer specifically in Nursing Practice, Development and Research in Sunderland, Unite Kingdom. The co-author, Stephen Craig is a senior nursing lecturer in Northumbria University, in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The title of the article is “A Guide to Taking a Patient’s History”. The article was accepted and published in the journal called “Nursing Standard”. The article was published on the twenty fourth or August in the year two thousand and seven.

Summary of the Article

The article is focused on the process of taking patient history. In authoring the article, Llyod & Craig ( ...

Community Health Nurse

Introduction A community is defined as a group of people that work, live and play in a particular environment at any given time. This group of people share common attributes and interests. Therefore a community assessment can be elaborated to mean the process of collection, analysis and use of data to facilitate a change in the collective health of a community. The process involves developing proprieties, assemblage of resources and the elaboration of a plan of actions garnered towards the improvement of the health system of the community. In this paper, a community health assessment would be done in the Scarborough community in Toronto ...

This paper serves as a compilation of several assignments undertaken pertaining to health assessment. The essay begins with a brief description of this student’s home county and follows this with the lengthy explanation about the primary health concerns of the elderly in Dupage County. Models on health assessments are discussed as well as the strategies to gather data for the health assessment.

Demographic information from US Census

Dupage, Illinois has a population of 22,241. Of this figure, there are 18,104 Whites or 81 percent of the population. Asians comprise 11 percent or 2,647 persons. The elderly population has a large share with 17% of ...

Introduction

Advanced Practice Nurses are licensed and registered nurses with graduate level education who have various roles such as directing care for patients and communities, administration of health care institutes, policy formulation and implementation. APNs are specialized in various fields such as Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Nurse Practitioners (NP), Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP), certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), and certified nurse midwife (CNM). The roles of ANPs differ by the field of specialization but can largely be divided in to traditional nursing roles and enacted roles (White et al., 2008). In this essay, the roles of FNP, CRNA, and CNM ...

Short Answer Questions

- Compare and contrast identified similarities as well as differences in expected assessment across the childhood age groups. The similarities between assessments across the three age groups lie in the fact in all the cases it is important to have the parent or guardian around when doing the assessment. The babies do not communicate, and the preschool and school children may give inaccurate information on certain issues. Moreover, they feel more secure in the presence of their parents( Bashers, 2002). Differences include the fact that the toddlers and preschool cannot give information at all. However, the certain ...

Hazard Mitigation & Vulnerability Assessment

Introduction Denver metropolitan regional planning commission is responsible for identifying and putting into place mechanisms that will solve problems facing the region. Hazard identification and planning is one of the functions it is set to achieve for the development and wellbeing of the region. Planning is an important step towards prevention or reducing the effects of such hazards in case of occurrence. Countywide health assessment is an example of measures taken in planning and implementation of regional hazard mitigation policies. This paper will examine how regional health assessment in Denver region contributes to the social vulnerability part of ...

Charitable hospitals are the ones that operate not for profit. Under internal revenue code of 1986, section 501(c)(3), these hospitals are exempted from tax. For hospitals to be exempt from tax they, however, have to meet some requirements.

The requirements include, community health needs assessment requirement, which stipulates that the charitable hospital must conduct a health assessment within the community every once in three years. The year might be the taxable year or two years preceding the taxable year. The health assessment has to integrate various health experts in the community like the, experts in public health.

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Educational Institution

Memo The Department of Defense Office of Naval Research October 12, 2011

Purpose:

The intent of this memo is to propose a solution to a critical area of need in the Naval Deployment Health Center. The computers, peripherals and software applications are all obsolete, which is compromising the quality of service provided in the center. Because this center evaluates the health of military personnel headed into the line of duty, it is imperative that new computers, equipment and software are purchased. The end result will be increased efficiency in processing service members, leading to more capacity and excellence in determining ...

Family Health Assessment

Gordon's 11 functional health patterns

a) Values, health perception i. What values have been central in promoting the well-being of the family? ii. What behavior patterns in the family increase your susceptibility to diseases? b) Nutrition i. On average how many glasses of water does each family member consume each day? ii. What does a normal meal include in the family? c) Sleep/Rest i. Does any member of the family suffer from sleep disorders? ii. Does any member of the family experience fatigue despite of having adequate sleep during the night. d) Elimination ...

Overview of Abdomen

The abdomen is assessed using inspection, auscultation and palpation (White 2005). The abdomen is inspected for size and symmetry and is normally rounded, symmetric, protuberant, and soft because of weak abdominal musculature with a slightly greater diameter above the umbilicus than below. The subcutaneous blood vessels in the abdomen may appear distended and blue (Williams & Wilkins 2006).

Abdominal assessment is complex, largely because of the many vital organs and blood vessels within the cavity of abdomen and its life-sustaining functions, such as digestion and elimination that are performed here (Weber & Kelley 2009). The abdomen houses the several body ...

Introduction

“Health is Wealth”, almost everyone would agree to have heard this proverb once in life, health maintenance does not require a lot of hard work however carelessness may result in a situation where even normal life does not remain easy. Health management is a widely studied subject and all kinds of media are full of information related to healthcare, but still there are a lot of issues that need to be tackled so that good health is maintained. “Ryders are a small family which includes Jason, his wife, two children under the age of fifteen years and his parents. All of them live ...

HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT

Health risk assessment in humans is used to approximate the type and likelihood of the occurrence of health effects on people that may be exposed to hazardous material in a contaminated environment. Not only does the assessment seek to establish the likelihood and type of effects but also whether there is a given concentration of the hazardous material that would not cause any harm to humans. The assessment also involves an analysis of the chances whether the effects of the hazardous material will be different in people based on their sex, age, or genetics (Glendon, Clarke & McKenna, 2006, p. 18). A ...

Introduction

Sexuality is an important aspect that features prominently in the lives of all individuals. Sexuality is however perceived differently by various people and/or societies. One of the main focuses of change of perception towards this vital subject is involved with the elderly. Sexuality and the chronically ill older adults is an important subject that has been widely discussed. Verna Pangman and Marylyn Seguire in Sexuality and Disability broadly discussed the issue of sexuality and the chronically ill of the older people.

Summary

Though sexuality as a whole has been extensively discussed and researched in this article, the main focus has been ...