Shared the same room with the 1st patient. • May 21, 2015: monitoring begin for symptoms • May 25, 2015: developed symptoms • May 25, 2015: transferred to nationally designated medical center • May 25, 2015: tested positive for MERS-CoV • Risk Factors: o Close contact with anyone who is experiencing a fever, cough or shortness of breath and has traveled from the Arabian Peninsula within the past fourteen days should monitor their health beginning with last day of exposure and seek medical attention if they become ill (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015). o Close contact or within six feet with a confirmed case of MERS. Monitor health for fourteen days beginning with the last day of exposure.…
This paper will be referring to three websites pertaining to organization on the profession of nursing atheist. The organizations that I will be going over is ASPAN, BERNA, and AANA. After toughly looking over each website I have listed what is on the home page, the tabs they have provided, their mission statement, what the organization is all about, how to obtain a membership, and the benefits that come with having a membership with that particular organization. The first organization I found on Nurse Anesthetist is ASPAN (American Society of Peri-Anesthetist Nurses). This site has a relatively simple layout with blue being the base color.…
I have decided to complete my project in a physician’s office, which is in Louisville, MS. The size would be based on the number of people that receives service at this location which is approximately a hundred people on average daily. The facility is funded by state and local citizens; therefore, the ownership is private. The population that is served will be the public with open doors to all. The services available would be immunization for all ages, and healthy -you are completed at this facility which is an excellent service and convenient for the local community.…
Barriers that prevent Nurse Practitioners from practicing in Long Term Care Facilities Nancy Marshall A thesis presented to the School of Graduate Nursing Mountain State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…
Nursing in West Texas A&M university. Helen Keller once stated,” The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Nursing is a way to give back to people in the time of need. West Texas A&M university, home of the buffs, ranked 72nd in Texas public universities , will prepare for my future in nursing.…
PROJECT OVERVIEW For my project, I will be working with St. Joseph’s Healthcare Center. The work I will be doing is certified nursing assistant. The certified nursing assistant (CNA) is on the front line of supporting care of senior people in different complete health care. CNA responsibility is to help the senior people in their daily activities, such as help the senior people bathe, dress, and answer senior calls, document patients’ health issues, feed them, measure and record food and liquid intake, clean their rooms, and take their temperature, take blood pressure, and etc.…
Homelessness is a very serious issue not only in our area, but all over the United States. According to statistics, there are approximately 578,424 individuals that are experiencing homelessness(National Alliance to End Homelessness). This epidemic, so to speak, is so widespread that it reaches into every state and impacts every community. In most cases, the people who are homeless cannot help that they are without a home. The circumstances of the homeless individual’s position could be that they were laid off their job or couldn’t make the payments of their rent or the house foreclosed.…
The type of intervention approach most appropriate for the homelessness issue in Baltimore City is a preventative targeted intervention. This approach has been selected since, a portion of homeless individuals are showing signs and symptoms of substance abuse (Roe-Sepowtiz, Bedard, & Thyer, 2005). Although there are great efforts in Baltimore City’s intervention plans, there are too many gaps that leave out individuals who are suffering from substance abuse (Baltimore City Jurisdictional Plan, 2009). Every plan has the same goal of moving the homeless with substance abuse problems into a healthier lifestyle, however change has been a slow and ineffective process (Baltimore City Jurisdictional Plan, 2009). The preventative targeted intervention…
Homeless people are more vulnerable to health-related issues such as, mental disability, post-traumatic stress syndrome, people with drug or alcohol addiction, and diabetes. Homeless is a social, economic, and public health problem that is increasing in the U.S. In the article, “Homelessness: reducing health disparities” by James D. Plumb, provides facts, and evidences, of how homelessness connects with health disparities. To understand the point of collaborative approach for the homeless, it is helpful to understand the meaning of homelessness and what happened to them, that got them to the spot to where they are. In the article, Plumb mentions that “..the homelessness and poverty are linked.”…
The Nursing Programs at Valencia College are a limited-access program. My action plan to get accepted into the nursing program is to attend a Health Science Information Session. At these sessions, I will meet some important members of the faculty, I will learn more about the steps I would need to take to enroll in the program, I will have the opportunity to ask any questions I may have. Second, I must satisfy the college entry testing requirements and satisfactorily complete all mandatory courses in reading, student success, mathematics, English, and English for Academic Purposes in which I am placed. After this, I must complete the following science prerequisites; Anatomy and Physiology 1&2 and Microbiology with a minimum combined GPA of 3.0…
The Professional Nurse: Past. Present, and Future While pondering what comprises a professional nurse, a few things come to mind. A professional nurse should have empathy, first and foremost. The professional nurse should also be knowledgeable since the profession has no room for error. She or he should be able to communicate with patients as well as other health care professionals.…
The physical environment consist of clean air, clean water, safe houses, communities and roads. All of these factors can positively or negatively affect health. For the homeless population having access to clean water, and adequate shelter is a huge burden for them. These factors place them at a huge risk of malnutrition, inadequate sleep, poor hygiene, unhealthy and unsafe living conditions and communicable diseases. All of these conditions can negatively impact an individual and community’s ability to live a healthy…
Growing up in a southern Alabama town of less than 10,000 residents, I was not truly aware of the issue of homelessness. Homelessness was only a subject which I had seen in the news and in movies. However, when I became a peer helper as a junior in high school, my perception soon changed. I became part of a peer mentoring program, in which I counseled underprivileged and troubled middle school students. Through this program I discovered that homelessness was not a problem rooted in major cities, for it lied even in a town as small my own.…
This in turn will allow for the opportunity to create programs that will be better capable of meeting the needs of homeless families, especially those needs not faced by other homeless groups, such as healthcare for children, education access for children, etc. This study also has the potential to uncover root causes of homelessness among families, which will allow for a deeper understanding of the problem of homelessness as it exists in society…
The Community Nursing (3QQ3) course has been an eye opening journey for me in to the world of community nursing. At the start of the initial course doing the practice tools I was quite apprehensive and had no idea what to expect. It was hard in the early few weeks to see how this course would evolve. But, as I became oriented and more familiar with the community the bigger picture began to form. Indeed, the windshield survey was a great tool to assess our community.…