Hyperbaric medicine

Settings for Health are the place that people use in daily activities and where people produce or deal with problems relating to health (WHO, 1998). It is also a social context that contains the environmental and personal factors that affect health and wellbeing (WHO, 1998). Settings are generally recognized as having a physical extent, people with various defined roles with this extent, and an organizational structure, including workplaces, universities, islands, cities and prisons (WHO, 2015b)…

As word spreads about the so-called “zombie apocalypse” we have set up an emergency shelter at the Federal Correctional Institute at 1101 John A Denie Rd, to provide a refuge for citizens. We have relocated all of the prisoners that were housed here to other locations and cleared out the entire prison to make room for as many refugees as possible. Seeking shelter here is recommended if you do not have a safe place to go as its heavily fortified, food and medical supplies are available, and it…

her supervisor, Sandra Skipper, has been stealing patient’s medication from the medicine cart. Emily has not seen the act take place directly; however, she did observe Sandra leave the nurses station looking suspicious with her head down and hands in her pocket. Emily wants to report the situation, but she is leery for two reasons. First, she believes it is partially her fault because she did not lock up the medicine cabinet in a timely manner. Secondly, Emily does not have solid proof of the…

Summery of Are housestaff identifying malnourished hospitalized medicine patients? By Michael A. Mitchell, Donald R. Duerksen, and Adam Rahman Hospitals have a percentage of “40%-60%”(Mitchell, 2014, p.1192) of patients admitted with malnutrition. The “nutritional and functional status” has plummeted leaving elderly patients to increase their stay. Malnourished patients are more susceptible to infections, which lead to “impaired wound healing”(Mitchell, 2014). Regardless of its “high prevalence…

I remember the first time I found out about occupational therapy, I had just began working in a pediatric facility for speech and language and occupational therapy. In the beginning it was difficult to understand these two professions. However, once I learned and gained experience on both these therapies, I was fascinated of what occupational therapy consisted of. I was able to observer the Occupational Therapist at my job, she was able to explain in certain details about the phase of the…

Mental Health policies within Public Health are more prominent today than they were ten years ago, however, there are still a lot of gaps when it comes to children with mental illnesses. “It is estimated that one of every five children and adolescents in the United States has a mental disorder” (Kataoka, 2002). All across the United States, different states have different policies regarding access and availability to mental health professionals. Many states have policies requiring children to…

There are many ways of getting sick such as airborne, touching someone. For a long time this is how people have gotten a cold or chicken pox. As medicine is readily available to aid in the recovery of an illness. Viruses can become resistant to medicine just as our bodies could resist to some sicknesses. In the book Biological Terrorism by Steve Goodwin and Randall W. Phillis they present a history of microorganism used to help cure diseases and misused by Medics, and biological warfare. To…

Assisted suicide occurs when doctors help a person transition to death with as little pain as possible. Opponents of assisted suicide argue that it is unethical and doctors should heal the patients rather than end their lives. (“Physician- Assisted Suicide”). However supporters claim that assisted suicide is about the patients and what they want to do. Although assisted suicide may be against some doctor’s ethics, I believe if the patients with terminal illnesses wat to die, then they should…

Community Settings for Family Health Nurses A family health nurse can provide care in a variety of settings such as, home visits, community nursing centers, and public health departments and also be an educator in the home and community. In this paper, I will discuss these facilities in my community, access to these resources, how families in the community benefit, and three ways a family health nurse may be useful in community resources. There are a variety of settings where a family…

Health Care Finance Health care industry is a growing business not just in America but also around globe. Behind any business, finance play a crucial in building, driving and maintaining the business regardless of the type of business is. Ultimately health care is a business, which definitely requires financial management in order to run the business. Since finance is an important aspect of health care business, it becomes extremely important for the Health care professional to have…