Kaiser Permanente

In understanding the needs of the community and identifying problems within the community, it is important for community members to participate in the issue selection process. Not only will issue selection produce community participation, but it will also contribute to community building and community unifying efforts. According to Khinduka’s article (1970), instead of just focusing on the psychological aspect of social change, facilitators should be looking at the socioeconomic issues that…

A child called 911 and informs the operator her mother 's boyfriend hit her because he came home drunk and also was punching him because he tried to help his mom. The child fell and hit his head on the coffee table as a result of the fighting and was conscious. By the time the police arrived the child had was unconscious and had multiple busies on the face. Another example reported in the WRAL local news, a mental related incident. A man is charged with indecent liberties with a child,…

A trend that is seen in modern society’s altering views towards consumption commonly thought of as harmful substances. Slowly, we are being coaxed by medical studies and word of mouth that what is unhealthy for us could in reality benefit us. Wine, in particular red wine, has risen in popularity as an alcoholic drink that could benefit the heart and cardiovascular system. But while this buzz claim has been studied and small potential benefits may exist, as of yet is not uniformly supported by…

to his captain late at night. The captain wanted his information as brief and simple as possible so this tool was used to facilitate that process. While serving twenty-five years later as a quality and safety leader in the Northern California Kaiser Permanente healthcare Organization, Bonacum in 2002 conceptualized and elaborated the SBAR tool to facilitate improved communication between doctors and nurses in a peri-natal unit (.Westwood, Westwood, Felländer-Tsai, Haluck, 2012) In response to…

In today’s modern world health insurance is as important as proper nutrition and having adequate shelter; however, it remains one of the biggest obstacles families and individuals in the United States face on a daily basis. The unfortunate reality is, that millions of Americans go without health insurance, and thousands of people die every year due to being uninsured, all the while insurance companies continue to report all-time high profits. In 2014 alone, while the rest of the country…

what research may have found in e-cigarettes can do to the human body. Even though e-cigarettes don’t carry smoke in them “they do cause inflammation to the lungs”, Dr Edelman says. Dr Edelman a co-director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship at Kaiser Permanente explains how e-cigarettes would be similar to smoking tobacco cigarettes, with only less effects such getting a chronic cough. The inflammatory caused in the lungs is created from a chemical known as histamines, which makes it problematic…

Sexual abuse, just like any other kind of abuse, does not allow a child to feel secure in the surrounding environment, leaving the child emotionally distraught and, in some cases, unable to learn normal functions during growth (Adult 1). In this way, the effects of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) usually do not end in childhood. It is a crime that, thankfully, is commonly punished with more severity than murder. Memories of the abuse often haunt the child all through life, whether socially,…

When man and woman were created, the idea was to be equal among each other. However, as the world evolved so did women. Women developed into various sizes, colors and personalities. It’s the personality of women that made the world interesting by the design of stereotyping. A stereotype is defining someone in a particular group or class as either positive or negative that’s not necessarily true. For example, women can be defined as classy, intelligent, independent, gold diggers,…

Richmond, California has a unique strategy on dealing with crime, it pays the criminals not to recommit. This may seem irrational at first but with the community’s support the Office of Neighborhood Safety or ONS was founded. The City has seen a 66% reduction in gun related crime and a 20% in crime overall since the founding (Murphey). The ONS is seen as serving a pivotal role in this reduction. The program has a number of criticisms and among them are the possible encouragement to commit…

Biographical/Spiritual • To renew and deepen my spiritual faith, and attend church at least once a month. Due to my procrastination and busy work schedule that requires me to work every other weekend, this has made it even more difficult to attend church. I have been raised Catholic all my life and I am strongly devoted to these beliefs. In my personal experiences having a strong spiritual faith has brought me mental and emotional peace. Having a healthy spirituality is known to be…