Pastoral care

fat", you think the worst of yourself, instead of the positive aspects and your abilities. As a consequence, you undergo mental stress about your weight. The Jenny Craig model helps people think definite as they provide strategies for self-care, to take proper care of yourself with the intention to keep yourself functioning well and ready for challenges in life. The model also helps people to find strategies to deal with problems. So you can discover a solution to your problem, such as a…

In the article “Escape form the Western Diet” Michael Pollan talks about how the Western diet is unavoidable, yet, he says people can escape it. In the article, Pollan talks about the health problems it causes. There’s also the food industry and their ways of selling their products. Then the main theory throughout the article Nutritionism. Nevertheless, a problem that Pollan has, is that the products that the industries makes are bad for our health and people still consume the merchandise. The…

The Girl and The Fountain “The soul is healed by being with children,” said by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I passionately agree with Fyodor. I have been volunteering at Augusta University Hospital since January and never truly understood why there is a special place inside of my heart for kids, up until this encounter with a young girl. Before reaching the children’s department last week, I worked with adults only. Oncology left me drained and hopeless; while orthopedic trauma made me peeved at all…

Introduction NeighborWorks is an organization that creates affordable housing and community development for families, individuals, and communities. For the last 40 years, Neighbor Works have established 245 independent non-profit organizations (NeighborWorks, 2017). In 1968 Dorothy Richardson rallied with her neighbors in Pittsburgh to help restore the decaying apartments and homes. This created the first organization movement of NeighborWorks. It created and impact of Richardson’s…

In 1971 Dr. Fontan and Dr. Baudet [26] did the first total cavopulmonary connection ‘‘Fontan Procedure’’ which is the final palliative stage for single ventricle patients. Since then, multiple techniques and modifications were invented. However, the ultimate goal of all different procedures is to achieve near complete separation of pulmonary venous return from systemic venous return. As such, all systemic venous circulation will be directed to the Fontan circulation (except the coronary sinus…

The article “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables” was written by Mark Bittman in an opinion section of the New York times. Food that has negative or no health benefits are to be taxed so foods that are healthier are cheaper and more available to all people. I believe eating unhealthy food is an addiction and should not be taxed because people cannot control themselves. Tax the unhealthy food to make the healthy food cheaper. The taxation of unhealthy foods would produce billions of…

Michael Pollan’s article “Escape from the Western Diet” has provided the knowledge on effects of consumption of western diets which is mostly a processed food and how to change a diet from processed food to wholesome food. In contrast, David Freedman’s article “How junk food can End Obesity” compares the nutrition level and healthiness of wholesome food and processed food and also discusses the obesity issues and how to tackle it through processed food. According to pollan, the nutritionist or…

The Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing (SCDTN) is a grand nursing theory, in that it covers a broad scope with basic concepts that can be applied to all nursing situations. The SCDTN attempts to provide a conceptual framework for the entire body of nursing knowledge. It’s creator, Dorothea E. Orem, “pursued the development of a theoretical structure that would serve as an organizing framework for such a body of knowledge” (Alligood, 2014, p. 241). In determining the proper object or focus of…

Not all people were lucky enough to grow up in a loving family with both their mother and father, some people were put in bad living situations or sold of as child workers. In Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train, the idea of giving children a new home was a good one, unfortunately the trains and how this situation played out was an awful idea. The trains put the children in terrible situations when they easily could have stayed at the orphanage and waited until a family actually wanted them.…

Week #2 Questions 1. Compare and contrast psychosocially healthy people with their "unhealthy" counterparts. What differences do you notice in psychosocially healthy people? Compared to people who are psychosocially unhealthy, psychosocially healthy people are able to communicate and relate to others, they are also a part of the community, valid, and have strong social bonds and support. On the other hand, people who are not psychosocially healthy have trouble communicating with others, fitting…