The film “If…” by Lindsay Anderson is an allegory of the risks of repressing sexual desires with extreme repercussions for doing so, with imagery starting from the opening sequence with a young student caressing a peach while another watches intently, and ending with the extreme act of violence that Mick Travis uses instead of sating his sexual desires. The entirety of the film places the students and subjects of the film within the seeming prison like system of their boarding school, which…
Superior Health has discussed and implemented many things this past year and they include: marketing, disaster planning, budgeting, benchmarking, and facility design. These 5 areas are crucial to the success of the organization and the implementation needs to be perfect for success to be created. Each of the 5 areas is difficult in certain aspects and as practice manager we have overcame all the obstacles and successfully implemented each of these 5 areas. Therefore, the first area that we…
Ever since I could remember I wanted to be a nurse. This dream became clear to me when I needed to take care of my mother after she was sick my sophomore year of high school. Seeing her sick and the lack of care she received at the hospital gave me this burning passion to help others; to be the one to make a difference. Nursing is a career that required an extreme level of responsibility. The four nursing meta paradigm concepts we’ve talked about include; person/client, environment, health, and…
SSIs (Podgorny & Kumar, 2013). Insurance companies are spending more money and hospitals doing damage control to try to rid itself of the negative reputations. With 40-60 presence of SSI being preventable, these statistics have brought to light a public health concern that needs to be addressed. This is why National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 07.05.01 was…
better serve the population. Scorecards provide insight on healthcare access, prevention & treatment, availability to patients & costs, and healthy lives in a certain area (McCarthey, Radley, & Hayes, 2015). There are strengths and weakness in all public health systems and there is always a need for enhancement. Two states that will be evaluated are South Dakota and Minnesota. According to McCarthy, Radley, & Hayes (2015), the state of South Dakota is ranked 15th overall in health care systems,…
A major problem we face in public schooling is how we have deal with teacher accountability. Teacher performance has a huge impact on the success of the students. A good teacher can cover around 150% of the curriculum, while a bad teacher will usually only cover 50%. Teacher tenure, a product of unions, protects public school teachers from being fired, and it is usually obtained between 1-5 years. Once a teacher has tenure, they are not able to get fired, instead certain schools will trade their…
Behavioral health and mental health are sometimes used interchangeably, but behavioral health extends beyond mental health and encompasses a broad array of psychiatric and/or psychological services provided in many different settings. Behavioral healthcare is used to describe the connection between behaviors and the health and well-being of the mind, body, and spirit. It can include behaviors, such as habits like eating or drinking, that impact humans over time or immediately either physically…
This may be one of the most controversial questions that currently is being asked in the public health community. When looking at forums, including media news, company press releases, or educational pieces, they almost always consider obesity as a disease.5 There are many people, however, who do not think that when obesity is referred to it…
front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.” Libba Bary, bestselling fiction author, expresses the importance of libraries in the above quotation, stating that access to the public library essentially “cures” us of our nescience, pessimism, and prejudice. Bray describes books—to which the library card is a passport—as windows into new mindsets, ideas and perspectives; books are described as conduits by which the library…
Theoretical Framework The theoretical frameworks used in this project are composed of the concept of patient engagement and the levels of prevention model. When patients have knowledge, skills, and willingness, they are more likely to engage and involve in their own health care. Patient engagement occurs when patients actively participate in the patient-centered interventions; it requires a collaboration between patients and healthcare providers (Tzeng, Yin, & Fitzgerald, 2015). Patient…