The Continuum

While observing a kindergarten class, you would see many types of students. There would be students reading books, athletic students racing each other, and you would see a student bouncing off the wall, a student who couldn’t stay still or be quiet, a student who didn’t pay any attention. Teachers, doctors, and parents may be quick to diagnosis the student Attention- Deficit/ Hyperactive Disorder (A.D.H.D.), a disorder where students have trouble focusing, are overactive, or lack control over…

The H. R. Bill 1290 Improving Access to Mental Health Services Act represents a personally important issue, and I would like to express my support and endorsement of this bill. The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) supports proactive healthcare towards patient mental health improvement, since approximately 56 million Americans suffer from various mental health illnesses. Additionally, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) state that mental health…

allocates the grants to Continuums of Care (CoCs). According to HUD, a CoC is a regional or local planning body that coordinates housing and facilitates funding for homeless families and individuals (https://www.hudexchange.info/coc. CoCs represent communities of all kinds, including cities, suburbs and rural areas. HUD guidelines require that a CoC must include action steps to end homelessness and prevent a return to homelessness. The four essential criteria of the continuum…

In concentrating on medical technological advances a major benefit that is overlooked is reduction in health care costs. These medical innovations have generated billions of dollars in savings for patients, families, insurers, employers, governments, and hospitals. This not only creates efficiencies that save money, but also saves money in curing onsets of early disease, and managing chronic conditions at healthy levels. Kindred has invested in creating diagnostic tools that have pre-screening…

It is important that as we start to deal with emerging issues relating to biobiotechnology, we have some sort of basis to judge each issue on. Many philosophers have presented arguments on what is important to preserve in humans. In their minds, it is important that any biobiotechnologies that we allow to be used in society must preserve these characteristics in the human race. In this paper, I will be presenting the viewpoints of Fukuyama, Bostrom, and Janicaud, and explaining which philosopher…

the various connotations Attached to the term “dignity” as situated along a continuum. One end of the continuum represents the moral and the other the aesthetic. Basic dignity as desenbed above, falls clearly toward the moral end of this continuum. This the term carries connotations of something objective and absolute. Although moral notions are not nearly as objective and absolute as some might think or hope, they bear a certain objective quality that enables them to serve as a basis of social…

1). Complexity is an important assessment; no patient on any part of the continuum arrives with only one system to contend with, all patients have family dynamics, physical systems, and emotional needs. Thus, all are complex to a degree, but patients with in-balances in one or more of those areas require more complex care. Patients…

Police Officer Jones was working a foot patrol shift during the evening hours in a high crime area at approximately 0200 hrs. He was approached by a civilian who informed him that she had been robbed in beaten by a male subject who was described as wearing a red shirt and white pants. The reporting party had a severe laceration to her head and lip, her shirt was soaked with blood. The reporting party described the suspect as wearing a ski mask and she was unable to determine the gender, sex,…

“Public spending in ECEC also matters. Without sufficient public spending, there is a greater risk that access to ECEC programmes will be restricted to affluent families and that the quality of the programmes will vary” (OECD, 2013, Pg.4). According to Gestwicki, a good quality childcare service comprises of three essential components: Dynamics of quality, the framework of quality and context of quality (Gestwicki, 2012, Pg. 81). The context of quality consists of elements that are set outside…

Nursing Strategies to Promote Healthy Aging in The Presence of Normal Age-Related Changes There are a lot of phrases that had been coined to describe healthy aging, e.g., “successful aging” (Kozar-Westman, Troutman-Jordan, & Nies, 2013), proactive aging, and “resilient aging” (Hicks & Conner, 2014) just to mention a few. To promote the state of health, as implied by the above-mentioned phrases, one has to recognize the important role of the gerontological nurses in the whole process of aging,…