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Aggregate Community Windshield Survey

Aggregate Community Windshield Survey

The windshield survey assignment is due in Week 2. It is introduced in Week 1 to provide you with sufficient time to collect the required data. The assignment should be no more than 3 pages in length.

Windshield Surveys

With the use of public transportation or by driving a vehicle around the community, you can assess the common characteristics of the community of your selected aggregate. Key observations to make during a windshield survey include the following:

  • Age and condition of the homes in the community
  • Location and condition of parks and other recreational areas
  • Amount of space between homes and businesses
  • Neighborhood hangouts
  • Transportation in the community
  • Quality of streets and sidewalks
  • Types/numbers of stores and other businesses
  • People out in the community
  • Race/ethnicity
  • Cleanliness of the community
  • Billboards or other media displays
  • Places of worship
  • Availability of services—doctor, dentist, social centers, recreation centers, hospitals

By the due date assigned, submit your proposal to your instructor for approval.

In addition to the data collected in the windshield survey, include the following information about your aggregate:

  • Name of the aggregate
  • Geographical location and size
  • Population
  • A brief history
  • Explain, giving at least two reasons, why you selected this particular aggregate for your Capstone project.

moral-ethical dilemma

Introduction
You began this session considering a moral-ethical dilemma you yourself faced that you either resolved or failed to resolve, but hopefully learned from. You may never have given much thought to ethical theory nor what ethical premises/paradigms you have unconsciously held.

Instructions
Now that you have had an opportunity to explore ethics formally, create a reflective assessment of your learning experience and the collaborations you engaged in throughout this session.

  • A written reflection

For the written reflection, revisit your ethical memoir and address the following:

  • What ethical theory best applies to your experience?
  • Which significant author you have studied most speaks to your own ethical paradigm as you are (re)forming it now?
  • If you did not resolve your ethical dilemma when you experienced it, what would you do now and why?

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: 1.5-2 pages (not including title page or references page)
  • 1-inch margins
  • Double spaced
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Title page
  • References page (minimum of 1 scholarly source)

Health Care Delivery Models and Nursing Practice 

Health Care Delivery Models and Nursing Practice

Examine changes introduced to reform or restructure the U.S. health care delivery system. In a 1,000-1,250 word paper, discuss action taken for reform and restructuring and the role of the nurse within this changing environment.

Include the following:

  1. Outline a current or emerging health care law or federal regulation introduced to reform or restructure some aspect of the health care delivery system. Describe the effect of this on nursing practice and the nurse’s role and responsibility.
  2. Discuss how quality measures and pay for performance affect patient outcomes. Explain how these affect nursing practice and describe the expectations and responsibilities of the nursing role in these situations.
  3. Discuss professional nursing leadership and management roles that have arisen and how they are important in responding to emerging trends and in the promotion of patient safety and quality care in diverse health care settings.
  4. Research emerging trends. Predict two ways in which the practice of nursing and nursing roles will grow or transform within the next five years to respond to upcoming trends or predicted issues in health care.

You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Mexican case study #2

Assignment:

Complete the following:

  • Mexican case study #2
  • Puerto Rican case study #2

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MEXICAN CASE STUDY #2
Pablo Gaborra, aged 32, and his wife, Olga,
aged 24, live in a migrant-worker camp on
the eastern shore of Maryland. They have tw
o children: Roberto, aged 7, and Linda, aged
18 months. Olga’s two younger sisters, Floren
cia, aged 16, and Rosa, aged 12, live with
them. Another distant relative, Rodolpho, ag
ed 28, comes and goes several times each
year and seems to have no fixed address.
Pablo and Olga, born in Mexico, have lived
in the United States for 13 years, first
in Texas for 6 years and then in Delaware fo
r 1 year, before moving to the eastern shore
of Maryland 5 years ago. Neither of them have U.S. citizenship, but both children were
born in the United States.
Pablo completed the sixth grade and Olga
the third grade in Mexico. Pablo can
read and write enough English to function at
a satisfactory level. Olga knows a few
English words but sees no reason for l
earning English, even though free classes are
available in the community. Olga
’s sisters have attended school
in the United States and
can speak English with varying degrees of
fluency. Roberto attends school in the local
community but is having great difficulty w
ith his educational endeavors. The family
speaks only Spanish at home. Not much is
known about the distant relative, Rodolpho,
except that he is from Mexico, speaks mi
nimal English, drinks beer heavily, and
occasionally works picking vegetables. The Ga
borra family lives in a trailer on a large
vegetable farm. The house has cold runni
ng water but no hot water, has an indoor
bathroom without a shower or bathtub, a
nd is heated with a wood-burning stove. The
trailer park has an outside shower, wh
ich the family uses in the summer.

The entire family picks asparagus, squash, peppers, cabbage, and spinach at
various times during the year. Olga takes the
infant, Linda, with her to the field, where
her sisters take turns watching the baby a
nd picking vegetables. When the vegetable-
picking season is over, Pablo helps the farmer
to maintain machinery and make repairs on
the property. Their inco
me last year was $30,000.
From the middle of April until the
end of May, the children attend school
sporadically because they are needed to
help pick vegetables. During December and
January, the entire Gaborra family travels to
Texas to visit relatives and friends, taking
them many presents. They return home in early February with numerous pills and herbal
medicines.
Olga was diagnosed with anemia when she had an obscure health problem with
her last pregnancy. Because she frequently
complains of feeling tired and weak, the
farmer gave her the job of handing out “chits”
to the vegetable picker
s so that she did not
have to do the more-strenuous work of picking vegetables.
Pablo has had tuberculosis for years a
nd sporadically takes medication from a
local clinic. When he is not traveling or is t
oo busy picking vegetables to make the trip to
the clinic for refills, he generally takes his medicine. Twice last year, the family had to
take Linda to the local emergency room because she had diarrhea and was listless and
unable to take liquids. The Gaborra family s
ubscribes to the hot and cold theory of
disease and health-prevention maintenance.

Study Questions
1.
Identify three socioeconomic factors
that influence the health of the
Gaborra family.
2.
Name three health-teaching interven
tions the health-care provider might
use to encourage Olga to seek treatment for her anemia.
3.
Identify strategies to help improve
communications in English for the
Gaborra family.
4.
Identify three health-teaching
goals for the Gaborra family.
5.
Name three interventions Olga must
learn regarding fluid balance for the
infant, Linda.
6.
Discuss three preventive maintenanc
e–teaching activities that respect the
Gaborra family’s belief in the hot an
d cold theory of disease management.
7.
Identify strategies for obtaining h
ealth data for the Gaborra family.
8.
Identify four major health problems of
Mexican Americans that affect the
Gaborra family.
9.
If Olga were to see a folk practitioner, which one(s) would she seek?
10.
Explain the concept of familism
as exhibited in this family.
11.       Distinguish       between       the
two culture-bound syndromes
el ataque
and
susto
.
12.
Discuss culturally conscious health-car
e advice consistent with the health-
belief practices of the pregnant Mexican American woman.
13.
Discuss two interventions to encour
age Mexican American clients with
tuberculosis to keep clinic appointment
s and to comply with the prescribed

medication regimen.
14.
Identify where the majority of Mexican Americans have settled in the
United States.

NAVAJO CASE STUDY
Mr. Begay, aged 78, lives with his wife in
a traditional Navajo hogan. He has lived in
the same area all his life and worked as
a uranium miner until the government closed
the mines. His hogan has neither electricity
nor running water. Heat is provided by a
fire, which is also used for cooking. Lighting
is obtained from propane lanterns. Water
is hauled from a windmill site 20 miles aw
ay and stored in 50-gallon steel drums.
Because the windmill freezes and the roads are
often too muddy to travel in the winter,
sometimes he must travel an additional 10 miles to the trading post to obtain water.
Because Mr. Begay does not own a car, he must depend on transportation from
extended family members who live in the same vicinity.
Mr. Begay has continually experienced
shortness of breath,
and it is getting
worse. He has been hospitalized with pne
umonia several times as a result of the
uranium poisoning. He had a cholecystectomy at
age 62. His diet is traditional and is
supplemented by canned foods, which ar
e obtained at the trading post.
All health care is obtained at the Publ
ic Health Service Hospital in Shiprock.
Neither Mr. Begay nor his wife obtain routin
e preventive-health care. He was admitted
from the clinic to the hospital
with a diagnosis of pneumonia.
Mr. Begay shows clinical improvement after initial intravenous antibiotic
therapy. However, his mental status continue
s to decline. His family feels that he
should see a traditional medicine man a
nd discusses this with his physician. The
physician agrees and allows Mr. Begay to
go to see the medicine man. Several
members of the nursing staff disagree with
the physician’s decision and have requested
a patient-care conference with
the physician. The physician agrees to the conference.

Study Questions
1.    Identify three physical barriers Mr. Be
gay must overcome to obtain health care.
2.    Discuss the benefits of Mr. Bega
y’s seeing the traditional medicine man.
3.    Identify some potential negative outcomes of Mr. Begay’s seeing the traditional
medicine man.
4.
Identify culturally relevant interventions to
reduce the potential for the recurrence of
pneumonia.
5.    Identify at least two majo
r health risks that the Begays
face, based on their current
lifestyle.
6.    Discuss potential outcomes fo
r negotiation during the conference.
7.    Mr. Begay’s diet is described as traditi
onal Navajo. What foods
are included in this
diet?
8.    Because of his continued need for
oxygen, what services do you anticipate for Mr.
Begay when he returns home?
9.    What might the nurse do to encourag
e preventive-health measures for the Begay
family?
10.   Identify at least three types of
traditional Navajo healers.
11.   Identify contextual speech patterns of the Navajo Indians.
12.   Distinguish differences in ge
nder roles among Navajo Indians.
13.   Identify two culturally congruent teac
hing methods for the Navajo client.

14.   Discuss the meaning of the First Laugh Ceremony for the Navajo.
15.   Identify two culturally congruent approach
es for discussing a fatal illness with a
Navajo client.

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PUERTO RICAN CASE STUDY #2
Carmen Medina, aged 39, lives with he
r husband, Raúl, aged 43, who works as a
mechanic in a small auto shop. Mr. Medina has
worked in the same place since he and his
wife came to the United States from Puerto
Rico 15 years ago. The Medinas have a 4-
year-old son, José; a 16-yea
r-old daughter, Rosa; and an
18-year-old son, Miguel. The
Medinas both attended vocational school afte
r completing high school. Mrs. Medina is
employed 4 hours a day at a garden shop. She
stopped working her full-time job to care
for her ill mother and aged father, who
do not speak English and depend on government
assistance. The family income last year was $28,500.
The family has health insurance through
Mr. Medina’s job. They live in a three-
bedroom apartment in a low-income Illinoi
s community. Miguel works in a fast-food
store a few hours a week. Because Rosa has re
sponsibilities at home, the Medina’s do not
allow her to work outside the home. She is
very close to her grandmother but avoids
talking with her parents. Both Rosa and Mi
guel are having difficulties in school. Rosa is
pregnant and the family does not know. She is
planning to drop out of school, get a job in
a beauty shop, and leave home without telli
ng the family. Miguel frequently comes home
late and, on occasion, sleeps out of the home.
He is beginning college next semester and
has plans to move out of
the house during the summer.
The family is having difficulty dealing
with Rosa’s and Miguel’s developmental
and behavioral challenges. Although Mrs. Medi
na is outspoken about these concerns, Mr.
Medina is quiet and not actively involved in
the discussion. He is mo
re preoccupied with
the family’s financial situati
on. Mrs. Medina’s parents are en
couraging them to return to

Puerto Rico.
Mr. Medina was diagnosed with hypertensi
on 2 months ago, when he went to the
emergency room for a respiratory infection. He
smokes cigarettes and drinks two to three
beers every evening after work. He has not
followed up on his blood pressure treatment.
Miguel is beginning to smoke, but not at home.
José has had frequent colds and sinus
allergies. He has been to the emergency
room three times during the past year for
respiratory infections. Mrs. Medina’s last
physical examination was after she had José.
She is experiencing insomnia, tiredness, headach
es, and gastrointestinal problems. She is
very concerned about Rosa and Miguel, her
parents, and the family’s finances. Mrs.
Medina is Catholic and recently has been visiting her church more often.
Study Questions
1.
Explain Mrs. Medina’s attitude in
her relationship with her adolescent
daughter.
2.
Identify strategies to ensure
that Rosa seeks prenatal care.
3.
Identify barriers to accessing heal
th care for the Medina family.
4.
What are the high-risk behaviors exhibited by this family?
5.
What communication barriers
exist in this family that affect care delivery?
6.
Discuss gender and family roles in th
e context of traditional Puerto Rican
culture.
7.
Identify sociodemographic factors af
fecting the physical- and mental-
health well-being for this family.
8.
Identify Puerto Rican folk practices appropriate for this family.

Transcultural Perspectives in Mental Health Nursing

Transcultural Perspectives in Mental Health Nursing

Read chapter 10 of the class textbook and review the attached PowerPoint presentation.  Once done and the following question ;

1.  Present your opinion the status of mentally ill homeless patients.

a.  Include the health risks and the societal perceptions of mentally ill people.

b. What health issues are most likely to be seen in the homeless population?

2.  Discuss how to screen for substance abuse in a maternity ward.  Include the issues facing by single mothers of African American background as discussed in the Evidence-Based Practice box 10-5 in page 294

INSTRUCTIONS:

As stated in the syllabus present your assignment in an APA format word document, Arial 12 font attached to the forum in the discussion tab of the blackboard titled “Week 9 discussion questions” and the SafeAssign exercise in the assignment tab of the blackboard.   If you don’t post your assignment in any of the required forums you will not get the points.  A minimum of 2 evidence-based references besides the class textbook no older than 5 years must be used and quoted.

health care service

Assignment Content
Write a 700- to 1,050–word paper that considers the cost of providing the health care service and running the facility you have proposed. Include an evaluation of your planned revenue streams and determine whether you would still be in business a year after you open. Consider the following costs:
Loans (property, equipment, inventory)
Rent
Salaries
Telecommunications
Utilities
Licensing and permits
Taxes
Distribution
Promotion
Maintenance
Also, consider the following sources for income and cost-sharing:

Revenue streams
Partnerships with local organizations
Cite three reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment. For additional help, check out the ULTRA: Access your assignments page.

Therapeutic Communication

Therapeutic Communication- Case Scenarios

Case #1– The patient was admitted 2 days ago with a diagnosis of cancer. She was informed by her doctor that a course of radiation and chemotherapy was her best option. She became very upset and frightened about the proposed treatment and stated that she wasn’t sure if she would go through with it. The nurse approaches her to discuss how she is feeling today.

Nurse: “How are you doing today, Miss Smith. I was wondering how you were feeling about undergoing radiation and chemotherapy?”

Patient: “I don’t know. I’m not as scared as I was when I got here, but I have a lot of questions about it.”

Nurse: “It sounds like you have given it some thought. I’m sure Dr. Jones could talk with you and answer some of your questions. Would you like to do that?”

Patient: “I guess so. What do you think?”

Think of a few ways the nurse could respond.

Case #2–  An elderly patient is sitting in bed taking a nap. A tray of uneaten food is on the bedside table. The nurse comes into the room.

Think of a few ideas of what the nurse could say to start a therapeutic conversation with this patient.

Nurse: “…………”

Patient: “Oh, don’t bother with me. I don’t have much time left in this world.

And I don’t have much to live for anyway.”

Nurse: Think of a few therapeutic responses.

– Case Scenarios

Case #1– The patient was admitted 2 days ago with a diagnosis of cancer. She was informed by her doctor that a course of radiation and chemotherapy was her best option. She became very upset and frightened about the proposed treatment and stated that she wasn’t sure if she would go through with it. The nurse approaches her to discuss how she is feeling today.

Nurse: “How are you doing today, Miss Smith. I was wondering how you were feeling about undergoing radiation and chemotherapy?”

Patient: “I don’t know. I’m not as scared as I was when I got here, but I have a lot of questions about it.”

Nurse: “It sounds like you have given it some thought. I’m sure Dr. Jones could talk with you and answer some of your questions. Would you like to do that?”

Patient: “I guess so. What do you think?”

Think of a few ways the nurse could respond.

Case #2–  An elderly patient is sitting in bed taking a nap. A tray of uneaten food is on the bedside table. The nurse comes into the room.

Think of a few ideas of what the nurse could say to start a therapeutic conversation with this patient.

Nurse: “…………”

Patient: “Oh, don’t bother with me. I don’t have much time left in this world.

And I don’t have much to live for anyway.”

Nurse: Think of a few therapeutic responses.

Collaborative Learning Community

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

Nursing theories are tested and systematic ways to implement nursing practice. Select a nursing theory and its conceptual model. Prepare a 10-15 slide PowerPoint in which you describe the nursing theory and its conceptual model and demonstrate its application in nursing practice. Include the following:

  1. Present an overview of the nursing theory. Provide evidence that demonstrates support for the model’s efficacy in nursing practice. Explain how the theory proves the conceptual model.
  2. Explain how the nursing theory incorporates the four metaparadigm concepts.
  3. Provide three evidence-based examples that demonstrate how the nursing theory supports nursing practice. Provide support and rationale for each.

Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

signs of breast cancer

Screening  for breast cancer means looking for signs of breast cancer in all  women, even if they have no symptoms. This screening method plays an  important role in the mitigation of the morbidity/ mortality rates.  Early-stage  cancers are easier to treat than later-stage cancers, and the chance of  survival is higher. Screening for breast cancer is done by mammography  with the main objective of advance the time of diagnosis to improve prognosis through the implementation of early interventions. The  first importance is that it helps develop early detection strategies.  This is momentous in minimizing the treatment and recovery time. On top  of this, early detection accentuates the patient’s survival chances (Health resources & services administration, 2019).  The second importance is that it improves patient knowledge about their  health. The mammography and additional examination advise women to take  up the necessary course of action, which will protect them from getting  breast cancer.

The limitations, however, outweigh the benefit, with the first being  that a lack of understanding leads to increased waiting and anxiety  whenever additional examinations are needed. At least half of the women  who take part in the screening process require an additional examination  (Loberg, 2015). The exams raise depression, and anxiety. The second  major limitation is possible overdiagnosis. This  means finding something on a mammogram that is breast cancer or has a  chance of becoming breast cancer, but is such a low-risk type of tumor  that it would never have caused any health problems if left alone.  Instead, because it was found on mammogram, cancer treatment is  recommended. These unnecessary treatments are costly and patients can  suffer physical and psychological side effects (Loberg, 2015).

References

Health  resources & services administration (2019). Women’s preventive  services guidelines. Retrieved from  https://www.hrsa.gov/womens-guidelines-2016/index.html

Loberg, Magnus (2015).  Benefits and harms of mammography screening. Breast cancer  research; 17(1): 63.

Nursing Diagnosis:

  1. Students
  2. This is your main assignment for this week.  Attached is a blank Care Plan template.  I will also included a case study that you will use to complete your Care Plan. Basically, a Care Plan is the Nursing Process, which we have studied over the past few week.  We will use the information that we learned to Assess the patient using subjective and objective data, formulate a nursing diagnosis, develop a plan of care for the patient, implement our plan, and then evaluate our plan.
  3. We will discuss the CARE PLAN on the Webinar this week.
  4. The care plan details are as follows: Much of the information is given to you.  There is one diagnosis listed and you will need to develop a second diagnosis for this patient.    Make sure that you have three references in APA format.  If the information is included in the case study (example:  Nursing diagnosis, interventions, etc.) you can use them in your care plan.  This is your first care plan, so much of it is fill in the blanks.  Good luck and I will be glad to help you with this assignment. APA format.  If the information is included in the case study (example:  Nursing diagnosis, interventions, etc.) you can use them in your care plan.  This is your first care plan, so much of it is fill in the blanks.  Good luck and I will be glad to help you with this assignment.
  5. Attached is the care plan template.  Please submit to the drop box by the due date.

A 48 year old male is admitted to the interventional holding area after having a cardiac cath. The patient received a cardiac stent in the right coronary artery (RCA) and the insertion site was angiosealed. The insertion site is soft, no bruising noted, or active bleeding. Pulses are palpable in bilateral lower extremities. A sandbag in on the site which has to stay for another 1.5 hours per md orders. The patient is complaining of discomfort in the groin area and rates his pain 8 on 1-10 scale. In addition, the patient and his wife have verbalized they desire (but feel they will not be able to) to manage the new medication regime and post-op care and are having difficulty understanding why it is so important to take these new medications and quit smoking since he already “has his problem fixed with the stent placement”. He states he is going to have problems integrating these new “rules” into his daily life because he works around people who smoke all the time and does not want these medications to interfere with his life.interventional holding area after having a cardiac cath. The patient received a cardiac stent in the right coronary artery (RCA) and the insertion site was angiosealed. The insertion site is soft, no bruising noted, or active bleeding. Pulses are palpable in bilateral lower extremities. A sandbag in on the site which has to stay for another 1.5 hours per md orders. The patient is complaining of discomfort in the groin area and rates his pain 8 on 1-10 scale. In addition, the patient and his wife have verbalized they desire (but feel they will not be able to) to manage the new medication regime and post-op care and are having difficulty understanding why it is so important to take these new medications and quit smoking since he already “has his problem fixed with the stent placement”. He states he is going to have problems integrating these new “rules” into his daily life because he works around people who smoke all the time and does not want these medications to interfere with his life.

Nursing Diagnosis:

-Acute Pain related to tissue trauma and prescribed post procedure immobilization as evidence by patient rating pain 8 on 1-10 scale.      Demographics:  White male, 48 years old.  Weight is 285 pounds, Height is 5’9″. Pt is married and his wife and 2 children are at the bedside.  Pt speaks fluent English.  He is Catholic.  He finished high school and 2 years of community college.  He is employed in an office with about 30 other employees.    Past medical history:  HTN, Hyperlipidemia, Smokes

Current labs:  Glucose – 165, Sodium 140, Potassium 3.2, Chloride 98, BUN 15, Creatinine 0.8.

Chest Xray – normal

Medications:  Select 3 medications for your care plan.  One should be for hypertenstion, 1 should be for pain while in the hospital, the 3rd one is of your choice (a medication that goes along with his diagnosis).

Nursing Outcomes:

-The patient will rate his groin pain less than 5 on a 1-10 scale within in 2 hours from admission.

-The patient and his wife will relate to the nurse that they feel like they can integrate the new medication and stop smoking regimen into their lifestyle before discharge.

-The patient and his wife will verbalize 4 benefits of quitting smoking for the heart by discharge.

-The patient and his wife will demonstrate and verbalize how to administer and take his new medications before discharge.

 

Nursing Interventions:

 

-The nurse will assist the patient with re-positioning techniques as needed to help alleviate pain.

-The nurse will educate the patient and his wife on 4 benefits of quitting smoking by discharge.

-The nurse will verbalized and demonstrate to the patient and his wife how the patient needs to take his new medications by discharge.  The patient and his wife will verbalize their understanding of the medications.