After watching the videos in this weeks presentation please choose one question from below to discuss with the class.  You can include your thoughts/feelings of the videos watched.

1. How can we promote healthy behaviors?  What do you do?

2. How can we target dangerous conditions, such as hazardous waste sites, and ensure healthy spaces and places?

3. How can individuals protect themselves against health threats?  What do you do?

4. Which populations have the worst health?

5. What causes the unequal production and distribution of the conditions that promote and harm health?

 

Week 7 Discussion 

A 35-year-old comes to the clinic. He states, “It’s getting close to allergy season and I need something to keep me from getting sick. Last year the doc gave me a shot, a spray, some pills, and an inhaler. They worked really well but I don’t remember what they were. Can I have those things again? I just can’t afford to miss work.”

APA FORMAT, (REFERENCES)Please answer the following questions in a narrative format: 

1. Discuss the epidemiology of allergies.
2. What are your treatment options (consider pharmacoeconomic)? Compare first and second-generation antihistamines.
3. What education will you provide to the patient?

 

Directions:

1. Interview a nurse leader from a professional nursing organization to collect ideas for the project. 
2. Utilize your readings, research and resources to build the content. This should be a collaborative team process. Divide the workload for the project in an equitable manner among team members. 
3. Each group will design a voice- narrated Powerpoint or Prezi  to create a presentation and provide an overview of a grassroots policy challenge (present or past) that the identified organization supports. The policy challenge can  be a local, state or federal policy issue. Create a title slide or page with the full names of each group member. Include a final slide or page with key references cited in APA 6th ed. format.
4. Each presentation should be between 5-10 minutes in length. Rehearse and time the presentation in advance to ensure that the 10-min. time limit is not exceeded. 
5. One person from each assigned group will post the group signature assignment for his/her group as an attachment in the week seven discussion forum on or before Day 3, Week 7. 
6. Each team member will submit his or her group powerpoint presentation individually in the D2L assignment upload box for grading. 

Each presentation will need to include (but is not limited to):

• Brief description of the policy challenge the team has chosen and the nursing association that was identified.
• Describe the “Agenda” for the identified policy challenge. Include how the policy issue was identified, (Did the organization complete a review of the literature, an environmental scan and/or a SWOT analysis, etc.?)
• Brief description of key stakeholders (those who will be affected and those who can effect change), ie, interest groups, opposition groups/individuals or coalitions.
• List the different strategies that the organization plans to or has already used to inform/lobby legislators, ie, e-mail campaign, in-person visit, testimony, protest, etc.
• List and describe any non-legislative strategies that were used or plan to be used to support the initiative.
• Describe where this policy challenge is in the legislative process and its implications for the future.

FYI : i am not in a group, so i am by myself

 

Write a 650-1300 word response to the following questions: 

1. Explain multicultural communication and its origins.
2. Compare and contrast culture, ethnicity, and acculturation.
3. Explain how cultural and religious differences affect the health care professional and the issues that can arise in cross-cultural communications.
4. Discuss family culture and its effect on patient education.
5. List some approaches the health care professional can use to address religious and cultural diversity.
6. List the types of illiteracy.
7. Discuss illiteracy as a disability.
8. Give examples of some myths about illiteracy.
9. Explain how to assess literacy skills and evaluate written material for readability.
10. Identify ways a health care professional may establish effective communication.
11. Suggest ways the health care professional can help a patient remember instructions.

This assignment is to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.  

· Created short paragraph (50-100 word minimum) response for each question and addressed each part of the question. (the question does not count toward the word count) –/ 10 points 

· Research section: Demonstrated accuracy, thoughtful detail and intelligence with each answer and was written in own words and had original thought. -10 pts

· Critical thinking Section: Original Examples are provided to explain answer. (Example:) Student has original and critical thinking:-10 pts

· Created APA formatted document. 

i. Included APA title page. 1/

ii. Included APA in-text citations – 5/

iii. APA reference page at the end. –3 pts/  9 points total

· Homework has questions written out, numbered and are in order. ( See student Success center for details on APA formatting) – 1 point

HOMEWORK EXAMPLE as posted in rubric doc in announcement:

1) Define CAM.

CAM stands for complementary and alternative medicine.  CAM consists of many different therapies and treatments that are used to prevent and treat illness and disease. These methods are not typically taught in Medical school or practiced by Western medical doctors.  Various practices use natural methods or substances to promote the body to heal or stay in harmony. The mind body and spirit of a person are brought into the equation of healing. (Falvo, pp.210-211, 2004)

Critical thinking/examples: 

For example, Chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy, yoga, meditation and energy fields are some of the therapies used in CAM. I had a patient with diabetes and used to also get nutritional work completed by a Chiropractor that helped to control his blood sugar.

Hi Class, please be sure to create a highly organized assignment. There are 2 parts to each answer.

Write out the question and bold it.