Approaches to Nursing Adults with Long Term Health Conditions Adult Living with Long-Term Condition Nursing practices basically revolves around offering patient care services to various individuals who require varying health service requirement. Among these patients are those suffering from Long term conditions. These kind of health conditions are not curable but are managed by applying appropriate nursing care, therapies, and proper medication (Goodwin et al., 2010). According to the department of health service (2012), Long Term Conditions (LTC) are defined by as a condition that cannot be cured but controlled by medication or other treatments like therapies. Patients suffering from LTCs are intensive users of our National Health Service (NHS) and account for 50% of GP appointments and 70% of health and care spending (Department of Health 2012). In order to manage pressures that mount to the health and social care services, patients living with long term conditions require special support to make lifestyle changes in order to effectively self-manage (Nicol 2015). In this essay, pseudonyms have been used in place of the patient’s name so the patient cannot be…
APRA UPDATES To achieve more stability, APRA has introduced essential elements of a global financial reform program, even moving beyond the negotiated minimum standards. The objective of APRA is to improve the capital system, enforce the capital requirements of the Basel III, improve sound lending criteria, enhance transparency and transparency, and improve risk management and readiness. As most of these changes haven’t been implemented entirely, they stay on the focus list of APRA. Many fundamental policy changes, such as the boundary-industry risk assessment framework, have also been introduced. A structure for company management and risk assessment and a staggered licensing strategy. APRA has already taken measures to adjust its services to emerging business requirements, as well as these regulation changes. Consultant threat and control teams have been reorganized to create a new framework for risk assessment and data collection that brings across analytics experts, market analysis, and risk to better harness this mutual knowledge (Carroll, 2019). APRA has focused its administrative efforts further on the study of banks according to its risk strategy. Concerning other risk groups, procedures, and capital…
Family Medicine 12: Case Study Discuss the questions that would be important to include when interviewing a patient with this issue. When was the Last Menstrual Period? This is the date of the patient’s last menstrual period. With this information, the doctor can help asses whether it is a normal bleeding or abnormal bleeding. Normal bleeding is expected to occur after 28 days. Have you been sexually active? Generally, a sexually active individual is at high risk of getting sexually transmitted infections, which could be the cause of the bleeding. Are you using Oral Contraceptives? Oral contraceptives are hormonal drugs that tend to cause hormonal alterations in patients who use them. In effect, the changes usually cause bleeding. Are you pregnant? This will help the doctor to know whether the condition is arising from a pregnancy complication such as threatened abortion, ectopic pregnancy, complete abortion, or postabortal trophoblastic disease (Motta& Vitale,2018). Describe the clinical findings that may be present in a patient with this issue. Are there any diagnostic studies that should be ordered on this patient? Why? Some of…
Health Care Services at Your Comfort || Care for Your Loved Ones in Peace Age is catching up, and diseases may crop up on our loved ones at a point in life. Home health care services not only help maturing residents but also cater to those recouping from medical setbacks that require therapy. The advantage of home care service is unmatched when compared to hospital care. Among them include; convenience, less cost involved, and equally good care that is met by qualified physicians. Most natives in Kansas City widely accept caregiving services. The majority of families prefer to enjoy the day to day hustle and still be able to come home to their loved ones. Care services at home include; Personal Care Imagine if you could wake up one day, and the things that were normal for you sometime back were no longer normal? Sounds scary, huh? It doesn’t have to. If you or a loved one has suffered an illness that may stall your ability to do your errands, choosing to hire a certified caregiver may be an excellent…
bullying in schools Hypotheses The incidence of bullying in schools will lead to poor performance in academics. Bullying in schools contributes to mental illness to affected students. The action of bullying can have long-lasting effects on bullies that can have led them to abuse drugs. Operational definition According to Smith (2018), bullying is an aggressive character or behavior whereby there is someone who is being hurt or feeling discomfort due to the harassment caused by bullies’ while poor performance is the act of student getting deficient grades, which are nor encouraging. Bullying is aggressive behavior whereby there is an imbalance of strength or power. At the same time, mental illness is a health condition that involves changes in behavior or emotions mostly associated with distress (Pilgrim, 2019). Bullying is peer harassment that involves intimidation to someone as a way of victimizing the involved person. At the same time, drug abuse is the use of a particular substance to create pleasurable effects on the brain (Segal, (2019). References Pilgrim, D. (2019). Critical concepts in mental health. SAGE Publications Limited. Segal, B.…
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Introduction Slide 1 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one among the many developmental disabilities that are characterized by shortfalls in social and emotional communication, repetitive interests which are restricted and sensory issues (McClelland et al., 2016). The condition has been in existence for quite some time and is becoming a significant menace in current societies. Research suggests that about one in every sixty-eight children has been identified with ASD (McClelland et al., 2016). This means that the rate of prevalence has somehow doubled in the last decade. Critical Elements of PRT (2 slides) The Pivotal Response Training (PRT) is a technique of procedurally applying scientific principles and values of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) in tutoring learners with ASD (McClelland et al., 2016). This technique was initiated by Robert Koegel and Lynn of Autism Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. According to these authors, PRT is a method that is used to tutor/teach language, increase social, academic, and communication skills, and reduce on self-stimulatory or destructive behaviors (McClelland et al., 2016). Slide 2 Pivotal response…
Students Life Cycle to Higher Education The most important goal for any university or college is student success; for example, it has depended on the marketing activities for Universities to attract fresh prospects, nurture them through continuous engagement, track their interests, and successfully recruit them into the University. The students’ life cycle is just like a customer life cycle; just like retailers try to increase their shopping experience, it is also the same way in which Universities and Higher Education find themselves. The paper is going to discuss the student’s life cycle to higher education that is the Digital life cycle of a student, which plays a significant role not only to the student but to higher education as well. The digital life cycle of a student. Students are usually equipped with iPad, smartphones to engage within the University, and this plays a significant role in delivering information within the University. The complete digital life cycle of a student is admissions from recruitment to alumni (García & de Figuerola, 2010). Therefore, Higher Education should begin recruiting students using social media,…
The period between 800 and 900 CE in Mesoamerica saw one of the most dramatic collapses of a civilization in the history of the world. Within this century, the once-flourishing Maya Civilization collapsed into permanent oblivion. The cities of the empire were abandoned and left in ruins. In most cases, they were reclaimed by the jungle and disappeared from human memory for many years to follow. The collapse of the Mayan civilization has been attributed to several reasons, including the disregard of the rulers to their subjects’ welfare and the resources at their disposal. Maya was also known for the unproductive wars, extravagance in their building projects, over-exploitation of available natural resources, as well as an increasing population. However, the collapse of the Maya Empire can be primarily be associated with three main factors: warfare, overpopulation, and drought. Of the three, war seemed to have the most devastating impact on the Maya civilization. Warfare had a significant part in the Maya Empire for centuries. While initially, it was not intense, and on a large scale, it grew in intensity prior…
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