Health Assessment 19467159

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Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000 word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following:

  1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
  2. Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.
  3. Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style 

 
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Health Assessment During The Adolescent And Prenatal Periods 18948951

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Adolescent pregnancy is viewed as a high-risk situation due to the serious health risks that this creates for the mother, the baby, and society at large. Describe various risk factors or precursors to adolescent pregnancy. Research community and state resources devoted in adolescent pregnancy and describe at least two of these resources. Research the teen pregnancy rates for the last 10 years for your state and community. Has this rate increased or decreased? Discuss possible reasons for an increase or decrease.

 
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Health Assessment Day Four Assignment

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D.F. is a 37-year-old woman who presents to the emergency department after having a seizure.

Subjective Data
PMH: Seizures, unknown type
Headache
Housewife
Feels weak
No loss of consciousness

Objective Data
Vital signs: T 37 P 72 R 18 BP 114/64
Lungs: clear all bases
O2 Sat = 100%
CV = heart rate regular, positive peripheral pulses
PERRLA

  1. What other questions should the nurse ask about the seizures?
  2. What other assessments are necessary for this patient?
  3. What are some of the causes of seizures?
  4. Develop a problem list from objective and subjective data.
  5. What should be included in the plan of care?
  6. What other risk factors are associated with this presentation?
  7. Based on the readings and the subjective and objective data, this patient most likely had what type of seizure?

Summarize your answers in an APA formatted paper

 
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Health Assessment Day Five Assignment

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Develop a nursing care plan for a patient with cholecystitis.

1. Make sure you include all the phases of the nursing process

2. Provide a brief discharge planning

3. Give some teaching examples correlating with the teaching plan (e.g. cholecystitis.).

4. Provide NANDA nursing diagnosis only.

5. Provide a teaching plan for this pathology.

 
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Health Assessment Day 9 Assignment

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Locate a research article regarding Telehealth and provide a 500 words APA written summary of the peer reviewed article.

 Make sure you provide the name of article and tittle

 Succinctly explains the article content

 Within your summary; explain why you choose this article?

 Explain some of the implications of technological trends and financial effects caused by Telehealth.

Follow proper APA format and style and include a cover page, reference page, and any applicable tables or appendices.

 
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Health Assessment Day 7 Assignment

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Create a chart explaining the importance of the APGAR score for a diabetic newborn.

1. Make sure to recognize a normal and abnormal APGAR scores with the diabetic newborn.

2. What type of complications the nurse or medical team can foresee to assess.

3. Are the assessment findings different from an average normal newborn? Briefly explain.

 
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Health Assessment And Communication

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ITS IMPORTANT TO MEET THE COMPETENCES – I WROTE THE WORD IMPORANT NEXT TO EACH COMPETENCE .

Conduct a health assessment of a population of your choice. Explain the process and summarize the results. 

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Health Assessment – Conduct comprehensive and focused assessments of health and illness parameters in individuals, groups, and vulnerable populations.       
    • (IMPORTANT) -Describe the key elements that make up a health assessment at the community, group, and individual levels.
    • (IMPORTANT) -Explain the process involved in conducting a comprehensive health assessment.
    • (IMPORTANT) -Summarize the findings of a health assessment for a specific population.
  • Competency 3: Nursing Research and Informatics – Incorporate evidence-based practice interventions (for example, information systems and patient care technologies) as appropriate for managing the acute and chronic care of patients, promoting health across the lifespan.       
    • (IMPORTANT) -Use valid, scholarly research resources relevant to the field of nursing to support information presented.
  • Competency 5: Communication – Communicate effectively with all members of the health care team, including interdepartmental and interdisciplinary collaboration for quality outcomes.       
    • (IMPORTANT) -Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional.

Assessment Instructions 

  

Conduct a health assessment of a population of your choice as you complete the following:

  1. Describe the key elements that make up a health assessment at each of the following levels:      
    1. Community.
    2. Group.
    3. Individual.
  2. Explain the process for completing a comprehensive health assessment.
  3. Summarize the findings of the health assessment you conducted. Be sure you include a brief description of the population you selected.

Additional Requirements

  • Format: Include a title page and reference. Use APA style and formatting.
  • Length: This assessment should be approximately 3–5 pages in length. 
  • References: Cite at least three current scholarly or professional resources.
  • Font: Use double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font.
 
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Health Behavior Ca1

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Case Assignment

Utilize the required readings for this module and access http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ to write a short paper (2-3 pages) addressing the following items in particular:

  1. Describe the      County Health Rankings.
  2. At the County      Health Ranking’s Web page, click on the “search by county, state, or      topic” area.
    1. Search for “Orange,       CA” information.
    2. Identify Orange       County, California’s ranking under “Health Behaviors”.
    3. Identify       percentages of 4 health behaviors listed under Orange County.
    4. Search for your       Local County and State where you currently live.
    5. Briefly       summarize findings about your local county and state’s health outcomes       (example: to length of life, quality of life, and health behaviors).
  3. In your own      words, define “risk factors” and provide examples of risk      factors for health behaviors you identified in #2 above. Be sure to cite a      reference even though you used your own words.
  4. Research and      identify another source of data for health behaviors (e.g., national      database or tracking system).

Required Reading

Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors. (2006). Conduct a community assessment: Chapter overview. Accessed from Moving to the Future website: http://www.movingtothefuture.org/story_read.php?sid=d1871c&story_id=157&chapter_id=12&origin1=chapter_contents

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2014). The behavioral risk factor surveillance system. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/about/

Glanz, K. (n.d.) Social and behavioral theories. Retrieved from http://www.esourceresearch.org/eSourceBook/SocialandBehavioralTheories/1LearningObjectives/tabid/724/Default.aspx. Also available as pdf at http://www.esourceresearch.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Public/Glanz_FullChapter.pdf

Glanz, K., Rimer, B.K., & Viswanath, K. (Eds.) (2008). Health behavior and health education: Theory, research, and practice (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2016). County health rankings & roadmaps. Retrieved from http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, and National Cancer Institute. (2005). Theory at a glance (2nd ed.). Retrieved from http://www.sbccimplementationkits.org/demandrmnch/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Theory-at-a-Glance-A-Guide-For-Health-Promotion-Practice.pdf

Optional Reading

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2011). Surveillance  of certain health behaviors and conditions among States and selected  local areas—behavioral risk factor surveillance system, United States,  2009. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report-Surveillance Summaries, 60(9), 1-250. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ss6009.pdf

Committee on Health and Behavior: Research, Practice, and Policy, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health (2001). Health and behavior: The interplay between the biological, behavioral, and societal influences (pp. 19-166). Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20669491

Committee on Health and Behavior: Research, Practice, and Policy,  Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health (2001). Individuals and  families: Models and interventions. Health and behavior: The interplay between the biological, behavioral, and societal influences (pp. 179-221). Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Retrieved from http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9838&page=179

U.S. Public Health Services (2011). Introduction to risk and protective factors. Youth Violence: A Report of Surgeon General [Chapter 4]. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44293/

World Health Organization (1998). Health promotion glossary.  Geneva, Switzerland: Division of Health Promotion, Education and  Communications, Health Education and Health Promotion Unit. Retrieved  from http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/about/HPG/en/

 
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Health Assessment And Communication 19324423

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 Conduct a health assessment of a population of your choice. Explain the process and summarize the results.  

 

Conduct a health assessment of a population of your choice as you complete the following:

  1. Describe the key elements that make up a health assessment at each of the following levels:
    1. Community.
    2. Group.
    3. Individual.
  2. Explain the process for completing a comprehensive health assessment.
  3. Summarize the findings of the health assessment you conducted. Be sure you include a brief description of the population you selected.

Additional Requirements

  • Format: Include a title page and reference. Use APA style and formatting.
  • Length: This assessment should be approximately 3–5 pages in length. 
  • References: Cite at least three current scholarly or professional resources.
  • Font: Use double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font.
 
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Health Behavior 19193391

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According to Mokdad & Remington (2010), 

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2010/jul/10_0010.htm#Methods

 “health behaviors are a leading cause of illness and death in the United States” (p. 1). Reflecting on this statement, write a paper (3 pages) discussing the importance of being able to measure health behaviors and describing methods to assess health behaviors in a target population.

The following items in particular will be assessed:

  1. Discuss reasons for measuring health behaviors.
  2. Identify at least two methods to assess/measure smoking behaviors among adolescents in your community.
  3. In your opinion, do you agree or disagree that measurement of health behavior is useful for program planning. Defend your position by providing empirical evidence.
 
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