Dilemma faced by Child psychologists

One common dilemma faced by child psychologists is determining who the “client” is. Given that children are typically brought to treatment by their parents, how would you handle a child who confides in you some illicit behavior and asks you not to tell his or her parents?

Mother’s Diagnosis of type 2 diabetes

The mother’s diagnosis of type 2 diabetes has made a substantial contribution to the challenges that the family faces on a daily basis. Due to the fact that the father is unable to work because of an accident he sustained on the job, the daughter has been forced to take on more responsibilities to help maintain the family financially. Because of the increased workload around the house, the son has also been forced to quit school.

2. As a result of the recent changes in the family’s financial condition, the daughter’s job schedule has undergone significant revisions. Now she puts in extra hours at work to help support the family.

3. The work damage sustained by the father has significantly hindered the family’s capacity to function normally. Due to the fact that he is unable to work, the family has been forced to rely on the son for assistance.

4. The fact that the son did not finish high school will likely have a significant influence on the family’s future. Since he is the only one who can provide for his family anymore, they are in danger of falling into poverty.

5. The cultural background of the family has a significant impact on the kinds of foods they eat. The family has Honduran ancestry, and as a result of their culture, they frequently consume fried dishes and other unhealthy fare.

 

What difficulties or challenges may they be facing in this situation?

Writing Letters to Elected Officials

Read Writing Letters to Elected Officials from the Community Tool Box. Assume you are a public health nurse manager working for an organization in your state that garners support for key public health issues. The CEO of your organization has requested the following:

 

Identify 1 global health care issue that impacts health populations in your zip code through law or policy at the state or national level, for which it is crucial that continued funding be approved.

 

Visit the Healthy People 2030 website to help identify an issue.

 

Research the law or policy to determine:

  • The main purpose of the selected law or policy
  • The main population affected by this law or policy
  • How this law or policy affects the population it is intended to serve
  • The impact of current domestic and global issues on this law or policy

 

Predict the need for advocacy (support of and strategic approach) for the selected health issue using data from a community health needs assessment (CHNA) report from a public hospital in your zip code and ISP reports.

 

Investigate the California State Legislature or United States Congress websites to determine if there is pending action or established policy supporting the identified health issue.

 

Identify 1 state or federal legislator representing your selected zip code. Search by address to identify your legislators on the California State Legislature or the United States Congress websites.

 

Determine the legislator’s support for the health issue in your community. If necessary, call the legislator’s office and ask an aide what actions are being taken on behalf of the community on that issue.

 

Write  letter of advocacy to the legislator on behalf of your organization regarding the health issue. Using the four-paragraph format described in the Community Tool Box:

  1. Acknowledge the legislator.
  2. Write a compelling argument about the importance of the health issue in the local community.
  3. Provide data supporting your proposed strategy for the issue.
  4. Establish yourself as a professional ally to the legislator.

Include a references page for the CHNA, ISP, legislative research, and legislator.

Part 2: Community Education 

In this part of the assignment, you will demonstrate your ability to analyze your local community. You will select and research an agency that focuses on current community needs and communicable diseases. You will prepare an outline for a program you might offer to the chosen agency. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, you would focus on teaching community members how to mitigate the virus and prevent further spread. In this assignment, you will educate an identified population about all local communicable diseases, such as TB, hepatitis, and STDs, as well as chronic illnesses, such as diabetes.

 

Step 1

Choose a local community agency with whom you might work. Examples include but are not limited to:

  • Elder day health
  • Child daycare
  • School setting
  • Place of worship
  • Community clinic
  • Health agency
  • Homeless shelter or service
  • Red Cross
  • Insurance company case manager or public health nurse
  • Prison

 

Conduct a SWOT analysis of your chosen agency.

 

Write a summary of your SWOT analysis.

 

Step 2 

Recommend an appropriate disease prevention teaching project that your chosen agency could offer to the local community.

 

Summarize the public health issues facing the selected agency.

 

Select 1 issue and prepare an outline of the problem or issue faced.

 

Explain how your selected agency could address the issue.

 

Determine an appropriate teaching project to develop and potentially implement.

 

write  summary of the disease prevention teaching project that the agency could offer.

Meth lab explosion

In addition to the 1 year and 10-year-old burn victims, you are asked to assess a 25-year-old burn victim who was involved in a meth lab explosion. Prioritize in which order you would round on each patient. Provide evidence-based. why you decided to round on each patient in the specific order.

Steps of the Nursing process

As in all case studies, review the facts of the case and consider the various steps of the nursing process in order to address the critical thinking questions.

Case Study:

D.B., a 58-year-old Caucasian male client on the medical-surgical floor, has complaints of nausea, vomiting, and lethargy. The client’s history includes gentamicin IV use for pneumonia, and uncontrolled hypertension. The client’s clinical manifestations include decreased urine output, volume overload (heart failure), generalized edema, anemia, shortness of breath (dyspnea), fatigue, and pulmonary edema. The client’s basic metabolic panel reads as follows:

Potassium: 5.1

Sodium: 127

BUN: 78

Creatinine: 3.1

Bicarbonate: 11

Calcium: 7.1

Phosphate: 4

  • Is D.B. most likely experiencing prerenal, intrarenal, or postrenal failure? Why? What risk factor(s) does he have?
  • Using the nursing process, what is your plan of care for D.B., including appropriate medications, collaborative care, possible diagnostic studies, nursing

The Angry Patient and Restraint

Be or Not to Be: The Angry Patient and Restraint Used by the Nurse. The nurse must be aware of how he or she deals with anger before helping clients to do so. There is a risk of patient and staff injury whenever a client is aggressive.

As nurses, it is essential to participate in ongoing education, practice safe techniques, and the best communication strategies when working with an aggressive patient.

You are the nurse assigned to teach new mental health nurses about the appropriate use of restraints. Discuss with the new nurses the following:

  • What factors influence the decision to use restraints?
  • The proper way to manage a patient in restraints.
  • The anticipated nursing orders and common medications that may be given to a patient experiencing anger.
  • How to manage the patient and environment during the post-crisis phase.

Lack of Childhood vaccines for low-income families

Considering the lack of childhood vaccines for low-income families in the state of Virginia of various learning styles and education levels of your selected community, explain your selection of teaching materials.

How do they cater to or possibly impede the audience’s receptivity to the shared health education information?

Gambling problem with the Pokies

Jo presented to the service. She appeared very distressed. She disclosed having a gambling problem with the Pokies. She said she was very worried and anxious, feeling depressed, and did not know where to turn.

She said she started gambling 9 years ago. She stated she had developed a gambling problem when she started to feel depressed after her daughter, 6 years old at the time, was hit by a car.

The daughter, Chloe, 15y/o now, has an ABI as a result of the accident.  Jo had assistance from Gambler’s Help (GH) previously and had been self-excluded. She started playing again during the last year while worrying more about her daughter.

She worried about Chloe falling behind in school (she was at the end of year 9), saying that she hated school, she was truanting; friends had seen Chloe in town while she was supposed to be at school, and she found Chloe was not being honest.

 

She worried about Chloe’s new boyfriend who she did not approve off, her vulnerability with the technology of internet and mobile phones. She had ‘caught’  Chloe on a dating site making arrangements to meet a man.

With the worrying, their relationship is deteriorating: Jo expressed she felt powerless and inadequate and tended to get stricter and angrier, and Chloe was responding by shouting back and withdrawing.

The home environment has become stressful because of this conflict. Jo finds she is staying more and more in bed and is also finding it hard to control her eating.

 

Counselling session:

1. What was the purpose of the session? I.e. ongoing monitoring of order, intake, assessment etc… 

 

 

 

 

2. Discussion

A brief summary of what occurred in the session. Please ans wer the whole not in the third person, i.e.  the worker and keep to facts and what was observed. If you are going to say someone was angry, you have to say what you observed to make you think that. 

 

 

 

 

3. Assessment

A brief assessment of the session. Ie clients presentation, willingness to work on issue.  Only ans wer about assessments you are qualified to make. 

 

 

 

 

4. Actions Require/Taken

What actions and follow up is required and by whom

Organization things to do with Staffing and patients

A new nurse overhears two experienced nurses discussing how the organization has things to do with staffing and patients. One of the nurses states, “I don’t know how much more I can

take.” The new nurse does not become discouraged because the new nurse remembers which

principle?

A. The nurse manager will put an end to the conflict.

B. Change in healthcare is inevitable and unpredictable causing uncertainty.

C. Because of new electronic documentation systems, older nurses will complain.

D. These nurses have lateral incivility.

Academic and Professional goals

Describe academic and professional goals and financial need essays. How scholarships/grants will help you attain your goals essay