Indoor Risk Factors for Asthma in a Prospective Study of Adolescents Author(s): Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Frank Gilliland, Talat Islam, W. James Gauderman, Stephanie J. London, Edward Avol, Edward B. Rappaport, Helene G. Margolis and John M. Peters

Source: Epidemiology, Vol. 13, No. 3 (May, 2002), pp. 288-295

Published by: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3703399

Accessed: 02-09-2016 04:49 UTC

REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3703399?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents

 

Using the article above (see link), please answer the following questions:

1. Indicate the health policy implications of the research and its application to practice?
2. Explain how you would translate the findings of the paper into policy? At what policy level? What strategies would you use?
3. What, if any, potential is there for the use of telehealth, informatics or regional health exchanges in this situation? If there is no potential, please explain why.    – Please be as detailed as possible and provide a list of references.

 

Compare and contrast the health beliefs (e.g., health practices, and coping behaviors) and/or mental health illnesses of “main-stream” American values and Korean culture in America

 

2/ Apply  Leninger’s Transcultural Nursing and the standards of care for psychiatric/mental health nursing. Discussion on how a nurse’s inability to implement culturally competent care can make a patient with a psychiatric disorder, from a Korean background, more at risk for ineffective and unsafe nursing care.

 

3/ Psychiatric/Mental Health Standard 4: Planning of Care

The psychiatric/mental health nurse will develop an individualized plan of care in partnership with the health care Korean consumer (i.e. patient/client), family, and others considering the healthcare Korean consumer’s characteristics … which may include but are not limited to values, beliefs, spiritual and health practices, preferences, choices, developmental level, coping styles, culture, and environment.  (ANA’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice).

Sally an 80-year woman, was recently diagnosed  Alzheimer’s disease. The family is asking you to explain what all of this means. Sally is started on Donepezil for treatment. They are frantic and visibly upset.

 

You will need to address the following questions:

1. How did this happen, how did she get Alzheimer’s?
2. What is the risk of her children getting it?
3. Will they be able to reverse and cure the disease process?
4. The daughter is a nurse and is asking you to explain the mechanism of action of how the medication works (MOA) and what is the therapeutic effects of the medication?
5. What kind of side effects she they anticipate?

10 year Johnny is diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and started on Methylphenidate (Ritalin).

1. 1. Educate the family on administration considerations that will reduce the incidence of side effects of this medication.
   2. What are the primary side effects to consider with the administration of Ritalin?

 

How as nurses, can we work to support decolonial views on mental health and mental health challenges?

1. How can we show up in a good way with someone who is suffering the burden of colonialism in Canada?
2. How does an indigenous approach to family and community care influence our practice as a nurse?