This week you will be reflecting on key health determinants and the use of research and evidence-based practice which may impact the development of population health measures and policy initiatives. The article by Cook et al. (2014) titled, Support for smoke free multi-unit housing policies among racially and ethnically diverse, low income seniors in South Florida, […]
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Chapter 25 examines implications on the impact of Social Security, in particularly to the financial security of women. How has Social Security developed as a policy? In addition, how has retirement come to be an institution in American society? Lastly, how might retirement and its related policies change in the future given our current aging
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As indicated by Mason et al. (2016), “From the 1970s to the present, continually rising insurance premiums and health care delivery costs have strained government budgets, become a costly expense to businesses that offer health insurance to their employees, and put health care increasingly out of reach of individuals and families” (p. 178). Explain in
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As discussed by Mason et al. (2016), “the cost of health care must be considered from several perspectives” (p. 158). That said, there are diverse perspectives on how expenditures and reimbursement impact the health care system for providers, consumers, policy makers and researchers, to name a few. As healthcare continues to evolve and change, what
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Explore your Board of Nursing, State Association, and/or other state governmental and non-governmental website(s) and identify the most pressing health care concern at the community, local, and/or state level. How can you frame that issue in a health policy or advocacy context? To that end, what may be prospective barriers and/or challenges to successful health
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Derek Smith, a 31 y.o., Caucasian male injection drug user, who is homeless, presents to the ED with a chief complaint of shortness of breath. He describes a 1-month history of intermittent fevers and night sweats associated with a nonproductive cough. He has become progressively more short of breath, initially only with exertion, but now
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Leonard Mays, a 58 y.o., Caucasian, homeless man with long-standing insulin-treated type 2 diabetes has been diagnosed with right lower extremity cellulitis. He has taken a prescribed oral antibiotic for the past week but has not noticed much improvement. For the last 2 days, he has complained of intermittent fevers and chills, nausea with poor oral intake, and
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Luv Taub, a 32-year-old, married Hmong woman, presents to her primary care Nurse Practitioner complaining of a persistent burning sensation in her chest and upper abdomen. The symptoms are worse at night while she is lying down and after meals. She enjoys many years of cooking and eating “hot and spicy foods” common in her
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Louis Johnson, a 48 y.o., gay, partnered, Caucasian male presents to the emergency department with unremitting right flank pain. He denies dysuria or fever. He does report significant nausea without vomiting. He has never experienced anything like this before. On examination he is afebrile, and his blood pressure is 160/80 mm Hg with a pulse
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Marisol Arroyo, age 23 y.o., and unmarried, accompanies her mother, Julia, who is a 68 y.o., divorced Latina female, to her appointment with her primary care Nurse Practitioner. Both Marisol and her mother, who live together, have noted that her ever-present forgetfulness seems to be worsening. Just yesterday she walked to the corner store for
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