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Describe additional strategies for assisting patients

Describe additional strategies for assisting patients

Health Literacy

In order to effectively manage their own health, individuals need to have competencies in two areas-basic literacy and basic health literacy. What is the difference? Basic literacy refers to the ability to read, even simple language. Health literacy is defined as, “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (National Coalition for Literacy, 2009). Unfortunately, according to a Department of Education report on health literacy, only 12% of adults aged 16 and older are considered to have a proficient level of health literacy (U.S. Department of Education, 2006). Acquiring health literacy skills has become more complicated with the explosion of online health information, some credible and some misleading.

In this Discussion, you focus on how to help individuals find credible information on the Internet and develop strategies nurses can use to increase the health literacy of their patients.

To prepare:

Think about the nurse’s role in improving the health literacy of patients.

Consider the many ways patients access health information, including blogs, social media, patient portals, websites, etc.

Reflect on experiences you have had with patients who self-diagnose using online medical sources.

Using the Internet, the Walden Library, or other trustworthy sources, identify a resource that you could introduce to patients to help them evaluate the credibility of health information found online.

What are some strategies you could employ to improve the health literacy of patients?

Post your assessment of the nurse’s role in improving the health literacy of patients. Then, identify the resource you would recommend to patients for evaluating online health information and why it would be beneficial. Describe additional strategies for assisting patients in becoming informed consumers of online health information.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.

Chapter 17, “Supporting Consumer Information and Education Needs”
This chapter explores health literacy and e-health. The chapter examines a multitude of technology-based approaches to consumer health education.

Chapter 18, “Using Informatics to Promote Community/Population Health”
In this chapter, the authors supply an overview of community and population health informatics. The authors explore a variety of informatics tools used to promote community and population health.

Chapter 16, “Informatics Tools to Promote Patient Safety and Clinical Outcomes”

The authors of this chapter present strategies for developing a culture of safety using informatics tools. In addition, the chapter analyzes how human factors contribute to errors.

Health literacy: How do your patients rate? (2011). Urology Times, 39(9), 32.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

The authors of this article define health literacy and emphasize its poor rates in the United States. Additionally, the authors recommend numerous websites that offer patient education materials.
Huff, C. (2011). Does your patient really understand? H&HN, 85(10), 34.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

This article defines hospital literacy and highlights the barriers that prevent it from increasing. It also emphasizes the difficulties created by language and financial costs.

The Harvard School of Public Health. (2010). Health literacy studies. Retrieved from http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy

This website provides information and resources related to health literacy. The site details the field of health literacy and also includes research findings, policy reports and initiatives, and practice strategies and tools.

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (n.d.). Health literacy online. Retrieved June 19, 2012, from http://www.health.gov/healthliteracyonline/

This webpage supplies a guide to writing and designing health websites aimed at increasing health literacy. The guide presents six strategies that should be used when developing health websites.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.a). Quick guide to health literacy. Retrieved June 19, 2012, from http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy/quickguide/Quickguide.pdf

This article contains an overview of key health literacy concepts and techniques for improving health literacy. The article also includes examples of health literacy best practices and suggestions for improving health literacy.

Required Media

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Executive Producer). (2012a). Interview with Rachelle Toman, M.D. Ph.D. Rockville, MD: Author. Retrieved from http://www.ahrq.gov/legacy/questions/video/06clinician/

In this interview, Dr. Toman discusses the importance of asking patients questions to ensure they have been able to sufficiently communicate their concerns.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Executive Producer). (2012b). The waiting room video. Rockville, MD: Author. Retrieved from http://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/patient-involvement/ask-your-doctor/videos/waitroom/index.html

This video addresses the importance of communication in the patient-health care professional relationship. It highlights the need to ask meaningful questions to the patient to fully understand issues and concerns.

APA Format

Describe a family system tendency to maintain predictable

Describe a family system tendency to maintain predictable

Discussion – Applying Family, Feminist, and Transpersonal Theories

Reflect upon two personal or professional goals you might like to achieve. If you were to visit a counselor with these goals in mind, which theoretical approach might help you to achieve them? In addition, what type of counseling style might you connect with the most?
In this Discussion you use the media, Postmodern Theories, to seek the help of three counselors. As you listen to each counselor’s theoretical approach, consider how each might be the most effective in addressing your unique goals. In addition, take note of the emotions that you feel while you virtually sit in the client’s seat.

Note: This post does not require you to share any personal information about yourself. Though you should use personal or professional goals to assist you in selecting a theoretical orientation, you may present the ideas of your posting in a more general format.
Post by Day 3 an explanation of which approach might be most effective and explain why. Then, explain how this particular approach may help a client to achieve his or her goals. Finally, explain what it felt like to sit in the client’s seat.
Respond by Day 5 to at least two of your colleagues using the following approach:

· Provide a different perspective as to why this theoretical approach might inhibit clients from reaching their goals.

QUESTION 1: The term used to describe a family system’s tendency to maintain predictable interactional processes is:

a. Family project process

b. Cybernetics

c. Centripetal

d. Family homeostatis

QUESTION 2: Self-in-relation theory is the work of:

a. Sharf and Bem

b. Jordan and Surrey

c. Jean Baker Miller

d. Betty Freidan

QUESTION 3: The first person to introduce the subjects of consciousness, spiritualism, and psychical research into the mental health fields was:

a. Carl Jung

b. Abraham Maslow

c. William James

d. Sigmund Freud

QUESTION 4: The term used to describe one of the perceptual sets people use when looking at society and their place in it is:

a. Gender schema

b. Egalitarian

c. Engendered lives

d. None of the above

QUESTION 5: Which of the following family therapists is best known for his/her structural approach to treatment:

a. Satir

b. Bowen

c. Haley

d. Minuchin

QUESTION 6: The “Competencies for Addressing Spiritual and Religious Issues in Counseling” were developed by which of the following divisions of the American Counseling Association?

a. Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling

b. Association for Religion, Philosophy, and Spirituality in Counseling

c. American Pastoral Counselors Association

d. There is not a division of the American Counseling Association that developed these competencies.

QUESTION 7: One of the primary goals of transpersonal counseling is to:

a. Bring the client to an acceptable level of mental health

b. Bring the client to a point where he or she can begin to work on transpersonal issues

c. Take the client into the realm of transcendence, unity, and extraordinary mental health

d. None of the above

QUESTION 8: Two major disorders given a great deal of attention in feminist literature are:

a. Personality disorders and bipolar disorders

b. Borderline personality disorders and hypertension

c. Eating disorders and PTSD

d. Insomnia and PTSD

QUESTION 9: Which of the following is not a fundamental principle of feminist counselors?

a. The personal is political

b. A commitment to social change

c. A commitment to the establishment of an authoritarian relationship

d. Honoring women’s experiences and appreciating their perspectives, values, and strengths

QUESTION 10: A strategy for empowering clients is to involve them in naming their problem and participating in directing the counseling process. This strategy is called:

a. Self-disclosure

b. Gender role analysis

c. Demystifying the counseling process

d. Client empowerment

QUESTION 11: Which of the following family therapists is best known for his/her strategic approach to treatment?

a. Satir

b. Bowen

c. Haley

d. Minuchin

QUESTION 12: According to transpersonalism:

a. Healthy development is marked by one’s advancement from personal to transpersonal concerns.

b. Healthy development is marked by one’s quality of relationships.

c. Healthy development is impossible to define.

d. Healthy development is not a goal.

QUESTION 13: Within the transpersonal states of functioning, which of the following developmental lines or stages exist?

a. cognitive

b. vision logic

c. psychic

d. all of the above

QUESTION 14: A counselor directing family members to engage in a communication game to examine how their incongruent messages lead to pain and lower self-esteem is following which approach to family therapy? A counselor directing family members to engage in a communication game to examine how their incongruent messages lead to pain and lower self-esteem is following which approach to family therapy?

a. Conjoint

b. Transgenerational

c. Narrative

d. Structural

QUESTION 15: The term _______________ means beyond the personal, ego, or self.

a. archetypal

b. transpersonal

c. reductionistic

d. monistic

QUESTION 16: The core practice of transpersonal counseling includes which of the following:

a. Mindfulness

b. Yoga

c. Biofeedback

d. All of the above

QUESTION 17: ________________ occurs when a family modifies problem behaviors yet maintains its present structure.

a. First order change

b. Second order change

c. Third order change

d. Fourth order change

QUESTION 18: A multifaceted process, occurring across the life span is called:

a. Gender role identification

b. Gender bias

c. Genderfication

d. Gender role socialization

QUESTION 19: Teasing out stressors poses a challenge for the family counselor because of the family’s:

a. Mistrust of therapy

b. Many stories

c. Multigenerational issues

d. Severity of pain

QUESTION 20: Which of the following family therapists is best known for his/her conjoint approach to treatment?

a. Satir

b. Bowen

c. Haley

d. Minuchin

QUESTION 21: Although the theoretical underpinnings of transpersonal theory can be credited to a number of individuals, theories, and philosophical approaches to mental health and spiritual experience, _____________ has emerged as the primary leader of this burgeoning field.

a. Groff

b. Wilber

c. Jung

d. Maslow

QUESTION 22: The family life spiral is:

a. An example of family decline

b. A linear model

c. An example of a life stressor

d. A developmental model

QUESTION 23: Which of the following is one of the “Competencies for Addressing Spiritual and Religious Issues in Counseling”?

a. The professional counselor can describe the similarities and differences between spirituality and religion, including the basic beliefs of various spiritual systems, major world religions, agnosticism, and atheism.

b. The professional counselor recognizes that the client’s beliefs (or absence of beliefs) about spirituality and/or religion are central to his or her worldview but cannot influence psychosocial functioning.

c. The professional counselor can identify the limits of his or her understanding of the client’s spiritual and/or religious perspective and is acquainted with religious and spiritual resources, including leaders, who can join in counseling sessions with the counselor and client.

d. All of the above

QUESTION 24: ___________ wrote that Kohlberg’s model of moral development was more applicable to men than women.

a. Carol Gilligan

b. Barbara Herlihy

c. Vivian Carroll McCollum

d. Nancy Chodorow

QUESTION 25: _________ attributed the difference between women and men to the fact that women are primarily responsible for early child care.

a. Carol Gilligan

b. Barbara Herlihy

c. Vivian Carroll McCollum

d. Nancy Chodorow

Effective strategy for intercultural communication

Effective strategy for intercultural communication

Prepare a 1,750- to 2,100-word integrative paper.

Analyze and demonstrate an effective strategy for intercultural communication within a particular setting, such as tourism, global business, education, or health care.

Include the following topics and questions below as they pertain to strategies within your chosen setting:

What is the impact of cultural variation on intercultural, interpersonal relationships within the industry?
How is personal dignity impacted in this intercultural industry setting?
How might interpersonal relationships improve with the implementation of your strategy as a part of an intercultural experience?
What are a few of the setting specific roles of cultural variations in intercultural, interpersonal relationships?
How will your strategy improve interpersonal relationships within the setting and foster intercultural competence?
Cite at least three peer-reviewed sources.

Difference between diversity and affirmative action

Difference between diversity and affirmative action

1. Describe the difference between diversity and affirmative action?

2. What are the elements of a culturally diverse workforce?

3. Discuss the challenges organizational leadership must address in establishing and leading a diverse workforce?

4. If you were guiding your organization to maintain a more diverse workforce, what steps would you recommend to ensure diversity?

5. What methods would you use to monitor the organization’s efforts toward achieving a diverse workforce?

Discuss the differences in cultural heritage protection law between the United States and Latin America.

Discuss the differences in cultural heritage protection law between the United States and Latin America.

Discuss the differences in cultural heritage protection law between the United States and Latin America. What is the underlying basis for these differences? In what ways do these differences affect the policies of the United States in regard to the trafficking of antiquities?

Discuss in detail costs and benefit of coal use over oil use

Discuss in detail costs and benefit of coal use over oil use

Peak Oil

Your readings this week have discussed the concept of peak oil and detailed the pros and cons of numerous fossil fuel production methods. In the face of rising gas prices, one alternative to oil is coal. However, this fossil fuel comes with its own set of costs and benefits. In your initial post, discuss in detail the costs and benefits of coal use over oil use for electricity production in the United States. Additionally, discuss which method of coal extraction (strip mining, mountaintop removal, or underground mining) you believe offers the best strategy for coal production and why you feel this way.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with at least two scholarly sources in addition to your text. Properly cite any references

WAS ABLE TO GET THE CHAPTERS FROM THE BOOK THAT MUST BE USED AND CITED ALONG WITH TWO OTHER RESOURCES. ALOS ARE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT CAN BE USED AT THE END OF THE CHAPTERS.

Write a synthesis essay on private tuition in singapore

Write a synthesis essay on private tuition in singapore

Problem-

Tuition is a global phenomenon, says Professor Mark Bray, 61, of the University of Hong Kong. He shares his views on the “shadow education system” he has researched for over 20 years. Between 2006 and 2010, he worked in Paris as director of Unesco’s International Institute for Educational Planning.

WHY do people turn to private tuition and is Singapore unique that so many students rely on it? Singapore is not unique, says Professor Mark Bray. The tuition problem is particularly acute in East Asian countries and territories that have strong Confucian traditions for learning, diligence and effort, he says. These territories include South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. China, with its burgeoning tuition sector, is swiftly joining these ranks. These East Asian territories are highly globalised and competitive. They stress a need for workers to remain ahead in skills and for students to acquire skills relevant to the global economy. Some publicize their performance in global education rankings, spurring more competition, he observes. Noticeably, tuition is prevalent in systems which are examination-based. In Singapore, there are tough examinations at the end of primary education and it also streams students largely according to academic ability, says Prof Bray. Such a system adds to parents’ anxiety and they turn to the tuition market to give their children the extra push in mathematics, science and languages.

Senior Minister of State for Education Indranee Rajah recently said that tuition is unnecessary for students who are doing well, while weak students are helped through existing school programmes. Is this the right approach? Prof Bray admits that the Singapore education system is a good one that has delivered high quality output. “In that sense, I can understand that the minister might feel frustrated that the tendency to go to tutors might imply that it is not a good education system when indeed it is. “But Singaporean parents, like those in many other cultures, are competitive, seeking what they perceive to be the best for their children in a competitive system, and thus are trying to add more even though the school system is already delivering much that is already very good,” he says. Singapore, he stresses, must acknowledge the shadow education system and tackle it early. “Once habits, structures and social expectations become entrenched, it’ll be difficult to steer or stem its growth,” he warns. But if parents are willing to spend the money on tuition, what is the problem? Tuition can worsen existing inequality, believes Prof Bray. Leaving private tuition to market forces threatens a society’s social fabric. “The shadow system maintains and exacerbates inequalities,” he says. His research shows the shadow system widening the rich-poor gap and allowing wealthier families to find and pay for good-quality tuition. Poorer families find themselves being forced to buy tutoring in order to remain in the race to do well in school, he adds.

In Prof Bray’s opinion, the work by Mendaki and Sinda – the Malay and Indian self-help groups – is a good example of how community bodies are working with the Government to improve students’ grades and reduce the social inequality problem. — Adapted from “Tuition can worsen existing inequality” by M. Nirmala in The Straits Timespage A20, dated 1/10/2013.

There has been much discussion in the Singapore Parliament and public sphere with regards to the phenomenon of private tuition in Singapore. Many issues in relation to this phenomenon have cropped up in the discussions. The two articles provided reflect the debate regarding this issue of private tuition in Singapore.

Write a synthesis essay on Private tuition in Singapore. You will need to narrow this broad topic.

Additional Information-

The problem is related to Sociology and the problem is explains about private tutoring industry in Singapore. Private tutoring has been a growing industry and it has been estimated that it is a multi-million dollar industry and will soon become a billion dollar industry. The pros and cons of private tutoring have been discussed in the answer.