Health & Medical

Compare the population health of the United States to any other country by answering the following questions: What do statistics/data tell us about health outcomes in general of each country? What specific diseases are endemic and have been epidemic? What inequalities are evident from your research? What resources are available to those with low incomes? What type of governmental assistance is available and to whom? How much of the countries’ GDPs are allocated to health care services? What are some documented cases/events showing healthcare leaders playing key roles in population health improvement?

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring After studying Module 4: Lecture Materials & Resources, discuss the following: Therapeutic drug monitoring is a frequent practice in health care. How does age affect drug absorption, metabolization and excretion? The use of salt substitutes can cause hyperkalemia in older adults when use in conjunction with what types of drugs? Describe how you would prevent and evaluate risk factors for medication nonadherence in older adults?   Submission Instructions: Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources Gerontology & Diagnostic Studies & Pharmacologic Management Read and watch the lecture resources & materials below early in the week to help you respond to the discussion questions and to complete your assignment(s). Read Meiner, S.E., Yeager, J.J. (2019). Chapter 15 Chapter_015.pptx Chapter 16 Chapter_016.pptx Watch Health Care in Danger: Why medical ethics matters (Part 2/3) (2:13)  International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). (2014, May 8). Health Care in Danger: Why medical ethics matters (Part 2/3) [Video]. YouTube. Health Care in Danger: Why medical ethics matters (Part 2/3)  (Links to an external site.) Supplemental Materials & Resources Visit the CINAHL Complete under the A-to-Z Databases on the University Library’s website and locate the article(s) below: DeCasterie, B. D., Izumi, S., Godfrey, N. S. & Denhaerynck, K, (2008). Nurses’ response to ethical dilemmas in nursing practice: Meta-Analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 63(6), 549-549

Summary: A theory can be used to guide practice.  This assignment is an exercise in supporting a clinical practice with theory and evidence. Directions: Identify an outcome of nursing practice in your area of practice that can be improved.  For example, if you work in home health, you may identify that throw rug use by fall risk patients is too prevalent.  You may be able to use the problem that inspired the theory concepts that you developed in week two. Identify the concept in Watson’s Theory of Caring that could represent or include the outcome.  In our example, the outcome would be the changes in self through the change in the patient’s floor covering practice. Identify a practice that can be changed or implemented that may influence the outcome. Identify the concept in Watson’s Theory of Caring that includes the practice.  In our example, the practice could be to improve the understanding of fall hazards through the engagement in a teaching-learning experience, one of Watson’s Caritas Processes. Identify exactly how these two concepts will be measured with their operational definitions. Develop a proposition between the two. Present your outcome in an APA formatted paper  meeting the University’s standards for a written assignment. Length: 5 to 7 pages including title and reference pages References: 3 to 10.  There should be enough to support the links between the concepts of the problem and the concepts of Watson’s Theory of Caring.

A.     Explain in your own words Joel Feinberg’s central claims and argument and about the morality of abortion. B.     Explain in your own words Dom Marquis’ central claims and argument and about the morality of abortion. C.      C. Explain your own views about the morality of abortion and how and how they compare/contrast with Feinberg and Marquis. D.     D. In the unit notes I gave you two somewhat detailed consistent human life ethics (CHLE) theories: the Mackie model and the Bernardin-John Paul model.  Later I gave you five brief descriptions, which include the Bernardin-John Paul theory as CHLE  2 and the Mackie theory as CHLE 4.  Explain how your views about the morality of abortion are consistent with the CHLE you consider most logically sound  and each component of your moral ID.

Blog 5 – Research Ethics In “Judgment on Willowbrook”, Paul Ramsey asserts that research on children incapable of giving consent is morally justified only if the children can directly benefit from the research. The mentally impaired children at Willowbrook used as subjects in the hepatitis experiments did not directly benefit from those experiments, according to Ramsey, and so it was wrong to use them as test subjects. Ramsey implies that what makes this research unacceptable is the fact that such children are inherently incapable of giving consent. But isn’t the same true of non-human research subjects such as mice, cats, and dogs? They can’t give consent. So, if Ramsey is right, shouldn’t experiments on non-human animals also be morally off-limits? What do you think? Explain your view. In ““Drug Companies and Medicine: What Money Can Buy” (text, pp. 201-206), Marcia Angell argues that if doctors and medical research institutions accept money from drug companies, they are guilty of a conflict of interest. Explain what a conflict of interest is. Use an example to illustrate your answer. Why does Angell claim why accepting money from drug companies is a conflict of interest for doctors and medical research institutions? Explain. Do you agree with Angell? Explain. Carl Cohen, in ‘The Case for the Use of Animals’ – text pp. 220 – 225, says that if you object to animal research you should also object to eating meat. Explain why Cohen says this. Do you agree with Cohen? Explain why or why not.

Using the Iowa Model for Evidence Based Practice as a guide, develop a concept map/schematic that shows the pathways necessary for a clinical change that you would like to see implemented in your current practice setting

Many physicians feel stifled by insurance companies’ financial restrictions when practicing medicine. Many doctors have openly expressed their frustration with the current system and feel it has been hijacked by insurance companies that care about profit instead of patients. Thinking about your own experiences with health insurance companies, do you think that they should have more control over patients’ health than their doctors? Why, or why not? What do you think should be done to protect patients, support doctors, and control rapidly increasing costs? What are some experiences you have had with these kind of doctor-versus-insurance-company situations? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Visit the Web site of CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly report. Has the CDC reported any new outbreaks or health risks this week? What other issues is the nation’s epidemiology agencies concerned about this week? Discuss in detail.

http://www.alliedhealthworld.com/health_education.html & http://www.who.int/topics/health_education/en/ define and describe the components and importance of “health education.”  Why is this important for you to know in your prospective career field?

1. Identify the structure and function of respiratory organs and differentiate between the conducting and respiratory portions. 2. Explain the neural regulation of respiration and the realted reflexes.