Category: Health

Utilizing Detection Devices and HEPA Filters in Assessing and Containing Unknown Agents

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Based on the information provided in Module 3 of the Scenario https://myclassroom.apus.edu/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=139093&type=content&rcode=00D22884-7DC5-4408-809B-589E36B04C5A-615602, write a discussion post concerning the issues listed below.
For one of the categories listed, write an initial response to the primary question and as many of the additional questions as you wish (at least one, if any exist).
Screening, Search and Detection
Primary Question:
44. What types of detection devices should be utilized to assess potential dangers related to the unknown agent?
Additional Questions:
45. Will HEPA filters in the hospital help contain the spread of an agent that has been injected into the HVAC system? Why?

 

Prioritizing Environmental Response and Health & Safety in an Unknown WMD Event

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Based on the information provided in Module 3 of the Scenario https://myclassroom.apus.edu/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=139093&type=content&rcode=00D22884-7DC5-4408-809B-589E36B04C5A-615602, write a discussion post concerning the issues listed below.
For one of the categories listed, write an initial response to the primary question and as many of the additional questions as you wish (at least one, if any exist).
Environmental Response/Health and Safety
Primary Question:
37. First responders should implement what priorities upon arriving at the scene since this event involves an unknown potential WMD?
Additional Questions:
38. Who has the responsibility to minimize public exposure to environmental hazards? How will this be accomplished?
39. How would decontamination issues be addressed in the first minutes, hours and days?
40. Who would be responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating worker health and safety hazards, and who would disseminate health and safety guidance and resources to responding personnel?
41. What sort of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) should be utilized by all responders to this event?
42. Who would be responsible for establishing Hot, Warm and Cold zones? What resources would be used to assist in establishing protective zones?
43. How would victims on the scene be decontaminated? Who would be responsible for the decontamination efforts?

 

 

 

Staffing and Roles

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For your final paper, you are hired as the Director of operations for the Health Department in your City. A. Describe in detail your staffing and their roles. B. The programs you will offer and why. C. The types of Technology that will

The Importance of Matching Communication Preferences with Your Supervisor

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Imagine that you are a medical and health information manager. Your supervisor generally prefers receiving email or instant messages rather than having face-to-face meetings or talking on the phone. Watch the Interpersonal Communication Skills video https://multimedia.phoenix.edu/video/?v=734513348 to gain real-world insight about communicating in the health care field.

What are your communication preferences? Do you think it’s important that your communication preferences match your supervisor’s communication preferences? Why or why not?
Regardless of personal preferences, what are 2 situations where you think it would be better to request a meeting or make a telephone call to discuss an issue rather than send an email or instant message? What are 2 situations where you think an email or instant message would be better? Provide rationale.

The concept of “health” has changed over time.

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Discuss how the concept of “health” has changed over time. Discuss how the concept has evolved to include wellness, illness, and overall well-being.
How has health promotion changed over time?
Why is it important that nurses implement health promotion interventions based on evidence-based practice?
please use a heading for every point or topic to be discussed, and include an introduction and conclusion.

Community Focus Group on Obesity in Adults

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This week our readings took us into Specific Aspects of Health Promotion for the following conditions: Weight Management and Digestive Wellness, Cardiovascular Wellness, and Respiratory Wellness.

Imagine you are leading a focus group which is implementing one of the nursing interventions learned for a specific health problem.

Having you as a moderator of a community focus group that will explore knowledge, believes, attitudes and behaviors about your selected health problem [you may select any health problem]:
1. Define your group and the setting for the activity, applying statistical principles of sample size and homogeneity.
2. Create and share an opening question to explore perceptions of the health risks associated with your topic of interest.
3. Create a question that should explore beliefs and perceptions about external influences related to your selected topic.
4. Create a third question that will help you in understanding the perception (in group members) of roles towards improving the health problem.

 

Health Concerns Caused by Saharan Dust Cloud

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A Saharan dust cloud traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in June of 2020. It was the densest dust cloud from the Sahara to reach the United States in approximately 50 years. Explain the health concerns that this event caused. If you were a safety professional, how would you have addressed health concerns in relation to this environmental event?

Behavioral Health Prevention Program

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This assignment comprises two components, a behavioral health prevention program design and a behavioral health prevention summary report, addressing the behavioral and psychological factors promoting healthy living and disease prevention.
Part 1: Behavioral Health Prevention Program
Design a behavioral health prevention program that outlines the program and addresses the following:
Program mission and vision, including theoretical knowledge of working with individuals and families in the community.
Stakeholders involved in the program: patients; paraprofessionals; therapists; educational institutions; public health, government, and community agencies; the local community; etc.
Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders.
Behavioral and psychological barriers that impede behavior modification and disease prevention: role of behavior and prevention in maintaining health.
Recommendations for behavior modification and disease prevention: factors promoting healthy living and factors promoting disease prevention.
Use the school Library databases; include two to four outside scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Part 2: Behavioral Health Prevention Summary Report
Write a summary report (1,250-1,500 words) about the information gleaned from the behavioral health prevention program design process. Include information on the program’s mission and vision, the stakeholders, behavior and psychological barriers, and recommendations for behavior modifications.
Use two to three scholarly resources to support your explanations. For example, if you chose a specific program design or intervention does the literature support this as being an effective program? Was it successful and how do you know it was successful? Have other prevention programs found measureable outcomes that you plan to replicate? How does your program build on a successful program to target the community you’re serving?