Nursing sensitive indicators are three separate indicators that reflect the nursing process and how it affects patient care; the three indicators are structural, process and outcome (The 3 Types of Nursing Sensitive Indicators, 2011). Structural indicators define the nursing staff of the organization, is there enough staff to properly care for the patients? What is the experience of the staff? How well educated are the nurses, are they hospital diploma nurses or do they have their Bachelors of Science…
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healthcare workers are constantly around people of different cultures and have to care not only to the health needs but also the spiritual needs of those individuals. Different cultures view healthcare differently. Different views on healthcare can include diet, healthcare treatment, birth and death rituals. All cultures including Hinduism, Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Amish, Muslim, Native American, Jehovah’s Witness and Atheism/Agnostic beliefs have different views. Hinduism According to Ehman…
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You all have probably heard of the Jenny Kreg and Weight Watcher diets but now the head of TVT Dr. Jeff Davis is bringing a new diet to school for TVT families to try. This diet is called the Tanzania diet. In the next month TVT will be hosting another TVT Cares food packing event. This time we will be packing double the amount of food. Half of the food will be sent to Tanzania while the other half will be distributed between TVT families from grades TK-12th. For a whole week the families will be…
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Throughout the immensely long history of Judaism, women have always and will always be a major part in the religion. To go into further depth of this topic, we will elaborate on three main topics. The topics in order are women’s contributions to Judaism, Judaism’s view on women in general, and the role of women. Women have made a great deal of contributions to Judaism and have been major leaders throughout history. Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan are just two of many well know Jewish leaders. These…
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At the start of the Jewish religion, Jews were considered a tribe, most likely of shepherds1. The Jews had a new concept at the time called ethical monotheism, which became the basis of the Judaism religion1. Judaism became a religion characterized by a new relationship between people and Diety1. Judaism was established in 1200 BC and began with a covenant between God and Abraham1-8. At the basis of Jewish prayer is the idea that God listens to prayer and that prayer is part of a dialogue between…
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For example, in the case of Mr. J and Jewish patients in general, providing kosher food for patients. Without monitoring how patients felt about their care the hospital administrators would have no real way to improve the quality except by blind luck. Similarly, with surveying the satisfaction of nurses care can be improved for…
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ENGL 1323D Essay #2 Spring 2013 Traditional sayings about food and identity are common, from “You are what you eat” to the Danish expression “You must bake with the flour you have.” Food and culture are closely intertwined too from the Judaic kosher tradition to the Hippie culture’s macrobiotic vegetarianism. Identity, beliefs and emotion also get bound up in our sense of self and how we practice our cultural traditions. As inhabitants of a place called the United States, we are more likely to…
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Introduction On Wednesday, 12 December 2012, the conspicuous image of the first Sikh to guard Buckingham Palace was used by a few newspapers to illustrate England’s increasingly multi-racial society in the wake of the 2011 Census findings which had revealed two important facts:13 per cent of people currently living in England and Wales had been born abroad For the time ever, less than 90 per cent of the country was white. (BBC,2014) Cultural diversity and pluralism have become essential parts of…
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doubled since 1980, and the number of kids considered obese had shot past 12 million. Today, one in three adults is considered clinically obese, along with one in five kids, and 24 million Americans are afflicted by type 2 diabetes, often caused by poor diet, with another 79 million people having pre-diabetes. Even gout, a painful form of arthritis once known as “the rich man’s disease” for its associations with gluttony, now afflicts eight million Americans. To summarize Michael Moss’ article “The extraordinary…
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(M2) The influences of underlying health conditions can result in the need for specific nutrients as well as influencing what people are or aren’t able to eat. This means it can be more complicated to get all the essential nutrients and a balanced diet, especially when you have to avoid certain foods. One health condition that affects people is Coeliac Disease; this is intolerance to the protein ‘gluten’ which is found in wheat, barley and rye. When coming into contact with gluten the body produces…
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