Lymphedema Case Study

Review with others the demand for and interest in raising awareness of a particular health issue.

First of all, I recognized that I was dealing with humans, and not just dealing with a disease process and application of the nursing process in the aspect of restoring patient health. I was dealing with emotions, and families, and cultural beliefs that influenced individual’s aspects of care. I started to see that health did not just incorporate healing the disease, but also recognized the importance of making sure patient’s felt that their

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is asking for help from parents to support the hospital’s funding. This hospital was established in February 4, 1962 and their purpose “is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment” (StJude.org). The survival rate has arised and children are able to stay at no cost due to donation. They have raised survival of childhood of cancer from 20% to 80%. The St. Jude Children’s Research hospital advertisement is highly effective because it uses three different rhetorics. Firstly, it uses ethos to appeal to the credibility of the hospital by using doctors in the advertisement. Secondly, it uses familiar logos as a means of instilling confidence through brand recognition, and thirdly, it uses pathos to stimulate an emotional reaction by showing sick children lying on the bed.

Dr. Kay Mohamed, a doctor at Themba Lethu clinic, exemplified the reality of treatment in today’s world when he stated, “Now, you can’t not get better. It’s just one of these win-win situations. You test, you treat, and you get better, end of story” (Lubock 9).

P3 - Explain how to plan a small scale health education campaign relevant to local or national strategies.

To improve the well-being of individuals through health education, counseling and detection screening programs. Over the upcoming weeks, our mission will consist of finding new and advance solutions to better educate individuals in our society on the importance of health education, by improving care through technology, which ultimately better our society. Our organization will focus on fundraising, however, are focus on fundraising will be from a health perspective, to make sure we focus on individuals health at all times. I will be responsible for the implantation of Better Health Care

Furthermore technology contributes money and awareness for organizations. In the past there was an ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which is where people pour buckets of ice cold water on their head in order to spread awareness for ALS. “2.2 million twitter

As a future physician, I want to provide the necessary health care and guidance to children of low-income families, both here in the United States and in developing nations. Current advances in technology and medicine have allowed a vast majority of diseases to be treated, prevented, and even cured; yet, it is a grave reality that many individuals still do not have these innovations available to them. Ultimately, my goal is to act as a link between

The question to be studies related to problems women experience on a regular basis with lymphedema. With this study there were many previously completed qualitative and quantitive studies that were used as the relevant information for the study. After the study was completed, there results conclude that there are many aspects of woman life that are effected by lymphedema, and those from a lower social economic status suffer more chronic symptoms, but with better education and support systems women are able to experience and feel a decrease in their lymphedema symptoms in their daily

Marie Meckel is certified as a physician's assistant and graduated from Lock Haven University. Meckel is currently a writer and medical practitioner and educator. After ten years of working as a physician’s assistant, Meckel was selected to travel to South Africa and serve as a clinical mentor, illustrating her true participation in this field and here care for it.. Throughout the article, she voices her ideas on chronic disease and management through added education. Meckel makes her voice heard, by the way that she supports her thoughts with unarguable facts, and her caring towards the people in need. Meckel has traveled to Africa multiple summers to educate people about diseases and medications, showing her dedication and understanding on

The phase I interview conducted at St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, with Lauren McCracken, manager of the lymphedema department.

While interning at Arcos communication, I was lucky enough to support the efforts of Betances health center, as the organization announced and executed the opening of its new location in Bushwick. As part of the media materials for the event, I drafted a media advisory, a press release, a fact sheet, an Op-Ed and designed the first draft of a brochure for a campaign to be promoted at the opening

JB had shown a lot of improvement managing her illness before leaving the hospital. She demonstrated acceptance of self and ability to care for self. She also had demonstrated effective coping with the disease and identified ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle. JB set realistic goals and she readily accepted the proposed strategies for dealing with her speafic problems. She understood the importance of adhering to her treatment plan. Most importantly, she was able to identify available resources that she can benefit from.

We apply Tilley’s Ethics Pyramid to develop our campaign, in my opinion, we need to research more about our stakeholders’ ethical expectation and their moral values so that we have better understanding of our target publics and satisfy their needs. In addition, I think we do well in choosing ethical objectives and choosing tactics. For example, the campaign we launch is to raise funds, not about the profit or the brand. And in term of the stage of communication, we are two-way asymmetric communication, and we use digital media to persuade our publics to agree with our way of thinking about how important the breast cancer research is. After receiving the feedback from social media, we improve our communication strategies and become more persuasive to promote our campaign. Finally, when we evaluate, we can see that the public are proud of helping with the breast cancer

I believe everyone at a time in life want to reach out and help give back to the community and really make a positive impact. Raising awareness for a new and unknown disease would help the diseases and keep people educated on it.