The Lead Health Festival Organizer For The South Central Family Health Center

This author’s personal perceptions concerning patients facing a lingering terminal illness, have been shaped by over 20 years of critical care nursing experience. Facing death and illness on a daily basis requires self-examination and a high degree of comfort with one’s own mortality, limits and values. Constant exposure to the fragility of life forces respect for the whole person and the people who love them. A general approach to patients who are actively dying is to allow them to define what they want and need during this time. The nurse’s role

According to Pidgeon (2017) conflict resolution is a competencies that all leaders must acquire to successfully lead a group of people. Specifically, “conflict resolution is defined as the ability to find amicable solutions to a conflict when it occurs between multiple parties” (Pidgeon, 2017, p. 340). As the assistant director and leader for ambulatory services, it is my responsibility to respond to the complaint made by a physician, who is also an important customer, about the clerk and director of nursing (DON).

Situation: An opening for a full-time therapist has been created by one of the staff therapists quitting.

Measles was discovered in the 19th century by a Persian Doctor, but was not recognized until 1957 as an infectious agent in human blood by a Scottish physician. In 1912 measles became a notifiable disease and in the first decade that records were kept there was on average 6,000 deaths per year reported from the disease. (Center For Disease Control). There is no definite origination of measles but scientists believe that it dates back to the Roman Empire about the 11th and 12th century (NCBI, 2010). The first outbreak known in America was in 1657 in Boston,

Chesterfield County, Virginia has a population of about 328,000 as of January 1, 2014 with 752 people per square mile. There was a 3.6% increase in the population from April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013. 65.4% of the population is white non-Hispanic, 21.6% are black non-Hispanic, 7.2% are Hispanic, 3.2% are Asian and 2.1% are two or more races. In 2012 there were 3657 births and 1654 deaths in Chesterfield County. They are rated as being safer than 50% of the cities in the US with 41 violent and 1049 crimes against property (Crime rates for Chesterfield, VA, n.d.).

As a community health nurse, I would be most interested in a focus group to assist elderly residents in developing emergency and disaster preparedness plans. I choose this population because elderly citizens face great health and safety risks when emergencies and disasters strike (Clark et al., 2003). It is important for health care practitioners to understand the needs of the elderly in the communities they serve (Barratt, 2007). There may be a need to quickly evacuate the local area and elderly residents may lack proper transportation. Some seniors may become confined to their homes in a disaster. Others may not know what to do if they lose services such as water, heat, electricity and basic communication. Proper advance planning can mean the difference between survival and suffering or death.

Monday was a slow day at the office, and I was not given a task by my supervisor to complete. I took the initiative to email everyone in my intake department. My email asked if anyone needed assistance with their cases to contact me. An intake case worker saw my email and told an ongoing caseworker who need assistance. The ongoing caseworker asked if I could assist her with transporting a child from the Perseus shelter to the McKean County Court House. The ongoing caseworker said she did not feel comfortable with transporting her teenage girl client in her car alone. The ongoing caseworker wanted another caseworker to monitor the girl’s behavior. I accompanied the ongoing casework with transporting the youth to court. The

As you know Community Health Centers serve a vital role in providing primary care, dental, behavioral, pharmacy, vision and a variety of complementary services to our most vulnerable patients and communities. Health centers generate millions of dollars both in economic impact and overall cost-savings to the health care system.

This facility is a nursing home to geriatric patients and patients with Alzheimer's and Dementia. My main responsibilites included patient transport, helping the CNA's, and helping organizing social programs for the patients. I assisted the social program director in coming up with specific themed events for the patients ranging from Bingo nights, movie nights, to organizing performances by many cover bands. This experience gave me direct experience with older patients and patients suffering from Alzheimer's and Dementia. The greatest part of this experience was convincing more anti-social patients to participate in the social events. My persistance of inviting these individuals wore them down and they enjoyed their time being out of their room interacting with the staff, other patients, and

How do you think you handled the conflict? Reflect on the outcome When I have examined the purpose and scope of professional supervision, I was suite aware of the fact that as a manager or care worker in both the role, I have the responsibility for providing a knowledgeable, value service and quality for our clients. When conflicts take place, the supervisee and supervisor have common responsibility for acknowledging the conflict and for taking actions to managing and resolving the conflict. In circumstances where the problems are not determined among the supervisee and supervisor, whereas other methods for resolving conflict within supervisory relationship are: •

Paige Dawson is upset because she said she has had a hard time getting a response from the New York office. She was also upset because she could not figure out how to share the NY events page on her Facebook page. I apologized, let her know that a copy of her feedback has been sent to New York for their knowledge. I also provided her with a detailed message of how she can share the event stories. NY contacted me to let me know

The health outreach trip would give me the opportunity to see firsthand some of the inequalities that are present within healthcare. These inequalities range from access to adequate healthcare providers to the inability to afford adequate healthcare.

I had been assigned to a group consisting of 2 other nursing students. One student was from first year, and the other from the second year. In trying to connect over the term we used frequent emails to relay our availability and eventually met to discuss our upcoming Metissage. Prior to our meeting I had used my previous knowledge around Doane and Varcoe’s process of family relational practice focusing on entering in relation and staying in sync with the group (Doane & Varcoe, 2005). To accomplish staying in sync I chose to take the lead initially to explain the concept of a Metissage to the first year and at the same time, allow for additional dialogue from the second year student. I was mindful of how I was presenting to others and wanted to match the environment they were presenting. According to Doane & Varcoe (2005) approaching others through the use of positive regard and being in sync allows acceptance of the family while also forcing you to be aware of your surroundings at this moment in time. In following their advice we ended up discussing a topic which was around the concept of patience. Staying in sync is supposed to be a matter of sharing power which was for the most part, I was assigned the dominant position in the group based on my extra years in the program, my age, and my gender. I was acutely aware of this privilege but wanted to share the power equally so more ideas could be discussed. To ensure engagement and combat

The incident in question has placed me in a unique opportunity; as the facilitator of this situation would be best to approach this in a manner that would best benefit the organization, including my department. Although I am already conflicting within with personal and professional points of views, addressing the situation will become a challenge. Despite who initiated this situation or who escalated the situation, resolution must be determined in the best interest of communication within our environment.

About 2:30 in the afternoon, M.E. was in her patient’s room and J.P. confronted her in front of the respiratory staff and students that were present about why she was/wasn’t doing certain things and what was making her so slow; J.P. caught M.E. off guard and was very abrasive, belittling and verbally abusive; M.E. felt attacked and embarrassed, especially since this behavior took place in front of colleagues. J.P. felt frustrated that M.E. was not more competent and efficient in her care and confronted her about it. After the confrontation, there were no words spoken between the two of them for days and even though months have passed, there is still an obvious tension and unresolved conflict between these two individuals. There is currently a noticeable effort being put forth by both women but the conflict they experienced is not yet fixed.