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Professional Development Assignment 4 Michelle Turner Aspen University Healthcare Systems N-502 Dawn Deem October 14, 2014 Professional Development Assignment 4 The various kinds of health professionals are educated in separate schools but with considerable overlap in curricula and training requirements. They are, however, expected to integrate their training and work together after graduation. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to professional education in terms of costs

Chestnut Ridge Center’s ‘Day Hospital’ is a partial hospitalization program for individuals, eighteen and older, who do not meet criteria for inpatient services but still require intensive therapy services and for individuals transitioning from inpatient care. Day Hospital is a highly structured program that meets Monday through Friday, with an average duration of admission of 2 weeks. Day Hospital is designed to provide concentrated treatment to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness

Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program and Critical Access Hospitals BACKGROUND Significant health disparities between rural and urban populations have been a major concern in the United States. One prominent factor contributing to the disparities is lack of access to quality care in rural areas which is closely associated with challenges faced by rural health care providers (National Rural Health Association, 2007). Rural hospitals are the key health care provider in rural areas, offering

Lack of Community-Based Mental Health Services Meaghan Metz Stony Brook University Professor. David Hymowitz The Community and the Issue According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (2016), “One in 5 adults experiences a mental health condition every year. 1 One in 17 lives with a serious mental illness. Close Panel ” NAMI goes on to describe the mental health community as comprised of those not only experiencing a mental illness, but their family members, friends, and the societal

Entertaining Speech An entertaining speech is one whose sole purpose is to have the audience enjoy the presentation. The purpose of an entertaining speech is not to educate, inform or inspire … it is to make the audience smile, relax, enjoy and maybe even laugh their heads off. How do you make a speech entertaining? There are many ways to entertain an audience. You can: * tell jokes * tell funny stories * dramatize an anecdote * tell a scary story When it comes right down to

The three levels are baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral, but there are faster ways to get degrees in nursing. You could get a two-year associate’s degree in nursing, a three year hospital diploma, and the accelerated Bachelor of Science. To get a bachelors degree, you need to study for four years. To get an Associate degree in nursing (ADN), you need to study for two years. An ADN takes a shorter amount of time and it is much

Introduction The Madison Veterans Hospital has a goal to become more accessible to its liver transplant patients. Liver Transplant patients are an obscure sup group of veterans to pay attention to. The Madison Veterans Hospital focuses on liver transplant patients because it is a new program within the hospital and is the second most common type of transplant. Liver transplants in veterans are primarily a result of hepatitis C, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatis, and liver cancer. Vietnam veterans are

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chemistry, and physics); four years of social studies; three to four years of a foreign language (Spanish recommended); courses in psychology, statistics, and computer science are recommended. It is also advisable to do volunteer work at a local hospital or

mass index compares an individual’s height and weight but is not accurate for everyone. Being fat was a mark of health and wealth prior to the 20th century because it implied you had the resources to get lots of food, according to a report from the University of Minnesota in Duluth. Today, obesity is more an indicator of current and future health problems. The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008; the medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than