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Introduction

It is estimated “that about 6.3 million children under 5 years of age die in the world each year” (Skolnik, 2021, p. 296). These deaths primarily occur in low and middle-income countries. In this discussion board assignment, you will have the opportunity to explore how a mother’s education level impacts the health of her child and you will also have the opportunity to consider the impact of other determinants of health on children in low-income countries.

1. Discuss how the health of young children in low-income countries vary with the mother’s level of education.
2. Explain the multi-directional links between health, social, and economic factors.

Directions

In response to each topic or prompt provided by the instructor please do the following:

1. Provide a thoughtful and complete initial response that is a minimum of two to three paragraphs 

Textbook : Global Health 101

4th Edition

Author: Richard Skolnik

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Learning

Year: 2019

Being anxious about speaking in front of an audience is a natural human tendency.  All people experience some form of anxiety before, during, or after speaking in front of an audience. 

For this discussion board, you will be asked to take a survey on your public speaking anxiety, and then reflect on how you can overcome this anxiety or use it to your advantage.

 For your initial post (due on day 3):

First:

Take the Speaking Anxiety Survey before completing this post (located above the Discussion Board in this module).

Read the following information on speaking anxiety: Speech Anxiety

Next:

Create your post to include the following:

1.  Were you surprised by the score you received on the survey?  (Feel free to share your score if you are comfortable doing so). 

2. Why do you think your score was what it was based on the questions asked?

3.  What has been your experience with public speaking in the past?  Have you had any anxiety about giving speeches or the thought of giving public speeches?

4.  Based on what you have read, what can you do to have less anxiety?

5. Based on what you have read, what should you avoid during a speech to show your audience that you are confident and prepared?

For your Responses:

Make sure to respond to two classmates by day 7.  In your responses make sure to ask questions about your peers’ experiences in an attempt to reflect and start an academic conversation. 

Your score should be between 34 and 170. If your score is below 34 or above 170, you have made a mistake in computing the score.

High = > 131

Low = < 98

Moderate =  98-131

Mean = 114.6;  SD = 17.2

prompt1

What resources do you use to determine safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine?

prompt2

Discuss some of the psychophysiological aspects of stress. Which evidence-based stress management interventions do you apply to clinical practice? How effective are they?

 This paper will have three parts addressing two important pieces of legislation related to the right of individuals to make health care decisions for themselves.

Part I

The Advance Health Care Directive 

Locate a copy of an advanced directive (AD) that complies with the laws of the state in which you work. The organization in which you work should have a copy of an advance directive that is given to patients. If not, download your state’s Advance Directives here http://www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3289.

Complete the advance directive for yourself.  Do not turn in your AD with your paper. The AD is for your personal use.

In your paper, Part I:

1. Identify where you obtained the AD and explain its compliance with state law.
2. Conduct research (1-2 sources) to learn more about the AD in your state and explain how it works.   
3. Discuss how easy or difficult it was to complete the AD. Your comments should be specific and both objective and subjective. For example, when you state your personal feelings, you must relate them to the literature (textbook and research) that discusses this process and the difficulties that many people face when completing an advance directive.

(Cite/ reference any sources you use to explore these questions, including your texts.)

Part II

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Form

1. What is a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form?
2. When should this form be completed?
3. Who can complete the form?
4. Who needs to sign the form to make it a legal document?

(Cite/reference any sources you use to explore these questions, including your texts.)

Part III

Tie the two first sections together by writing a summary and conclusion.

This section should address:

1. the differences between an Advance Health Care Directive and the POLST,

2. the RN’s important role in assuring the patient’s right to autonomy in choosing the healthcare interventions the patient does or does not want.

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Use current APA format.

The paper should be between 3-5 pages in length excluding the title and reference page(s). 

Cite and reference the course text and at least two (2) additional appropriate professional sources.   

Review the rubric for further information on how your assignment will be graded.

There exist large healthcare disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender individuals in the contemporary world. Members of the LGBTQ community continue to suffer from healthcare disparities. For instance, approximately 82% of heterosexual adults maintain healthcare insurance in the United States (Acolatse, 2020). On the other hand, approximately 77% of LGBTQ individuals maintain such insurance covers. Such increased healthcare disparities originate from several factors such as lack of health insurance, LGBTQ stigma, and lack of competent care.  This paper explores the strategies to reduced healthcare disparities among the LGBTQ community.

            There is the need to ensure LGBTQ inclusivity in the national healthcare narrative. This will help to reduce unnecessary healthcare risks to such individuals. The inclusion of LGBTQ communities will help to ensure major changes in healthcare systems. Healthcare organizations and governments should also increase the access of LGBTQ people to comprehensive care through ensuring a collective commitment and collaboration between social work, healthcare, public health, and policy making (Acolatse, 2020). This will help to reduce LBGTQ’s stigma and ensure increased participation in healthcare issues. Healthcare organizations can also reduce LBGTQ healthcare disparities through healthcare training and education programs. As such, there is the need to equip healthcare practitioners with resources and knowledge to deliver improved and comprehensive care to the full spectrum of patients. Such training programs will help healthcare practitioners to equally treat patients without any form of discrimination.

              Healthcare education and service institutions also need to increase the number of special population practitioners.  Currently, there exist limited special practitioners, who are limited in specific geographic areas.  Members of the LGBTQ community might face several challenges that might limit their access to such healthcare practitioners (Hafeez, Zeshan, Tahir, Jahan, & Naveed, 2017). For instance, members of the LGBTQ community might experience transport barriers to access specialized healthcare practitioners. This in turn will increase their access disparities compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Each primary care and specialist practitioner needs to become educated concerning the treatment requirements and risks of treating LGBTQ patients. Such increased education will also help to reduce the bias of healthcare professionals towards this community (Baptiste-Roberts, Oranuba, Werts, & Edwards, 2017).  Healthcare professionals also maintain a persona responsibility of becoming more educated and comfortable in the provision of healthcare services to the LGBTQ community members. Through education, the healthcare practitioners will become aware of the misconceptions, stereotypes, and biases against the LGBTQ community.  I believe that every person deserves comprehensive and compassionate healthcare regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

          Healthcare organizations also need to foster an environment that supports and nurtures all patients and families. This is through several approaches such as ensuring that the existing visitation policies are fair and non-discriminatory. Healthcare professionals also need to refrain from making assumptions and judgments concerning a patient’s sexual orientation based on appearance. Healthcare organizations can also foster such an environment through the determination and implementation of mechanisms that prevents patient discrimination (Baptiste-Roberts, Oranuba, Werts, & Edwards, 2017). Healthcare organizations also need to honor and respect patient decisions on the disclosure of sexual orientation and gender identity. As such, there is the need for the implementation of policies that will allow for gender-neutral language that will allow for self-identification.

References

Acolatse, N. (2020). Health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population in Ghana. TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING, 6(1), 84-96. doi:10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art009

Baptiste-Roberts, K., Oranuba, E., Werts, N., & Edwards, L. V. (2017). Addressing health care disparities among sexual minorities. Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 44(1), 71-80. doi:10.1016/j.ogc.2016.11.003

Hafeez, H., Zeshan, M., Tahir, M. A., Jahan, N., & Naveed, S. (2017). Health care disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth: A literature review. Cureus. doi:10.7759/cureus.1184

Answer both of the following questions honestly and professionally:

1. Discuss      the factors and approach you will use to develop a professional      partnership with your selected site.
2. What      is the importance of collaborating with other healthcare professionals in      order to establish trusting relationships to gain commitment for      mobilizing health initiatives? 

Your initial posting should be 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook.

Discussion: Diversity and Health Assessments

• Greatest Paintings Instructions: Using the video as the reference for your discussion posting and responses, compose a written discussion about the artwork presented in the video.

“50 Greatest Paintings” “History Masterpieces” “Famous Artists” “Expensive Pieces”01:12https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSMaCs8mQls&feature=emb_logo01:13

• In your original posting, discuss the following: Do you know the works of art in this video? 
• Choose 10 of these artists and research them further online. What about the time period that they were painting in? 
• What were the social conditions like, not just for wealthy people often depicted in the paintings, but for starving artists and the common man? 
• How did these artists contribute to our understanding of our history? 

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Peer Response:

Greatest Paintings

Instructions:

Provide a substantive response to 1 peer.

When posting a reply to other students, consider the following questions:

• Why did the person choose those artists?
• What assumptions do you make about the original poster based upon the choice of artists?
• Why do people make assumptions about others based on extremely limited information?
• In what ways do you agree or disagree with the student’s analysis of why paintings persist in culture?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Architect Daniel Libeskind is credited with saying “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.” The suggestion is that his work does not copy the efforts of others but relies on it.

Understanding the work of others is critically important to new work. Contributions to the nursing body of knowledge can happen when you are able to analyze and articulate the efforts of previous research. Research analysis skills are therefore critical tools for your toolbox.

In this Assignment, you will locate relevant existing research. You also will analyze this research using a tool helpful for analysis.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources this Module’s Learning Resources in support of locating and analyzing research.
• Use the Walden Library to identify and read one peer-reviewed research article focused on a topic in your specialty field that interests you.
• Review the article you selected and reflect on the professional practice use of theories/concepts described by the article.

The Assignment:

Using the “Module 4 | Part 4” section of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template presented in the Resources, conduct an analysis of the elements of the research article you identified. Be sure to include the following:

• Your topic of interest.
• A correctly formatted APA citation of the article you selected, along with link or search details.
• Identify a professional practice use of the theories/concepts presented in the article.
• Analysis of the article using the “Research Analysis Matrix” section of the template
• Write a 1-paragraph justification stating whether you would recommend this article to inform professional practice.
• Write a 2- to 3-paragraph summary that you will add to your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan that includes the following:
  • Describe your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research.
  • Identify at least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in finding peer-reviewed research.
  • Identify at least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed research.

Note: Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

MAINTAINING PROGRAM MOMENTUM

1. Review all of the information that you have gathered throughout the term and develop a sustainability plan for your program.
2. Do a brief assessment of your plan and discuss how you can strengthen it.

Length: 2–3 pages double-spaced, excluding the cover page and the reference list.