Author: Joyce

perform a complete head-to-toe assessment on one of your chosen participants. Your analysis should include the following:

Topical headings to delineate systems.
For any system for which you do not have equipment, explain how you would do the assessment.
Detailed review of each system with normal and abnormal findings, along with normal laboratory findings for client age.
An analysis of age-specific risk reduction, health screen, and immunizations.
Your expectation of normal findings and what might indicate abnormal findings in your review of systems.
The differential diagnosis (disease) associated with possible abnormal findings.
A plan of care (including nursing diagnosis, interventions, evaluation).
Client and age-appropriate evidenced based practice strategies for health promotion.
Pharmacological treatments that can be used to address health issues for this client.

Explain each sampling technique discussed in the “Visual Learner: Statistics” in your own words, and give examples of when each technique would be appropriate.

Imagine you have been hired as a consultant to a social service organization. This organization has recently had several employees abruptly quit and still more apply for FMLA due to their own vicarious traumatization. They are seeking your knowledge and expertise to develop a plan to support their employees in the realms of self-care and well-being.

analyze the organization’s current culture and then suggest a plan for implementation that incorporates best practices you have learned in this class for self-care and well-being.
Resources for Assessment:
•Self-Care and Trauma Work
•Characteristics of Successful Wellness Programs
•Promoting Employee Well-Being
•Organizational Prevention of Vicarious Trauma
•CompassPoint-Organizational Self Care
•What About You? A Workbook for Those Who Work with Others (pages 33-38)
•50 Example Mission Statements

Choose one of these fictional social service organizations:
1.The Delaware Alliance against Sexual Assault: Non-profit agency that provides counseling, advocacy and court accompaniment to local victims of sexual assault.
2.Delaware Sanctuary: Non-profit agency that provides individual, group counseling, case management and temporary shelter for victims of child abuse statewide.

Part 1: Create a mission statement for the organization you chose that includes mention of employee support and wellness.

Part 2: Discuss current practices for supporting staff’s self care and well-being (you will need to be creative here. This is a fictional organization so you decide the particulars of how they support staff). Analyze what is working well and what is not.

Part 3: Create a report suggesting a concrete plan for implementing more self-care and wellness attention for staff.
•Include at least five suggestions that would help this organization attend to the needs of their staff.
•Provide examples to guide the organizations’ management team make your recommendations a reality.

Part 4: Discuss at least three likely benefits to the organization should they implement your recommendations.
•Indicate at least three likely results of neglecting staff well being and self -care.
•What might be some of the barriers or challenges to implementing these practices?

Research a disability advocacy organization in your area.

 

2. Provide a one paragraph description of what services are provided by the agency as well as how people with disabilities are included in the governance of the agency.

3. Read a classmate’s posts, visit the websites and respond to the classmate’s posting with additional information you found helpful.
CLASSMATES POST:
The local advocacy group I found was Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Inc. (MPAS). This group focuses on advocating and protecting the rights for all people with disability, mental or physical. MPAS provides “information, referrals, direct advocacy and legal representation with discrimination in education, employment, housing and public places, abuse and neglect, Social Security benefits, Medicaid, Medicare, other insurance and vocational rehabilitation”. In addition, the site also listed training, outreach, seminars, and monitoring for abuse and neglect in facilities as potential services. MPAS also supplied this list as priority areas:
• Eliminate Abuse and Neglect
• Increase the Protection of Individual Rights, Independence and Self-Determination
• Eliminate Employment Barriers and Protect Rights
• Improve Access to Services
• Ensure the Right to High Quality Education

According to the site, a “majority” of governing body/ board of director’s members must be individuals with disabilities or have an immediate family member with a disability. The Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) is an advisory council that advises the MAPS board of directors, on advocacy and priorities. The members of this comity consist of:
• An Attorney
• A Parent of a Child (under 18) with a Mental Illness
• A Mental Health Professional
• A Mental Health Service Provider
• Mental Health Consumers

Construct a Level 1 Question about Autism and Answer it.
Construct a Level 2 Question about Autism and Answer it.