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Improving The Collection Of The Family Health History: One Office's Experience, Danielle Marie Andrusko

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A powerpoint outlining this project for a nursing class at the College of Staten Island.

Health Promotion Within High-Risk Communities: Become An Agent Of Change To Enhance Vaccination Acceptance In Communities, Natalie A. Fischetti Dr., Susan Mee Dr.

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This is a course of six self-paced modules for nursing students to learn about vaccines, vaccine safety and patient education regarding vaccines.

Lcd 207: Anatomy And Physiology For Speech And Language, Yael Neumann

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This course is an introduction to the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory, phonatory, articulatory, resonatory, and nervous systems as they relate to voice, swallowing, speech production and language systems.

Anatomy And Physiology Preparatory Course Textbook (2nd Edition), Carlos Liachovitzky

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The goal of this preparatory textbook is to give students a chance to become familiar with some terms and some basic concepts they will find later on in the Anatomy and Physiology course, especially during the first few weeks of the course.

Organization and functioning of the human organism are generally presented starting from the simplest building blocks, and then moving into levels of increasing complexity. This textbook follows the same presentation. It begins introducing the concept of homeostasis, then covers the chemical level, and later on a basic introduction to cellular level, organ level, and organ system level. This …

Nur 4050 Family Centered End Of Life Care Across The Life Span Syllabus, Linda Bradley

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This course explores the nurses’ involvement in family centered end-of-life care. Principles of hospice and palliative care are used and discussed along with the myriad of needs facing individuals and their families at this time of life. The burden and distress of those facing life’s end and the ability of nurses to offer support for the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of clients and their families are presented.

Nursing Assignment: Understanding Covid-19 Vaccines: Specific Strategies To Encourage And Educate Your Patients, Regina G. Lama

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Understanding Covid-19 Vaccines: Specific Strategies to Encourage and Educate Your Patients

This assignment focuses on the difference in Covid-19 vaccinations. The nursing student will discuss the different vaccinations and form a teaching plan for the patient in order to encourage the vaccination process. The student will then explore the patients expectations concerning vaccination.

As a presentation the students will be able to evaluate, share and reflect on teaching method.

Phil 201: Bioethics, Cuny School Of Professional Studies

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An exploration of complex contemporary ethical problems from healthcare, the environment, and bioethics. Issues include problems of drugs and addiction, stigma toward people with disabilities, terminal illness and chronic health needs, resource allocation in times of disaster, infectious diseases, gene editing, and humans’ relationship with their environment. Classical and contemporary ethical theories, moral theories, and the fundamentals of scientific integrity will be applied to make principled, defensible, moral judgments.

Span 110: Spanish For Health Professions, Cuny School Of Professional Studies

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Intended for students who have no background in the Spanish language, this course facilitates effective communication between patients and their healthcare providers (nurses, doctors, medical staff), through emphasis on basic, practical language needed to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients and their families in various settings. Building basic language fluency at the same time as medical terminology with cultural competency woven throughout, students will learn to gather and share basic information like greetings, goodbyes, patient intake, discussion of symptoms, location of pain and injuries, body parts, numbers, time, doses, and units of measure. Focus is on learning and becoming comfortable with basic …

Laboratory Techniques In Public Health: Bi-520 Introduction To Public Health Lab Manual, Anuradha Srivastava

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This laboratory manual for a foundations course Public Health is unique in the sense that very rarely, a foundations course in the field has a lab component offered with the lecture. This lab manual provides basic laboratory exercises that could be useful to introduce undergraduate students to the basics of public health laboratory practices.

Climate Change & Women: An Assignment, Arlene T. Farren

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This two-part assignment is one learning check for students in an undergraduate nursing course on women’s health issues. Students view/listen to class slides and review open access materials on climate change and women’s health. The assignment is designed to demonstrate understanding of the material and students’ critical thinking about possible pattern changes, its impact on women, and how nurses can intervene to enhance women’s health and well-being.

Assisting Nursing Students In Their Development Of Empathy: A Guide To Fostering Requisite Skills For The Art Of Empathetic Communication, Susan Mee

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This 7-week lesson plan is designed for use in clinical nursing courses. It is designed specifically for use by Nursing faculty teaching in the absence of state required patient facing clinical opportunity due to COVID restrictions. The lesson plan describes pedagogical techniques and provides video and education OER resources designed to help support the development of empathetic communication skills over 7 weeks. Refection and video debriefing techniques will be employed. Role play will culminate in the group presentation project of a brief video modeling effective therapeutic empathetic communication.

Pht 820 Radiology And Imaging, Jean-Philippe Berteau

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Introduction to radiology and imaging of selected orthopedic, rheumatologic diseases and their clinical consequences. This course will equip the student with the tools to recognize the need for diagnostic assessment and be prepared to integrate the radiologist's findings into the evaluation process.

Eds202 Psychological Foundations Of Secondary Education, Kelly Conover

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This syllabus was created for undergraduate students majoring in Secondary Education. The class topics and accompanying readings were organized to create a comprehensive overview of adolescent development as it relates to educators teaching adolescent students. The readings were picked specifically to encourage critical thinking and analysis of the class topics.

Interprofessional Collaboration In Healthcare: Case Studies Lab, Amanda L. Rotondo

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This document includes 4 case studies that can be utilized for interprofessional collaboration in healthcare disciplines including Physical Therapy Programs, Physical Therapist Assistant Programs, Nursing Programs, Occupational Therapy Programs, and Speech Therapy Programs.