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C159 C159 Preparing Teachers with Lifesaving Knowledge Western Governors University C159: Policy, Politics, and Global Health Trends Preparing Teachers with Lifesaving Knowledge Changing current policies and procedures in place can be challenging. Changing these things within the school systems can be particularly challenging. The following will discuss a top-down and bottom-up approach of changing policy within primary and secondary school settings among the educators. Policy Proposa...

Proposing a new policy and providing resources to support the policy change.

Policy, Politics and Global HealthWestern Governors UniversityC159: Policy, Politics, and Global Health TrendsCigarette smoking has been linked to several types of cancer (lung, mouth, nasal cavity, oropharyngeal, etc.), cardiovascular disease and respiratory illness.This section will show you the current legislation and the proposed legislative amendment. The goal of the proposed amendment is to decrease tobacco smoke and secondhand smoking exposure in public parks and recreational areas to dec...

Document9 1 .docx Project in Policy, Politics, and Global Health Trends C159 Western Governors University Policy, Politics, and Global Health Trends A1. Public Policy Issue Having a minimum nurse-to-patient staffing requirement in acute care hospitals is a policy that needs to be implemented in Utah to address inappropriate staffing levels. I selected this public policy issue because I have witnessed and have been a part of nursing resources being overwhelmed and unsafe. 14 states cur...

Removal of Non-Medical Exemptions for Vaccinations C159: Policy, Politics, And Global Health Trends Policy to Remove All Non-Medical Exemptions for Vaccinations With the current pandemic raging and the world’s ability to see the devastation being visited upon us with the absence of one vaccine, imagine the problems we would face with overwhelming disease propagation by multiple diseases. This isn’t too hard to visualize as the recent resurgence of measles, mumps, chicken pox and whoo...

Western Governors UniversityC159- Policy, Politics, and Global Health TrendsA1a.Staffing ratio is a serious problem in Oklahoma and at the federal level as well. There is currently no nurse to patient ratios in place. Hospitals all over Oklahoma, from major cities like Tulsa and Oklahoma City, to small rural hospitals are just having to deal with whatever staff is available any given day. Sometimes that means having 4 LPN’s with 6 patients each and one RN Charge Nurse, this is not adequat...

Policy Proposal for Telehealth in the Homecare SettingWestern Governors UniversityC159: Policy, Politics, and Global Health TrendsThe Use of Telemedicine in Home Health Care for Nursing Assessment of Patients Requiring Skilled and Non-Skilled Nursing Services in the Home. In the early months of the year 2020 the United States amongst most countries in the world wasfaced with a global health issue that presented the world of healthcare with many challenges. The Covid-19 virus pandemic brought to...

Required CEUs for RN License Renewal C159: Policy, Politics, And Global Health Trends Required CEUs for RN License Renewal Policy Proposal Human trafficking is a modern-day slavery, exploiting men, women, and children for forced labor or sex by a third party for their own profit or gain (The Attorney General of Texas, n.d.). Human trafficking knows no race, knows no gender, knows no ethnicity and it does not matter where you from, whether you are an adult or child. What follows is a pro...

C159-POLICY, POLITICS, AND GLOBAL HEALTH TRENDS A1. Public Policy Issue It is safe to say that over the past century vaccines have saved more lives than any technology available. The first vaccine was developed over 200 years ago to prevent smallpox and now dozens of vaccines have prevented millions from devastating diseases and prevented a substantial amount of human suffering (CDC, 2018). According to public health officials the key to safeguarding the health of the population now and i...

C159 Policy, Politics, and Global Health C159 Policy, Politics, and Global Health Public Policy Issue According to the California Department of Public Health, [CDPH], (2018) during a four- week period, 36 people died from Influenza illness, with 21.1% of influenza swabs testing positive for the presence of the virus. As nurses, we took a vow to protect and advocate for our patients. By requiring mandatory flu vaccination in the state of California, we can ensure we are helping to prevent the...