Miami Dade College Nursing Discussion

Discussion Question (health assemsnt course)

You are the school nurse at a local university health clinic. A 35-year old Hispanic nursing student comes to the clinic complaining of a 20 pound weigh gain since starting nursing school 2 semester ago. She has a full time class schedule including labs and clinical, and then works each evening at a local fast food restaurant. She has 3 school age children and is a single parent. She has been in this country for 10 years after immigrating from Mexico. She is concerned about her weight gain and also states that she has no energy, and is having difficulty getting sufficient hours of sleep each night. Despite this she tries to prepare meals each day for the children which reflect her Hispanic heritage.

In relation to this student, identify at least one actual and one potential health risk and provide evidence-based interventions to address the risks. Please use Healthy People 2020 as one of your resources in addition to a peer reviewed journal article

a minimum of 250 words

– legal and ethics course

You are in the room when the physician speaks to a patient regarding available treatment options. You know the physician has not provided all the available treatment options, only the options she prefers to use. The patient is trying to make decisions about how to proceed with treatment, or possibly not having any treatment at all. Ethically you have an obligation to be a patient advocate? Answer the following questions:

1. Discuss the ethical dilemma of presenting other treatment options with the patient?
2. How would this legally and/or ethically effect your career?

word count should be between 250 to 300 words.