As the school nurse working in a college health clinic, you see many opportunities to promote health. Maria is a 40-year-old Hispanic who is in her second year of nursing school. She complains of a 14-pound weight gain since starting school and is afraid of what this will do to both her appearance and health if the trend continues. After conducting her history, you learn that she is an excellent cook and she and her family love to eat foods that reflect their Hispanic heritage. She is married with two school-age children. She attends class a total of 15 hours per week, plus she must be present for 12 hours of labs and clinical. She maintains the household essentially by herself and does all the shopping, cooking, cleaning, and chauffeuring of the children. She states that she is lucky to get 6 hours of sleep per night, but that is okay with her. She lives 1 hour from campus and commutes each day. Using Healthy People 2020 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and your text as a guide, answer the following questions. What additional information would you like to gather from Maria? What are Maria's real and potential health risks? Why is Maria's culture important when obtaining the health assessment? Pick one of Maria's health risks. What would be one reasonable short-term goal for this risk? What nursing interventions would you incorporate into Maria's plan of care to assist her with meeting your chosen goal? Please provide rationale for your selections.
Maria is student which belongs from hispanic community he likes to cook and eat delicious food without adding part of vegetable and fruits
Healthy diet include all nutrients in proper portion such as carbohydrate,fat ,protein,vitamin and other nutrients included vegetables and fruits
I would like to ask from maria about portion of nutrients in diet and what types of physical activities perform by her to maintain weight which is a key factor of your health
Maria have serious health risk as obesity,high cholesterol,osteoarthritis ,hypertension and reduce energy level
As a nurse should set up short term goals to reduce the weight by
Increase physical activity
Adding the large part of food from fruits and vegetables
Encourage the maria for yoga for increase energy level
Prevent the client from bone and muscles problems
As the school nurse working in a college health clinic, you see many opportunities to promote...
As the school nurse working in a college health clinic, you see many opportunities to promote health. Maria is a 40-year-old Hispanic who is in her second year of nursing school. She complains of a 14-pound weight gain since starting school and is afraid of what this will do to both her appearance and health if the trend continues. After conducting her history, you learn that she is an excellent cook and she and her family love to eat foods...
Aretha is a school nurse at Belington Middle School. Late one Friday afternoon, Maria H, an eighth grader, comes to the clinic. Maria confides in Nurse Aretha that she thinks she may be pregnant. Two months ago, she had sex with her boyfriend, because she "wanted to see what it was like". Since that one and only time, Maria has not had her period. Nurse Aretha encourages Maria to tell her parents, but Maria refuses to tell them anything until...
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Brenda is an advanced practice occupational health nurse. She works in the employee health clinic of a teaching hospital. This morning, employee Cindy T visits Nurse Brenda after accidently sticking herself with a needle she just used to draw blood from one of her patients. Cindy tells Nurse Brenda that she graduated last year from nursing school and has been working on the cancer unit for the past 8 months. Cindy usually works the night shift, but she was called...
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