HHK Patient Process
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- Name some physiological needs.
- Food, Clothing, Shelter
- Name some Safety Needs
- Insurance coverage, prescription plan, Medicare, Pension
- Name some social needs.
- Friends, Family, Pets
- Name some Ego Needs.
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Awards Recognition
Pet Therapy
Self Esteem needs - Medical Specialists
- Women were accepted as healers in primitive societies. Later cultures reduced their status to that of being allowed to care only for women and to assist in childbirth.
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In Western Cultures women not accepted as medical doctors until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
·It was first to give women this status.
·In Am. first fem was Elizabeth Blackwell who became a doctor in 1849. -
In Western Cultures women not accepted as medical doctors until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
·It was first to give women this status.
·In Am. first fem was Elizabeth Blackwell who became a doctor in 1849. - Attitude Toward Illness In The Past
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Attitude Toward Illness In The Past
·Sick person was most likely shunned
oIe. leper colony in Hawaii
·Pagan religions abandoned individuals thought to be ill.
oIe. Pregnancy termination - Patient Process
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· Elder Care/Child Abuse
· AIDS/HIV
· Handicapped
· Terminally Ill - Cultural Heritage In Medicine
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The informed and caring health professional will recognize that a persons culture and ethnic heritage play an enormous role in health care.
Ie. Female doesnÂ’t want a male scanning her
Ie. Jews cannot conduct business on the Sabbath - Give an example of where culture plays a role in a person's health care.
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A female not allowing a male to scan her.
A Jew not doing business on the Sabbath. - List the 5 stages of Maslow's Heirarchy.
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1. Physiological Needs
2. Safety Needs
3. Social Needs
4. Ego Needs
5. Self-Actualization -
Who was the first female physician?
And what year did she become a physician? -
Elizabeth Blackwell
1849 - How did Native Americans treat the ill?
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They showed kindness and compassion EXCEPT in times of famine. In times of famine the sick and elderly committed suicide. Considered noble.
Eskimos put on ice floes. - How did Romans and Greeks treat ill?
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They did not treat hopelessly ill or deformed.
Unwanted infants were disposed of quickly or left to die. -
Attitudes Toward Illness Today
·Right to choose life or death ie DNR
·Physician assisted suicide ie Kavorkian
·Many are fearful of illness ie. AIDS -
Attitudes Toward Illness Today
·Right to choose life or death ie DNR
·Physician assisted suicide ie Kavorkian
·Many are fearful of illness ie. AIDS -
Medical Treatments
·Anesthesia to allev pain during surgery
·Realize that some bact cause disease
·Antiseptic sprays
·Antibiotics -
Medical Treatments
·Anesthesia to allev pain during surgery
·Realize that some bact cause disease
·Antiseptic sprays
·Antibiotics - What are some of the limitations of modern medicine?
- We still do not have cure for Cancer or AIDS.