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The School Nurse Teacher\u27s Role in Preventing Childhood Obesity at School
Get PDFChildhood obesity has become a major health concern for children of all ages. One out of every three children have been identified as being overweight or obese, putting those children at an increased risk for detrimental health consequences such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and early mortality (Institute of Medicine, 2014, & CDC, 2014). The continuation and progression of incidences of childhood obesity are also contributing to a potential issue for America’s national security, due to children being physically unfit to fight for the country (Christeson, Taggart, & Messner-Zidell, 2010). This paper is focused on the findings from nursing research on school nurse teacher prevention of childhood obesity related to three main objectives: Identified communication barriers for school nurse teachers, effective educational practices, and nursing interventions that have proven to be effective. This paper identifies effective, evidence-based nursing interventions utilized by school nurse teachers in reducing childhood obesity at school. This review of literature demonstrates that school nurses can have a major impact in preventing obesity. A pamphlet identifying the effective, school nurse led interventions was created and will be distributed to school nurses to be used as a resource for trying new methods in controlling the “obesogenic” environment found in their school system (Penn & Kerr, 2014)
Playing the Way to Equality in the Civil RIghts, Feminism, and LGBTQ Movements
Get PDFMusic culture is where a group of people share a common involvement, or interest, in music. This culture spans across time and area as music evolves. Whether it be rap or country, classical or punk, people have found their niches in the world of music. People relate to music, and it makes them feel good. Music comes with an emotional attachment in this way. This bond is seen between listeners and performers, as well as the listeners themselves. This common love of music is seen very blatantly, as it’s played on every kind of social media, and is seen in schools across the country. In some cases, music helps with more than just mood and friendships. Music helps people feel included and equal in their societies. When it comes to the fight for equality, music is a fundamental supporter
Eye on Ethics: Managing Risk—The Third Rail in Social Work Ethics
No full textIn electrical rail systems, the third rail carries very high voltage, so touching it is extremely dangerous. In social work ethics, I think of the third rail as those high-risk circumstances that greatly increase the likelihood of harm—to clients, third parties, and, possibly, social workers. These are the cases for which there are no simple answers, and there is some nontrivial risk no matter what course of action a social worker takes
Eye on Ethics: Shades of Gray in Social Work Ethics--The Rubin Vase
No full textSome ethical judgments in social work are clear-cut. There is no debate about whether it is permissible for clinical social workers to date a client, falsify records, or bill for services that were never provided. These actions are wrong, pure and simple, but once we get beyond these obvious circumstances, social workers often have different opinions about the best way to manage ethical dilemmas. Principled and thoughtful practitioners may disagree about the best way to manage complex boundary issues when social workers practice in small, rural communities; whether it is ever appropriate for social workers to share personal information with clients for therapeutic purposes; and the fairest way to allocate limited resources when social service agencies face severe budget cutbacks
Eyeon Ethics: Omission and Comission in Social Work Ethics
No full textSocial workers who face ethical choices often think in terms of taking proactive steps, otherwise known as acts of commission. Acts of commission occur when individuals initiate some course of action. In contrast, in some instances social workers decide to not take proactive steps to resolve an ethical dilemma—acts of omission
Ethical Challenges in the Technology Age
No full textSocial work has come a long way from the days of Jane Addams and Hull. Time and technology has created dilemmas that could not have been imagined. Read about the emerging issues and find that the answers are not always easy
Eye on Ethics: The Challenges of Distributive Justice
No full textSocial workers often encounter circumstances that require the allocation of scarce resources. In addition to program slots, social workers may need to allocate limited agency funds, employment positions, or the time available to meet with clients. In many social service settings decisions about allocating limited resources are made informally or without the benefit of a conceptually based protocol or clear criteria. Resources may be allocated based on an administrator\u27s personal biases, political pressure, or agency customs. In fact, however, these decisions entail ethically complex dimensions pertaining to justice and fairness
Eyeon Ethics: The Challenge of Peer Support Programs
No full textThe peer support program is based on an empowerment model that acknowledges the strengths of people who cope skillfully with major mental illness and who can serve as valuable resources to clients
An Exploration of Identity
Get PDFThe genre of the personal essay in creative nonfiction affords the writer an opportunity to explore identity, not only by depicting the various roles that the writer plays in life, but also through the literary device of persona, a version of the writer specifically created to narrate the essay. Identity is ever-changing and impossible to render completely. Despite the elusiveness of identity, writers and artists still attempt to recreate it on the page. In this collection of essays, I explored my own identity through both the experiences that have shaped me and the personae I have created to express those experiences
Sustainable Science and Education in the Neoliberal Ecoprison
Get PDFAs part of the general ‘greening’ of prisons in the last decade of neoliberalization and the formation of institutionalized programs to provide science and environmental education opportunities for the incarcerated, the Sustainability in Prisons Project (SPP), a partnership between Evergreen State College and the Washington State Department of Corrections, has become the most vibrant partnership in the US to mesh the cultures and institutions of environmental science and corrections. Drawing attention to the SPP’s anchoring mission, which is ‘to bring science and nature into prisons,’ this article looks at environmental science education in the contemporary prison in light of recent discussions of neoliberal science and ecobiopolitical theory, with the final aim of developing what amounts to a carceral political ecology of environmental education amid an ever expanding neoliberal penal State