What ideas or phrases come to mind when you hear the term intelligence? Prior to the current emphasis on emotional and social intelligence, individuals tended to associate intelligence with one measurement: intelligence quotient or the IQ. While the IQ focuses on intellectual abilities, emotional intelligence focuses on an individual's awareness of his or her feelings and the feelings of others, and social intelligence focuses on an individual's interpersonal skills (Zastrow& Kirst-Ashman, 2...

A health crisis can occur at any phase in an individual's life span. General health concerns, however, tend to increase with age. As a social worker, your awareness of the biological aspects of middle adulthood will inform your work with clients in this life-span phase. In this Assignment, you address the health concerns that clients may face as they reach middle adulthood. You also address the potential impact of the environment on the health of individuals in this life-span phase. By Day...

When did you become an adult? Was it the day you graduated from high school? Or, was it the day you moved out of your parents' or caregivers' home? Your description of what it means to be an adult and how and when an adolescent transitions into adulthood may differ from that of your colleagues. The authors of your course text, Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, use the term young and middle adulthood to identify the life-span time period between age 18 and 65. This classification distinguishes this ti...

Do you ever feel trapped by circumstances that you sense you are powerless to change? As a social worker, you can anticipate having to regularly address clients who feel trapped in adverse circumstances and have no clear direction on how to improve their situations. How do you address the needs of such a client? Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman (2016) define resiliency as "the ability of an individual, family, group, community, or organization to recover from adversity and resume functioning even whe...

Reflect back over the past eight weeks and describe how the achievement of the course outcomes in this course have prepared you to meet the MSN program outcome #5, the MSN Essential VIII, and the Nurse Practitioner Core Competency # 8 Ethics Competencies. Chamberlain College of Nursing Program Outcome #5 Advocates for positive health outcomes through compassionate, evidence-based, collaborative advanced nursing practice. (Extraordinary nursing) Masters Essential VIII: Clinical Preventio...

MT. Men and women both can experience urologic concerns with aging. This week's presentations and readings covered urologic concerns and common problems. Utilize the national guidelines and scholarly references to develop your responses. Urinary Tract Infections What risk factors contribute to the development of a UTI in men versus women? In which sex is a UTI more concerning and why? It is important to know when to treat a UTI and when not to treat. Is there a particular situatio...

Ageism and gender bias can affect who and how we ask about sexual health, sexual activity, and concerning symptoms. Depending on your own level of comfort and cultural norms this can be a tough conversation for some providers. But this is an important topic and as our videos discussed, women are wanting us to ask about sexual concerns. This week we also reviewed sexually transmitted diseases and the effects of ageism on time to diagnosis so it is necessary to ask these questions and provide good...

Anxiety and depression are the most common psychiatric problems you will encounter in your primary care practice. Review this case study HPI: KB, 55 year old Caucasian female who presents to office with complaints of fatigue. The fatigue has been present for 6 months and seems worse in the morning, improving slightly through the day. KB reports a lack of energy and "loss of joy". States" I really don't feel like going anywhere or doing anything" Reports she often has difficulty staying on ...

Review the course library page list of available screening tools. Link to Library (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Scroll down and look on the left hand side of the screen: Geriatric Assessment tools Choose two assessment tools that are appropriate for primary care (excluding depression, anxiety and pain screening tools) and discuss the following: explain the purpose of the tool scoring guidelines how you apply the assessment in practice Solution: Week ...

Please review the following case. Chief complaint: medication refill "ran out of medicine" HPI: BJ, a 68-year-old AA female presents to the clinic for prescription refills. The patient also indicates that she has noticed shortness of breath which started about 3 months ago. The SOB gets worse with activity, especially when she is playing with her grandchildren but it goes away once she sits down to rest. She reports that she is also bothered by shortness of breath that wakes her up at nigh...