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Discuss if there is any similarity in the health care beliefs and practices of the German and French Canadian heritage with the health care beliefs of your heritage

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People of French Canadian Heritage.
People of German Heritage.
Read chapter 14 and 29 of the class textbook Transcultural Health Care. A Culturally Competent Approach (4th ed.)
Purnell, L.D.(and review the attached PowerPoint presentations.   Read Content chapter 29 in Davis Plus Online Website.  Once done answer the following questions;
1.  Describe the health care beliefs of the German and French Canadian heritages and mention the influence in the delivery of evidence-based health care.
2.  Discuss if there is any similarity in the health care beliefs and practices of the German and French Canadian heritage with the health care beliefs of your heritage.
3.  If you have to change your health care beliefs for any of one study this week, which one will you choose and why?
The assignment must be presented in an APA format word document, Arial 12 font attached to the forum on the discussion board.  A minimum of 3 evidenced-based references must be used  with the appropriate references must be posted.
References must be no older than 5 years.  A minimum of 700 words is required.
PLEASE DO NOT PLAGIARIZE.

Explain the evidenced-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for your assigned personality disorder.

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Week 3: Personality Disorders
I cannot believe these people. Don’t they know who I am? I deserve better treatment than this. That hostess should have seated me immediately, but I had to wait for 10 minutes and then she put me at this table right by the kitchen. I see an empty table right in the middle where I should be. I am just going to get up and move there. I don’t care what the hostess says, rules don’t apply to me.
Ashley, age 25
Personality disorders represent perhaps the most challenging disorders that the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner will have to address in their professional careers. Personality disorders can co-occur in every mental health disorder and, in some cases, can mask as disorder . Although difficult to treat, the PMHNP must be able to identify personality disorders and endeavor to work with the client to not only recognize the disorder, but to treat a disorder that clients often do not believe they have.
This week, you will explore the many personality disorders and use the DSM-5 criteria for diagnosing individuals with specific personality disorders. You will use the Decision Tree format to diagnose and treat a client with a personality disorder. You also will complete the Fitzgerald University Exit Comprehensive Exam to determine your readiness for the certification exam.
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Learning Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Readings
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Chapter 4, “Theories of Personality and Psychopathology” (pp. 151–191)
Chapter 22, “Personality Disorders” (pp. 742–762)
Chapter 13, “Psychosomatic Medicine” (pp. 451–464)
Gabbard, G. O. (2014). Gabbard’s treatment of psychiatric disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publications.
Chapter 71, “Histrionic Personality Disorder”
Note: You will access this book from Walden Library databases.
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
“Personality Disorders”
Note: You will access this book from Walden Library databases.
Perry, J. C., Presniak, M. D., & Olson, T. R. (2013). Defense mechanisms in schizotypal, borderline, antisocial, and narcissistic personality disorders. Psychiatry: Interpersonal & Biological Processes, 76(1), 32–52. doi:10.1521/psyc.2013.76.1.32
Note: You will access this article from Walden Library databases.
Rees, C. S., & Pritchard, R. (2015). Brief cognitive therapy for avoidant personality disorder. Psychotherapy, 52(1), 45–55. doi:10.1037/a0035158
Kernberg, O. (n.d.). Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for personality disorders: An Interview with Otto Kernberg, MD. [Video file]. Mill Valley, CA: Psychotherapy.net
Note: This video is approximately 94 minutes of length. You will access this article from Walden Library databases.
Discussion: Treatment of Personality Disorders
Personality disorders occur in 10–20% of the population. They are difficult to treat as individuals with personality disorders are less likely to seek help than individuals with other mental health disorders. Treatment can be challenging as they do not see their symptoms as painful to themselves or others.
In this Discussion, you will explore personality disorders in greater detail and discuss treatment options using evidence-based research.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
Analyze diagnostic criteria for personality disorders
Analyze evidence-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatments for personality disorders
Analyze clinical features of clients with personality disorders
Align clinical features with DSM-5 criteria
Compare differential diagnostic features of personality disorders
Post:
Explain the diagnostic criteria for your assigned personality disorder. (Histrionic Personality Disorder)
Explain the evidenced-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for your assigned personality disorder.

Describe clinical features from a client that led you to believe this client had this disorder. Align the clinical features with the DSM-5 criteria.

Support your rationale with references to the Learning Resources or other academic resources.

What happens when a person goes on a very low calorie diet?

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1. What kinds of foods provide fiber in the diet and what does fiber help with?
2. What are the different kinds of fats and some properties of them?
3. Why do we need water in our diet?
4. How is obesity defined?
5. What is the most prevalent underlying source of death in the United States?
6. What happens when a person goes on a very low calorie diet?
7. How many calories do one pound of fat represent?
8. What are the daily-suggested lower limits of calorie consumption for both men and women?
9. What happens when you exercise at a low-intensity rate as compared to a high intensity rate as far as types of calories burned?
10. What causes blood cholesterol to be raised?
11. How many calories does a gram of fat, protein or carbohydrate contain?
12. What are some risk factors for coronary heart disease?
13.  How does cancer start in the body?
14.  How many minutes of daily activity are required to prevent weight gain and to maintain substantial weight loss?
15. What kind of results can be expected when a person exercises and exhibits good lifestyle choices?
16. What mechanism seems to regulate how much a person weighs?
17. What are some results of sleep deprivation?
18. What are the different types of stresses?
19. What causes the stress response to occur?
20. What is the purpose of the “stress response” and what are some of the manifestations it has been turned on?
21. Are certain types of individuals at a greater risk of disease related to stress?
22. What are some good techniques to deal with stress?

Application: Using Microsoft Project

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Assignment 1: Application: Using Microsoft Project
Starting a project without a plan is like going on a road trip without any directions. You may progress along the way, but you might not end up at your desired destination. A project plan provides basic information that guides the execution and control of the project. At its most fundamental level, a project plan will describe the “who, what, when, and why” of a project. Microsoft Project is one of the most widely used project planning tools. The ability to understand and create project plans in Microsoft Project enables a project manager to effectively plan and manage project implementations.
In this Assignment, you generate a project plan using Microsoft Project.
To prepare:

  • Review      the information in this week’s Learning Resources on using Microsoft      Project.
  • Consider      how to efficiently schedule tasks in a project plan.
  • Think      about how you should sequence tasks that have dependencies.

By Day 7 of Week 3
To complete this Assignment, you will create a Microsoft Project plan for a patient information management system. The primary deliverable for the plan is the patient information management system itself, but it is comprised of many modules. Include the following tasks, subtasks, and timeframes:

  • Create      the Admission, Discharge, and Transfer Module (requires subtask I,      configuration period: 25 days, training period: 10 days)
  • Subtask      I: Create the Patient Registration Module (requires subtask II,      configuration period: 4 days, training period: 4 days)
  • Subtask      II: Create the Master Patient Index (configuration period: 4 days)
  • Subtask      III: Create the Patient Scheduling Module (requires subtask II,      configuration period: 7 days, training period: 15 days)