Question Pro: Stern, S. W., (2019). Sex workers of the world unite. The American Scholar, pp. 40-54. The author presents the case, largely though the words of sex-workers themselves, for de-criminalization and for allowing sex workers to control the conditions of their work—that is, to operate brothels themselves, choose their physicians, provide and receive benefits, and work outside brothels if they so choose – which will make them safer and less apt to be exploited.Con: Der Spiegel Staff. (2013, May). How legalizing prostitution has failed. Der Spiegel Online. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-trafficking-persists-despite-legality-of-prostitution-in-germany-a-902533.htmlStaff writers report that since de-criminalization of prostitution in Germany in 2003, exploitation and human trafficking remain significant problems. According to one German law enforcement officer, Germany is a “center for the sexual exploitation of young women from Eastern Europe, as well as a sphere of activity for organized crime groups from around the world” (Germany’s Human Trafficking Problem section)Aspect 2: SESTA/FOSTA.What other emotion is Sarah displaying? (1 mark)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. What action is appropriate for the PSW to take in this situation? Why? (3 marks)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Today is your day off. You find yourself in the Ross’ neighbourhood and decide to say hello. As you go up to the door, you see Mrs. Ross violently shaking her son. She is visibly upset and is speaking to him in a very angry voice.1. Describe all the feelings that you (or other PSWs) might have in this situation. Explain how they might be helpful or unhelpful in resolving the problem. (2 marks)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  2. Identify the possible reasons for the angry outburst in Mrs. Ross. (3 marks)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Identify two behaviours in Ray that indicate that he may be abused. (2 marks)a.______________________________________________________________b.______________________________________________________________ 4. What action is appropriate for the PSW to take in this situation? Why? (3 marks)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Perhaps, however, there might turn out to be gene control networks that do generally structure certain features of the psychological development of contemporary humans (Walsh 2006: 440ff.). The quest for such GNRs can, then, count as the search for an explanatory nature of contemporary humans, where the explanatory function thus sought is divorced from any classificatory role.Aspect 1: SafetyPro: (citation to article supporting SESTA legislation; brief description of content)Con: (citation to article against SESTA legislation; brief description of content)Aspect 3: EconomicsPro: (citation to article showing better income/standard of living after de-criminalization; brief description of content)Con: (citation to article showing real economic benefit is to pimps, traffickers brief; description of content)My Topic Selection: TelehealthIssue: What are the positive and negative impacts of Telehealth in the over-all delivery of care?Aspects:1. Legal aspects2. Financial aspects3. Medical aspectsExplanation:The healthcare sector has been in a more intense battle than ever before since the pandemic begun. This sector has been finding ways on how to navigate the times just to deliver the best care possible to the public. Telehealth is an interesting topic to explore given the times we are in – the digital era. Understanding the positive and negative impacts of Telehealth in the over-all delivery of care will help us innovate and create better systems where there are weaknesses while we build-up on the strong points.Aspects:1. Legal aspectsWhat could be the potential professional disadvantage on the side of the practitioner in utilizing Telehealth? What are the policies and guidelines that have been developed for Telehealth? Issues on confidentiality and IT security may also be taken into consideration.2. Financial aspectsHow does the Telehealth affect the medical coverage/insurances? 3. Medical aspectsHow effective is the assessment of the healthcare provider? For instance, howcan they assess breathing? Or how can they take the baseline vital signs? Do they have alternatives for Telehealth consultations in assessing the patients?There has, however, been a move in general philosophy of science that, if acceptable, would transform the relationship between the taxonomic and explanatory features of species. This move was influentially initiated by Richard Boyd (1999a). It begins with the claim that the attempt to define natural kinds in terms of spatiotemporally unrestricted, intrinsic, necessary and sufficient conditions is a hangover from empiricism that should be abandoned by realist metaphysics. Instead, natural kinds should be understood as kinds that support induction and explanation, where generalisations at work in such processes need not be exceptionless. Thus understood, essences of natural kinds, i.e., their “natures”, need be neither intrinsic nor be possessed by all and only members of the kinds. Instead, essences consist of property clusters integrated by stabilising mechanisms (“homeostatic property clusters”, HPCs). These are networks of causal relations such that the presence of certain properties tends to generate or uphold others and the workings of underlying mechanisms contribute to the same effect. Boyd names storms, galaxies and capitalism as plausible examples (Boyd 1999b: 82ff.). However, he takes species to be the paradigmatic HPC kinds. According to this view, the genealogical character of a species’ nature does not undermine its causal role. Rather, it helps to explain the specific way in which the properties cohere that make up the taxon’s essence. Moreover, these can include extrinsic properties, for example, properties of constructed niches (Boyd 1991: 142, 1999a: 164ff.; Griffiths 1999: 219ff.; R. Wilson et al. 2007: 202ff.).How would a nurse integrate these teaching tools into daily nursing practice?• Which tools are the most effective?• Do the resources reach across the lifespan?• Is the use of social media effective?Whether such an account can indeed adequately explain taxonomic practice for species taxa is a question that can be left open here (see Ereshefsky & Matthen 2005: 16ff.). By its own lights the account does not identify conditions for belonging to a species such as Homo sapiens (Samuels 2012: 25f.). Whether it enables the identification of factors that play the explanatory roles that the term “human nature” might be supposed to pick out is perhaps the most interesting question. Two ways in which an account of human nature might be developed from such a starting point have been sketched.Mutual patterning of the human and environmental fields includes:• sharing knowledge• offering choices• empowering the patient• fostering patterning• evaluation• repeat pattern appraisal, which includes nutrition, work/leisure activities, wake/sleep cycles, relationships, pain, and fear/hopes• identify dissonance and harmony• validate appraisal with the patient• self-reflection for the patientAsha Singh is a 49-year-old woman who recently moved from Southern India.  Asha has found moving to a new country challenging, she has struggled with the cultural change and has found it hard to settle into her new environment. She moved to Australia to a moderate size rural township, with her husband Rahul and their three school aged children, Arman (16), Panav (14) and Anaya (13). They all attend the local high school. The children have settled into school well and her husband has started his new job, Asha finds herself alone and isolated, as she has not developed friendships at this point in time. The rest of her family are assimilating well into the new country and home. Asha was woken overnight with an unusual heavy feeling in her chest, she ate late the evening before so thought it may have just been a little indigestion. She felt anxious but this feeling of anxiety has been with her a lot lately, and was also finding it difficult to breath, she put this down to her anxiety and fell back to sleep. The following morning she woke without pain and did not mention anything to her husband as she did not want to worry him and carried on with her morning. As the morning progressed she was busy tidying the house and preparing the evening meal. The pain in her chest returned, this time it felt very heavy and she started to feel dizzy, anxious and was having difficulty breathing. She decided to call her husband, he called an ambulance and left work to be with his wife. Asha was transported to hospital, she was diagnosed with a having a ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). Asha has a medical history of hypertension, she is also overweight and has never enjoyed exercise. Her new doctor has started her on Ramipril 5mg nocte, she has been compliant with her medication as both her parents had high blood pressure and they both have died from cardiac disease. Asha is a non-smoker and eats a very traditional Indian diet. Asha needs to undergo thrombolytic therapy to dissolve the clot in order for myocardium reperfusion to occur, as the closest cardiac catheterisation lab is 2 hours away. Her vitals were taken on route to ED and the findings were:RR – 24SpO2 – 93%BP- 160/98HR – 75Temp – 36.8Pain – 7/10BGL – 9.5mmol/LHer ECG 6. how are others in the situation viewing the problem?7. what is the history of the problem? 8. who has the political power in the situation? 9. who needs to know more about the problem?  10. how effective are the current programs, strategies, and policies? 11. what are the economic inequalities in the situation? 12. what are the barriers to solving the problem?  13. what strategies may alleviate the problem?   Health Science Science Nursing Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)

Question Pro: Stern, S. W., (2019). Sex workers of the world unite. The American Scholar, pp. 40-54. The author presents the case, largely though the words of sex-workers themselves, for de-criminalization and for allowing sex workers to control the conditions of their work—that is, to operate brothels themselves, choose their physicians, provide and receive benefits, and work outside brothels if they so choose – which will make them safer and less apt to be exploited.Con: Der Spiegel Staff. (2013, May). How legalizing prostitution has failed. Der Spiegel Online. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-trafficking-persists-despite-legality-of-prostitution-in-germany-a-902533.htmlStaff writers report that since de-criminalization of prostitution in Germany in 2003, exploitation and human trafficking remain significant problems. According to one German law enforcement officer, Germany is a “center for the sexual exploitation of young women from Eastern Europe, as well as a sphere of activity for organized crime groups from around the world” (Germany’s Human Trafficking Problem section)Aspect 2: SESTA/FOSTA.What other emotion is Sarah displaying? (1 mark)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. What action is appropriate for the PSW to take in this situation? Why? (3 marks)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Today is your day off. You find yourself in the Ross’ neighbourhood and decide to say hello. As you go up to the door, you see Mrs. Ross violently shaking her son. She is visibly upset and is speaking to him in a very angry voice.1. Describe all the feelings that you (or other PSWs) might have in this situation. Explain how they might be helpful or unhelpful in resolving the problem. (2 marks)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  2. Identify the possible reasons for the angry outburst in Mrs. Ross. (3 marks)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Identify two behaviours in Ray that indicate that he may be abused. (2 marks)a.______________________________________________________________b.______________________________________________________________ 4. What action is appropriate for the PSW to take in this situation? Why? (3 marks)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Perhaps, however, there might turn out to be gene control networks that do generally structure certain features of the psychological development of contemporary humans (Walsh 2006: 440ff.). The quest for such GNRs can, then, count as the search for an explanatory nature of contemporary humans, where the explanatory function thus sought is divorced from any classificatory role.Aspect 1: SafetyPro: (citation to article supporting SESTA legislation; brief description of content)Con: (citation to article against SESTA legislation; brief description of content)Aspect 3: EconomicsPro: (citation to article showing better income/standard of living after de-criminalization; brief description of content)Con: (citation to article showing real economic benefit is to pimps, traffickers brief; description of content)My Topic Selection: TelehealthIssue: What are the positive and negative impacts of Telehealth in the over-all delivery of care?Aspects:1. Legal aspects2. Financial aspects3. Medical aspectsExplanation:The healthcare sector has been in a more intense battle than ever before since the pandemic begun. This sector has been finding ways on how to navigate the times just to deliver the best care possible to the public. Telehealth is an interesting topic to explore given the times we are in – the digital era. Understanding the positive and negative impacts of Telehealth in the over-all delivery of care will help us innovate and create better systems where there are weaknesses while we build-up on the strong points.Aspects:1. Legal aspectsWhat could be the potential professional disadvantage on the side of the practitioner in utilizing Telehealth? What are the policies and guidelines that have been developed for Telehealth? Issues on confidentiality and IT security may also be taken into consideration.2. Financial aspectsHow does the Telehealth affect the medical coverage/insurances? 3. Medical aspectsHow effective is the assessment of the healthcare provider? For instance, howcan they assess breathing? Or how can they take the baseline vital signs? Do they have alternatives for Telehealth consultations in assessing the patients?There has, however, been a move in general philosophy of science that, if acceptable, would transform the relationship between the taxonomic and explanatory features of species. This move was influentially initiated by Richard Boyd (1999a). It begins with the claim that the attempt to define natural kinds in terms of spatiotemporally unrestricted, intrinsic, necessary and sufficient conditions is a hangover from empiricism that should be abandoned by realist metaphysics. Instead, natural kinds should be understood as kinds that support induction and explanation, where generalisations at work in such processes need not be exceptionless. Thus understood, essences of natural kinds, i.e., their “natures”, need be neither intrinsic nor be possessed by all and only members of the kinds. Instead, essences consist of property clusters integrated by stabilising mechanisms (“homeostatic property clusters”, HPCs). These are networks of causal relations such that the presence of certain properties tends to generate or uphold others and the workings of underlying mechanisms contribute to the same effect. Boyd names storms, galaxies and capitalism as plausible examples (Boyd 1999b: 82ff.). However, he takes species to be the paradigmatic HPC kinds. According to this view, the genealogical character of a species’ nature does not undermine its causal role. Rather, it helps to explain the specific way in which the properties cohere that make up the taxon’s essence. Moreover, these can include extrinsic properties, for example, properties of constructed niches (Boyd 1991: 142, 1999a: 164ff.; Griffiths 1999: 219ff.; R. Wilson et al. 2007: 202ff.).How would a nurse integrate these teaching tools into daily nursing practice?• Which tools are the most effective?• Do the resources reach across the lifespan?• Is the use of social media effective?Whether such an account can indeed adequately explain taxonomic practice for species taxa is a question that can be left open here (see Ereshefsky & Matthen 2005: 16ff.). By its own lights the account does not identify conditions for belonging to a species such as Homo sapiens (Samuels 2012: 25f.). Whether it enables the identification of factors that play the explanatory roles that the term “human nature” might be supposed to pick out is perhaps the most interesting question. Two ways in which an account of human nature might be developed from such a starting point have been sketched.Mutual patterning of the human and environmental fields includes:• sharing knowledge• offering choices• empowering the patient• fostering patterning• evaluation• repeat pattern appraisal, which includes nutrition, work/leisure activities, wake/sleep cycles, relationships, pain, and fear/hopes• identify dissonance and harmony• validate appraisal with the patient• self-reflection for the patientAsha Singh is a 49-year-old woman who recently moved from Southern India.  Asha has found moving to a new country challenging, she has struggled with the cultural change and has found it hard to settle into her new environment. She moved to Australia to a moderate size rural township, with her husband Rahul and their three school aged children, Arman (16), Panav (14) and Anaya (13). They all attend the local high school. The children have settled into school well and her husband has started his new job, Asha finds herself alone and isolated, as she has not developed friendships at this point in time. The rest of her family are assimilating well into the new country and home. Asha was woken overnight with an unusual heavy feeling in her chest, she ate late the evening before so thought it may have just been a little indigestion. She felt anxious but this feeling of anxiety has been with her a lot lately, and was also finding it difficult to breath, she put this down to her anxiety and fell back to sleep. The following morning she woke without pain and did not mention anything to her husband as she did not want to worry him and carried on with her morning. As the morning progressed she was busy tidying the house and preparing the evening meal. The pain in her chest returned, this time it felt very heavy and she started to feel dizzy, anxious and was having difficulty breathing. She decided to call her husband, he called an ambulance and left work to be with his wife. Asha was transported to hospital, she was diagnosed with a having a ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). Asha has a medical history of hypertension, she is also overweight and has never enjoyed exercise. Her new doctor has started her on Ramipril 5mg nocte, she has been compliant with her medication as both her parents had high blood pressure and they both have died from cardiac disease. Asha is a non-smoker and eats a very traditional Indian diet. Asha needs to undergo thrombolytic therapy to dissolve the clot in order for myocardium reperfusion to occur, as the closest cardiac catheterisation lab is 2 hours away. Her vitals were taken on route to ED and the findings were:RR – 24SpO2 – 93%BP- 160/98HR – 75Temp – 36.8Pain – 7/10BGL – 9.5mmol/LHer ECG 6. how are others in the situation viewing the problem?7. what is the history of the problem? 8. who has the political power in the situation? 9. who needs to know more about the problem?  10. how effective are the current programs, strategies, and policies? 11. what are the economic inequalities in the situation? 12. what are the barriers to solving the problem?  13. what strategies may alleviate the problem?   Health Science Science Nursing Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)