Paper Summary:

This paper gives a descriptive overview of the Good Shepard Medical Center located in Eastern Texas, which strives to provide the highest quality medical care and ancillary medical services to patients and their families. As part of the Center's services, the paper proposes how to implement a support group for in-patient rehabilitation from back injury and other traumas to the head, neck and spine. The paper analyzes the problems involved in establishing this program, which would be through the social work department of the Center. It finds that lack of Medicaid funding for the group would be the reason for a lack of participants.


Outline:
Agency Mission
Objectives
Methodology
Service delivery components
Targeted Population, Eligibility Criteria, and Social Welfare Policy and Legislation

From the Paper:

"The institution is dedicated to promoting all of its medical and ancillary services in a manner that is designed to maximize their potential benefit to all members of the community by incorporating an awareness and understanding of culturally diversity in general, as well as particularly in connection with elements of cultural diversity that contribute directly to the manner in which medical and ancillary services are perceived within different cultural perspectives. Toward that end, Good Shepherd Medical Center has embarked on a comprehensive community awareness and education campaign to ensure that all who may benefit from its varied services and programs receive the necessary information to take full advantage of the opportunities available through the institution."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Clark, C., Robinson, T. (2000). "Multiculturalism As a Concept in Nursing" Journal of the Black Nurses Association, 11(2), 39-43.
• Spector, R. (2000). Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness (5th ed.). New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
• Stanhope, M., Lancaster, J. (2004). Community and Public Health Nursing (6th ed.) St. Louis: Mosby.
• Steefel, L. (2002). "Treat Pain in Any Culture" Nursing Spectrum, 6(5), 8-9.

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