Scenario:
You are the Patient Care Coordinator for a residential health-related organization. Your organization strongly believes in the holistic approach to treating patients for various ailments. The Holistic approach to treatment is centered on the limited use of chemicals/medicines to address illnesses.
Your organization is fully licensed by your state and the federal government to provide services. Your staff consists of Physicians, Nurses, Mental Health Professionals, Nutritionist and those professionals normally found in a hospital. Again, your approach is based on holistic medicine. You may look up Holistic Medicine or any term to increase your knowledge of the hospital environment
You are to address the following:
Your organization is presented with a patient with the following case:
The parents of a 14-year-old male are concerned about their son's health because he has the following issues:
He is 40 pounds overweight for his age, he does not get much sleep because he plays video games well into the night, he misses breakfast most mornings, he only eats the meats and avoids the vegetables at school lunch. After school, he picks up fast food and drinks several sodas until he falls asleep.
During a recent physician visit, sides being overweight his blood pressure was high for his age, his cholesterol was elevated and he showed evidence of juvenile diabetes.
You accept this patient into your institution and you present the parents with assurances that you can help them and their son redirect his lifestyle
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