|Problem # 1: Risk for injury | |General Goal : Patient will be free from injury | |Predicted Behavioral Outcome Objective: Patient will verbalize appropriate interventions to take minimize the risk for falls by discharge. | |
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Healthy Aging: Helping Older Adults to Live Long Productive Lives The United States population is aging rapidly. Older adults today are living longer than anyone from previous generations. In the future decades‚ the numbers of adults 65 years or older will increase dramatically. This drastic shift in the population will have significant implications for our current public health system. Unprecedented demands on the provision of health care and age-related services will become strained
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Osteoporosis is a bone disease in which the bones become very brittle and weak. Even a little cough could fracture your bone. Causes: when you’re in your younger ages you constantly make new bone how much you store when you reach your peak can determine whether or not you develop osteoporosis. Risk factors of this disease are: • Your Sex‚ in which women are most likely to get it than men. • Your age‚ as you get older your body stops making “new bone”‚ so you will have a greater chance in getting
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The patient‚ JA‚ was a 74 year old female. She had a high school education and was a housewife. The patient was hospitalized due to hypercalcemia. She was experiencing recurrent falls at home‚ polyuria‚ and significant unintentional weight loss of 80 pounds over the past 12 months. Lab work revealed pancytopenia. After imaging and a biopsy‚ it was confirmed the patient was experiencing hypercalcemia secondary to B-cell lymphoma. The hypercalcemia the patient presented with was related to the metastasis
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(1)Arthritis has been around for many years and has affected millions of people around the world. I believe to fully understand this disease you should first understand the history of it and where it came from. So first off what is arthritis? (3)Arthritis is the inflammation of one or more joints with various reasoning such as injury to joint autoimmune disorders to normal wear and tear. There are many types of arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis‚ Osteoarthritis and Gouty. These are not the only
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RUNNING HEADER: Teen Dating Violence Risk Factors for Teen Dating Violence Introduction Dating violence is defined by the United States Department of Justice as “the perpetration or threat of an act of violence by at least one member of an unmarried couple on the other member within the context of dating or courtship” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention‚ [CDC] 2009). It occurs in heterosexual and same-sex relationships. Dating violence crosses
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What Comes with Age What comes to mind when you think of life? Do you view life with an ever go lucky viewpoint and are you happy and content? Are you an optimist? Or do you think life is a means to and end with nothing to look forward to but depression and sorrow. In Earnest Hemingway’s story “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” Hemmingway makes the point that when you get older there is nothing but desperation and sorrow to live for. He does this by showcasing the story between a younger and an
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Rheumatoid arthritis Kathryn Banning Phoenix College Rheumatoid Arthritis There are many diseases that are more prevalent in women than in men. Some of these are common and well known and others are diseases most people are unaware of occurring so regular in women. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (2009)‚ these diseases that are less likely to be known are referred to as “the hidden diseases secretly attacking women’s health.” One
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Part 1- fall risk status:(Stapleton et al.‚ 2009). This part includes history of recent fall‚ medication use‚ psychological disorder and cognitive assessment using Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS). Giving the patient risk score 1-20: (Low Risk: 5-11 Medium Risk: 12-15 High Risk: 16-20). Recent change in functional status and / or medications affecting safe mobility / Dizziness / postural hypotension put the patient in Automatic High Risk Status. Part 2– risk factor checklist:(Stapleton et al
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