NU 545 Unit 2 Study Guide ! 1. Review the anatomy of the brain. Which portion is responsible for keeping you awake‚ controlling thought‚ speech‚ emotions and behavior‚ maintaining balance and posture? - Ch. 15 p. 454 Box 15-3 - Brainstem- midbrain‚ medulla oblongata‚ and pons Reticular Formation-Collection of nuclei within brainstem that maintains wakefulness and works in conjunction with the cerebral cortex and together they are known as the reticular activating system. P. 454 -
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Group I‚ Category 30 Insufficient Documentation to Show Conformance to Procedural Requirements When A Disability Determination is Based on Unresolved Work Activity That Could Affect the Decision ISSUE Step 1 of Sequential Evaluation is not satisfied. The record does not reasonably document if‚ and when substantial gainful activity (SGA) ended. CASE DISCUSSION & POLICY ANALYSIS (INCLUDING SPECIFIC REFERENCES) This 50-year old claimant is filing a DIB claim alleging disability due to coronary atherosclerosis
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Introduction Most people have experienced pain at some time in their life and hearing our friends and acquaintances tell us he or she has pain and doesn’t complain and is able to function just fine. Indeed science says that’s true. It turns out there are genetic differences in how people interpret pain. Some people actually do feel pain at a greater level than others do. The difference has to do with a number of interacting factors according to researchers. Pain is an unpleasant and uncomfortable feeling
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Concept Analysis: Pain Victoria McCrady Chamberlain College of Nursing NR501: Theoretical Basis for Advanced Nursing Spring Session B 2013 Concept Analysis: Pain Pain is one of the most common reason patient seek out help. The concept of pain can affect every person is some form or way. Pain can stand alone as a theory or fix with other theories like Comfort‚ Self- care‚ and more. As a surgical nurse I need to have a higher understanding of the patients I care for to ensure they receive
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Company. Pain. November 5‚ 2013. Elselvier. Retrieved from http://www.us.elselvierhealth.com. Vallerand‚ A. (2013). Davis’s drug guide for nurses‚ (13th ed.) Philiadelphia:P.A. Davis Company. Nursing Diagnosis Acute pain related inflammation secondary to Diverticulitis m/b pt rating pain a “6” on a scale of 0-10‚ pt guarding abdomen with movements‚ and facial grimacing with position change. Outcomes(s) Pt will have decreased pain as evidence by pt rating pain a 3 or less
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Pain is a unique subjective experienced that is influenced by factors such as cultural learning‚ personal significance of the situation and attention (Melzack 2001). When pain is experienced‚ it usually indicates injury‚ disease and threats to body tissues (Mosley 2003 & Butler & Moseley 2013). However‚ complexity of pain perception increases when considering chronic or phantom limb pain. Simply‚ these types of pain are indicative of the neural mechanisms gone awry‚ thus‚ alter perception of what
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Lyrical Pain Laura AM Peffer Virginia College Lyrical Pain Music dates back over 40‚000 years where most music was influenced by natural surroundings like animal sounds and wind whistling through the trees. Now‚ most musical influence comes from the experiences and emotions the songwriter faces at the time. A quote of Bob Marley‚ a well-known Rastafarian singer‚ states “One good thing about music: when it hits you‚ you feel no pain.” This quote envelops the idea that
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After surgery‚ patients in the general and spinal anesthesia group received opioids for postoperative pain and patients with epidurals received continuous infusions of hydromorphone and bupivacaine for 24 to 120 hours postoperatively (Ong‚ Arneja‚ & Ong‚ 2005). They found that patients who received epidural and spinal anesthesia had a significant decrease in pain in the first week after surgery compared to those who received general anesthesia. However‚ there was no difference in the use of opioid
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Wall in 1965. * This theory explains about a pain-modulating system in which a neural gate present in the spinal cord can open and close thereby modulating the perception of pain. * The gate control theory suggested that psychological factors play a role in the perception of pain. Terms * Pain - an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. * Analgesia - the selective suppression of pain without effects on consciousness or other sensations
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Parkinson’s and strokes as the damage to the brain will damage and cause the body to degenerate. 1.3 Symptoms of end of life care can and usually will cause distress and discomfort‚ as the general symptom’s are pain related‚ weather physical‚ emotional‚ spiritual or psychological pain the person will need a range of therapies‚ medicines‚ special comfort aid’s like hospital bed’s and air mattresses or oxygen apparatus‚ there can be many side effects to medications and those can cause distress and
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