Evidence based nursing is the shared partnership between the patient and clinician that involves the best evidence and clinical outcomes and values when making health care decision’s (Huber‚ 2014). There are thousands of ways to implement evidence based practice into the end of life arena. I recall many years ago when all hospice did was sit at the bed side and give morphine. Look where hospice care has gone today. They have surpassed the days of morphine to all and through evidence based nursing
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The Impact of Munchausen’s by Proxy on the Short-term Physiological State and the Psychological Welfare of the Child Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a mental illness in which a perpetrator‚ usually a caregiver or guardian‚ induces or fabricates symptoms on a proxy. In the situation where the proxy is a child‚ it is classified as child abuse due to the high risk present. In most cases‚ short term morbidity occurs due to either the perpetrator’s maltreatment‚ prescription of unnecessary medications
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The longest medical tradition‚ the humoral theory‚ lasted for more than 2000 years. In this theory water‚ air‚ earth and fire were the four elements that made up the universe. Just like the universe‚ the human body was made up of its own four fluids called humors. Phlegm was cold and wet like water; blood was hot and wet like air; black bile was cold and dry like earth; and yellow bile was hot and dry like fire. The elements represented the physical reality that people experienced. In health‚ the
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As a medical student‚ it is apparent to me that we are constantly inundated with learning‚ be it physiology‚ anatomy‚ or biochemistry‚ but also at the forefront of our learning ought to be how to develop a compassionate approach to medicine and a commitment to the understanding of our patients. Doctors nowadays in the modern world are often perceived as brusque and indifferent‚ which are traits never to be envied in a physician. Galen believed that alongside all the scientific knowledge we are taught
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In All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr he is trying to teach the reader in life regardless of having the ability to see or not‚ a person is still able to experience life to the fullest. One instance where Doerr expresses this idea is in line 18 when he says “In her imagination‚ in her dreams‚ everything has color”. In All the Light We Cannot See‚ Doerr writes about Marie-Laure who is blind‚ and gives descriptions of how she views the world. In her attempt and success to experience life to
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The God of Medicine‚ Asclepius‚ and Father of Medicine‚ Hippocrates‚ were the personification of healing in antiquity. Hippocrates‚ according to Gary B. Ferngren‚ was “the embodiment of medical wisdom‚ and the exemplar of the ideal physicians” (Ferngren‚ 41). On the other hand‚ Asclepius was “the patron of both physicians and patients” and “represented a last hope for those whose disease could not be… cured” (Ferngren‚ 51-53). It was generally understood that these two characters “flourished side
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Week 6 Evidence –based practice and its impact on nursing management and leadership Recent changes in the American health care system‚ the challenges to recruit and retain nurses‚ and other factor observed such as quality of decision making in the work environment have been the leitmotiv encouraging me to conduct this study. I want to conduct a systematic research using interviews‚ evidence through the literature‚ the patient determination acts in the context of health care system. I will critique
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A Death Cure By: Nick Wong Medieval medicine was a blend of the herbal traditions of Germanic tribes‚ the superstition within the Catholic Church‚ and a growing body of practical‚ surgical‚ and medical knowledge. Medical schools were based off of the discoveries of Galen and Aristotle. Physicians were officially established in the Middle Ages when monasteries grew medicinal herbs to treat sick people. These monasteries were the first hospitals‚ and they used herbs to make medicine. Because medicine
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Evidence based practice generally defined as an ongoing inquiry about the human behavior‚ culture‚ family background‚ and socio-economic context. EBP helps the social workers with scientific approach to solve the problems and to create their own science which can be examined in own lab. With the help of EBP social work mental health practitioner can provide the services to their clients according their preferences‚ ethics‚ situational‚ cultural as well as a profession (Thyer & Myers‚ 2014‚ p. 7)
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Even though Hippocrates was a very prominent person known in the medical field for his many theories about medical practices‚ such as neurosurgery‚ there are many other people to thank for the advancements in the neurosurgery field. These people include Walter Dandy‚ Benjamin Carson‚ and Harvey Williams Cushing. Walter Dandy is regarded as the founder of neurosurgery‚ alongside his mentor Harvey Cushing. Walter Dandy was a graduate of the well-known University John Hopkins and after graduating‚ went
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