This portfolio will provide evidence of my experience in an acute care setting. I will provide an appendix giving a brief summary of a patient I cared for whilst undertaking a placement in an acute setting. This portfolio of evidence will be based on a patient diagnosed with sepsis secondary to her chest infection. I will discuss extensively the aetiology‚ pathophysiology and clinical features of a patient presenting with sepsis treated in an acute care setting. I will explore the role of the different
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A woman who has made her name very well known throughout history and American Government is the late Barbara Jordan. Barbara Charline Jordan‚ and attorney and American politician‚ was born on February 21‚ 1936 in Houston‚ Texas. Throughout her career she served as a congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979‚ and as a professor at various universities and institutes. Jordan’s education began at Robertson elementary and Phillis Wheatley high school in Houston’s fifth
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Barbara Liskov Barbara Liskov (born November 7‚ 1939 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist[2] who is an institute professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology and Ford Professor of Engineering in its School of Engineering’s electrical engineering and computer sciencedepartment.[3] Life and career Liskov was born in 1939 California‚ the eldest of Jane (née Dickhoff) and Moses Huberman’s four children.[4] She earned her BA in mathematics at the University of California
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access to it prior to being helped. With our technology advancing in speed and structure‚ it is hard to keep updated on the changes‚ for some it seems impossible to catch up with all the new innovations that are introduced daily. My letter was sent to Barbara Boxer‚ she is a democrat and the junior United States senator from California‚ the reason I chose her was because she was a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee‚ which focuses on matters relating to the environment and infrastructure
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BARBARA KRUGER was born on January 26‚ 1945‚ in Newark‚ New Jersey. Kruger’s earliest artworks date back to 1969. These included materials using large woven wall hangings of yarn‚ beads‚ sequins‚ feathers‚ and ribbons‚ which embodied the feminist’s comeback of arts and crafts during this period. By 1979‚ Kruger stopped taking photographs and began to employ found images in her art‚ mostly from mid-century American print-media sources‚ with words collaged directly over them. These early collages‚
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OPRAH WINFREY: A BIOGRAPHY HELEN S. GARSON BY SOHAIL AHMED INDEX Chapter 1 Claim to Fame Chapter 2 God Made or Self Made Chapter 3 Place in the history of the world Chapter 4 Lessons Learnt Chapter 5 Conclusion Chapter 1 Claim to Fame Orpah Gail Winfrey is a symbol of woman power in a male dominated society and a symbol of black success in a racist
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Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone Joshua Krank Principles of Organic Chemistry Laboratory‚ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry North Dakota State University‚ Fargo‚ ND 58102 Introduction: The purpose of this experiment was to synthesize tetraphenylcyclopentadienone using a reaction of dibenzyl ketone (1‚3-diphenyl-2-propanone) with benzil in the presence of base. The reaction then proceeded with an aldol condensation reaction.5 This product was obtained using extraction (reflux)‚ recrystallization
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London HighsmithAbuse demolished my education at very early age. I can remember the rambling and tumbling and rolling on the ground‚ I could never get used of that sound‚ my mother yelling‚ “Get off of me!” Life was all over the place nothing seemed to fit directly in place as it should. My literacy took a tragic turn for the worst because of it. Gerald Graff says that he didn’t realize reading sports illustrated was reshaping his intellectual identity. Barbaba Mellix says she needed to overcome
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In this chapter‚ Barbara Arrowsmith is a young girl whose brain was asymmetry and her body was not normal since her right side was larger than her left. Due to her learning disabilities‚ she lacked the spatial reasoning. She also had kinesthetic problem as well as visual disability. She had trouble understanding math concepts‚ grammar. Due to her dyslexic‚ she couldn’t tell the different between b‚ d‚ q‚ and p‚ read “saw” as “was” which almost cost her life since she sniffles sulfuric acids. She
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Necessary Money Barbara Ehrenreich sought to prove wages for low class workers are too low for them to provide for themselves or families. She also tried to prove low wage jobs require a lot of effort that was not worth the amount of money they received per hour. In my opinion‚ Barbara Ehrenreich proved her two points in her story Nickel and Dimed. She showed wages were too low to provide for themselves or families and she proved the amount of effort put into the job was not worth the money they
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