No Regrets By Darla LaDage — Mar 26‚ 2015 2:05pm Length between posts‚ hopefully is a good sign! Hopefully it means life is as normal as it can be for an eight year old boy on chemotherapy. Carson has been going to school regularly‚ and aside from tumor related minor limitations‚ participates as much as possible in physical activities. He has had minor side effects from the chemo and has recently mentioned that the bottoms of his feet hurt. This is a common problem with a drug he was on when he
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CHAPTER 5 Content of the Patient Record: Inpatient‚ Outpatient‚ and Physician Office Chapter Outline Key Terms Objectives Introduction General Documentation Issues Hospital Inpatient Record—Administrative Data Hospital Inpatient Record—Clinical Data Hospital Outpatient Record Physician Office Record Forms Control and Design Internet Links Summary Study Checklist Chapter Review Key Terms addressograph machine admission note admission/discharge record admitting diagnosis advance directive
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Standard of care and Medical practice Jose Konde HLT-305 January 25‚ 2015 Everyday Health care professionals are entrusted with people’s health care and‚ therefore‚ their lives. The nation does not give this responsibility softly; it comes with the reasonable conditions that Heath care providers‚ who are the ones that the patients trust‚ obey by rigid professional‚ ethical and legal standards. The word scope of practice is known as the rules‚ the regulations‚ and the boundaries within which
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HYPERTENSION Our paper discusses the importance of nutrition and how it plays a part on our health. Specifically focusing on the disorder‚ hypertension. Hypertension is the medical diagnosis term used for when a person has high blood pressure. Blood pressure is a measurement of the force against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood through your body. In this paper‚ we go into depth on how certain types of foods increase our blood pressure and what we can do to minimize it. Lifestyle
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1. What factors can trigger an asthmatic episode? Excitement and anticipation of seeing her grandchildren‚ dust‚ mold‚ and allergens from the old teddy bear the baby was holding‚ and pollen and allergens from the new environment 2. What do you think triggered the asthmatic episode in this case? The old teddy bear that had never been washed. 3. Imagine that you are performing a lab in which you are monitoring breathing in a student volunteer. Draw a graph‚ with time on the horizontal
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Blood Clots What are blood clots? Blood is a liquid that flows within blood vessels. It is constantly in motion as the heart pumps blood through arteries to the different organs and cells of the body. The blood is returned back to the heart by the veins. Veins are squeezed when muscles in the body contract and push the blood back to the heart. Blood clotting is an important mechanism to help the body repair injured blood vessels. Blood consists of: · red blood cells containing hemoglobin that
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Instructions Complete the medical abbreviations chart. (Note that the medical abbreviations are the same as those highlighted in yellow in Jane Dare’s Health Record). In the second column‚ list what each of the individual letters in the abbreviation represents. In the third column define the context or meaning of the term that the abbreviation represents. Use simple terms. Finally‚ in the far right column‚ identify the source document. For example‚ face sheet‚ discharge summary‚ progress notes‚
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How things flow through the heart: • blood drains into the right atrium through the superior vena cava‚ inferior vena cava‚ and the coronary sinus (drains the heart muscle itself)→Right Ventricle→pulmonary semilunar valves→lungs→pulmonary veins→left atrium→bicuspid valve→left ventricle→aortic semilunar valve→systemic circuit. What the valves do: • Prevent backflow into the atria and ventricles‚ ensuring that blood only flows one way through the heart. what vessels bring blood to the heart and
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Concept Map: Sickle Cell Disease October 8‚ 2010 Duke University School of Nursing Introduction My client‚ known as 20SE03‚ is a four year old preschooler that lives in a two-parent household along with his younger one year old sister. His family has recently moved to North Carolina where he was recently presented with new onset of seizures and status post cerebral vascular accident (CVA). He has a history of sickle cell disease‚ ulcerative colitis‚ acute chest syndrome‚ and asthma
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taking place. It will also confirm an elevated sedimation rate and even a c-reactive protein elevation‚ both of which are indications of inflammation. The x-ray will confirm enlargement in the heart‚ and can also show congestion in the lungs. An EKG will show how the heart is functioning‚ including any complications associated with pericarditis‚ such as restrictive pericarditis‚ which will restrict the beating of the
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