Benjamin Bloom: The Development of American Education America is filled with a history of significant events that have taken place over time. It’s interesting to learn how specific events‚ people‚ places or subjects have greatly influenced our history in ways that still impact our lives today. Because I really value history as a subject‚ I have enjoyed researching Benjamin Bloom and the findings of his impact on American Education. He made many great contributions in the area of education. A great
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Bloom ’s Taxonomy of Education and its use in Nursing Education NUR/427 March 24th‚ 2013 Joan Taylor Bloom ’s Taxonomy of Education and its use in Nursing Education There are many types of learning styles. In 1956 Benjamin Bloom developed learning objectives with an educational committee. The main objective of the committee was to classify learning and educational objectives for teachers and students (Bloom‚ 1956). This has become know as the Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives and
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Congested Heart Failure (adapted from McGraw Hill Case Studies) Chief Complaint: 74-year-old woman with shortness of breath and swelling. History: Martha Wilmington‚ a 74-year-old woman with a history of rheumatic fever while in her twenties‚ presented to her physician with complaints of increasing shortness of breath ("dyspnea") upon exertion. She also noted that the typical swelling she’s had in her ankles for years has started to get worse over the past two months‚ making it especially
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Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge “Where do we begin in seeking improvement in human thinking”(Forehand 1)? This question is asked many educators today. Benjamin S. Bloom has helped us answer this question with the 18 books he has published especially his book: Bloom’s Taxonomy. “This book received very little attention when it was first published but now it is published in over 22 languages and is one of the most widely used and most often cited references in education”(Forehand 2). Bloom’s theory
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Heart Failure Heart failure is an ailment where the heart is not able to pump the required amount of blood to the body. Left-sided heart failure is described as when the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to the body while Right-sided heart failure is when the heart cannot fill with the appropriate amount of blood.1 One or both of these may occur with heart failure. In the United States‚ 5.8 million people have heart failure and this number is continuing to grow.1 With the number of people
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JAN ORIGINAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING A randomized controlled trial of self-management programme improves health-related outcomes of older people with heart failure Jung-Hua Shao‚ Anne M. Chang‚ Helen Edwards‚ Yea-Ing Lotus Shyu & Su-Hui Chen Accepted for publication 2 February 2013 Correspondence to Su-Hui Chen: e-mail: sophee@gw.cgust.edu.tw Jung-Hua Shao PhD RN Assistant Professor School of Nursing‚ College of Medicine‚ Chang Gung University‚ Taiwan Anne M. Chang PhD RN
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Treating Heart Failure When a patient’s heart is no longer able to pump a sufficient amount of blood around the body‚ they are referred to as having heart failure. The heart muscle has been damaged or overworked and is therefore unable to pump as effectively as before. Coronary heart disease is the most common cause of heart failure‚ cardiomyopathy and hypertension are also implicated (Peterson et al‚ 2002). Heart failure can present acutely or chronically. Chronic heart failure tends to worsen
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Heart Failure is a disease state caused by a dysfunction or structural deviation in the cardiac system that inhibits the heart’s ventricles from filling and ejecting blood in its fullest capacity. When the heart’s ability to effectively pump blood decreases it lacks the ability to meet the need for blood in all other areas of the body. 1-3 Heart failure is considered a progressive condition that originates from a cardiovascular event that damages the function of the heart to contract and relax.1
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NURS 3530: Caring for Adult Clients I HEART FAILURE CASE STUDY Your client‚ Mr. Black‚ is a 72-year-old man who called his TeleNurse Line from home and‚ based on the symptoms he described‚ was advised to go directly to the Emergency Department at his local hospital. His admitting diagnosis is exacerbation of heart failure (HF). His Ht is: 5’9”‚ Wt. 235 lbs. He states that his usual weight is about 220. Upon admission‚ his symptoms are: extreme shortness of breath; unable to tolerate lying
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Research Analysis #1 Significance & Contribution The article by Britz & Dunn (2010)‚ Self-care and quality of life among patients with Heart failure‚ has significant implications for practice. Britz & Dunn (2010) clearly express the ominous situation between self-care deficit among heart failure patients and decreased quality of life. They report that heart failure: can be extremely costly -with repeated hospitalizations‚ claims the lives of many and patients have very poor quality of life. The problem
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