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    NURSING CARE PLAN Nurs 326 SFSU Student Name: Alena Makarava Instructor/Clinical Site Gerardo Caritan‚ RN‚ MSN Date: 2/26/2015 Ms. X is a 34 year old female. The patient is a G3 P2‚ with both children delivered by C-section‚ with the only complication in both being low birth weights. Ms. X has a longstanding history of hypertension‚ anxiety and depression. Additional health history includes a vitamin D deficiency‚ back surgery in 05/06 due to a herniated disc‚ and two previous cesarean

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    King Lear's Dementia

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    everything in an instance. Like Lear in Shakespeare’s he was blinded by dementia which caused him to make irrational decisions‚ when Gloucester lost his sight‚ he managed to see the truth which was right before his eyes all these while. Blindness can be a gift of darkness‚ it allows you to settle down and focus only on your own thoughts. It helps heighten your senses and enables you to probe deeper than just the surface meaning. Dementia can be said as a form of blindness. It causes King Lear to be blind

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    right to confidentiality.’(NMC Code 2008)Moreover the workplace will remain anonymous and be referred to as Ward 1. Mr Brown is 90 years of age‚ he lives alone in sheltered housing and has careers three times daily to maintain housework and basic care needs. He has a past medical history of angina and is a non insulin dependent diabetic. Initially Mr Brown was admitted to hospital via A and E due to chest pains‚ which indicated Acute Coronary Syndrome.Mr Browns cardiac issues have been resolved

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    Unit 13: Understand the Process and Experience of Dementia Unit code: DEM 301 Unit reference number: J/601/3538 QCF level: 3 Credit value: 3 Guided learning hours: 22 Unit summary This unit provides the knowledge of the neurology of dementia to support the understanding of how individuals may experience dementia. Learners taking the Dementia pathway in the Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England must take this unit. Assessment requirements This unit must

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    Unit Understand and meet the nutritional requirements of individuals with dementia (DEM 302) Outcome 1 1.) Describe how cognitive‚ functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating‚ drinking and nutrition. Cognitive behaviour is thought processing‚ which is caused by brain damage‚ effecting parts of the brain responsible for memory and how to eat and talk. This means that a person with dementia can forget how important it is to eat and drink‚ which means they may also

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    HSC 2028 Move and position individuals in accordance with their plan of care 1 Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to moving and positioning individual. 1.1The spinal column is made up of individual bones called vertebrae. In between the bones there are joints that connect these together. A ligament connects bone to support joints. To move a individual incorrectly can cause ligaments to sprain. This is why you should never drag life someone because it can cause joints to over stretch

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    Understand the process and experience of dementia. 1. Understand the neurology of dementia. 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome. The Cambridge dictionary describes dementia as “ medical condition that affects especially old people‚ causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse‚ leading to confused behaviour”. Basically dementia is a serious deterioration in mental functions such as memory‚ language‚ orientation and judgement. This illness however

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    Understand the process and experience of dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia is a term describing a wide range of symptoms associated with the decline of the memory‚ or other cognitive or sensorial skills that reduce a person’s ability to perform day by day activities. This term refers to Alzheimer disease‚ Vascular dementiaDementia with Lewy bodies‚ Parkinson’s disease‚ Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease‚ Huntington’s disease in the same time. What causes this range

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    Argument Against Dementia

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    In one of the recent happenings‚ a judge slammed a woman for the sole reason of spending sick mother’s money on junk food items. The elderly woman has been reported to be suffering from Dementia and the amount spent by her daughter has amounted to approximately £250 a month on "unnecessary food". According to Judge Denzil Lush‚ the divorcee often used to turn up at a nursing home with different types of junk food items such as pork pies‚ biscuits and mini sausage rolls. He further stated that the

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    Dementia as a Risk Factor for Falls and Fall Injuries Among Nursing Home Residents Carol van Doorn‚ PhD‚* Ann L. Gruber-Baldini‚ PhD‚* Sheryl Zimmerman‚ PhD‚w J. Richard Hebel‚ PhD‚* Cynthia L. Port‚ PhD‚* Mona Baumgarten‚ PhD‚* Charlene C. Quinn‚ PhD‚* George Taler‚ MD‚z Conrad May‚ MD‚§ and Jay Magaziner‚ PhD‚ MSHyg‚* for the Epidemiology of Dementia in Nursing Homes Research Group OBJECTIVES: To compare rates of falling between nursing home residents with and without dementia and to examine

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