Care Plan: TURB and Kyphoplasty Recovery Situation and Background E.P. is an 88-year-old Caucasian male. He was admitted on 02/18/13. His code status is full code‚ and he declines to bring in his advanced directive. He reports that he is 68.5” tall‚ and his actual weight is 165 pounds. He and his wife are the sources of information‚ and they are reliable. His blood pressure is 124/62‚ taken on his right arm in a lying position‚ his oral temperature is 99.8‚ his right radial pulse is 74 beats per
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Health Promotion Reflection In this reflection I will be using Gibbs Model of Reflection (Jasper M‚ 2003). I will be talking about a patient who was advised to give up smoking‚ as part of promoting health to the patient but not directly linked to their illness and treatment. What Happened. I had a patient come into the ward who had had surgery‚ but this patient was overweight and a smoker which always effects the procedure and recovery. During the nights they had to sleep with a machine to
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Nursing care delivery is defined as the way task allocation‚ responsibility‚ and authority are organized to achieve patient care.There are four well-defined and widely used traditional nursing care delivery system and each systems types is as follows‚ functional nursing‚ team nursing‚ primary nursing and patient-centered care nursing. I am currently on a gen- surge ward‚ while there I have observed that they are using the team nursing care model. Team nursing is a care model that uses a group of
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Cellulitis is a common‚ potentially serious bacterial skin infection. Cellulitis appears as a swollen‚ red area of skin that feels hot and tender‚ and it may spread rapidly. The skin on the lower legs is most commonly affected‚ though cellulitis can occur anywhere on the body or face. Cellulitis may affect only the skin’s surface or cellulitis may also affect tissues underlying the skin and can spread to the lymph nodes and bloodstream. Left untreated‚ the spreading infection may rapidly turn life-threatening
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Nursing care study In this assignment I will document and reflect on the care that I gave to one of the patients I was looking after while on clinical placement. I will be referring to the patient as ‘Mr x’ for confidentiality reasons. ‘Mr x’ was 69 years old. He initially presented with left sided unilateral weakness‚ expressive and receptive dysphasia‚ slurred speech and he suffered from nocturnal incontinence. He had been transferred from A&E to the ward. He had a provisional
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Why should we be doing this? Use a textbook for reference if possible. Actual interventions Usually past tense What care was provided for patient? How did you gather data to measure against your normal ranges in your outcome criteria? Frequency - How often did you obtain patient data? Each goal met/not met: Should read like you actually documented vital signs‚ assess‚ care on your patient What were the results of labs/dx What was taught/what support measures‚ comfort used? WBC 14.2 Keep
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Victim Compensation: Introduction • Initial focus was only on the aspect of punishment • Now focus started shifting when encountered with the fact that the person who is victim of crime is getting nothing out of the whole process of criminal justice system or is getting a so called satisfaction by seeing the offender punished • Therefore Jurists‚ penologists etc in all countries started giving their full attention to the cause of victim in form of compensation • Hence the whole debate started
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Nursing Care Plan for Chest Pain NURSING DIAGNOSIS OUTCOME/GOALS INTERVENTIONS EVALUATION Acute chest pain related to ischemic cardiomyopathy as evidenced by tightness in chest. Patient will be chest pain free for duration of shift. Assess for chest pain q 4 hours during shift. Monitor vital signs q 4 hours during shift. Educate patient on importance of lifestyle modifications such as weight loss. Goal was met. Pt was chest pain free during shift. NURSING DIAGNOSIS
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Care Plan For Angina Pectoris Angina Pectoris Chief Complaint: Patient complains of having tightness and pain in his chest that seems to move down the left arm. Patient describes the pain as being sharp and can be sometimes a mild pain or an immobilizing pain. Medical Diagnosis: Coronary Artery Disease Pathophysiology of: Angina Pectoris Angina Pectoris develops when coronary blood flow becomes inadequate to meet myocardial oxygen demand. This causes myocardial
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ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS FOR “THE DELAYS AT LOGAN AIRPORT” CASE QUESTION 1 (25 points) In the Delays at Logan Airport case‚ there are different proposals for reducing congestion. One of the methods proposed to tackle the impact of delays was peak-period pricing‚ PPP. In the case‚ good weather operational capacity (i.e.‚ both arrivals and departures) was around 120 planes per hour. Assuming that the number of arrivals approximately equals the number of departures‚ we obtain an average arrival
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