Educating individuals about any topic comes with numerous challenges. The diverse patient population being taught creates a challenge in developing a tool that would suit them all. Time constraints in developing‚ implementing and evaluating the effects of the teaching tool on the individuals coupled with best practice changes makes this even harder. These individuals have differing knowledge about the subject matter and also have different learning styles so the material may only be applicable to
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Re: Patients Like Me: An Online Community of Patients Patients Like Me is an online community that allows patients to share information with other patients who suffer from similar diseases. The widespread request for a General Platform is under consideration because it can potentially reel in profit in term of knowledge for the online community and greater cash flow for the company. Background PLM is a community with over 80‚000 members who share information with and learn from other patients with
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Lithium levels‚ Drug screens‚ Pregnancy test‚ etc.) Date/Test Result Interpretation Nursing Implications 06/21/17 Drug Test Negative The patient does not have levels of drug in her system. The patient does not have concentrations of drug in the urine sample below the designed cut- off levels. A negative drug test result does not always mean there are no drugs present in the person being tested‚ it means there are not
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Objection 1: The argument is invalid because patient autonomy is the ability to have control over what medical procedures are consented to and decided upon‚ while informed consent is define as a patient’s right to be sufficiently informed about medical procedures‚ so the patient is able to make intelligent decisions based on comprehensive data. The author can respond to this: Donating the patient organs and consent is full authority to proceed upon a person’s death. However; there are a large discussion
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disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory lung disease that results in obstructed airflow from the lungs. When a person takes a breath‚ air travels down the windpipe into airways. These airways scatter into smaller‚ much thinner tubes that end in a bunch of tiny air sacs. These air sacs stretch and inflates when a person breathes in and then deflates when the person breathes out. When a patient is diagnosed with COPD‚ their lung function is greatly lessened with air
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Patients Like Me is a free data –sharing social network (1). This online community allows patients to communicate and share their health experiences‚ find others with similar conditions and exchange their medical research and clinical data. Patients Like Me is designed to help its members to quantify data about diseases through detailed questionnaires and survey tools (2). By creating this type of social network‚ the founders believed that information can change the outcome of the disease and help
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retention‚ storage‚ and use of medical records. State and federal statutory and regulatory enactments for Patients Rights ◦ Patients each have rights through both state and federal laws ◦ Each Patient has rights ◦ Health Care organizations have a Patient Bill of Rights Current Principles for patient Consent and Implications ◦ Informed Consent Laws Patient signs agreement Patient is informed
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vaginal discharge of white‚ itchy‚ fishy odor that is fierce after sex for about 1.5 weeks. The patient states‚ the young man is her first relationship for a year. J.M states they sometimes use a condom‚ and she experiences pain during sexual intercourse at times. Assessment V/S: BP-110/73 Left Arm‚ P-76 Rate and Rhythm‚ R-20‚ T-97.9 Orally‚ Wt-125lbs‚ White vaginal discharge is contributed to STI. The patient had a bimanual examination of the vagina and cervix along with a Pap smear‚ and cytology.
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Cholesterol: A Patient Conversation SC121 Unit 2 Assignment Jessica Alstot 10/28/14 Hello Mr. Brown‚ Well your cholesterol tests came back and they are better than I expected them to be. Your total cholesterol was 210 mg/dL which is on the higher end but not irreversible. Your triglycerides were at 145 mg/dL‚ a normal level range is anything below 150 mg/dL. Your HDL‚ or high density lipoprotein‚ which is good cholesterol‚ was at 33 mg/dL. 33 is on the low side‚ the higher the number‚
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Treatment for COPD Inhaled Therapies NICE COPD guidelines have made specific recommendations regarding the use of inhaled long-acting bronchodilators and inhaled steroids separately and in combination‚ but newer studies have assessed these drugs singly and in combination over longer periods of time. Bronchodilators (relievers) Short-acting beta2 agonists (SABA) Beta2 agonists act directly on bronchial smooth muscle to cause bronchodilation. They are the most widely used bronchodilators for COPD. Short-acting
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