initially diagnosed with low back strain. IW was deemed permanent and stationary on 09/24/13 with 7% whole person impairment rating. Future medical care includes office visits with an orthopedist‚ PT‚ acupuncture‚ medications‚ injections and diagnostic studies. Patient underwent an L5-S 1 interlaminar epidural steroid injection per the operative report dated 06/05/13. MRI of the lumbar spine dated 12/14/16 revealed early degenerative disc and facet changes‚ without significant canal or foraminal compromise
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Nursing: Essential Knowledge‚ Skills and Attitudes Introduction Nursing is not just a collection of tasks. To provide safe and effective care to the clients‚ nurses must integrate knowledge‚ skills and attitudes to make sound judgement and decisions. This essay describes some of the essential knowledge‚ skills and attitudes of nursing and discusses why they are essential attributes of a competent nurse. Nursing knowledge and clinical skills These are obvious essentials for nursing practice
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Legal Issues Case Study for Nursing Case 2 Nursing Situation: Cindy Black (fictitious name)‚ a four-year-old child with wheezing‚ was brought into the emergency room by her mother for treatment at XYZ (fictitious name) hospital at 9:12 p.m. on Friday‚ May 13. Initial triage assessment revealed that Cindy was suffering from a sore throat‚ wheezing bilaterally throughout all lung fields‚ seal-like cough‚ shortness of breath (SOB)‚ bilateral ear pain. Vital signs on admission were pulse
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intestines or the gastrointestinal tract. • Viral infection is the most common cause of gastroenteritis but bacteria‚ parasites‚ and food-borne illness (such as shellfish) can also cause acute gastroenteritis. • Fifty to seventy percent of cases of gastroenteritis in adults are caused by the noroviruses while rotavirus is the leading cause of infection in children. Staphylococcus aureus can form a toxin that cause food poisoning while the resident Escherichia coli can also cause significant
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carried on through the ages and still goes on today with a multitude of viewpoints on the purpose of education and how best to encourage learning to eventuate. Plato and his disciple Aristotle were inaugural in this debate and asked if truth and knowledge were to be found inside of us‚ or whether they would be learned from outside by using our senses. Plato believed the truth would be found from within through reasoning‚ deduction and self-reflection and so brought about rationalism. On the other
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Integrative Business Applications BA 3103 Spring 2014 Dr. Andrea Hornett (“dr. andy”) E-Mail: Andrea.Hornett@temple.edu Office Hours: MWF – 8-11 am Door is always open drop in anytime. Appointments can be scheduled for any day or time. Office: 384 Speakman Hall Course Overview and Objectives: This course is intended to provide undergraduate junior-year business majors with an opportunity to integrate the material in the lower and upper BBA core courses in Accounting
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Your post provided some insightful information. I recognized the trauma that was inflicted on Laura by her mother during the early stages of her life‚ but I had not taken into consideration that the excessive amounts of time spent in the hospital only added to the fragile mother /daughter disconnection. Virginia was an adequate “care provider” for her daughter‚ but she lacked the necessary maternal skills needed for Laura to sustain healthy growth. Since there are still emotional scars in the relationship
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Hypertension High blood pressure is also known as hypertension is on the rise among all age groups due to poor dietary habit‚ aging‚ and sedentary/behavioral lifestyle. However‚ health care providers‚ patients‚ dieticians‚ and parents can jointly work together to eliminate this silent killer. The seventh Joint National Committee defines hypertension as a sustained systolic blood pressure above 140 mm Hg or higher or a diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or above in three separate occasions. However‚ one
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There exists an article regarding the legal protest rules of nurses‚ within the medical field. According to the Carolan‚ (2000) academic journal‚ Nurses that are bonded with unions have the legal ability to “walk off the job” when unfair work conditions are noted. The rule only applies if the nurses negotiation agreements‚ does not contain a clause that prohibits striking (Carolan‚ 2000). The workplace policy does not apply to the nurses that are not unionized. The Carolan (2000) academic journal
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explore the above statement in relation to the role of a student nurse and what actions the student would be expected to take adhering to the Nursing and Midwifery Code (NMC‚ 2008). It will discuss the professional values and behaviours associated within nursing and the interpersonal skills required to develop and maintain the therapeutic
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