of the registered nurse is defined and delineated; for what purpose? The scope of adult health nursing is to promote health and prevent illness or injury in patients from 18 to older than 100 years of age. Why do nurses need to know what interventions are within his/her scope? Nurses who practice medical-surgical nursing must have a broad knowledge base to meet the needs of patients in the variety of health care settings across the continuum. Additionally‚ nurses must use clinical judgment
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Health Care History Keisha Williams-Young HCS/440 November 07‚ 2011 Over the course of the past 50 years‚ health care benefits costs and coverage have become a dominant force in almost everyone ’s life. By 1990‚ 186 million Americans were covered by health insurance (Kinner & Pellegrini‚ 2009). Even with that extremely high number‚ many people are still left out not possessing any insurance coverage because either they can’t afford it or they just don’t have it. With health care expenditures
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As an adult become older and reaches age 50 and up‚ they encounter numerous life alterations namely social‚ personal and mental. Their purpose in the society also changes. People in ages 65 and above make up least ten percent of the population in the United States at present time and are the speediest budding age cluster in the country. Various amounts of them are no longer capable of taking care of themselves and require support from other people. The mature age group of people come across discrimination
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Complete Health History Virginia G Parrott Fort Hays State University Health History Health history assessment conducted on George on the fifteen of February 2010 at approximately one o’clock. George is a fifty-four year white male married with three adult children and two grand children. He has been working as a teacher for over twenty years a local middle school. This paper will highlight George’s health care issues and will identify five nursing diagnosis for him. Methods of Health History
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NS 3205 Study Guide for Final Exam Chapter 42 Care of Patients with Hematologic Problems 1. Identify the etiologies and clinical manifestations common to all types of anemia. (See Table 42-1 p 870 and Chart 42-1 p 871) Common Cause Sickle cell disease: autosomal recessive inheritance of two defective gene alleles for hemoglobin synthesis Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency anemia: X-linked recessive deficiency of enzyme G6PD Autoimmune hemolytic anemia: abnormal
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Mental Health Issues in Adults Mental health is defined in Healthy People 2020 as encompassing the ability to engage in productive activities and fulfilling relationships with other people‚ to adapt to change and to cope with adversity (USDHHS‚ 2010). In the United States nearly 57.7 Million adults (18 years and above) suffer from a mental health disorder in a given year and 6% of the population suffers from a serious mental illness (NIMH‚ 2010). The purpose of this paper is to look into the perspective
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Reflection: Adult to ill health. Y2 SEM 2 This reflection will reflect upon a key skill that I still need to develop in clinical practice. It will mainly look at numeracy. A significant event will be outlined in order to demonstrate my knowledge to the key skill and then discuss key skill in relation to nursing practice. The Gibbs model of reflection (1988) will be used to reflect on what happened; discuss my actions‚ thoughts and my feelings. A Personal Development Plan will be provided to show
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Complete Health History Assignment STUDENT NAME: Biographical Information • • • • • DOB: 10/06/1987 Gender: female Race: Caucasian Ethnicity: French Additional (Insurance information) Source and Reliability • • Where does the information come from What indicators of reliability are there Reason for Seeking Care • CC: headache History of Present Illness (HPI) • Throbbing for the past two hours‚ can feel pulse in temples‚ 4 on a scale of 1-10‚ started while in
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Q1) Explain the reason why pre-activity health screening is necessary Pre activity health screening is used to highlight health problems that may be aggravated by physical exercise. A fitness instructor can then assess and prescribe the correct fitness plan for the individual. Screening takes place in the form of a questionnaire and physiological measurements. Some health risks looked for by taking part in pre activity health screening are shown by Woolf‚ May (2006)‚ categorised
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Importance of Family Health History Your Patients’ and Your Own JoAnn Grif Alspach‚ RN‚ MSN‚ EdD‚ Editor As much as we might anticipate that the most cutting-edge scientific approaches to health assessment would afford the most reliable indicators for guiding health care decisions‚ that isn’t always the case. Researchers at the Genomic Medicine Institute’s Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare at the Cleveland Clinic recently reported that when an assessment of family health history was compared
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