This polypharmacy teaching project has opened my eyes to the difficulty facing individuals who are prescribed multiple medications. Our patient was prescribed nine different drugs‚ however two of those were to be taken twice a day. That adds up to a total of eleven drugs to take daily. Taking eleven pills a day is troubling enough‚ but there also are specific instructions that must be followed for each medication. Some of drugs had the same instructions‚ though others did not. For instance five of
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This was my first week. I was really...glad that I decided to give Diagnostic Imaging a try for my Co-op. At first I wasn’t sure if it was going to be for me‚ and I was worried all the information I would get would go right over my head and I wouldn’t understand‚ but I am really happy I took a leap of faith and gave it a try. Through I did not find Ultrasound as interesting‚ I really loved being in Nuclear Medicine. I found it amazing how much detail you could actually see in the images. I really
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‘Critically analyse the physical care‚ well being and interventions used in a client in your care’. This reflective essay focus’s on a 54 year old service user who suffers from schizophrenia. Coinciding with her mental health illness she has a diagnosis’s of diabetes type 2‚ she is obese‚ and has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For the purpose of this reflective essay I shall be focusing on how her diabetes was managed during her time on an inner city psychiatric assessment ward
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Feminism is a very controversial topic in today’s society and has been growing greatly ever since World War II. In general‚ feminism refers to movements aimed at instituting and protecting equal political‚ economic‚ social rights and equal opportunities for all women. Some of these rights include legal protection‚ inclusion in politics‚ business‚ scholarship‚ recognition and building of women’s cultures and power. Feminism is contentious because it faces traditions in many areas especially for
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Before I arrived at NCOA‚ I wasn’t sure what I was going to learn throughout the course. Some friends told me the course was amazing‚ while others said it is just a vacation and I should enjoy it. Then‚ there are the people who just plain hate school and said it was the worst time ever. I tried to keep an open mind about the course‚ but it becomes difficult when you have so many people telling you so many different things. I tried to put all my opinions and misconceptions aside and give the material
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At the age of eleven I experienced two fundamental shifts within my knowledge of myself and the world around me; though‚ of course‚ at the time I was quite unaware of the long lasting implications of these shifts. The first shift would lead to a drastic reworking of my inner psyche‚ this inner reworking founded itself when I experienced my first panic attack‚ an early sign of the anxiety disorder that would fester in my mind until the present. The second shift had a greater immediate impact upon
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Through the course‚ I learned about leadership different styles and how they emerged and developed from the Trait Theories that focus on the leader characteristics to the Goal Orientations Theories that require collaborative methods between leaders and followers. As I mentioned before‚ I had always linked the leadership weight to the leader leading characteristics. However‚ I would argue now that leadership is gained through practice and experience and it is powered through followers. As a school
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Console the patient The patient might stop terrifying and gain confidence towards the nurse again. Decide on a course of action and carry it out The nurse manager should convince the nurse to share with the nurse manager about any difficulties that she faces during his shift. Provide him some advice about his attitudes of judging others and reinforce him to stop doing it and discuss the consequences if he continues his inappropriate actions. Encourage the nurse to communicate more with the colleagues
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In 1980 when Marji was only 10‚ the start of the Iran-Iraq war took place‚ lasting until 1988 with a total of over a million lives lost‚ making it the longest conventional war of the 20th century. Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi. Reasons why Persepolis is a valuable book for high school students include how a graphic novel set up can be a very intriguing way to write a book‚ the way it portrays that what schools were teaching the children is not always true‚ and the character
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The five signature themes I got on the StrengthsFinder were: Empathy‚ Developer‚ Intellection‚ Input‚ and Adaptability. All these traits will be very beneficial to me as a future adoption caseworker. Empathy is the top strength I got‚ the StrenghtsFinder writes about empathy as “You can feel what they are feeling as though their feelings are your own.” My intuition towards other’s feelings would help me help others‚ especially if someone is giving up their child to give to another family. I would
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