Margaret Nimen is a 79 year- old female who lives alone in a two story apartment that includes a stair case of thirteen stairs. She is able to perform all activities of daily living independently and enjoys going to work-out classes including kickboxing and yoga and cooking for her family. She also enjoys helping take care of her eight grandchildren by picking them up from school and watching them throughout the week at various time. She has three children that live in the same city as her and that
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auricles has firm cartilage and no pain or tenderness. Cranial nerve VIII‚ I did a whispering test‚ patient was able to repeat what I whispered to his ears. Inspections of eyes‚ patient’s eyes are symmetry‚ no swelling on lachrymal sac‚ redness and equal hair distribution on the eyebrows. Test for cardinal gaze‚ patient was able to follow direction and without moving his head or jerky movement of the eyes (nystagmus). Cranial nerve II‚ I tested for pupillary reaction to light; patient’s eyes react
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Theoretical Framework for Nursing Practice – Module 7 A. Think back to the last time someone close to you became sick. Using Myra Estrin Levine’s conservation model: what would have been the focus of your assessment? How did the illness affect you and the rest of your family? Levine’s Conservation Model is focused in promoting adaptation and maintaining wholeness using the principles of conservation. The model guides the nurse to focus on the influences and responses at the organismic
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1. Why is it important that the therapist should know the direction of flow in each individual meridian? Yang energy flows downwards and is found mainly to the back of the body‚ and Yin energy flows up-wards and is found mainly in the front of the body. Because of this it is paramount for a therapist to know the direction of flow in each individual meridian‚ in order to administer effective treatment. 2. How would the therapist apply Shiatsu treatment to a patient who is hyperactive and unable
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The Harmful Effects on Physical and Mental Health of Excessive Use of Computer for the Freshmen Students of ICCT Cainta Branch In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject Writing in the Discipline PRESENTED TO: PRESENTED BY: A.Y. 2012 ABSTRACT The generation of today is more into computer games rather than physical activities and it is evident in our community. As we all know‚ physical activities are essential to us especially us youths
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Visual Fields in Glaucoma Evaluation of the field of vision is the mainstay of the diagnosis and management of glaucoma. The use of manual perimetry for defining glaucomatous defects is an art that is highly dependent on the perimetrist’s skill. With the advent of computers and automation‚ perimetry has changed from an art to a more quantitative science. Understanding glaucomatous abnormalities detected with both manual and automated techniques requires a thorough understanding of the
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involves bottom-up and top-down processing. The perceptual system is comprised of a of a diverse range of senses including visual‚ auditory‚ olfactory and tactition; the perceptual system is part of the nervous system‚ which contains millions of nerve cells called receptors that sense and respond to a plethora of sensory stimuli including light‚ sound and temperature. The act of perceiving rather than merely sensing enables us to analyse and make sense of incoming sensory information‚ allowing us
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Chief among these anti-chemical protections are the drugs Atropine and 2-PAM‚ which if administered quickly‚ have been proven to provide protection against the nerve gas Sarin‚ a deadly chemical weapon used in 2013 during the Syrian Civil War. France supports dispensing these drugs on a large scale and encourages other countries to consider this plan of
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Weakness in the limbs is the final common symptoms for ALS‚ followed by dysphagia‚ dysphonia‚ and respiratory paralysis in the end. The latter of the CNS are lower motor neuron signs. These motor neurons are controlled by the spinal cord and cranial nerve motor nuclei. Presentations of ALS in a scale of upper and lower motor neuron signs are the following: Multilimb upper motor neuron signs (Loss of control and execution of movements) Multilowerlimb lower motor neuron signs (Weakness‚ fasciculations
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students spends playing video games‚ the poorer is his performance in academic. Furthermore‚ Video games may also have bad effects on health‚ including obesity‚ video-induced seizures. and postural‚ muscular and skeletal disorders‚ such as tendonitis‚ nerve compression‚ carpal tunnel syndrome. When playing online‚ you can pick up bad language and behavior from other people‚ and may spoil your mother tongue. Transition~ from the beginning of my speech‚ I just keep talking about the effect of video games
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