Cardiovascular Disease-Case study #2 Christian Oyibe Advanced Clinical Pathophysiology Nursing 6150 Governor’s State University Professor Savannah Prince March7‚ 2012 Introduction Heart disease is often used interchangeably with cardiovascular disease generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or block vessels that can lead to a heart attack‚ chest pain (angina) or stroke. Other forms of heart condition
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What Is Heart Surgery? Heart surgery is done to correct problems with the heart. Many heart surgeries are done each year in the United States for various heart problems. Heart surgery is used for both children and adults. This article discusses heart surgery for adults. For more information about heart surgery for children‚ go to the Health Topics articles about congenital heart defects‚ holes in the heart‚ and tetralogy of Fallot. Doctors also use heart surgery to: • Repair or replace heart
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must be a way to sort through all the ciaos. A triage nurse determines which patient is most important and gets the sent back to a room to begin treatment. While in triage‚ each patient has vital signs checked. If indicated‚ they will also have an EKG. In triage at Jackson General ED‚ the nurse uses a checklist to organize patients‚ which determines who is priority. The triage algorithm Jackson General ED uses is “ESI”. This chart gives five levels of priority‚ one being first and five being last
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Chief Complaint: “The voices told me to do it.” History of Present Illness (tell us also whether this is inpatient or outpatient setting): MJ a 23-year-old African American male brought to the Emergency Department by family member after he was found sitting in the middle of the street. The patient states‚ “The voices told me to do it.” The patient states that‚ for the past 7-8 months that people are not who they say they are so; he began to isolate himself in his room‚ dropped out of school‚ and
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have health insurance because they cannot afford to pay for it‚ they do not make enough. Some people make just over the cut off limit for other health care plans‚ like Medicaid. No one wants to pay for an outrageous hospital bill considering that an EKG test costs anywhere from two to four thousand dollars. In consideration to our patients scares towards out health care system‚ I have came up with a proposal that could not only stop them from being afraid of seeing a physician but also help them to
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Professional Nursing Values Yvonne Simms NUR/403 Undergraduate Nursing Studies April 29‚ 2010 Joseph DeCostanza Professional values are the foundation for practice; they guide interactions with client‚ colleagues‚ other professionals‚ and the public‚ by providing the framework for commitment to the Welfare of others. They are also belief or ideas to which an individual is committed and which are reflected in patterns of behavior. Institute of medicine (2000). In this article
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situations‚ social care with patients in rooms (change diapers‚ to help dress‚ feed‚ arrange in patient room)‚ lead the patients at operations‚ x-ray examinations‚ prepare laboratory tests and bring to the laboratory‚ premise??/introduce?? insulin‚ set up EKG‚ to mark in protokols patients weight changes‚ to mesure temperature‚ pulse‚ to deliver?? food in patients rooms. Observe USG on the patients arterys. In podology praxis banding and making Ross freser clamps‚ to make negative and positive nail imprint
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The study considers the 2 nearest hospitals from MCM that offers MRI service. The table above highlights the competitive factors that should be taken account in analyzing the competitiveness of MCM in the context of the acquisition of a 1.5 Tesla MRI for the hospital. The weakest point of MCM is the bed capacity as it only has 100 beds compared to 300 beds of AHMC and UPHMC. The price competitiveness of MCM is moderate since it has the same proposed price range as UPHMC which is a good sign for
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Animal Experimentation: A Necessary Evil It is time for society to realize that no one benefits from the suffering of animals used in expensive and useless experiments. Animals may not be able to speak like humans but it does not negate the fact that they are capable of suffering. The human species has taken the liberty of deciding what is valuable in the world‚ and therefore they prize themselves as the highest level of the food chain. The human species has used animals for transportation‚ food
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Congenital Heart Disease Congenital heart diseases are lesions‚ caused by abnormal development of the structures of the heart. This happens in the embryonic life due to environmental or unknown factors. The cause of congenital disease is usually unknown‚ but there are multifactor reasons that are incriminated. They are said to be sporadic. This meaning that it is not secluded to one geographic location. However this incidence is increased in those with a positive
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