Mount Carmel College of Nursing Columbus‚ Ohio Nursing 521: Advanced Pathophysiology CASE STUDY#1: CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Stephanie Barber September 21‚ 2011 INITIAL HISTORY: 66 year-old white male increasing shortness of breath over the last month noticed feet and ankles swelling by end of the day has occasional episodes of chest tightness has been waking up in the middle of the night with acute
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Goodwin College OS210 Organizational Communication Organizational Communication Plan CT Medical Group Kimberly Pisani OS210‚ 2012 Spring H1 Wanda J. Barreto April 18‚ 20 Table of Content Table of Content 1 Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Company’s Background 4 Mission 4 Issue addressed 4
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Nursing Process and Clinical Decision-Making The nursing professional faces a myriad of decisions on a daily basis. The effectiveness of the decision-making process is crucial to ensuring positive outcomes in the clinical setting. If the nursing process is misunderstood or misapplied to the decision-making process by a failure to use critical thinking skills‚ the results can be catastrophic to the anticipated outcomes. Furthermore‚ an immaturity in critical thinking may influence decisions because
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• When I came into the clinic I was greeted by Patrick and Monica. They showed me around the clinic. I was also introduced to Liah‚ Antinique‚ and the rest of the team. With no hesitation I started to help Antinique with a patient that came in for a dental and a mass removal; it was a schnauzer named Jackpot. Antinique was filling out some information in the records and asked me if I can pull up 0.5ml of hydromorphone and 3.0ml of penicillin. The patient’s records were written on index cards and
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Chapter 3 Exercise 12 PROCEDURE NOTE Hagler‚ Jason 7935409 Jennifer Hutto‚ MD December 26‚ 2012 DUAL CHAMBER CARDIAC PACEMAKER INDICATION Protracted‚ high degree‚ atrial ventricular block‚ postinferior MI‚ and aortocoronary bypass grafting. DESCRIPTION The patient was brought to the heart cath lab. Left infraclavicular area was prepared and draped in the usual sterile fashion. Local anesthesia was achieved with 1% plain Xylocaine. Femoral vein was punctured with an 18-guage needle
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they treat disorders and breathing complications their job is also to diagnose the patient and follow diagnostics procedures. Common procedure respiratory therapists perform are arterial blood gas analysis‚ pulmonary function studies‚ sleep studies‚ EKG and cardiac test‚ sputum specimens‚ and stress/exercise tests. The need for respiratory therapists is in high demand due to the increasing numbers in elderly people‚ environment; such as asthma‚ smoking and COPD‚ treatments for cardiopulmonary diseases
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pneumonia‚ respectively. Serum chemistry will indicate renal failure. Difficulty breathing may be due to compensatory mechanisms for metabolic acidosis (Hofmann et al.‚ 2016). Chest X-Ray image may show pulmonary edema‚ pneumothorax‚ effusion‚ pneumonia. EKG will indicate cardiovascular etiology of the dyspnea (Hofmann et al.‚ 2016). Pulmonary function tests will determine if the patient has chronic lung disease (Hofmann et al.‚ 2016). V/Q scan and Spiral CT with contrast will show if the patient has a
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The medical specialities I feel the medical assistant has most opportunity to participate interact most witht the provider... as in additional testing to help with a diagnosis is working at orthopedic office. Working in an orthopedic office you can see many deformities of bones or muscle in patients such as hip dysplasia‚ arthritis‚ bowed legs‚ joint pain‚ osteoporosis and spinal fractures etc. When researching little more about what duties the orthopedic medical assistant does it is a combination
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Development in Third World Sage Publication‚ New Delhi. 2001. 4) Vilaniam J.V. Science Communicational Development ‚ Sage Publication‚ New Delhi. 1993. 5) Kanungo Sivraj‚ Making Information technology Work Sage‚ Publication‚ New Delhi. 6½ vkiV s ekgs u] bVa juVs ekfgrhpk dYio`{k] v 1] jktgal] izdk”ku iq.k s 7½ vkiVs eksgu] “krd “kks/kkaps 8) Peter Zorkoczy‚ Information Technology‚ An Intrdoction‚ East-West Press‚ New Delhi‚ 1989 9) Pande Sudhir Handbook of Satellite Communication‚ Authors Press
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Fundamentals of a Heart Attack Holli Blohm Instructor Lynette Love Introduction Heart attacks ‚ we have all seen them played out on our favorite drama shows but these shows do not address the real severity of an actual heart attack despite the great acting skills portrayed . A heart attack can also be known as a myocardial infarction (MI)‚ acute myocardial infarction (AMI)‚ acute coronary syndrome‚ coronary thrombosis‚ or coronary occlusion‚ either way it is not good news. Over 1.2 million
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