From Chronic to Critical: A Latino Family Confronts End-of-Life Decisions By Karen Peterson-Iyer Gabriela Rivera is an 80-year-old Puerto Rican immigrant‚ who lives alone in her rent-controlled apartment in New York City. She has lived in the United States for almost 40 years and speaks some English‚ albeit somewhat hesitantly. Her primary language is Spanish. Although she is now retired‚ for years Gabriela worked in a factory where she was exposed to a variety of industrial chemicals now considered
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BUSINESS CASES Management for Filipinos by Conrado E. Inigo Scientific Analysis of Business Cases Case Study – is a very effective method in improving individual’s ability to analyze a situation‚ establish premises‚ arrive at valid conclusions‚ decide on courses of action and visualize consequences and results • A case usually narrates the development of a situation over an extended period of time • The analyst projects himself into the situation and visualizes it as though he is personally
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ARF Case Study Acute Renal Failure Case Study Directions: Please carefully read the following case study and answer the following questions in typed format. The resources that you will need to complete this case study include your textbook and drug book. Please include in text citations. This independent assignment is worth 25 points. Ann Hayes‚ age 68‚ initially was admitted to the hospital for elective surgical repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Her surgery was documented
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OB Case Preceptorial A Case Presentation on Rheumatic Heart Disease General Data: V.V.‚ 25 years old‚ female‚ married‚ housewife‚ residing at Balibago‚ Angeles City was admitted for the first time at AUFMC on February 6‚ 2014 Chief Complaint: Chest pain History of Present Illness: The illness started 2-1/2 years ago‚ when she started to experience occasional chest pain‚ lasting only for a few seconds especially during her aerobic exercise but does not
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Case Study Your patient is a 75 year old male admitted through the Emergency Room w/ cough‚ SOB and fever‚ Chest x-ray revealed left lower lobe pneumonia. Past Medical History: Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)‚ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)‚ hypertension‚ Diabetes Mellitus –Type 2‚ Gout‚ chronic renal insufficiency. Allergies: PCN Current medications: Avandia (rosiglitazone) 2mg BID Glucophage (metformin) 500mg OD Lasix (furosemide) 40 mg daily
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youth. The government appears to be concerned with how others portray our citizens‚ as immoral beings‚ when sex is an inevitable occurrence. Abstinence-plus education emphasizes the benefits of abstinence while also teaching about contraception and disease-prevention methods. Abstinence-only programs education includes discussions of values‚ character building‚ and refusal skills. They promote abstinence from sex for unmarried people and do not teach about contraception. They do not reduce pre-marital
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Reflection Paper This semester I was able to do a case study on a 5 year old girl named Bentley. The study lasted for about 5 weeks and I enjoyed every piece of it. My goals going into this case study was to understand how Bentley grows‚ her developmental milestones‚ and how she recognizes and responds to her everyday life. Some of the benefits of what I saw were some of her strength and weakness I learned a lot about Bentley’s physical development. Bentley loves to play outside with her friends
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Real Cases Project: Teaching Guide for Human Behavior in the Social Environment 1 Real Cases Project: Human Behavior in the Social Environment Rozetta Wilmore-Schaeffer‚ PhD Associate Professor Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work 2495 Amsterdam Avenue NY.‚ NY 10033-3312 wilmores@yu.edu INTRODUCTION A. Overview of this Course within the Social Work Curriculum This course sequence‚ Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) aims to use the context of the child
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Malolos‚ Bulacan A case study of a 60 years old female client who had a: Left Breast Carcinoma Submitted by: BSN 3C Group 1 Agustin‚ Katherine G. Alejo‚ Arlene Azul‚ Emmanuel Balingit‚ Sharmaine Crizza C. Bantug‚ Ann Gene Batongbacal‚ Roxette Joy C. Buiza‚ Angelica Mae C. Cabildo‚ Lady Lee DS. Castillo‚ Sharmaine D. Chavez‚ Kathleen C. Chico‚ Rizzamae Gumabon‚ Jerry Ann B. Submitted to: Clinical Instructors I. Introduction This is a case of client ER with an
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Response to Journeys End Workshop One – Scene Entrances & Exits/ Physical Levels In the novel Stanhope has the most physical status‚ not just because of his rank but also because people look up to him. Stanhope may rank the social hierarchy level amongst his fellow comrades but inside he is emotionally distraught‚ he does not show this and somehow stays head strong‚ on the other hand there is Hilbert who is tired and has lost all hope and hates the war and then decides he would like to pull out
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