Chapter 17 End of life care includes: palliative care- comprehensive care for patients whose disease is not responsive to cure; care also extends to patients’ families; management of psychological‚ social‚ and spiritual problems as well as control of pain and other physical symptoms; to improve pt and family’s quality of life hospice- care provided to terminally ill patient’s and their families; death has been accepted‚ bereavement for family; generally associated with palliative care that is
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Pneumonia is an infectious disease of the lungs that is characterized by alveoli (alveoli are angular cavities or pits in the lungs that absorb oxygen) that are filled with fluid or pus. The WHO announces that 1.8 million children under five years old are killed by pneumonia every year in every region of the world (2). In the United States‚ there are 53282 people decease for each year due to pneumonia.Because it is a common and serious illness ‚patients should be careful about effects of pneumonia
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Alzheimer Most common cause of stroke-thrombus by atherosclerosis Embolus-2nd most common Hemorrhage-90yr old+‚ cerebral artery problem ER care • Thrombus and Embolus-anticoagulant • Hemorrhage-heparin • Know the cause and prioritizing the intervention • Airway-Hemiplegia Pt easily gets tongue obstruction • Turn the head to the side • 10-30* HOB for better venous return • O2 • IV • VS • Assessment-Neuro‚ pupil‚ Glasgow coma scale‚ Ask Pt Q ex) Raise your hand‚ Squeeze my hands. • 48-72
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courses that would benefit me to becoming an even better IT professional. After talking with the admissions department‚ I would be able to complete my Networking course and then take a few classes in the security field to make my career more whole. What I know about the IT world‚ the more you know the better your chances are of finding your dream job. The IT world is something you have to be constantly learning to evolve. That is one of the things I love about IT‚ you can be doing the same type
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Pneumonia is a lower respiratory problem. It is an acute inflammation of the lung‚ caused by viral‚ chemical‚ bacterial‚ fungal agents. Usually happens in people with compromised immune systems‚ or people who have compromise to the structures that protect the airway (i.e. the nares dry up and can’t humdify air anymore‚ bronchioles shrivel and can’t filter the air) If anything occurs with the mucocilliary system‚ the epiglottis‚ or the nares‚ we are inviting pneumonia into our bodies. Aging also causes
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tutor for all subjects including physics and math. This has taught me how to work with others efficiently and has given me a deeper understanding to these subjects. Moreover‚ I am currently participating in the M3 Math Challenge that takes large problems and gives them to small groups of students to solve using knowledge and creativity. Doing this challenge helps me understand teamwork and how it is necessary for large projects and how to lead these teams. During all of my school years I have been a High
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Nursing Interventions that Promote Physical Fitness in Children My clinical question is: What are effective nursing interventions in children to promote physical fitness? Annotations of Sources Robbins‚ L. B.‚ Pfeiffer‚ K. A.‚ Maier‚ K. S.‚ Lo‚ Y.-J.‚ & Wesolek‚ S. M. (2012). Pilot intervention to increase physical activity among sedentary urban middle school girls: a two-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. The Journal of School Nursing‚ 28(4)‚ 302–315. http://doi.org/10.1177/1059840512438777
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explaining how powerful the nurse-patient relationship is. The nurse approaches the relationship with understanding and experience obtained personally through their lives but also through their training and work. Generally‚ it is considered the more training and work experience a nurse has‚ the more therapeutically effective they are likely to be but this is not always the case. Stuart and Sudeen (1997). There are many influences on the relationship that can both obstruct or benefit the nurse-patient relationship
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Pneumonia is one of the most common infectious diseases prevalent nowadays and affects all ages. It is an acute or chronic infection of one or both lungs caused by microorganisms‚ such as viruses‚ bacteria or chemical irritants. (Schmitt‚ 2011) It has different types‚ and one of them is Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP). CAP is a disease in which individuals who have not recently been hospitalized develop an infection of the lungs. It occurs because the areas of the lung
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errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession‚ while nursing is being embraced in its caring attitude toward the patient‚ patient safety should be our number one priority. This article is very important to the nursing profession in part because it addresses one of the most significant issues of the profession‚ which is patient safety. According to the Nurse’s Practice environment article Flynn‚ Liang‚ Dickson‚ Xie‚ & Suh (2012) RNs are well positioned to serve as patient safety
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