Critical Care Nursing: Sickle Cell Anemia Critical Care Nursing 10/15/2009 Sickle cell anemia affects millions of people worldwide. Sickle cell anemia is a disease in which your body produces abnormally shaped red blood cells. They don’t last as long as normal‚ round red blood cells‚ which leads to anemia. Sickle cells contain abnormal hemoglobin that causes the cells to have a sickle shape. Sickle-shaped cells don’t move easily through your blood vessels. They’re
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pediatric nurse‚ and the outcomes of many of my patients. In particular‚ my final position before retiring was caring for several infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome‚ both in the home and as support of the family during hospitalizations. However‚ the skilled-nursing home care was to help keep hospitalizations at a minimum. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a congenital defect‚ by which the left side of the heart is grossly underdeveloped‚ and prior to 1990‚ infants died shortly after birth
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NM5004 Nursing Management of Care Delivery and Therapeutic Interventions Summary Management of a Proposed Service Improvement Word Count: 1‚051 The following assignment will discuss a proposed service improvement. It will detail what the proposed improvement will be‚ why this is a significant improvement to current services. How the plan would be managed and implemented. The student has chosen to plan an improvement to physical health needs assessments for mental health
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NURSING CARE PLAN FOR IMPAIRED SOCIAL INTERACTION ASSESSMENT |NURSING DIAGNOSIS |SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS |GOAL |INTERVENTIONS |RATIONALE |EVALUATION | |Objectives: - Don’t like to mingle with others. - When talked to‚ he always looked at different directions. - Isolate him from others. - Does not participate in ward activities. Subjective: “Ayoko sa kanila makihalubilo minsan kasi pakiramdam ko sasaktan nila ako at pinagtritripan.” |Impaired Social Interaction related to social
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(Bi) One of my service users was an elderly lady who was diagnosed with risk of DVT‚ carers visited in the morning and a evening visit to administer medication‚ Mary was a lovely lady who always wanted to make you a cup of tea and biscuits‚ her house was spotless and she took great pride in it‚ even still cleaning the windows inside herself at 89yrs old‚ Mary was a devout catholic and visited church twice a week‚ she had a great sense of humour and we always had a good chat on my visits. Mary visited
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requirements and agreed ways of working designed to protect the rights of individuals in end of life care. Caring for patients at the end of life is a challenging task that requires not only the consideration of the patient as a whole but also an understanding of the family‚ social‚ legal‚ economic‚ and institutional circumstances that surround patient care. A legal requirement of end of life care is that the wishes of the individual‚ including whether CPR should be attempted‚ as well as their wishes
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DEM 204 Understand and Implement a Person Centred approach to dementia care and support 1 1.1 Describe what is meant by a person centred approach. This means delivering the individual care‚ needs‚ wishes and preferences for the person with dementia offering them the real choices and with respect and support. By doing this you are helping them live a safe and happy life and helping to minimize all risks. You should try to match the right key worker for that individual and this can help to create
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approach to quality improvement in nursing care. Working for the state government means that budgets are tight and there is no room to be wasteful with resources. Richardson et al. (2014) identify certain principles of the Lean process that can be transposed into the healthcare setting. The principles of waste elimination‚ consistent workflow‚ staff involvement in process issue identification and customer-defined value could prove useful in the public health care setting. Richardson et al. (2014)
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Person centred 1.1 Person centred practice is providing a level of care to a client who has control in how their life is lived. As an individual it is there right to choose what they do or have done for them‚ and be able to make every day decisions that support’s their needs. Person centred is based on the positives for the client rather than the negatives‚ this is to achieve an outcome which can only promote independence for the client and make them achieve their aims and goals. Families play
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factors that result from the interactions of agent‚ host ‚ and environment are helpful in promoting and maintaining health. 1. Agent (Any environmental factor or stressor) 2. Host (Person who may or may not be at risk of acquiring a disease‚ eg: Family history‚ age‚ and lifestyle) 3. Environment (All factor external to the host‚ e.g.: climate‚ living conditions‚ sound level‚ and economic level) ← Health-illness Continua ➢ Measure person’s perceived level of wellness ➢ Health
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