BRADEN SCALE – For Predicting Pressure Sore Risk DATE OF ASSESS SEVERE RISK: Total score 9 HIGH RISK: Total score 10-12 MODERATE RISK: Total score 13-14 MILD RISK: Total score 15-18 RISK FACTOR SCORE/DESCRIPTION SENSORY PERCEPTION 1. COMPLETELY LIMITED – Unresponsive Ability to respond meaningfully to pressure-related discomfort (does not moan‚ flinch‚ or grasp) to painful stimuli‚ due to diminished level of consciousness or sedation‚ OR limited ability to feel pain over most of body surface
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Introduction The Braden Scale is a tool that is used to measure patients at risk for developing pressure ulcers. A pressure ulcer is an injury to the skin over a bony prominence on the body. Pressure ulcers are staged depending on the severity of the injured tissue. A registered nurse administers the Braden Scale in a hospital setting or long-term care facility. The Braden Scale is administered by assessing the patient’s risk for developing pressure ulcers depending on the scores from the specific subscales
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Telecommunications Policy 33 (2009) 29–40 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Telecommunications Policy URL: www.elsevierbusinessandmanagement.com/locate/telpol Estimating scale economies of the wireless telecommunications industry using EVA data$ Changi Nam a‚ Youngsun Kwon a‚Â Seongcheol Kim b‚ Hyeongjik Lee c a b c School of IT Business‚ Information and Communications University‚ 119‚ Munjiro‚ Yuseong-gu‚ Daejon 305-732‚ Republic of Korea Associate Professor
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Part I: Construct Development and Scale Creation Choose a construct you would like to measure. I picked self-confidence. According to Brown (2004) self confidence is defined as one’s ability to rely on themselves‚ to assert oneself socially‚ regarding what one thinks and possessing the skills to work independently‚ based on one’s learning from personal experience and the ability to make use of prior knowledge. Self confidence measures include self efficacy‚ self esteem‚ knowledge and ability
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The initial efforts were government-led through the vehicle of large industry‚ but lately‚ emphasis has shifted to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) following the lessons learnt from the success of SMEs in the economic growth of Asian countries (Ojo‚ 2003). Thus‚ the recent industrial development drive in Nigeria has focused on sustainable development through small business development. Prior to this time‚ particularly judging from the objectives of the past National Development Plans‚ 1962-68
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production associated with Delta‚ economies of scale are also relevant to this firm. Economies of scale operate to the left of Q* or the minimum efficient scale of operations according to class lecture notes. So it is in firms best interest to expand and operate at a more efficient level. Delta is a Legacy Airline; because Delta is one of the larger airlines Delta’s costs are expensive in terms of operation. According to lecture notes from class‚ economies of scale are characterized by the specialization
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Ruby Huang 10A April 26th‚ 2015 The Balek Scales Literature Assignment 1.New year’s day is the beginning of a new year‚ which is the start of the twentieth century‚ but it can also symbolize the beginning of a new era. On that particular day‚ the Baleks got a title and became even more powerful. However‚ it is also the day when little Franz Brucher and the villagers discovered the injustice imposed by the Baleks that had lasted for five generations. It marked a new start‚ the start of rebellion and
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Thien Nguyen Professor Hinds English 1153 September 15‚ 2013 The Differences between Learning English from Spanish and Vietnamese. Reading‚ “My English”‚ by Julia Alvarez somehow reminds me the process of studying English. Unlike the author‚ I was born and grew up in a place far from the United States‚ Vietnam. Generally‚ English is our second language. Yet‚ the way we achieve it consisted of both similarities and differences. First of all‚ Vietnamese and Spanish use the same Latin alphabet
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Glasgow coma scale is a neurological scale which is used in assessing the level of consciousness of a person the initial score of a person is taken and recorded and this is compared with the subsequent score of the person. This is done to note if the patient is improving or deteriorating. The scoring is made based on certain criteria and a score of 3-15 is made. The score 3 indicates deep unconsciousness while the score 15 indicates full consciousness. The Glasgow coma scale was published in 1974
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Mtunzini (Mm-tun-zee-nee) is a small coastal town that is situated almost exactly halfway along KwaZulu-Natal’s coastline in South Africa approximately 140 km north of Durban. The name is an isiZulu word meaning place in the shade. After the breakup of the Zulu Kingdom after the Anglo-Zulu War‚ Sir Garnet Wolseley created 13 ’kinglets’ - with two strategically located as buffer zones between Port Natal and Zululand. One of these kinglets was John Dunn who used Mtunzini as his capital. Umlalazi
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