Some of the short term effects are dehydration‚ malnutrition‚ impaired judgment‚ slurred speech‚ blurred vision‚ delayed reaction time‚ staggered walking‚ stupor‚ confusion‚ inability to comprehend‚ and unconsciousness. Long-term effects include but are not limited to: Arthritis‚ Cancer‚ heart disease‚ Hyperglycemia‚ Hypoglycemia‚ infertility‚ liver disease‚ nerve disorders
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Do children in foster care still face the challenges as children in homeless shelters? Do they still face social isolation even when they are placed with loving families? No matter the living environments‚ they will always know that their parents were unable to be give them care. When people think about foster care homes‚ they think of the kids being placed with the perfect family and the start of a new life. Whether emotional‚ physical‚ or cognitive‚ a majority‚ if not all of the kids
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University of Phoenix Material SMART Goals Online Setting Reasonable Goals: Short-term‚ Long-term‚ and S.M.A.R.T. The Goal-Setting Process When you identify something specific you want‚ you set a goal. Actually getting what you want demands hard work and the ability to set and follow a plan. Think of a goal setting plan like a map. With this map‚ you will be able to see where you want to go‚ decide on the route that will take you there‚ and see where you are on your journey at any given
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Home Health Care Marketing Plan Marketing Management– MM522 Home Health United is a home healthcare agency working with physicians and hospitals in the Chicago‚ IL area. This company’s mission statement is the following: “To be the best and most efficient home health agency‚ delivering the best services to all our patients who are homebound and need the healthcare.” The company will start out as a small agency with two administrative individuals handling the scheduling and the medical billing
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Assessment | Nursing Diagnosis | Goals & Expected outcomes | Nursing Interventions | Rationales | Methods of Evaluation | Name of client: Mrs. Tam Age: 65 Sex: Female Student ID:1155016494 Assessment date: 29/11/12 Medical Diagnosis: 1. Lower limbs edema 2. Low albumin level 3. hypokalemia and hypocalcaemia 4. Anemia Nursing Diagnosis: Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements related to vomiting after eating as evidenced by food intake less than the recommended daily
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assignment I will discuss the developing role of the nurse in the primary health care setting and the importance of fortifying an approach which involves a social determinants perspective whereby factors which lead to poor health‚ particularly for vulnerable populations‚ become central to nursing practice in the community. I aim to discuss the evolving role of nursing in relation to patient care‚ advocacy‚ education and health promotion in the community. The primary care a nurse provides in the community
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Culturally Competent Nursing Care Denise Foss-Baker Minnesota State University Moorhead Culturally Competent Nursing Care The United States is a diverse accumulation of cultural backgrounds which can often set the stage for feelings of confusion‚ anger‚ mistrust‚ and a host of other emotions when dissimilar cultures disagree. Cultural competence in nursing can help eliminate these barriers and provide a platform for nursing to follow in the quest to understand a patient’s culture and background
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of stress might enable the nurse to provide effective nursing care. ------------------------------------------------- Exact Word Count: 2058 ------------------------------------------------- This essay will explore how the knowledge of stress might enable the nurse to provide effective nursing care. A definition of stress fall’s into three categories‚ stress as a stimulus‚ stress as a response‚ stress
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Nursing Home Industry Alfredia Williams Grantham University: AH511 August 28‚ 2013 Nursing home industry provides residential care for people with a chronic illness or disability. The care is continual to individuals who require help with activities of daily living. Nursing home facilities supply rooms‚ meals‚ social activities‚ personal care‚ 24-hour nursing supervision and access to medical services when needed. There are three types of nursing facilities in the United States: Intermediate
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a report in October 2010 that set out to answer the question‚ “what roles can nursing assume to address the increasing demand for safe‚ high-quality‚ and effective health care services?” . Three ways that the report suggests to do this are to utilize nurses to their full extent of education and training‚ a higher level of education for nurses and a stronger leadership role. . Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care workforce and have the capacity to positively impact healthcare in the
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