intensity of care. The difference between acute care and chronic care is the duration of times needed for treatment and the approach taken by the medical professionals. The goals of recovery are typically very similar‚ while the maintenance of the conditions can vary greatly. In both of these scenarios there can be a large impact on the patient’s life or lifestyle that must be compensated for along with the treatment for the illness and education for prevention and maintenance. In acute care‚ an individual’s
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Nursing diagnosis: Ineffective coping Patient: 48 year old male admitted for alcohol dependence. Medical history includes anxiety‚ bipolar‚ PTSD‚ and hypertension. Pt had one suicide attempt in 2001. K+ at 3.2 upon admission. Pt claims his dependence on alcohol began when he was in the Air Force. He lives with an alcoholic partner who depends on him for housing. He was considering going to live with his mother after rehab. Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective coping related to inadequate social
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The Affordable Care Act (2009) and the Health Security Act (1993) were two attempts made to reform the U.S. healthcare system. In 1993 the Clinton administration fought to better the system and provide comprehensible healthcare coverage to its citizens. This bill however was shot down in the legislative system and never made it into law. Then in 2010 the Obama administration squeezed their updated version of the bill through the House and Senate in a very narrow‚ partisan victory. The reasoning behind
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technologies to support nursing practice in area of administration‚ education and research (Hebda‚ Czar & Mascara‚ 2005). This paper will be used to discuss the use if informatics in my clinical area of home health and discuss ways‚ if applicable‚ in which it could possibly be improved as well. Streamlining Paperwork/Communication Informatics can both streamline and hinder the paperwork that goes into home health and the communication amongst clinicians with regard to the care patients receive. The positive
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Importance of communication in health and social care By: Charles Marco Tambis Topic: Page Importance of communication 1 Formal and informal communication 1 Verbal communicational 2 Non-verbal communication 2 Augmentative and alternate communication (AAC) 3 Two types of Augmentative and alternate communication (AAC) 3-4 Reading 4 Barriers 4-5 Conclusion 5 Importance of communication in Health and Social Care Communication is two or more people conveying to understand
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An ineffective adaption choice would be that this movie lacks an introduction and Mr. Lockwood. Immediately‚ the movie skips right to the action‚ about twenty minutes into the movie Heathcliff is already trying to get his revenge and get Linton and young Catherine to marry. An effective adaption would be the special effect where it shows the first Catherine as a skeleton in the beginning of the movie but through Heathcliff’s eyes‚ he saw Catherine as if she were just buried. Some effective adaptations
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The importance of cultural competency when working with diverse populations in health care can affect a patients or clients overall health in a positive or negative way and also affect reputation of the doctor and the staff. In the article Cultural Competency: Values‚ Traditions and Effective Practices‚ by Carol Brannon she defines Cultural competency‚ as “the ability to understand and respond effectively to the cultural and linguistic needs of patients or clients”(p.2). Brannon also explains how
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Introduction: When making an investment in a company‚ investors want to make sure the company is well managed. Because the differences between effective tax rates of companies of equal size that perform similar functions in the same geographical region are generally due to managerial decisions‚ a company with the lower effective tax rate could have the better administration and therefore be a better investment. The statutory corporate tax rate is the rate that is imposed on taxable income of corporations
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Advanced nursing Practice The aim of this essay is to demonstrate the development of existing skills in health assessment and critically utilise outcomes of advancing health assessment as the basis for expert decision making in stroke patient care. This assignment will compare four cases describing my journey through the development of health assessment skills using the medical model of assessment‚ ‘history‚ examination
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co-operation on an international basis to discuss disagreements but specifically to prevent further revolutions from occurring and causing further disruption‚ debris and conflict. This essay will discuss how the system was ineffective in ways but additionally can be considered effective in others. It will then continue to explore the system in more detail by examining how and why the system was short-lived. Lastly it will examine how the system was a tentative approach to international
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