elderly man with type 2 diabetes who was bed bound. His BP was 98/73 so I decided to do a manual blood pressure (BP) to make sure it was not a mechanical error from the automatic machine and recorded 99/75. His other vital signs were in between the flags. I asked my patient how he was feeling‚ he said he felt fine. I told him his blood pressure was a bit low and if this was normal for him. He said it has been low a bit recently. I asked him if he could have a glass of water and explained how this can help
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Stress among Job Insecure Workers and Their Spouses Author(s): Stephan M. Wilson‚ Jeffry H. Larson and Katherine L. Stone Source: Family Relations‚ Vol. 42‚ No. 1 (Jan.‚ 1993)‚ pp. 74-80 Published by: National Council on Family Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/584925 . Accessed: 17/08/2013 18:23 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE: She’s not very tall‚ with dark hair and blue eyes IL DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE Body She’s of medium height. She’s a woman of average height. She’s quite tall. She’s a woman of average height. She’s a woman of below average height. She’s not very tall. (→ She’s short.) He’s slim. He’s of medium build. He’s well-built. He’s rather plump (=not slim). He’s broad-shouldered. He’s quite muscular. He’s a bit overweight. (→
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Lewis further argues that he will not wait and be patient like his forefathers before him and all the brothers that he stands with at the moment‚ he wants to be free‚ and he wants his people to be free now‚ a saying that does not go unheard by all the audience that is listening to him. Lewis illustrates to the audience once more‚ “We are tired. We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again.”(para 7) In summary‚ Lewis is saying
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for the look‚ but risking discrimination‚” by Steven Greenhouse‚ he presents information about how companies hire people. Some companies choose to hire based on skill‚ others on looks. Companies shouldn’t hire based on looks because they may face discrimination laws and less attractive workers may have a better work ethic then attractive employees. If companies hire employees based on their appearance they may face discrimination laws. For example‚ “ ‘If you’re hiring by looks‚ them you can run
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Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field Dana Cook Nova Southeastern University Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field It is estimated that 1 in 10 patients will experience a nosocomial infection (Biddle‚ 2009). With this staggering fact‚ patient safety and infection prevention is at the forefront of healthcare. Many changes have occurred in this area since the 1840s. This is when Semmelweis‚ a Viennese obstetrician‚ made
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Appearance vs. Reality Things are not always as they appear. You may think someone is a certain way because of how they dress and carry themselves this is called stereotyping. Many people stereotype without even noticing that they are doing it. Everyone has his or her right to first impressions‚ but stereotyping is wrong. There are many examples of this topic in literature as well as in our society today. The main population accused of stereotyping is teenagers; they are seen as rude and judgmental
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2010 Blood Donation Imagine a happy healthy teen. He does well in school and is easy to get along with. Imagine he is diagnosed with leukemia and requires daily platelet and blood transfusions just to stay alive. Now‚ imagine he has a rare blood type that requires him to be moved to a larger hospital for treatment. This is just another thing for him and his family to worry about. Similar stories happen every day in the United States. It is estimated that every three seconds a patient in the
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The purpose of this paper is to define stress and how it effects the body ’s physiological systems. This paper will include the normal functions and organs involved in the following five physiological systems‚ cardiovascular‚ gastrointestinal‚ respiratory‚ immune and musculoskeletal. This paper will also include a description of a chronic illness associated with each physiological system and how the illness is affected by stress. Stress means different things to different people and stress effects
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BLOOD DONATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION BY P.LAVANYA (10BCE0366) E1 SLOT 1 Contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 2. Purpose……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 3. Scope……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 4. References……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5 5. Overall Description………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6 6.
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