University of Phoenix Material Understanding Economic Issues Worksheet This simulation looks at providing health care insurance coverage from the standpoint of a health maintenance organization (HMO). As HMO executives‚ your obligation is to provide health care for the members you insure. You must do this with a high degree of quality at a price that covers services rendered. To do this‚ you must offer only those services you may provide at the cost the customer can pay. In this simulation‚ you
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Hypertension Health Hazard in the African American Communities Hypertension (HTN) is a genetic disease which tends to run in families. Even though every race and ethnicity can be affected by HTN the highest prevalence is in the African American communities (Opara‚ Hawkins‚ Sundaram‚ Merchant‚ Rasmussen & Holmes‚ 2013). During my survey‚ I conversed with 50 people in my community‚ 48 had a mother or father with HTN‚ the other two were uncertain. Twenty-five of the 50 people I conversed with admitted
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"Hypertension" Sherelle Washington HS200-26 Unit 4 Capstone Project: Hypertension Kaplan University 10/28/14 There are different ways to diagnose your blood pressure. The most common way is to use a blood pressure machine or monitor. The doctor normally takes an inflatable cuff and put it around your arm. The machine gets turned on and the cuff begins to tighten a little around your arm. While the cuff is tightening the machine is checking your blood pressure. Once the cuff deflate
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A 62-year old diabetic black man presents in the emergency room with a swollen left leg with areas of blanching and blue mottling. A "foul odor" is coming from a dressed wound. The physicians remove the dressing and a brownish fluid is seeping from a wounded area. The fluid contains what appear to be small bits of the tissue. No pus appears to be present. The wound has a strong "rotten" odor. Five days earlier‚ while at his work as a farmer‚ he caught the leg in his manure spreader‚ sustaining a
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Capella University BIO1000 – Human Biology U01A1-Homeostasis-An Analogy January 12‚ 2012 Part 1 - Regulates your body temperature when you are outside on a cold winter day. When it is cold outside and the temperature drops‚ your body thermo receptors detect the drop and send signals to the hypothalamus. Neurons also send signals to smooth the walls of the blood vessels to make them contract‚ which creates a narrowing in the blood vessel also known as “vasoconstriction”. What vasoconstriction
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HYPERTENSION‚also known as high blood pressure‚ is the most common chronic cardiovascular disease in which the blood vessels (arteries) have persistently raised pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood exerting against the walls of arteries as it is pumped by the heart through out the body. Therefore‚ hypertension occurs when the blood is pushes harder against the arterial wall. It is called the “SILENT KILLER" because it shows no signs and symptoms that is why it is important to check
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Influence of metabolic syndrome on hypertension-related target organ damage Abstract. Objectives. The aim of our study was to analyse‚ in a wide group of essential hypertensive patients without diabetes mellitus‚ the influence of metabolic syndrome (MS) (defined according to the criteria laid down in the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection‚ Evaluation‚ and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults) on markers of preclinical cardiac‚ renal and
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On The Alert for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension On The Alert for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Summarized by: Joanne Marie Tarrobal-Baynosa Arellano University - INP Summarized by: Joanne Marie Tarrobal-Baynosa Arellano University - INP By Vincent M. Vacca‚ Jr.‚ RN‚ CCRN‚ MSN Nursing Journal‚ December 2009 Issue By Vincent M. Vacca‚ Jr.‚ RN‚ CCRN‚ MSN Nursing Journal‚ December 2009 Issue Nurse Vincent M. Vacca‚ Jr. aptly described in this issue of the Nursing Journal the significance
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Today I continue to do clinical in the female medical ward‚ my patient was a sixty-six-year-old woman who was diagnosed with four different medical conditions; Uncontrolled hypertension‚ left bundle branch block (LBBB) which is a cardiac conduction abnormality seen on the electrocardiogram (ECG). In this condition‚ activation of the left ventricle of the heart is delayed‚ which causes the left ventricle to contract later than the right ventricle. Venous insufficient which is a condition where the
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Running head: Gestational Hypertension Gestational Hypertension Gestational Hypertension Many believe that child birth is part of the cycle of a women’s life. The majority of women have minimal complications with natural child birth but to some the process may be life threatening. Past statistics have shown a high rate of child birth mortality. Today‚ this rate has decreased with the advancement of the medical field. However‚ women all over the world are still facing different kinds of complications
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