inherent risks and potential complications. When you introduce chemotherapeutic drugs and known vesicants‚ those risks increase dramatically. In this case‚ a known risk‚ extravasation‚ occurred following administration. The question arises‚ could the nurses have acted sooner to prevent the extravasation and resulting tissue damage. The patient was an Oncology patient being treated as an outpatient for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma‚ a cancer of the lymphatic system. On a regular basis (every third Friday)‚
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DREAMS FROM MY FATHER Our past makes our future. The experiences one endures throughout our past evolves us into the person we are to become in the future. In Dreams From My Father‚ author Barack Obama explores how not only his past made him who he is today‚ but also how his father’s life achievements and failures as well as insight on his family’s culture molded him into becoming the man who would presides over the nation the we all call home. This book helped me discover interesting
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Registered Nurse (RN) A registered nurse’s scope of responsibilities varies depending on the verification they are given by the government or the school that oversees health care in the area. There are many personal qualities that are necessary to be an RN such as: Love for your job so you be active in your works. You have to have compassion for those that are in your care. Tolerance is required to handle the trauma witnessed. Self-Control so you don’t panic in high stress situations
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Patients whose care needs changed from curative to palliative were intended to be transferred out of critical care to patient care environments more suited to end-of-life care. However‚ as more patients become “chronically critically ill”‚ critical care nurses are being asked more often to provide care to patients on their deathbeds (Puntillo et al.‚ 2001). Deciding which ICU patients are actually dying remains an extremely inexact science‚ and the transition to palliative care is not one easily
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Dream Summaries Day Dreaming: When your imagination carries you away. Daydreaming is a classified level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. False Awakening Dreams: You dream that you wake up and your day starts‚ but then you actually wake up. Lucid Dreaming: Where you realize you are dreaming during your dream‚ and then have the ability to control your dream and what happens inside of it. Nightmares: A nightmare is a disturbing dream that causes you to wake up feeling anxious and
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This paper will highlight Florence Nightingale nursing leadership and describe her leadership characteristics. It will further depict the democratic style Florence Nightingale utilized throughout her career. Florence Nightingale was not only a nurse‚ she was a researcher‚ educator‚ and theorist. Her contributions to nursing and society are numerous. Florence Nightingale has been referred to as the “mother of modern nursing” (Johnson & Webber‚ 2005). Through her work and example‚ nursing became
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Dream By: FY All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. I believe every child is born a dreamer‚ from the moment we enter this world our mind wanders off in every direction. The thoughts created in our mind unconsciously creates us‚ as humans who differ from one another. For I have dreamed on and on‚ gone through thousands of dreams. Yet I realized that life is not unlimited‚ physically as well as our mentally we are not immortal and have a certain duration
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decision that my family made to live the possibility of the "American Dream". Moreover‚ growing up as an Asian-American wasn’t simple; I was faced with the challenge of malicious racial slurs‚ spiteful judgment‚ and condemnation. However‚ through these criticism‚ I’ve grown to understand that our response to those judgements is what builds character in which has made me more transparent‚ vulnerable‚ and empathetic. In the early years of my life‚ adapting to the foreign customs of America was my top priority
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Dear Director of the Dream Understanding Institute‚ I hope that my information I have come up with will be help to you guys at the Dream Understanding Institute. Dreams can be classified into three types; there are the nightmares‚ the realistic dreams‚ and the fairytale dreams. Each dream can be divided into parts just like a story. There is the main plot‚ with the exposition‚ then the rising action followed by the climax‚ falling action‚ and ending in the resolution‚ unless you wake up in the
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My heritage‚ my culture‚ where I’m from is something I shall never be ashamed of. Lucky to say‚ I have hard-working Mexican parents who are my motivators for everything‚ they are the reason I hope to one day be a first-generation college graduate. When my parents had my oldest brother at 17‚ despite their young age‚ my parents were thinking of my brother’s future. Mexico has high crime rates‚ drug trafficking‚ unemployment‚ poverty‚ and climate hazards. Families come to the United States to achieve
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