It can be gerontology‚ neonatal‚ pediatric‚ emergency or surgical care. The Shift Timings • As a registered nurse‚ needless to say‚ you have to run around the clock. The work schedules and shift timings can be either rotating or permanent. • Consider your overtime and emergency
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/brb I have been preparing for my future career all my life. Although my career choices have changed several times over the years‚ my desire to care for others has never changed. Children have always gravitated to me and me to them which led me to choose my career of becoming a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. I have researched and mapped out my pathway to achieving such a goal and I am very excited at what lies ahead. I love helping people; especially children. As a little girl I would always
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respiratory therapist treats a patient in the home to home‚ nursing facility rehab‚ hospitals‚ subacute care‚ emergency room and another long-term care facility. The respiratory therapist gives care for a patient whose age ranges very old to very young/neonatal‚ from acute to chronic disease patient. Respiratory therapist treats people who suffered from asthma‚ emphysema‚ pneumonia‚ cardiovascular disorder or cardiopulmonary disease. A respiratory therapist has a different kind of specialties that focus
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parentheses. References cited in the footnotes for each factor are studies that illustrate the correlation between the risk and Family structure. The HOME assessment factors are: * Low birth weight (most prevalent in out-of-wedlock births).c * Low neonatal health index score (most prevalent in out-of-wedlock births).c * Unemployment of the household head (least likely in a two-parent Family).d * Mother has less than a high school education (less likely if parents are married).e * Mother
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Symptoms and Causes of Double Outlet Right Ventricle By Jonas Wilson‚ Ing. Med. Double outlet right ventricle (DORV) is a rare congenital disorder where both of the great arteries‚ namely the aorta and the pulmonary artery‚ arise from the right ventricle. Normally‚ the aorta arises from the left ventricle where it receives oxygen-rich blood that is sent to the rest of the body. In contrast‚ the pulmonary artery normally exits from the right ventricle and carries oxygen-poor blood from the heart
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there are also nurses that specialize in a specific field of the hospital. The main job of a nurse is to help prevent injuries and disease‚ encourage healthy life choices as well as caring for the sick. Nursing jobs range from Nurse Practitioners to Neonatal Nurse‚ and each field of nursing has a different form of care services that they provide. While one type of nurse is specialized in delivering babies‚ the other is in charge of diagnosing someone with cancer and beginning treatment for them (“Nursing
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potentially hazardous. The Physician’s Desk Reference cautions that local anesthetics – the type used in epidurals – rapidly cross the placenta. When used for epidural blocks‚ anesthesia can cause varying degrees of maternal‚ fetal‚ and neonatal toxicity which can result in the following side effects: hypotension‚ urinary retention‚ fecal and urinary incontinence‚ paralysis of lower extremities‚ loss of feeling in the limbs‚ headache‚ backache‚ septic meningitis‚ slowing of labor‚ increased
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nursing students were assigned to the OB clinical at Henry Ford Hospital Detroit. We met Professor Melissa Major‚ who was assigned to be our instructor at Henry Ford Hospital Main Campus. We were taken on a tour of the Labor‚ Delivery‚ and Recovery‚ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit‚ and Postpartum. I began to observe how all three areas contribute and coincide with greater outcomes of mother‚ baby‚ and family in patient care. Furthermore LDR is the starting point of the overall framework of labor‚ birth
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY At 11.00 PM on December 2 1984‚ while most of the one million residents of Bhopal slept‚ an operator at the plant noticed a small leak of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and increasing pressure inside a storage tank. The vent-gas scrubber‚ a safety device designer to neutralize toxic discharge from the MIC system‚ had been turned off three weeks prior . Apparently a faulty valve had allowed one ton of water for cleaning internal pipes to mix with forty tons of MIC. A 30 ton refrigeration
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Introduction to Myasthenia Gravis Myasthenia Gravis‚ also Known as "grave muscle weakness" is a chronic muscle disease that causes abnormally rapid fatigue of the skeletal muscle system‚ which are the voluntary muscles. The affected muscles tire quickly but regain strength after a period of rest. Myasthenia Gravis is termed an autoimmune disease. The immune system usually makes antibodies to attack bacteria‚ viruses and germs. With the autoimmune disease‚ the immune system makes antibodies
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