NPAD2004 MODULE LEADER: jane smith TITLE: LONG TERM CONDITIONS WORD COUNT: 2122 The aim of this essay is to define a long term condition (LTC) and explain why this is important for nurses. Common symptoms may accompany many LTC’s and how these are treated‚ along with the impact on patient and carer
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What is long term care? Long-term care refers to a collection of services that are intended to meet the medical and non-medical needs of disabled or chronically ill patients. These services include social‚ medical/nursing‚ and community services. They often require assisting the patient or patients in performing day-to-day tasks like dressing‚ bathing and eating. Long-term care can be provided for anybody and can be performed in a nursing home‚ in the individual’s residence or in assisted living
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Source :The Financial Times Tittle: U.S CUTS POISED TO HIT THE LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED INTRODUCTION The United States economy runs on a huge budget deficit‚ for fiscal year 2014 projected to be $744 billion. That’s because US government spending is budgeted at $3.778 trillion‚ while government revenue will only be $3.034 trillion. As a result decisions were taken to cut spending across the board commonly known as sequestration. The sequestration would have so many effects but in line with my article
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Long-term Conditions Word Count: 2‚200 This essay explores and reflects on the lived experiences of an elderly patient living with the long-term condition (LTC) of psoriasis. A case study is used to illustrate some of the key features of LTCs and the impact they can have on a patient’s physical‚ psychological and social state. It is also going to be looking at the effect some of the key features can have on a patients support network or family. In addition it will examine the nurses role
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Long-Term Care Jacquetta Kelley HCS/310 September 12‚ 2010 Shannon Packard Long-term care is one of the options an individual has when it comes to care and treatment needed when one becomes older‚ disabled or develops a chronic illness. With the possibility of needing to receive such services in the future there are certain things one must ask them self‚ such as: What is this delivery systems role in providing services? What type of contribution‚ or lack of contribution‚ does it make
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“Consider the extent to which short term factors are now far more important than long term factors in shaping voter behaviour” Both short and long term factors unarguably play a crucial role in the voting behaviour of the electorate. However there is evidence to suggest that during the last decade the effect of long term factors has diminished considerably while the influence of short term factors has increased. By examining and deconstructing various long and short term factors we can examine their
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Memory Storage There are two types of storage that consist in our brain‚ which are short and long term memory. Short term memory involves “rehearsal and chunking” (Schacter et al.‚ 2012)‚ while long term consists of “encoding and retrieval of past memories” (Schacter et al.‚ 2012). I strongly believe that short term memories can lead into long term memories‚ but only if the human right frontal lobe‚ hippocampus‚ and the sensory region works together. Do you remember the time you were in class and
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How is information stored into your long-term memory? * Information is stored in long-term memory on a relatively permanent basis‚ although it may be difficult to retrieve. * Long-term memory is intended for storage of information over a long time. Information from the working memory is transferred to it after a few seconds. Unlike in working memory‚ there is little decay. * The transfer of material from short- to long-term memory proceeds largely on the basis of rehearsal‚ the repetition
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Long-term memory is memory that can last as little as a few days or as long as decades. Life without long term memory is almost impossible if you ask me. Memories play a very important role in your everyday functions and doings. I don’t see how you can function without long term memory because of the amount of things it affects. Memories are critical in having a regular life because you can’t function properly without memories. Life without long term memory is almost impossible in reality because
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to be successful and more than satisfied then goals must be set. Goals can always be set for anything and everything‚ and can currently change a person or change who they will become; some can be long term and some can be short term. Personally I believe I have an equal amount of long term and short term goals. My main goal in my life may be to be successful and have a happy‚ healthy‚ and outstanding lifestyle when I am older. In order to do so I must set many goals along the way. One goal may be
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