On an early Thursday morning in January I was introduced to Patient Y‚ a 30-40 year old female who was being induced with her third child. She was 39 weeks and 1 day and was having an elective induction. She was very willing to have a nursing student present through her laboring process and therefore I was able to experience the complete birth and eventually use her for my OB paper. Patient Y had diabetes‚ hypertension‚ and depression prior to her pregnancy. She did not have any major surgeries
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Description of the Activity: Mrs. K was an 82 year old admitted to the hospital for sepsis. She had a medical history of HTN‚ MI‚ COPD‚ and dementia. I took care of her Thursday to Sunday. Mrs. K was a DNR. Mr. K‚ was her husband‚ and had stayed by Mrs. K’s side and slept by her bed in a chair every night. The first two days I was with Mrs. K she was hooked to IV antibiotics‚ fluids‚ and TPN. She was somewhat responsive but only she had to take the couple of oral medications she had ordered
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health needs are well-attended to within the acceptable standards and ethics that bind and govern the practice of patient-care. In light of these and other inherent desires of mine‚ to be of help to people in society‚ I am of the opinion that the Clinical Nursing Leader course when pursued at the Masters level‚ places me on the way to achieving my (complete sentence) ? This dream of mine took root when I had to cater for a nephew who suffers from autism. This situation brought me to the grim
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understanding to those who don’t. Nearly everyone experiences situational depression at some point in life. That’s depression that comes with the loss of a loved one‚ loss of a job‚ or experiencing some other tragedy. Situational depression goes away‚ clinical depression doesn’t or at least rarely does but it can be
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Examination of Clinical Psychology Paper 1 Examination of Clinical Psychology Psy 480 January 28‚ 2013 Dr. Lewis When a student is entering into psychology‚ there are many venues he or she will have to look into. Will he or she decide to become a Social Worker‚ a Psychologist‚ a Psychiatrist or a Clinical Psychologist? First the student will need to do some research to see what each
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Common interview Questions and answers: Clinical jobs: Tell me about yourself: I’ve been a Registered Dietitian since 2001‚ and have had different roles in the field. I really enjoy the 1 on 1 interaction with patients and educating patients. I also enjoy being part of a team. My interest in this position is to get back into the clinical setting and have more of the 1on 1 patient interaction which I find fulfilling. Other: My areas of expertise are nutrition and educating patients on nutrition
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(1982-2011)‚ CINAHL (1996-2011)‚ Embase (1982-2011) and BNI (1982-2011) Mckibbon and Mark (1998) states that CINAHL and Medline databases are the most appropriate methodological to identify studies that report high quality research which can be used for clinical application. Most of the search result‚ produced articles that were Control Randomised Trails (RCT). Torgerson and Torgerson (2008)‚ states that RCT is the gold standard for research method and for addressing the what? question in ‘evidence-informed’
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Leadership Questions Nur/492 October 18‚ 2012 Leadership Questions By definition leadership is the action of leading a group of people or an organization (Merriam-Webster‚ 2012). Therefore‚ anyone should be able to lead. Not so much. Leadership is an umbrella adjective that encompasses certain qualities that one needs to be an effective leader. To connect with the people you are charged with leading one must possess a certain set of characteristics and skills. This paper will discuss
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Is there a single definition for the term insanity‚ Psychology has begun to shape my understanding of the ability to be emotionally and mentally unwell and the potential sources of this condition. Clinical psychology is my main area of interest as it explores the abnormality of human nature and so I believe higher education will provide me with the reasons for this abnormality. The variety of my Psychology A Level course so far has been exceptional and awe-inspiring. I began to question every aspect
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While major or clinical depression can have numerous symptoms‚ the primary criteria for a this diagnosis is when the individual experiences a loss of interest or depressed state of mind the majority of the day‚ nearly every day and for a period of two weeks or
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