Nurses played an important role in World War I‚ helping heal those injured on the battlefield. Over 3000 canadians served as nurses in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the first world war including Laura Gamble‚ Ruby Peterkin‚ and Anne E. Ross. One nurse who served with the Canadian military during the First World War is Laura Gamble. She was born in Wakefield‚ Quebec and worked for the Toronto General Hospital before she joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She served as a nurse in
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Professional Roles and Values Performance Assessment Written by: XXXXXXXX Student ID# XXXXXXXXX Regulatory agencies‚ such as a state board of nursing‚ are government agencies that regulate nursing practice. They act to ensure nurses are competent in their practice and that standards of practice are met. These agencies examine nursing education programs‚ and are the ones who approve and accredit them. The agencies are responsible for granting licensure for nursing professionals and oversee
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Analysis Paper: Fluid Volume Deficit “Fluid volume is a term that describes the balancing of input and output of fluid in the body” (Welch 2010). This balance can be affected by many factors: inadequate intake‚ shock‚ vomiting‚ diarrhea‚ or too much output. It can also be caused by third spacing. Fluid volume balance is very important to monitor patients because it can affect every body system and can easily be altered. Fluid volume deficit is more commonly referred to as dehydration. Euvolamia
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Personal Health Records Main Concepts and Current Issues Personal health record (PHR) is a very useful tool for patient and not to be confused as medical records. Personal health Record is electronic file or record designed to help patients manage their health information and be more involved in their health care‚ while a medical record is patient health record manage by healthcare providers. Over the years‚ as technology is progressing and the amount of healthcare providers are increasing‚ we found
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will define the role of the nurse in healthcare and outline the different qualities required for this profession. Berridge and Liddle (2010) demonstrate that the definition of nursing according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is “the use of clinical judgement in the provision of care to enable people to improve‚ maintain‚ or recover health‚ to cope with health problems and to achieve the best possible quality of life‚whatever their disease or disability‚ until death.” A nurse is an individual
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patient with a fluid or electrolyte imbalance for falls‚ especially older adults. 2 Use safety precautions to prevent injury or death when administering parenteral potassium-containing solutions. 3 Supervise the oral fluid therapy and intake and output measurement aspects of care delegated to unlicensed assistive personnel. Health Promotion and Maintenance 4 Teach healthy adults and patients how to prevent dehydration. 5 Assess patients for factors that increase the risk for fluid and electrolyte
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How would you describe your role in your clinical setting? The role of the Perianesthesia nurse manager is to oversee the personnel within the Perianesthesia department‚ work collaboratively with physicians and/and or other allied health practitioners as well as administration to ensure that departmental goals as well as institutional goals are attained. The manager needs to have a good working knowledge of the care standards for the department and ensure that these standards are being met. Do you
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A Manual for the MECHANICS of FLUIDS LABORATORY William S. Janna Department of Mechanical Engineering Memphis State University ©1997 William S. Janna All Rights Reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transcribed in any form or by any means—electronic‚ magnetic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise— without the prior written consent of William S. Janna 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Item Page Report Writing............
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In Book Three of The Faerie Queene‚ the character of Glauce plays an important role in aiding Britomart‚ the main character‚ to set off on her journey. Britomart‚ who represents Spenser ’s idea of ideal Christian chastity‚ confronts some challenging and poignant issues before she heads off on her adventure; namely‚ she sees a vision of her future husband in an enchanted looking glass‚ and does not quite know how to handle the feelings of all-encompassing love that arise in her. The terror‚ doubt
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BALANCE OF TRADE AND BALANCE OF PAYMENTS – An Introduction The balance of payments account indicates a systematic record of all export incomes and import payments of a country during any year. Any import from abroad has to be paid for. On the other hand‚ any export will bring money flow into the country. If we subtract the total value of the imported commodities from the total value of the exported commodities of a country‚ what we obtain is called the ‘Balance of Trade’ of the country. If the
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