Students in their first semester of year one‚ attached to the ward for 3 weeks. • The skill that will be taught to them will be blood pressure monitoring using a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer. • Cork A (2007) suggest that nursing students should be using manual BP monitoring I l practice instead of depending on automated monitors• Learning takes place in surgical ward and hospital’s stimulation lab. • The first debriefing session was conducted in stimulation lab. The
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My perception of the older adult has been somewhat influenced by society. Society’s view is that older people need special treatment because of their poor health‚ lack of income‚ or because they lack social support. Therefore‚ they feel that the older adult needs extra help. At times I do feel the same way‚ but my view is more geared to what is called "compassionate stereotyping". This stereotype attempts to create sympathy for older people‚ but it doesn’t give a true picture of later life. See‚
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Moules and Ramsay (1998) identify many areas for child health promotion. This includes smoking‚ exercise‚ diet and nutrition‚ sexual health‚ dental health‚ skin care and the sun‚ accidents‚ alcohol and drug abuse. As with the other branches of nursing‚ health promotion can take forms of primary‚ secondary or tertiary intervention. Interventions may depend on the age of the child. Younger children‚ for example pre school aged children will benefit form health promotion aimed at the parents. Health
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of their magic dolls with their magic pins while the mangaaaway (devil men) solicited satanic powers that can cause individuals to become mentally-ill (Santiago‚ 1995). Herbolarios (herbsmen) intervene for treatment or “victims” are brought to the church for exorcism or ritual cleaning. Herbolarios are said to have an understanding of the mentally-ill persons. Through their own ability to get rid of the individual’s malady or ailment‚ they may have been using psychotherapy in a much different and
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| Hyponatremia in the Older Adult | 168344 | | Vivienne Ellison 09039422 | 8/6/2011 | | Hyponatremia in the older adult. Management of defects in water homeostasis in the elderly is often difficult because of age related changes and diseases that are associated with impairment of water metabolism. The feeling of thirst is often impaired in the elderly (Kugler‚ 2000). Hyponatremia is a serum sodium concentration of less than the
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There are two distinct models of disability that seek to empower those with disabilities- the medical model and the social model. The medical model refers to a disability as a “physical or mental impairment of the individual and its person with social consequences. It regards the limitations faced by people with disabilities as resulting primarily‚ or solely‚ from their impairments” Wasserman et al (2011). Under the medical model people are defined by their illness or medical condition. The medical
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Democracy is always named and used in the liberal discursive process. But if we refer to history‚ democracy of these days is not the same as democracy decades ago. Thus‚ it is important that democracy is understood as an evolution and not as a static concept. Similarly it is necessary to understand democracy by its principles and not by its practitioners in power. Liberal democracy can be briefly defined as a system of government in which the people rule themselves‚ either directly or indirectly
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Sulotte Valcin Amilcar RN-BC‚ MSNed My Nursing Philosophy When I was growing up in Haiti‚ I have always had the desire to help‚ care‚ and advocate for others‚ but I never quite had the opportunity to do that until I moved to the United States and I become a nurse. My intuition to become a nurse began in 1992 when my daughter who was born with sickle cell anemia became very ill to the point that she was put on a voluntary comma for about a month. I remember renting the little mermaid movie
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Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turnover Nursing shortage is a phenomenon that is affecting nurses and the provision of adequate patient care in today’s health care industry. Nursing shortage is said to occur when the demand for employment of nurses is far greater than the number of nurses willing to be employed at that time (Huber‚ 2010). According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (A.A.C.N.)‚ “the nursing shortage is expected to increase as baby boomers age‚ and the need for health
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Introduction to M-theory From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article is an accessible‚ non-technical introduction to the subject. For the main encyclopedia article‚ see M-theory[->0]. String theory| [->1][->2]| Superstring theory[->3]| Theory[hide] · String theory[->4] Superstring theory Bosonic string theory M-theory (simplified) Type I string Type II string F-theory Heterotic string String field theory| Concepts[show] · [->5]| Related topics[show]
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