Patient Education Plan for Uterine Fibroids Ramona Pullum University of Phoenix NUR/427 Barbara Deets May 13‚ 2010 Patient Education Plan for Uterine Fibroids Uterine fibroids are muscular tumors that grow in the wall of the uterus (womb). Another medical term for uterine fibroids is "leiomyoma" (leye-oh-meye-OH-muh) or just "myoma". Fibroids are almost always benign or non cancerous. Fibroids can grow as a single tumor‚ or there can be many of them in the uterus. They can be as small as
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The Dangers of Being Anorexic or Obese Women‚ for the most part are weight conscious. Many women probably want to be like females in the entertainment industry such as movie stars who have perfectly curved slim bodies and the photoshoped models we find in magazines. As Americans‚ we are blinded that there are more anorexic and obese women than women who are a healthy size. Both anorexic and obese women have eating disorders. According to Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescence and Maudsley Family-Based
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In nursing the quality of care we delivery is very important not just to the patient‚ but also the nurse. When we care for patients it is important to make the patients the priority and make their clinical experience a good one. A nurse usually develops their plan of care to satisfy the patients needs‚ so we call that patient-centered care. Dabney and Tzeng (2013) describes patient-centered care as a therapeutic relationship that occurs among health care providers and the patients that are receiving
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Writing Assignment #7 Tiara Diaz ITT Technical Institute/Breckinridge School of Nursing NUR 270 Jennifer Kyte APRN‚ MSN May 7th‚ 2012 The plan of care for a patient with esophagogastric balloon tamponade tubes is formulated around the primary nursing diagnosis of ineffective airway clearance related to aspiration of blood (Ackley‚ B.‚ Ladwig‚ G.‚ 2011) Bleeding often stop spontaneously‚ but if it does not‚ a Sengstaken-Blakemore or Minnesota tube is inserted to provide constant
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An Obese Nation Walking down the street a person is more likely to see an obese person than a person of normal weight. This nation is filled with obese adults‚ and children who seem to be following in their parents’ footsteps. Obesity is overrunning America. What are the causes of the obesity epidemic that has swept America‚ and what solutions can be considered to help decrease obesity? Americans are overweight in growing numbers due to lack of exercise and the convenience of fast food.# Lack
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Rough draft for patient education plan Diagnosis: Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) What is it? A (UTI) Urinary Tract Infection happens when bacteria enters and multiplies in the sterile urinary tract which causes inflammation and can result in small amounts of blood‚ pus‚ and bacteria in the urine. This can cause pain with urination‚ a sense of needing to urinate frequently‚ and sometimes cramping in the lower abdomen. The infection can involve the urethra‚ the bladder‚ sometimes the ureters
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THE ROLE OF DEBRIDEMENT IN WOUND HEALING OF PATIENTS WITH DIABETES FOOT ULCERS (REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS) INCIDENT As a registered nurse with over 10 years of clinical practice experience in various field of nursing including caring for patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs)‚ I was concerned with rise in the numbers of DFUs cases resulting into higher rates of amputation‚ disabilities and mortality . DFU are caused by a combination of peripheral neuropathy and vascular diseases resulting from
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DOI: 4/18/2003. The patient is a 71-year old male groundskeeper who sustained a work-related injury to his low back as a result of lifting heavy batteries approximately 75 pounds. As per OMNI entry‚ the patient is status post two lumbar surgeries and spinal cord stimulator implant. He was deemed to have reached Maximum Medical Improvement on 09/15/2009. Future medical care includes office visits‚ medications‚ physical therapy‚ testing‚ and possible removal of L3-4 pedicle screw. Per medical report
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Investigation of Systolic and Diastolic deviations in the obese: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and metabolic technique. Obesity is one of the major health issues in developed Western countries‚ especially in the United States of America (Danias‚ 2003). Previous investigations with magnetic resonance imaging have shown that obesity independently alters the structure and systolic/diastolic function of the heart. This has been evaluated with great detail by using cardiovascular magnetic
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Running head: COMMUNITY TEACHING WORK PLA Community Teaching Work Plan Cristeta Flynn‚ Lynette Ortiz‚ Virginia Wilson‚ James LaRue Grand Canyon University Community Teaching Work Plan This is a Community Teaching Plan Work Proposal group project for the city of San Diego‚ and our target community is children in elementary school. We have chosen primary health promotion/prevention and will address Childhood Obesity‚ which falls under the category of Nutrition and
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