Nursing Diagnosis #1 Analysis. This is an 89 year old male who recently admitted to the hospital after complaints of persistent diarrhea with history of recurrent Clostridium difficile. He stated that he has had a bout of diarrhea that has been unresolved after completing a round of vancomycin and has recently lost an excess of 5 pounds. Dehydration was initially treated with intravenous fluids. However‚ it was discovered that he was in acute kidney failure and was diagnosed with acute kidney
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The first cone on nursing diagnosis was held in 1973 to identify nursing knowledge and establish a classification system to be used for computerization. At this conference‚ the National Group for Classification of Nursing Diagnosis was founded; this group was later renamed the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA). In 1984‚ NANDA established a Diagnosis Review Committee (DRC) to develop a process for reviewing and approving proposed changes to the list of nursing diagnoses. The American
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Coping Strategies- Problem-focused Versus Emotion-focused Coping strategies refer to the specific efforts‚ both behavioral and psychological‚ that people employ to master‚ tolerate‚ reduce or minimize stressful events. There are two general coping strategies which have been distinguished. Problem-focused strategies are efforts to do something active to alleviate stressful circumstances‚ where as emotion-focused coping strategies involve efforts to regulate the emotional consequences of stressful
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if the child cannot take supplements by mouth or suffers from intestinal or liver disease. Increased amount of time your child spends outside will also help reduce rickets because the sun helps to produce Vitamin D. Pregnant and breastfeeding women should take a daily supplement of 10 micrograms of Vitamin D to ensure that adequate amounts are built up for early infancy How an unbalanced diet leads to the condition An unbalanced diet can lead to rickets because you won’t get enough nutrients that
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The psychosocial theory of stress and coping is of the utmost importance to patient care and recovery. It has been found that among other things‚ stress can affect the rate of wound healing‚ susceptibility to infectious diseases‚ and the development and progression of cancer (Walker et al‚ 2007). The nurse plays an integral role in the management and alleviation of patients’ stress‚ and can provide valuable mechanisms to aid in the process of coping with the stressor. Stress is a concept‚ not
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL APPLICATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGY IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES – CANCER. BY OLOWOKERE JOHN 1.0 Introduction Nanotechnology is the study‚ design‚ creation‚ synthesis‚ manipulation‚ and application of materials‚ devices‚ and systems at the nanometer scale (One meter consists of 1 billion nanometers). It is becoming increasingly important in fields like engineering‚ agriculture‚ construction‚ microelectronics and health care to mention a few. The application
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Nursing Care Plan Nursing care plan. Karisa M. Young April 28‚ 2005 Nursing 374L Nursing Care Plan Twin ‘B’ was born on Monday February 14‚ 2005 at 35 ... Nursing Care Plan Nursing Care Plan. NCP 1 Nursing Care Plan Catherine Traylor FH January 31‚2007 Karen Ruffin Mercer County Community College 2 Abstract ...... Nursing Care Plan nursing care plan. Student ... If risk factors are present‚ and individualized nursing care plan should be instituted for the client. (FV... Nursing Care Plan nursing
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2/7/06 1:52 PM Page i GORDON’S FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS* HEALTH PERCEPTION-HEALTH MANAGEMENT PATTERN Health-seeking behaviors (specify) 291–293 Ineffective health maintenance 287–291 Ineffective therapeutic regimen management 550–553 Effective therapeutic regimen management 543–545 Ineffective family therapeutic regimen management 547–550 Ineffective community therapeutic regimen management 545–547 Readiness for enhanced therapeutic regimen management 553–555 Noncompliance (specify) 365–369 Risk
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Dr. Barkley is the new director of the satellite office and has requested that statistical break-even points be completed for each DRG. He would also like information on which DRG is the most profitable to promote in the growing practice. Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) is a classification process in which health care organizations can separate patients into like categories even though patients have such broad differences. These classifications could be demographics‚ treatment‚ age‚ or diagnostic
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1. What is dementia? Why is Alzheimer disease based on a “diagnosis of exclusion”? What diagnostic tests would be ordered to determine if Ella’s dementia could be caused by Alzheimer’s disease? Dementia: Grossman and Porth (2014) define dementia as a group of symptoms caused by disorders that affect the brain. Another name for dementia is‚ nonnormative cognitive decline‚ which can be induced by any disorder that irreversibly damages large areas of the cerebral hemispheres or subcortical areas (memory
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