Your post provided some insightful information. I recognized the trauma that was inflicted on Laura by her mother during the early stages of her life‚ but I had not taken into consideration that the excessive amounts of time spent in the hospital only added to the fragile mother /daughter disconnection. Virginia was an adequate “care provider” for her daughter‚ but she lacked the necessary maternal skills needed for Laura to sustain healthy growth. Since there are still emotional scars in the relationship
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Hypertension High blood pressure is also known as hypertension is on the rise among all age groups due to poor dietary habit‚ aging‚ and sedentary/behavioral lifestyle. However‚ health care providers‚ patients‚ dieticians‚ and parents can jointly work together to eliminate this silent killer. The seventh Joint National Committee defines hypertension as a sustained systolic blood pressure above 140 mm Hg or higher or a diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or above in three separate occasions. However‚ one
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There exists an article regarding the legal protest rules of nurses‚ within the medical field. According to the Carolan‚ (2000) academic journal‚ Nurses that are bonded with unions have the legal ability to “walk off the job” when unfair work conditions are noted. The rule only applies if the nurses negotiation agreements‚ does not contain a clause that prohibits striking (Carolan‚ 2000). The workplace policy does not apply to the nurses that are not unionized. The Carolan (2000) academic journal
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Relevance to nursing practice. Death is highly relevant to nursing as the nursing staff faces the death of a patient almost every day (depends on the department they are in). The debate against hiding patient’s prognosis to informing them must be greatly considered. Before considering such action‚ nurses need to know what is best for the patient and what constitutes a good death. The representation of a good death is when one is relief of symptoms‚ open communication is present‚ the individual dignity
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Case studies have been great tool for me to learn evidence based nursing that will be put into nursing practice. Retrieving information‚ recognizing deviations from “normal”‚ interpreting and prioritizing data to plan patient specific interventions are all skills that I have developed from case study analyses. Different from SIM where we have to think on our feet and rely on the skills that we have learned‚ theory case studies are written‚ allowing us to track a nursing issue through all the stages
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Patients who present to the ER with abdominal pain are often complicated cases with the abdomen housing so many organs. Trying to figure out what is going on with your patient is made more difficult because of referred pain. When trying to figure out where to start remembering your ABC’s will assist in determining if your patient is stable or unstable. Remembering which organs are located within each abdominal region will assist you in narrowing down the potential diagnosis. With the ER patient
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Owing to technical advances in the care of critical illness‚ as it is the case in elderly people with advanced cancer‚ physicians‚ patients and families are often confronted with ambiguous circumstances in which medical advances may inadvertently prolong suffering and the dying process rather than bring healing and recovery. False promises actually are worse than being upfront about the fact that in some cases‚ further treatment is useless. Because I want to eventually own a hospice facility
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MD Anderson Cancer Center Case The University ofTexas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) is one of the world’s most-respected centers devoted exclusively to cancer patient care‚ research‚ education and prevention. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is one of the premier cancer centers in the world. It is located in the Texas Medical Center in central Houston‚ alongside over 40 other health care entities.MD Anderson ’s visions is to be the premier cancer center in the world‚ based
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Running head: MY NURSING ETHIC Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS-437V My Nursing Ethic Nursing‚ ethics‚ and morals all‚ which are necessary for a nurse to provide‚ care in a diverse population of individual patients. Nurses deal with individuals with complex needs that encompass physical‚ emotional‚ spiritual‚ and psychosocial issues that the average person cannot comprehend let alone that these things can happen to a man‚ women‚ child
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reference to previous studies such as practical reports of nursing teachers who were in charge of Pediatric Nursing Practicum‚ especially the qualitative study conducted by Shiba and Yamaguchi (2012). We created two sub-concepts‚ “judgments on the necessity of intervention” and “educational intervention” (Figure 1) from nursing teachers’ judgments and behaviors for supporting the construction of relationship between nursing students and child patients‚ clarified by a previous study (Shiba & Yamaguchi
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