Essay #1- Diabetes Diabetes is a disease the body undergoes when it is unable to produce any or enough insulin‚ due to a high level of glucose in the blood. According to the website diabetes.org‚ statistics show that‚ “diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2010 based on the 69‚071 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death.” Diabetes was discovered in 1889‚ later on various types of diabetes were identified and classified based
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Donna Curtis October 13‚ 2012 Nursing 155 Diabetes Assignment 1. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the result of the pancreas being unable to produce adequate amounts of insulin and the resistance of cells to insulin. This results in glucose remaining in the blood and not being taken up by the cells leading to hyperglycemia. Because of insulin’s role in the stimulation of the synthesis of protein and the storage of fatty acids in adipose tissue‚ inadequate amounts of insulin also reduces nutrients that
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Diabetes is a disease that ‘currently affects 346 million people worldwide’ (WHO 2011‚ Diabetes Program‚ p. 1). The National Health Priority Action Council (NHPAC) highlighted that ‘the direct health care expenditure on diabetes in 2000-01 was $812 million’(NHPAC 2006‚ p.7). This essay will address the role of health screening and health promotion in regards to diabetes mellitus. It will discuss the topics of morbidity‚ mortality‚ and aetiology as well as strategies to reduce incidence and prevalence
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HILLCREST MEDICAL CENTER DISCHARGE SUMMARY Patient Name: Gerald Edwards Hospital No.: 11058 Date of Admission: 07/15/2010 Date of Discharge: 07/20/2010 Consultations: Gary Shelton‚ DPM and Midori Okano‚ MD Procedures: Complicated incision and drainage‚ right foot‚ on 07/17/2010. Complications: None Admitting Diagnosis: Known diabetes mellitus. Ulceration of right foot. HISTORY: The patient is a 53-year-old black individual‚ who has had diabetes for at least six months
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of well known environmental contaminants‚ such as dioxin‚ PCBs and DDT‚ can affect hormone levels. Hormones are produced by the endocrine system as regulators of biological function in target organs. Because hormones play a critical role in early development‚ toxicological effects on the endocrine system often have an impact on the reproductive system. The term endocrine disruptor is used to describe chemicals that can mimic hormones and may either enhance or counteract their effects. It has been
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The endocrine system is one of our body systems that plays an important role in living. It comprises of many glands exerting hormones in maintaining the body’s internal environment also known as homeostasis. The endocrine system plays an important role in homeostasis because it maintains growth and development‚ maturation‚ reproduction‚ human behavior‚ metabolism‚ sexual function and controls functions of the tissues. It is partnered with the nervous system since the hypothalamus along with the pineal
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Endocrine system The Endocrine system is very important to our body. This system regulates our mood‚ growth‚ metabolism‚ tissue development‚ sexual functions and reproductive process. It is a very complex system with many different hormones and glands. I am going to write about the pituitary gland and thyroid. The pituitary gland is very often considered to be the most important glad in the Endocrine system. The Thyroid produces thyroxine andtriiodothyronine. The Pituitary gland is no bigger
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Discharge Plannin Discharge planning is a process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community. It seeks to bridge the gap between hospital and the place to which the patient is discharged‚ reduce length of stay in hospital‚ and minimise unplanned readmission to hospital.1 Discharge planning is an established part of hospital care‚ but the process varies and is not entirely evidenced based. A Cochrane review
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Constructive Discharge‚ Employee ID - 4022 Message: With respect to the case filed by our former employee against the company under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ constructive discharge‚ I would like to draw your attention towards the legalities of constructive discharge. Constructive discharge occurs when employees resign because their employer ’s behavior has become so intolerable or heinous or made life so difficult that the employee has no choice but to resign (Constructive Discharge). The
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This memo should clear up any questions you have remaining about the situation of the constructive discharge/ violation of Title VII lawsuit filed by our former employee‚ and will also give some suggestions for how we can avoid this problem in the future. First‚ it should be made clear that constructive discharge is that act of “forcing an employee out of a job with an ultimatum to either resign or face one of several unpleasant consequences”‚ which could be‚ among other things‚ unwanted transfer
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