Chronic Illness and Sexuality 1. If the patient doesn’t bring up any concerns about their sexuality‚ why should the doctor bother to ask? a. It is the role of the health care professional to create and maintain a trustworthy environment in which the patient feels comfortable enough to bring up these concerns (Odey‚ 2009). Doctors and nurses also must realize that sexual health is a large part of every person’s holistic health and must be addressed at some point during the visit‚ whether the patient
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Parkinson’s is a chronic‚ severe and debilitating brain disorder which cannot yet be cured: so what are the current available treatments to help relieve the disorder’s symptoms? The Problem Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive‚ degenerative neurological disorder which is caused by nerve cell death in the midbrain called the substantia nigra which is responsible for producing neurotransmitters dopamine. The disease is named after the English doctor James Parkinson‚ who published the first detailed
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Introduction In the United States‚ Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) remains the greatest common cause of death. Cardiovascular Diseases‚ also known as the common heart diseases‚ are any conditions that involve blocked blood vessels that can lead to either a heart attack or other heart problems. The common types of CVD are coronary artery disease‚ high blood pressure‚ stroke‚ and arrhythmia. CVD is a major disease that will not show any symptoms until the disease is at its extreme. Yet numerous adults are unaware
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Inquiry into Chronic Care NURS2000 Lecturer: Susan Boylen Assignment 2 Corinna Smithwick Student Number 18570342 Internal Unit corinna.smithwick@student.curtin.edu.au BSc Nursing (EN – RN Conversion) Due Date: 28th August 2015 I declare that this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted in any form for another unit‚ degree or diploma at any university or other institutes of tertiary education. Information derived from the published or unpublished work of others has been acknowledged
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Chronic pancreatitis pathophysiology is unclear. However‚ Long tern alcohol use causes hypersecretion of protein in pancreatic productions‚ this then causes protein plugs and calculi to form inside the pancreatic channels. Therefore‚ alcohol abuse has a direct poisonous impact on the cells of the pancreas. Subsequently‚ patients with eating regimens such as low protein and high or low in fat are more at risk. Smoking is another aspect on the improvement of chronic pancreatitis (J V. Tsirambidis‚
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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodenerative disorder of the brain that causes memory loss and is the most common form of dementia. Alzheimer’s affects about four million Americans and is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Although mostly everyone that has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s has the same symptoms- there are three different types of the disease. Early-onset Alzheimer’s happens to those who are under the age of 65‚ Moderate Alzheimer’s is the most common form of the
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hypertension‚ chest pain‚ and heart disease. Chronic pain is the stress that wears people away day after day‚ year after year. It destroys mind‚ bodies‚ and lives. It is caused by an unhappy marriage‚ or a despised job. It comes when a person does not find a way out of miserable situation. People die of this by suicide‚ violence‚ heart attack‚ stroke‚ and sometime even cancer. A 2013 survey says the teens are having emotional and physical distress‚ including chronic stress. Teens have to at least
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Hodgkin Disease Alisa Bernal ITT Technical Institute GE259 Friday 16‚ 2015 Hodgkin disease‚ also known as Hodgkin lymphoma‚ is a cancer of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system consists of the lymphocytes‚ which are part of the immune system. The lymphatic system has lymphoid tissues‚ lymphatic vessels and lymph. The lymphoid tissues can be found in bone marrow‚ tonsils‚ stomach‚ spleen and other organs in the body. Hodgkin’s disease can begin anywhere because there are so many
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The exact cause of Alzheimer disease is unknown‚ but scientists have proven that there is a strong link between Alzheimer disease and some factors such as genetic‚ environmental‚ and life style factors. Alzheimer disease not only affects the cognitive ability of the patients‚ but also it has behavioural and psychiatric impacts on the patients. In addition‚ family members and friends of the patients would be also affected. Since Alzheimer disease gradually get worse over time‚ damaged brain could
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Stress is a natural reaction in humans‚ caused by good or bad experiences and affects body and mind. When stress occurs‚ hormones release and heart and breathing rates are accelerated in reaction. Chronic stress can cause long-term issues for the body‚ like heart issues and infertility‚ to name a few. The most common way to identify stress is through the "Fight-or-Flight" response‚ brought on through the Central Nervous System (CNS). Mental stress can cause a great many responses within the human
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