My clinical nursing experience at Chestnut Hill has had a profound impact on my academic and professional journey in nursing. As a nursing student in an accelerated program‚ I am consistently saturated with a host of medical and nursing care knowledge. In a very short period of time‚ this information must be absorbed and retained. Consequently‚ I have found it very difficult to bridge the academic realm of this program with my clinical experience until now. For example‚ if I am assigned to a patient
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1. Why would there be cause for concern if a young pregnant mother is Rh-‚ her husband is Rh+‚ and this is their second child? (pg 655) RhoGAM prevents the mother from sensitizing herself against her child. If the second child is RH+ and she did not take RhoGAM‚ there is a chance the mother will be sensitive to the second child and the child is at a risk of develop erythroblastosis fetalis and die before birth. 2. A patient complains of no energy‚ a chronic sore throat‚ a low-grade fever
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Personality Traits As Predictors of Health Behavior: Emotional Stability‚ GPA & Substance Risk Honor Pledge x_______________________________________________ Abstract Personality traits may be important predictors of various health behavior outcomes. Two hypotheses are tested which examined the associations between emotional stability and substance risk. Emotional stability‚ a domain of personality that has received little research attention‚ was
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Assignment 3: Physical Fitness Assessment in Adults Using your textbook (chapter 9) answer the following questions. 1. What are the components of health-related physical fitness and why are they considered health related? a. Cardiovascular endurance – reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality b. Body Composition – reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease‚ adult-onset diabetes‚ and metabolic syndrome. c. Muscular fitness including muscular strength
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The final project for PSY 230 is a personal narrative in which you apply personality psychology theories and concepts to better understand yourself. For this project‚ you are expected to incorporate your understanding of personality theory with self-actualization into one reflective‚ personal narrative paper. Final Project Timeline You should budget your time wisely and work on your project throughout the course. As outlined below‚ some CheckPoints and Assignments in the course are designed
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An instance‚ in which I used the nursing process‚ stood as my clinical experience of caring for a 72-year-old female diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia. This patient regularly acquired pneumonia‚ and with her body becoming more frail and susceptible to disease‚ she found herself in the hospital. Upon entering the patient’s room‚ I encountered an older woman slumping in her bed‚ looking restless‚ and using her accessory muscles to try to get appropriate respirations. Recognizing that the patient was
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Select something you either strongly like or dislike (e.g.‚ reading‚ competitive sports‚ flying‚ snakes‚ etc.). Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you: 1. Briefly describe your like or dislike (one to two (1-2) sentences). 2. Describe the subfield (e.g.‚ cognitive psychology‚ developmental psychology‚ psychoanalytic psychology‚ etc.) you believe is best suited for providing psychological insight into your preference (the fact that you like or dislike the thing you do) and why
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Multicultural research methodologies are one of the newest research fields to be implemented in recent decades. Traditional research methodology has been established for centuries‚ and has a very orthodox view of things like norms‚ measurement instruments‚ sampling‚ and observation. Multicultural researchers quickly found out that applying these same factors to their own research was inappropriate; the field of multicultural research demanded a different perspective if any sort of useful and accurate
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structuralism Early school of psychology that emphasized studying the most basic components‚ or structures‚ of conscious experiences. functionalism Early school of psychology that emphasized studying the purpose‚ or function‚ of behavior and mental experiences psychoanalysis Personality theory and form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the role of unconscious factors in personality and behavior. behaviorism School of psychology and theoretical viewpoint that emphasizes the study of observable
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Key Scene Analysis of Dead Poets Society Key Scene Analysis – Dead Poet’s Society Throughout the 1989 Peter Weir film ‘Dead Poet’s Society’‚ a number of key scenes are shown with the use of camera angles‚ lighting and music‚ all which help to set the scene of the movie. The scene I have chosen is ‘Todd’s First Poetry Lesson’ Weir uses a variety of camera angles to display specific points and messages in the scene. The first is a high angled shot from the perspective of Mr. Keating. The second
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