Critical Care Nursing: Sickle Cell Anemia Critical Care Nursing 10/15/2009 Sickle cell anemia affects millions of people worldwide. Sickle cell anemia is a disease in which your body produces abnormally shaped red blood cells. They don’t last as long as normal‚ round red blood cells‚ which leads to anemia. Sickle cells contain abnormal hemoglobin that causes the cells to have a sickle shape. Sickle-shaped cells don’t move easily through your blood vessels. They’re
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PROCEDURE – ACCIDENT/INCIDENT INVESTIGATION EFFECTIVE DATE: March 1‚ 2007 1. PURPOSE The purpose of this procedure is to identify the duties‚ roles and responsibilities of workplace parties so that an effective and immediate accident/incident investigation and reporting process is in place. This will include identifying all contributing factors of the accident/incidents and hazardous situations and making the necessary recommendations to prevent the accident/incident from recurring. 2.
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UNFORGETTABLE INCIDENT The memory of that night is etched in my mind till now. After all‚ that was the most eventful day of my life‚ which changed the person I was.Everything started on 18th of November when my aunt sent a car to my mother‚ a beautiful blue Audi‚ the latest in 2004. It was raining heavily when we received the car. My brother and I were so excited because we planned to coax mom to give the new car to my brother‚ as she has already had a car and she refused to give hers to my
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Chapter 66: Nursing Management: Critical Care Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A 68-year-old patient has been in the intensive care unit for 4 days and has a nursing diagnosis of disturbed sensory perception related to sleep deprivation. Which action should the nurse include in the plan of care? a. Administer prescribed sedatives or opioids at bedtime to promote sleep. b. Cluster nursing activities so that the patient has uninterrupted rest periods. c. Silence the alarms on the cardiac monitors to allow
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type‚ taps on the glass and tells me there’s a briefcase on the floor and says he’s not riding in the back with an unidentified briefcase. Durban is the city of paranoia these days like terrorists spent months plotting to blow up my cab‚ who would care? But maybe he thinks he’s important enough to make a good target because he sure is making a lot of noise about it. So I get out and grab the case and pull it up front. He settles back in his seat. I open the case‚ snap it shut again as fast as I can
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FREEDOM‚ A CAUSE for CHANGE Throughout history‚ the restless struggle for freedom has never ceased to be. This is a particularly sensitive issue‚ and we can’t deny that certain nations are ignoring it at a high level. It strikes us‚ nowadays‚ how we can still spot news headlines of public figures getting arrested because they are conceived as a threat to their country. The actual so-called threat is that those people were brave enough to express certain political opinions. Nevertheless‚ today
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I will reflect on an incident that occurred during my shift to develop positive attitude towards nursing informatics. In this reflection‚ I am going to use Gibbs (1988) Reflective cycle. This model is a recognized framework for my reflection. Gibbs (1988) consist of six stages to complete one cycle which is able to improve my nursing informatics and learning from the experience for better practice in future. The cycle starts with description of the situation‚ analysis of the feelings‚ evaluation
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at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ CT. The increasing frequency and complexities of these incidents demonstrate the need for all emergency agencies to collaborate and train for this sad new reality of society. With the recent rise in Active Shooter Incidents (ASI) the author David C. Billings‚ wrote the Executive Fire Officer Paper‚ EMS Under Fire: Developing an Active Shooter Incident Response. The author recognized the need to develop a Standard Operating Practice for a safe and effective
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strongly associated with fear that can be activated by external or internal cues. They also contain a set of responses to threatening stimuli and situations that produce a fight‚ flight‚ or freeze reaction that proved adaptive during the traumatic incident. In exploring fear reactions‚ Foa and Kozak (1986b) cite that what differentiates PTSD from anxiety disorders is that the trauma is of such significance that it violates and destabilizes the individual’s basic sense of safety. As a result‚ experiences
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Just One More Yesterday It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day‚ and don’t think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought as much about it myself‚ until I faced with the shock‚ and undeniable truth of my grandfather’s death. I don’t think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news. Of course at the time I was only 10 years old and the word death has never even crossed my mind
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