Pressure Ulcer Prevention Capstone Project Milestone # 4: Pressure Ulcer Prevention Introduction Pressure ulcers continue to be a prevalent issue in the health care system and causes “pain‚ slow recovery from morbid conditions‚ infection and death” (Kwong‚ Pang‚ Aboo‚ & Law‚ 2009‚ p. 2609). In the field of nursing turning and repositioning patients is a well-known nursing intervention to prevent development of pressure ulcers. However‚ many hospitals and facilities still neglect to apply
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Paradigms and Theories in Nursing Practice Over the course of the past century‚ the nursing profession has undergone multiple periods of transformation brought by the evolution of paradigms in nursing theory. The three major paradigms of empiricism‚ interpretive‚ and critical social theory now each provide a distinct set of principles to the discipline‚ while a pragmatic perspective serves to guide their application in practice. The intent of this paper is to discuss the contributions of each paradigm
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identify at-risk patient during admission. A history of a previous fall automatically sends a red flag when a patient is admitted to the facility and during inpatient stay. Patients with mobility problems are high risk for injury. Some of the identified intrinsic features associated with anticipated physiological falls includes polypharmacy‚ lingering effects from primary illness‚ and confusion. According to the information obtained from the fall champion on my unit‚ successful fall prevention strategies
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TO: ABC Mining Company FROM: T DATE: April 14‚ 2012 RE: Tax consequences and other risk factors associated with mining operations I. FACTS ABC Mining Company‚ Inc. is a publically traded‚ large domestic mining company with over 500 plants in the United States. ABC owns a tract of land in California upon which it has conducted a strip mining operation for coal. An unrelated party owns a tract of land adjacent to the tract of land in California‚ which is owned by ABC. This land is worth
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the fall by applying the planning and intervention technique; however‚ the nurse needs to prioritize the patient specific needs to prevent fall prevention in acute care settings. The article indicates that further study needed to find out successful outcome and identify the effective strategies. Abreu et al. (2012) article indicates that fall prevention is difficult‚ but it is important for the nurse to monitor the patient and understand the guidelines to prevent fall. The article also represents
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with the intention to do harm. There are different types of violence‚ such as suicide‚ intimate partner violence‚ child abuse‚ elderly abuse‚ youth violence‚ global violence‚ and sexual violence. Violence prevention programs have been set up to help stop these issues. Suicide violence prevention involves trying to stop individuals from harming themselves. Intimate partner violence includes a relationship between a couple that has different forms of injury. This might include physical‚ emotional‚ or
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Health model programs are used to help people with type 2 diabetes. The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) teaches people with diabetes to learn to eat healthy (Kramer‚ Kriska‚ Venditti‚ Miller‚ Brooks‚ Burke‚ Siminerio‚ Solano‚ Orchard‚ 2009). The Group Organized Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Diabetes Prevention Program (GO-YDPP)‚ is a modification of the DPP that involves one hour of training two times a week (Ackermann‚ and Marrero‚ 2007). The DPP is a program developed
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Atonement Paradigms are often times brought about when it comes to answering the question of how sin gets dealt with in a variety of situations. The word itself can be defined as the process of being made one with the Lord. Restitution can be linked to this category‚ as bringing up the element of justice‚ doing something wrong and the idea of punishment that follows. In layman’s terms‚ it is doing something wrong‚ then working through a process of making it right once again. There are six major Atonement
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TEENAGE SUICIDE AND POSSIBLE PREVENTION Page 1 TEENAGE SUICIDE AND POSSIBLE PREVENTION TROY UNIVERSITY TEENAGE SUICIDE AND POSSIBLE PREVENTION Page 2 The article that I chose to write about pertains to teenage suicide. The author‚ Kay Wyma‚ goes on to discuss one method of helping to prevent suicide among teenagers‚ that being instilling in them a sense of being needed‚ or "connectedness". According to Wyma‚ one way that this can be accomplished
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Theory of Knowledge - Paradiagm Shifts What is a paradigm shift? A paradigm shift is a change in the basic assumptions‚ otherwise known as paradigms‚ within the ruling theory of science. An example of a paradigm shift is the acceptance of Uniformitarianism and Gradualism in place of Catastrophism. Catastrophism → Uniformitarianism and Gradualism Georges Cuvier 1769 - 1832 During the 17th and 18th centuries‚ the predominant geological paradigm was Catastrophism. The catastrophists believed
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