epigastric pain described as bad heartburn. Her sister tells the nurse‚ "I felt like that when I had toxemia during my pregnancy." Admission assessment by the nurse reveals: today’s weight 182 pounds‚ T 99.1° F‚ P 76‚ R 22‚ BP 138/88‚ 4+ pitting edema‚ and 3+ protein in the urine. Heart rate is regular‚ and lung sounds are clear. Deep tendon reflexes (DTRs) are 3+ biceps and triceps and 4+ patellar with 1 beat of ankle clonus. The nurse applies the external fetal monitor‚ which shows a baseline fetal
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Differences in ADN Nurses and BSN Nurses Dorothy Love RNC Grand Canyon University: NUS/430V January 7‚ 2011 This paper will explore the differences in competencies for nurses prepared at the associates and baccalaureate degree levels. Both allow the graduate to enter into the field of nursing as a Registered Nurse. There are distinct differences in the educational preparation and resulting competencies. Identifying differences of the ADN and BSN prepared nurse requires looking at
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Introduction This essay will be discussing the current issue of conflict between nurses’ demand of increase on their pay and government’s comparatively lower related nurse pay policy. Background information will presented first‚ followed by an analysis on the strike and reasons why this strike happens. In the end‚ there will be theoretical evaluation about industrial relations focusing on absenteeism and industry productivity. Background information The contemporary human society is composed
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Ethics has become part of the nurses’ life when it comes to decision making and taking actions in the face of adversity or opportunity. Husted and Husted (2008‚ p.9) states that the patients has lost their power to take actions on their medical conditions due to the lack of knowledge in the health care settings. Hence‚ the healthcare providers are there to impart their skills and knowledge to treat the patient with the best care. This assignment would discuss how the medical decisions for A B who
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Case Name: Community Health Systems I. Mission The Health Care System of Opportunity: Community Health’s System is committed to “building a network of thriving hospitals vital to the residents and economic development of the communities served.” They go on to say that they have assisted community hospitals with problems and challenges they typically face such as a lack of capital‚ difficulty hiring physicians‚ and retaining management with a high amount of experience and expertise. In addition
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English 12 Period 3 December 11‚ 2013 Inside the Job of a Nurse Practitioner Whenever people are sick or have an emergency and have to go to the hospital‚ nurses are always there to comfort them. Nursing is a fast growing occupation here in the United States and makes up the vast majority of the healthcare industry. Nursing is a career that allows people to care for others. Aside from the greatness of helping others‚ it also comes with stressful situations that require plenty of responsibility
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hospital-acquired anemia is associated with greater mortality and worse health status in patients with acute MI‚ but the relationship between diagnostic phlebotomy and the risk of hospital-acquired anemia had not been rigorously studied in this population‚ according to Dr Adam Salisbury (Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart and Vascular Institute‚ Kansas City‚ MO) and colleagues. Salisbury and colleagues analyzed records from 57 centers from in the Cerner Health Facts electronic medical records database. This database
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50118195. CU1630 - PROMOTE COMUNICATION IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE OR CHILDREN’S AND YOUND PEOPLE’S SETTINGS (L3) (3) (M). 1.1 Identify the different reasons people communicate a. To express their feelings. b. To express their needs. c. To ask questions or to answer questions. d. To reassure. e. To share experience. f. To socialise. 1.2 Explain how communication affects relationships in the work setting. a. It helps to understand each other. b. It can promote continuation of work in the
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say to work friend. Also in working relationship is no space for emotion or attachment and it is based around role‚ where personal relationship is based around emotion and attachment. A personal relationship is a relationship formed through choice‚ with someone who I like‚ who I share interests and feelings not goal with need to be rich. 1.2 Describe different working relationships in health and social care settings There are many different relationships in my work. A first relationship with come
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dedication and compassion for the people he treated were motivating and made me realize that I wanted to work in the medical field as well. When my father was later on hospitalized and had a brain tumor surgery‚ I noticed that it was the nurses that played a major role in his recovery‚ and to be remembered by us afterwards for the attention and care they gave him during that stressful time. Nursing became an alternative that I have intended to follow for a while. Having overcome some hard times‚ I am
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