This assignment will present a nursing care study of a patient on a cardiac ward. The patient will be referred to as Ann to maintain confidentiality (NMC‚ 2008). Ann’s consent was gained prior to starting this care study. The care study will be developed using the Nursing process and the Roper‚ Logan and Tierney model. These will both be outlined. The assignment will focus on the assessment process and one problem identified during the assessment and the nursing care which followed this. I was placed
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Alicia V.‚ based on her symptoms‚ is diagnosed with PCOS. This is based on the findings that she is experiencing weight gain‚ unwanted hair growth‚ acne‚ a normal external genitalia‚ cervix‚ and vagina‚ and amenorrhea. Alicia has secondary amenorrhea because she has high levels of prolactin‚ which suppress GnRH and FSH. This is demonstrated by her low FSH levels. Alicia has hirsutism as insulin producing cells are overactive and create too much insulin. This increase in insulin causes her ovaries
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1. The normal fasting glucose level is From 70 to 99 mg/dL . The fasting blood glucose level‚ which is measured after a fast of 8 hours‚ is the most commonly used indication of overall glucose homeostasis‚ largely because disturbing events such as food intake are avoided. It is often the first test done to check for prediabetes (From 100 to 125 mg/dL ) and diabetes (126 mg/dL and above). 2. CB’s fasting blood sugar is 141mg/dl and cholesterol is 225 mg/dl which is higher than the normal range
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Organizational Adaptation: Choice vs. Determinism By L.G. Hrebiniak & W.F. Joyce; summarized by Tristan Latour Introduction There were two views concerning organizational adaptation: * It’s a process reflecting choice and selection * It’s a necessary reaction to peremptory environmental forces/conditions (Note: in this paper‚ adaptation is interpreted as simply “change”‚ including both proactive & reactive behavior) This paper: 1) Choice and determinism are not two opposite ends
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‘Nosferatu’ was the first motion picture adaptation of Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and one of the first films altogether. Although
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Nursing requires daily‚ hourly and even up to the minute tasks and details. The nurse is reactive and supportive‚ caring and efficient. It may be overwhelming to keep up with the many activities of daily nursing. But being professional nurse is all that and more. It means that you have an internal roadmap to patient care‚ a guide that helps you achieve good outcomes. This is where nursing theory comes in. Nursing theory can help you with overt and covert problems‚ as well as inform your nursing decisions
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I found your post about the lean methodology intriguing and informative. It helped me to have a better understanding of a clinic use for this type of approach to quality improvement in nursing care. Working for the state government means that budgets are tight and there is no room to be wasteful with resources. Richardson et al. (2014) identify certain principles of the Lean process that can be transposed into the healthcare setting. The principles of waste elimination‚ consistent workflow‚ staff
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INTRODUCTION Cultural Adaptation explores how creative ideas are packaged and nationalised to meet local taste‚ maps the cultural economy of adaptation in entertainment media ranging from motion pictures to mobile phones‚ and even probes the role of cultural recipes and formats in mutating participatory experiences of theme parks and sporting spectacles. Written in a lively and accessible manner‚ the book also provides insight into remaking in lifestyle and consumption cultures
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The broken windows theory has been discussed in several criminal justice courses and the effect that it has on the community. There is without doubt that once there is an appearance of deterioration within a community the problem will continue to fester into something larger. It is obvious that crimes that go unchecked‚ no matter how small‚ when noticed within the community will be a breeding ground for further criminal activity. Vandalism will occur anywhere once communal barriers are lowered and
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types of corpora and general application of different corpora in translation studies. 2.1 Why use corpora in translation studies According to Bowker and Pearson (2002:9)‚ a corpus is “a large collection of authentic texts that have been gathered in electronic form according to a specific set of criteria”. (Bowker and Pearson 2002:9) and corpus research has greatly influenced the way we study and investigate translation a lot. The use of corpus in translation studies is relatively new and nowadays
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