Health Assessment is an important process that identifies specific needs of a person‚ collecting subjective and objective data. It is a procedure that allows health professionals to assist in health promotion and risk reduction. As a novice nurse evaluating my patient through this assessment‚ I am able to use a problem- solving approaches that allows me as a novice nurse to identify my patient’s problems and potential risks my patient may encounter‚ as well as plan and evaluate a nursing care plan
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for this reason‚ my resume is enclosed for your review as the first step in the application process. I welcome the opportunity to learn more and possibly become a member of such an influential organization. I have always been a visionary leader in nursing. I have over one-year experience at the Psychiatric Institution of Washington and over eleven years of experience in management in the long term care/short stay rehab environment. My attention to time management and leadership skills have lead me
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Occupational Health Hazards in the Medical Field Kim Chastain AB TECH April 24‚ 2012 Abstract Medical personnel come into contact with a complex variety of deadly toxins. Contact comes from industrial cleaners‚ sterilization products‚ radiation‚ medications‚ and mercury. Side effects of these toxic materials are known to lead to a variety of cancers‚ miscarriages‚ asthma‚ birth defects and metabolic syndromes. Government agencies have been negligent in protecting healthcare workers from
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On 11/16/17 I met Mr. Larson at the office of Dr. Quinn. Mr. Larson is alert and oriented. He is willing to work with a nurse case manager and to provide his medical history. Mr. Larson is alert and oriented. MEDICAL FACTORS On 9/1/17 Mr. Larson was at work. He is a mechanic technician. He reports he was holding a weighted object that was 40 to 50 pounds and turning a bolt at the same time. As he was pushing on the object he felt a pop in the small finger. He has been unable to bend the finger
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The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse Walden University NURS 4010 Section 04‚ Family‚ Community‚ and Population-Based Care 10 / 21 / 2012 The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse Overview Public health‚ a population-centered nursing had been in existence since the late 1880s under the guise of different names. The focus of public health nursing was on sanitation‚ communicable disease
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P2002‚ who is currently 22 weeks 2 days. She follows in the High Risk Obstetrical Clinic secondary to a history of chronic HTN. She also has a history of preeclampsia in both her prior pregnancies. She reports that her high BP developed in her 1st pregnancy. Around 2 years later she had a stroke that she reportedly thinks was related to uncontrolled HTN. There has been some question in her history about a thrombophilia specifically factor V Leiden‚ although we do have a negative mutation test in
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Care Plan Norma Valdez-Rosa South University Online Introduction Chronic illness affects the whole family not just the patient. As discussed in our readings from this week‚ the impact of disease on family members includes: Emotional impact‚ financial impact‚ Impact on family relationships‚ Impact on the caregiver’s education or work‚ Impact on the caregiver’s leisure time and Social impact for the caregiver (Golics‚ et al‚ 2013). All of these factors are import to consider when
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In Summary a Brief History of Advance Practice Nursing Jake Freeman University of St. Francis Abstract This paper primarily explores the article from the Journal of Nursing called “Demographic Profiles of Certified Nurse-Midwives‚ Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists‚ and Nurse Practitioners: Reflections on Implications for Uniform Education and Regulation”. It will also include insight from other resources in support to the information provided by the article preceding. The article
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Subjective: The patient is a 31-year-old female involved in a motor vehicle accident on May 8‚ 2014. Initially she felt pain in her right foot‚ in which her foot got stuck under the gas paddle. Once she got out of the car to walk‚ she felt pain in her right thigh. She went to the emergency room at Fort Washington. No x-rays taken. She was given crutches to be nonweightbearing on the right extremity. She thought that she might have fractured her right leg‚ uncertain of which bone. She was
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women’s health history and physical. This particular one caught my attention. There are detailed examinations of general medical history‚ which is very important in primary care setting. It outlines several family members on the forms‚ which ensure practitioners to thoroughly assess each family member in relation to patient’s health history. It includes each body system from head to toe‚ which is a very organized and systematic review of health history. It then moves on to social history. Social
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