pulmonary disease (COPD) in England and Wales‚ carrying an economic cost of £491‚652‚000 per year. The NCCCC (2004) highlights an exacerbation of patient symptoms accounts for a substantial percentage of this cost‚ particularly those that result in hospitalisation‚ as identified by the Lung and Asthma Information Agency (2003) COPD is accountable for 90‚000 hospital admissions per year in the UK. This assignment will outline the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system‚ define COPD‚ and highlight
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A Plan For Self-Care Against Compassion Fatigue Brian Murrison University of Kansas Introduction Working in the helping field has its many joys and privileges. Seeing a child‚ whose self esteem is at the bottom‚ light up when he/she accomplishes a new task‚ see the growth an alcohol and drug addict has made in treatment‚ or to see the family‚ that when they entered the door of your office‚ was on the verge of separation‚ but now are communicating and working out their own needs with little assistance
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Working in partnership with patients/ clients who self administer medication A literature review Self-management has become a concept adopted by the Department of Health (DH) to enable people with chronic health conditions to become the controlling entity over their illness therefore promoting independence and psychological well being. Initiatives that recommend this practice are National Service Framework for chronic disease management and self-care (DH 2002) and National Service Framework
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This paper will describe the Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) which is affiliated with Carson Tahoe Hospital (CTH). Long Term Acute Care hospitals were essentially non-existent in 1979. Now‚ there are over 450 facilities nationwide that are licensed as LTACS (McDaniel‚ n.d.). The discharge plan I will be describing is for a 66-yr-old female who was admitted to (CTH) for revision of a chronic enterocutaneous fistula which was draining from her abdomen through a very large open wound. This fistula
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Unit I- Introduction to Theory 1. How does the Nursing Theory assist the practicing nurse in the delivery of care to patients? Explain your answer. Nursing theories are important to the lives of nurses because they help develop and understand further the nursing practice. These were formulated by the theorists because they believed that these will aid nurses in the holistic health care delivery and furthermore help in collaborating with other disciplines and practices. These guide the nurse on
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Evidence based patient care becomes a life long approach to clinical decision making to improve clinical outcome‚ and includes use of best evidence clinical outcome values of patient and there families. The purpose is to help bedside nurses determine the strength of evidence on the bases of the research methods. Evidence based nursing care is informed by research finding use of research evidence in clinical practice is an expected standard of practice for nurses and healthcare organizations. It determines
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on diabetic ketoacidosis Page 60 Guidelines on how to write a practice profile Promoting positive approaches to dementia care in nursing NS562 Hoe J‚ Thompson R (2010) Promoting positive approaches to dementia care in nursing. Nursing Standard. 25‚ 4‚ 47-56. Date of acceptance: July 27 2010. Summary This article provides an overview of factors relevant to dementia care today. The number of people experiencing dementia is increasing and dementia is at the forefront of health policy. The evidence
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Critique of Health Education Most patients forget 40 percent of what their physicians told them (Lay‚ 1985) To improve compliance and retain information written educational and informational materials are “an important and potentially useful means to complement verbal instructions‚ assure that consent for tests and procedures is informed‚ and enhance compliance with treatment ‘ (Zion & Aiman‚ 1989). However‚ most often health care provides are faced with challenges to determine which written educational
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 The Supreme Court ruled on June 28‚ 2012 that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 also known as the ObamaCare Act is to be upheld‚ even the controversial parts‚ where people without health insurance will have to pay a fine starting in 2014. The ObamaCare Act was started to “help reduce overall health care costs by making services available to 32 million who currently cannot get health insurance”(useconomy.about.com‚ part of
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SZT Task 3C Western Governors University Air Quality and Patient Care According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency‚ or EPA‚ states “Information from clinical‚ epidemiological‚ and animal studies summarized above indicates that exposure to ambient ozone is a risk factor for triggering acute and chronic health effects. These include chest discomfort‚ cough‚ and shortness of breath and increases in daily mortality and hospital admissions for respiratory disease in the general population
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