Case Study 2: Burns Situation: You are working the day shift on the medical-surgical unit in a small district hospital. Your assignment includes an 18-year-old female college student‚ admitted the previous night. She was caught in a house fire and sustained burns over 30% of her body surface area‚ with partial-thickness burns on her legs and back. 1. The client is undergoing burn fluid resuscitation using the standard Baxter (Parkland) formula. She was burned at 0200 and admitted at 0400
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Conrado Valido Professor Sandra Soucie Life Span and Development 10th of November 2012 Observation Journal #1 I observed two children who were about two and half years old. They were playing around in a Children’s Room in a public library. It seems like these two kids are somehow related. I talked to the person who was with them and just watching them if it was all right to observe and she said it was fine. The children seem to be healthy kids‚ just playing around with the toys just lying around
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DIFFICULTY DIANOSING 16 YEAR OLDS WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER INTRODUCTION: For many years‚ Borderline personality disorder was considered a mental illness only associated with adults above age 18‚ however in recent years mental health professionals have begun to consider the possibility of Borderline Personality Disorder being diagnosed in adolescents. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by extreme patterns of impulsivity such as promiscuous sex‚ spending sprees‚ reckless
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Case one During working on the birthing unit I looked after a 28 year old primaparous woman of Indian Desent. She was having her first baby at 39+4 and had prolonged rupture of membranes for 20 hours at the onset of my care with her. Prabinta (pseudeum) was under the care of an LMC midwife who would present to care for Prabinta once she was in established labour. She had been admitted to the ward hours prior and her intravenous antibiotics commenced at 18 hours as per hospital protocol. I received
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relative. Credit: Copyright Natural History Museum‚ London/Mark Witton Paleontologists think that they may have identified the earliest known dinosaur‚ which was no bigger than a Labrador retriever and lived 243 million years ago‚ during the Triassic Period. This is 10 million years earlier than the previously oldest known dinosaurs‚ and could change researchers’ views of how they evolved. The scientists published their findings in the journal Biology Letters. Some scientists‚ including the authors
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Campobello teen is accused of raping one neighbor’s dog and another neighbor’s two little girls. Now the dog has died and charges against the teen have been upgraded. After receiving word that the dog died possibly because of the rape. Fox Carolina called the Solicitor’s office to see if now new charges would be filed against the teen. An hour later Solicitor Trey Gowdy called to say that the charges will be upgraded to the "most serious animal cruelty charges they have on the books." The dog’s
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shameful state of affairs that there has arisen a need for old age homes in modern times. Why do we need these homes? Why are we considering our older relatives as a burden on us? Not too long ago we used to have a strong joint family system. It was an unquestioned norm of the society to take care if of the elderly. It was considered an honour and a blessing. Sadly‚ joint families have become relics of the past. In this nuclear age‚ old people are considered a liability. Time is money. And time
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Between the 1860’s and 1890’s‚ the west of the United States got its name "the Old West" and a reputation of being violent. Now there are many movies‚ books‚ television shows‚ and many other things based on the Old West having: cowboys‚ gunfights‚ rough towns‚ and Indian attacks. Some people may believe that the Old West really was like this‚ but I think the west wasn’t any more violent than other areas of the United States at this time. Less people lived in the west at this time so one murder may
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Old Spice is a prominent American brand of male grooming products. It is manufactured by Procter & Gamble‚ which acquired the brand in 1990 from the Shulton Company. ------------------------------------------------- History[edit] The Shulton Company‚ original producer of Old Spice‚ was founded in 1934 by William Lightfoot Schultz. The first Old Spice product was intended for women‚ introduced in 1937. Old Spice for men followed in 1938. The men’s products were dominated by shaving soap and aftershave lotion
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I wonder what I would do if I could change the world. Would I stop world hunger‚ make world peace‚ or something different altogether? Well…I’d prefer to combine all three. Most people think world peace is a great idea. I agree‚ but I like to take it up a notch. So if I could change the world‚ this is what I would do: Guns will turn into carrots as soon as they are fired. Grenades turn into apples just before the explosion. Bombs turn into watermelons just before impact. This is just the
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