An instance‚ in which I used the nursing process‚ stood as my clinical experience of caring for a 72-year-old female diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia. This patient regularly acquired pneumonia‚ and with her body becoming more frail and susceptible to disease‚ she found herself in the hospital. Upon entering the patient’s room‚ I encountered an older woman slumping in her bed‚ looking restless‚ and using her accessory muscles to try to get appropriate respirations. Recognizing that the patient was
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Humans receive 50% of their genetic material from each parent and as a result we can develop a mental disorder that neither parent experiences (Causes of mental illness). There are many environmental factors that can lead to mental illness. The Streptococcus family of bacteria has been linked to the development of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder (PANDA) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Causes of mental illness). Some infections and brain damage at birth or in infancy can increase
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Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation Vol. 23‚ No. 3‚ pp. 280–288 Copyright c 2007 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins The Oral Care Imperative The Link Between Oral Hygiene and Aspiration Pneumonia Minn N. Yoon‚ BSc; Catriona M. Steele‚ PhD Oral health has increasingly become a priority issue for healthcare agencies in North America and worldwide. This review article attempts to (1) inform various healthcare providers of the risk factors that can arise from poor oral hygiene
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hormones were genetically engineered (Bellis‚ Mary). Before Elion and the groups she worked with the world did not know much about medicines and treatments for diseases. A chemist named Gerhard Domagk discovered Prontosil‚ which is a dye that killed streptococcus bacteria‚ or strep throat (Encyclopedia.com). Also at this time “sulfa” drugs were created. They help fight a wide variety of disease yet they had some side affects like kidney failure‚ skin lesions‚ and high fever. Eventually the use of these
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CORRECTED COPY HEALTH HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE PATTERN DUE TO ANTIMICROBIAL MISUSE IN AFRICA BY SAIKI ADINOYI MUSA A GRADUATE SEMINAR PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH‚ FACULTY OF CLINICAL SCIENCES‚ COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES‚ UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN‚ ILORIN‚ KWARA STATE‚ NIGERIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE IN PUBLIC HEALTH (MPH) SUPERVISOR PROF. A. O. AWOYEMI MB.BS (Ibadan)‚ MPH (Lagos)
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Handout 3.1 Pretest Write the letter corresponding to the medical term defined. __a_ 1. inflammation of the skin of the extremities a. acrodermatitis b. acrocyanosis c. dermatitis __c_ 2. pertaining to under the skin a. dermal b. percutaneous c. hypodermic __a_ 3. pertaining to upon the skin a. epidermal b. percutaneous c. subcutaneous __b_ 4. disease of the skin a. dermatology b. dermatopathy c. dermatitis __b__ 5. red skin a. xanthoderma b. erythroderma
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Since it was gram positive‚ I knew my organism had a thick peptidoglycan and no outer membrane. After finding out my organism B was gram positive‚ I did the catalase test on it. After adding the two drops of H202 and seeing bubbles‚ I ruled out Streptococcus lactis. My organism did have the catalase enzyme; meaning it was either Bacillus subtilis or Staphylococcus. To distinguish the two‚ I performed the simmons citrate test on them. Since the tube stayed green I confirmed that my organism was Staphylococcus
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Maternal Child Nursing I. Family A group of two or more persons who lives together in the same household‚ perform certain interrelated social tasks and share an emotional bond II. Types: a. Nuclear i. Husband‚ wife‚ children ii. Provide support and feel affection to family members b. Cohabitation family i. Heterosexual couple living together But NOT married ii. Short or long term c. Extended or Multigenerational family i. Nuclear family + other family members ii. May experience financial
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non-motile‚ as well as non-spore forming (Horak 1). The species is also facultative anaerobes‚ but not all strains of S. epidermidis will ferment. S. epidermidis is catalase positive‚ and this sets them apart from other gram-positive cocci‚ such as Streptococcus. They are also urease positive‚ cannot utilize Mannitol‚ and are resistant to several antibiotics (Horak). Staphylococcus epidermidis is considered “an opportunistic pathogen.” It usually has a symbiotic relationship with its host‚ and for this
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Congested Heart Failure (adapted from McGraw Hill Case Studies) Chief Complaint: 74-year-old woman with shortness of breath and swelling. History: Martha Wilmington‚ a 74-year-old woman with a history of rheumatic fever while in her twenties‚ presented to her physician with complaints of increasing shortness of breath ("dyspnea") upon exertion. She also noted that the typical swelling she’s had in her ankles for years has started to get worse over the past two months‚ making it especially
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