vulnerability by definition is “exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed‚ either physically or emotionally. The term vulnerable population takes it a step further and is defined as “a population at risk”. There are many different versions of the definition of vulnerable population but the underlying message is always a population of heightened risk that needs service. Vulnerable populations exist across‚ the globe‚ across the nation‚ across the city and maybe even across the street from any given
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Surgical patients as a vulnerable populationHealth Assessment and Promotion for Vulnerable Population / Nur 440October 20‚ 2014Deanna Radford Surgical patients as a vulnerable population I have worked in the surgical field for about eight years. I like to relate what we are learning in the classroom to real life. I read an interesting article about the surgical patient and how they classify as a vulnerable population. A population I am comfortable working with. A population I encounter every shift
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Improving hand motor functions in patients with chronic stroke: Modulation of somatosensory input into non-affected hemisphere Dissertation der Fakultät für Informations- und Kognitionswissenschaften der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.)
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Outline your priorities of care for Martin on his arrival in the emergency department at your major metropolitan hospital. Kirkness explains that priority should be given to airway management and oxygenation. Generally‚ all patients should be placed on oxygen. The head of the bed should be slightly elevated‚ and a cardiac monitor and intravenous access established. Unless there is hypotension‚ fluids should be administered judiciously to prevent cerebral edema. 2 Primary assessments are focused
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Stroke is a disease caused by disorder of the blood flow to part of the brain because of occlusion(ischemic) of a blood or damage of a blood vessel‚ causing hemorrhage. For early detection of acute stroke‚ it’s better to use CT scan because it has a lot of advantages. The use of computed tomography (CT) for stroke evaluation has riced‚ moreover ‚ CT is quick than MRI. Recently there are CT techniques like perfusion CT and CT angiography that combined with non-enhanced CT that help the physicians
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Vulnerable populations Despite efforts and goals in the United States to reduce or eliminate disparities in healthcare by 2010‚ significant disparities‚ including risk factors‚ access to healthcare‚ morbidity‚ and mortality‚ continues in vulnerable populations. For example‚ studies find that Americans living in poverty are much more likely to be in fair or poor health and have disabling conditions‚ and are less likely to have used many types of healthcare. I believe that more effort
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Only two studies were retrospective studies out of twenty studies. All other studies reviewed for paper were prospective studies. There were nineteen studies conducted in older age population. Only one study was done to analyze youth stroke (Zhang et.al‚ 2014). All nineteen studies had enrolled both men and women for their research while only one study was piloted for men only. Ten studies were conducted in United States‚ two each in Japan‚ United Kingdom and Spain while one each in Sweden‚ Germany
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Frank who recently had a CVA on the right side or also known as a stroke is the patient for the day. His stroke was on the right which means his left side was affected. He is a 68-year-old white male who lives with his wife that was very active with gardening and woodworking before the stroke. He enjoys traveling and is retired from his job as a postal worker. He also has coronary artery disease and diabetes. He has a son who is isn’t close with and are friendly with a few of the neighbors but others
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able to defend yourself; however‚ when it comes to nursing there is a different way of looking at it. A vulnerable population can be a group of people that show factors of an increased chance of their health status becoming poor. This can be that they are lacking access to care and their chance of illness is higher than other patients (Stanhope and Lancaster‚ 2014). In other words‚ vulnerable populations are at risk for poor physical‚ psychological or social health (De Chesnay‚ 2012). One population
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Vulnerable Populations The chronically mentally ill are people that suffer from one of many diseases that affect the brain. The brain is the most complex of human organs. The cause of being mentally ill is unknown‚ but there are most likely many different reasons. There is no cure for being mentally ill but there are many effective treatments that one can get. In history‚ there have been several movements to try and deinstitutionalize many mental health facilities. The goal for many mental
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