Hearing loss is a very prevalent issue around the world today. It affects countless individuals and they have learned to adapt to the challenges that this condition has brought about. Learning about how this condition affects people in their everyday life will help you as a nurse provide the best care available when caring for them. This paper will highlight the etiology‚ causes‚ pathophysiology‚ etiology‚ causes‚ risk factors‚ complications‚ detailed nursing care plan and current treatments involved
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A. How has a hearing aid ‚ an energy sensing device‚ affected the way people sense energy? B. The hearing aid amplifies sound energy that comes into contact to the hearing aid. There are two types of hearing loss. 1. Sensorial hearing loss. This hearing loss is caused by damage to the cochlea‚ infections‚ genes‚ head trauma‚ exposure to loud noises or fluid buildup in the inner ear. This is the hearing loss that hearing aids can help with. 2. Conductive hearing loss. This occurs when sound does
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HA hearing loss is sometimes is sometimes called deafness‚ and it . Hearing loss may be partial or total. Hearing loss may be temporary or permanent‚ depending on the cause. Medical care is necessary to treat hearing loss properly and prevent the condition from getting worse.. CAUSES Hearing loss may be caused byCommon causes of hearing loss include: • • Excessive wWax in the ear canal. • • Infection of the ear canal or middle ear. • • Infection of the middle ear. Fluid in the middle ear
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Oyler‚ A. (2011). Untreated Hearing Loss in Adults-A growing National Epidemic. Retrieved December 8‚ 2012‚ From http://www.asha.org/Aud/Articles/Untreated-Hearing-Loss-in-Adults/ This article explains untreated hearing loss in older adults and how it goes undetected. It also explains the impact it has on an individual‚ the benefits‚ and the results of the treatment. Incidence of hearing loss‚ increase with age. Approximately one third of Americans between the ages of sixty five and seventy
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HEARING LOSS BY: NURRASHIDAH BT ABDURAHMAN NABILAH IFFAH BT MD. ARIF ANATOMY OF EAR The ear is made up of three parts 1. Outer ear – consists of pinna and external auditory canal 2. middle ear – consists of tympanic membrane and ossicles (3 tiny bones that are attached to the tympanic membrane which are malleus‚ incus and stapes) 3. inner ear – consists of oval window‚ semicircular ducts‚ cochlea and auditory tube HEARING – transduction of sound to neural impulses and its interpretation
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INTRODUCTION Defects of Hearing •Hearing defects means ear is not working correctly or as well as it should. •It may occur in more than one part of the ear. •1. DEAF-full or partial decrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds. Deaf usually caused by : - Eardrum is torn-cannot function - Ossicle bone fused together-can’t vibrate - Auditory nerve damaged by loud sound - Cochlea damage due to sickness/ drugs •2. Temporary hearing loss-build-up of earwax •3. Presbycusis- hearing loss related to
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy Rotted corpses. Landscapes devastated by fire. Abandoned towns and houses. In the post-apocalyptical novel‚ The Road‚ Cormac McCarthy explores the perseverance of a man and his son to survive in an obliterated world. He demonstrates that in spite of devastating conditions and dismal surroundings‚ goodness prevails over evil and an inherent goodness is present in humanity and the “good guy” no matter how dire the circumstances. Most importantly‚ the goodness portrayed
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1. What do you think of speech reading or lip reading? What are your thoughts on this topic? Do all deaf people know how?I think that speech or lip reading is something that should never be expected out of anyone‚ deaf or hearing. I do not think that a person’s mouth can be understood without sound coming out of it. There are too many different ways of saying things; lip shapes are different; lip movements are different; people enunciate words differently therefore causing different facial movements
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Technology Devices to Overcome the Limitations of Sight and Hearing Humans have sight and hearing limitation. Without any devices‚ our sight and hearing was limited. Most of the limitation of sight can be overcome with the help of certain optical instruments such as magnifying glass‚ microscope‚ binoculars and others. The range of frequency of hearing in human 20 Hz to 20 000 Hz. It was different according to the age of a person. Hearing limitations can be overcome by using devices such as microphone
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This essay will discuss how the hearing impaired children can be strongly influenced by the social environment to learn language. Firstly‚ the essay will define some key terms such as hearing impairment and social environment. Secondly‚ it will discuss how the social environment can strongly influence hearing impaired to learn language. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2006) defines hearing as the ability of being aware of sounds with one’s ears. It further defines impairment as the state of
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