Assessing Blood Pressure Anatomy of the Heart The heart is located in the thoracic cavity between the lungs within the mediastinum. It is a hollow‚ cone-shaped‚ muscular organ about the size of a fist. Functions of the Heart keeps O2-poor blood separate from O2-rich blood; keeps the blood flowing in one direction—blood flows away from and then back to the heart in each circuit; creates blood pressure‚ which moves the blood through the circuits; Regulates the blood supply based on
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placement‚ I encountered an obese elderly man with type 2 diabetes who was bed bound. His BP was 98/73 so I decided to do a manual blood pressure (BP) to make sure it was not a mechanical error from the automatic machine and recorded 99/75. His other vital signs were in between the flags. I asked my patient how he was feeling‚ he said he felt fine. I told him his blood pressure was a bit low and if this was normal for him. He said it has been low a bit recently. I asked him if he could have a glass of water
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Medway LEA Advisory Service Speeding up/pressure and moments 9K & 9L 27 min 27 marks Q1-L3‚ Q2-L4‚ Q3-L4‚ Q4-L5‚ Q5-L6 1. (a) E D A B C 1 all five letters must be in the correct order (b) to measure volume accept ‘to make sure they used the same 1 volume of water in each beaker’ accept ‘to measure amount of water’ accept ‘to measure the volume of salt or sugar’
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requires. Mrs F has no specific preference to how she is moved‚ and is able to move with the support of one care staff. I also check Mrs F’s Norton Scale risk assessment which states that she is at high risk of pressure area breakdown‚ and therefore it is essential I check to see if she has any pressure breakdowns. Upon entering the room‚ I assist Mrs F will putting in her hearing aid‚ ensuring it is on the correct setting and volume. Once Mrs F can hear me‚ I ask her if she is ready to move‚ to which
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Peer pressure these days has had major effects on our children and young adults. Decisions are being made that are unheard of to parents and teachers. Don’t think that the adolescence making these choices isn’t struggling to grasp hold of the concepts of what they are doing. Unknowingly‚ our generation is making choices that will effect the rest of their lives. Whether or not it’s the way we dress or a decision in unprotected sex‚ it’s still a decision made based on the approval of our peers. Who
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parents be towards their children? Is limitation necessary? When parents demand something more than what their children could ask for. Parents should not pressure their children on education because kids may grow to rebel and it can cause emotional damagae. Also‚ kids should be given freedom to choose their future carreer. If parents pressure their children too much‚ they might rebel. Especially teenagers. Teenagers has not emotionally stable yet‚ therefore forcing them something which against
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America is not in a downward spiral of mobility. The American dream is the idea that economic mobility is possible. The idea that someone can work their way up the economic ladder and move up in “Social Classes”. Holly Sklar writes a piece entitled “The Growing Gulf between the Rich and the Rest of Us” where she expresses her idea that the rich are only getting richer and there is no idea of the American dream. However‚ Bruce Barlett argues that the poor are not as poor and the rich are getting
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twins as the programmer of their website‚ Harvard Connection. Soon afterwards‚ Mark approaches his friend Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls "Thefacebook"‚ an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark‚ providing a fee of $1‚000 to help start the site. Once complete‚ they distribute the link to Eduardo’s connections at the Phoenix S-K final
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Sidney Sheldon is a superb author capable of fabricating plots as intricate as a spider’s web. Master of the Game entices the reader‚ keeping them eagerly rolling their eyeballs over word after word‚ flipping page after page into the wee hours of the morning. The book is a tale of a young Scottish teenager who ventures down to South Africa in 1883‚ and wrenches from the barren earth a fortune in diamonds. He is swindled by his business partner‚ Saloman Van Der Merwe‚ but with his wits and bravery
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Do you know why it is important to have a government? Well‚ in order to avoid chaos‚ some rules have to be in play to protect the rights of the people. In the US‚ the basic rules for the people the country represents are found in the preamble of the constitution. The preamble is found at the beginning of the constitution and is there to serve as a guideline that tells people how to live their lives to keep order. In order to do this‚ our founding fathers wrote out the purpose of our government.
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