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    Hispanic Patient Values

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    I agree with your post that the Hispanic patient values the family unit. The oldest male does have the power in the family and control’s the decision making (Carteret‚ 2011). My husband is Hispanic and is the male in his family that makes all the decisions. I grew up with no father or male influence in my life. Personally‚ it has taken an adjustment for this line of thinking for myself‚ but I have pointed out to my husband that he is living in America now and he could adopt American ways. In

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    Cancer Patient Information HCA/240 Cancer It is a group of diseases by an uncontrolled growth that spreads abnormal cells. Cancer spreads and if not controlled it will kill you; the earliest detection is better for your chances of survival. The risk of cancer increases with your age‚ the older you are the greater your risk is for developing cancer. Middle aged and older adults are more out to get cancer. Lifetime Risks Individuals will develop

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    Open-Heart Surgery

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    Open-heart surgery is the broad term to define the need to make an incision in the chest to correct and fix abnormalities affecting heart production. The most common type of heart surgery: Coronary artery bypass grafting which improves the blood flow to the heart (Types of Heart Surgery NHLBI‚ 2013). The procedure involves using a healthy artery or vein from the body and connecting/grafting‚ to the blocked coronary artery. The grafted artery or vein bypasses the blocked portion‚ creating a new path

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    Stem Cells Failure

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    Stem Cells: Future of Failure? When does a sperm and egg begin to resemble what we call a fetus? Research has shown that at four weeks‚ the embryo is the size of an seasame seed (New Health Advisor). The cells that make up this sesame seed could be the future of regenerative medicine. Stem cells are the cells made during the process of fertilization. They are the first traces of humans‚ making them basically a blank slate for all types of cells. They can become essentially any type of cell in the

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    The Heart of Change

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    Integrative Paper: The Heart of Change Bridget J. Capers MNGT 5590: Organizational Behavior Instructor: Francis Lonsway December 6‚ 2011 Introduction The book “The Heart of Change” is a book of real-life stories of four hundred individuals from one-hundred and thirty businesses. According to Kotter and Cohen‚ organizations change when their people change. And‚ people change for emotional reasons. Kotter and Cohen warn against relying on spreadsheets

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    Patient Advocacy Analysis

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    Patient advocacy is a big part of nursing. According to How To Be An Advocate‚ (2009) advocacy is defined as “one that pleads the cause of another‚ one that defends or maintains a cause or proposal‚ or one that supports or promotes the interest of another” (pg. 2). Nurses are the forefront as advocates for our patients. It is our duty as nurses to stand up for our patients and ensure that they are receiving the care they should and support their decisions holistically. Nurses have the most

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    Heart of Darkness

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    L I T CHA R T S TM Heart of Darkness Key Facts Full Title: Heart of Darkness Genre: Colonial literature; Quest literature Setting: The Narrator tells the story from a ship at the mouth of the Thames River near London‚ England around 1899. Marlow’s story-within-the-story is set in an unnamed European city (probably Brussels) and in the Belgian Congo in Africa sometime in the early to mid 1890s‚ during the colonial era. Climax: The confrontation between Marlow and Kurtz in the jungle Protagonist:

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    Essay On Kidney Failure

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    Kidney Failure Human health has been misdiagnosed and misunderstood for centuries "until the evolution of the medical field in the late 1800s which led to a rise in the average life expectancy from thirty-six to a whopping seventy-eight"1. Then specialists started to identify the structure and the function of each organ. That’s when they found how some organs are important that the human body cannot work properly without them‚ such as heart‚ kidneys and lungs. As well as others that can be cut

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    Patient Safety Goals

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    Abstract In this paper‚ the topics of meaningful use‚ the National Patient Safety Goals‚ mobile technologies‚ current technologies‚ and different ways to analyze healthcare data are talked about. Furthermore‚ the National Patient Safety Goals are broken down and a few are explained more in depth with regards to processes of analyzing and tracking data. The analyzing and tracking of data is necessary in order to ensure that healthcare professionals‚ healthcare organizations‚ and healthcare consumers

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    The main issue that prompted the researchers to do the study on the experiences that the health care workers have with dementia patients and their caregivers was to give an opportunity to health care workers to understand better ways of improving care for these patients because the population is increasing fast and it will help them give proper education to caregivers. The significance of the study was noted by “the global prevalence of Alzheimer disease and related dementias which is estimated to

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