Patients who present to the ER with abdominal pain are often complicated cases with the abdomen housing so many organs. Trying to figure out what is going on with your patient is made more difficult because of referred pain. When trying to figure out where to start remembering your ABC’s will assist in determining if your patient is stable or unstable. Remembering which organs are located within each abdominal region will assist you in narrowing down the potential diagnosis. With the ER patient
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Patient is a 65- year- old‚heterosexual‚ upper middle class‚ a caucasian female who has been fighting esophageal cancer for the past year and a half. The patient is married with two adult children. She resides at home with her husband and has an exceptionally supportive immediate family‚ friends‚ and relatives. Patient has an older sister whom she is very close with. She reports having a job that she takes great pleasure in. Patient has experienced a difficult time coping with her cancer diagnosis
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Experimental Evaluation of a Process BenchmarkingTool in a Green Business Process Management Context Matthias Gräuler and Frank Teuteberg University of Osnabrück‚ Accounting and Information Systems‚ Osnabrück‚ Germany {matthias.graeuler‚frank.teuteberg}@uos.de Abstract. Using a combination of metamodels‚ ontologies‚ green performanceindicators and metrics‚ we apply a novel approach in Semantic Business Pro-cess Benchmarking to the area of Green Business Process Management
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reference to previous studies such as practical reports of nursing teachers who were in charge of Pediatric Nursing Practicum‚ especially the qualitative study conducted by Shiba and Yamaguchi (2012). We created two sub-concepts‚ “judgments on the necessity of intervention” and “educational intervention” (Figure 1) from nursing teachers’ judgments and behaviors for supporting the construction of relationship between nursing students and child patients‚ clarified by a previous study (Shiba & Yamaguchi
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Legal Issues Case Study for Nursing Case 2 Nursing Situation: Cindy Black (fictitious name)‚ a four-year-old child with wheezing‚ was brought into the emergency room by her mother for treatment at XYZ (fictitious name) hospital at 9:12 p.m. on Friday‚ May 13. Initial triage assessment revealed that Cindy was suffering from a sore throat‚ wheezing bilaterally throughout all lung fields‚ seal-like cough‚ shortness of breath (SOB)‚ bilateral ear pain. Vital signs on admission were pulse
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During March 2013 I suffered a serious paranoid psychosis and was forcibly held at the KGV Hospital’s acute ward‚ under the Mental Health Act 1984. Actually‚ ten RGP officers‚ in full riot gear with shields‚ raided my home and in a very violent and aggressive manner‚ even though I was lying face down on the floor and offering no resistance whatsoever‚ abducted me and took me in handcuffs to the police station. There I was seen by two psychiatrists and a mental welfare officer and sent to the KGV
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Reshelle is an outgoing 13 year old girl. She has long brown hair and brown eyes. Reshelle is described as lvoing and caring. She enjoys playing yahtzee‚ card games‚ and doing crafts. She enjoys being active by playing at the park. Reshelle does very well in the prospective adoptive home of her maternal grandparent. Reshelle can be stubborn‚ but he is easily redirected when given one on one time to talk about any issues she is having. Reshelle was a 7th grader at Coolidge Junior High School. She
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RTT1 Task 1 Shirley Krussel Western Governor ’s University December 12‚ 2014 RTT1 Task 1 The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) established by the American Nurses Association (ANA)‚ provides reports on how care‚ specifically provided by nurses‚ affects patient outcomes. Based on these reports‚ the ANA has developed a national set of nursing sensitive indicators that measure the process of care‚ the structure of care‚ and patient- focused outcomes in a health care setting.
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Joan is an 89-year-old woman who lives at a nursery home. It has been noted that she has poor thinking skills. Her memory is lacking on recent event and appears disoriented. She often says she does not know where she is. She has a rambling speech that is hard to understand and difficulty writing. The nurses said it progress throughout the day and fluctuates for the past few days. It is clear that Joan has Delirium. Two symptoms that are major criteria for this disorder are the poor thinking skills
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Q 1: Diabetes is the worldwide fastest increasing chronic disease. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have very high levels of diabetes. According to Australian Indigenous health info net (2016)‚ ATSI Australians have three times more likely to have diabetes compared to non-Indigenous Australians. Specifically‚ the number affect from diabetes in ATSI females are twice than non-Indigenous females. Diabetes can cause several serious health issues such as cardiovascular disease and
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