Sociocultural Adaptation scale (SCAS) 1. Making friends. 2. Using the transport system. 3. Making yourself understood. 4. Getting used to the pace of life. 5. Going shopping. 6. Going to social events/gatherings/functions. 7. Worshipping in your usual way. 8. Talking about yourself with others. 9. Understanding jokes and humor. 10. Dealing with someone who is unpleasant/cross/aggressive. 11. Getting used to the local food/finding food you enjoy. 12. Following rules and regulations
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patients arrive to the hospital due to an acute injury or a sudden pain that was unbearable to the point of seeking evaluation from a healthcare professional. Upon arrival to the hospital‚ management of pain during a hospital stay is an important part of what nurses do daily to meet the needs of patients. Glowacki’s article‚ Effective pain management and improvements in Patients’ outcomes and satisfaction (2015) reviews current pain management treatments; their effectiveness during the hospital stay;
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titled‚ “Integrative review: postcraniotomy pain in the brain tumour patient” by Rebecca Guilkey‚ Dian Von Ah‚ Janet Carpenter‚ Cynthia Stone‚ and Claire Draucker in 2016. This article focused on how craniotomies are known to be painful‚ but little attention is paid to postcraniotomy pain. This study was narrowed down to focusing on postcraniotomy pain in adults 21 or older who are patients in intensive care units (ICU). The study stated that postop pain in craniotomy patients is often associated
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Brittany Long’s case make you feel? Brittany Long’s case gave me the experience of providing care for a patient diagnosed with sickle cell. Initiallly‚ I was unsure on which pain medications to give being that she had orders for acetaminiophen‚ ibuprophen and morphine. I decided to stck with the morphine after retrying since her pain level was severe. Describe the actions you felt went well in this scenario. I felt my initial nursing actions were outstanding when entering the patient’s room. Vitals
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Dear ladies and gentlemen‚ I am a member of the Brazilian Government and we believe that large scale development should be allowed in the Amazon rainforest and I am going to give you our reasons in this speech. Firstly we know that the tourism industry is one of the country’s biggest employers‚ involving one in every eleven workers. It contributes an estimated 8 percent to the country’s GDP. In the rainforest quite a substantial amount of developments will be to do with tourism therefore making
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The shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) is defined as “a self-administered questionnaire consisting of items grouped into pain and disability subscales”. (2) The questionnaire is designed to calculate current shoulder pain and disability in an outpatient setting. The SPADI has progressed to being able to test mixed diagnoses such as Subacromial impingement syndrome‚ adhesive capsulitis and joint replacement surgery. There are two version’s used to score a patient’s pain and disability. In
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Provide support to manage pain and discomfort (HSC 2003) 1. It is important that we take into consideration‚ areas other than physical pain and have an holistic approach. Pain is whatever the person who is suffering it feels it to be. Physical pain can be experienced as a result of disease or injury‚ or some other form of bodily distress. For example childbirth. Although not associated with injury or disease‚ but can be an extremely painful experience. Pain can also be social‚ emotional and
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It’s a distraction. It’s irritating. It’s Tinnitus. Ringing of the ears can change your life drastically‚ and usually not on the good side. We know that at the moment‚ there is no outright cure for tinnitus. This ringing will stay and might get worse. And while our doctors and scientists work hard in finding a cure‚ we can‚ by ourselves find ways on how to handle tinnitus so it won’t affect our lives. While a cure is not available‚ managing ringing of the ears is feasible. The first step‚ when tinnitus
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postpartum pain. In the first study by Leeman et al. (2009)‚ the purpose was to evaluate the pain associated with genital trauma‚ labor care‚ and different incidences during birth from a group of healthy women who had few instances of episiotomies and delivered vaginally. The sample size consisted of 565 midwifery patients that were at least eighteen years of age. These women signed consent forms allowing their birth experiences to be documented as well as consented to have a postpartum pain assessment
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Chronic Shoulder Pain and Its Relationship to Disability in Paraplegic Veterans Objectives: The purpose of this study is to look at the relationship between chronic shoulder pain and its effects on upper extremity disability and function in VA patients with paraplegic spinal cord injury (SCI)‚ utilizing demographic‚ anthropomorphic‚ injury-related‚ medication and FIM™ instrument data. Design: A retrospective chart review of data collected during veteran SCI patient’s annual examinations. Setting:
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