1. What should the nurse suspect when hourly assessment of urine output on a postcraniotomy patient exhibits a urine output from a catheter of 1‚500 mL for 2 consecutive hours? A) Cushing ’s syndrome B) Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) C) Adrenal crisis D) Diabetes insipidus 2. The PACU staff have brought a patient to the unit following a thyroidectomy. To promote comfort for this patient‚ how should the nurse position this patient? A) Side-lying (lateral) with
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Evidence Based Practice Cambridge Medical Institute Nursing Trends Dr. Lyles EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE Evidence base practice (EBP) is becoming the most practiced or adopted discipline in healthcare arenas (Roux‚ & Halstead‚ 2009). What makes EBP popular is its reliance on partnership among proven scientific evidence‚ clinical expertise‚ and individual needs of each patient. The primary goal of EBP is to provide quality care‚ standardize medical practices at the best unbeatable price.
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Maternity Health nursing Kholud Rajab Yousef is 29 years pregnant woman in her 32 gestational weeks‚ G: 8. P:4 admitted to antenatal wards at 6/12/2011 with complain of dizziness ‚ shortness of breath‚ palpitation and fatigue‚ she also have history of varicosities since 5 years ago‚ which cause acute pain in her legs. The pt. is on regular diet‚ not smoker‚ educational level is high school‚ she is house wife‚ her husband educational level is secondary school‚ he work as taxi driver ‚ he is
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WHAT IS KRIYA YOG? By Paramahansa Atmanandaji The Scientific Way of Simultaneous Benefits to Body‚ Mind‚ Intellect & Soul Kriya Yog is the scientific way of simultaneous benefit to body‚ mind‚ intellect and Soul. I will now discuss briefly the meaning of Kriya Yog and then I will explain the use of term simultaneous. The two important aspects of Kriya Yog are the following: Perform all your actions‚ lovingly and mentally offer those actions to your Inner Self or the Soul. The other aspects are
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Participant Information Notice and Consent Participant Information Notice & Informed Consent Participant Information Notice & Informed Consent Contents 1. Participant Information Notice 2. Informed Consent Informed Consent Form No: PG_EPO_Ph3_ICF_Site Name_v2.3 Date: 2013.07.23 Research Centre ： Zaki Morad Nephrology Services Sdn Bhd Researcher ： Dr. Zaki Morad Mohd Zaher Sponsors ： Main Sponsor- CCM Duopharma Biotech Bhd. and PanGen Biotech Inc..
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Chest pain is due to the occlusion of a pulmonary artery or one of its branches by a blood clot or a foreign material (Patient.info‚ 2017). However almost all the cases are secondary results of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and the risk factors associated with pulmonary embolism like smoking‚ obesity and age over 60 years do not proportionate with the patient nor does he have an history of DVT (Konstantinides‚ 2007). Anxiety can also cause chest pain that is
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This assignment will focus on the holistic assessment and care plan of a patient who was cared for during practice placement. It aims to discuss how the care planning decisions were made and relate these decisions with the relevant literature. The setting was an emergency trauma and orthopaedic ward and the care plan was developed in order to meets the patient’s needs after 1 week admission. The care plan was compiled by the student nurse and his mentor and aimed to identify the patient’s needs and
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treatment of tuberculosis was adequate or if weather there is another cause of his hemoptysis. The duration of his tuberculosis treatment was apparently adequate‚ according to his wife. But no records are available. In addition‚ the patient had thrombosis of the axially artery treated last year at Hillcrest. He had an embolectomy and has been on Coumadin since. INR is significantly elevated at 16. None the less‚ because of the cavitary lesions that are seen in the right and left upper lobes‚ the
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The history of tobacco shows nothing but the positives but tobacco is actually harmful and potentially deadly. Tobacco was discovered by the American Indians and believed tobacco to be more than it actually was. It was used in many ways and all of them was thought to be totally positive effects‚ not knowing how harmful it really was. They had no idea that tobacco caused lung disease‚ buerger’s diseases and was also highly addictive. It was not until now that the world started to realize the major
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B1a Fitness and health 1. You should be thinking about the differences between health and fitness‚ concentrating on the causes and prevention of heart disease‚ which is the most common cause of death in the UK. 2. Have ideas on encouraging a healthy lifestyle e.g. ways to reduce the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure e.g. give up smoking‚ avoid eating high levels of salt and avoid eating high levels of saturated fat. 3. Know that the risk of developing heart disease can be increased
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