development of increased resistance to antibiotics is a global concern. According to WHO (2015)‚ antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government sectors and society. Antibiotic resistance threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria‚ thereby resulting to loss of the ability to treat common infections. The development of antibiotic resistance is a natural phenomenon
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Financing Long-Term Care in Nursing Facilities Long-term care in nursing facilities is very expensive and is paid for by both public and private payer sources. Long-term care is defined as services needed by a person when their ability to care for themselves has been diminished by an illness‚ aging process‚ or a disability. Most persons living in the U.S. at sometime or another will require some sort of long-term care whether it is given in a facility or at home. It is estimated that there
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Bio-112 Antibiotic Resistance Experiment Lab Partners: March 10‚ 2010 When we initially started the bacteria antibiotic experiment on February 10‚ 2010 our team selected e-coli and Rifampicin (Rb5) to find out the level of resistance e-coli would build towards this antibiotic. When we first checked our agar dish on February 15‚ 2010 we noticed two circles for the zone of inhibition the small circle was 1.5 cm and the medium circle was 3.00 cm. Two days later when we checked
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Nursing Shortage and Quality of Care The need for more registered nurses continues to rise as we now come to face an increase in the geriatric population that is the “Baby Boomers”. The safety and quality of patient care is directly related to the size and experience of the nursing workforce. Nurses work in a variety of conditions that may not be preferential because hospitals have not kept up with the rising demand for nurses. As a nurse assistant‚ staff nurse‚ charge nurse or nursing administrator
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A General Review of Tetracyclines Antibiotics Chang Liu Instructor: Prof. Jasson Sello Department of Chemistry‚ Brown University Providence 02906‚ RI Tetracyclines are the first broad-spectrum antibiotic to be applied to clinic use. Nevertheless‚ the increasing incidence of bacterial resistance of tetracyclines led to a series of studies on the development of semisynthetic tetracyclines to circumvent the resistant organisms. In order to better design the structures of tetracycline derivatives
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Chapter 20: Nursing Management: Postoperative Care Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. On admission of a patient to the postanesthesia care unit (PACU)‚ the blood pressure (BP) is 122/72. Thirty minutes after admission‚ the BP falls to 114/62‚ with a pulse of 74 and warm‚ dry skin. Which action by the nurse is most appropriate? a. Increase the IV fluid rate. b. Continue to take vital signs every 15 minutes. c. Administer oxygen therapy at 100% per mask. d. Notify the anesthesia care provider (ACP) immediately
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Introduction This paper presents the care to a patient during one shift in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Tony*‚ a 79 year old‚was admitted to ICU with suspected anoxic brain injury;post Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest; and Head Injury. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation was initiated by his son. When the EMTambulance arrived Tony was pulseless‚ cardiac monitoring showed Ventricular fibrillation – he was cardioverted twice at the scene. Inthe Emergency Department (ED) he developed Ventricular tachycardia
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President Obama’s health care plan‚ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)‚ commonly known as ObamaCare‚ ensures that all people have some type of health insurance and that insurance agencies are not allowed to discriminate against individuals with preexisting health conditions. Although the idea of everyone having access to health care via health insurance is ideal and worth working towards‚ the ObamaCare program is not advantageous for the majority of Americans because of higher tax
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Staffing Levels on Nursing Quality and Care In recent years‚ the healthcare industry has seen a significant decline in the quality of patient care it provides. This has been the result of reduced staffing levels‚ overworked nurses‚ and an extremely high nurse to patient ratio. The importance of nurse staffing in hospital settings is an issue of great controversy. Too much staff results in costs that are too great for the facility to bear‚ but too little staffing results in patient care that is greatly
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The Evolution of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Tree Princess Jones Trends in Nursing Practice The Evolution of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery With the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the influx of complex patients expected to accompany it‚ nurses will soon be taking on a more active role in patient care. This paper will discuss how the role of nurses’ in the evolving health care system will be crucial in post ACA era in providing quality care across the continuum across the
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