Clinical Final Summary January 14‚ 2011 1. Nursing requires the use of this process day in and day out. The process is based on theories and practices taught in nursing school. It is a form of problem solving. The nursing process is made up of a series of stages that are used to achieve the objective - the health improvement of the patient. The nursing process can stop at any stage as deemed necessary or can repeat as needed. This process is inclusive of physical health as well as the emotional
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The Capital Purchase Suzanne Hrubes RN‚ BSN January 14‚ 2013 The Emergency Room The Emergency Room at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center (GSHMC) is one of the busiest on Long Island. GSHMC maintains the prestigious status of being a Magnet designated hospital as well as a level two trauma center (Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center [GSHMC]‚ 2012). GSHMC has five hundred and thirty seven beds and is a not-for-profit hospital. The Emergency Room sees over one hundred thousand
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NUTRITION IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS‚ EARLY INTRODUCTION AND MAINTAINANCE- NURSES ROLE Nutrition is very vital in critically ill patients‚ often the neglected area of critical care where researchers and analysts had been concentrating on for a long time. Guidelines and protocols have been formulated by institutions and organisation‚ but compliance had been identified as the reason to experience abasement in proper nutrition. Stroud (2007)
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Central Congenital Hypoventilation Syndrome What is CCHS? Many people around the world stop breathing when they go to sleep. Why? It’s because they have a syndrome called Central Congenital Hypoventilation Syndrome or Ondine’s Curse. What is this? Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare syndrome‚ present from birth‚ and is defined as the failure of automatic control of breathing.. Some may only have apnea when asleep‚ but in some severe cases they may experience apnea while
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At sixteen years old‚ my mother lay comatose in a hospital‚ held to life by a ventilator. That night in 1971‚ her car collided with another vehicle‚ instantly rendering her unconscious. The doctors determined she would never leave her comatose state‚ and suggested ending life support immediately to remove her organs. Luckily‚ the family did not believe this was the proper time to discuss such things‚ as she came out of her coma three days later. Had they given up‚ my mother would have been removed
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Hard knocks‚ Loud stadiums‚ friday nights‚ and loud prideful cheering. A great description of some good old football. Where the toughest of the tough battle it out on the field‚ but could we be facing something even greater when those athletes step on the field? Research from many high schools‚ Universities‚ and NFL teams show that “on field head banging is taking a serious toll”. It is believed that our brains are still developing till our mid twenties. Due to the ongoing blows to the head in
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job‚ Montag has to burn a woman along with her many books and he steals a book although he claims "his hand had done it all‚ his hand‚ with a brain of its own..." He decides he wants to read teh book‚ along with 20 other books he has hidden in his ventilator‚ to help him out of his ignorance‚ but he does not comprehend what he is reading so he turns to faver‚ an old‚ retired professor that he met in the park a year ago. Guy wants Faber to help him make a duplicate book because he has to turn the book
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whopping four pounds and five ounces‚ which terrified the doctors as well as my parents. After being held by my mother for only 30 seconds‚ I was seized from her arms and taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. I was placed on a ventilator because I was not breathing properly. Within six hours‚ I yanked out the breathing tubes only to have then put back inside me. Much my chagrin‚ I pulled the uncomfortable tubes out for a second time‚ and the doctor’s determined that I was strong
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who comes in for physical therapy once a week. She is almost two years old. She was diagnosed with Torticollis/Shoulder Restriction. She was kept in the hospital for three months after her birth and was NG tubed for about six weeks and required a ventilator for eight hours. The doctors told her parents that she would probably never live a normal life and could probably never walk. The therapist reports that she has been crawling for about six months now and a few weeks before‚ they had worked on
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It’s absolutely mind blowing to think of all the things I’ve learned and experienced in just three years of me working in the nursing field. It’s not entirely about applying my knowledge from what I learned in the classroom to the field; the experiences I continue to have as a nurse are basically lessons about life itself and I feel blessed to be in a profession that because of all these things‚ I can continuously acquire new knowledge and grow as a human being. Being a private duty nurse
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