Admission cardiotocography This essay will demonstrate evidence for the midwifery management of admission cardiotocography (CTG) and how this affects women’s choice. Fetal heart monitoring has been practised for centuries. The first person to document the fetal beat was Phillipe LeGaust in 1650 placing the ear directly to the abdomen of the pregnant woman. In the UK‚ Ferguson was the first person to describe it in 1827. In 1976‚ the French physician Dr. A. Pinard designed the fetal stethoscope
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Reparations: Pro or Con? The subject of paying some sort of reparations to Native Americans is a hot topic‚ and views range from the popular Fox News commentator Glen Beck who is very against reparations to the University of Colorado former Professor‚ Ward Churchill who is for reparations. President Obama himself has also put of his input on the topic with speeches both during the Presidential campaign and after his Inauguration. This paper seeks to present both sides of the argument and conclude with my
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What is plagiarism? As defined in the Merriam-Webster online‚ “plagiarism” is the act of stealing and passing off someone else’s ideas‚ as ones’ own without crediting the source. Brief or attributed quotes generally do not constitute plagiarism. (Dames‚ K‚ June 2007 p.24 (4). The word originated from the Latin word plagiarius that is an abductor and plagiare‚ which means to steal. The subject of Plagiarism is an ethical topic that has affected many areas of academic life. It can include limited borrowing
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Any conscious person who has taken a recent American history course will legitimately question both the morality and ethics of the United States. While morals refer to an individual’s or a society’s belief of right and wrong‚ ethics refer to the morality of the actions of an individual or a society. Albeit morals and ethics share a significant relationship‚ they are not interchangeable in this distinction of belief and behavior. In an integrous world‚ people would behave based on their beliefs
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Patient Centred Care Essay This essay is based on the Case study of a patient named as Mrs Ford. It will be written as a logical account‚ adopting a problem solving approach to her care. She is elderly and has been admitted onto a medical ward in the hospital‚ following a stroke. This essay analyses the care that she will receive and focuses on the use of assessment tools in practice. Interventions will be put in place directly relating to the assessment feedback and in line with best practice.
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Steven Dinov ENG1A Gomez Essay 5 December 9‚ 2012 The Holocaust of the Western Hemisphere Throughout the history of mankind man has made various attempts to eliminate one another based on race‚ religion‚ and personal growth through the use of dehumanization in order to justify genocide. Although many do not have it in them to kill another man‚ however if they do not believe they are killing a human being they are able to “get the job done”. Through the use of dehumanization a man of high authority
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over the United Kingdom by thousands of healthcare workers and in particular nurses (Jacobson‚ 2000). The way in which this procedure is performed varies from geographical location to location and occasionally even more so‚ between staff on the same ward (Amos‚ 2000). This reason stated by Amos (2000)‚ formed the basis of my decision to choose this topic. The recording of an ECG is often seen as a fairly mundane‚ routine observation as it is non-invasive and does not physically demanding for the
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Introduction As Donahue (1996) writes‚ the origin of the words "nurse" and "nursing" are varied‚ and shift in meaning as reflected in the perception of nursing’s role in health care and in society. From nursing’s earliest Latin derivative from nutrire‚ "to nourish‚" and nurse‚ nutrix‚ meaning "nursing mother‚" Donahue (1996) continues‚ " the meaning of the word [nurse] has progressed from a term indicating a woman who performed the basic unlearned human activity of suckling an infant to one describing
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p. 510). Standard 3.1 states that the nurse will ‘practice within an evidence-based framework; identifies the relevance of research in individual/group health outcomes’ (ANMC 2006‚ p. 6). EBP is an expected competency for graduating nurses (Miller‚ Ward & Young 2010‚ p. 76). Nursing care has previously heavily relied on ritualistic practices. McCutcheon and Zeitz (2005‚ p.
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Maximising Health To protect the resident’s identity‚ the resident will be called Mrs Florence Nightingale. Mrs Florence Nightingale has been selected to demonstrate how to maximize health using the nursing process. She is a 77 year’s old elderly resident in a private up-market nursing home in an EMI unit‚ who’s unable to self mobilize and is dependent upon a hoist for transferring. She is unable to verbally communicate‚ or feed her self. Due to her restricted mouth movement‚ difficulty with swallowing
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