The management of dysphagia in stroke patients whether in long term or acute care is an important care delivery that nurses must pay close attention to. Nurses must take the time to assess stroke patients for dysphagia in order to prevent or reduce the risk of nutritional and hydration deficiency. Stroke occurs when there is inadequate blood flow (ischemia) the brain or hemorrhaging around the brain resulting in death of brain cells (Lewis‚ 2010). When a person suffers a stroke‚ parts of the body
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The Case R.L.‚ 38 y.o.‚ G5P5 (5-0-0-5) was admitted at Ospital ng Maynila today June 27‚ 2012 because of on and off vaginal spotting for 3 weeks. LMP- April 1‚ 2012 PMP- March 3‚ 2012. Pregnancy test was done 3 weeks ago and revealed positive result. A TVS was done and revealed a complex echogenic uterine mass with numerous cystic spaces‚ No fetus or amnionic sac seen. A 6 cm theca lutein cyst was seen at the left ovary. P.E. * BP- 120/70 mmHg. PR- 75bpm RR- 18 cpm wt.- 135 ibs
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professionals but potential patients as well ‚ which means eveyone. The general consensus seems to be divided into two camps ; the nurses and the administration. While both sides have adamant arguments for their points it is imperitive for all of us that a solution be found. The topics covered are related to legislation‚ current practices utilized for staffing ‚ and the nursing shortage. Any person living in california is familiar with the issue of legislating nurse patient ratios. The california
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Patient Abandonment: An Annotated Bibliography A changing practice that should be examined by all new nurses is the abandonment of a patient. Many nurses do not see clocking out at the end of their shift without giving report to the oncoming nurse as abandonment. These nurses believe that they have left the patients in another nurses’ care and therefore they have not abandoned them. The previous example is showing physical abandonment‚ however psychological abandonment can be equally
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The main issue that prompted the researchers to do the study on the experiences that the health care workers have with dementia patients and their caregivers was to give an opportunity to health care workers to understand better ways of improving care for these patients because the population is increasing fast and it will help them give proper education to caregivers. The significance of the study was noted by “the global prevalence of Alzheimer disease and related dementias which is estimated to
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computer vision‚ information technology and finite element machine (FEM). The proposed system includes the following tools; patient information system‚ automatic 2-D cephalometrics‚ 3-D cephalometrics‚ 3-D visualization‚ surgical planning‚ 3-D registration‚ soft tissue simulation‚ pre and post treatment analysis‚ etc. Acquisition of the 3D virtual model of the patient is the foundation of this work. The CT slides of the patient’s head (soft and hard tissues) are collected in a DICOM (Digital
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Patient self-determination is defined by the text as a law that requires healthcare organizations to inform patients of their rights as they pertain to their ability to determine the own healthcare. The Patient Self-Determination Act was drafted and enacted Congress in 1990. The law required healthcare institutions to provide information about advance healthcare directives to patients upon their admission to the healthcare facilities. The premise of the Patient Self-Determination Act was to inform
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There are three problems that are associated with increases in patient exposure which are lack of physician knowledge‚ lack of patient awareness and physician’s practice of defensive medicine. These issues have led to an increase in patient radiation dose every year. From 1996 to 2010 overexposure due to radiation has doubled. (Bardi‚ p.2) This is an alarming stat and shows that we need to really focus on this issue in the future. Another alarming stat is that Americans received seven times more
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