Hypertension is high blood pressure. This is a condition that has taken place from your external environment. For example‚ you may be under stress at your job or school. The stress can be very demanding and causes several things to happen to your body. The blood is pressured against the wall of your blood vessels causing your heart to beat faster and harder. This causes an increase in your pressure and now your normal functioning of your blood pressure is now disturbed or out of balance. The organ
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Chapter 33: Nursing Management: Hypertension Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which action will the nurse in the hypertension clinic take in order to obtain an accurate baseline blood pressure (BP) for a new patient? a. Deflate the BP cuff at a rate of 5 to 10 mm Hg per second. b. Have the patient sit in a chair with the feet flat on the floor. c. Assist the patient to the supine position for BP measurements. d. Obtain two BP readings in the dominant arm and average the results. ANS: B The patient
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Running head: The effects of hypertension The Causes of Hypertension and Effect on the Cardiovascular Syst Course: HSC 46 Annotated Bibiography Appel‚ L. J.‚ H.‚ Jackson.W.T.‚ Greene‚ T .‚. Agodoa‚ L.Y.‚ Astor‚ B.C . Bakris‚ G.L .‚ William H. Cleveland‚ W.H.‚ Charleston‚ J.‚Gabriel Contreras‚ G .‚ Faulkner‚M.L.‚Gabba F.B.‚ Gassman‚ J.J.‚ Lee A. Hebert.‚ . Jamerson‚ K. A.‚ Kopple‚J.D.‚ Kusek‚ J. W.‚ Lash‚J. P.‚ Janice P. Lea.‚ Julia B. Lewis.‚ Lipkowit‚ M. S.‚Massry‚S.G.‚ Mille‚ E. R
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blood pressure‚ which can increase blood flow and causing your heart to work much harder than it would in a relaxed state. PTSD has been associated with coronary heart disease and thromboembolic stroke and people with PTSD are more likely to have hypertension‚ hyperlipidemia‚ obesity and cardiovascular disease. The risks for PTSD patients should be noted because coronary heart diease can develop over time as a result of elevated blood pressure with turbulence and stress within coronary arteries and
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An Effective Assessment Plan for a Bilingual Early Learning Program: Integrating Montessori‚ High/Scope‚ and Constructivist approaches from a Leadership and Personal Point of View Adriana Ferrari University of Calgary Summary Montessori‚ High Scope‚ and recent constructivist theories are properly integrated in this paper in order to create an effective assessment plan in a two-way bilingual early educational program. Montessori Method promotes the 21st Century Competencies such
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Hypertension Health Hazard in the African American Communities Hypertension (HTN) is a genetic disease which tends to run in families. Even though every race and ethnicity can be affected by HTN the highest prevalence is in the African American communities (Opara‚ Hawkins‚ Sundaram‚ Merchant‚ Rasmussen & Holmes‚ 2013). During my survey‚ I conversed with 50 people in my community‚ 48 had a mother or father with HTN‚ the other two were uncertain. Twenty-five of the 50 people I conversed with admitted
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Question #3 Why has the plan failed? ·The plan failed because many of the teachers had learned behaviours and did not have the desire or motivation to change. Strong existing culture that made them resistant to change. ·The plan was introduced too soon with not enough consensus among the teachers‚ if any and the teachers did not buy into the plan ·Many of the teacher’s had been at the school for a long time and did not have a real incentive or motivation to change because of attempted failures
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Patient Education Plan for Uterine Fibroids Ramona Pullum University of Phoenix NUR/427 Barbara Deets May 13‚ 2010 Patient Education Plan for Uterine Fibroids Uterine fibroids are muscular tumors that grow in the wall of the uterus (womb). Another medical term for uterine fibroids is "leiomyoma" (leye-oh-meye-OH-muh) or just "myoma". Fibroids are almost always benign or non cancerous. Fibroids can grow as a single tumor‚ or there can be many of them in the uterus. They can be as small as
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Rationale Condoms are an important topic in any sex education curriculum‚ increasingly so in those of the high school level. In today’s society‚ a staggering percentage of these individuals will become sexually active so it is ever so important that we inform them properly about safer sex in order to help prevent teenage pregnancies and the transfer of Sexually Transmitted Diseases or STD’s. The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States states that‚ “The U.S. has one of the
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Lyme Disease Public Education Plan Table of Contents Objective 2 Fact Sheet 2-6 Data Sheet 6-8 Cause and Effect Sheet 8 Disease Analysis Sheet 9-11 Disease Control Plan 11 References 13 Annotated bibliography 14 Objective: Lyme disease can be a very serious disease if not treated early enough. The most important way to keep from getting the disease is prevention. Education is the key to prevention. The only way to contract the disease is to be bitten by a tick that is
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