VITAL SIGNS NUR 102 What are Vital Signs? • Temperature • Pulse • Respirations • Blood Pressure • Pain (considered the 5th vital sign) When to measure vital signs? • On admission to health care facility • In a hospital on regular hosp schedule or as MD ordered (q8hours‚ q4 hours‚ etc) • Before and after procedures (surgery‚ invasive diagnostic procedures) • Before‚ during‚ and after blood transfusions • When patient’s general condition changes (nursing judgment) GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSMENT
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Investigate the types and reasons for abuse of children Sign and symptoms of abuse Physical abuse Physical abuse is where a person is physically hurt or injured purposely by another person with the intention to cause them harm. Physical abuse includes hitting‚ slapping‚ kicking‚ biting‚ head butting‚ drowning‚ burning etc and often occurs in places that are easy to hide under clothing. Physical child abuse is any form of physical injuries inflicted upon the child with cruel and/or malicious
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Kristen Harrison and Joanne Cantor designed a study‚ in 1999‚ to examine the effects frightening media had on children and if those effects continued into adulthood. Their study had three major goals. The first goal was to classify the types of media stimuli that contributed to the fright reactions. Their second goal was to uncover the different symptoms that the participants had within these reactions. Their final goal was to survey the developmental trend in the stimuli and the different coping
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In the movie Signs‚ directed by Manoj Night Shyamalan‚ Shyamalan’s message from the film is that it covers faith‚ kinship‚ and extraterrestrials. In addition‚ there’s a reason for everything‚ whether it’s good or bad‚ God has a plan for everything. In the movie we’re presented to a family of four called the Hess family. The family lives in Doylestown‚ Bucks County‚ Pennsylvania. The father‚ Graham Hess is a former priest whose wife‚ Colleen‚ died in a horrific traffic accident. No longer practicing
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family problems. Children with this disorder never outgrow it‚ and adults often have difficulties keeping jobs and maintaining relationships with people. Research studies show that ADHD is genetic and may be environmentally induced. While there is no cure for ADHD‚ with proper education‚ psychological therapy‚ and medication people diagnosed with this disorder have had success in coping with their symptoms. Signs and Symptoms of ADHD There are three main signs or symptoms of ADHD identified
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Chinese Zodiac Sign The Chinese Zodiac uses twelve animals to represent cycles of a twelve year calendar. The animal that represents a person in the zodiac is determined by the year the person was born. Characteristics and personality traits are said to be typical of a person born during a specific animal’s cycle. Having been born in the year 1972‚ I am represented by the rat. There are many words used to describe the rat‚ which would also‚ in effect‚ describe me. One of the more positive
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The essentials of synchronicity is that "there are no accidents; your soul attracts everything into your life." In Shyamalan’s film Signs‚ the concept of synchronicity is built up from the very beginning‚ and when Reverend Graham Hess has his flashbacks‚ as this is when all the pieces start falling into place. Throughout the movies little details are brought up about the characters life in order for the fantastic ending of the domino effect trickling into a sense of knowing. To being with‚ the viewer
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Have you ever made a decision that would not only affect your future but greatly affect someone else’s? In the book The Sign of the Beaver‚ Matt’s father had to make one of these tough decisions. Matt’s father bought land in the wilderness of Maine for his family to settle. He and his son left his wife and daughter back in Massachusetts to prepare their property. Together Matt and his father cleared the land‚ built a cabin‚ and planted corn. Matt’s father traveled back to Massachusetts to fetch his
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In this exciting story‚ Sign of the Beaver‚ written by author Elizabeth Speare‚ a young teenage boy‚ who was left in the wilderness to fend for himself‚ had many adventures and challenges‚such as bears destroying his house‚and getting stung many times by bees. That’s what leads me to today’s question. Should Matt have become friends with the Indians? My answer to this question is yes! He should have become friends with the Indians‚ and that’s exactly what he did. Let me give you a few reasons why
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Arduino Kit Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It’s an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board‚ and a development environment for writing software for the board. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring‚ a similar physical computing platform‚ which is based on the Processing multimedia programming environment. ATmega128 The ATmega is an MCU produced
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