heroin user and shared a dirty needle. He has now been clean for 1 year and attends a support group for recovering addicts. His fiancé‚ Jenny‚ left him after he told her of his diagnosis and he is despondent and feels he has no reason to live. John’s fiancé has not tested positive for HIV. John’s family consists of a mother‚ a father‚ and a sister who all live nearby. Active Listening How does John feel today? o John feels fine physically and has never felt sick from this infection. o John is
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My past history books and social studies classes provided the basis to my knowledge on America’s past events‚ like the Revolutionary War. These books‚ classes‚ and even historians that I was accustomed to‚ only told about the men’s part in wars like this‚ while women were extremely overlooked. In my opinion‚ the women had just as great of roles as the men did in this era. As the troubles between the colonists and the British began‚ colonial women soon learned that they could be of great importance
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2011 Intro to Nursing History of the Nursing Nursing has played a big role in our past‚ present and will be in the future. Do we even know what nursing really is? Many people have interpreted it as “white uniforms‚ nursing cap‚ needles and bedpans” (Pg. 32). A nurse is defined as someone that tends to the patient needs but also shows commitment‚ caring‚ and dedication. “During the early Christian era men and woman spread the philosophy of Christianity while providing nursing care to the ill”
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The Nursing Language Anam Afaq Nursing 110-EDr Linda Millenbach The article I chose titled‚ “Perspective: Implementation of Nursing Language in Long-Term Care and Nursing Education”‚ is an article that describes a nurse‚ Shirley’s experience with Nursing theory and terminology. Shirley Aizenstein started her nursing career in the 1960s‚ when things were a lot different. She started as a nursing student and now is an instructor for first-year nursing students at the City College of Chicago
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Students in their first semester of year one‚ attached to the ward for 3 weeks. • The skill that will be taught to them will be blood pressure monitoring using a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer. • Cork A (2007) suggest that nursing students should be using manual BP monitoring I l practice instead of depending on automated monitors• Learning takes place in surgical ward and hospital’s stimulation lab. • The first debriefing session was conducted in stimulation lab. The
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Introduction It has been said throughout time that‚ necessity is the mother of invention‚ but what facilitates necessity in today’s modern society has become a vast gray area. As a society‚ we are use to‚ and so dependent on‚ such modern conveniences‚ as high-speed internet‚ cell phones‚ laptops‚ tablets‚ search engines‚ and GPS‚ so much so that we would not know how to function without them. The dependence on modern technology is making way for a whole generation that is incapable of doing anything
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discussion of the important assumptions and concepts of the theories. Florence Nightingale is the most recognized name in the field of nursing. Her work was instrumental for developing modern nursing practice‚ and from her first shift‚ she worked to ensure patients in her care had what they needed to get healthy. Her Environmental Theory changed the face of nursing to create sanitary conditions for patients to get care. Biography of Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in
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NURSING NOTES http://www.nursingnotes.info/ FIVE (5) PHASES OF NURSING CARE (American Nurses Association (ANA) Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice) I. ASSESING – is the systematic and continuous collection‚ organizing‚ validation‚ and documentation of data. PURPOSE: To establish a database about client’s response to health concerns or illness and the ability to manage health care needs. TYPES OF ASSESSMENT: TYPE TIME PERFORMED PURPOSE EXAMPLE Initial Assessment Within
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To begin with upstream‚ it is defined as the level in which we use primary prevention methods before the person gets the disease. (Levels of Disease Prevention‚2009) Primary prevention aims to prevent the disease from occurring. So primary prevention reduces both the incidence and prevalence of a disease. (Levels of Disease Prevention‚2009). In primary prevention‚ choices are encouraged that will promote the overall health of an individual‚ population or community. Basic healthcare choices such as
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The movie As Good As It Gets sets in New York City where the main character Melvin Udall (Nicholson) finds his life turned upside down when he is left with the responsibility of taking care of his neighbour Simon’s dog while he is being hospitilized. Melvin is a cranky‚ rude‚ bigoted obsessive writer that suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He eats breakfast at the same table in the same reestaurant everyday and brings along his own platsic utensils due to his fear of germs and takes
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