you have some symptoms ask your doctor in the early stages of the disease. Pneumonia Pneumonia is a lung infection that will make you very sick. Pneumonia can be treated at home and it will get cured in about 2-3 weeks‚ but if it gets worse you may need to go to the hospital Causes There are many ways to get pneumonia .You can get pneumonia from school work or anywhere. You get it from anyone who also has pneumonia it is very contagious. Treatment Treatment is pretty simple‚ you can get
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must demonstrate that quality performance standards are met. In an effort to align clinical quality measures with the goals of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) clinical quality measure are assessed against domains‚ heart failure and pneumonia fall under Clinical Process/ Effectiveness (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‚ 2014). Heart failure is an increasingly common condition particularly among older Americans and can result in substantial morbidity‚ mortality‚ and consumption
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“Mr. Pneumonia was not a chivalrous old gentleman. A mite of a woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the old duffer.” This quote comes from a fictional short story called The Last Leaf by O. Henry. It tells the story of a woman‚ Johnsy‚ who is stricken with pneumonia and has chosen to let fate decide whether she will survive or not. The three things that stand out in this story are its conflicts‚ its suspense‚ and its theme. The conflicts within this story are
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supports that a ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention program can decrease the incidence of VAP in patients on mechanical ventilation. Educating health care workers about the several evidence-based interventions known to reduce the incidence of VAP will enhance accountability‚ reduce VAP‚ improve patient outcomes‚ and decrease patient care costs. Three research reports from professional journals that support the implementation of a ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention program are titled:
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Nursing Process is a method in professional nursing to identify‚ diagnose‚ and treat human responses to health illness. It has a series of steps which are assessment‚ diagnosis‚ planning‚ implementation and evaluation. A respiratory infection called Pneumonia was applied to each step of the nursing process. It is an illustration of how to apply the condition in each step by collecting the information‚ diagnosing the signs and symptoms‚ planning the goals‚ desired outcomes and interventions‚ and lastly
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Smoking - effects on your body Summary Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco smoke that causes smokers to continue to smoke. Addicted smokers need enough nicotine over a day to �feel normal� � to satisfy cravings or control their mood. How much nicotine a smoker needs determines how much smoke they are likely to inhale‚ no matter what type of cigarette they smoke. Along with nicotine‚ smokers also inhale about 7‚000 other chemicals in cigarette smoke. Many of these chemicals come from burning
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Friendship Characters: Main Characters: Sudie “Sue” – Protagonist Joanna “Johnsy” – Protagonist Mr. Behrman – Protagonist “Mr. Pneumonia” – Antagonist Supporting Characters: The Doctor Setting: In a little district west of Washington Square Plot: Conflict: Sue’s roommate‚ Johnsy‚ was sick in the hospital. She was diagnosed with Pneumonia. Climax: The doctor told Sue that Johnsy had a one out of ten chance for living‚ but Sue remained hopeful. Johnsy was determined that
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What causes cancer? Cancer is ultimately the result of cells that uncontrollably grow and do not die. Normal cells in the body follow an orderly path of growth‚ division‚ and death. Programmed cell death is called apoptosis‚ and when this process breaks down‚ cancer begins to form. Unlike regular cells‚ cancer cells do not experience programmatic death and instead continue to grow and divide. This leads to a mass of abnormal cells that grows out of control. How can cancer be prevented? Cancers
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The use of inhaled corticosteroids in COPD In this study published in JAMA‚ the authors looked at eleven studies on the use of inhaled corticosteroids in patients with COPD defined as a smoking- related lung disease characterized by recurrent episodes of cough‚ sputum production and breathlessness (Drummond‚ 2407). The authors of this study did no research of their own‚ but instead looked at other double blind‚ randomized‚ placebo controlled studies from around the world‚ with a restriction that
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be difficult to distinguish between the common cold and influenza in the early stages of these infections‚ but a flu can be identified by a high fever with a sudden onset and extreme fatigue. Influenza is a mixture of symptoms of common cold and pneumonia‚ body ache‚ headache‚ and fatigue. Diarrhea is not normally a symptom of influenza in adults. Symptoms of influenza may include fever and extreme coldness chills shivering‚ shaking‚ cough nasal congestion‚ runny nose‚ body aches‚ especially joints
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