The University of the West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences The UWI School of Nursing‚ Mona Year II Semester II BScN Catheterizing the Female Urinary Bladder Overview: Urinary Catheterization is the introduction of a catheter through the urethra into the bladder for the purpose of withdrawing urine. Purpose of the Urinary Catheterization is to 1. Prevent or relieve bladder distension 2. Promote urinary elimination 3. Obtain a sterile specimen of Urine 4. Obtain
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The elements of the nursing knowledge sums up what nursing is all about. Right from its inception through Florence Nightgale’s work‚ nursing has approached patient care with a holistic ideology. It was not surprising to come across the metaparadigm of the nursing knowledge including‚ the person‚ health‚ environment‚ and nursing practice. The metaparadigm share light of the ideology of nursing. With that said‚ it is essential we produce more research work and come-up with knowledge unique to the profession
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Hi Katherina‚ Human error in nursing is usually unavoidable‚ unpredictable and unintentional. Further‚ some risks include language barriers‚ neglecting to follow the policy‚ in a hurry to complete the task. As a supervisor‚ I encountered a nurse who gave a patient the wrong medications. The error occurred when the patient answered to the wrong name‚ and the nurse failed to check the patient’s identification bracelet. Other errors can include carelessness on the behalf of the staff as well as not
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entirely make or break an experience. This is as true in clinical experiences as it is in life. My experience in my senior year clinical preceptorship was without a doubt unique but I feel its uniqueness was in what I made of it‚ something every nursing student can do for themselves. If there is one lesson to gain from reading about my experiences it should be that the success of a clinical is entirely what the student makes of it. My first day I walked into the ICU and almost ran right back out
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ESSENTIAL REQUISITES OF CONTRACTS Article 1318. There is no contract unless the following requisites concur: 1. Consent of the contracting parties; 2. Object certain which is the subject matter of the contract; 3. Cause of the obligation which is established. Article 1319. Consent is manifested by the meeting of the offer and the acceptance upon the thing and the cause which are to constitute the contract. The offer must be certain and the acceptance absolute. A qualified acceptance
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NURSING Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the
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environmental message factors -human (symbolic) interaction 2. The communication settings we’ll cover this semester -intrapersonal -dyadic/interpersonal -small group -public communication -mass communication Week 1: Elements of Communication COMMUNICATION- The process of human beings responding to the symbolic behavior of other persons. -First Characteristic of Definition: Communication is a “Process.” Communication is “Process” several reasons: 1.We do not
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1- Look up the following elements and show their (atomic number‚ atomic mass‚ the symbol‚ number of electrons‚ protons and neutrons) the elements are Iron‚ copper‚ sodium‚ magnesium‚ chlorine‚ fluorine‚ carbon‚ hydrogen‚ oxygen. Element |Symbol |Atomic # |Mass # |#Protons |#Electrons |#Neutrons | |Iron |Fe |26 |26+26=52 |26 |26 |26 | |Copper |Cu |29 |29+29=58 |29 |29 |29 | |Sodium |Na |11 |11+11=22 |11 |11 |11 | |Magnesium |Mg |12 |12+12=24 |12 |12 |12 | |Chlorine |Ci |17 |17+17=34 |17 |17 |17
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plan of care I developed for Mr X while he was under my care in a post anaesthetic unit. It will discuss my nursing assessments‚ and what diagnoses I developed from this. It will then discuss the rationale behind my nursing interventions using relevant literature. My plan of care will be analysed throughout while identifying how my nursing care meets best practice guidelines. A nursing care plan is begun at a patients admission. In this case Mr X was booked in for an elective surgery‚ which meant
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CHAPTER 3 Exercises 3.6 What are the differences among short-term‚ medium term‚ and long-term scheduling? Answer: The short-term scheduler selects from the ready processes the next process to run and gives it the CPU. The long-term scheduler selects from the pool of processes that are waiting on disk and loads the selected processes into memory. These processes have not yet begun their execution. The medium-term scheduler takes processes that are currently in memory and selects those
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