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    The Fall of Singapore

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    THE FALL OF SINGAPORE SPEECH The Battle of Singapore was fought in South-East Asia during World War II‚ when the Japanese Army was severely underrated. Nobody could have predicted the outcome of the battle that commenced on the 31st of January 1941 and lasted til the 15th of February in 1942. Singapore was a great strategic naval base for the Allied Forces‚ and they anticipated an attack. The British had the numbers‚ but it seems as though the Japanese had the luck. Let me start by telling

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    presumed that taking medical history and performing physical assessment on standardized patients during simulation would be easy tasks to complete. I have been exposed to a similar simulation before and have first-hand experience and knowledge about history and physical assessment. I learned a great deal about my interaction with the standardized patients‚ which could reflect my connection with my real patients at work. After watching all the simulation videos‚ I was surprisingly impressed

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    I recently admitted a 59 year old male with suicidal ideation. As I was assessing my patient‚ he told me that he was a type 2 diabetic who checks his bloodsugars with meals and uses Insulin for coverage. He was concerned that his readings at home have been elevated and has not had an appetite for the last two days. I used the glucometer to check his chemstick which was 285. I called the admitting doctor and the Hospitalist to report my findings and the result of the bloodsugar. As a nursing

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    vision impaired patient

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    We need to know a lot about patients with visual impairment so we can give them the best dental care that they deserve. “More than 20 million Americans report having loss of vision including trouble seeing‚ even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Two percent of people with severe visual impairments are under 18 years of age. The majority of those who are blind lose vision after age 20.”(Mahoney‚2008) Limitations of sight cover a large spectrum from people with slight vision problems to people

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    Nurse Patient Relationship   Nurse-patient relationship According Cutliffe and McKenna (2005)‚ research‚ theoretical and educational literature on interpersonal relations between nurses and patients has proliferated since the 1960s.  This has generated a range of divergent accounts of what the nurse-patient relationship (NPR) ought to be‚ how this should be achieved‚ and how the NPR is constituted in practice. I have chosen the concept of nurse-patient relationship because this relationship

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    Deysi Serrano Outline: Patient Safety in Hospitals Chamberlain College of Nursing Outline: Patient Safety and Medical Errors General Purpose: To inform nurses and the general public about programs and policies in place to further decline the rates in medial errors and keep patients safe. Specific Purpose: To provide examples of why implementing proper procedures and having an open communication within the staff can prevent minor medical incidents and potential fatal medical accidents

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    below: Patient Background – Formerly referred to as the Care History Section‚ Patient Background provides the objective information on a patient’s previous care and/or social history. Care Recommendations – Care Considerations and care coordination information that is applicable to the ED setting. This section was previously called the ED Care Guidelines. EDIE Insight or PreManage Insight- A real-time notification that includes background‚ visit history and care recommendations for a patient. This

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    Hispanic Patient Values

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    I agree with your post that the Hispanic patient values the family unit. The oldest male does have the power in the family and control’s the decision making (Carteret‚ 2011). My husband is Hispanic and is the male in his family that makes all the decisions. I grew up with no father or male influence in my life. Personally‚ it has taken an adjustment for this line of thinking for myself‚ but I have pointed out to my husband that he is living in America now and he could adopt American ways. In

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    1. Provide an overview of the problem and briefly describe the methodology the study. The study was aiming to find if the patients’ perception to their physicians’ attentiveness this affect the relation between the physician’s recommendations regarding the diet and the exercises and the obese patients’ general health status. The study was recruited an ethnic group (from three ethnic groups: Caucasians‚ Hispanics‚ and African Americans) from 48 contiguous United States who were surveyed by telephone

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    Patient Educational Plan

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    Patient Educational Plan Nur/427 Monday‚ March 29‚ 2010 Sara Gerrie‚ MSN Introduction Prolonged and chronic ethanol (ETOH) use has devastating effects on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. ETOH is easily absorbed from the intestine and diffuses quickly throughout the body. The bulk of the ETOH is metabolized in the liver. ETOH abuse produces functional and structural changes in the GI tract‚ such as in the stomach‚ small intestine‚ liver‚ and pancreas (Geokas‚ Lieber‚ French‚ & Halsted 1981)

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