Pressure ulcers are an underestimated healthcare problem‚ particularly for individuals with spinal cord injury and have been associated with an extended length of hospitalization‚ sepsis‚ and mortality. In fact‚ nearly 60‚000 United States hospital patients are estimated to die each year from complications due to hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (Institute for clinical systems improvement [ICSI]‚ 2014). The Braden scale is the most preferred tool to assess the risk for pressure ulcer in the paraplegic
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SYNTHESIZING EVIDENCE PRACTICE IFEOMA DIMKPA‚ RN/BSN BRADLEY UNIVERSITY Introduction Pressure ulcer is simply a compromise to skin integrity. It is caused by immobility‚ poor nutrition‚ poor circulation and even little things like creases from the bed sheet. The issue of pressure ulcer in the elderly especially in long term facility is a growing concern because it could lead to infection‚ discomfort and even depression. This leads me to my research question: In patients admitted in a skilled
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Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising‚ intellectual property‚ and regulation of product safety. Marketing and advertising are the main channels that all companies use to get access to the customers and present their products to the potential customers. These have a very huge impact on the sales and the overall profit that the company will get. Every company must put into consideration all the legal and ethical issues to ensure that they attract more customers
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Nursing Accountability in Caring Central Venous Catheter Katie Rha Grand Canyon University NRS 430V August 19‚ 2011 Accountability means “obligation of being answerable for one’s own judgments and actions.” If someone gives you a job to do‚ you may be able to get others to carry out that task‚ but you are still held accountable to produce the results. In the nursing profession‚ a nurse is accountable for the actions towards his or her patient‚ even if he or she has delegated
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Impact of Pressure Ulcers on Nursing Care Theory Project May 15‚ 2013 ADN 151 The issue that I identified as a healthcare safety topic currently impacting nursing is pressure ulcers. A pressure ulcer is localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue usually over a bony prominence‚ as a result of pressure‚ or pressure in combination with shear and/or friction. I chose this topic for my paper because as a future nurse I would like to be able to prevent any new injuries
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BRAIN CONTROLLED ARTIFICIAL LEGS ABSTRACT: This paper describes a brain controlled robotic leg which is designed to perform the normal operations of a human leg. After implanting this leg in a human‚ the leg can be controlled with the help of user’s brain signals alone. This leg behaves similar to a normal human leg and it can perform operation like walking‚ running‚ climbing stairs etc. The entire system is controlled with the help of advanced microcontrollers and digital signal processors.
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body. Some major organs systems are circulatory‚ respiratory‚ digestive‚ excretory‚ nervous and endocrine system.Why would a human dissect a chicken leg to learn about different types of tissue and blood vessels rather than a human leg? Chicken legs are very similar then human legs. We do this to learn more about our legs without hurting humans. Both legs have bones (tibia and fibula) ‚ different types of tissue like blood and nerve tissue‚ and blood vessels (veins‚
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Bionic leg prostheses are motor powered artificial limbs that are enabling amputees to pursue fully mobile lifestyles. Most of today’s leg prostheses are passive and require a lot of energy to use‚ this makes them more of a hindrance than a help on people’s lives. Conventional leg prostheses consist of spring structures that store and release elastic energy through each walking stance period and cannot generate more mechanical energy than that is stored during each step‚ this leads to 10-60% more
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which are external and uncontrollable causes us to feel sick and acquired illnesses to some extent. Background of the Study One of the most popular illness that can be found in hospitals is what we call pressured ulcer‚ some uses bed sores or scientifically known as decubitus ulcer. This illness is caused by the unrelieved pressure to the skin which cuts off the circulation to the area. This can be developed as an upshot of prolonged period of immobility. Moreover‚ literatures provide scientific
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Hello Cincinnati. As you already know‚ today is a joyous day for friends‚ family‚ and the Great American Pastime‚ Baseball. Today we celebrate the Red legs Run as well as the Red’s community fund. For those of you who don’t know‚ the Red’s community Fund blends together the team’s long history of community involvement with a present-day commitment to at-risk kids throughout Greater Cincinnati. Since its inception in 2001‚ the Reds Community Fund has used baseball as a medium to reach out to kids
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