Staffing Levels on Nursing Quality and Care In recent years‚ the healthcare industry has seen a significant decline in the quality of patient care it provides. This has been the result of reduced staffing levels‚ overworked nurses‚ and an extremely high nurse to patient ratio. The importance of nurse staffing in hospital settings is an issue of great controversy. Too much staff results in costs that are too great for the facility to bear‚ but too little staffing results in patient care that is greatly
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Steps in Cancer Prevention Sherri Joiner 156 08-02-2012 Farrah Hilton Steps in Cancer Prevention Cancer Preventions “Cancer” is a word that no one wants to hear when presenting to a doctor’s office or as a diagnosis for any family members. It is not one disease‚ but many diseases that affect many Americans each day. It is non-discriminatory and can affect anyone from infants to adults. According to “The National Cancer Institute” (n.d.)‚ there will be an estimated
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outside once in a while leaving your baby to the care of someone else. What will they feed the child‚ formula? Not if you can help it. You’ll need to have breast milk saved up first. Which brings us to the question - which breast pump is best.How and Where Will You Use It? If you are returning to work and pumping breast milk every day‚ or pumping exclusively‚ you need a more powerful pump than someone who only pumps breast milk on one side while nursing on the other. Will you have time to pump
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HER-2 Status and Brain Metastases in Trastuzumab-treated Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Ka-Kiu Claire Fung Literature Review: Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Project Convenor: Dr J A Smith Word Count: 3223 words C a n d i d a t e N u m b e r : 2 0 7 7 Ka-Kiu Claire Fung Abstract It is widely known that patients with HER-2-positive advanced breast cancer are at particularly high risk of developing brain metastases‚ especially if patients
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Guyabano for cancer? A balikbayan patient asked me recently about the anticancer effects of custard apple or sour sop. I was embarrassed to admit I didn’t quite know what the fruit was‚ but promised her I would request my research staff to search the scientific literatures about it. I gave the assignment to my senior researcher and editor Gigi de Leon‚ and she came back to me a few hours later educating me on what the custard apple or sour sop is. It is our good old guyabano‚ which I fondly
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Nursing Diagnosis(ND): Ineffective breathing pattern Related to (R/T): The patient has decreased lung compliance. As Evidenced By (AEB): The patient having dyspnea and abnormal ABGs Desired Patient Outcomes(Goals) Nursing Interventions Rationales Evaluation STG: Patient will: Patient will exhibit signs of effective breathing pattern before end of Nursing shift. 1. Nurse will monitor patient’s prescribed oxygen therapy. 2. Nurse will titrate oxygen to keep oxygen greater than ninety
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Colon Cancer What is the disease? Colon and rectal cancer develop in the digestive tract‚ which is also called the gastrointestinal‚ or GI‚ tract. The digestive system processes food for energy and rids the body of solid waste matter (fecal matter or stool). Colon cancer and rectal cancer have many features in common. Sometimes they are referred to together as colorectal cancer. Over 95% of colorectal cancers are ad enocarcinomas. These are cancers of the glandular cells that line the inside
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1–16; May 2013; © 2013 Landes Bioscience Inhibition of the autophagic flux by salinomycin in breast cancer stem-like/progenitor cells interferes with their maintenance Wen Yue‚1‚2‚† Ahmed hamaï‚1‚2‚† Giovanni Tonelli‚1‚2 chantal Bauvy‚1‚2 Valérie Nicolas‚2‚3 hugo Tharinger‚2‚3 Patrice codogno1‚2 and Maryam Mehrpour1‚2‚* 1 † These authors contributed equally to this work. Keywords: breast cancer stem-like/progenitor cell‚ salinomycin‚ autophagy‚ cell death‚ lysosome Abbreviations: ACTB‚
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United States. Their report showed that cancer is ranked at number two once again. As cancer rates remain high‚ it becomes increasingly important to understand what kinds of carcinogens‚ or cancer-causing agents‚ are around us‚ and how much they impact us. The known carcinogens that are well documented in terms of cancer death rates include smoking‚ alcohol consumption‚ and poor nutrition or insufficient physical exercise. However‚ not all known causes of cancer such as ionizing radiation are covered
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Lung Cancer the silent killer Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality not only in the United States but also around the world (Humam Kadara‚Mohamed Kabbout‚&Ignacio Wistuba ‚2011). Lung adenocarcinomas are a major subtype of non-small-cell lung cancers‚ are increasing in incidence globally in both males and females and in smokers and non-smokers‚ and are the cause for almost 50% of deaths attributable to lung cancer and the high mortality of this disease is in part due to the
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