SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY Health and Human Sciences ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET For use with online submission of assignments via Turnitin Please complete all of the following details and then make this sheet the first page of your assignment – do not send it as a separate document. Your assignments must be submitted as either Word documents (with .doc extension‚ or .docx). Do not submit your assignment in a PDF file. Student Name: Dianne Brown Student ID No.: 22400970 Unit Name: Discipline of Nursing
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Anna Bunting Evidence Based Practice & Applied Nursing Research EBT Task 3 724.8.3-06‚ 8.4-01-05 May 21‚ 2013 A1: Procedure The results of several studies show that preoperative anxiety is associated with negative postoperative outcomes. These studies were conducted on men‚ women and children‚ all undergoing surgery for various diagnoses. A study conducted in Singapore on school aged children found a statistically significant correlation between preoperative
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FunctionMinor changes bring major improvements in efficiency‚ safety and costs. Infection Control Today . Retrieved from http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/articles/2003/09/infection-control-today-09-2003-surgical-prep.aspx The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. (2002‚ January 1). Recommended practices for skin preparation of patients. AORN Journal. Retrieved from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FSL/is_1_75/ai_83664586/?tag=content;col1
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in diameter‚ less blood is needed to fill them. Since less blood is needed through the vessels‚ the heart begins to slow. If the body remains in this slowed state‚ hypothermia could result. Hypothermia is the condition in which metabolic processes are inhibited. The medical world has taken advantage of this by inducing hypothermia in patients that are undergoing organ transplants. To fight temperatures higher than normal‚ as in exercise or on hot days‚ the body reacts in the opposite way than
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PIP/TAZ was prescribed appropriately‚ whereas 55 % of the patients received PIP/TAZ inappropriately. Among inappropriate PIP/TAZ usage there was 50 % prescribed as perioperative prophylaxis. This considerably high percentage of inappropriate use of a broad spectrum antibiotic. Further looking to inappropriate PIP/TAZ use as perioperative prophylaxis‚ most of the patients received it as
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reason why the body needs to regulate its temperature. Protein functions are also reduced by the lowering of temperature. An animal and human will no longer be able to operate if its body becomes too cold. The state of being too cold is called hypothermia and it can lead to the complete shutdown of all cell function and cell death. Components of thermoregulatory homeostatic control system: The
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(1) Hypothermia Hypothermia is when the body temperature falls below 35 degrees centigrade in humans. At this reduced temperature molecules have reduced amounts of kinetic energy causing the rate of metabolic reactions in the body to reduce. For example the respiration rate is greatly lowered causing less heat to be generated. Hypothermia occurs when the body cannot effectively regulate temperature. This can happen if the body is exposed to very cold temperatures. In moderate hypothermia (which
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twenty first century nurses can obtain education from graduate to doctorate in various specialties in nursing (code of professional conduct and ethics for registered nurses and midwives‚ 2014). As said above‚ there are programs for nurses like advanced nurse nursing need to promote the changes and implement it among public‚ nurses and allied health professionals (Butts and Rich‚ 2014). Nurse’s Professional Identity Professional identity has become more relevant in the twenty first century. In the
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The ODP will become the voice of the service user‚ providing the patient information to make an informed choice throughout their perioperative journey. Informed consent is fundamental when providing care ODP’s face many challenges in relation to this (Arnold and Boggs‚ 2007). The service user has a legal right to direct what happens to their own body‚ which is essential prior to any treatment
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References: Douglas‚ K. (2010‚ December). When Caring Stops‚ Staffing Doesn ’t Really Matter. Nursing Economics‚ 28(6)‚ 415-419. Health Systems. (2011). Overview of Jean Watson’s Theory. Innovative Care Models McNamara‚ S.A. (1995‚ February). Perioperative Nurses ’ Perception of Caring Practices. AORN Journal‚ 61(2)‚ 377-388. Norred‚ C.L. (2000‚ November). Minimizing Pre-operative Anxiety with Alternative Caring-Healing Therapies Self Care Academy. (2010) Compassion fatigue. Retrieved from
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