Hypertension High blood pressure is also known as hypertension is on the rise among all age groups due to poor dietary habit‚ aging‚ and sedentary/behavioral lifestyle. However‚ health care providers‚ patients‚ dieticians‚ and parents can jointly work together to eliminate this silent killer. The seventh Joint National Committee defines hypertension as a sustained systolic blood pressure above 140 mm Hg or higher or a diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or above in three separate occasions. However‚ one
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Case studies have been great tool for me to learn evidence based nursing that will be put into nursing practice. Retrieving information‚ recognizing deviations from “normal”‚ interpreting and prioritizing data to plan patient specific interventions are all skills that I have developed from case study analyses. Different from SIM where we have to think on our feet and rely on the skills that we have learned‚ theory case studies are written‚ allowing us to track a nursing issue through all the stages
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Patients who present to the ER with abdominal pain are often complicated cases with the abdomen housing so many organs. Trying to figure out what is going on with your patient is made more difficult because of referred pain. When trying to figure out where to start remembering your ABC’s will assist in determining if your patient is stable or unstable. Remembering which organs are located within each abdominal region will assist you in narrowing down the potential diagnosis. With the ER patient
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Patient is a 65- year- old‚heterosexual‚ upper middle class‚ a caucasian female who has been fighting esophageal cancer for the past year and a half. The patient is married with two adult children. She resides at home with her husband and has an exceptionally supportive immediate family‚ friends‚ and relatives. Patient has an older sister whom she is very close with. She reports having a job that she takes great pleasure in. Patient has experienced a difficult time coping with her cancer diagnosis
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reference to previous studies such as practical reports of nursing teachers who were in charge of Pediatric Nursing Practicum‚ especially the qualitative study conducted by Shiba and Yamaguchi (2012). We created two sub-concepts‚ “judgments on the necessity of intervention” and “educational intervention” (Figure 1) from nursing teachers’ judgments and behaviors for supporting the construction of relationship between nursing students and child patients‚ clarified by a previous study (Shiba & Yamaguchi
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view of one’s culture is important‚ every person is culturally unique; therefore‚ nurses must implement a transcultural assessment model when assessing a client. Completing individual assessments will prevent stereotyping and ensure patient-centered quality care. The purpose of this paper is to assess an adult from a culture different from my own‚ utilizing Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Assessment Model and summarize my findings. Description of the Person and Cultural Heritage Mr. Crane
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During March 2013 I suffered a serious paranoid psychosis and was forcibly held at the KGV Hospital’s acute ward‚ under the Mental Health Act 1984. Actually‚ ten RGP officers‚ in full riot gear with shields‚ raided my home and in a very violent and aggressive manner‚ even though I was lying face down on the floor and offering no resistance whatsoever‚ abducted me and took me in handcuffs to the police station. There I was seen by two psychiatrists and a mental welfare officer and sent to the KGV
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Reshelle is an outgoing 13 year old girl. She has long brown hair and brown eyes. Reshelle is described as lvoing and caring. She enjoys playing yahtzee‚ card games‚ and doing crafts. She enjoys being active by playing at the park. Reshelle does very well in the prospective adoptive home of her maternal grandparent. Reshelle can be stubborn‚ but he is easily redirected when given one on one time to talk about any issues she is having. Reshelle was a 7th grader at Coolidge Junior High School. She
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Legal Issues Case Study for Nursing Case 2 Nursing Situation: Cindy Black (fictitious name)‚ a four-year-old child with wheezing‚ was brought into the emergency room by her mother for treatment at XYZ (fictitious name) hospital at 9:12 p.m. on Friday‚ May 13. Initial triage assessment revealed that Cindy was suffering from a sore throat‚ wheezing bilaterally throughout all lung fields‚ seal-like cough‚ shortness of breath (SOB)‚ bilateral ear pain. Vital signs on admission were pulse
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RTT1 Task 1 Shirley Krussel Western Governor ’s University December 12‚ 2014 RTT1 Task 1 The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) established by the American Nurses Association (ANA)‚ provides reports on how care‚ specifically provided by nurses‚ affects patient outcomes. Based on these reports‚ the ANA has developed a national set of nursing sensitive indicators that measure the process of care‚ the structure of care‚ and patient- focused outcomes in a health care setting.
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