Patient case: A 65 year old resident is admitted to a Skilled Long Term Care Facility for a hip fracture. The resident has a Wound Vac and open wound upon admission to the Nursing Facility. The resident is due to receive Physical therapy and rehabilitation and go home. The resident must also receive wound care once per shift from the wound nurse or floor nurse depending on the shift. The resident is an alcoholic and is married with four children. The resident comes from a low income housing area
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novels explore the hardships of love‚ war‚ and death."The wound‚ the break from society‚ and the code are subjects of Hemingway ’s work" (Young 6). These three events are critical in Hemingway ’s novels The Sun Also and A Farewell to Arms. "The Wound" represents just that‚ a wound. It can be a physical‚ mental‚ or an emotional wound always occurring in the story ’s protagonist. This relates to the theme of loss because the character ’s wound is always a loss they suffer. The loss can be physical‚ for
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and barely any clean water. The bare‚ bloody ground was the only bed for most of the wounded soldiers. 1 Hospitals were designed as a series of pavilions connected by covered or enclosed walkways. Soldiers were separated based on their particular wounds or afflictions.2 Each regiment was assigned a surgeon‚ to provide medical care after battles. A yellow flag marked field hospitals.
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1. What is the disease? • Gangrene is a term that describes dead or dying body tissue(s) that occur because the local blood supply to the tissue is either lost or is inadequate to keep the tissue alive. Gangrene refers to dead or dying body tissue(s) that occur because of inadequate blood supply. • There are two major types of gangrene‚ wet gangrene and dry gangrene. http://www.onhealth.com/gangrene/article.htm Gangrene is the destruction of tissue in your body. It develops when the blood supply
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severe cases. Complications such as shock‚ infection‚ multiple organ dysfunction syndrome‚ electrolyte imbalance and respiratory distress may occur. The treatment of burns may include the removal of dead tissue (debridement)‚ applying dressings to the wound‚ fluid resuscitation‚ administering antibiotics‚ and skin grafting. While large burns can be fatal‚ modern treatments developed in the last 60 years have significantly improved the prognosis of such burns‚ especially in children and young adults.
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References: Healthcare and Medical. (2012). The global wound management market to grow 4.6% by 2018 Retrieved 20 November‚ 2012‚ from http://www.companiesandmarkets.com/News/Healthcare-and-Medical/The-global-wound-management-market-to-grow-4-6-by-2018/NI2982 Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare. (2003). Measurement of Patient Satisfaction Guidelines. Health Strategies
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with the circulatory system. * A 72-year-old diabetic female exhibits a non-healing wound on her left foot. The diagnosis category I would choose in this case would be Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue—Codes 680–709. The reasoning for this is that the patient’s problem is a wound that is not healing on her foot. The fact that the patient suffers from diabetes is not a diagnosis of why the wound is not
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A. (1996) Compression Bandaging in the treatment of venous leg ulcers. Journal of Wound Care. 5‚ 9‚ 415-417. Nursing Midwifery Council. (2002) Code of Professional conduct London. Nuremberg Code‚ (1947) (1949) Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law. US Government Printing Offices‚ Washington
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Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy‚ which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Chinese herbs have been used for centuries. Among the earliest literature are lists of prescriptions for specific ailments‚ exemplified by the manuscript "Recipes for 52 Ailments"‚ found in the Mawangdui tombs which were sealed in 168 BC. Chinese patent medicine is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. They are standardized herbal formulas.
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of a kenning. |Compound Words |Prepositional Phrases |Possessives | |Sky-candle |Wolf of wounds |Seabird’s bath | |Whale-road |Winters of grief |Ocean’s face
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