what is Bowel Elimination: complications including paralytic ileus, enemas, types of ostomies, bowel care, digital removal (complications)?

Wound care: stages, drainage, complications, dressing types, shear/friction?

what is Therapeutic and Non-therapeutic communication?

Which of the following tests are used to evaluate renal function?

-blood urea nitrogen and creatinine

-creatinine and amonia

-creatinine phosphokinase and blood urea nitrogen

-creatinine phosphokinase and creatinine

A physician asks you to evaluate a patients overall status of electrolyte balance. You would use the following set of electrolytes to calculate the anion gap:

-Na, Ca, Cl, HCO3

-Na, H, Cl, k

-Na, Cl, k

-Na, Cl, HCO3

consider You are a registered nurse (RN) in the intensive care unit (ICU) at your facility. The ICU has 24 beds, 1 nurse manager, 4 clinical nurse specialists (on a rotating schedule), and 6 charge nurses (on a rotating schedule). Typically, your unit has anywhere from 18-24 patients per shift. In order to climb the clinical ladder, you have been asked to create a new policy for your unit that will improve patient outcomes related to Readmissions.

1. Research best practices for improving Readmissions healthcare outcome.
2. Identify the best methods for implementing the best practices for Readmissions healthcare outcome
3. discuss the need for policy creation
4. elaborate on the role of the nurse manager, nurse leader and patient in the implementation process of this policy

Hello, i would like to know about what do i need to know post surgical nursing intervention and teaching patient.  Cataract,BPH, Glucoma. Thank you.

”Socioeconomic inequalities in low birth weight are larger in the US than in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, and income inequality is on the rise globally, with the United States leading the way.” Why is this? Why is the US leading the way in disparities? Is our healthcare system to blame?

Articulate a moral dilemma wherein one has to show a specific virtue or virtues (it can be any virtue or virtues including honesty, courage, charity/generosity, compassion, etc.)

• What is the moral dilemma about?
• What virtue or virtues should be shown? (You are here selecting the best course of action)
• Why is that virtue or those virtues to be shown?
• How should the virtue or virtues be expressed, and why in that manner?
• Apply Aristotle's golden mean to the dilemma.

A 54-year-old woman presented with a 1-month history of intermittent, burning epigastric abdominal pain that was moderately severe in intensity. Her pain radiated toward her back in a band-like fashion. She also noted nausea and vomited once, with the vomit consisting of food particles. The patient denied having signs and symptoms of melena, hematochezia, or hematemesis. Her medical history was significant for peptic ulcer disease, and the patient had had multiple endoscopies in the past 6 years. It was learned that she had 2 clean-based antral ulcers 5 years prior and was started on lansoprazole, which she could not afford and so was switched to omeprazole, which she used intermittently. She also admitted to past use of an over-the-counter analgesic consisting of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine. This patient should be discharged on what medication? Explain why you are choosing them. What would be Non Pharmacological approach for the treatment of this patient ?

Scenario: You are working as a personal trainer and your 21-year-old client, Alex, tells you on the first day that he has epilepsy and has known this since he was 12-years-old. Their physician has prescribed him medication and has also cleared him to participate in all physical activity at the gym.

Questions:

1) What further information would be useful to know about Alex's seizure history, types of seizures, and the postical phase? Refer to Ch. 1's teaching regarding taking a medical history, if needed.

2) What education might you provide the other staff members at the gym so they know how to help? Explain/justify your reasoning.

3) What is your seizure management plan, should Alex have a seizure while you are training him? What other individuals need to be informed of this plan?

Choose two of the following and define and summarize.

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Privacy Security Code Sets
• National provider Identification (NPI)
• Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
• Healthcare common Procedure Code Sets (HCPCS)