Explain the clinical applications of immunofixation.
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Discuss the principles and application of analytical centrifugation.
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Your patient is a 10 year old girl brought to the ED by her mother who is a nurse. Mom reports that the girl has had nausea and vomiting for the last 24 hours. She has been unable to keep food or liquids down. She has also had excessive thirst, weakness, sob, and been drowsy.
You start an IV for fluids. The labs come back and her A1C is 15. What would you expect that her diagnosis will be? Discuss how you will educate the patient and her mom.
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The progression from conceptual model to middle-range theory can be identified by reviewing King’s theory of goal attainment (middle-range theory) which is derived from King’s conceptual system (conceptual model). Explain how the concepts of the conceptual model and Patricia Benner's middle-range theory are consistent and are linked.
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Chapter 13 of the text by Corr & Corr discusses suicide and adolescents. Why does suicidal behavior get so much attention, according to the text? What does the text say about statistics regarding suicide during adolescents? What are some of the characteristics regarding adolescent suicide and suicidal behavior? How can people help adolescents who are dealing with suicide and/or suicidal behavior? The video below from the Mayo Clinic focuses on providing information and suggestions, directed at teens themselves, to help a peer avoid suicide.
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In a certain clinic, there are five patients in urgent needs of organ transplants. All five patients are middle age people, who are significant contributors to the society (we can assume that they are a well-known physicist, an important military officer, neuroscientist, a great politician, and a social reformer.) One day a new patient comes to this clinic, a middle age janitor, with very advanced brain cancer.
The janitor does not have a chances to recover from his brain cancer. He does not have any family, and he is a volunteer organ donor. His organs would save lives of the five other people. But the janitor wishes to live as long as he can. The doctor (who is the owner of this clinic) estimates that the janitor will live for another six months. Unfortunately, none of the five other men is able to wait for the organ transplant that long. If this situation is left to its natural order, all six people will be dead in six months.
By the virtue of his profession, the doctor is committed to saving human lives (and not to terminating human lives). By his rational judgement, the doctor thinks he should try to do what will bring the best possible outcome; it seems the right thing to do is to save as many (significant) people as possible.
What should the doctor do?
Should he let all the six people die out of their natural causes? Or,
Should he arrange an urgent surgery for the janitor, and conduct it in the way the janitor dies during the medical procedure (the doctor would be the only one who knows what really happened)? This way he can use the janitor’s organs to save the other five men.
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Why are sample and population confidence intervals calculated differently?
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Explain how each of the three types of crystalloids listed below causes fluid shifts
c. Hypotonic crystalloids:
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1. What is constructive criticism and why is it important?
2. Explain the professional behaviors that should be exhibited by medical assistants.
3. What is cultural diversity?
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Use the brain injury key terms to fill in the blank complete the sentences below Answers used once
KEY TERMS
extension
short term memory loss
comatose
dilated
nystagmus
flexion
a. A person who is unable to be aroused, even by vigorous painful stimuli, is _______________.
b. Persistent jerky movements of the eyes is known as _________________.
c. Decorticate posturing is demonstrated, in part, by abnormal _________________ of the elbow.
d. Decerebrate posturing is demonstrated, in part, by abnormal _____________ of the elbow.
e. Cognitive impairment is associated with _________________.
f. Increased intracranial pressure can cause fixed, ____________ pupils.
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Provide an overview of how patient safety relates to healthcare effectiveness data and information set (HEDIS) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Mental Disorders (DSM). Explain you theory.
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Who should decide when a healthcare procedure is medically necessary: the doctor who is treating the patient, or the health insurance company who is paying the bill? What are the moral and ethical issues concerning the insurance company making these decisions, which are driven by cutting healthcare costs and making a profit?
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Answer the following:
1- What is the function of the endocrine system and how does it work?
2- What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist? Discuss some of the issues that are diagnosed by either one.
3-Discuss about LBGTQ health issues, transgender medical issues not addressed by family medicine
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