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what stakeholders are impacted by this policy (e.g. health care
consumers, medical staff, etc.)?
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. Give brief information about the usage of iron supplements
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Describe steps that could be taken to improve the likelihood of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples accessing the health or welfare services they require. |
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Answer the following questions and review the suggested learning activities. Send me your answers here.
A nurse is providing care for a client with dementia. The family
inquires as to whether or not long-term care is warranted. What
tools may the nurse use to help collect data to help determine the
client's ability to continue to function independently?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Cognitive Disorders
A client has been ordered to be placed in restraints after all other methods have failed to keep him safe. What care should be provided to the client during this time?
A nurse is caring for a client under suspicion of abuse by her
partner. What are common risk factors for intimate partner
abuse?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Abuse and Neglect
A nurse is providing care for a client who has been admitted for
treatment of pedophilia. What nursing interventions would be
effective in working with this client?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Abuse and Neglect
A nurse is caring for a client who is experiencing acute alcohol
withdrawal. What interventions should the nurse take during this
period?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Substance Use and
Addictive Disorders
Compare the expected behaviors for someone with schizoid
personality disorders compared to someone with schizotypal
personality disorders.
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Antisocial Personality
Disorder
A client is admitted with severe anxiety. What interventions would
the nurse take to help decrease the anxiety and develop a
therapeutic relationship with the client?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activities: Therapeutic
Relationships and Therapeutic Milieu & Anxiety and Coping
Mechanisms
A nurse is providing care for a client who has depression. What are
some steps the nurse can take to help establish a therapeutic
relationship with the client?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Mood Disorders
A nurse is caring for a client in a mental health unit. What is the
purpose and outcomes of using therapeutic communication?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Therapeutic
Communication
A client with severe stress has been taught to use progressive muscle relaxation to help decrease their anxiety and stress levels. The client asks how progressive muscle relaxation will work. How would the nurse respond?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activities: Anxiety and Coping Mechanisms & Stress Management
A client has been ordered Methylphenidate 10 mg three times a day. Available is Methylphenidate 20 mg. How many tablets would the nurse administer?
A client with psychosis has been prescribed fluphenazine. What
education regarding management of anticholinergic effects and
postural hypotension should the nurse reinforce to this
client?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Psychopharmacology:
Psychoses
Discuss two (2) ways to provide safety for an Alzheimer's client
who wanders at night.
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Cognitive Disorders
Identify four (4) manifestations of generalized anxiety
disorder.
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Anxiety and Coping
Mechanisms
A nurse is caring for a client who is experiencing acute alcohol
withdrawal. What are three (3) manifestations of alcohol withdrawal
the nurse should be aware of when managing care of this
client?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Substance Use and
Addictive Disorders
What are three (3) clinical manifestations of the manic phase of
bipolar disorder?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Mood Disorders
A 14-year-old anorexic client shares with the nurse that she is not
happy with her body. How best can the nurse address concerns with
the client about her body image?
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Eating Disorders
Identify two (2) speech alterations that can occur to a client with
psychotic manifestations.
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Psychotic Disorders
Identify three (3) adverse effects associate with valproic acid.
Suggested Mental Health Learning Activity: Psychopharmacology: Bipolar Disorders
Identify a therapeutic lithium level and three (3) signs of lithium toxicity noted in a client.
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Narcotics, Narcotic Antagonists, and Antimigraine Agents Case Study Assignment
DJ is a 30 year old female admitted to the ED with a complaint of severe pain to her upper back and neck that started after she was rear ended 3 days ago.
Recent History
DJ denies any history of surgeries or ongoing medical problems. She states she works as a physical therapist. She exercises regularly and eats healthy. She states she drinks alcohol rarely and does not smoke. She states she is on oral birth control and is not pregnant.
Medication Reconciliation List
Ibuprofen 200 mg PRN as needed for pain
Orthro Tri-Cyclen LO 1 tab PO daily
Additional Information for Consideration
After examination by the ED provider DJ is given Morphine 4 mg IM, Zofran 4 mg ODT, and Valium 5 mg PO for pain. She is awaiting laboratory and x-ray results when she is noted to have a decreased level of consciousness and slow respirations.
What is the primary focus of treatment at this point?
Name at least 2 medications that could be used to improve her condition.
Are there any other support measures that should be instituted?
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1. Describe in depth the three phases of the first stage of delivery, second stage, third stage, and fourth stage of the delivery?
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Glenda R. is a parish nurse for Holy Cross Catholic Church. The church’s youth group teacher has overheard several of the 13- and 14-year-old teenagers talking about dating and sexual behaviors. The youth group teacher invites the parish nurse to speak to the group about sex and abstinence. Nurse Glenda sends letters to the parents describing when she will speak to the group about these topics and what will be discussed. Parents who would like their child to attend this class are asked to fill out the permission form.
On the night of the class, 18 of the 20 youth group members arrive for the class with their consent forms in hand. The room is set up with chairs in a circle and a computer with projector next to Nurse Glenda’s chair. Using pictures on the computer, Nurse Glenda illustrates the basic anatomy of the reproductive system and discusses what should be expected during puberty. Most of the class time is then spent discussing reasons for abstinence, how to know when you are ready for sex, and how to say no if you are not.
Questions
1. 1. Which teaching intervention designed to gather questions and feedback about the lesson would be most effective for this age group?
A. A confidential question box passed around for students to submit any questions they have about sex. Each student is asked to write something on a piece of paper, even if it is not a question or a comment, and to place it inside the box. Nurse Glenda reviews the papers and answers questions at the end of the class.
B. An open forum where students raise their hands and ask questions. Nurse Glenda responds appropriately.
C. A survey completed at the end of the class that students give to Nurse Glenda as they leave.
2. After the class has been given, Nurse Glenda talks to the parents and the church’s religious education teacher. Nurse Glenda believes that she can do more with this age group and would like to offer her services to them. She suggests that an evening of preventive screenings should be offered. What should Nurse Glenda screen for in this group of teenagers?
3. How can Nurse Glenda use interactive health communication (IHC) to reinforce the lesson?
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Explain how policies and procedures are developed for a health and community service by using international, national, state/territory and local government frameworks. Your answer must be between 100 to 200 words in length.
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1)A 75-year-old female in congestive heart failure
(CHF) is unable to climb a flight of stairs without experiencing
shortness of breath. Digoxin is administered to improve cardiac
muscle contractility. Within two weeks, she has a marked
improvement in her symptoms. What cellular action of digoxin
accounts for this?
a) Inhibition of cAMP synthesis
b) Inhibition of Ca- release
c) Inhibition of the Na+/K+ ATPase pump
d) Inhibition of β adrenergic stimulation
e) Inhibition of ATP degradation
2) A 65-year-old female receives digoxin and
furosemide for CHF. After several months, she develops nausea and
vomiting. Serum K4 is 2.5 mEq/L. Electrocardiogram (EKG) reveals an
AV conduction defect. What cellular effect is causing these new
findings?
a. Increased intracellular K+
b. increased intracellular cGMP
c. Increased intracellular Ca2+
d. Increased intracellular norepinephrine
e. Increased intracellular nitric oxide (NO)
3)A 59-year-old female with mild CHF is treated with
furosemide. What is its primary mechanism of action?
a. Inhibition of Na+,1c ATPase
b. Inhibition of Nat, K+, CF co-transporter
c. Inhibition of Na+,C1 co-transporter
d. Inhibition of Cl— transporter
e. Inhibition of Ca2+ transporter
4)Compensatory increases in heart rate and renin
release that occur in heart failure may be alleviated by which of
the following drugs?
a. Milrinone
b. Digoxin
c. Dobutamine
d. Enalapril
e. Metoprolol
5 )A 58-year-old man is admitted to the hospital with
acute heart failure and pulmonary edema. Which one of the following
drugs would be most useful in treating the pulmonary edema?
a. Digoxin
b. Dobutamine
c. Furosemide
d. Minoxidil
e. Spironolactone
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Aside from the school laboratory facilities, How can we apply Aseptic Techniques in the following places as we are experiencing Pandemic?
A. Home
B. Office/Classroom
C. Kitchen
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You are a Coronavirus-prevention consultant analyzing the football stadium. You are reviewing past aerial footage of a crowd rushing from the stadium onto a field after a game. You can think of the seating area as a container and the field as another container, with a boundary between. (A) If you think of this as a diffusion problem (two dimensional), how would you calculate the flux in the system? (B) Would you use Fick’s first law or Fick’s second law to describe the mass transport? Explain your reasoning. (C) If all of the people end up on the field at long times, would it be accurate to model this crowd movement as diffusion? Explain your reasoning.
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