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Warfarin therapy is monitored by the international normalization ratio (INR) (target 4 to 5) Select one: True or False
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Please write 1 paragraph for each question (total 3 paragraphs) and each paragraph shall be no less than 4 sentences and no more than 10 sentences. Points will be deducted for answers with fewer than 4 sentences or extra long posting (0.5 points per each answer). Give only the essential information. Writing long, run-on sentences will be considered as multiple sentences.
Discussion Topic:
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Discuss the IT security concerns of any E-Business solution in the tourism and hospitality industry against Covid19. Take a Country as an example.
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COPD WK is a 60-year-old white female presenting to the emergency department with acute onset shortness of breath. Symptoms began approximately 2 days before and had progressively worsened with no associated, aggravating, or relieving factors noted. She had similar symptoms approximately 1 year ago with an acute, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation requiring hospitalization. She uses BiPAP ventilatory support at night when sleeping and has requested to use this in the emergency department due to shortness of breath and wanting to sleep. She denies fever, chills, cough, wheezing, sputum production, chest pain, palpitations, pressure, abdominal pain, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. She does report difficulty breathing at rest, forgetfulness, mild fatigue, feeling chilled requiring blankets, increased urinary frequency, incontinence, and swelling in her bilateral lower extremities that is new onset and worsening. Subsequently, she has not ambulated from bed for several days except to use the restroom due to feeling weak, fatigued, and short of breath. There are no known ill contacts at home. Her family history includes significant heart disease and prostate malignancy in her father. Social history is positive for smoking tobacco use at 30 pack years. She quit smoking 2 years ago due to increasing shortness of breath. She denies all alcohol and illegal drug use. There are no known foods, drugs, or environmental allergies. Past medical history is significant for coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, COPD, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus, peripheral vascular disease, tobacco usage, and obesity. Past surgical history is significant for an appendectomy, cardiac catheterization with stent placement, hysterectomy, and nephrectomy.
1.What short term and long term goal is expected for WK?
2.What diagnostic test do you expect the physician to order for WK?
3.What medications do you expect the physician to order for WK?
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Ashley White, an 18-year-old college freshman, visits the campus health clinic today for complaint of a headache that she has had for 4 days. Ashley lives in the dorm and is majoring in English. She has recently been dating a junior named Tyler who she met through her roommate. Ashley is an only child and is a little homesick. Beth Mitchell is the RN who is assisting Ashley today in the clinic. Beth is 32 years old and has been working at the campus health clinic for 3 years. During the visit, Ashley tells her that she is concerned that she might have a sexually transmitted infection (STI) because she has started being intimate with Tyler.
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What are two common learning, physical, psychiatric, or neurological disabilities. How can teachers adapt instruction to support a student who has these disabilities?
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Frank Miller is a 44-year-old African American man.
Mr. Miller is hospitalized for neurologic evaluation after actively
seizing while in the emergency department.
1. What information should the nurse obtain from those
who observed the seizure?
2. Mr. Miller is started on phenytoin (Dilantin) 100
mg three times a day. His wife brings him back to the emergency
department 1 week later with complaints of slurred speech, ataxia,
lethargy, dizziness, and nausea. What might the symptoms Mr. Miller
is experiencing indicate?
3. What are some factors that may cause a patient to
experience phenytoin toxicity?
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Q1. Make a list comparing characteristics of skelet vs cardiac muscle; what characteristics are found in BOTH
Q2. A short (2 page at MOST) – presentation on aortic stenosis - - text and pictures & flowcharts allowed; should include:
Prevalence in population ; Anatomy; Pathophysiology; Treatment possibilities and Outcomes.
Q3. The definition of a HR is the number of times the heart beats in 1 minute. The true HR for this patient was taken for one whole minute and was found to be ~ 70bpm, which of the 3 methods would offer then the most accurate HR measurement on this strip. Explain your answer.
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what are some specific ways early childhood teachers plan lessons and units and assess student learning?
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Locate one Clinical Best Practice Guideline or recent research article (within the past five years) related to sexuality, medications, or a psychosocial aspect of aging that aligns with your practice area or an area of interest. Apply one of the BSN Core Competencies that fit the article/guideline and state your rationale for using it.
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1. Why is it essential that the OT practitioner be proactive in not spreading infection?
2. What are the possible ramifications to a patient if the patient contracts a serious infection while in care?
3. What are the possible ramifications to the OT practitioner if the practitioner contracts an infection due to poor infection control?
4. What part of the OT code of ethics might a practitioner be violating if the OT practitioner is lax in infection control procedures?
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DISCUSSION WEEK 2
Please write 1 paragraph for each question (total 3 paragraphs) and each paragraph shall be no less than 5 sentences and no more than 10 sentences. Points will be deducted for answers with fewer than 4 sentences or extra long posting (0.5 points per each answer). Give only the essential information. Writing long, run-on sentences will be considered as multiple sentences.
Answer ALL PARTS of each question to earn full points.
Discussion Topic:
1. Why is responsibility retained by nurses when
tasks are delegated?
2. What are the five individual power sources? Provide
an example of each. Why is positive reinforcement such a powerful
motivator?
3. How does leadership differ from power? Can a leader
be effective without power?
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