Discussion

1) Which is more important, knowing blood type or knowing cholesterol level?

2) What is the difference between blood chemistry and blood serum?

3) How does diet affect the course of diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease?

From the Affordable Care Act and Payment Reform, What is the Supreme Court and it's decision on the constitutionality of the law. What do you think the outcome will be in the future and why? please write a reflection no fewer than 200 words.

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Jan is a 28-year-old Clinical Laboratory Science college student. She is married and has 3 young children. She leads a very stressful life and has a history of stomach ulcers. Jan has been on the following medications for many years:

• Prilosec (a proton pump inhibitor for acid reflux)
• Depo Provera (birth control which is injected every 3 months)

She is concerned because her mother developed osteoporosis at a young age and is worried she may develop the same condition. Is she a candidate to develop the disease based upon this information given?

Please select the single best answer

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A pain management patient has been prescribed hydrocodone. His most recent drug test shows hydrocodone at 145 ng/mL and hydromorphone at 550 ng/mL. Hydromorphone is a metabolite of hydrocodone and is generally detected at a concentration lower than hydrocodone. Assuming the patient is taking his prescription as prescribed, what is the most reasonable explanation for the discrepancy seen in these results?

Please select the single best answer

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Which of the following statements are true relative to non-specific dyes used for detection in the RT-PCR procedure? More than one answer may be correct.

More than one answer is correct. Please select all correct answers

11 year old complains of wheezing and shortness of breathe when playing baseball and symptoms improve with rest. neighbors have cats and his alergic to cat dander. Explain the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary pathophysiologic processes that result in the patient presenting with these symptoms. Any racial and ethical variables that may impact physiological functioning. How these processes interact to ffect the patient.

Construct an original table summarizing the characteristics for each of the anemias.

Hereditary Spherocytosis

Hereditary Elliptocytosis

Hereditary Pyropoikilocytosis

Southeast Asian Ovalocytosis

Hereditary Stomatocytosis

Hereditary Xerocytosis

Include in the table the following: 1.Cause,

2 Effect

3. Morphology of peripheral

4. bloo4d Lab testing for differential diagnosis

5. Patient symptoms Treatment

The patient is a 17 year old female who arrives to the emergency department in active labor with a questionable past of obstetrical history. she indicates that she has had no prenatal care, does not remember her last menstruation period and is evasive if this is her first pregnancy. Blood work indicates she is Rh negative.

A) What are some concerns you as her nurse should be prepared for?

B) What teaching does this patient need?

C) What are the expected outcomes for this patients?

Gillian Barre's Syndrome

Trigeminal Neuralgia

A 15 year-old female has come to the urgent care complaining about nausea, vomiting and feeling tired all the time. Her complaints are vague, but the nurse is suspicious she may be pregnant when the girl mentions she is late for her period

. A) what nursing care will you provide to this young lady if she is pregnant? B) What nursing diagnoses will apply to this situation? C) What are some expected outcomes?

1. Currently FMT can only be used to treat C. difficile infections if a hospital is enrolled in a clinical trial. Fecal transplants have been proposed to treat Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis (an autoimmune disease), obesity, and a host of other diseases. Discuss the appropriateness of this therapy for these diseases

2. When babies are born by Caesarean section, they do not get exposed to the same microbes as babies delivered by vaginal birth. Research suggests there may be negative consequences to this and studies are now being conducted where babies born by C-section are smeared with gauze incubated in their mother’s "lady part" to pick up the microbes that would colonize a baby born by vaginal birth. What are your thoughts on this? Are there any potential negative consequences to this

3. Companies such as Ubiome allow you to send in samples from various parts of your body and they will send you an analysis of your microbiome for a fee. Is this information valuable

Literature review

for  potential hazard in the office

( scope of the study is the welfare of the employees)

Explain the concept of the PCMH and the role of the medical assistant in this health care delivery model. (If your major is PHN, RN or another role you may answer the question from that point-of-view). Cite and list any references used

D. D. is a 66 year-old female suffering from shortness of breath. She smoked 2 packs a day until she quit 2 years ago. She has a history of bronchiolitis, hyperinflated lungs, pulmonary edema, and syncope. Her primary care practitioner suspects she also has pulmonary hypertension (PH). After examination, D. D. has a PAP of 35mmHg and mild CHF.

What is pulmonary hypertension and how could D. D. have developed PH?

How does her history fit in with her new diagnosis?

1. How many patients are suffering from COPD in the US? Do COPD sufferers die of respiratory causes or other causes? (be sure to cite the data)
2. What are the two separate diseases that are the main COPD diseases? Give background on each disease.
3. How does COPD correlate with left ventricular pressure and primary heart failure?
4. What are the three types of bronchodilators, and how do they function to alleviate the symptoms of COPD? What are other possible treatments for COPD?
5. Through what mechanism does bronchiolitis cause destruction of alveoli? Is emphysema genetic? Can environmental factors increase the risk of emphysema, why or why not?
6. Is lung transplantation a solution for emphysema? Can new technology be useful in the treatment of emphysema? Why or why not?

How can family members provide long-term care as a caregiver?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.