What is the digestive process? What are the stages of digestion?
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Please provide short answers to the questions (no more than 100-150 words per answer). Your responses should be written in paragraph form. Be sure to cite your sources.
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As a nurse in a critical care unit, your newest admission is a
24-year-old victim of a motor vehicle accident (MVA). Report from
the OR nurse indicates that the patient has several surgically
repaired fractures, a closed head injury, and elevated temperature.
Additionally, he has IV fluid running postoperatively and dressing
changes scheduled every shift. The patient is intermittently alert
and disoriented, with his pain adequately controlled by IV
analgesics. (Learning Objectives 2 and 5)
Outline the pertinent information within this case study.
What factors could be causing the patient’s elevated body
temperature?
Why is determining the fever’s cause important?
Indicate areas that are important to monitor in a patient with
elevated body temperature.
Describe cause-specific interventions useful in treating the
patient’s elevated body temperature.
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a)what kind of rythm should a patient on SVV
monitoring should have?
b) be in a ventilator with _____ tidal volumes
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The nurse is caring for a client in the emergency room with a chief complaint of fever, and cough for the last 3 days. The client has the following data:
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Client Information |
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Medical Diagnosis |
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Influenza A |
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Social History |
Sister in law died of lung cancer Multiple sexual partners in the last year, worked in a factory for 20 years, Exercises one a week |
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Medical History |
History of Epilepsy, Was treated for Herpes Simplex- 1, and had acute bronchitis last month, has mononucleosis as a teenager |
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Physical Examination |
Female, 47 year old Height: 5’6” Weight: 232 lbs Skin is rough, and wrinkled, from years of tanning bed use |
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Lab Results |
Mild anemia Hypernatremia |
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Current Medications |
Using Estrogen cream for early menopause symptoms |
Circle the text that supports your decision, only the text that supports your decision.
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Health policies must undergo policy processes of analysis prior to implementation. Pre-process, intra-process, and post-process all have major impacts on healthcare organizations and consumers. Based on the policy many people may face economical or social change, which could either be just/unjust. In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following: Evaluate the ACA’s impact on healthcare quality and cost. How does the ACA impact society as a whole? Highlight the relevance of the Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage (FMAP), as it relates to the ACA.
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Question set #1:
You are interested in the extent to which clients’ rights to privacy are respected and protected in a community health care agency and the extent to which the agency complies with the requirements of HIPAA. What questions should you ask? What makes those questions essential in your practice?
Example (question): To what extent are the written and electronic communications of the agency protected from people who have no authority to access that information?
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Improvement requires change, but not every change is an
improvement. The approach used by
most organizations is to adopt a strategy for managing change and
train their staff to facilitate the
improvement process. How would you engage front line staff in QI
programs when the day-to-day functions alone can be so
consuming?
Your response must be at least one complete paragraph.
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Regarding Atherosclerosis and Peripheral Arterial Disease list 5 modifiable risk factors and explain how each contributes to the development of the condition
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After the readings please think about reasons we need Scope and Practice Manuals and how you can relate transpersonal care to your clinical experiences.
Discussion questions:
Book : Holistic Nursing ,
chapter 2 Holistic Nursing : Scope and Standards of Practice
chapter 4 Transpersonal Human Caring and Healing
Author : Barbara Dossey & Lynn Keegan
APA format needed.
what other information needed ?
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Explain the main arguments for and against legalizing drugs. With which side do you stand?
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Mr. Green is 75 years old and in the doctor's office for his first checkup after being prescribed digoxin (Lanoxin) once daily and chlorothiazide (Diuril) two times a day (BID) for congestive heart failure. He still has some signs of heart failure and has admitted that he sometimes forgets to take his pills. He also has trouble reading the labels and isn't sure which pill he is supposed to take again at night.
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You will develop a nursing care plan for a person with a nutritional concern. choose a patient condition type
Care plan for person with kidney disease
nursing diagnose
medical diagnose
Pt. INICIAL
Write up One priority nursing diagnosis.
Subjective data:
Objective data:
Measurable Goal:
nursing interventions
Evaluation:
#of intervention
Rationale
citation
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