What is a geographic maldistribution? In addition to the National Health Services Corps, what other recommendations do you have to promote the equal distribution of physicians across the United States?

Explain the benefits of public health practitioners using cultural competence and the harms of public health practitioners not using cultural competence in practice as related to this issue and population.

How can legislation be an intervention?

How can legislation impact on nutrition professional?

PHC 212

What do you think is the best media method for Communicating Effectively with Patients, and why ?

periodontal clinic simulation sessions reflection

1. What made this rotation a worthwhile experience?

2. How did you achieve the learning and enrichment objectives?

3. What are the changes in your perceptions, abilities, beliefs or skills that are a result of the rotation?

4. Which cultural influences played a role in patient oral health at this rotation?

5. How did you manage any ethical dilemmas you experienced?

6. What inter-professional collaboration occurred at this rotation?

7. How does this experience contribute to your professional growth as a future dental hygienist?

8. What are your suggestions on how this rotation could be improved?

A 2-month-old child is admitted to the ICU with fever, hypotension, tachycardia, and lethargy. The medical history is notable for a similar hospitalization at 2 weeks of age. Physical examination is notable for a temperature of 102°F, oral thrush and rales in the right lung fields. Chest x-ray film reveals multilobular pneumonia. Given the history of recurrent severe infection, the pediatrician suspects an immunodeficiency disorder.

Explain the terms tachycardia, rales, and multilobular pneumonia.
What is the most likely immunodeficiency in this child? Why?
What is an underlying biochemical (genetic) defect in this patient?
Explain why this defect leads to the disease phenotype?
Explain the cellular defects associated with this disease?
What is the overall prognosis for patients with this disorder?

1. What do CHW's do and where are they employed?

2. What does Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 require?

3.What are some issues that can arise with the use of ad hoc interpreters?

Your patient is an active 80-year-old woman with heart failure and chronic atrial fibrillation. You are taking an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, a beta-blocker, a diuretic, and digoxin. During her evaluation, she tells him that she felt very dizzy this morning.

How would you approach your evaluation and why?

Identify some of the key evaluation factors.

What nursing interventions are necessary?

How would you change your evaluation and interventions if your patient also had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and kidney failure?

Read the following case study, then answer the questions that follow.

Akot is an aged care coordinator. He conducts an assessment of Mrs. Brown using a falls assessment tool. Mrs. Brown tells him she is extremely confident she will not fall when carrying out all activities of daily living, circling 10 in response to all of the questions on the scale.

Later, Akot observes Mrs. Brown and notes she moves quite slowly and maintains contact with the handrail while walking down the corridor. A worker, Frank, tells Akot that Mrs. Brown has experienced episodes of incontinence as she waits until the last minute to go to the toilet.

Akot discusses his concerns with his supervisor to seek direction on what should happen next.

Question

1. What indications are there that Mrs. Brown is at risk?
2. What may have prevented Mrs. Brown from answering the falls assessment questions honestly?
3. Describe the actions Akot should take in relation to his duty of care.

You are working on a medical/surgical floor with a client with adrenal dysfunction. The client is a 61-year-old male who presented to the ED in a markedly unwell state. He complains of progressive development of symptoms that include feeling generally not well, weakness, and fatigue. He is dizzy most of the time, and it gets worse upon standing. During your admission assessment he comments on unintentional weight loss and a darkening of his skin, "like a suntan.” His vital signs on admission are: P = 110, RR = 20, BP = 95/55, & T = 97.6 (F). He is diagnosed with primary adrenal insufficiency or Addison’s disease.

Answer the following questions:

1. Explain the pathophysiology of your clients' disease processes.

2. Explain the fluid volume, electrolyte, hemodynamic, and metabolic imbalances your clients are experiencing.

3. What other lab value abnormalities would you anticipate?

4. What symptoms, other than the ones listed, might your clients manifest?

5. What tests would confirm the diagnoses?

6. What medical interventions do you anticipate?

7. What medications do you expect to be ordered, and what are the nursing implications of those meds?

8. What are your priorities in planning care for these clients?

9. What nursing interventions will you implement?

10. What discharge teaching will you provide?

how does atherosclerosis cause vasospasm?

A number of drugs with different properties are shown below. Which of these drugs are most likely to cross the blood-brain barrier? (select all that apply)

- High molecular weight drug

- Low molecular weight drug

- Water-soluble drug

- Fat-soluble drug

- Nonpolar drug

- Small drug

- Polar drug