You are a RN working in community care, visiting Amita, a 76-year-old with a chronic and painful venous ulcer on her lower leg. She takes multiple medications for chronic illness, and a codeine-based medication for pain. Amita lives alone in her own home.
3. How would Amita’s chronic pain impact on her ability to maintain a safe environment?
4. Why is Amita, as an older adult, more vulnerable to adverse drug events?
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Discuss the assessment of the musculoskeletal system of a high school student, focusing on the spine and include one usual abnormal finding.
For each assessment, please be sure to name the instruments that would be used in the process. Please limit answer to 4 paragraphs only.
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how you can you apply public health to improve your health, the health of those around you, and the health of the public.
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List the pharmacological interventions for Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculopathy also known as Guillain-Barre syndrome, and state the category the drug belongs as well as the actions and side effects
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Mrs Abu, a primidgravida was admitted with severe pre-eclampsia of 29 weeks' gestation and complained of a headache .A junior house officer prescribed co-proxamol over the telephone, failing to appreciate the significance of a rise in Blood pressure. The Blood pressure was checked later to be 150/100mm Hg
a) What are the shortfalls with the way the Junior house officer managed Mrs. Abu?
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The definitions section on HER and Electronic Patient Record
Meaningful use of EHR- priorities, main focus of stage 1 , stage 2 and stage 3 of meaningful use
Benefits of HER : general, for the nurses, healthcare provider, for consumers, for payers
Could you help me define these and set up a small study guide. Thank you!
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Create a chart that describes heat loss in newborns and includes the following:
Causes of heat loss, Measurement of heat loss, Nursing interventions to prevent heat loss.
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List at least 3 major cardiovascular and respiratory changes that occur in the neonate, one for each;
causes of heat loss, measurement of heat loss, nursing interventions to prevent heat loss
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You are
. . . a physician’s assistant (PA) in the Genetic Counseling Clinic at Fulwood Medical Center.
Your patient is
. . . Mrs. Patricia Bennet, a 52-year-old office manager with two daughters, aged 30 and 25. Mrs. Bennett’s sister, aged 55, recently had a mastectomy for breast cancer and is now receiving chemotherapy. Their mother died of ovarian cancer in her late fifties.
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Describe the influences of the IOM, AHRQ, and Magnet status on healthcare systems. How does this influence the nurse leader?
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Topic 4: Lab 3 Senses general and vision: discuss the functions and applications of the different aspects of the senses and tie it into the lab material.
Topic 5: Lab 4 smell, taste, and hearing: So think about it. you can include ideas to improve the lab in an online setting, explanations of exactly the why and how of sensation, in other words don't use the word for the different modalities but describe the process. why are balance and hearing tied together? what is the difference between conduction deafness and Sensorineural hearing loss, what are the different structures involved? why would the Rinne and Weber test tell you different things? Impress me with what kind of thinking you can do outside the box, be independent, be imaginative.
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List the common pharmacology interventions for Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculopathy and state the category the drug belongs as well as the actions and side effects
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You are a RN working on an acute medical ward, looking after Oliver, an 80-year-old with painful cellulitis from hand to shoulder from a small left-hand scratch sustained while gardening. He is admitted for 7 days of QID IVABs via a right cubital fossa PIVC. Because of the cellulitis, PIVC and IVAB regime, Oliver’s mobility is limited.
5. Outline the normal changes of ageing on the respiratory system in predisposing Oliver to pneumonia during his hospital admission.
6. What are the benefits of increasing the mobility of an older adult during hospitalisation? How should the RN encourage incidental exercise during Oliver’s admission?
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