What is the pathophysiology behind the belief that caffeine has a diuretic effect when consumed and will induce dehydration if used by athletes or those who perform strenuous exercise.

HIV/AIDS is still considered a pandemic disease due to its continued existence throughout the various populations in the world. How does malaria and TB figure into this dilemma?

Visit a health clinic or physician’s office in your area and pick up an educational flyer or brochure about a disease or health problem. Critique the material for:

Reading level (does it match well with the intended audience?)

Clarity (simple terms or medical jargon?)

Visuals (are pictures or simple images used to help convey the message?)

ALTERNATIVE: Look in the newspaper or on the news for a health risk issue in your area. What were the interventions used? Could the disease or injury have been prevented?

Devise a plan for encouraging cooperation of the toddler or preschooler during various parts of the physical examination

Find a dietary assessment tool that can be used either generally or for a specific alteration in health. You can use your favorite search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo Search, AltaVista, to name a few). You may find the tool on a governmental data base, being used by an organization or facility, or in a journals and registries. You may decide to select a general tool or one that you can include in your course project for the disease selected. When you have found your assessment tool, evaluate its effectiveness by answering the following questions. What is the purpose of this tool? Do you believe that the purpose is fulfilled based on the questions being asked? Why? In what ways does the tool account for the individual perceptions and needs of the client? Is there a nutritional history included? What does it cover? Is the tool easy to use? Why or why not. Does the tool provide enough information to determine next steps or interventions? Explain.

Question

1.) A practical nurse is assisting with planning a program for male teens concerning testicular self-examination. What information should the nurse include in the presentation? How should the nurse evaluate the level of understanding by the participants?

Kasey is an RN who has worked on the busy surgical unit of a large city hospital for the past 6 years. As one of three RNs on the unit's day shift, she often serves as the charge nurse when the assigned charge nurse has a day off. She is hard working, caring, and well organized and provides high-quality care for the often very unstable postoperative clients they receive on a daily basis.

About 2 weeks ago, Kasey's mother was admitted for a high-risk surgical removal of a brain tumor that was not responding to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The surgery did not go well, and Kasey's mother was admitted to the surgical unit after the procedure. During the past 2 weeks, she has shown a gradual but steady decline in condition and is no longer able to recognize her family, speak, or do any self-care. It is believed she will probably not live more than an other week.

Per hospital policy, Kasey is not assigned to care for her mother; however, during her shifts, Kasey is spending more and more time with her mother sometimes to the detriment of her assigned clients. She is also beginning to make more demands on the unit nursing staff, often overseeing their care and requesting that only certain nurses care for her mother. One of the other nurses on the unit suggested that Kasey's mother be moved to a less specialized unit. When Kasey heard about the suggestion, she became livid and loudly scolded the nurse for her insensitivity in the middle of the nurses' station.

Questions :

1. Is the practice of not allowing nurses to provide care for their relatives evidence-based or accustomed practice?

2. Identify the steps in making this policy evidence based.

3. Do you think nurses should be allowed to care for relatives? Why? Why not?

explain Securing a Prior authorization and discuss the process steps involved in the Medical assistant or other health care provider with the task. Respond to two students who posted a discussion on a topic different from the one that you selected. Responses must be substantial. Read all discussion.

According to Maslow and Rogers, what are the characteristics of a fully functioning person? In your response, include answers to the following questions:

With which parts do you agree or disagree?

How does Rogers' view compare with that of Maslow and other humanists?

Collaboration Among Healthcare Professionals to Influence Health Policy.

*** Why might it be difficult to get health professionals to reach a consensus on a policy agenda

List four components of teaching for the client with TB

A 25-year-old Arab American man is one day post-operative following vascular surgery. There have been no post-surgical complications. He tells his family that he is “in terrible pain”, and he reports ratings of 2 to 3 on 0-10 numeric rating scale to the nursing staff. He requests pain medication every two to three hours, and will not get out of bed or ambulate.

Identify and state a priority nursing diagnosis label for your assigned client related to pain.

Develop and state three (3) nursing interventions for this nursing diagnosis label or patient problem. When planning individualized nursing interventions, consider the patient’s type of pain and cultural perspective.

Provide your rationale or reasoning for each intervention chosen.

Identify another interdisciplinary team member and an action they could take to help resolve the chosen client problem or nursing diagnosis. .

Describe the initial treatment and maintenance pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia.

Draw a timeline for 2 to 4 weeks, 6 to 8 weeks, and 8 to 12 weeks and fill in the expected outcomes for drug therapy at each of those intervals

Cancer is caused by rapid, uncontrolled cell division. Cells lose normal functions and invade normal surrounding tissues. Metastasize means to travel to another location. A tumor is named according to tissue of origin. Cause of cancer can be chemical physical, and biological. Some biological cancers are caused by diseases that suppress the immune system (HIV or immunosuppressant drugs after transplants).

Multiple drugs from different classes affect different stages in the cell cycle. The combinations allow for lower doses, which reduce toxicity and slow the development of resistance. Specific dosing protocol depends on the type of tumor, stage of the disease and overall condition of the patient. The drugs can be given as a single does or several doses and given within several days or after several weeks. This gives normal cells a chance to recover. Sometimes, the optimum does must be delayed to let the patient recover from drug toxicities.

It is difficult to kill cancer cells without killing normal cells. Serious toxicity limits therapy. Prophylactic treatment of symptoms are used to decrease the serious side effects.

Drugs that are vesicants can cause tissue injury.

Explain the significance of growth fraction and the cell cycle to the success of chemotherapy.

Explain the three primary therapies for cancer: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.