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Amira is a 27-year-old Syrian refugee who has been residing in a local homeless shelter since her arrival here in the United States 4 weeks ago. She was brought into the emergency room this morning via squad after being found by a shelter employee sitting in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor crying and holding her abdomen. Due to her limited English speaking abilities, she is unable to provide specific details as to her complaints but the shelter employee states that she has recently stopped eating and has not looked well for the past couple of days.

Based on the limited information provided, please answer the following questions.

How will you prioritize your care of Amira, what assessments will you complete, and in what order? Please provide rationale for choosing this order.

Are there any cultural beliefs/practices that must be taken into consideration when planning her care?

Considering her symptoms of abdominal pain and bleeding, is it possible that her status as a homeless refugee is a causative or contributing factor to her illness? Please provide rationale for your response

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As a medical caretaker of Amira, I will begin my care with giving wellbeing to Amira and will endeavor to give her mental imagined that she is sheltered first.

At that point I will chip away at to deal with the issue of dialect to convey her. For this I will take the help of innovation or take help of a translator with the goal that we can dispose of the shot of any miscommunication because of dialect hindrance.

From that point, I will begin torment administration, at that point whole body evaluation as for mid-region and genitourinary framework. At that point I will guarantee that whether it is the situation of unsuccessful labor or some other issue.

At that point I will discover the reason for the draining and after that control the dying.

Furthermore, in the meantime I will think about on her social convictions assuming any, generally will all the while take after human pride.

Thus by utilizing the previously mentioned mind strategies according to the individualization of the better patient care I am certain I will deal with such case in an extremely pleasant manner.