Category: Health & Medicine 13691
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Electronic Medical Records: Benefits and Advantages
Table of Contents Introduction Strengths Weakness Opportunity Threats Conclusion References Introduction The Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is a comprehensive longitudinal electronic record of patients and depending on the individual system’s design; it may incorporate the patients’ demographics, progress notes and other relevant medical records thus providing a streamlined workflow for the clinician. With proper design…
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Motor Neurons Damage Effects
Motor neurons are responsible for many functions of one’s body, primarily movement. If they are somehow damaged, it can affect one’s life significantly. First of all, depending on the group of motor neurons, a patient may experience either hyperreflexia or hyporeflexia (Magnussen & Glass, 2017). The former signifies that upper motor neurons are impacted, while…
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Problems of Sitting for Long and Their Solutions
There are diverse reasons why individuals sit for long, such as watching television or working. However, it is essential to understand that sitting for long causes damage to the body. Therefore, people should implement various measures to ensure that they remain healthy and prevent diseases. Muscles are the primary consumers of blood sugar in the…
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Musculoskeletal and Neurological Systems Assessment Techniques
Table of Contents Introduction Neurological system assessment process Conclusion References Introduction If we talk about the spheres of healthcare and nursing, the specialist needs to know the methods and approaches used during physical assessment and possess proper observation skills (Dugan, 2016). The extended knowledge in the sphere connected to assessment methods for neurological and musculoskeletal…
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Nurses-Led Telephone Intervention and Readmission
In a reviewed article, Theodosios Stabrianopoulos focuses attention on a scientific experiment on two groups of people with a key goal to establish a correlation between a nurses-led telephone intervention and the frequencies of readmissions of HF patients. During his research, the author discovers that “telephone intervention programs appear to reduce the risk factors and…
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Communication Modalities in Health Care Facilities
Table of Contents Introduction Email Communication Benefit to Patients Patient Confidentiality The importance between Consumers and Providers Uniqueness Media and Social Networking in Health Care Marketing Health Care Using Email Communication Conclusion References Introduction Technology has contributed to immense improvement in almost all areas including the health care sector. Communication is important in this sector…
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Psychosocial Perspective of Traumatic Amputation
Introduction Traumatic amputation refers to a non-surgical severance of a limb or part of a limb from the trunk of the body. By and large, an amputation can be categorised as either being incomplete, or complete. In complete amputation, the severed ligament is totally detached from the muscle, tissue, or tendons (Medical Disability Advisor 2004).…
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Immune System and How It Functions: Types and Processes
Immunity Humoral and Cellular Immunity In contrast to the cellular immunity, the humoral one presupposes that the B cells should identify specific pathogens in the blood. The cellular-level response, in its turn, implies that T cells should be involved in the response to any hostile element in the bloodstream. The elements above are identified by…
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Vacuum-Assisted Closure in Elderly Wound Care
Table of Contents PICOT Question Setting/Context Description of the Problem Impact of the Problem The Gravity of the Problem The Proposed Solution Rapid Appraisal References PICOT Question In geriatric patients with diabetic foot ulcerations, does vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) improve recovery time in wound management than moist gauze dressing? Setting/Context Diabetic foot ulcers manifest as chronic…
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Rheumatoid Arthritis: Diagnosis and Treatment
Nowadays, more than one percent of the population of the Earth is affected by Rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is considered to be one of the most widespread inflammatory autoimmune diseases affecting people after the age of forty or even earlier in a number of cases. According to Firth (2011, p. 1179), ‘RA is considered…