Category: Health & Medicine 13691
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Polypharmacy Risks and Effects in Older Adults
Discuss the Challenges of Polypharmacy in Terms of Risk Factors, Potential Drug-Drug Interactions, and Adverse Effects in Older Adults Due to the increased life expectancy, the number of older adults living with several comorbidities has grown in the past decades. To control several comorbidities at once, patients often have to take five or more prescribed…
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Cultivating Praxis Through Chinn and Kramer’s Emancipatory Knowing
Table of Contents Introduction: Article Summary Opinion Rationale for Opinion Conclusion References Introduction: Article Summary The article “Cultivating Praxis Through Chinn and Kramer’s Emancipatory Knowing” was written to describe Chinn and Kramer’s Emancipatory Knowing model as a meaningful way to develop nursing praxis. The authors, Peart and MacKinnon, outline the history of the theory’s development.…
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Medical Terms, Abbreviations, and Spelling Errors
Introduction The use of medical terms and abbreviations is an integral part of the process of healthcare. On the one hand, the application of terminology is inevitable, and abbreviations can save time, which is essential for healthcare facilities. On the other hand, misspelling of terms and the lack of unification in abbreviations can lead to…
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Otitis Media Treatment for a School-Aged Patient
Assessment of Data Subjective A 10-year-old female reports ear pain that has worsened during the past three days. Fever and discharge from the ear are not observed. A good appetite is present. The patient does not provide a clear description of pain expect, stating that it is of a reproducible character. Still, the decision to…
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Practice Models Applied to Advanced Nurse Roles
The contemporary advanced practice nursing is vastly shaped by various theoretical frameworks, which are designed to improve the quality of caregiving by producing new knowledge (Butts & Rich, 2015). However, it should be mentioned that in the majority of cases theories are developed from the models of practice (Chism, 2017). The implementation of these models…
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Hialeah Gardens in Dade-County Community Needs
Table of Contents Introduction Vulnerable Population Overview Strengths, Risk Factors, and Barriers Community Resources Community Health Problem Diagnosis Summary Reference List Introduction Hialeah Gardens in Dade-County, Florida, will be the focus of the study. The community can be described as rather peaceful and quiet. According to the recent data on the identified community, it is…
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Case Management: Patient With Chest Pain
Introduction Aimee, your suggestions about additional subjective and objective data are very detailed and include diverse information that will be helpful to provide a precise diagnosis and develop an effective treatment plan. Thorough data collection is important for successful patient care. Patient data also help to reveal comorbid conditions which can make a diagnosing process…
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The Clinician Administered CAPS-5 Questionnaire
The Physician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) is a standardized diagnostic interview for post-traumatic stress disorder that is well-validated and frequently used. It was created at the National PTSD Center in the early 1990s using DSM-III PTSD criteria and has since been revised (Franklin et al., 2018). For example, behavioral anchors are used in CAPS-5 to avoid…
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Diagnosis and Causes
Thesis statement Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or “Lou Gehrig’s disease” refers to the common neurological disease that is caused by progressive and unabated degeneration of the motor neurons located in the spinal cord (particularly the ‘ventral horn’) and cortical neurons. The effect of the disease is to cause; weakness in the patient’s muscles (atrophy), impairment…
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Risks of Vasectomy vs. Tubal Ligation
Research Did you know that both methods of permanent contraception, namely vasectomy and tubal ligation, are almost equally safe and rarely cause any complications and risks? Indeed, as noticed by Blocker (2022), “tubal ligation does not affect hormones or periods, so there are no long-term side effects if the surgery is uncomplicated” (para. 9). Moreover,…