Category: Health & Medicine 13691
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Aspects of Pain Management: TENS
Pain management is a highly complex challenge, which affects a large portion of patients both chronically and acutely. Understanding the key underlying intricacies of managing the severity and frequency of pain can be a critical deciding factor, which determines a patients well-being, health, quality of life, and recovery. There is a wide range of approaches…
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Nutrition in China: Red Yeast Rice
In different cultures, food is consumed not only to sustain life but also to give certain social meaning. Dating back to several centuries ago, some communities used certain foods in their diet to provide good nutrition and also as a type of medicine to prevent or manage various types of diseases and disorders. Such foods…
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Analysis of Perceptions of Long-Term Care
Long-term care is a major site for people who have severe chronic conditions and are close to death. However, most people do not enter long-term care sites willing to receive end-of-life care, and many older persons stay at home to receive their long-term care (Sussman et al., 2019). According to Pratt (2015), the greatest need…
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Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
The nurse spends more time with the patient than other specialists and understands his needs better than many. Nurses and nursing assistants help the patient perform basic procedures that people cannot commit themselves to due to their physical condition. There are many nursing care sections, each aimed at specific work with patients of different groups.…
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Blood Pressure in Overweight Schoolchildren
Research Critique The authors research problem is the prevalent increase in hypertension cases amongst children aged between ages five and fifteen (Purushotham et al., 2014). The research question, which the authors seek to answer, is the possibility of a direct relationship between obesity and hypertension amongst children whereby the former is the root cause of…
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The Pressure Ulcer Prevention Education Plan
Table of Contents Introduction Strategies Advantages of the Pressure Ulcer Prevention Education Plan Limitations of The Pressure Ulcer Prevention Education Plan Ethical issues Related to the plan Results Conclusion References Introduction The Pressure Ulcer Prevention Education Plan aims to address incompetency issues among nursing staff that is mainly contributed by lack of proper knowledge. Prevention…
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Telemonitoring Blood Pressure in African Americans
Table of Contents Background Information: PICOT Question Current Research Findings Proposal References Background Information: PICOT Question What is the impact of utilizing telemonitoring blood pressure (BP) (I) in African Americans with hypertension (P) relative to conventional treatment (C) on BP control? (O). In the United States, approximately 45% of adults have high blood pressure, and…
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Using a Pico(T) Framework and Evidence to Develop Care Practices
Introduction A PICOT design is an excellent technique to outline research questions that look at therapy outcomes. The (P)-population is a sample of participants for a study that a researcher is looking for, including patients. It may be required to strike a delicate balance between defining a sample that is most likely to react to…
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Florida House Bill 607 and Its Missed Opportunities
Nowadays, many people related to anesthesia are concerned due to the recent executive order, which occurred in 2019. Because of the possibility of canceling the strict anesthesia requirements and inclusive implementation of a new medical unit in this market, some of the medical representatives noticed interesting possibilities for professional growth. For instance, when a certified…
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Paul Whitaker Views on Chocolate and the Heart
Paul Whitaker is a scientist who has dedicated most of his lifes work towards the understanding of the human heart. Paul is thirty-eight years old and he works at Sacred Heart Hospitals Cardiology Department. As the lead scientist in his department, Paul takes a lot of pride in his work. The scientists dedication towards the…