Simon Jones is a 60-year-old man from McLaren Vale (School of Nursing & Midwifery 2014). He has post-traumatic stress disorder due to a peace keeper tour with the Australian Army and is now a book keeper in a family business (School of Nursing & Midwifery 2014). Simon received a National Bowel Screening Kit in the mail, followed instructions and sent his stool in for examination (School of Nursing & Midwifery 2014). He got a positive test result from the immunological faecal occult blood test (School of Nursing & Midwifery 2014). Due to this result, Simon experienced other diagnostic tests and examinations such as a colonoscopy and physical examinations (School of Nursing & Midwifery 2014).…
In the BIO 14 Lab, we attempted to design a oviposition experiment that would tell us something about the relative behavior of two variants of a beetle species Callosobruchus maculatus (SI – originating from South India & BF – originating from Burkina Faso). The specific question being asked in our experiment is: How does the availability of the preferred bean type affect the oviposition strategy (measured by the number of eggs on each bean) of female SI and BF beetles? Most of our group members actually arrived this question at first independently and upon further discussion found that we all were looking to answer the same question. I arrived at this question as when looking that preferred seed of the two beetle types were so vastly energetically…
Lung Cancer Lung cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the lung tissue characterized by an uncontrolled cell proliferation. It is also referred to as carcinoma of the lung. This neoplasm arises from epithelia of the lungs, bronchi and trachea. Lung cancers can be of epithelial cell origin (carcinoma) or mesothelial cell origin (malignant mesothelioma). Lung cancer begins with inactivation of tumor suppressor genes or with activation of oncogenes.…
This involves a look into the large intestine by flexible telescope (colonoscopy) every now and then and taking small samples of bowel (biopsies) for examination. It is usually combined with chromoscopy-the use of dye spray which shows up suspicious changes more easily. Depending on the complications may occur, particularly if flare-ups are frequent or…
Visceral Lifestyle -> Ideological Abstractions or Intellectual Hypochondriasis The parasympathetic nervous system mediates (1) lust for fornication, (2) play to develop fitness to survive, (3) hunger, feeding, and storing or hibernating, and (4) love as grooming. Our neocortex enjoins Homo domesticus to add to (1) fornication -> (a) marriage (2) play -> (b) losing -> (c) shame (3) feeding, storing -> (d) greed -> (e) hoarding (4) love, grooming-> (f) charity -> (g) mercy -> (h) heaven The sympathetic nervous system evolved for (5) sexual rivalry, territorial (6) fighting, (7) alliances and (8) competition, (9) ferocity and (10) violence, or (11) fleeing and (12) fearing or freezing and “playing possum.”…
In the past years, cancer has been a common reason for death. Research shows that the older you get the more risk you have of getting cancer. There are current trends about cancer specifically related to age. I am writing this essay to explain these current trends. The current trends about cancer specifically related to age are increasing.…
According to the Scope of Practice Policy (2017) web page Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) are not recognized by Kansas policy as an autonomous primary care provider. Instead, Kansas similar to many other states, practice authority requires collaborative practice and a written protocol for a medical plan of care with a responsible physician. However, the physician does not have to be present under Kansas Regulation 60-11-101 for the APRN to deliver primary, secondary or tertiary care. Prescriptive authority for APRN requires a written protocol with a detailed medical plan for each classification of drug that may be prescribed by the APRN. In addition the APRN must register with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and notify the State Board of Nursing with the name and address of the responsible physician under KS 60-11-104(a).…
Discuss and describe the term ‘dual diagnoses’ Dual diagnosis is termed by a person suffering from a mental condition such as, but not limited to, bipolar, eating disorders, anxiety, depression and schizophrenia AND predominantly a form of substance abuse ranging from nicotine to alcohol to a more heavier illicit drug such as amphetamines, Benzodiazepines or even abuse of prescription drugs. Though it appears other addictive behaviours (nymphomaniac, gambling or the like) can also amount to a diagnosis of dual diagnosis or co-morbidity. Research appears to use dual diagnosis interchangeably with the term “co-morbidity” although one could possible decipher the two as dual diagnosis being one who is affected by two disorders co-occurring at…
I currently work as a long-term care nurse manager. I oversee twenty-one nurses, forty plus certified nurses aids and sixty patients. The clinical dashboard at my place of employment has become useful to me as a leader in managing the plethora of data in my facility (p. 302). The dashboard quickly displays important data elements such as critical lab results, clinical alerts, pharmacy notifications and radiology alerts. Every morning I look at the dashboard to monitor my patient's data and evaluate their needs.…
Women can flick on the TV, look at the news stand, or be flipping through the local newspaper and once again see or hear another article on if having a mammogram at 40 is either good for you or whether you shouldn’t have a mammogram. The controversy of having a mammogram at 40 has raged for over 30 years. I have been in the mammography profession for over 11 years and I have seen that early detection of breast cancer saves lives; therefore it is beneficial for women to start their mammograms at 40. Women today are truly confused with all the different studies and recommendations that emerge either through the news on TV, US Preventative Task Force, or in a popular magazines. Constantly mammographers and physicians get the question asked, who should have a mammogram?…
There is no doubt that one of the issues that brought more challenges to the health professionals is the issue of the dual diagnosis. This in some way brought as a result that the individual who has been diagnosed with a mental illness and an addiction to substance will run in the danger of be immersed in some kind of addiction to the medicaments that will be prescribed to solve their substances addiction or mental illness. And as you states in your post that “It takes trained professionals to recognize and treat dual diagnosed patients appropriately. ”…
CANCER CELLS VERSE HEALTHY CELLS The cells in our body are always replicating through the process of cell division known as mitosis. The cells growth is regulated, meaning that cell division only occurs when cells are damaged, lost, or worn out. However, some cells such as cancer cells lose control of cell division and reproduce uncontrollably. They lose their control of replication when the gene, in which controls the cell to stop growing at a certain point, is lost or not present.…
Cancer Stem Cells Stem cells play an important role in the creation of complex structures within the human body, and they can also produce tumors. The properties of stem cells have a large implementation of how cancerous stem cells survive and replicate. Elimination of these cancer stem cells presents a complex challenge because in order to remove the stem cell it must first be targeted and eradicated using critical therapeutic approaches. The properties of cancer stem cells are used to develop new strategies for removal of these cells from the human body, and contribute to the attainment of cancer treatment.…
EVALUATION OF THE MAYO CLINIC Impact on Growth The Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not for profit medical group practice in the United States (Rahul Kashyap, 2016). It was founded in Rochester, Minnesota, but today has expanded to six states, with five schools, and about 59,500 employees (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2015). The hospital have an enterprise revenue of 9.8 billion dollars annually, which is reinvest on research according with Mayo Clinic Critical Care Case Review publication of 2016. In 1863, Dr. William Worrall Mayo went to Rochester to provide medical care to the soldiers of the Union Army (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2015).…
The term neoplasm refers to tumors that are masses or growths that arise from normal tissue. Can a growth occur at any time in life? Are all neoplasms life-threatening? Explain in your own words why or why not.…