I ran to the bathroom looking at my face crying buckets of tears. I was speechless I didn't know what to say, I started to talk first because I knew that she would be mad. My mom ran to the kitchen looking for a wet rag to wipe my face. After I stopped bleeding my dad came home.…
When my mom was 15 years old she was married to my 19 year old father. They got pregnant about a year later at the age of 16. This may seem irrelevant because she was just a typical girl living her life, but her life would be changed forever. Rachel Bragg was six months pregnant when she was in the fatal car accident, resulting in utter turmoil. My dad, mom, and aunt were driving in bumpy hills when they were speeding.…
Assessment Task Two Case Study Question 1 Mr. Harding has a number of ‘pre-morbid’ chronic conditions that may be impacting on his admission and the care you will need to provide. Choose two (2) of Mr. Harding’s chronic diseases, explain the pathophysiology. What organs are affected by each disorder? (20 marks/10 per disorder) Asthma Asthma is a chronic syndrome related to the inflamed airways of the lungs (Rogers 2010).…
Kylie has returned six weeks since the last appointment. Not surprisingly given the slightly warmer weather, Kylie’s symptoms have improved. A couple of days after I saw her her cough did increase and she commenced the Tilade inhaler. A few days later she went to Mildura for five days and with the warm weather there her cough and other upper airway symptoms settled.…
When I was a baby something very bad happened to me. It started a few weeks after my dad got home from the army in Iraq. From that day on my life has never been the same. This was so unexpected that it has changed my life for ever. Even today i think back to that day and wish that my life could have stayed the same.…
Jessica, Great job, with evaluating case study number 1. The first question regarding any additional questions for Rick? You may want to consider asking, if Rick has any new exposures with an animal or pet? Along with do you have any known allergies? Allergies can attribute to exacerbations.…
He was in the hospital and immediately i wanted to know for what, how, why and it was alcohol. He was suffering from liver failure. My 40 year old dad suffering from liver failure. Possible death was shocking to me and at this point i knew what was going on and why my mom left my dad and that moment when i was giving my dad the tour of my house that he asked her to get back together and she said no. She said no for us to protect us from the craziness that my dad consisted…
The first few nights crying for my grandmother or grandfather to come sit on the end of the bed or even say good night. My mother told me she remembers closing my door and hearing “Where is grandma and papa?”. I fell asleep one night and heard my mother leave for work so I got out of bed and walked into the living room where my mother’s boyfriend waved goodbye. I asked him where she was going and he said “To work..…
Asthma has long been recognized as a worldwide non-communicable disease of importance. Within the population of asthmatics, there is a subgroup of individuals at high risk for complications, exacerbations, and a poor quality of life. These individuals are classified with severe asthma and they account for 5-15% of asthmatics in the USA and the world (Chung 2014, Zein et al 2015, WHO asthma fact sheet 2011). Severe asthma, as defined by the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS) clinical practice guidelines, is asthma requiring treatment with high dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and a second controller during the prior year, and/or oral steroids for at least half of the prior year to prevent symptoms from…
According to SIGN (Scottish intercollegiate Guidelines Network), the initial assessment of children having asthma is based on two factors. These include the presence of key features in the history of examination as well as careful consideration of alternative diagnoses. The diagnosis of asthma is usually identifying a distinctive pattern of periodic respiratory signs and symptoms. The main symptoms of asthma in children include; wheeze, shortness of breath, chest tightness and cough. Particularly If these symptoms are frequent and recurrent, occur apart from colds, are worse in the night and early morning or are worse after a trigger e.g. exercise (which is the case with Holly).…
Cancer, asthma, and life-threatening allergies are on the rise. According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is the number one cause of death for children in disease related incidences. Also, in just the past twenty years rates of asthma have doubled. A possible cause for these spikes is that in just the last 50 years over 70,000 man-made chemicals have been created.…
It is important to keep our focus on the Low-income people who have asthma since they are the most affected by that life-threatening condition. Asthma is in some instance a preventable condition that was known as a childhood disease, but in today’s society, Asthma affects everyone mostly the low-income communities. “The historical view of asthma being a disease of high-income countries no longer holds: most people affected are in low- and middle-income countries and its prevalence are estimated to be increasing fastest in those countries”(Marks, Pearce, Strachan & Asher, 2016, para. 1). With that said, in Florida, it is reported that more than 2.6million people are affected with Asthma for life.…
1. Discuss the pathophysiology of asthma. Asthma occurs when a patient’s airway becomes narrow, swells and produces excess mucus. The patients’ breathing becomes labored and causes shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing.…
The death of little sister A significant experience can be defined as something that has happened in the past and is meaningful to an individual because of the impact it had on them. Everyone has a significant experience that is either bad or good in which are dealt with in very different ways. As for me, I have a significant experience that devastated my life. It was on July 16, 2005, I woke up to the voice of my mother crying hysterically in her bedroom. Without hesitation I rushed down the hallway.…
An experience that changed my life was on May 19th, 2014, my brother’s death. It changed my life in a positive and negative way. You would think that death would devastate someone for the rest of their life, but my brother’s death actually changed my life. I’m not saying that his death didn’t have a negative effect on me, but it had more of a positive effect on me than anything. His death made me an introvert, think for myself, and see things differently.…