Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Providers qualifications are very minimum. They must be 18 years or older, have an education level, usually a high school diploma or equivalent, and 40 hours of initial and ongoing training (Child Care Aware, 2018). They also require a Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation(CPR), first aid, and basic safety and health training (Child Care Aware, 2018. Some states have requirements for annual training or training hours required to renew or maintain a child care license (Child Care Aware, 2018). Annual…

THUMP-SWISH! THUMP-SWISH! This is the sound the ventilator makes as it sustains you life. To those crowded around you in your very small hospital room it feels as if it is counting away the seconds of your life. Every second begins to feel like days for your parents, grandparents, friends, family, girlfriend/boyfriend, and all those that hold you dear to their heart. Mother is laying over your bed, holding you and crying as you lay lifelessly in her arms while the doctors inform your family that…

From 2000 to 2006, drowning was the second leading cause of unintentional injury death among US children between 1 and 19 years of age.1 In 2006, drowning claimed the lives of approximately 1100 US children. Fortunately, childhood unintentional drowning fatality rates have decreased steadily from 2.68 per 100 000 in 1985 to 1.32 per 100 000 in 2006. Rates of drowning death vary with age, gender, and race. Age groups at greatest risk are toddlers and male adolescents. After 1 year of age, male…

Following Nightingale We are all drawn to nursing by forces that we can’t see, but we feel them and are so compelled by their forces that we follow these feelings and become nurses. I feel that, spiritually, Florence Nightingale is the nursing theorist that I could compare myself to. Florence Nightingale was born in England in 1820 to two wealthy and well-connected parents. Her parents both came from Unitarian religious backgrounds, but because of her father’s association with the Church of…

Many people state the phrase “ I understand “ or “ Can’t you just do this?” when it comes down to listening to someone explaining their problems. My mother heard these phrases every single time she tried to explain her allergy. Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening generalized or systemic hypersensitivity reaction, which is characterized by being rapid in onset with life threatening circulatory problems. We could never truly understand someone’s experience unless you lived through it or are…

The claimant was a 54 year old female. On 01/18/2015, her husband reported that the claimant had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and shoulder and neck pain “to the point of exhaustion.” Therefore, her ability to process stress and daily issues was limited. She required help with all activities of daily living and with the house chores. She “toss, turn, moan with pain, yell when pain is to severe, awakes routinely, gets up, has nightmares, screams.” She was forgetful, had difficulty…

Growing up in the Bronx in the 1970’s could have seem a little harsh. With many gang and crime activity it was not a pretty place to be in, Especially in the southern portion of the Bronx, which saw a drastic decline in its population. For some people it looked very much like a ghost town, with many abandoned skyscrapers and closed down shops. Overall the people lived in treacherous house conditions, and had a poor quality of life. This is where Kim Rivers, Raised by his mother and father, grew…

Karli Borths Mrs. Thillman Honors Sophomore English 6th 6 December 2016 Legal and/or Illegal? Charlotte Figi, at the age of 2, began to develop abnormal social behaviors, described as, ‘autism-like behaviors,’ where she disconnected cognitively and was unable to interact with others. These behaviors grew violent, and later Charlotte started experiencing seizures. After seeing medical experts, Charlotte was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome. Undergoing up to 300 seizures daily, at the age of 5,…

being a progressive disorder the timing of the surgery may be different because of the severity of the anomaly. Currently the trend is to have the surgery before the age of one year old, in which the primary operation is usually performed under cardiopulmonary bypass and are aimed at closing the ventral septal defect, resect the area of infundibular stenosis, and relieve the right ventricular outflow obstruction (Bhimji, 2015). Long term consequences According to Bhimji (2015), patients with…

the toilet after the power has been out for long periods of time. Hurricane education is a year-round education process where the student can take an active roll in and receive certifications and community service hours. For instance, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and service hours for food collections. I…