Catheters

According to the emergency nurses association (ENA) there are various instances where peripheral access is difficult to obtain, and where other measures are often conflicting in causing infections, such as central venous catheters. Especially with patients with multiple morbidities, such as obesity, diabetes, hypovolemia, sickle cell anemia, and drug abuse, studies have shown significant differences between the ultrasound-guided approach compared to traditional methods for…

Advanced Life Support (ALS) is required at a number of horrendous events that can have a disorderly atmosphere, Advanced Care Paramedics (ACP) are called to these events as it is in their scope of practice as a paramedic. High pressure events and heated moments can cause a paramedic to forget how he is required to address the situation and scene. The primary survey is a guideline and contains 6 letters in the form a pneumonic, DRABCD. The primary survey is used in basic life support (BLS) as…

Dailee danielson once said, “Diabetes is like a roller coaster. It has it’s ups and downs, but it’s your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.” So many teens had to deal with not having sweets during their childhood and still are. Imagine that! Juvenile diabetes is when your pancreas produces little or no insulin and you can’t get glucose from your bloodstream into your cells. You become thirsty and hungry. You lose weight and become weaker. To treat this you have to take insulin in an injection.…

an access by joining an artery to a vein that is under your skin to make a fistula which is a bigger blood vessel. Other ways include: A graft which is when they use a soft plastic tube to combine an artery and a vein under your skin or they use a catheter which makes an access with a narrow plastic tube and that is then inserted into a large vein in your…

treatments may increase the risk for falls. These include: • Being in an unfamiliar environment. • Being on bed rest. • Having surgery. • Taking certain medicines, such as sleeping pills. • Having tubes in place, such as IV lines or catheters. Some additional risk factors for falls in a hospital include: • Having vision problems. • Having altered mental status. • Having trouble with balance. • Needing to use the toilet frequently. • Having fallen in the past three…

Angioplasty is one of the most common medical treatments used for atherosclerosis. There are three steps to complete an angioplasty: a medical doctor will insert a catheter into a blood vessel in the groin, and maneuver it into the clogged artery on the outer surface of the heart. Once the catheter is in place, a balloon at the tip of the catheter is inflated and deflated which will flatten the cholesterol plaque that 's blocking blood flow. Lastly, a stent is left behind to prop open the…

Introduction: The administration of intravenous fluids (IV), is one of the most common and widely used interventions in the medical field, across the world. 'Intravenous' simply means within vein (Wikipedia encyclopaedia). IV therapy is an extremely efficient and effective method of supplying various fluids and medications into the body system which produce rapid effects and it also allows for injecting and administering large volumes of, again, any additional fluids or medications compared to…

the legs and the body are able to be pulled out, but the head is still in the uterus. After they are able to grab the baby’s body, they then jam scissors into the back of the baby head when the scissors are removed, the doctor then places a suction catheter is inside the baby head, the baby’s brain is then sucked out of the head which causes the baby to collapse they then remove the baby from the mother’s uterus that is how partial birth abortion is…

On Monday November 7th during my Acute Nursing clinical rotation at Nashville General Hospital I was given the opportunity to go into the Emergence Department or ED. Kamila, a registered nurse, introduced herself as the charge nurse on the floor. She told other nursing students and myself, that in result of the staff shortage the staff was extremely busy. I was able to meet Sarah also a Registered Nurse and Tennessee State University Alum. What surprised me the most is that majority of the…

Professional Practice Reflection Professional nursing began with Florence Nightingale began all those years ago in war torn Crimea. The mother of modern nursing used the art of including both the heart and the brain to care for those that crossed her path and took the time to document it, because as we all know, if you did not document it, you did not do it. Nursing is the combination of critical thinking, clinical knowledge, and a caring to positively influence and improve the lives and health…