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terminal sedation. Terminal sedation or palliative sedation is deep, continuous sedation for the relief of pain and suffering during end of life care. Other issues were resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, nutrition/hydration, antibiotics, and dialysis. Nurses have an ethical obligation to provide care to patients during their end of life care including pain management, comfort, and support to their love ones. Patients can die peacefully and with dignity without tubes, pain, and mechanical…

As a nurse who advocates for the patient, especially for the under insured or uninsured patients, there may be the use of multiple models in order to defend the rights of the patients and ensure he or she gets the desired care. With the use of the Moral Model, a nurse may be able to protect the patients choices and right through the use of the MORAL Model (Guido, 2014) Ethical dilemma In my personal experience practicing nursing, the ethical dilemma I have most experienced is the issue of caring…

Organ Donations Don’t Always Go To The Right Person Since the establishment of organ transplantation waitlists, transplant priorities have been based on location and severity. With the sizeable amount of research being conducted to make advances in transplantation, many are unaware how important this waiting list is—and how many people are on it. Many patients on waiting lists are in such desperate situations that they may turn to the black market to buy an organ and transplant. While medical…

additional education could open up many doors in the medical field. 55% of the RN workforce held a baccalaureate or higher degree, which lead them into different nursing directions. (Rosseter, 2015) Different nursing jobs could include; Certified Dialysis Nurse (help patient’s whose kidneys don’t properly function), Certified Nurse Midwife (deliver babies), Nurse Anesthetist (works with surgeons and dentists for medication) and Nurse Practitoner (serve as a primary care giver). (10 Best Nursing…

Another woman with end-stage respiratory and kidney failure. Her husband had died. She didn’t want to treat her illness. Her children couldn’t let her go. She lived with a feeding tube, and a dialysis catheter. Now we can think about it, how we can help dying patients to achieve their goals at the end of their lives. Sarah was seventy-two years old. She’d had declining health about several years. She had heart congestive heart failure from a…

Thursday Island, a small island in the Torres Strait is located 2,640km north west of Brisbane, 804km north of Cairns, 141km south west of Papua New Guinea, 35km north west of Cape York. Its area is about 4.5 square km and is legally part of Queensland. Locally known as “TI”, or the Torres Strait Islander name is Waiben, means ‘dry place’ due to the geological of the island it has lack of fresh water; island gets its water supply from a dam in Horn Island. TI has a tropical humidity and has two…

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) and dialysis have negative impact on lifestyle. Renal transplantation improves many facets of daily life. Male sexuality is a significant predictor of quality of life. This brief review summarizes the impacts of ESRD and renal replacement on a range of sexual domains as presented at the European Association of Urology meeting in Vienna. In choosing renal transplantation, men expect superior long-term survival compared to other means of renal replacement. Moreover,…

Staph infections are prevalent in hospitals, even today. Staph infections can lead to death. Healthcare professionals need to be more diligent in infection control processes in order to eliminate hospital-acquired staph infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011 March) state approximately one out of twenty patients gets an infection while receiving medical care. About 41,000 patients with central lines get a bloodstream infection each year. Of those patients, one out…

to donate to, they must have the same blood type along with the same antigens in their blood, or the recipient’s body will reject the organ. There are many benefits for the transplant recipient such as an overall improved quality of life, no more dialysis for kidney patients, fewer complications than if received from a deceased donor, and a faster working kidney than if from a deceased…

AUTOMATION IN CLINICAL LABORATORY 1- INTRODUCTION The word automation is inspired by word automatic. Automatic means exercising control without interference. So automation means getting work done by machines which can run on their own without our continuous monitoring. Automation refers to machines with intelligence and adaptability which reduces our workload and need for nonstop supervision. OBJECTIVES After reading this lesson, you will be able to: define automation list the uses of…