Dialysis

Although we may not want to think about it for ourselves just yet, we do need to be thinking of our patients that we take care of in terms of what they would want to have done for themselves in the event they couldn’t make their own decisions. At our age who even understands what an advance directive is? A living will? Why would I need that when I am only 28 years old? Honestly, we should all have one when we are old enough to speak our minds and make decisions for ourselves because you never…

Organization Name & Description The organization I have chosen to develop a communications plan for is the Ontario Renal Network (ORN). The ORN, a division of CCO, and an agency of the provincial government, manages the delivery of chronic kidney disease (CKD) services across Ontario (Ontario Renal Network [ORN], n.d.a). The ORN structure consists of a headquarters located in Toronto, Ontario, that is co-led by a non-clinical Vice-President and a nephrologist Provincial Medical Director.…

CC: Recurrent pneumonia. History of Present Illness: Mr. Cauley is a very pleasant 56-year-old gentleman who has multiple pneumonias over the last year and one prior pneumonia in 2013. He has been hospitalization recently at Portsmouth Regional Hospital for a right-sided pneumonia was treated with antibiotics and he had rapid resolution of his symptoms associated with radiographic resolution. In February of this year, he suffered a similar episode of cough, fevers, and chills, which was…

whether the model cell and cell environment each represent a hypertonic, hypotonic or isotonic solution. The first solution cell and environment the student had, was water and sodium chloride. In this instance water was the model cell (what was in the dialysis tubing) and Sodium chloride was the surround environment (plastic cup). The initial weight of the model cell was 13.2g, but after sitting in the sodium chloride solution over night the cell lost water and only weighted 11.6g. Since the…

Rosalyn Schwartz lost medical coverage she had previously held through her husband job after she divorced him. She had a pre-existing condition an ulcer. She tried to buy coverage but companies offered her unaffordable policies that excluded treatment for ulcers. Later on, she developed breast cancer. However, since she had no coverage she postponed its excision. In 1989 she felt pain tear through her hips and when she fell her hip socket shattered. She was hospitalized for 23 days and had…

WHAT IS HYPERTENSION Hypertension, sometimes known as “Silent Killer” is America’s freighting combative illness we struggle to regulate. Due too many health risk factors, many people are sometimes unaware of hypertension until suffering from severe damaging effects. High blood pressure is a growing problem in today’s life controlling it is the key priority. According to statistics approximately 50 million lives in the United States are affected by hypertension and approximately 1 billion…

Eboigbodin 1 Eboigbodin Gregory James Slaughter Christian Morality/ Period 4 AMDG Physician Assisted Suicide Is Physician Assisted Suicide ethically Right or Wrong? The ethical issues of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are both emotional and debatable as it ranks high with abortion. Some argue that (PAS) is ethically permissible for an ill dying patient who has choosing to escape the intolerable sufferings at the end of life. However, it is the physician’s duty…

and Medicaid Services [CMS] (n.d.), Medicare is defined as, “the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).” The following will focus on the Medicare decision-making experience, including a general overview of benefits, the election process, as well as a reflection of the occurrence. Medicare Options: An…

Should The Sale of Human Organ Be Legal? “A few years ago, Brian Doherty estimated that every day, 17 Americans die waiting for organs. No doubt the figure is higher now” (Jason). Throughout history there has been many incidents regarding the issue of the sale of human organs. Sally Satel reports that at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania there is a ten year old patient that has cystic fibrosis. Her name is Sarah Murnaghan and she is need of a new set of lungs. With only weeks to live,…

Water is the most precious liquid that exists in the world because is a key element in many of the things that we do such as cooking, cleaning, gardening among many others. Most importantly, water is essential to humans’ life, since our body is composed mainly of water. Drinking water brings a lot of positive health benefits that improve people’s lifespan. The most interesting thing about this precious liquid is that is free to drink in many public places like parks and schools. At home, this…