Gauze

Since before I was born, my mother has had glaucoma and uveitis in both of her eyes. Glaucoma causes increased eye pressure while uveitis causes inflammation and eventually lead to vision decline. Although she had this serious condition, I was never affected because she never acted like she had a disability. Her insistence of everyday tasks were her ways of assuring herself that there were still aspects in her life that she could control since she was in a situation that she could not change.…

with this organization called MedShare, which is involved in humanitarian aid. The mission is to locate and dispersed unused, and safe, medical supplies to communities in need around the entire globe. While volunteering, I was in charge of packaging gauze pads and catheters, but left that experience having learned more about healthcare than I previously knew from the healthcare classes at my high school. It was here that I decided to pursue nursing, a profession that would blend my desire to…

one of my co-works or myself we go on the computer and pick out the areas that we want to swab, making sure that we don’t choose the same ones all week. After we write the site on the sterilized bag, we start making the swabs. We but a sterilized gauze in the bag and then but DE solution. DE solution is a liquid that makes the bacteria show up on the petri…

instructions below and make a neat table in which to record all the numerical data. Using tongs put a clean crucible on the hotplate. Heat the crucible for approximately 5 minutes. Turn off the hotplate. Carefully remove the crucible to a piece of wire gauze and allow the crucible to cool for one minute. Transfer the crucible to a desiccator and allow to cool for approximately 5 minutes or until cooled to room temp. Weigh the crucible and record the mass to the nearest 0.001g from the balance.…

I have been San Antonio Museum of Art during the last summer. This is my second times visit this museum. I see a lot of same artworks that I saw them when I came first time, but this time I feel I know more about the artworks now. I knew each of the artworks have different theme, subject and meaning. This is oil on canvas painting called Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas made by artist Albert Bierstadt during 1870. This panting’s color schemes is polychromatic. It contains different…

looked black. They gave me a pen and paper so I could communicate. They wrapped my head in dressings, yards of tight gauze holding wads of cotton in place, metal butterfly sutures gripping all over so I wouldn’t unravel. They fingered on a thick layer of antibiotic gel, claustrophobic and toxic under the wads of cotton. My hair they pulled back, forgotten and hot under the gauze where I couldn’t get at it. The invisible woman. When Sister Katherine mentioned this other patient, I wondered if…

I was in physical pain. At school, I was in psychological distress. At age 17, I started taking herbal medications, switching to natural remedies since all synthetic methods failed. Each morning I dusted my bed of shredded skin, wrapped my cuts in gauze, and drank three rounds of herbal…

Shaggy Beard sent Catherine wedding gifts “He sent me a silver toothpick, a sewing kit, and a gauze headdress in a stinking green that is my least becoming color” (140). Catherine despised Shaggy Beards gifts and refused consent to marry him. She did not want to have to live with him and be his wife. For months Catherine pondered different ways to…

areas and prevent fast return of the calculus. Aspiration tip and 3 in 1 syringe are used for aspiration procedure. PPE for patient, dentist and nurse and any other bits and pieces such as floss; selection of interdental brushes; cotton wool rolls; gauze squares; disclosing tablets and patient mirror; toothbrush and wipe-able model of the mouth to demonstrate patient how to brush teeth. All patient’s records like charts; radiographs; hospital letters; medical history forms etc. Also, some…

Procedures in clinical laboratories involve working with biological samples that may contain viruses such as HIV and/or Hepatitis B and other medically important bacteria. Therefore, it is important that the laboratory workers protect themselves by using the correct personnel protective equipment (PPE) and by so doing protect the members of the public. In the microbiology laboratory, sterile techniques must always be used to prevent cross contamination of specimens but also to prevent…