Geriatrics

nurse. The APN leader provides comprehensive care in collaboration with a pulmonary physician. She sees patient both in the office and in the hospital on a rotating basis. She manages and provides high quality and cost-effective care to adult and geriatric patients. The advance nurse practitioner leader performs physical examination, diagnoses and treat health problems, orders tests, prescribes medications, counsels and teaches health promotion and disease prevention. Analysis of the discussed…

Concerns have been raised at times about the oversight of victim services and the degree to which they adhere to a common set of ethical principles and professional standards. Parents should have the right to choose services that meet their needs and to refuse service, even if such refusal may increase the risk of danger. For instance, an abusive parent may refuse to have their children sent to a foster home. Social workers should provide information relating not only the rights of the abused…

In order to comprehend the exact implications of chronic low back pain (CLBP) amongst adults and how the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAMs) may assist in reducing the pain, one must also analyze the source towards this goal. The impact of CLBP on adults and their willingness to try CAMs need to be analyzed. Even though back pain is one of the most common chronic pain conditions that most adults suffer from, it is also one of the most poorly studied conditions (Rudy, Weiner,…

Geriatric care nursing entails specialized provision of assistance and adequate care to aged people particularly those aged sixty-five years and above. Gerontological nurses are tasked with providing adequate and specialized care to aged people regardless…

Introduction Due to the complex nature of the needs of the elderly in the emergency room setting, there has been a movement to identify such high-risk patients through the initial triage in the emergency room. One such example is the Identification of Seniors At Risk (ISAR). The ISAR is used as a screening tool to expeditiously identify patients 65 years and older who are at risk for adverse outcomes while in emergency room setting as well as post–ED visit. The tool includes a six validated…

Generalized Anxiety Disorder a Nursing Approach Over half of the people in this world experience anxiety at one point in their life. This anxiety may arise from watching the news or in personal everyday life (Generalized anxiety disorder, 2011). Occasionally, though, that anxiety can linger into a more tantalizing and solemn problem diagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder. This condition can be of great significance in many scenarios where a nurse must provide treatment for a patient, but may…

As my second level 1 Fieldwork, I chose to volunteer for the Raleigh County Special Olympics Cheerleading team. There were four cheerleaders whose deficits ranged from Down syndrome, psychological, speech, low muscle tone, also across the autism spectrum. In which, Cheerleading enhances the following: attention span, comprehension, organization, sequencing, increased endurance, postural control, and increases social skills. Over a course of a month we gathered to participate in the learning of…

Insulin Sliding Scale What is an insulin sliding scale? Find an example of a scale and how insulin doses change per patient. Write a brief description of how the scale is used and how insulin affects glucose. Sliding scale therapy approximates daily insulin requirements. The term "sliding scale" refers to the progressive increase in pre-meal or nighttime insulin doses. The term “sliding scale” refers to the progressive increase in the pre-meal or nighttime insulin dose, based on predefined blood…

The use of misuse drugs today is often the cause to drug dependency in pharmaceutical drug therapy. Today primary care physicians, often use drugs for more than one course of treatment and or diagnoses or condition. Therefore, if clinicians do not appropriately assess patients and or clients the use of that drug may potentially be a result of misdiagnoses. Prescribing sleep aids for conditions other the primary symptom of insomnia Restless leg syndrome has been suggested as a cause to sleep…

Planet Fitness and Family Fitness are similar gyms where all, from the professional athlete to the overweight couch potato, can find equipment to suit their needs and workout style. In both venues, a plethora of cardiovascular equipment as well as machines to target every area of the body are on offer. Generously supplied free weight sections cater to lifters intent on packing on serious muscle, and each gym possesses a host of other amenities such as tanning and massage. At first glance, both…