Influenza-like illness

If someone had the chance to save one person or five, which would they choose? Dependent on who that person is, what their assets are, and the nature of the person, most people would choose to save the larger majority people. In September, of 1974, Garrett Hardin published in the magazine Psychology Today, “The Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping The Poor.” In this essay, he used a metaphor of a lifeboat to compare first and third world countries and their duty to help other countries. For…

It is clear that the utmost importance in any medical context is the relationship between the healthcare practitioner and the patient. The duty of a physician is to adhere to certain principles of medical ethics namely the principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. By examining the case study involving Dr. Nancy Morrison, one can observe that these principles are often ambiguous when referring to the issue of whether she committed voluntary active euthanasia or…

In spite of the fact that it might appear like a straight-forward exchange, pharmacists must use their broad knowledge of drug dosage, control, allergens and compound reactions for each and every individual who comes to them with a prescription. General health, health advancement and disease prevention…

A therapeutic relationship can be defined as a ‘professional, interpersonal alliance in which a nurse and client join together for a defined period to achieve health related treatment goals’. In order for a therapeutic relationship to be successful the nurse must to be able to develop a connection with the patient but as well as maintain a comfortable working distance. An intellectual disability nurse must have the qualities and the ability to be extremely patient, empathetic, genuine,…

Communication, as defined by Oxford Dictionaries* is the exchanging of information by speaking, writing or another medium. Communication is a tool that is an integral part of the health system and a key element in providing high-quality health care. Communication plays a significant part in increasing the knowledge of the patient. The knowledge* or information the patient acquires through being educated by the doctor and gaining an understanding of their medical condition depends greatly on this…

The purpose of my paper is to demonstrate the nursing care for a patient at my clinical rotation whom I chose for my required uniformed assignment. The registered nurse whom I was following on that day allowed me to asses for the lung sounds and I was able to observe when the nursing care was delivered. To protect the privacy of the patient, I am using only one letter initial which is the letter randomly I chose. To accomplish the goal of this assignment, I start with the background information…

One of the crucial components of the subject of Pharmacology is Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT).The main goal of CPT is to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes so that a clinician is able to weigh the potential benefits and risks of treatment along with its cost-effectiveness. This enables the prescriber to understand the sources of variability in responses to medicine, base prescribing decisions on sound evidence, and monitor medicine effects appropriately. CPT has been…

Nurses are made to say an oath and declarations before they can start to work. (Papanikitas, 2013) These are ways in which the profession makes a promise to the public that they would uphold a publically accepted sets of values and this enables the profession to be trusted and have a status in the society. People look to nurses for support and see them as the person who can advocate on their behalf. People believe nurses will speak up for them even in challenging situations (Johnstone, 2009).…

Today at Simulation Lab I performed health history on a patient. Firstly, I commenced by preparing myself for the interview. Although I was nervous, as a nurse I had to be confident and prepare myself mentally and kept an open mind to meet the patient. In addition to preparing myself, I prepared the environment, making sure seating and arrangement was in place and the room was comfortable and private. Having done this, I utilized Florence Nightingale’s theory of environmental need. I made sure…

Data 11 and 12 is represented in one dialogue of Don Corleone. The Dialogue was in funeral parlor of Bonasera, when he ask Bonasera to give treatment to Sony’s wounds in order to Sony have better look before his funeral ceremony. Presuppositions that can be derived from part of the data 11 is from utterance ‘I want you to use all your powers and all your skills’. The writer found a possessive construction in the utterance which is indicates as existential presupposition type. Phrase such, ‘your…