Intensive care medicine

a common term heard throughout a hospital, but what does it mean? NICU means neonatal intensive care unit. It is like the intensive care unit, but for neonatal newborns. Neonatal refers to the first twenty-eight days of a child’s life. Therefore, the NICU is an intensive care unit for very young babies who have health problems. These babies have severe life threatening health conditions and need intensive care to become healthy. One of the most important people that take part in the process of…

Besides the lack of nutrition in McDonald’s cheeseburgers, there is also a lack of morality. Factory farming, also known as the practice of keeping many animals in small, confined spaces, lives in every piece of meat within large fast food chains. This practice is relatively recent, developing in the late 19th century, and is used in virtually all major fast food chains, such as: McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Sonic, and even Krispy Kreme. Now a growing epidemic, factory farming has become an…

float between the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Progressive Care Unit, pediatric hematology and oncology unit, pediatric medical surgical unit, and the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. Adapting to change has become second nature to me and I have become a professional at it. One of the biggest challenges when I first began was starting off on a regular unit and then going to the intensive care units. It was a…

Eating Animals: The Cost is Sickening: An Annotated Bibliography Angelova, Kamelia. "13 Stunning Facts About The Rise Of Industrial Meat Farming In America." Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 27 Jan. 2011. Web. 24 Sept. 2015. . Kamelia Angelova’s “13 Stunning Facts about The Rise of Industrial Meat Farming in America” was a look at thirteen facts, which truly shined light the explosive growth of factory farming in America. Angelova points out that between 1997 and 2007, every day, factory…

"Hiding/Seeking," A Rhetorical Review Do you know how the food you eat is produced and where it comes from? Have you ever considered what you are eating may have an effect upon your health? Do you really care? These are the issues that author Jonathan Safran Foer brings to light in his literary piece called, “Hiding/Seeking," from his excerpt “Eating Animals”, a triad of three separate genres about the conditions inside the American commercial farm, or “Factory Farm”. Most people know factory…

breaking it down so that I can understand it that really helps me when it comes down to taking a test or a quiz to remember how they explained it. I think my results matched up with neonatal nursing because when you’re being taught and guided on how to care for and support the babies you're gonna be working with and how to handle different babies in different situations, you really have to listen up pay attention and take notes if needed so that you can better understand exactly what to do when…

How Your Meat Causes Worldwide Pollution The factory farming industry plays a major role in contributing to the problem of global climate change. This particular issue does not get addressed nearly as much as it should because many of these corporations generate billions of dollars, which has resulted into agribusiness instead of traditional farming. As other countries generally follow the lead of the United States pertaining to legislation and trade policy they watch how we approach the issue…

In order to monitor and evaluate a program, a written evaluation plan is needed. An evaluation plan (for a particular evaluation) usually specifies: what will be evaluated; the purpose and criteria for the evaluation; the key evaluation questions; and how data will be collected, analyzed, synthesized and reported. (Better Evaluation, n.d.). Therefore, an evaluation plan is use to evaluated the results of a program for improvement and decision making. It clarifies the steps needed to assess the…

on their clinical experience to provide quality care. Nurses routinely need to question their practice and look for alternative methods to improve the process of care” (p. 4). Evidence supports that modifications in nursing practice cultivated by research improves patient outcomes. There is no one better than the bedside nurse to question and identify patient care problems. Once a problem is identified the nurse has the duty to question if the care being provided is supported by evidence. When…

often needing additional support services in order to survive. The low-income population is normally represented by poverty, destitution, and unemployment. Many in this classification have not finished high school; do not have or seek proper medical care; they do not have affordable housing and insufficient food, decent clothing, poor parenting skills, unemployment, and they do not have any trade skills to acquire…