Mammography

6.2 IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THIS CONCEPT The community health nurse is an agent of change who’s care-giving at primary, secondary and tertiary levels is guided by four concepts of practice: Conservation- maintaining health status and preserving function Prevention-avoidance of harmful changes Restoration-return to optimal levels of health once illness has occurred Amelioration-of illness and its effects. These concepts also guides a nurse employed in institutions, however there…

which was unveiled in 1997. The Donor Wall has generated substantial gifts from donors. The Future Campaign by 2002 raised $ 6,100,000 surpassing their goal of six million. The hospital now has the state of the art CT Scanner, Bone Density Unit, Mammography Unit, and Echocardiography Unit. They now have an Educational Endowment which is to give community health awareness programs and patient education programs. The hospital has added a Complex Continuing Care Unit. The annual Christmas Tree…

the list of the countries with the highest mortality due to cervical cancers estimated at 49.8% (Katz, 2013). Some of the screening methods available for cancers among women in Malawi are the pap smears, visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), mammography and biopsies (Kendig et al., 2014). However, these services are only available in private hospitals in the Southern Region, serving the entire population of Malawi (Ports et al., 2014). Some few districts have been implementing VIA with…

I was born on a farm in rural Alabama to a seventy-two year old veteran and a forty-five year old homemaker. Although I was the youngest of fifteen children, my mother saw to it that my education never suffered. At the tender age of fourteen I left the comfort of home and attended a three year boarding school. During this time I took advanced mathematical and science courses along with rigorous language courses such as French, Spanish, and Latin. However, by the end of high school I was unsure…

Mammograms, ultrasounds, x-rays, and MRIs have helped women with breast cancer since 1895 (x-ray) 1956 (ultrasound) 1977 (MRI), and 1992 (mammogram). They have all been very beneficial to women. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women. About one of three cancers are diagnosed. Cancer is a group of diseases that cause cells in the body to change and grow out of control. Most cancers will form a lump or mass in the breast, which is called a tumor. It is named after a part of the…

Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) is a type of cancer of the breast. IDC starts in the milk ducts of the breast, breaks through the walls of the duct, and begins to invade and grow into the fatty tissue of the breast. Since this is an invasive cancer, it is then able to spread to other organs in the body, such as the lymphatic system. IDC is the most common form of breast cancer, accounting for 70-80% of all breast cancer diagnoses. A key component in diagnosing IDC is yearly screening mammograms…

al. in 2012, to predict breast self-examination for breast cancer early diagnosis, and predictors of mammography in women, respectively. In these studies, self-efficacy predicted the behavior under investigation (Pender, 2016. Another study where extended HBM model was used was done by James, Pobee, et. al. in 2012. In this study, the model was able to…

From the second grade I thought I wanted to be a Veterinarian when I grew up. Of course no one would expect a second grader to know such details, but as I went through high school my mind never strayed away from my future goal. Senior year I got the opportunity to intern at Big Goose Veterinary Clinic where I fell in love with the practice even more. I scrubbed in on surgerys, interacted with clients, and cuddled up on animals all day. It was not until I started noticing how exhausted the…

Morrow County, the county I have lived in for the past 15 years is ranked 10th out of 34. Its rank surprised me, I thought it would be lower on the scale. My county is ranked 8th out of 34 in length of life which isn’t too surprising. Quality of life wise, it is 17th which did surprise me as I thought it would be worse. In the health factors category, it is 22nd. Morrow counties health behaviors puts it at 27. I noticed our smoking percentage is 23 which is high compared to Oregon’s average by…

My ideal chosen career for the future is to be a radiologic technologist. According to the occupational outlook handbook, a radiologic technologist is an individual who executes diagnostic imaging examinations. In 2012 there were around 199,200 individuals working as radiologic technologists. Typically, radiologic technologists work in health care facilities, roughly 55% of them being employed by general medical and surgical hospitals that are state hospitals, local hospitals, or private…