wanted to see how well I can provide my care to different patients. I started to do the vital signs and assessment on one of my patient that is on tube feeding and paralysis from the chest downward. As I was in the middle of my assessment, the respirator therapist came in and requested…
He also talks about the growth of American Sign Language, and it how it has evolved to be most effective when combined with the hearing community. Moving onto Deaf literature, Holcomb shows how Deaf literature has moved from consumption by only Deaf individuals to being more accessible for all people…
believer that the little things like this can make the difference for the patient, so while it is not a medical intervention, I believe it is a nursing intervention that could improve C.Z.’s infusion therapy experience. Patient two R.K., a male in his sixties, was my second patient. He suffers from a condition called hemochromatosis, which is a high iron level in the blood. R.K. had no signs or symptoms of his condition, but in 2002 he was required to have a physical for work, which he failed…
science much more. Likewise, Hockey Scholar has changed my attitude toward engineering and math. Now, in the future, my change in attitude toward STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) will help my future in my career, which is American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, by giving me proper signing technique, overall knowledge of math,…
Conan Doyle’s depiction of Sherlock Holmes’s drug use exhibits the Victorian society’s acceptance and use of drugs for both social and medical reasons. Victorian society had also begun to accept the philosophy of Empiricism, which governed how people explained the occurrences around them; this is possibly one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous characteristics. Additionally, the social, economic…
project I have created a sign language review video and a sign language booklet, that are both specific to one individual who has a developmental disability and uses sign language. For this project I will discuss why the individual uses sign language and why these materials are useful to her. I will explain the need for the video and the booklet in addition to the process of creating them step by step. Additionally in this project is information from research on the use of sign language by…
Handshape In sign language there are a variety of handshapes that are used to create signs. The majority of these handshapes come from the manual alphabet and numbers and can have slight modification to the handshape and C hand shape. (For images representing the manual alphabet and numbers please refer to pages 4 and 5 of the booklet) Carol struggles to produce select handshapes, some of which are acceptable modification, some of which are due to lack of focus and need to be practiced. An…
Too much medication was administered; no staff members acted upon or listened to their requests; the medical staff blamed the equipment for malfunctioning; abnormal vital signs were taken but ignored;…
apart of the hearing world. There are now scholarly peered reviewed journals written for the Deaf community by members of the Deaf community. While there are still hearing medical journals that still write about the more negative side of being a deaf individual and trials and experiments being done to “fix” deaf individuals. The medical hearing world is trying to “fix” the Deaf community because they do not understand how the deaf learn or exist in a hearing world. One example of a hearing…
had a speech using American Sign Language. The speech was a conclusion of her work journey in the factory. She informed everyone in the party that “The word silent, for us, is never silent. Please understand we are listening always with our eyes.... Hearing and Deaf must learn together, live together, change together. I can tell you from the Deaf side. Even we can’t hear the rain falling, but we listen from our eyes. Hearing…