Menarche

Introduction Mahira is fifteen year old girl, the elder of the two children of our family friends, Atta and his wife Mishi. Mahira is a sixth grader and goes to the same school with her younger brother Mehroz who is thirteen year old. Mahira lives at home with her parents and paternal grandmother. Atta, her father, is a professor of Physics at a local community college. Mahira’s mother is a housewife and spends most of her time in doing domestic chores and attending to her children. Our family…

Nursing Care Preoperative care for a patient with appendicitis, the nurse would focus on relieving the pain and preventing infection. For relieving the pain, the nurse would monitor the pain level and note the location, extent and if there was any pattern to the pain. The nurse would assist the patient in finding a comfortable position such as “semi-fowlers and knees up” (Huether & McCrance, 2017). This would also include attempting to reduce any activity that induced pain such as “coughing…

The first topic I will cover in my report is physical development. I will begin with my mother’s pregnancy, and how her circumstances effected my development as a fetus, as well as the person I am today. Her pregnancy was pretty normal, however my mother did smoke cigarettes and was only fifteen while she was pregnant. I developed in what appeared to be a normal way, and was delivered at 39 weeks and 4 days via vaginal delivery I was born weighing 6.4 pounds and 21 inches long. Piaget’s…

History and Physical Notes Date of Admission August 6, 2014 Patient Initials B.K. Age/Gender 74/Female Date of Birth 11/29/ 1940 Chief Complaint Swollen and painful legs and feet; shortness of breath. Symptoms Unable to be on her feet for very long; cannot walk long distances; hard time climbing stairs. History of Present Illness Mrs. B.K is a 73 year old Caucasian female presented with edema to both legs and feet, which she’s had for the past 12 years. Patient stated the pain is…

Background Turner’s syndrome is a genetic disorder that occurs in 1 in every 2,500 female births. Though it occurs in about 3% of fetuses, 99% of these fetuses are spontaneously aborted[1]. Turner’s syndrome can be defined as a combination of phenotypes with varying expressivity along with the complete or partial loss of an X sex chromosome[2]. Symptoms of Turner’s syndrome include, but aren’t limited to short stature, glucose intolerance, broad chest and widely spread nipples, amenorrhea,…

The following is a case study involving a young pregnant women by the name of Kim. Kim is 17 years old and presenting to the local hospital for antenatal care. Please see appendix 1 for more information regarding Kim’s situation. This case study will identify risk factors that make Kim’s pregnancy complex and examine aspects of antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care provided to Kim, and later in the case study, her infant. Care options for Kim will be based on evidence-based practice. Kim…

Questions about your regular health as well as past illness will be asked, especially age of menarche, regularity, occurrence, and flow of your menstrual period. The provider will ask if you ever had any, pelvic pain, anomalous vaginal bleeding or discharge, trauma, and any history of pelvic infection, especially sexually transmitted diseases (STD)…

There are over 3000 tribes in Africa who all have unique lifecycle traditions (Reference, 2016). This paper is going to focus on two unique tribes: the Zulu tribe from Southern Africa, and the Masaai tribe from Eastern Africa. Although these two tribes are both from the same continent, their practices of tradition are very different. Their cultures were created long ago so they have very specific traditions that are vital to the culture, and make it what it is. They are sacred traditions. Four…

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Janelle Reed –Estrada Nursing 250 Delta College Disease Process Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) or lupus is a multisystem inflammatory auto immune disease that can attack any system in the body, though it typically affects the skin, joints, and serous membranes, renal, hematologic and neurologic systems (Lewis, 2011). The origin of the disease is unknown; however it is thought to result from interactions among genetic, hormonal, immunologic, and…

reproduction, and are about the sex organs and sex cells themselves (Arnett 2016; p. 351). The egg is the sex cell in the female, and the sperm is the male sex cell. In girls, the primary sex characteristics resulting from estradiol include ovulation and menarche. In contrast, secondary sexual characteristics are bodily changes that result from increase in sex hormones, but are not related to reproduction (Arnett 2016; p. 351). Examples of secondary sexual characteristics in adolescnt girls…