Pain scale

When I think of my identity, before thinking about my personality, before thinking about my friends, and before thinking about anything else, I think about Milwaukee Sign Language School (MSLS). No matter how much time passes since I attended MSLS, I will never forget my time there. When I was young, perhaps two or three years old, my parents were getting worried about the fact that I would hardly speak. While my brother and sister were already beginning to form sentences at that age, I…

Rheumatoid arthritis and seem to be beneficial to reduce pain. You can’t stop RA, but there are such treatments to delay the progression of this disease. The CNA is a great help in helping a patient live with this disease so they are very important to the environment of a person diagnosed with RA in aspects such…

This is a 46-year-old male with 04/19/05 date of crush injury to his left foot. Diagnosis: Left foot pain 11/16/15 Progress Report by Dr. Pang described that the patient still has a lot of pain in the left foot. The examination was WNL. Zohydro did help but still suboptimal. The SCS has not been working. The report indicated that the regimen and the side effects of the medications have been addressed and are well tolerated. There is no evidence of aberrant behaviors and the monitoring…

acute pain, and she does have difficulty performing complete range of motion in her left shoulder. The main nursing diagnosis that I selected for my client is impaired physical mobility related to pain and musculoskeletal impairment as evidenced by swelling in the left shoulder, tenderness upon palpation, and limited range of motion of the left shoulder (Carpenito, 2013, p. 389). I selected this diagnosis because my client’s overall well-being would improve if she was not experiencing pain and…

ligament reconstruction, significant surgical complication, or history of graft failure they were not able to be a part of the experiment. The researchers used the Tegner Activity Scale to assess the physical activity level of subjects at the time of testing. A 10-cm visual analog scale was used to assess knee pain as well as pain during a double-limb squat. The researchers used the International Knee Documentation Committee subjective knee evaluation to measure knee-related function in all…

Corporal Punishment: Cruel and Unusual Corporal punishment is defined by Merriam-Webster as a punishment intended to cause physical pain on a person. This was the typical form of punishment used by slave owners. They would use this form of punishment to make the slaves fear them to keep the slaves under their control. They needed this amount of control to deter the slaves from revolting and causing an uproar because of the harsh ways they were treated. During that time in our history the slave…

heel pain. When you wake up from bed in the morning and experience a shooting heel pain when you walk on the floor, you could experience the ill effects of plantar fasciitis. You may find that in the wake of strolling for around 10 minutes, the pain starts to die down. Nonetheless, getting up from a situated place after a drawn out time-frame, the agony returns forcefully. In the long run, this sounds recognizable you might be the 1 out of 10 that will create plantar fasciitis and Heel Pain…

experience, whether it be from your childhood or adult life. At the young age of four-teen I have accumulated only a portion of the experience soon to come. To me living a turbulent life would mean looking forward to excitement, risk, adventure,or pain and loss. Where living a tranquil life would consist of a calm quite straight forward almost predicable life. When looking back at my minute experience, I would much…

A) As you observed the professional/registered nurse’s role in this setting, what evidence of a professional level of nursing practice? The type of setting I was in during my clinical rotation was Acute Rehabilitation. The nurses on the floor all had a very professional mechanism. The use of evidence based practice integrated patient-centered care, working in interdisciplinary teams, integrating research, and quality improvement (Stevens, 2013). These professional nurses displayed…

Where No Man Has Gone Before “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying” (A.C. Clarke, n.d.) Since the discovery of the greater universe, mankind has looked to the stars and wondered whether or not other forms of intelligent life were among them. Some say that humanity is alone in the cold void of outer space, claiming that other civilizations would have found Earth by now had they existed in the first place. Others believe that…