Pulse

The Saturday symphony begins as electric mixers hum and speakers pulse. The rapid succession of thuds signal the conductors below, informing them that the final instrumentalists are awake and ready to play their part. Three children emerge from the stairs hauling pencils, pastels, and sketch paper, littering the living room floor as new masterpieces are planned and executed. Music from microphones fill the rooms with my mother's soulful singing while graphite and stationary collide to become art…

Abortion is the most conflicting issue in America as we all know abortion is seen in different views which end a pregnancy. The first that is known to us is a natural form that is known generally as a miscarriage, which is a unplanned abortion. The second form is known as a surgical abortion which is when a doctor uses surgical instruments to separate the fetus from the uterus and use a surgical vacuum or the doctor may choose to do a scraping and extraction. The third type of abortion is known…

where she had fallen 3 times in the past 2 days. She said she fell back and hit her head with no loss of consciousness. Her medical history is significant for anxiety, hypertension, coronary disease and seizures. On presentation her BP is 160/70, pulse of 78, respirations of 15, and she is afebrile. The patient was evidently taken to CAT scan and although there is no clear reason for it she was alleged to fallen off the CAT scan table. Trauma was called and a c-collar was applied. The…

is considered unhealthy. At one-time hypertension was actually an untreatable condition and considered a serious illness. In ancient Chinese and Indian medicine, they would actually feel a person’s pulse to get an idea of what type of condition a person’s heart was in. If what was called a “hard pulse” was felt, that was usually a sign of hypertension. It wasn’t until 1971, that it was established that treating diastolic hypertension decreased cases of stroke and heart failure and literally…

and pulse is essentials in monitoring the signs of dehydration, pain, and shock. The patient will have PCA (patient controlled analgesia) on their bedside to control the pain. The nurse must check and documents the use of PCA device including the dose, frequency of the analgesia as well as the level of consciousness of the patient to determine the accuracy and effectiveness of the pain management (Walker, 2007). The nurse must assess the operated leg and check for the color, pedal pulses,…

ECG. Observations – Blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, o2. Removal of clothing. Assist with procedures. Rewarming procedures including warming lights, space-blanket. Monitors and informs all outputs such as blood, urine, vomitus. Performs chest compressions during cardiac arrest. Emergency…

The idea that synaptic modifications in the brain underlie learning and memory was first hypothesized by Donald Hebb in his pivotal work The Organization of Behaviour: A Neuropsychological Theory (Hebb, 1949). Since then, the theory has gained strong support from various lines of research where the discovery of synaptic long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) within the mammalian hippocampus present the strongest line of evidence (Howland and Wang, 2008). These phenomena have…

Pulse should be taken and monitored every day for any abnormalities. Patients should be instructed to follows medication directions and not to skip doses. If a dose is missed they another should not be taken. Grape fruit juice should not be ingested while…

There is no wheezing or rhonchorous breath sounds. She does cough with deep inspiration at times. She did receive an albuterol nebulizer treatment here in the office, which she tolerated well. Following that, her pulse ox improved to 99%. She felt she was able to take a deeper breath without coughing. On exam, there was perhaps more air excursion. Still no wheezing or rhonchorous breath sounds, and otherwise normal. A/P Dorothy Hoffman is 57-year-old female here…

patient may scratch an itch on their wrist then rub their eyes thus in the process transferring any organisms to their mucosal surfaces which may cause further infection (Koutoukidis et al, 2013, p 371). Once the Enrolled Nurse has taken the patient’s pulse the Enrolled Nurse washes their hand once again (Moment 3 &4). This is due to the possibility of the Enrolled Nurse picking up organisms from the patient through direct contact, this then places the Enrolled Nurse at risk of contaminating…