Right to life

“The patient is a 15-year-old female who sustained a right-sided calcaneus fracture, jumping off pier landing on the rock. The patient was transferred over from Grand Haven. Imaging showed a displaced intra articular right calcaneus fracture, which was deemed appropriate for surgical intervention. The patient underwent 2 surgeries to complete open reduction and internal fixation of her right calcaneus fracture. Postoperatively, the patient had difficulty with pain control and severe…

For this fieldwork project, I have decided to analyze a poem. Out of the many poems that I have read in my entire life, I can’t recall one that really caught my attention and made me want to keep reading. That is, until now. Emily Dickinson’s poem, “My Life Has Stood A Loaded Gun,” is one heck of a masterpiece that I just have to talk about it. First, I would like to say that each stanza in this poem, had me feeling some type of way. Each line, brought a mess of imagery in my mind. Every dash I…

End of Life Care As a nurse and a professional in the health field, we know that end-of-life care is not only for the patients that are in the final days of their lives, but also for the care of all those with a terminal illness or terminal condition that has become advanced, progressive and incurable. Some of the important aspects of end of life care that have to be considered and talked about are autonomy of the patient, decision making capacity, informed consent and advance directives.…

hopeless patients experiencing extreme, unbearable pain. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll takes his own life with the help of a potion because the pain he was experiencing…

reason his childhood was terrible as a child slave is because “workday began every morning at 3 o’clock and did not finish until 8 o’clock at night.” This shows how James didn’t really have a happy childhood. James is now fighting for children's rights, against slavery, which he does for his job. This…

aims and objectives of a care plan is that all individuals have full involvement in preparation of their care plan to live independently, have as much control over their life expectancy as possible, take part in society on an equal level, with access to gaining as much as a comfortable life and to have the best possible quality of life and retain as much dignity and respect as possible. For myself and all care workers and all other professions for Steven to live in a clean and safe environment,…

main character in Flowers for Algernon, was severely affected by mental retardation. In the novel Daniel Keyes, the author, wrote an inspiring story about a man who was born mentally retarded and his journey to become smarter. Throughout his whole life, he had wanted to be smart and he was told multiple times that he would never be able to become an intelligent human being. However, when he was thirty two years old, he had an operation done to make him smarter. Still, his intelligence didn’t…

the need to provide for her family as she felt responsible for his death. She was forced to seek money or work from her “ancestors” and that caused her to cross paths with Alec. As Tess was not only lower class but also a woman, she barely had any rights in Victorian society. Had Tess had the education or understanding of the law or finances, she could have legally dealt with Alec’s misconduct. However, her lack of education…

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” Here she is trying to say that parents can only help guide their children in life to some small extent, but the children are the ones who have to change despite themselves in order to get anywhere. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, although Juliet’s parents tried their best to put their daughter on the right path of success and happiness, they could not do…

The truth is I’ve always been a fool” (Edward Bloom). Edward Bloom was a man that lived in a fantasy world. His stories were exaggerated to the point they became a fantasy. He hyperbolize the stories not to lie, but to escape the boring reality of life. In that way I am like him; I tend to have my own Wonderland, where I go to escape the monotonous pattern of my existence. Edward Bloom and I are not only alike in the fact that we both have a dreamland, but also in that he never gave up, even if…