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are mild,soothing and safe are advisable. Loss of fat in the subcutaneous stratum makes the skin feeble it continues to lose its elasticity. What to do? • Practice exfoliating on a regular basis with a scrub. Not too much though! Twice a week should be enough. It must be a mild scrub. Sugar scrub is a fantastic option! • Continue using a soothing face cream rich in vitamin E and aloe vera for that extra bit of nourishment. This will leave your face looking fresher. • The diet must remain the…

will help with all aspects of care for the baby, but how far should they go to help the new mother? Should they be expected to do any or all of the following things? • Cook meals for the entire family • Wash laundry for the entire family • Scrub floors • Scrub bathrooms and the kitchen • Clean up after meals and wash dishes • Tend to older children in the family • Pick up after the husband • Serve guests that come into the home For most of these items, a confinement nanny today would say…

INTRODUCTION Hospital admission is a stressful experience that can happen to anyone at any point in one’s life. The stress is amplified when hospitalizations occur to pediatric patients who will undergo a new environment at that point, and will be experiencing painful procedures. The cause of distress during hospitalization differs among individuals, more so for pediatric patients. The discomfort felt by these pediatric patients can be traced to the pain they experience and of which they do not…

Nursing informatics is the use of technology in managing information and telenursing is using telecommunications and information technology in providing nursing care. Telenursing has been around for a “few decades” (American Nurse, 2014), and is constantly evolving, in today’s world it requires a more demanding focus of nursing practice. Telenursing is a system that includes the use of technology and that improves patient care in an effective and efficient manner. Telenursing can be used in…

The doctor went and after sometime a nurse came to me and prepared me, took my vitals and transferred me to the operation theatre. I started becoming very nervous. I started thinking about the consent I signed. I was thinking that I should have asked the doctor to explain me the procedure and all about the consent before signing it. But it was too late then. Despite being very familiar with an operating theatre environment, I started getting nervous when I became the patient, thinking of the…

Physical therapy has been a developing health related practice that pertains to restoring and maintaining the best achievable range of movement. This rehab service is an partnership health profession that is made to recognize and treat health related issues that can or will limit someone’s ability to move or go through their day to day schedule. These issues can be an effect from variation of hereditary and obtained conditions such as physical injuries, cerebral palsy, and juvenile rheumatoid…

I was, somewhat, awake at 7am, relying on recently chugged black coffee to instill in me some sense of alertness. My short frame, donning a scrub, fell next to much taller Dr. Fritz, a thoracic surgeon at Gwinnett Medical Center. Once Dr. Fritz’s I.D. met the door scanner, a bustling energy swirled around me. Nurses spoke to one another succinctly. Doctors reviewed patient records and xrays. And I-- I followed Dr. Fritz’s long strides into an operating theater where bright overhead lights…

only a cloth. Do not use any sort of brush. If the sponge has a brush on one side, do not use that side. • Start at your neck and scrub down to your toes. Avoid your genital area. Chlorhexidine can cause a skin reaction. Also, avoid any areas of skin that have cuts or scrapes. • Pay special attention to the part of your body where you will be having surgery. Scrub this area for at least 1 minute. • Be sure to get your back and under your arms. • Do not use chlorhexidine on your head.…

7:50: This morning I’m back at the nursing home! I’m sitting on the opposite wall that I sat on yesterday, so a different perspective. I’m facing the nursing station which is very nice. There is a wall of cabinets on the left and the desk with computers on the right. 7:53: Someone is watching the news to my right, and has the sound really loud. I’m probably 100 feet away and I can hear it clearly. There is a nurse doing a check up on At least I think that’s what the magazines are. My eyesight…

Z also informed the scrub nurses to prepare for the amputation. Mr. K agreed with Dr. Z to proceed with the surgery as he did not want to waste time travelling to the hospital again. Although Mr. K was sedated, he was able to converse with Dr. Z appropriately regarding his second surgical procedure. The nurses, however, did not agree with continuing the second procedure as Mr. K was already sedated and this was not an emergency procedure that would save his life. Both scrub nurse and…