Stethoscope

Imagine giving birth before the turn of the 20th century, before the necessary equipment that was needed to make sure your delivery went properly to keep you and your unborn child safe. Envision being frightened and nervous about if you are both going to make it through. Not having the right medicine that would help ease the pain and length of labor, but having to forcefully go through the many hours of labor and delivery. Anxious when having sexual intercourse, because you know there is no way…

appear on most of the patients who has the disease are cold, fever, coughing with sputum (sometimes with blood) and shortness in breathing (13). To diagnose Pneumonia, doctor might suspect the disease when he or she checks the patient chest by stethoscope (13). When the doctor hears voice of difficult breathing or weakness in breathing he or she will ask the patient to do x-ray to confirm whether the patient has it or not(13) . Another way to diagnose Pneumonitis is by checking sputum or by…

Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) is a therapy used to treat antibiotic-associated Clostridium difficile. In recent years there has been a marked increase in the number of patient with recurrent C. difficile infections or CDIs, presumably due to the increase in antibiotic use by the population. Treatment for an initial C. difficile infection is antibiotics. For mild to moderate infections the antibiotic metronidazole also known by the brand name Flagyl is widely used, though it is not FDA…

Nursing can be described as part of health care system which deals with care of the ill, illness prevention, promotion of health and formulation of proper health policies. A nurse is and individual who has finished his/ her education in the nursing field and is legalized by relevant authorities to practice the profession in their country or some parts of the world. Nursing as an art entails qualities set for your patient you can formulate. It’s your own character and reputation. Art in nursing…

Napoleon made his troop go from Northern Italy into Austria. John Adams is the first president to live in the White House. 1803 Louisiana Purchase was made. Tsar Paul I is assassinated. The Cumberland Road was made to improve western transportation. Johnny Appleseed start teaching pioneers how to plant apple trees. In 1800 Lewis and William Clark expedition began in 1804. Robert E. Lee attends the first West Point Academy with Ulysses S. Grant. Charles Willson Peale establishes…

The use of telecommunication using electronic devices from cell phones to videoconferencing among healthcare providers; either to exchange reports, concerns or researches about clients has become very common in the past few years. Even more so that it now branches out to a broader range of technology known as Telehealth. Telehealth allow physicians to provide care and monitor their clients while at a distant location, using the latest technologies. According to the Center for Connected Health…

administering medications to those students. Some of them came to her office for their inhalers for their asthma. We had to do a brief check on those students with asthma, such as asking them a question like “how do you feel today?” and used our stethoscopes to listen to their lungs. I actually listened to several students’…

In the United States, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is becoming a leading model in technology because of its capability to deploy a top-notch telemedicine program into a substantial comprehensive managed healthcare organization. VHA supports the care of over 6 million veterans in 1500 VA sites which includes approximately 152 hospitals and more than 965 outpatient clinics, 133 community living centers, 293 veteran Centers ( Bair et al., 2010, p. 302). Due to VHA’s extensive and…

As a child, I have always wanted to help people. I would dress up in a white lab coat and pretend to listen to my sister’s heart with my plastic toy stethoscope. I remember my friend who fell from the swing and scraped his knee and I placed a bandage on the knee and later on thanked me. My mother who is a nurse would take me to her work and I recall her, comforting her clients, taking their vital signs, and giving them medication so they would feel better. From that day on, I knew that I wanted…

During the twentieth century, one of the most well-known and devastating events occurred in history. From 1933 to 1945, a mass genocide on the Jewish people took place. This historical event was known as the Holocaust. A group called the Nazis had a belief that the German people were perfect and almighty. They considered the Jewish people to be inferior and required them to be exterminated. Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps and were slaughtered in the gas chambers. What started it al1…