Stethoscope

Every morning for anyone who owns or takes care for horses starts out just about the same. You wake up and before you even think about eating, you are walking out to the barn to check on your horses and give them their breakfast. Except, today something is wrong. One of your horses is laying down in their stall, rolling, not eating or drinking, and is kicking at their stomach. These few clues can be a horse owner’s worst nightmare. These are symptoms of the dreaded illness, colic. Colic is…

Did you know that on average one person consumes 270.7 pounds of meat a year? With this startling fact one could wonder where does all this meat come from and how is it being raised? In Michael Pollan’s article “An Animal’s Place” Pollan argues the pros and cons of factory farming as well as organic farming and takes a stand for the humane treatment of animals, as well as appreciating the meat one eats. In Blake Hurst’s article titled “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri–intellectuals”…

office with the doctor I would stand in the room with him and listen to all the complaints that his patients had. He would ask them questions about their daily habits such as if they smoked, exercised regularly or drank coffee. He would then use his stethoscope to listen to their heart and lungs. For patients with high blood pressure he would check their blood pressure also. If the patient were a recurring one that he had previously put on medication he would either lower or raise their dosages…

phone call or face to face rather than text message, text messages are useful to inform about appointments (NCNZ, 2012). RN Abb discussed professional life on social media, he wrote had difficulty listening to the patients’ blood pressure with his stethoscope and it wasn’t his fault that he could not…

Brandy’s Personal Nursing Philosophy A personal philosophy of nursing is what guides your practice. As stated in the textbook Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice, knowing your personal philosophy enables the nurse to care for patients with purpose (Masters, 2017). Knowing your personal philosophy also give the nurse the information needed to continually evaluate the care being provided and continue to become a better and more proficient nurse. Why I Chose Nursing It is said…

I bolted straight up, gasping for breath. I clutched my head in my hands as I rested my elbows on my propped up knees. I closed my eyes and took some deep breaths. After a few inhales, I settled down and looked around, blurry eyed. I was still in my little brother’s hospital room, which was dimly lit with moon light. I looked over to the chair on my left. My boyfriend, Matt, was slouched in a sitting position with his head hanging precariously over his left shoulder. He was asleep and partly…

Case study 1 Mr I is suffering from seasonal influenza as he shows symptoms including sneezing, headache, muscle ache, malaise, dry, chesty cough, fever, fatigue and weakness because he can hardly sit up. These are all the symptoms of seasonal influenza (NICE, 2015). Although symptoms of colds and influenza are very similar, but his symptoms developed within two days which is relatively fast, proving that he suffers from influenza instead of cold. As symptoms of influenza develop a lot faster…

“Nurses are the heart of healthcare” and nurses have a lot responsibility. My topic is nursing I have wanted to be a nurse my whole life, but I don’t have much experience in the medical field. The only things that I do know is what I have learned in health science one and two. There is a lot of information that nurses have to learn and I can’t wait to learn them. A there is lots of information about nursing that many people probably didn’t know. (Welcome to the quote garden) Nursing is, by…

Virginia Apgar was a groundbreaking medical scientist, and exceptional professor, who not only changed the field of perinatology, but paved a path for women physicians and anesthesiology to become equal in the medical world. Virginia Apgar was born on June 7, 1909 in Westfield, New Jersey. She describes her family as a fast paced family that “never sat down”. Her mother was Helen May Apgar, and her father was Charles E. Apgar. Her father’s profession was an insurance executive, but dreamed of…

Audiologists have several needed to be completed prior to a patient obtaining a hearing aid (Hearing Loss Communication Strategies for Family and Friends, 2012). The first step is the will be a complete health assessment to best determine whether medications or illness maybe the actual cause of hearing loss in the patient. Nurses know that certain medications such as aspirin in high doses have a side effect on tinnitus. Hearing tests such as the Weber and Rinne help determine the type of…