Tonsillectomy

Interview Report An actual description of the career in nursing is to help patients understand and write down information on a patient’s medical file. I think the appeal of the nursing career is that it is = interesting and changing over time. What I mean by changing over time is the nursing care is not the same as it was ten years ago. For example, Rita Connors remembers nurses’ names to be highlighted after different shifts to have information on who was the nurse that took care of which…

People that work in the healthcare field, know that some things are hard to understand. Residents of a hospital sometimes forget that people that do not work within the healthcare field do not understand the “language they speak” so patients often have to ask what things mean. Informed Consent helps to do this. Before informed consent patients were often “put under the scalpel” not knowing whether they would make it out alive, and not knowing the benefits and risks of a procedure. Nowadays,…

Personally I would never think of something called sleep apnea . I thought of sleep apnea just as something that could be cured but little did I know there is more to it then just a sleeping disorder , Sleep Apnea is a serious sleep disorder that occurs when a person's breathing is interrupted during sleep. People with untreated sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes hundreds of times. This means the brain and the rest of the body may not get enough oxygen.…

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him. On the other hand, Elizabeth’s loss of purpose happened when her kids grew up and didn't need her anymore. Unlike Dan there was a visible change not just a mental change like Dan. When Elizabeth's children were young and had “cut knees or tonsillectomies, or when friends broke [their] hearts, [Elizabeth] would hold [them] and hug [them]”. This was the only time she had purpose and as they grew they depended on her less and less thus resulting in her need for a mask and her loss of purpose.…

Sleep Apnea and Snoring Therapy INTRO About 90 million Americans experience some form of snoring or sleep apnea, according to the National Sleep Foundation. While snoring can be annoying, it is relatively harmless. Sleep apnea, on the other hand, should be addressed to prevent more serious problems down the road. Sleep apnea, by definition, is the failure to achieve oronasal air flow for at least 10 seconds at a time while sleeping. This can occur five to 10 times per hour in people who have…

This is the case of a 13-year old who was declared brain dead by the state of California after undergoing a tonsillectomy to stop her sleep apnea. I cannot imagine the pain that this family has gone through, trying to keep Jahi McMath alive. I also put myself on the shoes of the medical team and as rough as it sounds, clearly the hospital and the health care team…

(1) Patient Information: Katie, 65yrs, F, Caucasian, What insurance do you have? S. CC: Cough started a week ago and not getting better. HPI: Katie is a 65yrs old female came to the clinic along with her son in law, Patrick with c/o cough, which started a week ago and is not getting better. Cough is worse at night, and it wakes her up from her sleep. She also c/o pain on her right side of the chest muscles due to cough. She is feeling very tired and gets easily winded when she takes her daily…

to talk for a few days, unlikely a common sore throat. You decide to visit the hospital and doctors provide an oral examination that quickly concludes a case of tonsillitis, a rapid onset of inflammation in the tonsils. They act by scheduling a tonsillectomy for the following day and you leave the hospital within an hour. All would seem right and the doctors did their duty to provide a benefit to their patient through action. However, hours after being sent home from the hospital, your child…

As you already know I am Sybil’s psychologist. I have been working closely with her for a period of almost a decade. You already know Sybil was clinically diagnosed with numerous psychological disorders in which required vigorous therapy. I however wanted to explain the events that had led up to my diagnosis and your rather sudden departure. When Sybil first came to see me she was unable to recall how she arrived here. Earlier the same day Sybil had returned to her conscious self and awoken in…