Wound healing

This helps identify healing progression and determines if changes need to be done to the wound care. During a visit to an assisted living facility (ALF), a wound care nurse used her camera to take pictures of the unhygienic facility. She stated “look at this filth; it’s no wonder the patient’s wounds won’t heal.” She related that she had sent some of the pictures to the state so the facility could be inspected. With great concern, she was reminded that the camera was only to be used for…

Pressure ulcers is a great concern in the health care system today. Treatment for pressure ulcers is costly. The development of pressure ulcers can be prevented by the use of the evidence-based nursing practice. Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that they will not pay for additional costs incurred for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers in 2008. There are nursing interventions that can be done to prevent pressure ulcers. [Heading 1] A pressure ulcer is an area of skin that has been damaged…

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” Just as God commanded his disciples to show love to one another, nurses are commanded to show love to their patients. Having experienced illness constantly in my life with my Grandmother Maria, I was inspired to pursue a nursing career, in which, I am going to dedicate my time giving love to people in their most vulnerable A long time ago, I lived in El Salvador,…

significant both short and long terms (Lellan, 2004; Saxe et al, 2001). Orthopaedic studies have shown that the short term effect of poorly managed pain includes slower recovery, longer hospital stay, risk of developing an infection, delay in wound healing and a delay in resumption of normal life activities for the child (Joshi and Ogunnaike,2005). Patient- F was slower to mobilise and recover from her bilateral osteotomy due difficulty in moving her legs, this causes an increased stress…

Using infliximab to treat Crohn’s disease Introduction Crohn’s disease is a type of IBD that causes inflammation in any part gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the anus. In response to this inflammation, the body’s immune system attacks the GI tract (Dessein, 2008). The progression of this chronic inflammatory disease is brought about by the action of several cellular processes and pro-inflammatory mediators (Poggioli, 2007). Because there is no single factor that can be targeted to…

The Civil War wasn’t all about the male soldiers on the battlefield. There were other soldiers fighting a different battle on the home front, and they were none other than the women. The lives that women lived during this time period are often over looked, but they played a huge role in the war. As noted by the article “Women and the Civil War”, “…when in 1861 the American Civil War broke out between the north and the south, both men and women became deeply involved in the conflict.” (Women and…

The downtime takes about a week. Apart from having swollen red cheeks and red pimple marks that seemed to have bled, I did not find any other risks involved except infection as they were open wounds. So the doctor gave me a topical antibiotic. I reported to work the next day with a face mask. It just looked like I was punched in the face but it was nothing serious to not be able to deal with. Using a face mask saved me from people looking, asking…

inflammation of the skin and the mucosa. Therefore, it is recommended warm compresses or baths for all wounds with the appearance of inflammation and other disease occurrence in the skin, whether it is the swelling, subcutaneous tumors, abscesses, leg ulcers or pus under the nails. To inflammation of eczema as well as well-known nursing eczema or with other permanently wet and very hard healing eczema and scab, it is recorded the best successes by the treatment with chamomile. When having…

read in one way, and a bad book as a book which is read in another” (1). Although Lewis’s essay is primarily dominated by “the many and the few,” the paramount message of the book pertains to the ego; moreover, how the literary experience heals the wound without undermining individuality. An Experiment in Criticism provides excellent insight of what it means to critique something. The book is methodically arranged and Lewis’ argument stays concise. Lewis discusses: “The many and the few,”…

judgement, just letting the healing unfold. (Karl Marlantes, What it is Like to Go to War, pg. 196-201) In the later part of the same story, Marlantes goes through another ritual, alone, after coaching from a friend, that helps him to stand up to an even larger dark energy (Shadow, evil, collective shadow?), which I think represents another large step in healing. He was able to reach out for help and people were there for him, to help him through it, and he took up his own healing. Maybe there…