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SICKLE CELL DISEASE
Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle Cell Disease
Introduction
Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease responsible for abnormal hemoglobin in red blood cells. Hemoglobin is responsible for transporting oxygen in the tissues. The abnormal hemoglobin (hemoglobin S), under certain conditions (cold, fever, dehydration, etc.), will make red blood cells rigid, they lose ...
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CVD
Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Introduction
Everybody knows that how important is the heart of a person, so it is no wonder that people worry when they hear someone has heart problems. Heart disease, also known as cardiovascular disease, mainly affects older people and involves problems with the heart ...
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MENTORING
Mentoring
Mentoring
Introduction
Mentoring is an interpersonal relationship support, exchange and learning, in which a skilled person, the mentor is investing his acquired wisdom and expertise to promote the development of another person, the mentee, who acquire skills and career goals to be achieved. The assistance provided by the mentor is normally ...
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NURSING THEORY
Nursing Theory: Mirror Perspective
Nursing Theory: A Mirror Perspective
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A nursing theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models. Nursing theories systematic view phenomena by designing specific inter-relationships among concepts for the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and prescribing (Botha, 1989). This ...
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ASTHMA IN CHILDREN
Asthma in Children
Asthma in Children
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Summary
Children have cough, puffing, chest tightness van have more than one type of asthma attacks. Is asthma is left untreated it is said to extremely harm for children. It has been observed that children having untreated asthma generally have less stamina than other ...
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CARE STUDY
Care Study
Care Study
Introduction
Dementia is a global mental impairment affecting all psychic abilities and gradually altering the emotion and the voluntary activity of the patient, his social behaviour. It is characterized by a progressive evolution of this deficit forever, dementia is usually due to organic brain damage, more or less ...
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LEARNING TEAM TOOLS
Learning Team Tools
Learning Team Tools
Nursing teams can use the Safer Nursing Care Tool to work out safe staffing on hospital wards by putting in information about patients' conditions. They can also match staffing levels with nursing performance in areas such as pressure sores, nutrition and ...
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UNIVERSITY SELECTION ESSAY
University Selection Essay
University Selection Essay
How to serve humanity? How human body works? These are the two questions that increase curiosity in me to find the answers. I have found the answer of one question which is by choosing a nursing as a profession. I can better serve ...
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DECISION MAKING PROCESS
Decision Making Process in Care Delivery
Decision Making Process in Care Delivery
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Decision making is a collaboration between the patient and health care provider that engages the patient in the treatment decision making process. The practice is commonly used in preference-sensitive care conditions where there are various treatment ...
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THOUGHTS AND VALUES
My Thoughts about My Values
My Thoughts about My Values
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Ethics and values are something that must be followed to create a stable society. This is something I have learnt from this course. Because, it is the ethics and values that make a man a man. I belong ...