An Analysis of Health and Wellbeing in a Rapidly Urbanising Environment : The Urban Hanoi Abbreviations COPD – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease LMIC – Low-middle-income Country NCDs – Non-communicable Diseases O 3 – Ground-level Ozone TB – Tuberculosis WHO – World Health Organization Urbanisation and the Global Perspective Cities make up a crucial part of…
The Overuse of Diuretics in the Older Patient
The Overuse of Diuretics in the Older Patient INTRODUCTION Diuretics are used everyday in the hospital and especially in older patients. Many older adults have health issues, like heart failure, that causes their bodies to retain more fluid than it should. This leads to edema, which can have adverse effects on the body. Diuretics are…
Auckland DHB Elderly Care Strategies
Auckland DHB is based to part of Auckland City in which they are serving seven wards Avondale/Roskill, Eastern Bays, Eden- Albert (Balmoral), Hobson, Tamaki- Maungakiekie(Penrose), Western Bays and Hauraki Gulf Islands .It has a population of 475,765 people. Eighty seven percent of the Auckland DHB population live within five wards within the Auckland DHB boundary.The…
Reflective Assessment of Holistic Wellbeing
Introduction Health, like beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder and a single definition cannot capture its complexity. To this end, this essay aims to explore what health means to me and how it has been influenced by the experience of coping with my mother’s chronic illness. To me, health transcends the absence of…
Examining the challenges of Clinical Leadership
A health care setting institution with advanced health technology and high calibers doesn’t mean quality nursing care can be offered, unless accompanying with effective clinical leadership. This essay has a strong focus on all aspects of clinical leadership. A case will be used to find out how should effective leadership skill be. Both internal and…
Nutrition and Genetics in Colorectal Cancer
BACKGROUND Historically colorectal cancer (CRC) is diagnosed very often among men and women in the United States. Many studies have investigated the role of gene-diet interactions in the developing process of colorectal cancer (Kantor and Giovanucci, 2016). It is necessary here to clarify exactly what is meant by saying the word diet. Diet is defined…
Eating Disorder Case Study
‘When normal eating becomes abnormal’ Eating is a crucial activity for humans, as the food we consume acts to provide us with the fuel we need to keep our bodies running, and to live our daily lives. Normal levels of eating can be characterised as consuming just enough calories (of energy) to allow us to…
Hyperbilirubinemia Commonality- Physiology and Diagnosis
Hyperbilirubinemia Scholarly Paper Perinatal: Labour, Delivery and Newborn Care Hyperbilirubinemia or neonatal jaundice is a commonly occurring condition in newborns with varying severities and treatment options depending on the timing of the first onset of symptoms. The condition affects up to 60% of full-term newborns and can vary in severity, with differing symptoms and requires…
Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Risk Factors and Treatments
Abstract Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells or platelets. It is also known as acute myelogenous leukemia, acute myeloblastic leukemia, acute granulocytic leukemia ,and acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. This type of cancer can get worse if it is not treated….
Reflective Assessment on Communicative Nursing
Explain why communication is important in nursing and using a reflective framework, describe how communication skills were used in practice specifically related to the use of the nursing process. In this essay communication will be defined from a general and a clinical point of view in order to point the differences, if this is the…