Many people suffer from chronic pain. In these patients, the most common ‘wish’ is to be pain free. Even though modern Medicine has advanced at an unprecedented rate over the past century, approaches to chronic pain management is still not completely satisfactory. I have recently seen a patient who has been living with neuropathic pain…
Prevention Strategies for the Development of Pressure Ulcers
This assignment will examine the process and methods used when gathering empirical evidence, for a chosen based care issue, using different search strategies and medical databases. An appraisal and discussion of the chosen evidence will also be made, identifying how the evidence was gathered and its relevance to the chosen based care issue. The process…
Communication in Care Settings
The Croft Nursery school is a chain of day-care centres throughout the Newcastle-under-Lyme area, it takes children from 0-4 years before preschool and has close links with the local hospital with kids need specialised attention for disabilities and medical conditions. Communication is very important in this care setting both between staff and children and there…
Application of the Biopsychosocial Model to Healthcare
Healthcare providers have been tasked with an important responsibility of providing high quality of care to the patients that we serve. What does this responsibility call for? A correct diagnosis? Appropriate medication prescription? Following pre-made care plans for patients presenting with certain signs and symptoms? As future advanced practice clinicians it is not only our…
Example Reflective Essay using Rolfe Reflective Model
This reflective essay will adopt Rolfe’s model of reflection , (Rolfe, G et al. 2001) which was derived from Borton’s developmental model. (Boyd E et al. 1983) The scenario is presented as Appendix 1 and the patient has been anonymised as ‘Lee’ in accordance with the NMC guidelines (NMC 2008) What? When analysed in overview,…
Controlling Obesity in Canada
Public Health Policy: Controlling Obesity in Canada The World Health Organisation defined health in its constitution as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” (WHO, 1946) The health of an individual is affected by multiple factors like personal hygiene, access to health care, socio-economics,…
Reducing Childhood Obesity: Health Promotion or CBT
NuRS21010 Understanding Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Concept Terms Boolean Operator Hits Population: Childhood Childhood, young people, children, child, youth. (Childhood obesity or young people or children or child or your ) and health promotion or cognitive behavioural therapy 38 Intervention: health promotion Health, promotion, (Childhood obesity or young people or children or child or your )…
Application Of Theory In Pediatric Epilepsy Nursing Essay
Theories of nursing can be directly applied to nursing practice. Middle range theories are especially important in caring for patients. Recognizing that the theory of chronic sorrow is applicable to pediatric epilepsy patients is essential to the care of the child as well as their family. The theory of chronic sorrow is related to periodic…
Therapeutic Recreation Models
Therapeutic Recreation seeks to promote the capacity and ability of groups and individuals to make self determined and responsible choices, in light of their needs to grow, to explore new perspectives and possibilities, and to realise their full potential. Within this assignment I am going to critically compare and evaluate the use of the following…
The Proper Technique of Administration IV therapy
Do you know what is the important of water? Adult body weight needs about 55%-65% of water. However, it is differ from adult body where about 95% of water needed in their body while an elderly or obese person, they need around 40% of water in their body. If person lost a lot of water…