...that they have it. In this essay I will discuss the cause, symptoms, complication and treatment in which hypertension and diabetes are alike and how they differ. I will start by saying hypertension and diabetes can be compared and contrasted according to their causes. There are two types of hypertension: primary hypertension and secondary hypertension. Primary hypertension is high blood pressure for which no cause can be found, but secondary hypertension has definite causes (Segen, 1992). The heart pumps blood through the body’s arteries to all parts of the body. At the time when the blood vessel become narrow, the flow of blood trough them will be harder, so the blood will exert the wall vessels and increase the pressure in them. Diabetes is similarly is that it also has two types. Type 1 diabetes is one type that occurs because of the failure of making the hormone called insulin by the pancreas. The other type is type 2 diabetes that is due to failure of using insulin by the body; in other words, diabetes occurs when the body cannot produce or use insulin. There are environmental and genetic factors that play a role in causing hypertension and diabetes. First, environmental factors are obesity, smoking, and lack of exercise. All of these factors affect the body and its function and lead to elevation of the blood pressure and affect the production of hormones. When you become obese, you will have more fat tissue in the body. The heart pumps...
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...Running head: Adult Patient Education Issues Essay and Interview Adult Patient Education Issues Essay and Intervie June 29, 2012 There are many issues that arise when teaching older patients. These barriers may consist of barriers such as chronic illness, sensory changes, cognitive changes, and medications. A patient’s life experiences may also affect patient education. It is up to the educator to make adjustments to best fit each individual’s needs and provide the best outcome possible. I conducted an interview with Mrs. L., a 89 year-old homemaker, and her daughter, Ms. L, a 63-year old mortgage broker. Mrs. L. was being admitted for congestive heart failure after her daughter noticed a marked increase in weight gain over a period of one week. Mrs. L’s BNP was 863 and neither the patient nor the mother understood the significance of this level; moreover, they did not understand the nature of the blood test or what it represented. They were told in the emergency room that the BNP was 863 and “your mother is going to be admitted to the telemetry unit.” Mrs. L.’s hemoglobin was 7.2 and both women understood the meaning of hemoglobin level as the patient suffers from chronic anemia. Not being satisfied with the information they received in the emergency room and the lack of the physician to address the issue and potential complications, the daughter opted to wait until mom was situated on the telemetry unit. At this time she stated, “the teaching began.” The...
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...The aim of this essay is to explore an acute deterioration in the health of an adult I have encountered during a clinical placement, in an acute care setting. The essay will begin with a definition of acute care, followed by the introduction of my patient and predisposing factors. This essay will include an explanation of the significant pathophysiological changes and related clinical manifestations and a critical analysis of the nursing interventions implemented during the acute episode of care, focusing on holistic care, rationale and evidence base. It will then describe the actual deterioration in the patient’s condition, and discuss the nurse’s role in the recognition and assessment of the actual deteriorating condition following the trusts policies. Assessment tools, monitoring, detecting and reporting will be considered. Finally this essay will include a discussion of the importance of multidisciplinary team collaboration in the diagnosis and provision of care during the acute episode, and a discussion on whether the deterioration could have been prevented by identifying any areas of practice which could change in relation to evidence based practice. For the purposes of privacy and confidentiality, in accordance with NMC (2008) code of conduct, the name of the patient will be changed to Peter and the placement area will remain as an acute care setting. According to McFerran (2008) the term “acute” is described as a disease of rapid onset, severe symptoms, and brief duration...
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...English Medical Essay Name: Lisset Alcozer Course: 8th Semester Metabolic Syndrome in young adult people can reduce Life expectation The definition of metabolic syndrome is quite tricky, because it represents a condition where several diseases converge. The problem comes when this condition gets chronic, and slowly damages in an irreversible way our body, causing an early death in relatively young patients. The main diseases that will decrease life expectation present in the metabolic syndrome are: diabetes, obesity and arterial hypertension. The mechanism in which diabetes will decrease life expectation according to Texas Heart Institute is because hyperglycemia or, high levels of glucose on the blood, can be toxic to several organs, like blood vessels and heart. This alteration share a same physiopathology, glucose causes a direct damage on the endothelium, causing the LDL-Cholesterol to accumulate in the muscular layer of the arteries, eventually obstructing the arteries lumen and causing ischemia, which can be avoided by collateral circulation in certain parts of the body, but if this affects the coronary arteries the heart will suffer from an ischemic heart disease, that if its massive enough will end the life of the patient. (Institute, Texas Heart, 2015) Obesity can decrease a patient’s life expectation in a similar way as the one described earlier. Studies developed by the American Heart association...
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...English essay An article written by Emma Rebellato presents the idea that children see too many junk food advertisements. Advertisements play a major role in the promotion of unhealthy foods and children are victims of these advertisements. It is the health department’s responsibility to create limitations for the advertisers and help parents keep their children’s health under control. This essay will look at the manipulation of children by the advertisers, health implications and the role of parents in this issue. In this paragraph, I will attempt to demonstrate the manipulation of the media on young children. I will do this by addressing research by the Responsible Children’s Marketing Initiative compliance report. The Australian Food and Grocery Council say that they did not knowingly target children. However an independent report by the Responsible Children’s Marketing Initiative compliance report show that they acknowledge their products did not satisfy healthy standards. An audit showed that there was in fact adverts that were unhealthy and aimed at children. Further complaints were filed against advertisers who were caught advertising unhealthy. Therefore I think that children are being sucked into these advertisements by the way that advertisers make the food look appealing and very appetising. In this paragraph, I will show that unhealthy advertisements are dangerous and I can prove that because I have two examples. During the peak children’s television LCM’s...
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...Holistic Account of Care for a Patient or Client with Complex Needs What are complex needs? Who has them? It could be argued that everyone's needs are complex and as such, complex needs have been difficult to define (Rosengard et al., 2007). This essay intends to use literature to outline a systematic and holistic approach to care of a patient's complex needs. The nursing process and its framework of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation will be utilised to provide a patient centred approach (Castledine, 2011). Rankin and Regan (2004) described complex needs as being a framework rather than a label that determines service eligibility. The needs of people include breadth (range of need) and depth (severity); these factors have to be taken into account when providing holistic care. Holistic care is defined as an approach which takes into consideration the physical, mental and social factors in an illness, rather than just the disease itself (Martin, 2010). The person this essay will centre around gave informed consent to have their notes consulted with the intention to write this essay, in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) The Code (2008). There are seven elements to informed consent; competence to decide, voluntariness to decide, disclosure of information, recommendation of a plan, understanding of the disclosure and recommendation, decision of the plan and authorising of the plan (Beauchamp & Childress, 1994 pp. 145-146). In line with the...
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...Adam Ramirez Professor Kane English 1301 11 April 2016 Definition Essay By definition failure means a lack of success or the omission of expected. Some come across a difficult situation whether that be an arithmetic or life problem where they feel as they can not meet that expectation or figure out the answer. This feeling of this lack of accomplishment called failure. The most successful people of our age, have experienced this feeling inside of them, now they look back and are thankful that they had an opportunity to go through that failure. If Bill Gates the creator of Microsoft had given up after one failure he wouldn't be as successful as he is now, but if he felt that he had been defeated internally who knows where he would have been. Defeat is a feeling that only you as a person can make yourself feel, not like losing a game of football but that uttermost disgusted feeling within yourself saying to your self you can not go on any more. Someone can make you feel as of you failed them in not meeting a certain expectation but, once that simmers inside of your head long enough you end up feeling defeated in your own mind. The difference between defeat and failure is simple, failure is only a temporary feeling that you can get over pretty quickly by doing something that will make you happy. Defeat within a person means that they have given up not only on what they tried to achieve but in them selves. When someone is in that state it is hard to get them out of that...
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...Things Fall Apart Essay You will organize and write an essay that conveys your understanding of one of the themes present in Things Fall Apart. You can create your own topic or choose from the list below to help you get started. Take into account our various class discussions and your Writing Seeds in order to go beyond the obvious and to the heart of authentic reflection. A strong essay has clear and fluid sentences, cohesive organization, and an insightful purpose. A completed essay will have all of the following elements: • A clear, thoughtful, and well-organized thesis (using subordinate clause) that ties to the novel and serves as a foundation for the entire essay • Well-structured topic sentences (with subordinate clause) that relate to the thesis and provide a focus for each body paragraph • Seamlessly integrated quotes from the novel to support your thesis and TSs (five total, at least two per body paragraph) • Thoughtful analysis that sheds light on the topic sentences and goes beyond a surface understanding of your chosen theme. • An introductory paragraph to set up your argument and chart your course • A concluding paragraph to wrap-up your points and express the relevance of your topic outside of an academic setting (how is this significant in the real world? why should someone outside of class care?) • Formatted through MLA guidelines and submitted on time to turnitin.com 1. How does the father-son relationship...
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...Congestive Heart Failure Introduction Everyone loses pumping ability in their heart as they age. The serious case of heart failure develops when other health conditions cause the heart to work harder or become damaged due to increased stress. Heart failure is usually a chronic disease. It gradually tends to become worse. By the time someone is diagnosed with it, the heart has most likely begun to lose pumping capacity for quits some time. Nearly five million Americans are living with heart failure and 550,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. This paper will discuss what heart failure is, and what nursing interventions may be of help to patients who suffer from this disease. My grandmother was recently diagnosed with congestive heart failure. By interviewing her and performing a brief assessment, I hope to recognize a few nursing diagnoses and some interventions that may make her disease more bearable. Heart failure can involve the right side of the heart, the left side, or both. Heart failure usually affects the left side first. Each side of the heart is made up of two chambers the atrium and the ventricle. If either of these chambers loses their ability to keep up with the amount of blood flow then heart failure occurs. Custom writing service can write essays on Congestive Heart Failure Left - sided failure involves the left (lower) ventricle. The left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. This chamber is the largest and is...
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...Ferdinand Hartwig is an 85 year old male diagnosed with advanced congestive heart failure. Having migrated from Austria to Australia, and now living alone due to the unfortunate death of his wife and daughter 30 years ago, Ferdinand feels quite isolated and alone. Ferdinand’s medical conditions have limited his lifestyle in various ways over the years such as isolation from friends, the closure of his business and consequent financial struggle, interruptions in his dietary and lifestyle choices and immobilization by his bilateral leg swelling and heart failure, which would also cause him tremendous pain. Ferdinand’s bilateral leg swelling has led to decreased mobility and ADLs (activities of daily living), increased blood pressure and he currently takes frusemide to treat the oedema and swelling. His Advanced congestive cardiac failure leads to decreased mobility, hypertension and he currently takes metaprolol to treat angina and hypertension. Furthermore, Ferdinand’s lifestyle has been disrupted by his ill health, as he no longer does his own shopping and is bought unhealthy food by his friend Will. This change will undoubtedly lead to malnutrition which will worsen his leg ulcer, as healing is decreased which continues to jeopardise his ADL’s as his mobility will be inhibited. He is supplemented Slow K1 and a multivitamin to prevent and treat malnutrition. On a social level, Ferdinand has many aspects in his life which make it difficult to interact in society. He is a widower...
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...Unworthy Blink. Blink. Blink, goes the flashing cursor while being in such state after three hours. This usually occurs when a certain idea upon a topic is not very planned well before writing about it, which unfortunately has been dealt and fought upon every time I have encountered myself with an essay. I have been taught several forms on how to begin an essay appropriately, although it is still a very intimidating task in my perspective. It’s starting right and sustaining strengthen until the end. That’s a fear and whether if it will later make sense since much thought is supposed to be expressed with high vocabulary terms and powerful points throughout the whole paper. In any academic case scenario the fear is relatable. Not much fear is...
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... Otis Boykin By Summer Owens Black history mouth is a time to remember those who have made an impact on others. There are famous poet, inventors, civil rights leaders, and athletes that are celebrated. In my essay I am celebrating the achievements of Otis Boykin. As a inventor, he single handedly changed the world. He truly is a creative inventor that change the further to olden and to new. Otis F. Boykin was born on August 29, 1920, in Dallas, Texas. His mother was a housewife and his father was a carpenter. Boykin graduated from high school, and then he attended Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1938. After he graduated from college in 1941, Boykin got a job as a laboratory assistant at the Majestic Radio & TV Corporation in Chicago. Otis Boykin did well at his job of testing automatic aircraft controls, and he soon made it to the rank of supervisor. In 1944, Boykin left Majestic and he went to work at the P.J. Nilsen Research Labs in Illinois. He was a research engineer there. Finally, he left the Research Labs and tried out on his own and founded his own company. He named it "Boykin-Fruth Incorporated." Boykin also continued his education at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Working at his company and going to school was difficult, but Boykin managed to handle his busy schedule. Unfortunately, after two years, he couldn't afford to attend college anymore, so he was forced to drop out before his studies were finished. Not being able to finish...
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...REFLECTION ESSAY: Doug Strickland Reflection Essay: Doug Strickland Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Com/156 Sherri J. Johnson Robyn McMaster 2 RELECTION ESSAY: Doug Strickland Table of Contents Introduction and Thesis…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Influences…………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 Business Education………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Culinary Education………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Work History………………………………………………………………………………………………5 Avoiding Failure…….…………………………………………………………………………………….6 Winning At Success ……………………………………………………………………………………..7 Groups and Associations………………………………………………………………………………….7 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………….7 References………………………………………………………………………………………………….8 3 REFLECTION ESSAY: Doug Strickland Reflection Essay: Doug Strickland Doug Strickland is an importer and broker of Integrity Wines which specialize in fine natural wines. He has been affiliated with the Restaurant and Winery business for over 25 years. Strickland is an all-around entrepreneur in the culinary division of fine foods and wines. His love for food and wine started when he was a teenage and carried on into his college life. Strickland put his dreams of becoming an entrepreneur on the backburner to hold other titles and positions right after college. After holding many other job titles he was determined to turn his million dollar ideas into a reality with the support...
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...With my head down, I had just walked back to my desk, ready to accept failure. Being one of the last ones to finish the assignments, I had thought for sure I wouldn’t have gotten a good grade on it. As the teacher was reading through the essays, she called me up to her desk. She hadn’t called up anyone else. At that moment I felt my heart sink. Was I in trouble? Did I do that bad that she had to stop mid-reading to tell me? What did this mean? But what she said next would be the best confidence booster I had ever had in class, and would stick with me forever.. It was my Junior year in high school, I had been submerged in homework and assignments like I was swimming in the ocean; up to my neck. I never considered myself an “amazing” writer.. There was a day where I had to do both and it was really important for a class I was taking. Mrs. Bridges’ class was one of the spoken about class amongst students. That class either made you a better writer/reader, or it gave you more work than you could handle. Of course I was nervous about taking the class, but I knew if I did succeed I would benefit from it. This day just so happened to be one of the biggest assignment days we had planned. Two quizzes and an essay due, in class. I pulled out all...
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...Final Essay Alexander Zelenov ZELAD1403 Dr. Annette Stenning Engl101W – Heart of Darkness & May Day July 10, 2015 Comparisons and Contrasts between Heart of Darkness and May Day Heart of Darkness and May Day are stories, that showing to reader dark and light side of human being. Both stories have different themes, plots, Characters, endings, but one thing make connection between these stories – Dark and Light. Both stories have very deep and touchable themes that we faced every day. Joseph Conrad and F. Scott Fitzgerald are the best authors, who showed the light and dark in their stories through characters and actions… First of all, I would like to start from Light side of Heart of Darkness. Love is representing the good side of the story. Reader may observe this positive thing about Marlow’s “evil” mentor – Kurtz. The relationship between him and his fiancée is showing to readers that he is not “animal” and “rough dictator”. “ Thus I was left at last with a slim packet of letters and the girl’s portrait. She struck me as beautiful – I mean she had a beautiful expression. I know that the sunlight can be made to lie too, yet one felt no manipulation of light and pose could have conveyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features.”(84) As my point of understanding Kurtz present to readers as the guy, who is pathetic and obsessed by his fiancée. It’s shows why he doing these “things”. It’s question about money and happiness after hard working. Unfortunately...
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