...after having knee replacement surgery. During that time you will recover from your anesthesia and the surgery itself. Right after surgery you will spend 1-2 hours in a recovery room (PACU) before going into your room. You will likely wake up very tired and groggy. You will have a large dressing (bandage) over your incision and part of your leg. A small drainage tube may be in place during surgery to help drain fluids that collect in your knee joint after surgery. After being taken back to your room you will continue receiving fluids through your IV (a catheter or tube that is inserted into your vein to give the medical staff access for medications and fluids) until you are able to drink fluids on your own. You will slowly resume a normal diet. After knee replacement, some surgeons recommend using a continuous passive motion machine (CPM) while you are in bed. The CPM bends your knee for you. Over time, the rate and amount of bending will increase. If you are using this machine, always keep your leg in the CPM when you are in bed. It may help speed your recovery and reduce pain and bleeding. Physical therapists will teach you proper positions for your legs and knees. Make sure you follow these instructions, as bad positions can cause injury to your new knee joint. Your nurse will show you how to prevent blood clots and pneumonia by using these methods: 1. You may wear special compression stockings on your legs. These stockings improve...
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...catches up and steals the ball away from me. Surprised, I tried to steal it from her but failed as I heard the ball hit the net hard. This went on for a few hours, we kept bickering over whether or not fouls were made. “That one didn’t count!,” my sister exclaimed,”I didn’t make you trip on purpose!” We took a quick break in which my mother came out from the house and onto the porch to see what we were up to. ” Be careful you guys, don’t hurt yourselves.” My mother warned us as we returned to the backyard to resume. My mother was always warning us to be careful because she knew that accidents could arise from playing such sport. She knew that there could be injuries that could lead to never walking again. Although she was cautious, she let us play because she just wanted us to have fun. “Don’t worry mom we’re not going to hurt ourselves. Besides, why would we do anything that will jeopardize our well being?” I questioned. I was never really skilled at playing soccer. I was a bit clumsy when it came to stealing the ball. I knew it wasn’t going to be long before Dalia leaves me in her dust. Yet, I acted like I knew what I was doing, I couldn’t show any sign of hesitation as it could be used against me. Dalia and I were in our final round to see who was the champion, I already knew I was done for. The score was 15 to nine. I started the game, I saw Dalia race towards me like a horse. I started to feel a sense of uneasiness as she closed in on me. She was trying to steal the...
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...Emergencies An emergency situation occurs when a person suddenly becomes ill or is injured and requires an immediate medical response. Emergencies can happen at any time. For example, imagine two friends at an amusement park, talking and laughing while waiting in line to ride a rollercoaster. One friend tells the other that she does not feel well. She looks pale. Suddenly, she falls to the ground. If her friend knows what to do, she may be able to prevent further harm to her friend, or even save her life. First Aid In many cases, emergency care may require some form of first aid. In a best-case scenario, emergency care is performed by an emergency care professional. However, in some cases, emergency care procedures are required before a professional can arrive on the scene. For this reason, it is important that the general population and, more importantly, all health care workers know how to perform emergency care. Agencies such as the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association train people to perform these life-saving procedures. Top of Form Question # 1 An emergency situation occurs when a person suddenly becomes ill or is injured and requires an immediate medical response. • [pic]True • [pic]False [pic] Correct Answer. Bottom of Form Top of Form [pic][pic] [pic][pic][pic] Question # 2 In a best-case scenario, emergency care is performed by whom? • [pic]An emergency care professional • [pic]The general population • [pic]A...
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...Attitude, Legislation, Litigation Mandi Leon SPE: 226 Ashley Barkel 10/28/2013 Over the years there have been people who are scared of those who have disabilities, with these scares many people who had disabilities were looked upon as if they were monsters. Since people were scared of people with disabilities, the 1650 Connecticut code was implemented which would mean that the developmentally delayed were not allowed to wed and horrible things were done to them up to and including sterilization. As a society we have come a long way from that. Now there are laws that protect these individuals from such horrifying things, some of the legislations are called the ADA (American with Disabilities Act), IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), and IEP (Individualized Education Program). Currently with all of these available resources our exceptional students have an advantage more now than they ever have. The expectations of teachers to be able to teach these students the skills that are necessary to survive in this modern world are being threatened by the current government issues, putting our special educational needs in danger. Now with all this knowledge and, when people encounter other individuals with disabilities they are no longer scared of them. There is more understanding and compassion for them. Our disabled children now have a voice where they did not before. Many years ago our special children that were in need of more than just...
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...employment opportunities; cultural; physical access; attitudinal; communication; financial and lack of choice. Physical access One of the main barriers affecting their lives is physical access. Physical access means little to no entrance to areas for those who lack mobility or have difficulty with their sensory, for example someone who is in a wheel chair or someone who is blind will receive a hard time accessing a building by their self. Using a wheel chair has many physical access barriers. As most of the people in society do not need wheel chairs, majority of the buildings designed around us have many steps to ensure a physical exercise for them. However this is obviously not the case for people with wheel chairs, as they are unable to go up the stairs. In addition to this, opening doors by themselves will also be a challenge as wheel chairs will make it difficult to move out of the way when they open the door. This could be the door which they use to access their own house, toilets, shops, rooms etc. People using wheel chairs are still able to drive, but again, driving becomes another task when they are unable to enter the car itself without being reliant on someone. At this point, a bus may be their only resort, but even a bus denies physical access to them due to the small gap between the kerb and the bus and in trains there are limited amount spaces for wheelchair users. Travelling is indeed a test for them as they are surrounded by many environmental barriers which deny...
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...ability to focus (Native Remedies). ADD can also cause mood swings and other social problems. Children with ADD should receive treatment in the form of counseling and the appropriate medication so the child can have a more ‘normal’ and happy childhood. Usually, ADD symptoms will appear over the course of many months rather than all at once. If the appearance of these symptoms is not managed correctly, it can lead to low self-esteem and other behavioral problems in the years to come. Deciding on what ADD/ADHD medication is best fit for the child can be difficult, but doing your homework helps. The first thing to understand is exactly what the medications for ADD and ADHD can and cannot do. ADD medication may help improve the child’s ability to concentrate, control impulses, plan ahead, and follow through with tasks. However, ADD medication is not a magic pill that will fix all of you or your child’s problems. Even when the medication is working, a child with ADD might still struggle with forgetfulness, emotional problems, and social awkwardness, or with an adult they might struggle with disorganization, distractibility,...
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...Education that is significant to life nurtures integrated human beings and not success seeking ones. My intention in writing this paper is not to accomplish another academic goal. I write with feeling for you and me and the world around us. I feel deeply about us changing who we are and the world we live in. I believe in the power of transformation that we can bring about in ourselves as humanity. Our transformation begins with honest self-knowledge. You and I need to get to know our selves. You and I are not separate. We are one. We can understand each other if we start by simply accepting and knowing each of individual selves. When we do that, we naturally extend to understand each other and the world around us. We then begin to see our integration and deep connection with all of life. This sense of integration, of being one, leads to all rightly compassionate action. Compassionate action ends the chaos, confusion and violence we live with today. You and I as adults, have to do this hard work on our own. However, that does not need to be the case for our children. I believe that there is a kind of education that can nurture self-aware, integrated beings. This kind of education is significant to life and deeply connected with natural living. It is in contrast with mainstream education that is disconnected from real living. In this paper, I claim that our current mainstream education approach is aimed at bringing about success but that success is not the fulfilling end result...
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...Social Impact Report Document Author: John Doe Submission Date: 9/04/2013 Executive Summary: Cyborgs, seen in the ‘sci-fi world’ as humans with robotic parts on the outside of the body, have become a topic of great interest in the real world. Short for "cybernetic organism", the actual definition of a cyborg is a being whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device, regardless of whether this device is within the body or an external component. A shorter, easier to remember definition is “a being who is made up of both biological and cybernetic parts. After a thorough analysis of Cybernetics, it was found that: * Cybernetics will continue to be used to increase human efficiency * Cyborg technology will get cheaper and more common as more technologies are discovered * Humans rely on technology to such an extent that they could not live without it * There will always be people who dispute Cyborg use, but that won’t stop them from being used Contents Executive Summary: 2 Introduction: 4 Part 1: A Critical argument of the use of Cyborgs in society 5 Part 2: An evaluation of the potential social impact of current and emerging technologies in my area 7 Part 3: A description of the role of technology from a personal perspective and a future scenario where this technology is evident 8 Conclusion: 10 Reference List: 11 Appendix: 12 Introduction: The purpose of this report is to critically...
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...I grew up in a small close knit farm town, know as Marcellus, New York. There is really nothing too special about it, it was a one horse town with the closest supermarket being 15 minutes away. Did I mention that my backyard was a corn field? Well, it was and being from a small town I definitely learned a lot through my education and community involvement. I lived in Marcellus my whole life and attended school there from kindergarten through my senior year. The school was small, everyone knew everybody, and you basically stayed friends with the same people from kindergarten. All the way through school I struggled academically, mathematics and science just wasn’t my thing. I tried to get involved in reading and writing but I found that I really wasn’t good at those either. I had math support, AIS writing, AIS social studies, tutors, and almost every other possible service in the book that I could have without being given an IEP or 504 plan. I used to think to myself how am I going to make it in college and be a good teacher if I am struggling just to make it in high school. What I found was that it wasn’t that I didn’t know the material, I lacked the confidence in myself to know that not everything had to be perfect. Growing up I went through a lot, I wasn’t mature enough to realize and understand what was going on until I was in high school, and by that time it was just a matter of hiding it because I didn’t want people to know what was going on and the cards that I had been...
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...I have been through many events that have led me to the young lady I am today. Nobody is perfect; therefore, while there have been good events, there have also been bad. Whether it was a lesson learned or something dramatic that changed my outlook on life, they have all changed me in some way or another. Significant events such as my parents getting divorced, losing loved ones, and graduating from high school and continuing with my future have made me a stronger individual. It started when I was a young child of my parents getting a divorce. Many kids like me had experienced this. There were thoughts of whom I was going to live with, how it was going to work, and even the thought of having step-parents and siblings. I was so confused and couldn’t quite understand why it was happening and what I was to expect. Although I loved my mom, I was very much a daddy’s girl. When asked whom I would like to live with, it was obvious I chose my dad. There was no arguing or fighting involved, which helped out a lot during the time of this happening. My dad got joint custody of my sister and me and made it to where my mom got us every other weekend. It was definitely a big change, but after awhile it all worked out. After all, who wouldn’t love having two celebrations for each holiday and birthday? It had its ups and downs. I learned that if you got in trouble with dad, run to mom’s house! It was a change, but as I grew older I began to understand why they divorced. My dad got remarried...
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...For Nora and I, a serious experience was what changed our ways. It is just like speeding down the highway every morning to work, you will not stop speeding until someone stops you and gives you a ticket. It takes that serious experience for you to wake up and stop your bad habits right in their tracks. Safety and following the rules were something Nora and I did not know much about but after our experience at Black Lake, my sister and I learned the importance of following the rules and staying safe. You can never be too careful because anything could happen, even if your taking the appropriate precautions, and it does not help when you do not listen or take safety seriously at all, as Nora and I quickly...
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...safety tip. Put a BIG decal on the glass and patio doors. 6. Keep nails from splitting wood. Blunt sharp end of nail before you use by hitting with hammer. 7. Repair small holes in screen. Plug holes with clear nail polish, let dry, repeat until filled. 8. Straighten warped phono records. Place record between two sheets of glass, let sit in sun for a while. 9. Best way to clean phono records. Dip in solution of detergent and water, rinse and wipe dry. 10. Make your own fireplace logs. Roll newspapers up tightly in shape of logs. 11. How to remove oil from a driveway. Cover with sand let stand for a few days, then sweep off. 12. Keep fish hooks from rusting. Stick them in a cork and submerge in some baking soda. 13. Make sandpaper last longer. Back sandpaper with masking tape. 14. How to revive old razor blades. Rub them back and forth inside a drinking glass. 15. Remove road tar from cars. Sodium bicarbonate on a damp cloth. 16. Remove labels from bottles and jars. 17. Cut glass without a glass cutter. Use tin snips and cut under water, smooth rough edges off with knife blade. 18. Easy to unglue stamps and envelopes. Put in freezer for a few hours then flip off with knife blade. 19. Get water out of your watch. Strap watch to light bulb, turn on for a few minutes. Water drops will form on glass....
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...school” (97). Through her actions, Jeannette’s mom proves that she is - and can be - artistic because she devotes most of her time and as much money as she can to art and painting and sketching and drawing when she can. Although she didn’t sell any of her artwork, she believed - and in a way Jeannette and her older sister, Lori, believed - she was an artist. Next, Jeannette’s mom encouraged learning by experience, instead of discipline. Jeannette’s mom even said herself that “people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you’re young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encourages them… That’s positive reinforcement for negative behavior” (28). Later, Jeannette recalled how when she had fallen down and cut a giant gash in her leg, her friend’s mother said she should go to the hospital; however, Jeanette’s mom said that she was fine and, after fixing it up a little bit, she sent back out to play. Through her comments and how she reacted to her children, she shows that she would rather have her children, and all children for that matter, to for themselves what was right and what was wrong by encountering these things on their on. This leads right into the next aspect of her personality: the fact that she believed that children should be independant from an early age. This aspect of her personality showed in her children. By age three, Jeannette was able...
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...DO NOT delegate what you can EAT! E - evaluate A - assess T - teach addisons= down, down down up down cushings= up up up down up addisons= hyponatremia, hypotension, decreased blood vol, hyperkalemia, hypoglycemia cushings= hypernatremia, hypertension, incrased blood vol, hypokalemia, hyperglycemia No Pee, no K (do not give potassium without adequate urine output) EleVate Veins; dAngle Arteries for better perfusion A= appearance (color all pink, pink and blue, blue [pale]) P= pulse (>100, < 100, absent) G= grimace (cough, grimace, no response) A= activity (flexed, flaccid, limp) R= respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent) TRANSMISSION-BASED PRECAUTIONS: AIRBORNE My - Measles Chicken - Chicken Pox/Varicella Hez - Herpez Zoster/Shingles TB or remember... MTV=Airborne Measles TB Varicella-Chicken Pox/Herpes Zoster-Shingles Private Room - negative pressure with 6-12 air exchanges/hr Mask, N95 for TB DROPLET think of SPIDERMAN! S - sepsis S - scarlet fever S - streptococcal pharyngitis P - parvovirus B19 P - pneumonia P - pertussis I - influenza D - diptheria (pharyngeal) E - epiglottitis R - rubella M - mumps M - meningitis M - mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia An - Adenovirus Private Room or cohort Mask 1 CONTACT PRECAUTION MRS.WEE M - multidrug resistant organism R - respiratory infection S - skin infections * W - wound infxn E - enteric infxn - clostridium difficile E - eye infxn - conjunctivitis SKIN INFECTIONS VCHIPS ...
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...DO NOT delegate what you can EAT! E - evaluate A - assess T - teach addisons= down, down down up down cushings= up up up down up addisons= hyponatremia, hypotension, decreased blood vol, hyperkalemia, hypoglycemia cushings= hypernatremia, hypertension, incrased blood vol, hypokalemia, hyperglycemia No Pee, no K (do not give potassium without adequate urine output) EleVate Veins; dAngle Arteries for better perfusion A= appearance (color all pink, pink and blue, blue [pale]) P= pulse (>100, < 100, absent) G= grimace (cough, grimace, no response) A= activity (flexed, flaccid, limp) R= respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent) TRANSMISSION-BASED PRECAUTIONS: AIRBORNE My - Measles Chicken - Chicken Pox/Varicella Hez - Herpez Zoster/Shingles TB or remember... MTV=Airborne Measles TB Varicella-Chicken Pox/Herpes Zoster-Shingles Private Room - negative pressure with 6-12 air exchanges/hr Mask, N95 for TB DROPLET think of SPIDERMAN! S - sepsis S - scarlet fever S - streptococcal pharyngitis P - parvovirus B19 P - pneumonia P - pertussis I - influenza D - diptheria (pharyngeal) E - epiglottitis R - rubella M - mumps M - meningitis M - mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia An - Adenovirus Private Room or cohort Mask 1 CONTACT PRECAUTION MRS.WEE M - multidrug resistant organism R - respiratory infection S - skin infections * W - wound infxn E - enteric infxn - clostridium difficile E - eye infxn - conjunctivitis SKIN INFECTIONS VCHIPS V - varicella zoster C - cutaneous diphtheria H -...
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