...Blood cancer has been a growing concern, with the rising numbers of death in children and adults, and a limitation on medication, technology and small of number of oncologist. There are series of education that are required to train and educate a doctor and then specialize in specific department. Basic education is required to further one’s study in the field of medicine from pre-kindergarten through high school. Requirements can vary depending on the country it’s being pursued in. In the United States after graduating form high school four years of pre-requisites on pre-medicine is required. These four years consist of 2 years of basic state mandatory classes and other advance science and health classes depending on the major being pursued....
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...“My Specialty: Pediatric Nursing” The article, “My Specialty: Pediatric Nursing,” by PHN Elizabeth Hanks focuses on pediatric nursing, a field very close to my heart. When my youngest daughter was two years old, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor that caused severe seizures. We spent the next several years in and out of the hospital. The pediatric nurses who cared for her helped my daughter and our family feel as comfortable as they could. I felt that my daughter was well taken care of and without them the situation would have been harder on the entire family. Therefore, I chose an article about pediatric nursing because it is a field of nursing that is very close to my heart and has played a big role in my life and the lives of my family members. Pediatric nursing is a field of nursing that encompasses multiple specializations. The article featured interviews from three pediatric nurses from different sub-fields, including a foster care support nurse, a pediatric oncologist, and a pediatric nurse involved in private practice. The foster care nurse is assigned to a family who is adopting a child, and stays in close contact with the family for the first few months to help them get accustomed to the new child and is called upon when they are in need of medical advice or assistance. Also, Hanks interviewed a pediatric oncologist, which is a nurse who specializes in the study of different cancers among children and their care. The final interview was with a nurse who...
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...possibility in their future? Who is helping the loved ones who survive the sick child move on with their lives and deal with their loss? Pediatric palliative care nurses play a big part in helping sick children and the families of the children who do not make it get through this difficult situation. A team of medical professionals work along with the palliative care team to help the family and the sick child understand what is happening and to decide the best course of action for everyone...
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...“Exclusive Interview with Billy Best.” ii. Personal Narrative II. Body A. Background Information iii. “Carcinogen.” Wikipedia. iv. “Cancer.” Wikipedia. B. Opposing Perspectives v. Schorr, Andrew. "Interview with Amie Blanco: Hereditary Colon Cancer." vi. Joe Chemo. Image. vii. Phillips, Gavin.“Interview with Dr. Burzynski.” C. Thesis + Support viii. Holistic vs. Medical treatment: medical treatment seems to be a better shot at surviving. ix. Kelly. “Adenoma/Glioblastoma multiforme/Anaplastic astrocytoma/Glioma Cured.” x. Cousins, Emily. “Life after Treatment Can Be Almost As Hard as the Chemo.” xi. Messoria, Josie. Personal interview. 15 November 2012. III. Conclusion xii. Personal. Abstract In this essay the author discusses cancer, what causes cancer, holistic vs. medical treatments. The first part of the essay the author presents a piece of an interview conducted with a young cancer patient who was going against the grain and refusing treatment. The essay then goes into a personal narrative on how the author feels about cancer then from there goes into a great descriptive paragraph about cancer and carcinogens. Her thesis is clearly surrounding the argument whether or not holistic or medical treatments such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are ideal in treating/curing cancer. She explains that there are some cancer patients who...
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...Fathers’ Perspectives on the Emotional Impact of Managing the Care of Their Children With Cystic Fibrosis Claire C. Hayes, MSc, BSc, RCN, RM, RGN Eileen Savage, PhD, MEd, BNS, RCN, RGN In this article, fathers' perspectives on the emotional impact of managing the care of their children with cystic fibrosis (CF) are examined. The constant worry of living with the unpredictability of CF was highlighted in this study, drawing on interviews with eight Irish fathers, who experienced difficulties communicating their concerns to others. Despite efforts at not dwelling on CF, fathers described being surrounded by constant reminders. To minimize the emotional impact of managing their children's care, fathers described living from day to day rather than looking into the future. These findings demonstrate the need for supportive interventions in helping fathers manage the emotional demands of caring for their children with CF. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Key words: Fathers; Children with CF; Emotions; Worries YSTIC FIBROSIS (CF) IS a progressive, lifeshortening, multisystem disease of the exocrine glands, which predominately affects the respiratory tract and the gastrointestinal tract. Increased mucus production in the small airways resulting in progressive lung disease is the primary cause of death (Orenstein, Winnie, & Altman, 2002). Improvements in life expectancy into the third and fourth decades can be attributed to scientific and medical advances in treatment interventions...
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...The Bitter Side of Sugar Sugar has always been an important and influencing factor in our lives, although most of the time we don’t realize it. It is a product that is quite available in many places around the world since it is very affordable, yet is so misused by the majority such as food giants that use it in order to hook consumers, the reason for this is that sugar is cheap, sugar tastes good and sugar sells, so companies have little incentive to change. The overuse of sugar in hyperprocessed food affects the American consumer negatively, causing obesity, cancer, addiction and other diet related diseases. Sugar has become one of the longterm health disasters to consumers. For instance, Robert Lustig, Pediatric Endocrinologist at UC San Francisco, offers his analysis in the Public Health article “The Toxic Truth About Sugar” that for the first time in human history, chronic noncommunicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart diseases pose a greater health burden worldwide than do infectious diseases, resulting in 35 million deaths annually, mainly caused from excessive sugar consumption (10). We consume it and think it will be burned away through any type of physical activity such as working out, not realizing the fact that it leaves back permanent traces in our body that slowly develop over time and lead to serious and lifethreatening diseases. Additionally, a USDA study shows that authorities consider sugar as ‘empty calories’ — but there is nothing empty about these calories...
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...Mrs. Newton English 102 24 April 2007 The Facts of Life One widely spread allegory comes to mind when considering the unrelenting pet overpopulation problem. The tale is the story about a group of friends having a picnic on a riverbank. Suddenly, the group hears the sound of crying and looks up, shocked to see a baby floating helplessly in the river. They immediately dive in to rescue the drowning baby. To their horror, the group notices another baby floating towards them. They rush to save that baby, but no sooner is that baby pulled to safety; they see another baby floating. By this time a vicious cycle has started and soon the river is full of drowning babies. Again and again, the group dives into the river, trying to save the seemingly endless flow of drowning babies. One of the people gets out of the river and begins running upstream. A friend shouts “Where are you going?” “I’m going to find out who is throwing the babies into the river and make them stop!” the heroic man yells back, as he runs upstream. The homeless animal problem is very similar to this fable. Animal shelters and rescue groups try hard to save the homeless animals in the “river”. However, this will never solve the problem. Millions of dogs and cats are killed annually as the result of unwanted, unplanned litters that could have been prevented by spaying and neutering. According to the...
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...Death Studies, 36: 1–22, 2012 Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0748-1187 print=1091-7683 online DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2011.553312 BEREAVEMENT EXPERIENCES OF MOTHERS AND FATHERS OVER TIME AFTER THE DEATH OF A CHILD DUE TO CANCER RIFAT ALAM Department of Psychology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada MARU BARRERA Department of Psychology, Haematology=Oncology Program, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada NORMA D’AGOSTINO Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Survivorship Program, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada DAVID B. NICHOLAS Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada GERALD SCHNEIDERMAN Department of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The authors investigated longitudinally bereavement in mothers and fathers whose children died of cancer. Thirty-one parents were interviewed 6 and 18 months post-death. Analyses revealed parental differences and changes over time: (a) employment—fathers were more work-focused; (b) grief reactions—mothers expressed more intense grief reactions that lessened over time; (c) coping—mothers were more child-focused, fathers more task-focused; (d) relationship with bereaved siblings—mothers actively nurtured relationship with child;...
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...INTRODUCTION Although effects are extended in controlling the progress of a disease and restoring the well-being of patients, there are diseases which pass beyond the stage of being curable. Death is a natural occurrence in the health care setting and since nurses play a vital role in providing direct patient care, a patient’s death may bring a sense of loss and grief which could eventually affect the way health care services are appropriately and adequately provided to other patients. However, the degree of nurses’ grief as a reaction to patient death may vary in intensity. This variation may be influenced by several factors present in both the nurse and the nurse-patient relationship. This research study investigates the degree of correlation between these variables and the level of nurses’ grief, it will also look into the factors that may affect the level of grief that nurses experience upon the death of their patient. PROBLEM STATEMENT Grief is an inevitable phenomenon that every human being will eventually experience Cowles and Rodgers (1991). Base of the fact that nurses are in close contact with dying patients, they are vulnerable to the experience of grief. However, the emotional aspect of nurses’ responses to the death of their patients has barely been explored. It is opinionated that the nurse’s own emotional needs are unaddressed due to the fact that most of the studies related to patient’s death focus on the patient’s relatives and significant others. Other...
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...development and finally the types of food children eat and how it influences their physical and intellectual development. General outlook The main importance of eating health diets is associated with the many problems of weight control. Following a balanced and health diet normally helps individual to lose weight in an easier way or it plays a crucial role in maintain a person’s healthy standards. Study has it that those who strictly follow a well- balanced and healthy diet have high chances of decreasing the chances of being affected by the chronic diseases. Chronic diseases in most cases relates to poor healthy conditions because of eating poor balanced diets that cannot sustain their bodies. The occurrence of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer normally arises through poor eating habits (Insel, 2011). According to (Freston) another major importance of eating healthy diets is that it helps in reducing the blood sugar level. This knowledge allows an individual to reduce the consumption of sugary foods like fruit juices, ice cream, white bread, and soda as they cause a rise in blood sugar (Murphy, 2008)....
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...choice for healing and good health. HISTORY Dr. L H Hiranandani Hospital is Located at Powai, Mumbai. It also has a branch in Thane. It is an ISO 9001:2008 certified hospital. It is the first hospital in Mumbai and in the Western region to be NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers) accredited. Dr. L H Hiranandani Hospital was conceptualized by Niranjan and Surendra Hiranandani and has been built in honor of their father Dr. L. H. Hiranandani. The foundation stone was laid on the 15th September 2002. The major Specialties include Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Anesthesiology and Complementary Medicine. The hospital has state-of-the-art facilities in different areas in surgery like Cardiothoracic Surgery, Reconstructive surgery, Oncology, Orthopedics, Urology and Urodynamic, Obstetrics, Pediatrics Surgery, Gynecology, ENT, Ophthalmology and minimally invasive Endoscopic surgery and Gastro-Enter ology. Obstetric and Gynecological facilities include high risk pregnancy care, reproductive medicine, micro vascular surgery and gynaec-oncology. The Radiology & Imaging Sciences facility comprises of X-ray, Ultra-sonography, CT scan, MRI, Bone densitometry, Mammography, Advanced clinical laboratory, Cardiac diagnostics - 2D-echo, Stress test, Pulmonary function test, EEG/EMG. MANAGEMENT TEAM OF HIRANANDANI HOSPITAL Chief Executive Officer | Dr. Sujit Chatterjee | Medical Director | Dr. Arun...
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...because people usually die from my kind of cancer I and were told I could possibly only have a few years left to live, but going through treatments helped me not get cancer again and led me to be cancer free for many years now. Different people played different rolls the behaviors, obligations and privileges attached to a status during that time, like the pediatric nurses whose job was to make sure kids felt safe and try to make children with cancer feel comfortable while doing their normal work like giving chemo, drawing blood, and checking the weight this eventually had led me to be home schooled for a few years when I decided to go back to school, I had this image to where I thought I was going to be making lots of friends, have fun but when I went back and decided to be a super nice person trying to be friendly and be friends with everyone, it led to some students wanting to pick on me badly, even though it was torture through elementary this eventually led me to be stronger in its own way where I didn’t care what kids thought or said about me, it also taught me how to laugh at things my friends might tease me about when doing something dumb. Although going through cancer wasn’t easy going through treatments and radiation, I had nurses and technicians who somehow were able to make the treatments fun and I was always looking forward to going to the appointments. Luckily enough though I was a seven-year-old kid going through cancer, there was an upside to it, where I got to...
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...responsibilities come before the reward. That is why I have a different opinion of video games. I believe that video games can be beneficial to individuals; however, there are limitations. They help children deal with cancer, improve literacy skills, gain educational skills, and stay fit, but individuals should be cautious about the genre of the game and the amount of play time. When these precautions are taken, video games can be a helpful tool for many. The first at home video game, Pong, was created by Allan Alcorn for the Atari. It consisted of two dimensional graphics and was the first game to attract people’s attention. To win, you had to be the first to defeat your opponent in this virtual game of table tennis. Soon after, the video gaming industry began expanding at an unimaginable rate. It took only 30 years to develop this multimillion dollar industry. New technology is opening doors for more advanced gaming systems and the industry is always increasing. We have come from a virtual two-dimensional game of table tennis, to realistic graphics with an abundant amount of detail. One advantage of video games is that they help patients in hospitals with certain problems like cancer, stress management and even physical therapy. Imagine your son or daughter has cancer. Every time they go to the hospital to get chemotherapy, they dread it, and it saddens you knowing how much pain...
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...right treatment for the right person at the right time.” Personalized medicine is becoming the place to be in clinical diagnostics as well and slowly becoming the reality of future in the diagnostics industry By Technology Segment - Personalized Medicine diagnostics market is expected to grow with a double digit CAGR for the period of 2013 to 2018. It is expected that personalized medicine diagnostics market by technology is going to double by 2018 from its current market size in 2012. In this segment, Point of Care Testing and Molecular Diagnostics segments control the #1 and #2 positions in 2012. By Diseases Segment - Personalized Medicine diagnostics market is expected to be more than US$ 30 Billion by 2018. Diabetes management test and Cancer management test are the leading market in this segment. Renub Research report entitled “Personalized Medicine Diagnostics (Flow Cytometry, Sepsis Immunos, Routine Coagulation, Psychiatric Disorders, Tumor Markers, Molecular Blood Typing and Other Testing)” report provides a comprehensive analysis of the emerging personalized medicine diagnostic market segments, including their dynamics, size, market share, key investors, clinical trials statement, technological trends, company analysis and a realistic future potential for personalized medicine in clinical testing. The report also entails major drivers and challenges of personalized medicine diagnostic market. This 173 page report contains 94 Figures and 16 Tables studies the Personalized...
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...Assessment Task 1 – Written Reflection I believe that therapeutic communication is a form of psychotherapy in which the person doing face to face interviewing consciously uses strategies that encourage the patient to express feelings andideas and that convey acceptance and respect they are achieved through advancing the physical and emotional well-being of a patient in a non-judgmental way, while showing empathy and concern. The aim of therapeutic communication is to increase self-worth or decrease emotions such as anxiety and anger by putting together information to determine the illness. Ufema, J. (2008). More than just hand-holding. Nursing, 38(12). doi:10.1097/01.nurse.0000342039.82567.3a All health care professional study techniques of therapeutic communication, these techniques help the patient and health-care professional develop rapport and trust with one another during each other’s company for example when going to an appointment. For therapeutic communication to be successful, a mutual understanding between both the patient and the health care worker needs to be met. It is very important for the health care workers to use proper communication to prevent a misunderstanding between the health care worker and patient. This open communication shows a genuine and continual concern for what the patient is expressing. Throughout this essay I will be using the Driscoll model of reflection in nursing to express my understanding of the vignettes and making reference to...
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