Hospice Care HCS 212 December 12, 2012 Hospice Care Hospice is a very special type of healthcare that offers comfort and support for patients and families that are facing a terminal illness. The focus is put on making a patient comfortable with a quality of life instead of a cure. The main goal is for a patient to have comfort and free of pain, with the hope that they will live each day as fully
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HEPA filters in vacuum cleaners tend to use two quite different mechanisms to clean the airstream. First, there are one or more outer filters that work like sieves to stop the larger particles of dirt, dust, and hair. Inside those filters, there is a concertina of what looks like folded paper designed to trap the smaller particles. The paper is actually a mat of very dense glass fibers and, unlike the gauze, it doesn't simply filter out small dust particles like a sieve. Instead, it uses three different
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population being obese and 81.1% of its residence reporting leisure time physical activity, compared with the national average of 74.0%. In Cooperstown 20.8% of adults smoke and 37.3% were hospitalized in 2007 for smoking related illnesses including COPD and CLRD. The number of hospitalizations are lower than the New York state average of 41.8%, but the percentage of adult smokers is higher. (NYS Prevention 2009) The birth rate for Otsego County is 38.3 per 1,000 women while the infant mortality
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Telehealth, Telemedicine and Remote patient monitoring Telehealth is the delivery of health-related services and information via telecommunications technologies. Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration. Technologies include videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and terrestrial
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Nutrition and Lifestyle Sleep ===== If you attached an electroencephalograph to a person's head, you can record the person's brainwave activity. An awake and relaxed person generates alpha waves, which are consistent oscillations at about 10 cycles per second. An alert person generates beta waves, which are about twice as fast. During sleep, two slower patterns called theta waves and delta waves take over. Theta waves have oscillations in the range of 3.5 to 7 cycles per second, and delta waves
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Asthma is a disorder that is characterized for its hyper-reactive airways component. It is also another type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as many would prefer to classify it, but I would say is rather a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways. It is a disorder in which the patients require not only medications to expand the airways to facilitate gas exchange, but also of anti-inflammatory medications. During an asthma attack, the patient’s physiology undergoes through several
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Name: Yi (Jennifer) Ding Date: January 28, 2016 Question 1: A 72-year-old male patient is admitted to the hospital with diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). While caring for the patient, the nurse noticed that the patient is experiencing dyspnea. What should the nurse do first? a. Elevate the head of the bed to 30 to 45 degrees b. Assess the lungs for adventitious sounds c. Immediately contact the physician and administer oxygen d. Encourage the patient to cough and deep
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and research which has set them at the cutting edge in health promotion. Studies have shown that health promotion is highly cost-effective and as health costs rise, targeting diseases that are preventable such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, COPD, and communicable diseases such as Hepatitis and HIV can greatly diminish healthcare costs. Promoting prevention rather than just curing disease after it occurs will reduce healthcare costs exponentially. In the past, nurses provided patient education
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Circulatory and respiratory Blood carries all the nutrients ingested in food around our bodies, its main function is to carry oxygen around our body this is so our cells can function properly. Blood is pumped around the body by the heart which is connected to the body by lots of different vessels. Blood also collects oxygen from the lungs and delivers it to the body. Veins are tubes which form part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying mainly oxygen-depleted blood towards the heart
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Selma Hasic Midterm Dr.Banks BRONCHITIS Bronchitis is the inflammation of the mucous membranes of the bronchi, the airways that carry airflow from the trachea into the lungs. The thin mucus lining of these airways can become irritated and swollen; the cells that make up the lining may leak fluids in response to the inflammation. Bronchitis most often occurs during the cold and flu season usually coupled with an upper respiratory infection. Bronchitis can be divided
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