Title: Pain, Coping and Sleep in Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease (Quantitative?) Abstract: Purpose The study examined the relationships among pain, pain coping, and sleep, and assessed factors (age, gender, frequency, and intensity of pain) that affect pain, coping, and sleep in children with sickle cell disease ( SCD). Methods Participants (66) were 39 children ( M = 11.5 years) and 27 adolescents ( M = 15.5 years) with SCD who completed an electronic visual analog scale ( eVAS)
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prison healyh care paper Prison Health Care Paper Tinamarie Edwards July 11, 2012 HCS/430 Legal Issues in Health Care: Regulation and Compliance Terry Matherne Introduction Prison health care is caring for the inmates in prisons and correctional facilities around the United States. Even though a prisoner is incarcerated does not mean that a prisoner should receive any different care than a person outside the prison. The federal prison population around the United States was 217
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Analysis: Providing Good Care to Dying Patients: Paper 2 Jaime Holtgrewe Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 449 Evidence Based Practice February 2013 Clinical Question In my group, the focus of research is based on the following clinical question: What are the best practices for end of life care? Within the group, research is driven to focus on enhancing care for end of life patient, including collaboration with physicians and surrogate decision makers or a power of attorney (POA), as well
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1 Personal Impact Paper on Sickle Cell Disease Glenda Kessen NUR427 9/8/14 Amy Highland 2 Sickles Cell Anemia is a chronic, serious red blood cell disorder that is lifelong. "It is the most common genetic disease in the United States." (Guyatt, GH 2007). Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is inherited and results in a decrease of the ability of red blood cells to carry much-needed oxygen through the body. The cells become clogged, due to their crescent shape, which keeps them from delivering
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to greater legitimate use of medication to treat pain and depression. Further, more careful surveillance for symptoms associated with maternal drug use have turned up more affected babies. About 1% of pregnant women report recreational use of opioid painkillers like Oxycontin, according to the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health, a number that has stayed constant since 2003. The new treatment guidelines, appearing on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, recommend that pregnant women
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Inflammatory Musculoskeletal Diseases Name Instructor Institution Musculoskeletal disorders are common and they can affect different age groups, frequently causing disability and immobility. They cause discomfort or pain in the joints, bones and muscles. The disorders can range from being acute to chronic, diffuse or focal. The chances of a person developing musculoskeletal disorders increase with age, but they are more common among the elderly. The disorders can range from back pain and
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Perception affects communication because people perceive things that are being said how they want to perceive it. One person can take things being said in a different way than how someone else takes it. If things are taken the wrong way, communication can get angry or hurtful. According to Robbins, perception can be defined as ‘a process by which individuals organise and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment’ (2004, p. 132). Perception is not necessarily
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Running head: ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PRISONERS 1 Ethical treatment of prisoners Jacqueline Arnold SOC120 Instructor Mark Cohen November 1, 2012 ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PRISONERS 2 The ethical treatment of prisoners, there are millions of people in prison all over the United States, but the ethical treatment of the prisoners’ rights must be analyzed. As a society, have we done all we can regarding the treatment of prisoners? Alternatively, can we say we
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In an earlier survey conducted 2005, revealed that 4.4 million youths aged 12 to 17make up approximately one third of individual experimenting with drugs for the very first time. According to National data 2.5 million youths in America have misused or abused prescription drugs in their lifetime, reporting that one in five high school students have at least taken one prescription painkillers without a doctor’s prescription during adolescence, More disturbing yet, is the fact that they 47% of adolescents
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DOI: 4/24/2008. Patient is a 59-year old male chief manager who sustained a work-related injury while standing on a ladder and it collapsed on him causing him to fall backwards catching himself with his left arm. Per OMNI, he is status post left shoulder rotator cuff repair on 11/02/09 and manipulation under anesthesia on 06/14/10. Based on the medical report dated 10/14/16, the patient has continued to do quite well, since the last visit although recently because of the cold, damp weather, he
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