Entries by Daphne Hanson

Breast and axillae

Step 1 Review the case scenario. You are working in the emergency room, and you must conduct a history and physical assessment on a 28-year-old client. The subjective information indicates the following: The client, who is four weeks postpartum, reports having a large, painful, warm, and reddened area below the right nipple for three days. She […]

Corporate Cover-Up Summary of Advocate

Case: Corporate Cover-Up Summary of Advocate, Describe the legal and ethical issues presented in this case. Inc. v. Sauer on pages 230-231 of the textbook. Answer the following questions. According to a federal study, nearly 90% of the nation’s nursing homes are poorly staffed and find it difficult to provide basic services, such as cleaning, dressing, […]

Alcoholic cardiomyopathy

You are an nursing practitioner in the heart failure clinic. A patient with a history of alcoholic cardiomyopathy has an ejection fraction of 35%  Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). They have been sober for 2 years. Recent stress test was negative for coronary ischemia. BP 132/83 mm Hg. EKG reveals normal sinus rhythm […]

Health Information technology study

Health Information technology study. What are the thoughts regarding IT project failure rate for healthcare has been equal to, if not worse than, other industries, according to a comprehensive study of health IT successes and failures published in the Journal of the Medical Informatics Association.