Entries by Daphne Hanson

Morbid obesity with disabilities

Identify the risk assessment instrument for a 35-year-old white male with a history of morbid obesity with disabilities in a rural setting and justify why it would be applicable to the selected patient. Provide at least five targeted questions you would ask the patient. Please cite and include references to the articles used.

Dementia’s detrimental impact on cognition

Introduction In excess of 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK. This statistic, in conjunction with dementia’s detrimental impact on cognition, demonstrates it to be a prominent and important topic.1 The cognitive impairment accompanying dementia may result in patients holding beliefs that fail to reflect reality, causing individuals to have a distorted understanding of […]

The Surgical Intensive Care Unit

A 38-year-old Filipino patient, G3P2+0 presented to the emergency department on the 18th of October 2019 complaining of acute onset of lower abdominal pain associated with a history of amenorrhea for three months. She was unsure of the date of her last menstrual period and had no previous antenatal follow-up. She was medically free and […]

Principles of bio medic ethics

Hello professor and class, I hope all is well with everyone. The four principles of bio medic ethics are Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence, and Non-maleficence. These principles are important because they determine whether a medical practice is ethical. While all four are equally important, it is hard to accurately order them. Depending on the case different […]

Abdominal cholecystectomy

A 42-year-old patient is 3 days post-op from abdominal cholecystectomy. She is currently taking only antibiotics and hydrocodone. Today she complains of left calf pain just below the knee and states it is swollen, warm, and painful to touch. She denies other symptoms, significant history, or allergies. Discuss what questions you would ask the patient, […]

Define acute vs chronic conditions

BSN Midterm Study Guide Define acute vs chronic conditions Define innate vs adaption immune response Define modifiable vs non-modifiable risk factors Define active vs passive immunity Define local vs systemic infection Inflammatory response function. Immune response function? Key players? Autoimmune disease? Opportunistic vs nosocomial infections? Bacterial infection? Viral infection? Fungal infection? Parasite infection? Aging process? […]