Entries by Daphne Hanson

The ANA Scope and Standards of Practice

The ANA Scope and Standards of Practice describe how registered nurses use the nursing process as the foundation for decision-making and care delivery. These are the standards of care you will be held accountable to as an RN. They are the basis for evaluating the appropriateness and quality of your nursing care in the event […]

Community nursing and home care packages

Abby is the Quality Improvement Officer for a service that provides residential care, respite care, daycare, community nursing and home care packages, palliative care, and dementia-specific. Her role includes managing the facility’s legal and ethical compliance, ensuring AHPRA registration is up to date, and maintaining collaborative and effective relationships between all designations within the facility. […]

Genetically inherited mutation cancers

A 28-year-old woman tells you her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 42 and her 35-year-old sister has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. She asks you if there is anything she should be doing to screen for and assess her own risk for breast and ovarian cancers. However, she tells you that […]

Nurse executive roles and responsibilities

English is not my first language need help with grammar correction BELOW, Thanks This phase of reflection is an insight into my interview with the clinical nurse manager and how the CPE objectives were attained. Based on the interview I had with the clinical nurse manager, I learned of the different tasks and responsibilities she […]

Health Promotion and Perfusion

Tina Jones, a 28-year-old woman, was sent to the hospital for IV antibiotics after accidentally scraping her foot while climbing down a ladder. The patient also has a fever and an increased blood sugar level. Although the patient has a history of asthma and diabetes, she does not regularly test her blood sugar. Tina Jones […]

Physical growth and development

Julie, an 11½-year-old girl, and John, a 14-year-old boy, are siblings who had a physical examination for school. Julie grew over 3 inches in height and John grew about half an inch in last year. “She’s almost as tall as I am, and I’m older than she is,” John says. That’s not right. I’m the […]

Astronomy-related article

This week delve into any astronomy-related article you’d like–it’s all part of the universe! It could be primordial black holes, quasars, colliding galaxies, the largest stars, etc., anything that piques your interest! Please refrain from posting articles lacking in scientific results (constellations, astrology, etc.) though. If you post on something we consider ‘non-scientific’ or ‘not […]

Kepler’s laws of planetary motion

Newton demonstrated that the gravitational force is responsible for Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. Consider Kepler’s 3rd law (in its original form): p2 = a3, and then the form Newton derived for it. Because the Sun’s mass plays a role in determining the p values for a given value of a, comparing values of p […]