Nursing challenges in community

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What are the challenges that nurses may experience when working with the transient First in First Out (FIFO) community? Suggest the possible solutions to those problems.

Nutrients needed during pregnancy

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Which nutrients are needed in the greatest amounts during pregnancy? Why are they so important? Then describe wise food choices for the pregnant woman. What practices should be avoided during pregnancy?

Modifiable health behaviour

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What are most modifiable health behaviour that effect the health of the First in First out(FIFO) community with reference to the Australian health performance framework?

Embracing digital technology

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  • What style of leadership do you consider would be the most effective in healthcare?
  • Explore how you would influence those members of your team, who are reluctant to embrace digital technology in healthcare (late adopters and laggards), to change their practice. What leadership techniques would you use?

Structured preventive dental unit

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Before setting up of a healthcare facility, there are specific characteristics that need to be assessed. What the location characteristics of a structured preventive dental unit(PDU)?

Skin cooling on palpation

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The nurse is assessing a patient, and finds that the skin is cool on palpation. Is this normal finding or not a normal finding? Explain the reasoning behind your answer.

Telehealth versus telemedicine

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Given the four examples in the scenario below, which of the following demonstrates uses of telehealth versus telemedicine, using the definitlons presented in the lecture?

1. A medical student uses his iPhone to research Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome  for a course. The student later works in an African healthcare facility known to have a large Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome population.

2. While there, the student supervises a video conference examination between a local patient and an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome expert from the United States.

3. During the exam images are uploaded for review and assessment by the expert. After returning from Africa, the student posts a summary of his medical experiences in an on-line medical journal.

Stabilizing and support a joint

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Describe the structures that stabilize and support a joint. What type of joint is needed for the articulation between the ribs and sternum? What kind of mobility does it have?
 Explain the meaning of the term origin as elated to muscles at a joint.

Parts of patient’s health history

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Explain the following parts of patient’s health history: physical and developmental well being, intellectual well being, spiritual well being, emotional well being and financial status,

Patient with enlarged prostate

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You are a female healthcare worker and you are visiting Giuseppe, a 70-year-old client. Today he is looking very uncomfortable. You notice that he is fidgety and keeps getting up to use the toilet. He must have gone 10 times so far. When you ask him if he is okay, he says, ‘Yes I’m fine’ and changes the subject. (Giuseppe goes to the doctor the next day – he has an enlarged prostate and was not able to urinate properly.) Why do you think that Giuseppe said he was ‘fine’ when he clearly wasn’t?

Scenario: A friend, Elisabetta, comes to visit Giuseppe. She comes to you after the visit and says ‘What’s wrong with Giuseppe? Does he have prostate cancer? What treatment is he having? How will you answer?