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  • Pediatric Nursing - 1,096 words
    Pediatric Nursing For the purpose of confidentiality the name of the case study, has been changed (UKCC 1996) The aim of this essay was to select a client, the client in this case being a ten-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis, in a hospital setting. To assess the holistic needs of that client, using Beck, Williams and Rawlings "The five dimensions of self", (Beck 1993) Josh has lived with cystic fibrosis for 7 years People with CF suffer from chronic lung problems and digestive disorders. The lungs of people with Cystic Fibrosis become covered with sticky mucus, which is hard to remove and promotes infection by bacteria. Many people with CF require frequent hospitalisations and continuous us ...
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  • Pediatric Nursing - 1,070 words
    ... ysical well being. It was essential for the nursing team, to explain treatment, give him information, but not overwhelm him with facts. Sitting and listening to Josh, was equally as important as talking to him. Listening to his fears and feelings. Spending time one to one, was what Josh wanted a lot of the time, which was difficult when the ward was busy, but this is one of the times when family centred care was found to be useful. his mum spent a lot of time with Josh, during the times she went for food or home for some rest we would step in and spend that time with him. This worked well, however the problem was that there wasnt the time to spend with Joshs mum, to explain and resolve h ...
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  • Born Addicted To Alcohol - 1,333 words
    Born Addicted to Alcohol annon There are different characteristics that accompany FAS in the different stages of a child's life. 'At birth, infants with intrauterine exposure to alcohol frequently have low birth rate; pre-term delivery; a small head circumference; and the characteri stic facial features of the eyes, nose, and mouth' (Phelps, 1995, p. 204). Some of the facial abnormalities that are common of children with FAS are: microcephaly, small eye openings, broad nasal bridge, flattened mid-faces, thin upper lip, skin folds at the corners of the eyes, indistinct groove on the upper lip, and an abnormal smallness of the lower jaw (Wekselman, Spiering, Hetteberg, Kenner, & Flandermey ...
    Related: alcohol, alcohol syndrome, fetal alcohol, fetal alcohol syndrome, short term
  • Healthcare - 1,074 words
    ... y. Nurses need to assess: (a) psychosocial needs, (b) functional outcomes, (c) quality of life, (d) daily living, (e) psychiatric outcome, and (f) financial needs. The nurse must use skills in crisis intervention to help ease the disequilibrium of the family. Nurses need to be sensitive to patient and family needs. Nurses must help the patients and their families to cope with(a) disease chronicity, (b) waiting period, (c) role reversal, (d) hospitalization, and (e) complicated medical regimen as well as take into consideration the demands on(a) time, (b) energy, (c) finances, and (d) relationships that the disease has placed on patients and their families. The burdens and challenges that ...
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  • Johnson Behavioral System Jbs Model - 1,159 words
    Johnson Behavioral System (JBS) Model In this paper, I am going to summarize the Johnson Behavioral System (JBS) Model (Johnson, 1980, 1990), explain the perspectives for nursing practice, and explore its applicability in nursing practice. First, I am going to talk a little about Dorothy E. Johnson the nurse that wrote the Model. Dorothy E. Johnson was born August 21, 1919, in Savannah, Georgia (Lobo, 1995). She received her A.A. from Armstrong Junior College in Savannah, Georgia, in 1938; her B.S.N. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1942; and her M.P.H. from Harvard University in Boston in 1948 (Conner, Harbour, Magers, and Watt 1994). Johnson was an instructor and an a ...
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  • Pain Assesment - 1,500 words
    ... ariables is examined (Nieswiadomy, 1998, p. 127) The experiences of nurses implementing the University of Wisconsin Childrens Hospital Pain Scale for Preverbal and Nonverbal Children are the phenomena being described in this study. The nurses involved in the study will attend an inservice describing and explaining how to use the UWCH Pain Scale for Preverbal and Nonverbal Children. The scale will be implemented for one month. At the end of the month, the nurses implementing the scale will be interviewed and data will be collected. Sample The sample will be a convenience sample of all thirty registered nurses working on the pediatric unit at a regional medical center. Data Collection Data ...
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  • Pediatrics - 1,716 words
    ... proved to be much more effective. T.W. was diagnosed with conjunctivitis and a candidal infection. All examinations were performed with the parent in the room. This was very effective. Infants, toddlers, and preschool children should be examined with a parent in the room. For children this age, the parent is the source of subjective data. For example, T.W. could not speak for herself. T.T. could speak to an extent, saying such things Pediatric Experience 5 as "My throat hurts". His mother, however went into more detail about his symptoms. School-age children and adolescents should be given the choice of whether or not they want their parents present(Vessey,1995). When performing assessme ...
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