A) "My daughter went to bed feeling fine last night and woke up with a high fever and a sore throat." B) "Lately Debbie's eyes appear to have a yellow discoloration." C) "When I kiss my daughter, her skin tastes like salt." D) "I can hear her heart beating when I lay my head on her chest." Which documentation further supports the diagnosis of CF?
1. Which statement by the mother supports the diagnosis of CF? A) "My daughter went to bed feeling fine last night and woke up with a high fever and a sore throat." B) "Lately Debbie's eyes appear to have a yellow discoloration." C) "When I kiss my daughter, her skin tastes like salt."
Case Study 1: Patient Admission Concepts related to HLTEN512B Topic 1 Mrs. Gwen Jones is a 70 year old woman who has been admitted to your ward after arriving from her doctor’s surgery. Her GP has included a letter stating that he has assessed Mrs. Jones and requests she is admitted. She is feeling very unwell, with a high temperature, frequency of urination and burning when urinating. She appears slightly confused. She complains of back pain.
Her granddaughters Silvia, Shauna, and Becca went to visit her, for she was on her deathbed. She began telling them the story of Sleeping Beauty, a story which she had told them throughout their childhood, although this time was different. She told her grandchildren that she was in fact Briar Rose. Gemma did not go into detail, but made her granddaughter Becca promise to discover everything about her
When getting out of bed, she walks bent over holding her incision and grits her teeth as she sits down. She is receiving Tylenol and codeine for pain, and is receiving Cephradine PO for antibiotic. Her last dose of codeine was 2 1/2 hours ago and she is soon due for her Tylenol. Her incision is clean and the dressing needs changed today. A Foley catheter is in place.
Elena went to a lady who she called the Grandma therapist. Most of the time she didn’t tell her much because she knew she was the only one Dora could trust but the Grandma therapist can sense her sadness and explained to Elena that many people carry sadness with them but sometimes they need to be able to rest and put it down. After her appointment with her therapist, Elena came home to an empty house and Jimmy showed up at the door. He apologizes for the way he acted but asked to go upstairs in Dora’s room. After looking around a little bit he removed a clock from the wall and found a bag of small white pills.
An ambulance arrives and the emergency medical technician (EMT) stabilized Grace before transporting the infant to the Emergency Center. This information is reported to the nurse by the EMT upon the infant’s arrival to the Emergency Center. Assessment When the nurse enters the room she finds Grace crying in her mother's arms. The nurse and Wendy calm Grace, and then the nurse auscultates the infant's lungs. Coarse bilateral wheezes are detected, but the infant does not appear in acute distress at this time.
Part 1: Clinical Narrative and Clinical Question How do nurses respect cultural differences when caring for postpartum patients? For the past two clinical weekends, I was assigned to care for the postpartum patients and their newborns. On the first day of the morning shift, I took care of a 19 year old patient named, Mrs. Smith. She had a vaginal delivery, delivering a healthy baby boy, Jacob at 36.5 weeks of gestation. Around eight of the morning, I took Mrs. Smith vital signs and noticed that Mrs. Smith was breast-feeding her baby in bed.
Most likely Jane is kept it the room for the reason that she is sick and needs a rest cure treatment. When more questions are asked about Jane’s sickness then the readers can conclude what is really going on. The reader knows that Jane is a patient and the house is specially made. Now a new question comes up; “Is Jane crazy?” The reader finds information in the story that Jane is highly imaginative, seeing things, creeps around the room, addicted to wallpaper, repeats the same words over and over, talks is “gentle” voice, cries at nothing and not sleeping at night. What the reader can draw from the story is that the woman is mentally ill and is currently being treated for her illness in the mental institution.
In her photographs, the babies are almost always sleeping or in a daze. “We go to great measures to create a peaceful and comfortable environment for the babies and their parents…Generally whenever you see sleeping babies in my images, they are newborns. Babies who are this young generally sleep a lot, and a change of environment doesn’t bother them at all. As long as they are fed, they usually sleep for long periods of time” She explains. But how does she photograph something so notoriously difficult?