QUESTION Radiology Reports What radiology findings are most important and noticed by the nurse as clinically significant? Radiology: Chest X-Ray Results Clinical Significance The cardiac size is enlarged. There are no focal infiltrates or consolidations or pleural effusions. IMPRESSION: 1. No acute disease in the chest. 2. Moderate to severe cardiomegaly Lab Results Hematology: Complete Blood Count (CBC) WBC HGB PLTS % Neuts % Lymphs […]

QUESTION What are Mr Beardley’s new problems on return to the LTC unit? Who do you think would be key members of Mr. Beardley’s care team? Why are these members important in Mr. Beardley’s care? Describe common causes of conflict that may occur when team members first come together to work on a patient care goal. ANSWER Collaborative Care for Mr. Beardley: Understanding New Problems, […]

QUESTION I am doing my clinical placement in Long term care home as RN student  with ADOC who is IPAC lead too. There is no direct care provided this semester but more of leadership and administrative placement.  we are doing all kind of audits. I am placed in LTC in Brampton Ontario Canada. Have more of immigrant population and people are from India speaking Hindi, […]

QUESTION You currently work for the development department of Sunny Manor Nursing and Rehab Center. Sunny Manor was once a privately owned small skilled nursing home in Sunny Beach, Florida until it was sold 6 years ago to a larger group of investors known for buying older nursing homes and developing them into larger more modern skilled nursing and rehab centers. Sunny Beach itself is […]

QUESTION Laura is a woman who is 28 years old and has bipolar illness type I. You’ve been giving her lithium ER 300mg PO BID to help her. She says her emotions are more steady, but she is still having trouble with depression symptoms, especially feeling alone and not wanting to do anything. She says she feels like she is in a “dark hole of […]

QUESTION focusing on the relationship between  income and social status as the social determinant of health  and Diabetes  disease as a specific health  outcome Using scholarly materials and references 3.methods of searching for evidence and result of the search and any critical assessment of it 4. recommendations for change and reasons why (medical/ social) based on scholarly materials. ANSWER Exploring the Relationship between Income, Social […]

QUESTION Prevalence and Neurobiology of bipolar I disorder. Discuss the differences between bipolar I and one other bipolar and related disorders in relation to the diagnostic criteria including presentation of symptoms according to DSM 5 TR criteria Discuss special populations and considerations (children, adolescents, pregnancy/post-partum, older adult, emergency care) for bipolar I and related disorders; demonstrating critical thinking beyond basics of HIPPA and informed consent […]

QUESTION   Help me make an individualized, patient-centered, team-based care plan to optimize medication therapy for this patient’s urinary incontinence and other drug therapy problems. Include specific drugs, dosage forms, doses, schedules, and durations of therapy. CASE STUDY Chief Complaint “I can’t seem to control my urine. I feel like I have to urinate all the time. However, when I do go to the bathroom, […]

QUESTION The advantages of using both qualitative and quantitative research in nursing study is that it can improve an evaluation by ensuring that the limitations of one type of data are balanced by the strengths of another (Bonner & Douglas, 2013). Most evaluations will collect both quantitative data and qualitative data, however it is important to plan in advance how these will be combined. The […]

QUESTION It is true that qualitative and quantitative research methods are very different especially because both research methods were developed from very different bases. However, a rising number of studies are encouraging researchers in nursing to consider applying both research methods in nursing research based on the perception that combining the two approaches will increase validity and reliability in the research. This is true because […]