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Delirium Case Study

Acute confusional states also known as delirium are medical emergencies associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and healthcare burden (Bassetti, 2007). The core characteristics of delirium are acute cognitive dysfunction and inattention. Delirium can result in permanent sequelea or become chronic (Fong, Tulebaev, and Inouye, 2009). This paper will examine the case of a 64-year old lady who presents with acute confusion, disorientation, and agitation. It will identify the key information provided and other essential information that needs to be identified. It will also examine the differential diagnoses and the most probably diagnosis for the patient. It will explore the ...

Painting and art have been part of the Chinese culture for centuries, and the type of art the Chinese civilizations engaged in distinguish them from vast western arts. In this regards, major artists have attributed the Chinese art as having a unique essence, compared to the aesthetic art embraced by western cultures. Therefore, different authors have bid to explain the uniqueness of the Chinese painting and art, but in doing so, they have also had different methodologies and approaches of attaining a similar goal. For instance, Wen and Kathlyn, both wrote about Chinese art and painting, but their methodologies ...

One might suspect from the outset that dominant media portrays Asian and American men differently from Asian and Asian women; hence, one might look for contrasting media representations. Shek (2007) suggested that, in history, dominant mainstream culture has pictured Asian and Asian American men and women to be very different. Asian women are formed in an “aesthetically pleasing nature, sexually willing and speechless” as well as “dark” and “primitive” (Shek, 2007, pg.74). Shek suggests further that while Asian women were “exotic and appealing, the men, on the other hand, were almost always considered as predatory figures as tyrannical and ...

Introduction

Research in lung cancer treatment can save lives and improve a patient’s quality of life. There are three main types of lung cancer: Non-small cell, small cell, and lung carcinoid cancer. Non-small cell lung cancer, such as Squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and large cell carcinoma make up about 85% of all lung cancers (Molina, Yang, Cassivi, Schild, & Adjei, 2008). Both environmental and genetic factors are significant in the cause of lung cancer. Chronic exposure to carcinogens, ionizing radiation, and viral infections can lead to alterations of the DNA in tissue lining the bronchial epithelium of the lungs. Furthermore, ...

Q1: For the chi-square test, independent t-test, ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA, and correlation, describe the inferential statistics and what levels of measurement are needed.

Chi-square test: This inferential statistic can be used both as a baseline measure in determining the success of the randomization procedure in the sample assignment and in analyzing the sample attrition level during the study implementation between the baseline point and the study endpoint, which, in the Jemmott, Jemmott, and Fong (1998) study, experienced a small (below 10%) attrition over the period of 3 to 12 months. The level of measurement for the independent and dependent ...

Annotated Bibliography

Brewer, N.T., Chapman, G.B., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., McCaul, K.D., and Weinstein, N.D. "Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: The example of vaccination." Health Psychology, 26(2) (2007): 136-145.

The study examines the relationship between perceived risk of flu and health behavior shown by the people. The study informs how higher perceived risk can increase the immunization rate and result into positive health behavior of the people. The source is very useful in understanding health behavior shown by different groups of the people, and also in understanding how rate of flu immunization can ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune metabolic condition of childhood onset. It occurs as a result of autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing β cells. The disease is incurable and managed through administration of insulin, physical activity, nutrition management, blood glucose monitoring, and avoidance of either severe hypoglycemia or prolonged hypoglycemia. The aim of treatment is to maintain optimal control of blood glucose levels so as to prevent micro- and macrovascular complications. Diabetic retinopathy is one of these complications. If it is not treated early, it causes microvascular changes in the eyes that result in avoidable and permanent blindness. In patients with ...

Smoking cessation is among the best life choice any person within any age group or gender can make (West, 2010). The health benefits for such a choice are almost immediate. All over the United States today, smoking remains to be the single leading cause of death that is preventable. According to Stanczyk et al (2014), the US alone has more than 43 million people using tobacco. This is a significant portion compared to the global 1.2 billion smokers (Stanczyk et al, 2014). As a result, smoking alone accounts for more than 0.4 million deaths in the US every single year and contributes ...

Abstract

Human sex trafficking involves recruiting, abhorring and transportation of people for the purposes of using their sexual services for monetary benefits. Human sex traffickers coerce or force the victims in the recruitment process. Canada has experienced a rise in the number of human trafficking cases where most of the victims come from vulnerable groups. There have been concerted efforts to curb the vice in an international perspective. However, the general approaches adopted by agencies and organizations such as UNICEF have not incorporated empirical evidence to assure the society that this issue is under control. Criminal gangs have gained a lot from ...

Though San Gabrielle is the main geographical centre of this region, the ‘Chinese District’ has other regions, Monterey Park, Temple City, Alhambra and Rowland Heights. Being the main geographical area of this place, it has many Chinese people. In this paper, we shall discuss more about San Gabrielle or as many know it, the Chinese District.

History

San Gabriele was founded by Junipero Serra and in 1852; it became the original Township of Los Angeles County. It was named after the Mission San Gabriele Arcangel, and its motto, is ‘A city with a Mission’’. In the 19th Century, the western part ...

Is Forgiving Student Debt a good Idea?

Tertiary education in America is expensive, and the economic situations are harsh such that students cannot access decent jobs to enable them, pay off their debts. President Obama is proposing a plan to forgive the student loan debt. The proposed plan Pay as you Earn will enable the borrowers of loan to make a contribution of 10 percent of their income, and after 20, years, one’s loan will be forgiven (cox 14). In doing so, it would ensure that billions of money in the form of student loan debt are forgiven regardless of what was borrowed. This program of debt ...

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In everyday knowledge and communication, the average person’s perception of the world surprisingly deals with the organization of symbols, both in objections and words. According to the author of “Language and Knowledge in Everyday Life”, a person’s understanding of the world is based on small, implicit classifications of words’ attributes, such as familiarity and gender in French and German (41). This is interesting because the classification of a word being feminine changes the impression of that word to one that is possibly less intimidating than a masculine word. Additionally, by using familiar words, ...

Introduction

Today, we are living in an age of mobility where the movement of people has been more extensive than before. About 2.5% of the world population has always moved for the last couple of decades. Asia is home to about 57% of the world’s population and is the main source of skilled migrants for several other developed nations. Nations like Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan offer wages and conditions that are similar to those in OECD countries, and carry lower fertility rates and aging workforces (Migration: A Global Phenomenon). Hong Kong looks for skilled temporary migrants and has introduced ...

REPEALING THE OUTDATED AND INADEQUATE POLICY

Hong Kong Basic Law: Repealing the Outdated and Inadequate Policy The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China is considered nowadays as one of Asia’s major financial capitals after Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Many international agencies, institutions and business firms based in the country, allowing the economy and development of the country flourish to what is now seen today. However, since the country was returned to China by the British Empire in 1997, political movements started to develop within Hong Kong due to the desire of many Hong Kong Nationals to ...

Introduction

The one-child policy in China is a policy for controlling the population of the country. This policy requires almost every family to limit the number of children to one. This policy was introduced by the Chinese government in 1979 during the rule of Chairman Mao. The purpose behind this policy was to reduce the problems of overpopulation that were directly impacting the society and environment of the country. However, this policy has turned out exceedingly controversial, both locally and internationally. According to the advocates of the one-child policy, this policy is meant to make China economically and socially stronger due ...

Introduction

Attention Statement: According to Center of Disease Control, the habit of smoking results to an average of more than 400000 deaths in a year. Importance: Smoking is a bad habit that leads people to an addiction problem. Smoking tobacco is not only expensive because one has to keep buy cigarettes over and over but also can be harmful to an individual’s health (Smokefree.gov). People choose to smoke as a way of numbing pain or to feel part of the society.

Thesis: This paper will argue that smoking cause health problems and smokers spend more than $2000 a year.

Preview of the main points: Smoking has resulted to high mortality rate and that it causes serious health problems such ...

Delirium is a common, transient, and in most cases reversible acute neuropsychiatric syndrome. Its core features are global cognitive dysfunction and inattention (Fong, Tulebaev, & Inouye, 2009). It affects people of all ages but is more common amongst the elderly (Alagiakrishnan, 2014). Its overall prevalence in the community is low (1–2%). In hospital settings especially for general admissions, however, its prevalence increases to about 14–24%. Its incidence during an inpatient stay is relatively high ranging from 6% to 56% (Fong, Tulebaev, & Inouye, 2009). This incidence is much higher amongst specialized populations such as patients in intensive-care, subacute, postoperative, and ...

Every time I read the report on the IOM recommendations, I cannot help but see it as the future of healthcare in the United States.I like the fact that all the recommendations have been simplified and are straight to the point but yet carry a lot of weight in regard to shaping the future of nursing practice. It clearly points out that indeed, nurses have been bestowed with a critical role particularly in producing safe, effective and quality care for all the patients in our healthcare system (Aiken et al, 2003, p.1621). As a nurse on training, I see myself fitting perfectly ...

Introduction

This research paper examines China’s national policy of restricting families to producing only one child, using research based on credible internet sources. The paper includes discussion of why and when the policy was implemented, its effect on the people of China and China as a nation, and whether it is a policy that should be or will be continued.

The Research

Kane and Choi (Oct. 1999) provide a comprehensive overview of China’s “One Child Policy in their paper published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). They report that it was a government policy first introduced in 1979; because the Chinese government was concerned ...

One afternoon while visiting a shopping mall in the neighborhood, I came across this beautiful dark skinned lady. The young adult caught my attention because of her style of dressing and how she carried out her self. This was amazing to me and I forthwith decided to make a move just to hear her part of the story. I thought she was an American though the cultural orientation she bore was something new to me, as I had never experienced it in the United States. She told me her name was Winnie Ntulele and was from South Africa. Our conversation lasted ...

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Racial discrimination has become an important social issue over the years as more and more people have been subjected to it. Of particular note are Asian immigrants in the United States, who are often victims of unfair treatment and other forms of prejudice. The occurrence of widespread racial discrimination in the U.S. brought Sucheng Chan to explore the meaning of race. If discrimination stems from extreme differences in color, then why are the Chinese, like the Japanese, Koreans and Filipinos who are not exactly dark-skinned, still discriminated? In the case of Takao Ozawa vs. United States (1902-1922), the US ...

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Sungesh Chan gives a descriptive history of Asian- Americans in the United States of America since the Asian immigration into America until the resent past. She captures the social, economic and political status of the Asian Americans in the American dominated country .Sucheng Chan is currently a History professor at the California University and the chair of Asian American studies. The book Asian American, gives a chronological account of Asians in the United States of America, pointing out the struggles and accomplishments of Asians in America. During the early 20th century the Asians in the United States were great victims of ...

Yvonne Liu-Fong introduces her article by acknowledging that heroes are defined by several features that vary from children to adults. All heroes differ in their own ways and for various reasons. She names her hero; Kim Toy, who is retired and 88 years in age. She learnt about him from a magazine for which her parents worked. She goes ahead to list the features that make Kim Toy her hero. Mr. Toy served as a soldier in the southern Pacific Ocean during World War II, and as a merchant marine. He is charitable and generous, helps in educating other Chinese people, and ...

The construction industry plays a significant role in economic growth; it is hence necessary to put in place measures and strategies to ensure the growth of this sector. Risk and value management are two approaches that are used to mitigate risk and add substantive value to such projects in an attempt to increase success of construction projects. This proposal calls for research on how the two approaches can be integrated to help promote growth in construction projects. The research seeks to achieve this objective by using both secondary and primary data. Secondary data will be collected from available literature whereas ...

Pain management is the essential aspect of the nursing practice because pain is one of the most common experiences in hospitalized patients. Pain is one of the highest concerns in healthcare delivery because it progressively lowers the quality of life by affecting the patients’ physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. However, pain is often overlooked because clinicians mainly focus on curing disease, and while all clinicians are responsible for prescribing analgesia to patients, most of the responsibility for the patients’ care, recovery, and well-being during hospitalization is assigned to nurses. All nurses must be familiar with both legal and ethical ...

For this study, it was hypothesized that the reaches and walking endurance of children with spastic CP were strengthened and reinforced after a physical therapy treatment is given to the subjects.

Chapter V. Theoretical Frame Work /Conceptual Framework

Pediatric Endurance and Limb Strengthening for children with Cerebral Palsy or “PEDALS” is one of four projects sponsored by the Physical Therapy Clinical Research Network (PTClinResNet), which is a member of the Inventory and Evaluation of Clinical Research Networks (IECRN). According to Fowler et al (2007), the PTClinREsNet was initially established in the year 2002, to espouse the research that investigated the effectiveness of physical therapy interventions. This national network ...

Cognitive Functions of the Brain

The phrase ‘Cognitive function’ in its basic form implies the mental processes of acquiring knowledge. The cognitive functions include reasoning, perception, intuition, creativity, predictable behavior, social interaction with others and problem solving among others. According to Baars and Gage (2010), part of the brain majorly concerned with cognitive function is the cerebrum cortex. However, in as much as we can say that this is part of the brain concerned with the cognitive functions, some of which mentioned above, the brain is holistic in nature (Baars & Gage, 2010). This implies that one part of the brain (for instance the cerebrum) ...