Essays on Newhouse

After Giving Birth

NR451 RN Capstone Course Term and Year After Giving Birth Even though postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of mortality after giving birth, most health care facilities do not have a standardized measures to assess blood volume loss and rely only on visual estimations for assessing and documenting blood loss. Consequently, blood loss below 250 mL tends to be overestimated, whereas blood loss above 2,000 mL tends to be underestimated (Bamberg et al., 2015). Inaccurate diagnosis of PPH delays treatment and increases mortality risk among intrapartum and postpartum women, so the purpose of the proposed nursing plan ...

The roles of advanced practice nursing have been prominent in recent years, thereby providing an opportunity for advanced practice nurse to show their expertise in what they can do best in healthcare facilities, to maintain the wellbeing of the patients. However, there are a number of challenges that the advanced practice nurse encounter, which, in one way or the other prevent them from doing what they really can. This discussion will focus on strategies that can be used specially by advanced practice nurse, to recapitulate and review the pertinent of literature in their practices (Newhouse et al., 2011). In ...

During my past few years as a nursing student and as a trainee nurse at this institute, I have come across different situations and experiences that have molded my thought process, my goals, and my whole personality. I have chosen the question: What do you feel you can contribute to the patient, for this assignment. Though I have chosen the nursing career with my own goals in mind, clinical experience has made me realize the extent to which patients are reliant on the nurse. I can confidently state that it would be impossible for hospitals to function without nurses. ...

NR451 RN Capstone Course

Term and Year Skin-to-Skin Contact for Neonates The separation of mother and neonate for non-urgent medical reasons is a growing trend in nursing practice. However, research has indicated that the practice can have a deleterious long term effect on the healthy infant and mother with regard to breast feeding, cardio-respiratory stability, and blood glucose levels (Moore, Anderson, Bergman, & Dowswell, (2014). The solution to the problem is to initiate skin-to-skin contact at birth (Moore, et al., 2014). The nursing focused plan is to introduce the practice of skin-to-skin contact following birth, which entails placing the naked infant prone on the ...

Ideology in Allen Ginsberg’s “America” and “Sunflower Sutra”

Ideology is a very important topic as it relates to literature. Literature is one of the primary methods in which people that perhaps are not within the mainstream of culture, politics and society employ to question hegemonic power structures. Dominant power structures are often posed primarily as the synthesis of modernity, objective reality, logocentrism, patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism, which are often cited in shorthand as “imperialism.” The United States, after the Second World War the period in which Allen Ginsberg and the other beat generation writers were most active was arguably the point in world history in which ...

Pain Management in Hospice Care

Pain is one of the sources of discomfort for the patients admitted in hospice care. Motivated by the need to rectify the paucity of information on the characteristics of pain for the patients who have other terminal diseases other than cancer, Romem et al., (2015) performed a retrospective study in which they wanted to compared the characteristics of pain for those patients admitted for dementia treatment and those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with those admitted for cancer. Romem et al., (2015) found that there was a high prevalence of pain as a source of discomfort for patients ...

The American Civil War led to the reduction of government revenue and large debts amassed from the financing of war operations. One strategy that the government implemented was using taxes to raise the funds from the public. This approach led to certain products being taxed, for this reason, one of them being tobacco. However, with time, these taxes were effectively recalled with the exception of cigarette taxes, which have remained to the present time. Tobacco has been identified as one of the oldest crops in the U.S and has also been cited as one of the most successful enterprises, ...