Case Study #9 Tea-Colored Urine Case Scenario:         Carmelita Gomez, age 8, is brought to the Children’s Clinic by her mother because she is nauseated and has vomited three times in the past 24 hours. Her urine has turned “tea colored”. Carmelita is lethargic and she is complaining of diffuse abdominal pain. Ten days ago she had a sore throat and fever and stayed home from […]

RESEARCH ARTICLE Clinical accuracy of point-of-care urine culture in general practice Anne Holma, Gloria Cordobaa, Tina Møller Sørensenb, Lisbeth Rem Jessenb, Niels Frimodt-Møllerc, Volkert Siersmaa and Lars Bjerruma aResearch Unit for General Practice and Department of General Practice, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; bDepartment of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; cDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark ABSTRACT Objective: To […]

Name:  W.F. Date: 6/12/17 Time: 1430   Age: 58 Sex: F SUBJECTIVE CC: “I have vaginal itching and burning, earache, and sore throat”  HPI: W.F. is a 58 y/o white female with a history of vaginal itching and burning.  She was treated in October 2014 with Acyclovir for r/o genital herpes.  She was instructed to follow-up with primary physician but she did not due to “not being able to afford […]

Pender’s. PEERS reply theory 1-Ciognay The term health promotion can be used to refer to the process of attempting to help individuals to achieve better and healthier lifestyles through behavioral and lifestyle changes as well as through supporting them to be better self-managers. The use of the health promotion model can help improve the welfare of individuals. This model requires healthcare providers to offer patients […]

Workplace Health Promotion Program Project Company Profile The company reviewed in this project is King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The institution of higher learning is a private research university with its location in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. KAUST was established in 2009, and has been profoundly providing research and graduate training programs (Farrar et al., 2009). Through situated in a country that largely […]

Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide Functional Health Pattern (FHP) Template Directions: This FHP template is to be used for organizing community assessment data in preparation for completion of the topic assignment. Address every bulleted statement in each section with data or rationale for deferral. You may also add additional bullet points if applicable to your community. Value/Belief Pattern · Predominant ethnic and cultural groups […]

Respond  in one or more of the following ways: Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, and evidence. Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives. Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own review of the literature in the Walden Library. Make a suggestion based on additional […]

1. Introduction  The introduction substantively presents all the following elements:  · Identifies the role of concept analysis within theory development. · Identifies the selected nursing concept. · Identifies the nursing theory that addresses the selected concept.  · Names the sections of the paper. · Scholarly support is required. 2. Definition/Explanation of the selected nursing concept This section includes:  · Defines/explains the concept using scholarly literature […]

Predictive Modeling as a Preventive Technology in the Health Sector Topic area The average human lifespan is increasing along with the world population, which poses new challenges to today’s treatment delivery methods. The health sector is capable of collecting massive amounts of data and look for best strategies to use the numbers. With the use of predictive modeling, the health sector has the potential to […]

International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:210–217 The aetiology of brain tumours is not well understood. Ionizing radiation and a genetic predisposition have been implicated as risk factors, however, they are thought to account for a small proportion of all such tumours.1 Positive associations between brain cancer and other occupational exposures such as vinyl chlorides,2–4 pesticides5 and electromagnetic fields6 have been observed in some studies, but, taken […]