NURSING DISCIPLINE – MENTAL HEALTH BRANCH From the 16th Century mental health patients were contained in asylums until mental health hospitals were introduced during the 1950’s. Sometimes people who were a disruptive or were only reacting in a normal way to difficulties in their lives were ‘put away’. Often patients were excessively medicated and subject […]
To learn about external means to measure blood pressure, observe features of venous circulation, and observe the effects of exercise on blood pressure and heart rate and practice using mercury sphygmomanometer and check the BP within 2 minutes. To compare yours resting BP with different apparatus. Methods: All you need to perform a blood pressure […]
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Get startedSystolic(top number)pressure as defined in the text would be the “aspect of a blood pressure reading which indicates the maximum arterial pressure occurring during contraction of the left ventricle of the heart” (Hatfield, 2018, p.398). Diastolic (bottom number) pressure as defined in the text is the “pressure exerted on the walls of the blood vessels […]
Introduction Nursing practitioners with effective reasoning skills always have a positive impact on the patient’s outcome. Conversely, nurses with poor clinical reasoning skills have a high potential of failing to detect the impending patient deterioration either from drug-body interactions or normal “failure to rescue.” These issues have resulted in increased number of escalating healthcare complaints […]
