Understanding Diabetes: Types, Symptoms, and Consequences
TIPI DI DIABETE
—-Diabetes type 1:
is characterized by a lack of insulin production ———-Diabetes type 2:
is caused by the body’s ineffective use of insulin; it often results from excess body weight and physical inactivity———-Diabetes insipidus DI:
excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine. (Central DI
-involves a deficiency of antidiuretic hormone, is a neurological form-Nephrogenic Diabetes insipidus
-Kidney or nephron dysfunction: insensitivity toOccupational Hazards Prevention and Safety Measures
THE PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
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Define Health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease and pain.
An occupational risk is the possibility that a worker suffers an injury on the work carried out for another.
A serious and imminent risk is when it is reasonably likely to materialize in the immediate future and may cause serious harm to health.
Damage is any injury arising from work, illness, or disease that you suffer as a result
Burns and Lower Back Pain: Assessment, Recovery, and Treatment
BURNS
Natural vs Man-Made Disasters: Impact, Response, and Management
Natural vs Man-Made Disasters: Impact, Response, and Management
-Natural Disaster>> Man madeNatural Example: Bubonic Plague (Yersinia Pestis)Man Made: Chernobyl
-Today there is a Weaving Of Man Made & Natural Disaster —-> Smallpox reemergence/Disease outbreak due to Rapid Travel Ability!
Disaster Med Definition:
^^Disaster Def:
| -”Bad Star ” in Greek -Serious disruption of SocietyFunction, Causing Widespread human /Material orenvironmentalLoss, Exceeding theabilityofSocietyto cope with |
Breastmilk Nutrition and Infant Development
Breastmilk Nutrition: Benefits and Production
Reduce infection, antibodies immunity (IgA), protect against allergies, asthma, SIDS, skin-to-skin, taste introduction, and digestible (less gas) – recommended until 6 months or iron formula, vitamin D supplements, 2x living cells as blood, avoid if chemo, TB, HIV, herpes. Milk production: prolactin due to suckling and oxytocin. Colostrum: clear yellow, more concentrated with immunity and nutrients, less fat. Assess/implement latch, audible swallow, nipple,
Read MoreEvolution of Nursing: From Past to Present
Topic 1: Nursing: a profession
Florence Nightingale (1859)
…having “charge of the personal health of somebody . . . , and what nursing has to do . . . is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
Virginia Henderson (1961)
“to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to a peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such
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