Hypertension (HTN) or high blood pressure‚ sometimes called arterial hypertension‚ is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is elevated.[1] This requires the heart to work harder than normal to circulate blood through the blood vessels. Blood pressure is summarised by two measurements‚ systolic and diastolic‚ which depend on whether the heart muscle is contracting (systole) or relaxed between beats (diastole). Normal blood pressure at rest is within the range of
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HYPERTENSION What is hypertension? Hypertension‚ also known as high blood pressure‚ is a common condition that occurs when the pressure of the blood in your artery walls is so high; it starts to complicate your health. Your blood pressure is based on how much the heart pumps and the amount of resistance to the blood flowing in the arteries. The harder it pumps‚ the more constricted the arteries are‚ the higher the blood pressure reads. High blood pressure can be in a person for years and go
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Prevalence of hypertension and pre-hypertension in rural women: A report from the villages of West Bengal‚ a state in the eastern part of India ajr_1287 219..225 Anindita Dutta‚ PhD‚1‚2 and Manas Ranjan Ray‚ PhD2 1 College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering‚ Peking University‚ Beijing‚ China; and Department of Experimental Hematology‚ Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute‚ Kolkata‚ India 2 Abstract Objective: To find out the prevalence of hypertension‚ pre-hypertension and tachycardia
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Health History (other hospitalizations & surgeries): Right knee replacement (2010). Hysterectomy‚ Cholecystectomy Date of admission: 10/12/2011 Admitting Diagnosis: Macular degeneration‚ COPD‚ Asthma‚ GERD‚ Rheumatoid arthritis‚ Hypertension Anticipated Nursing Plan of Care: maintain airway patency‚enhance nutritional intake‚ relieve and control painprevent or minimize development of myocardial complication. Frequency of Vital Signs: once daily Blood sugar:normal Diet:
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Review of Dinoflagellate Bloom in term athropological effect and biogeographic range. Abstract Dinoflagellates are common and abundant to the marine and estuarine system‚ it were characterized by the 2 flagella that are located on the girdle and sulcus. The girdle grooves divides the body into 2 parts‚ in which its orientation‚ size and shape can be used to indentify them in morphological taxonomy. Toxic dinoflagellates are known to cause diarhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP)‚ paralytic shellfish poisoning
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infer relationships between organisms over time | Taxonomy | * Branch of systematic biology * Process of identifying‚ naming and organising biodiversity into related categories | Taxon | General name for a group containing an organisms or groups of organisms that exhibit a set of shared traits | Classification | Process of naming and assigning organisms or groups of organisms to a taxon | Taxonomists | Scientists that study taxonomy | Aristotle’s sorting | * Sort organisms into groups
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HYPERTENSION Our paper discusses the importance of nutrition and how it plays a part on our health. Specifically focusing on the disorder‚ hypertension. Hypertension is the medical diagnosis term used for when a person has high blood pressure. Blood pressure is a measurement of the force against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood through your body. In this paper‚ we go into depth on how certain types of foods increase our blood pressure and what we can do to minimize it. Lifestyle
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prevention-based education. How do teaching principles‚ varied learning styles (for both the nurse and her patients)‚ and teaching methodologies impact the quality of such education? How does understanding a patient’s view of health promotion and disease prevention guide you in teaching them? Provide an example. Nurses working in a hospital setting are confronted daily with the diversity of their patients. Being mindful of the culture‚ level of education and learning style that patients present with is challenging
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Teaching plan 1 Running head: Teaching plan for NPO patient Teaching plan for NPO patient Dona Hubbard Hampton University NUR-327-01-F07 Georgiana Bougher and Brenda Rhea November 3‚ 2007 Teaching plan 2 The purpose of a teaching plan is to educate a patient about treatment‚ medications‚ diet‚ or any procedure that pertains to their care. If the client is educated then there is a better chance that they will be compliant with the instructions for their care. The nurse
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Bloom’s Taxonomy / Adult Learning Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education proposed in 1956 by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom who also edited the first volume of the standard text‚ Taxonomy of educational objectives: the classification of educational goals. Bloom’s Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three domains: Cognitive‚ Affective‚ and Psychomotor. Here‚ I will explain only the cognitive domain: Skills in the cognitive
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