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Taking a patient's temperature is an initial part of a full clinical examination. Sites used for measurement include: In the anus (r...

Body Fat The percentage body fat is calculated for males as 100*(-98.42 + 4.15*waist - 0.082*weight)/weight and for females as 100*(-76.76...

Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) The basal metabolic rate is calculated according to equations given by Harris and Benedict. For men: BMR = 13....

Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR) The waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is calculated by dividing your waist size by your height. The WHtR may give ...

Body-Mass Index (BMI) The body-mass index (BMI) is calculated by dividing your weight (in kg) by the square of your height (in meters). A ...

10. Fluid volume deficit r/t dehydrating effects of caffeine associated with increased student sightings at coffee bars. 9. Impaired socia...

Nursing Diagnosis based on the NANDA-I 2009-2011 NANDA-I 2007-2008 , contains 188 nursing diagnoses, including 26 of the revised diagnosis (...

Most recent 2009-2011 NANDA-I , contains an additional 21 new nursing diagnoses (*), 9th revision diagnosis and some diagnoses that are no...

Most recent 2009-2011 NANDA-I , contains an additional 21 new nursing diagnoses (*), 9th revision diagnosis and some diagnoses that are no...

Most recent 2009-2011 NANDA-I , contains an additional 21 new nursing diagnoses (*), 9th revision diagnosis and some diagnoses that are no...

The nurse role in the care of the patient with a pleural effusion includes: Implementing the medical regimen. The nurse prepares and positi...

Supportive Therapy Model Supportive Therapy is a relatively new mode of psychotherapy that is widely used in hospital and community based p...

Existential Model The existential model focuses on the person’s experience in the here and now, with much less attention to the person’s pa...

Interpersonal Model The theorist most representative of the interpersonal model is Harry Stack Sullivan . A twentieth-century American Ther...

Psychoanalytic Model Psychoanalytic theory was developed by Sigmund Freud in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focused...

Mental Health In 1991 the Australian Health Ministers (AHM) conference provided a definition of mental health that will serve as a starting...

Psychoanalytical Therapeutic Process Psychoanalysis uses free association and dream analysis to reconstruct the personality. Free associatio...

Interpersonal Therapeutic Process The interpersonal therapist , like the psychoanalyst, explores the patient’s life history. The crux of the...

Asthma is a long-term disease that can't be cured. The goal of asthma treatment is to control the disease. Good asthma control...

Asthma is a chronic (long-term) lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways. Asthma causes recurring periods of wheezing (a whistli...

A urethral stricture is a narrowing of a section of the urethra. It causes a blocked or reduced flow of urine which can lead to complicatio...

Nursing Assessment Nursing Diagnosis and Nursing Intervention for Meningitis (1) Activities Symptoms: feeling bad (malaise). Signs: ataxia, ...

Low Back Pain Nursing Assessment Patients with Low Back Pain, guided to explain the discomfort (eg, location, weight, duration, nature, prop...

Nursing Assessment for Tonsillitis The main complaint : Pain in the throat, painful swallowing, fever etc. History of present illness : an a...

Nursing Care Plan for Dengue Fever Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a disease caused by dengue virus of a virus belonging to arbovirus an...

Definition - Diarrhea Diarrhea is a bowel movement (defecation), with feces as a liquid or semi-liquid, thus the water content in the stool...

Definition - Bronchopneumonia Bronchopneumonia was the pneumonia that on one or more lung lobes are characterized by patches of infiltrates ...

Hypertension Nursing Assessment Assessment is the main basis of the nursing process. Assessment is the first step in one of the nursing pr...

Anemia Anaemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or their oxygen-carrying capacity is insufficient to meet physiologic...

Nursing Care Plan for Bronchiectasis Nursing Care Plan for Bronchiectasis Bronchiectasis Bronchiectasis is destruction and widening...

NCP for Typhoid Fever NCP - Nursing Care Plan for Typhoid Fever Typhoid Fever Typhoid fever is a bacterial infection characterized by dia...