Chapter 8 Case Study Essay

b. What medium would you use to reach each of these parties and what would your relative resource allocation be to each?

S.P. is admitted to the orthopedic ward. She has fallen at home and she has sustained an intracapsular fracture of the hip at the femoral neck. The following history is obtained from her: She is a 75-year-old widow with three children living nearby. Her father died of cancer at age 62; mother died of heart failure at age 79. Her height is 5’3 and weighs 118 pounds. She has a 50 pack year smoking history and denies alcohol use. She has severe Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and had an upper GI bleed in 1993 and had Coronary Artery Disease with CABG 9 months ago. Since that time, she has engaged in “very mild exercise at home.” Vital signs are 128/60, 98, 14, 99 degree farenheight (32.7 degrees C) SAO2 94%

The applicants are morally correct as long as their action promotes their long term interest. If their action produces or will produce for them a greater outcome of good, versus evil in the long hall than any other alternative, than that action is the right one to act on, and the individual should take that to be a moral act. An Assessment of Morality by Ethicsinbusiness.net

As a member of management Clive Jenkins is responsible for boosting employee morale to ensure that company goals are met

The court deciphering between criminal negligence and recklessness. Criminal negligence being a person failing to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.

IgG – funtions in neutralizing, opsonation, compliment activation, antibody dependent cell-mediated cytocity, neonatal immunity, and feedback inhibition of B-cells and found in the blood.

Poor work life balance for gen. y – When gen. y can’t work due to their social life outside of work. The gen. y wanted more flexible working hours instead of wanting to only have to work full-time. Francoli gave them the solution to pick between two option which where 1) was to work longer hours four days a week and have the Friday off or 2) employees get to choose when they want to work put to only 8 hours a day.

Scenario: John is a 4 year-old boy who was admitted for chemotherapy following diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).  He had a white blood cell count of 250,000.  Clinical presentation included loss of appetite, easily bruised, gum bleeding, and fatigue.  Physical examination revealed marked splenomegaly, pale skin color, temperature of 102°F, and upper abdomen tenderness along with nonspecific arthralgia.

Shakespeare Inc., a private publishing company issued its F/S on March 20, 2012. There were several accruals and events that the management of Shakespeare is considering to determine if they should be recognized or disclosed in Dec 31, 2011 F/S. In my opinion, the important things to focus on subsequent events are the period they effect and if their influence is material or not, so that in conclusion, the F/S are fairly presented.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology would be best reveal the location and extent of damage to Tim’s brain produced by his

Mr. Hugh Tudor (55 yrs) is a well-known person in Milville, where he has been living for 30 years. He is involved in lot of social activities and has a reasonable pension and savings. He is becoming restless in his retirement and shows interest in investing in The Leeds Livery, local British pub in Milville, which could provide him with more challenges. While discussing this matter with his friend, he found out that the pub has great potential to perform well as it once exceeded the profit percentage of the industry. Mr. Tudor is in the process of exploring this opportunity but still has several questions rising in his mind.

One of my patients who was at risk of falls was very eager to get up from bed at the begging of my shift therefore, it was important to start with his morning care first. This patient was blind and deaf, so I had to direct him where things are. He was a very polite man and easy to approach to talk to. I assisted him with a complete bed bath and then set up his tray for breakfast. I transferred the patient from bed to chair as soon as he finished his breakfast as he requested. I administered his morning medicines to this patient while sitting on the chair. His morning medicines included Pantoloc, Aspirin, vitamin B12 and Domperidone. Later in the afternoon the patient was transferred back to bed.

My clinical instructor and I went to my patient’s room to administer her medication. Before we gave Isosorbide mononitrate we checked her vital sign and BP was 119/ 76 and at 4am BP was 89/46, thus my instructor said we should not give this medication because the BP was low and if we give this medication it is going lower her BP and it is very dangerous for patient since she is getting dialysis. Thus, we held the medication and we notified the primary care provider and the patient’s nurse.

1.What do McRae and Costa mean by introversion and extraversion? Is Subira introverted or extraverted? Find examples in the case to support your answer.

81 y.o. female, admitted for hypertension and has a history of dementia. The woman was experiencing severe hypertension when she checked her blood pressure and her daughter immediately took her to the emergency department (ED). In the ED, she was given IV hydralazine and was also had a brain CT scan to rule out stroke. The patient was stable and on her bed with the lights off on arrival to the unit. She remained on the med-surg cardiac floor for continued management of her blood