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History In 1997, a line of H5N1 avian influenza was transmitted to a child in Hong Kong who died with respiratory problems. This was the first of successive recorded cases of transmission of this virus from birds to humans breeding. Since then, the world worried accompanies the movement of this virus. Though related to severe [...]
Atherosclerosis is the hardening of the arteries, caused mostly by excessive colesteroly substances resulting from degradation. Causes a decrease in the amount of blood that leads to the various organs, causing injuries to them. The diseases that can lead to atherosclerosis are: – Angina pectoris and myocardial infarction. – Arteriosclerosis of the extremities (cold hands [...]
Accreditation is the assessment that an external body made of an individual, organization or activity, in our case the continuous training activities, using pre-established criteria and standards. Is configured as a system, commonly accepted, for the improvement of continuing education. Nursing shared with other health professions recognition, as a guarantee of quality training, the credits [...]
Surgical care aims to patient safety and safeguarding their human dignity, is implemented through the use of more sophisticated and complex technologies available to modern biomedicine. Its proper use requires a much more intellectual craft, or occupation and not a trade, through the work of a multidisciplinary team and the trade in which the nurse [...]
What is Nursing? It is the profession responsible for managing the care of people in all that relates to the promotion, maintenance, restoration of their health and prevent diseases and injuries, including actions arising from the diagnosis and medical treatment and management of resources required. The hospital is therefore a scientific and humanist profession, whose [...]
Among many other cases, the nurses are trying daily to people who are affected by Alzheimer’s, conducting a series of care and functions that will facilitate the acceptance and treatment of disease. Since nursing is involved in various pathologies and diseases existing today I will focus on “the forgotten disease.” Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive [...]
A diagnosis is to identify the nature or essence of a situation or problem and the possible or probable cause of it. You apply a personal approach to identify the nursing problems in the area of health care that is directed towards nursing. A diagnosis is a clinical trial on the response of the individual, [...]
Preventive activities and health of adults of the future: “Today’s children, the adults of tomorrow. ” This is a phrase that is used in several areas, in this case is focused on health and the growing concern about the increase in diseases that require early preventive action, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, some cancers and [...]
Nursing school is committed to the development of self-knowledge of the nursing discipline on existing knowledge to validate and generate new ones, which are applied to practice. Also seeks the integral formation of students with scientific, ethical, moral and humanistic-centered health care for the individual, family and social group, incorporating and applying models and theories [...]
The nursing health care is the profession responsible for managing the care of people in all that relates to the promotion, maintenance, restoration of their health and prevent diseases and injuries, including actions arising from the diagnosis and medical treatment and management of resources required. The hospital is therefore a scientific and humanist profession, whose [...]