...from entering the blood of the fetus and not the harmful or potentially dangerous materials. This paper will contemplate whether pregnant women should refrain from consuming alcohol until their pregnancy is over. There are many reasons to support the elimination of alcohol from the diet of a pregnant woman the most dominant being the endangerment of the health of the fetus. Therefore, some believe blood test should be mandatory for all pregnant women to detect the presence of alcohol. In addition, the responsibility of the mother is exceedingly questionable because if she is willing to risk the health of the child prior to birth, if she has the patience and perseverance to care for the child after birth. Danger to the fetus is not the only concern in this position, as studies have shown the increase of the chances of cancer as well as a variety of other issues in almost all parts of the body as well as cardiovascular problems possibly leading to a double death of the mother and child. This double death may also be a product of the drunkenness caused when drinking which obscures common sense as well as higher brainpower, there have been cases of suicide as a result of pregnancies and alcohol combined. On the other hand, responsibility of the fetus by its parents should be voluntary. The right to choose should not be suspended from parents/pregnant women nor are blood tests a reasonable solution to...
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...Indian camp The story takes place at a shore in the pre-dawn hours as the young boy Nick, his father, his uncle and their Indian guides row with quick choppy strokes across a lake to a nearby Indian camp. Nick’s father, who is a doctor, is on his way to help an Indian woman. He only knows that they are going to visit an Indian lady who is very sick, which he tells his son, Nick. When they arrive at the camp, they realize that the sick lady is actually a pregnant woman. She has been trying to have her baby for nearly two days and all the Indian women in the camp had been trying to help her. They find the pregnant woman in a cabin, lying on a wooden bunk. Her husband is also present, but he lies above her with an injured foot. Nick is very curious of what is happening, so his father explains Nick the reasons why pregnant women are in labor. He is also showing Nick how to deal with a pregnant woman who is in a lot of pain. The pregnant woman will have to deliver her baby right now, but Nick's father doesn’t have his regular equipment with him for dealing with situations like this, so he is forced to perform a caesarian operation on the woman with a jackknife and some tapered gut leaders because of the baby who is already in breech position. He asks Nick to assist him by holding a basin for him. The woman screams throughout the operation, and she even takes uncle George by surprise by biting him. While Nick’s father is operating on the lady, Nick’s curiosity is slowly...
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...In the video “pregnant stroke-Incident Scene” the paramedics are called to attend to a patient who is 28 weeks pregnant, and collapsed at home. I will be looking at ways the paramedic demonstrated therapeutic communication techniques when attending to the patient. Through my assignment I will use the “So what” reflection cycle. Therapeutic communication is the communication between a health professional and a patient and is also extended to the family members. Some of the techniques that can be used in therapeutic communication are active listening, summarising, and paraphrasing to gain trust from their patients. “According to Mosby’s Dictionary (2012), therapeutic communication is a process where health professional use verbal and non-verbal communication to encourage patients to express ideas and feelings and at the same time gain respect”. In the video the paramedic is asking the patient to squeeze his hand as an indication she understands what he is saying. The paramedic is also kneeling to ensure he’s at the same level with the patient. This creates a relaxed environment for all parties and shows respect to the patient. The paramedic is also using touch as a sign of emotional support and this creates trust. “According to Berman et al. (2015), “Providing appropriate forms of touch reinforces emotional support, encouragement, caring and personal attention”. We also see the paramedic using open ended questions to get information about the patient from the husband...
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...brother-in-law, who gives him a sofa and some paint. His girlfriend Maria is pregnant. One day Maria comes over, Kenny shows proudly his flat to her. But Marie did not seem impressed. He cooks for her but the atmosphere seems uptight. After the dinner Maria will like to watch TV, but she changes her mind, and goes home. Kenney takes a bath and smokes a joint to forget all until next morning. The next day he eats dinner with his parents. On the way home he drinks a beer to forget all. The next day, he spends all the day in bed. He called Marie. She sounds happier and tells that her father has got a job again. Now everything will be easier. She says she would like to come over the next evening. Kenney was forced to borrow money from his mother, that he could afford food. They make dinner together. The next morning Maria goes home, but she is coming back few days later. This time they sleep together for the first time in a while. Next morning they are going to paint the flat. Maria decides it should be blue. The smell of the paint is making Maria a bit of sick, and she goes for a walk. When Kenny had finish painting he hands the keys back to the neighbour and leaves the estate onto the main road. B) An essay about the text: The theme in the story is love and the young people’s problems. This story illustrates how the poverty can lead into troubles. Maria has been pregnant, presumably is it a stroke of bad luck, because they do not have money enough to take care of the baby...
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...estrogren. Finally, extended-cycle birth control pills are taken for a longer period and eliminate the need for monthly menstruation. Yaz Birth Control News October 2012 Update. Free legal consultation. Top law firm. Yazbirthcontrolinjurylaw.com Sponsored Links Benefits Besides the obvious benefit of protecting against an unwanted pregnancy, there are also many other benefits to taking the birth control pill. It can help treat endometriosis and reduce pelvic inflammatory disease, according to the University of Wisconsin Health Service department. However, perhaps one of the most important benefits of the birth control pill is that it can protect against cancer. According to the University of Wisconsin Health Service, taking the pill for over a year...
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...Kelsey Knepper Prof. Cousin ENGL 1613-8am class 13 October 2014 Birth Control Pills Birth control pills are used widely by women all over the world. On average, about 150 million women use birth control worldwide. Only five out of one hundred women each year who use this method are likely to get pregnant. In the United States, 62% of women use a form of contraception, and about 10.5 million of those women use birth control pills. Many women also use birth control pills to control and reduce cramping during the menstrual cycle, prevent acne, and develop stronger bones. Unfortunately, what many women do not realize is, is that birth control pills can also be very harmful to a women’s body. Birth control should be taken out of the general public to prevent women from becoming unhealthy. Birth control should be removed from public consumption because it can cause different kinds of cancer, blood clots, gall bladder disease, benign liver tumors, strokes, and high blood pressure. First off, birth control pills can cause a variety of cancers. Cancers such as breast cancer and cervical cancer may develop from taking the pill. Breast cancer is a major cancer that can develop from taking birth control pills. According to one article, “a 1996 analysis of epidemiologic data from more than 50 states worldwide by the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer found that women who were current or recent users of birth control pills had a slightly higher risk of developing...
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...it is known that the woman is experiencing cerebrovascular attack. CVA or popularly known as stroke, needs a complex care as it involves plenty of communication barriers between patient and healthcare professionals, such as weakness, numbness, vision, and particularly, speech abnormalities (Grear & Bushnell, 2013). As stroke involves difficult communication, healthcare professionals need advanced skills of communication. For the purpose of the essay requirement, I will review how healthcare professional is conducting session with a patient from the therapeutic communication perspective. A patient is recently assigned to a hospital through emergency department. When paramedic team performs clinical handover to a nurse, he describes that the patient is 35 years old, 28 weeks pregnant and has history of hypertension. The nurse learns that she has difficulty in communication and gives a simple guideline. This is where the essence of therapeutic communication plays a great role. Anytime she shakes her head means affirmation and nodding means negation. Afterward, the nurse describes that there will be some other healthcare professionals visiting her. The first healthcare worker coming in after nurse is the radiographer. His intention is to inform and ask a consensual agreement of CT scan to the patient’s brain. The scanning procedure is necessary to determine the where and how far the stroke has attacked the brain. Without informing anything related to the advantages and disadvantages...
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...Cigarettes Should Be Put Out For Good My head is pounding. My clothes smell horrible. My coughing is overwhelming me. These thoughts repeated in my head as I sat in my grandparents’ house. I had been there for less than thirty minutes and was ready to go home. The smoke was getting to me. I had to get out of their house. I had to escape the cigarette smoke that was slowly making me sick. I had to get away from the deadly killer. I love my grandparents, but I hate their bad habit. Cigarettes were pushing me away from them. My grandparents have been smokers for over thirty years. They smoke at least a pack a day each. They are addicts. Cigarettes have taken over their lives, one pack at a time. The cigarettes are slowly killing them and affecting...
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...third of the world’s work is done by women. In most cases, it is the women who run the household and who care for the children. Additionally, many women contribute to the household income at the same time. Women are often the first to get up and the last to go to bed. Women need to do twice as much as men to prove she is half as good - this is often taken for granted. Hardly anyone thinks that women should be thanked for the hard work that they accomplish every single day - until the day that she are not around and her husband needs to take over… Let’s face it: a woman’s life is beautiful but also exhausting and stressful. Significantly more women than men are found to suffer from stress, especially when they are mothers. While stress is a risk factor for a variety of health problems, it also affects her and her family’s daily life: * Changes in affection: Stress results in poorer relationships and less affection. On the other hand, affection reduces stress hormones and contributes to a lower stress level. * Reduced Sex Drive: Stress may lower libido because elevated levels of stress hormones cortisol suppress the body’s natural sex hormones. * Insomnia: Stress is a common cause of insomnia, which can in turn lead to difficulty concentrating, irritability and a lack of motivation. * Depression: Women are twice as likely to experience depression as men. In many cases, stress is an important trigger for depression. * Irregular Menstrual Periods: Acute...
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...With regards to this assignment the aims are to analyse patterns of health within the adult population regarding health disease and exclusion, whilst also having the ability to assess the health needs and the impacts they have on individuals and their communities. The assignment targets to analyse and investigate public health perspectives, ideologies, with the use of current legislation and policies. Public health aims to help people avoid becoming ill with strategies to help stay healthy, this is defined by the Department of Health (2012) which states a variety of policy areas of concern, these include immunisations, alcohol, drug users, sexual health, pregnancy, smoking, alcohol and a child’s health (DOH, 2012). The health issue chosen for this assignment will be smoking in pregnancy and the implications smoking can have with regards to health issues and the problems faced globally, nationally and within a chosen demographical area. In order to clarify what is meant by the term ‘health’ an understanding must be achieved and although according to the World Health Organisation (1986) health being ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. Although this is a highly thought of definition according to Macaulay & Herbert (2011) the (WHO, 1986) definition of health is no longer appropriate and should be changed towards ‘the ability to adapt and self-manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges’...
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...while communicating as this is an essential aspect of helping the patient who is experiencing health problems or distress, as well as facilitating the development of a positive nurse-client relationship. Childs,Jenkinson,Williamson. (2008) point out that. “Benner developed a linear theory to explain how nurses develop practical skills and move from being novice practitioners to becoming expert practitioner” (p.153). I have selected the “Hand over” scenario as it really inspired me as a student nurse; I am highly motivated to develop the vital skills needed in the years to come as there will be allot of opportunities as hand over is a vital part of a healthcare professional. In the scenario, before the paramedic hands over to the nurse he lets Sally know that he will be ensuring the nurse about her situation, the paramedic then informs the nurse about Sally, who is 35 years old and 28 weeks pregnant who lost consciousness while having breakfast with her husband. The paramedic also informs the nurse how Sally is primarily suspected of have a stroke as she has a history of high potential and some history of stoke in the family. After the paramedic’s examination before arriving to the hospital Sally is found to have a high blood pressure, he also informs the nurse that Sally is not on any medication and is not allergic to anything that they know of. As the paramedic is leaving he ensures that Sally understands that he has informed all the information to the nurse and they will all do...
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...Even though there are many ways that cloning can help to improve lives, there are still some people who worry that it could do the opposite. This sparks a debate over the moral and legal issues of cloning, and how it could deprive humans of their lives in certain ways of cloning such as reproductive cloning. They worry that embryos and fetus’ will be grown for their stem cells, which is essential for cloning. "Several countries have enacted legislation to ban human cloning.”(Cloning) as well as “several states have passed their own laws prohibiting such research.”(Cloning) This “raises a number of challenging scientific, legal, philosophical, and ethical issues.”(Cloning) These examples show multiple Government’s views on cloning. And how...
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...WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY LA PAZ, ILOILO CITY I. INTRODUCTION SWIMMING Swimming is an aquatic sport which is based on the human act of swimming. Basically, the goal of swimming sport is to complete a given distance in the smallest time. Different swimming competitions are held which are totally based on speed and endurance such as crossing an English Channel. Swimming as a sport, is different from other aquatic sports like diving, synchronized swimming and water polo that involves the act of swimming but the goal is neither speed nor endurance. However, it is widely believe that swimming is the best aerobic exercise in the world. During 19th century, competitive swimming became very popular and the international swimming association, Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) was formed in the year 1908. Professional swimming develops with the formation of this swimming association. There are thirty six officially individual swimming events including 18 male events and 18 female events. These competitive swimming events are governed and organized by FINA. However, among 36 events only 34 of them are recognized by the International Olympic Committee which includes 17 male and 17 female. (Source: sportslister.com/swimming) WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY LA PAZ, ILOILO CITY II. HISTORY SWIMMING The sport of swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Agepaintings from around 7,000...
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...(Half Butterfly) How to do? Sit with legs outstretched. Bend the right leg and place the right foot as far up on the left thigh as possible. Place the right hand on top of the bent right knee. Hold the toes of the right foot with the left hand. While breathing in, gently move the right knee up towards the chest. Breathing out, gently push the knee down and try to touch the floor. The trunk should not move. Movement of leg should be achieved by the exertion of the right arm. Repeat with left leg. Slowly practice about 10 up and down movements with each leg. DO NOT STRAIN. Benefits It is an excellent practice for loosening of hip and knee joints, which shall enable faster delivery. 2. Poorna Titali Asan (Full Butterfly) How to do? Sit with legs outstretched. Bend the knees and bring the soles of the feet together, keeping the heels as close to the body as possible. Fully relax the inner thighs. Clasp the feet with both hands. Gently bounce the knees up and down, using the elbows as levers to press the legs down. Do not use any force. Repeat up to 20-30 times. Straighten the legs and relax. Benefits Tension from inner thigh muscles is relieved. Removes tiredness from legs. 3. Supta UdarakarshanAsan (Sleeping Abdominal Stretch Pose) How to do? Lie in the back. Interlock fingers of both hands and place hands beneath the head. Bend knees, keeping the soles of feet on the floor. While breathing out lower the legs towards the right, trying to touch the knees on the...
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...International, the animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and "killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means"(Humane Society International, "About Animal Testing," hsi.org). Animals can suffer like humans do, therefore it’s speciesism to experiment on them while we eschew experimenting on humans. All and any suffering is undesirable, whether it be directed toward humans or animals. Animals subjected during animal testing go through pain and suffering at the hands of researchers during testing. These animals are poked, burned, poisoned, and deprived of basic needs, infected with lethal diseases, addicted to drugs and brain damaged all in the name of scientific...
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