An analysis of patient care on an acute medical ward
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
The aim of this patient care study is to discuss the care and nursing interventions that a particular patient received whilst staying on acute medical ward. Clause five of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Code of Professional Conduct (2002) states that “as a registered nurse or midwife...
Drug error in a practice placement
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
For this summative assignment using a reflective model of my choice, I am going to critically reflect upon an aspect of my professional development which has been chosen from my professional portfolio. Reflective writing is considered a key component of portfolio assessment because it provides...
A discussion and analysis of wound care
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
The aim of this essay is to explore the underlying theory of wound care. This will be broken down and looked at in terms of comfort, safety, and status and assessment of the nursing model - activities of daily living concerning wound care. Under examination will be definitions of care and...
Analysis of care with regards to patient admission into a high tech area within a medical high dependency unit
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The aim of this essay is to discuss the nature of illness and dependence in relation to the issues that the nurse should take into account when providing evidence-based care. The issues that will be analyzed are the nursing process and nursing models, the implications of nursing technology on the...
A medical case study concerning an elderly man with congestive heart failure
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
For the purpose of this case study the patient shall be referred to as John to ensure patient privacy and confidentiality in accordance with the Health Information Privacy Code 1994 (Burgess, 1999). John is an 80-year-old European male. He lives with his wife who is a very supportive person. John...
The yellow emperor's moral canon of politicized medical ideology the science behind politically correct medicine
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine makes many attempts to disguise itself as a scientific medical text that contains the secrets of well being and longevity. Though surrounded by this framework, the text itself contains very little in regards to medicinal remedies and ventures most...
Theory of everything
Thesis - 4 pages - Physics
This is a theory that represents the ultimate goal of science. It seeks to discover what the basic components of the material world are and what equations can be used to describe their movements. In refers to the discipline of physics and it is a theory that brings together the four fundamental...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Thesis - 3 pages - Medical studies
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name given to chronic bronchitis and emphysema, two conditions which often exist together and cause the narrowing of the airways. This causes a limitation on the amount of air that is circulated through the lungs and results in shortness of...
Structuring the communication process between the nurse and patient/client
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Communication is possibly one of the most important tasks nurses perform in the execution of their duties. We may as a matter of habit take for granted the way we greet and end encounters with those around us, not considering what these actions portray. As professionals greater emphasis must be...
A study of LCD displays
Dissertation - 36 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The important considerations in the present field of electronics and electronic technologies are automation, power consumption and cost effectiveness. Automation is intended to reduce the manpower with the help of intelligent systems. In this project, we are going to count the number of...
A study of home security system
Thesis - 27 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Home security systems provide security from threats such as intruders or thieves, by sounding a siren to grab the attention of the public. Two sensor pairs are placed in the system. Among them one pair of receiver sensors is connected to the entrance of the house and the transmitter is carried by...
A study of global position system (GPS) receivers
Tutorials/exercises - 80 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
With today's global position system (GPS) receivers, we are able to pinpoint our own position, but what's more useful about GPS receivers is that they can transmit our position information to other receivers. We decided to use both of these features to create a wireless vehicle navigation system....
A study of tele-operated intelligent mobile robots
Dissertation - 30 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Real time embedded systems are time-critical systems that are hard to implement as compared to traditional software, due to large numbers of conflicting requirements. This project describes an application of advance modeling techniques to improve the development of embedded systems. In our...
How to control a Dish antenna from a remote area
Thesis - 25 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The development of this Remote Controlled Dish Antenna application requires the configuration of the micro controller architecture, writing (code) and debugging of the application program. In this application the status of the dish antenna such as direction, angle will be controlled by the user...
Applications and Limitations of Diagnostic Imaging - published: 07/07/2009
Presentation - 58 pages - Medical studies
The traditional evaluation of the patient includes the history and physical examination and a well-planned set of diagnostic tests, often including imaging. Dramatic advances in imaging not only supplement the physical examination, but also now may begin to substitute for part of it. Medical...
Applications using RF modules
Dissertation - 36 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
An embedded project is a combination of hardware and software, designed to perform a specific task. In embedded technology the embedded programming is burnt into the AT8C52 micro controller. The main scope of the project is mainly based on the advertising of applications using RF Modules. In...
Sexuality of older women with select chronic illnesses
Thesis - 3 pages - Medical studies
The literature of human sexual dysfunction tends to focus on the problems of men; specifically erectile dysfunction. There are relatively fewer investigations into sexual problems experienced by women, even though the studies that have been conducted indicate that women experience sexual...
Study of Gibberellins' Effect on Height and Biomass of Rosette and Wild Type Brassica rapa
Case study - 6 pages - Biology
Gibberellins (GA) are plant hormones involved with overall plant growth. Brassica Rapa, a flowering plant species, which possesses the wild type phenotype or the rosette, dwarfed, phenotype, was used to explore the effects of Gibberellins on the two varieties' overall height, which can have an...
Actions of a progestin derived from 19-norprogestérone on the mammary gland: The nomégestrol acetate
Thesis - 14 pages - Medical studies
Réceptologie work showed that the acetate nomégestrol a high specificity and affinity for the progesterone receptor, especially in the normal human breast tissue and cancer. It significantly inhibits the synthesis of progesterone receptors in breast cancer cells, hormone-dependent human T-47D in...
Mini-epidemics of infection by Pseudomonas and its outbreak
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
Although outbreaks of infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pseu extra-mural have been described, this germ is not pathogenic in the immune competent host. For against, it is a major agent of nosocomial infections, especially in the ICU, where he is responsible for pneumonia, urinary or skin...
Serotonin syndrome: A risk that should not be overlooked
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Serotonin syndrome is a complication potentially lethal psychotropic. It is characterized by altered mental status and the presence of disorders neuro vegetative and neuromuscular. In most cases, this syndrome is secondary to the prescription of several drugs responsible for an increased rate of...
Reducing multi-medication in the elderly
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The multi medication is generally defined as taking more than four concomitant medications. However, it can also be defined as the prescribing or use more drugs than those actually needed to care for a patient. The latter definition adds a qualitative dimension, that of the adequacy of the...
Prevention of recurrence of pre-term birth by progesterone
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
For years, the prescription of progesterone in the event of a threat of premature birth was normal, despite the absence of any demonstration of a fetal or neonatal benefit in this situation. The description of an increased risk of cholestasis of pregnancy during this treatment was terminated this...
LED syndrome antiphospholipide and CNS
Thesis - 11 pages - Medical studies
The neurolupus represents the second leading cause of death in the LED. Although its incidence is high, it remains difficult to diagnose because of the diversity of events and the possible confusion with other brain diseases. In the absence of pathognomonic lesions, the diagnostic approach based...
Optical fiber based communication systems
Thesis - 26 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
For years, fiber optics has been merely a system for piping light around corners and into the inaccessible places to allow the hidden to be lighted. But now, fiber optics has evolved into a system of significantly greater importance and use. Throughout the world, it is now being used to transmit...
Pharmacodynamics of substance abuse
Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies
Abuse of pharmacologically active substances has attracted in recent decades numerous pharmacological studies, using a wide range of models and methods, and generating a considerable literature. Several reasons explain this trend: first, of course, the extent of the scourge, the severity of their...
Lupus erythematosus and respiratory
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Most patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have, during their illness, respiratory reached the most frequent is the pleurisy (one of the eleven diagnostic criteria recognized by the American Rheumatism Association). The respiratory events that found in the LED cover both the lung...
Intrinsic asthma
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
It is widely accepted that asthma is a clinical manifestation of atopy. Specially relevant in children, this concept is less obvious in adults where there is the classic distinction between asthma "extrinsic" (allergic) and "intrinsic" (non-allergic). Intrinsic Asthma is deliberately late third,...
Concrete technology
Presentation - 410 pages - Physics
The presentation is based on concrete and starts with the objectives of the presentation and moves onto a review of the composition of concrete. It then moves towards RCC structures and covers points like methods used in the designing of RCC structures, the codes used and the functions of...
E-Horoscope
Dissertation - 43 pages - Computer science
First, a horoscope is an astrological map of the heavens keyed to the time and place of a specific birth. It is a kind of a map that appears as a two dimensional chart. It shows positions of the Sun, the Moon, and planets at the precise moment of your birth. The earth moves from west to east &...
