Buying The Right Parts For Your Vehicle

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Before you go shopping for some parts to replace those on your vehicle, read the tips in this section carefully. They can help you avoid what’s probably the most annoying part of any automotive job: disabling your vehicle to work on it only to find that you need it to drive back to the store to exchange the stuff they sold you in error!...

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How a Stethoscope Works

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A stethoscope is a medical device for listening to sounds inside the body. The initial stethoscope was invented in the early 19th century by French physician René Laennec, but was actually trying to achieve a rather different end: doctor-patient distance. The stethoscope can be placed against the patient's chest to listen to her breath or...

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Essential Skills For Assessment In Nursing Process Steps

Assessment requires the use of the skills needed for interviewing, conducting a physical examination, and observing patients. As with the nursing process itself, these skills are not used one at a time. While you are interviewing the patient, you are also observing and determining physical areas that require a detailed physical assessment. While completing a physical assessment, you are asking questions (interviewing) and observing...

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Care Plan Or Planning Of Care?

Revisions of nursing standards created questions regarding the necessity of nursing care plans. Some have predicted the rapid demise of the care plan, according to Brider, but review of the revised nursing standards shows that the standards require not less but more detailed care planning documentation in the patient’s medical record. Review of the new criteria indicates that the standards require documentation related to the...

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Care Plan For Decreased Cardiac Output

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Nursing diagnosis for decreased cardiac output may be related to altered myocardial contractility, inotropic changes; alterations in rate, rhythm, electrical conduction; or structural changes, such as valvular defects and ventricular aneurysm. It is possibly evidenced by increased heart rate (tachycardia), dysrhythmias, ECG changes; changes...

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