Cardiovascular Nurse Care
Cardiovascular Disease refers to any disease that involves the Heart and the Blood Vessels. Cardiovascular diseases include Aneurysm, Angina, Arrhythmia, Atherosclerosis, Cardiomyopathy, Cerebrovascular Accidents such as Stroke, Cerebrovascular Disease...
Colonoscopy - Nurse Interventions
Colonoscopy is the endoscopic examination of the large colon and the distal part of the small intestine with a CCD camera or a fiber optic camera on a flexible tube passed through the anus for the visual diagnosis of polyps or ulcerations and for biopsy or removal of suspected lesions. It is possible to remove polyps smaller than one millimeter by Colonoscopy.
Epilepsy Nurse Care
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures (Blume et.al, 2001) due to abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain (Fisher et.al, 2005). Epilepsy can be best understood as a group of syndromes with vastly divergent symptoms all involving episodic abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
Men in Nursing
According to the latest statistics, male nurses represent just a small fraction of the nursing workforce in the United States (www.highbeam.com). The popular notion that nursing is not for men and admission capacity constraints of Nursing Schools seem to be major obstacles towards bringing more men to the profession.
Nurse Interventions in Renal Transplantation
Renal Transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in patients with End-Stage Renal Disease. Renal Transplantation is classified as Deceased-Donor or Living-Donor Transplantation depending on the source of the recipient kidney.