Spontaneous Abortion
Case: Ana, a 40-year-old female came into the Emergency Room complaining of vaginal bleeding. She has been known to be pregnant for 5 weeks....
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Nursing Management
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance” – Franklin P. Jones
This quotation certainly speaks of staying on...
Asthma Nursing Management and Emergency Interventions
Overview
Asthma is a common chronic disease worldwide and affects approximately 26 million persons in the United States. It is the most common chronic disease...
Myocardial Infarction (MI) Nursing Care and Medical Management
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States; approximately 1.5 million cases of myocardial infarction occur annually in the United...
COPAR – Community Organizing Participatory Action Research
It is simply defined as a continuous and sustained process of educating, organizing, and mobilizing people through community participation, action, and research. It is...
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and its Nursing Management
Summer season has now lapsed and rainy days are setting in the Philippines as a tropical country is included to the Center for Disease...
Anorexia Nervosa – Nursing Considerations
According to statistics, Anorexia Nervosa has been affecting 1 out of 100 female teenagers for the past years. It is the most intriguing psychiatric...
Community Public Health Nursing – Roles and Responsibilities
Community public health nursing is not entirely different in nursing practice with that of clinical nursing confined in the four corners of the hospital....
Hildegard E. Peplau: Nurse-Patient Relationships in Nursing Care
This article is dedicated to Hildegard E. Peplau and her life so that we may come to fully appreciate the impact that she had...
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a type of autoimmune disease where the body’s own immune system attacks the healthy tissues by mistake. Lupus means...
Nursing Interventions -The Core of Nursing Process
Nursing intervention is the third step and considered the core, of the nursing care process. Every nurse knows that this is the phase where...
Skeletal System – Anatomy and Physiology
Can you imagine how people would look like without a skeleton? How would people function without the bones to support the body or perhaps...