Supporting Adolescent Mothers: Prenatal and Postnatal Care
Adolescent requires more physical care than an adult does. Moreover, adolescents need more intensive attention during their pregnancy period. This is because they have lesser life experiences than their adult counterparts. Having less experience makes it hard for them to cope with the changes they go through during pregnancy and birth. Dealing with these adolescents […]
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing
PTSD, commonly called Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, is a psychiatric disorder that occurs when one witnesses or experiences an event that may threaten life. The latter involves natural disasters, military combats, serious accidents, physical or sexual assault and terrorist incidents, among others. Most survivors of such trauma return to their normal life quickly. However, some of […]
Nursing: The Significance of Evidence-Based Practice and Ethical Principles in Perioperative Procedures
Nursing is a dignified profession, which entails the provision of medical aid through pertinent procedural measures for the daily physical, mental and nutritional healthcare needs of admitted patients and outgoing convalescents. There is a need for recognition of the overall significance of applied research and integration in evidence-based practice with fundamental ethical principles. Such a […]
Asthma: Characteristics, Treatment Approaches, and Genomic Issues
Asthma is considered one of the most common chronic childhood disorders in almost all industrialized countries. The problem of asthma among children and adults has been researched in many studies. Moreover, a great role is played in understanding treatment approaches that can effectively address the disorder. In general, asthma treatment can be divided into pharmacological […]
Advanced Practice Nurses and their Role in the Dynamic Healthcare Environment
Healthcare in the United States faces many challenges, including a shortage of professionals, rising costs, an aging population, access to care, and the demand for advanced techniques and technology. Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) have the skills to respond to the dynamic healthcare environment. The reason is that APNs have a key role in meeting the […]
Evidence-Based Practices in Clinical Endocrinology
Evidence-based practices are an approach to using the available data from various clinical research in making clinical decisions. Such an approach has been used in the recent environment in various fields, such as endocrinology, to make decisions concerning the handling of endocrines and glands. Evidence-based practices recognize a hierarchy of evidence in which study designs […]