Band-Aids: From Band Aid Came To Life

The band-aid is important since it prevented people from getting diseases or infections. Also, the band-aid was able to let people still do everyday activities by still keeping their cut(s) protected. This shows us that more people were healthier from keeping their cuts protected rather than leaving them uncovered and opening up the cut. Medical advancements were on the rise at the time, and the band-aid allowed people to get common medical treatment at

Outline and discuss a clinical audit that you have undertook into one aspect of care delivery and reflect upon the experience using Driscoll’s model of structured reflection. Word Count (2197)

Special dressings and bandages can be used to protect and to speed up the healing of pressure sores.

Band-aid is one of the most popularly known current products, invented in 1920 by Thomas Anderson and Earle Dickson. The purpose of the product was to serve as a economical, easy to use first aid for minor injuries. In the early 1920’s, Canada had shifted economical paths from agricultural to industrial activity, in regards to Urbanization. This evolution meant more people would be working in harsh factory conditions in cities, than on the fields. The uncertainty of safety, access to healthcare ,and affordability were all issues the average Canadian working in the labour department faced in 1920, all things that the band-aid marketed to. It is estimated that the average price for a pack of band-aid was 10 cents when the product was first launched.

Dale Gordon has been a patient in the ICU for 6 days after developing complications after open heart surgery. He is an 82-year-old African American who is disoriented to place and time. He lives with his daughter Claudia in her home. Claudia and her two brothers visit Mr. Gordon daily since he has been hospitalized. Mr. Gordon has not been eating well since the surgery and has lost 3 pounds. Mr. Gordon has type 2 diabetes and is on oral antihyperglycemic medication. Before he came to the hospital, Mr. Gordon was able to only ambulate for short distances. He has orders to get up in a chair twice a day. Joan, a student nurse, is caring for Mr. Gordon this morning. She has reviewed his medical record and is now ready to start caring for him.

I observed the documentation process from week -2 in my clinical setting and through reading the related documents I gained theoretical knowledge of documentation . I week -4 I did the the return demonstration of documentation with my instructor successfully and started the documentation process in clinical and developed my communication skill . I think my learning plan helped me to achieve this goal . When I started this semester I wanted to learn about the wound care . To achieve this goal I observed the techniques of wound care in week -10 demonstrated by my instructor and reviewed the related resources of wound care . In week -11 I was successful in return demonstration of wound care and evaluated by my instructor . The plan I made

Throughout the Age of AIDS film many topics that were related to AIDS were brought up that I did not know anything about before. I did not know that there could so many strings attached to a disease and have such an influence in people’s lives whether it was negative or positive.

In addition to identification and prevention, there are products that can be used in order to prevent occurrence of HAPUs. The purpose of this project is to implement use of foam dressing called Mepilex Border proven to help prevent pressure ulcers when used in addition to the prevention protocols by redistributing pressure, reducing friction, and providing an optimal microclimate. It combines antimicrobial action of ionic silver with soft silicone adhesive providing healing and reduced pain (Barrett, 2009). Mepilex dressing can be repositioned after skin assessment making it easy to assess the wounds without need for reapplying new dressing after each assessment.

Barrett (2009) concurs that, the management of wound required dressing that can maintain a moist environment, absorbs exudates as well as remain in situ over number of days.

1. Short Answers: Each answer is worth 3 points. Answer all 15 questions. Total: 45 points.

This step is very useful to help limit swelling to the injured area and keeps it from progressing to other parts of the limb. Be careful not to put direct pressure on an eye injury, and watch carefully for coolness or in case of change the color of the skin under the bandage. If any of these symptoms occur, remove the bandage quickly and re-wrap it less tightly. After that raise the injured organ to a level higher than the heart. For example, raise the affected arm or leg by using cushions or pillows to help decrease blood pressure and slow the

• Keep your rash covered with a loose bandage (dressing). Wear loose-fitting clothing to help ease the pain of material rubbing against the

Skin tears are traumatic wounds, which usually occur on the extremities of the elderly. Not to mention the amount of deaths that occur when skin breakdown doesn’t get treated. The article, “Preventing in –facility Pressure Ulcers, “ states that, “60,000 U.S. patients will die from complications related to hospital-acquired Pus”. (Preventing, 2013). When you think about all the different diseases and illness that can kill someone, pressure ulcer don’t normally come to mind. If we have less skin breakdown with the elderly, we can keep our facilities safer, less life-threatening problems, and have a more successful career as a nurse. There are many ways that you can treat pressure ulcers or skin breakdown in general, but people need to realize what patients are at more risk to develop skin integrity, the ways to prevent skin breakdown from the beginning, and how to treat skin tears when they appear before they can say that they know what skin integrity is. This concept paper will provide the key points on what to know about skin integrity. Who is more at risk, how to prevent them from occurring, and what to do if it does happen.

The wounded man took out first aid kits peroxide and treat the wound. The cut terribly burned, Tom tightly gritted his teeth and put a plaster on his thigh.

Kaufman, S. R. (2015). Ordinary medicine: Extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line [Electronic].