Case Study Summary: Louise a 55 year old woman who cares for her 15 year-old granddaughter Marissa, just found out that she has been diagnosed with osteoporosis after visiting the doctor for long-lasting hip and wrist pain. Louise is a small framed, underweight woman and has recently had a significant amount of bone loss which caused her to loss a half of an inch in height in the last year. Her lifestyle consists of junk food, lots of soda, no exercise and she recently quit smoking a pack a day
Introduction This case study is focused on Marika who will not disclose her real age, however she states she is in her 80s. Marika lives in a granny flat on her son Bronco’s property and has been diagnosed with osteoporosis and also has the following conditions: osteoarthritis, hypertension, is overweight and has a history of falls and delirium. Marika has never smoked or drank alcohol. The case study will address the appropriate nursing care necessary for Marika’s osteoporosis while also acknowledging
our study is Osteoporosis.The aim of our assignment is to find the information about the clinical condition that change the normal structures of the bones and how the disease affect our daily life. Osteoporosis is a disease that arise when our normal structures of the bone changes as it becomes fragile and break easily.One interesting fact is that, almost one in two women and one in five men over the age of 50 will break a bone,mainly due to poor bone health(“An Introduction to Osteoporosis,”n.d
Osteoporosis is a disorder of bones that affects bones making them low in bone mass fragile and will lead to bone fracture. Bone fracture will easily occur as this disease cause the matrix inside the bone become weak and brittle.Bones can become so brittle due to activities such as coughing can cause fractures.According to Macgill (2015) the origin of the word osteoporosis explain the condition of ‘osteo’ is for bone and ‘porosis’ means porous that resulting in weakness. At this condition, the bone
our study is Osteoporosis.The aim of our assignment is to find the information about the clinical condition that change the normal structures of the bones and how the disease affect our daily life. Osteoporosis is a disease that arise when our normal structures of the bone changes as it becomes fragile and break easily.One interesting fact is that, almost one in two women and one in five men over the age of 50 will break a bone,mainly due to poor bone health(“An Introduction to Osteoporosis,”n.d
Skeletal System: Osteoporosis Case Study 1 Ann is an 82 year-old Caucasian woman. She enjoys spending her time knitting, reading books, watching old movies, and writing letters to her grandchildren. She recently fell while stepping out of the bathtub. Although she did not fall very far or land very hard, she broke her femur. The doctor in the emergency room placed her leg in a cast and tested her bone mass density, finding that it was low. He told Ann that she might have osteoporosis, a disorder
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quadrant. Extremities: No clubbing, cyanosis, or edema. Laboratory Data: Hemoglobin 14.6, hematocrit 43.6, and WBC 13,000. Sodium 138, potassium 3.8, chloride 105, C02 24, BUN 10, creatinine 0.9, and glucose 102. Urinalysis was negative. Diagnostic Studies: Flat plate and upright films of the abdomen revealed a localized abnormal gas pattern in the right lower quadrant with no evidence of free air. Impression: Appendicitis Plan: The patient will be admitted, kept NPO, and an appendectomy will be performed
Selecting an Approach for a Qualitative Research Plan Creswell (2013) contends that “we need to identify our approach to qualitative inquiry in order to present it as a sophisticated study, to offer it as a specific type so that reviewers can properly assess it, and…to offer some way of organizing ideas that can be grounded in the scholarly literature of qualitative research” (p. 69). Although I believe all three arguments cited by the author are important, this week’s readings and discussion emphasized
Processes of a case study methodology for postgraduate research in marketing Chad Perry Processes of a case study methodology 7 85 U n ive rsi ty of Sou the r n Q ueensl a nd, Toowoomba , A ust r a l i a Introduction C a s e s t u d i e s a re f a m i l i a r t o m a rke t i n g e d u c a t o r s a n d t h e i r s t u d e n t s a s a teaching device. For example, the Harvard Business School’s cases are widely used to allow students to be emotionally involved and le ar n action-related