Eunice Ingham: Racist Or Reflexologist?

During the first week of our new nurses in a surgical ward, I was supervising one of the supernumerary nurses. We were looking after a thirty-nine year old woman, Ms LC, who had undergone a laparoscopic peritonectomy. We had to start her on a negative pressure wound therapy dressing or NPWT; as suggested by wound clinical nurse consultant and the doctors during their ward round, since this would allow the fast healing of her wound.

Client outcome: have surgical area that show evidence of healing no redness, draining, or immobility _______________________________________________________

This service was provided during the postoperative period for a previous related procedure conducted by the same surgeon.

operations just to be assured that the health risks stay as minimal as possible. However,

On 01/27/2016, I observed about 22 patients in Postanesthesia Care Unit. Some of the patients were observed after surgeries while others were observed after endoscopy. During my shift, I observed patients awaiting recovery for removal of kidney stones, malignant melanoma (removal of moles), Endometrial Biopsy (EBX), superficial femoral artery (SFA), Hernia repair, Oophorectomy (ovary removal surgery), Cardiorrhaphy (Ventricular repair), Cystolithalopaxy (bladder stone removal), gall stone removal, Ectopic pregnancy surgery, and leg surgery.

The patient’s vital signs have stabilized, with HR in the 70s, BP is in the 120s/60s, regular RR and 37.6o Celsius temperature. Graft site wound bed is pink with tissue granulation noted. The learner is expected to prepare the patient for discharge. This SCE prepares the learner for the following items of the NCLEX-RN test format:

Describe the series of events that occur in skin, which is healing with the help of a skin graft?

Once the nurse and patient establish a rapport, and the patient is comfortable and willing to proceed with the intervention, preoperative care

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book written by Michelle Alexander. This book explains the mass incarceration that African-American males faced in the United States. Alexander uses many examples of discrimination throughout the book, but the most prevailing one to me was how the criminal justice system used to the War on Drugs. Alexander describes a “racial caste system” as a way that African-Americans are kept at a lower social standing then the white people. The way that Alexander presents her arguments allows we the reader to see the true racism that was faced by African- Americans. This book gives many arguments but there are some main arguments that Alexander stresses throughout the book that

Cynthia Brown was a sixteen-year-old, African American girl who shot and killed a man that she had claimed had hired her for sex. Cynthia was tired as an adult, convicted of a first-degree murder, and was given a mandatory life sentence. She was allowed parole after she will serve 51 years of her sentence. In another case Walter Wayne, a 25-year-old male broke into a woman's apartment, strangled her and slashed her throat, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison. So being that these cases are very similar how are they being sentenced so differently? Could race be playing a factor in the court system?

In the 60’s throughout the 70’s, many people of different color were facing racism do to

Elizabeth Blackwell is best deserving of a monument because of the constricting, insulting stereotypes she challenged by becoming the first woman in the United States of America to earn a medical degree and become a practicing physician. During the time period in which Elizabeth Blackwell lived in, which was around the 1800s, there were many stereotypes against women. Especially since women weren’t allowed to vote during this time period, there were institutionalized prejudices and many false stereotypes. Namely, women were believed to not have enough brain capacity to comprehend subjects such as math and science. Once they finally were allowed to attend school, they were only taught subjects such as geography and writing, as math and science

Today in clinical I experienced how to properly position a patient to prevent the risk of further damage, such as pressure ulcers.

GDT has been found to be the pillar upon which the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) program is built upon. The downside of this technique is that it does not work well for bedside applications and most specialists do not allow the use of this method on a day-to-day basis. In the past few years, the use of GDT policies has been suggested as an important part of the ERAS package. The main concept of this plan is to have a myriad of solutions that will automatically lead to a better result in magnitude (Trinooson & Gold, 2013). Most of the studies, however have analyzed the effect and impact of implementation of the ERAS program. With regards to this shortcoming, it can be conclusively said that the outcome of using GDT mediation cannot be seen

Dr Schuessler believed that with application of correct amount of Tissue Salts, the body can heal