About 4.1 million people in Americans have the positive antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV), and about 75 percent have permeant infection. Additionally, most of the infections happened 20 to 40 years ago, before the finding of HCV. Hepatitis C increased from 7,000 to 13,000 deaths in 2005. Furthermore, HCV develops slowly which increases the risk of severe complications in the infected people. Identification, death, and treatment are predicted to affect 35,000 by 2030. The Center for Disease Control
Teaching the Patient with Hepatitic C For years, nursing was a task-oriented career. A nurse’s primary responsibility was to provide for the physical needs of patients experiencing illness. Nursing has evolved into a profession, which holistically treats and educates patients in a variety of health situations including acute illness, chronic disease, and preventative care. The competent practice of patient education has become a critical element in nursing. This paper will show the process of formulating
Clinical Educational Needs Assessment-Hepatitis C Knowledge Hepatitis C (HCV) is a disease of the blood, caused by a history of intravenous (IV) drug abuse, blood transfusions received that were infected with HCV prior to 1992 when screening started, healthcare workers suffering from a needle stick, and recipients of donor organs that tested positive for HCV (Lewis, Heitkemper, Dirksen, & Bucher, 2014). A challenge that I have encountered in the office with getting treatment started for a patient
Hepatitis B: An Epidemic The World Health Organization defines epidemiology as “the study of the distribution and determinants of health- related states or events, and the application of the study to the control of diseases and other health problems” (CDC, 2014). Determinates of health are “the circumstances in which people are born, live, work and age as well as the systems put in place to deal with illness”. The communicable disease chain is a model beneficial to integrating the many concepts
suffer from some type of major health issue. In particular, viral hepatitis is a disease that is not only spread globally, but is more rampant in underdeveloped countries. In these countries, access to proper health care to treat and prevent this disease is limited. Without proper treatment, viral hepatitis can cause permanent bodily damages and have an impact on mortality rates. This paper will discuss the spread of viral hepatitis in Africa, social factors of the disease, economic factors of the
They state that the first limitation is the sample that was taken from people at the higher end of riskiness due the prompt they used in the paper that asked ‘are you a risk taker?’ They state the second limitation is that the people that answered the recruitment add where mostly white (75%) and well educated. The third limitation that was reported that “our assessment of actual risk behaviors
A Review on Hepatocellular Carcinoma and its Immunotherapy Introduction: The liver is a large organ of our body which is located beneath the right lung. It helps in the digestion of food and store the extra energy for future use. It also helps fights the infection and cleans your blood. Liver also has an amazing regenerative capacity after injury. All these activities ultimately provide a healthy life to us. Any alterations in the liver function will put our life in danger.1 Inflammation is the
decided to switch from a paper-based system to an electronic health record system. An electronic health record is a computerized, accessible record that contains multimedia data (scanned images, digital, video, voice, and so on) about the patient; it is basically the patient’s paper chart. EHR’s are real-time records which allow instant availability to those who have authorized access to the EHR (Bowie, 2011). There are many reasons for a hospital to want to change from paper records to an EHR; the
Introduction The management of Healthcare waste (HCW) has continued to generate increasing public interest due to the health problems associated with human exposure to potentially hazardous wastes arising from healthcare (Tudor et al., 2005; Ferreira, 2003; Da Silver et al., 2005). Presently a considerable gap exists with regard to the assessment of healthcare waste management practices in several other countries in Sub–Saharan Africa, “healthcare waste management continues to present an array of
physician named Dr. John Conrad Otto wrote an account of a hemorrhagic disposition existing in certain families '. He recognized that the condition was hereditary and affected males (Society). The diagnosis of hemophilia is actually quite simple. Blood labs are drawn if a doctor suspects their patient to have a bleeding disorder. Blood tests will indicate what percentage of clotting factors are present in the blood. There are three types of hemophilia. Hemophilia A (which is the most common) is represented