Summary
Contents
Subject index
This book seeks to define nursing at a management or administrative level. Using the widely regarded Orem self-care deficit model to provide a nursing focus, the authors explore the nursing needs of populations, the roles and functions of advanced practice nursing administration, and the administrative structures, processes and outcomes that facilitate nursing practice.
Appendix 4B: A Population Description
Appendix 4B: A Population Description
Appendix 4B: A population description
- Basic Conditioning Factors
A spinal cord injury has major effects and results on integrated functioning of human beings. The basic conditioning factors serve as a guide for describing some of the basic operative influencing factors to be understood and considered in nursing of these patients.
- Health state: Tetraplegia (quadriplegia) or paraplegia arising from trauma—commonly gunshot wounds or acts of violence, automobile and diving accidents, and neurological diseases. Degree and extent of injury varies with cord level of injury and whether it is complete or incomplete. Patients with injuries at C6 or above and C4–5 may be on mechanical ventilators with tracheostomy, medical complications, etc.
Generally the health state is good, but some may be debilitated if the ...
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