Category: Health & Medicine

During routine operation, the heart operates in a cycle that aims to pump blood throughout the body. As Hall et al. (2018) describe it, two phases take place as the liquid moves through the heart’s four chambers: systole, where the ventricles contract and eject blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery, and diastole, where they…

A multispiral CT scanner is a complex diagnostic complex consisting of an X-ray unit with a couch sliding into it and a computer workstation that processes the obtained information into pictures. Modern tomography allows performing intravital examinations and using mathematical processing to make a three-dimensional reconstruction of the image of the examined organ (Kelly and…

The choice of the variables to be tested in the study along with the method for establishing the relationship between them have a significant impact upon the study outcomes and the value of the research for the evidence-based practice. This paper will discuss the variables chosen for the studies by Koch (2002) and Sellers et…

In this article, Katherine Harmon discusses the importance of species-specific microbes for the successful functioning of immune system. The author reports the experiment carried out by Hachung Chung and her colleagues. They tried to raise mice that had only human gut microbiota (1, unpaged). According to the author, human microbes did survive, but the immune…

My neighborhood is Upper West Side, and there are numerous health issues. However, most of them are caused by the quality of housing and the location of my neighborhood next to the Hudson River. Most of the houses in this area were built in the 50s and 60s of the last century, and therefore, they…

The provision of healthcare services involves not only high-quality medical procedures and knowledge. Nursing also may include ethical issues under which it is challenging to find the right solution. It implies situations in which possible options may cause psychological discomfort or harm the patient. In this regard, the nurse has several options for how to…

Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion References Introduction The psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner’s (PMHNPS) role is to offer the entire spectrum of basic mental health treatment services in addition to biosocial evaluation and diagnosis of individuals with psychological diseases and co-occurring disorders. Nurses have to report cases of exploitation and neglect because they work…

Outbreak of infections is a major threat to public health. Without close monitoring of public health, controlling infections in their initial stages would be complicated and result in epidemics and pandemics. Therefore the healthcare stakeholders must have accurate data regarding public health to mobilize necessary resources to respond to infections in time and eliminate threats…

The test was performed as a standard culture procedure with gram staining on a selective medium (MAC) to interpret the shape and species of microorganisms. The selective medium was necessary for a more accurate and detailed identification based on the parameters of the medium and the presence of lactose. The test revealed the formation of…

Table of Contents Literature Review Policy Proposals References The social phenomenon of poverty has always been one of the most challenging aspects of social welfare in terms of policies introduced and measures taken to address the problem efficiently. For such a large and cosmopolitan city as New York, with an ethnically diverse population of 8,336,817…