Nursing 2230A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deep Vein Thrombosis, Orthostatic Hypotension, Valsalva Maneuver
25 Nov 2016
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Monday and how do you feel: weak, lethargic, sore, stiff, relieved. )magine you"ve been sick and flat on your back all weekend. Apply to hospitalized patient what"s the difference: (ospitals are noisy and louds never go out )cu psychosis. Dulling of senses, loss of hope, iq drops if stuck in bed for a long period : more sick, confused, less comfortable, devices for washrooms getting up even less this is all cognitive. Background/context: zegelin literature characteristic of life that gradually leads to (social) death. Upright and locomotion fundamental to human condition, fundamental. One of the most common phenomena in nursing but doesn"t appear in (cid:498)bedridden(cid:499) typically holds a negative connation and described as final state. Bed rest was (cid:498)invented(cid:499) as a form of treatment in the (cid:883)9th century. Cultural/values elderly are sick and tired and just go to bed. Belief that bed rest is restful and healing eg. for the elderly.
