Stoma Essays

  • The Importance Of Plants In The Environment

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    through this pores they carry along with them water vapours. A stomata is a microscopic pore on the surface of plants. It is surrounded by a pair of specialized epidermal cells called guard cells, Guard cells are responsible for opening and closing the stoma. A number of environmental conditions will affect stomatal aperture (Zeiger et al., 1987). They are v...

  • Nursing Case Study

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    “We can’t turn away from a patient’s pain just because it’s difficult” (chapman, 2015, p. 88). I know the path of least resistance is taking a path of ignorance. Easy, is to ignore or neglect the true pain patients experience in times of crisis. As caregivers I believe we all want to heal others or we wouldn’t be in the field of nursing, but there are only handfuls willing to be present during the healing process because sharing one’s pain hurts. As a surgical nurse, I find being genuinely present

  • How Light Affects the Stomatal Opening in a Leaf

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    How Light Affects the Stomatal Opening in a Leaf Abstract ======== My aim of this investigation was to check the affect of environmental factors affecting stomatal opening. My experiment was designed to check the stomata opening in light. Plants move in ways that may not seem obvious. The opening and closing of stomata is one example of this movement. There are a large amount of growth conditions that can affect a plant. One of the most important of these conditions concerns the

  • Laryngectomy Essay

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    top of your throat. It lets you speak and breathe by allowing air to pass through your throat. After having a laryngectomy, you will no longer be able to breathe out of your mouth. You will have an opening (stoma) in the front of your neck. After your surgery, you will breathe through the stoma. LET YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER KNOW ABOUT: • Any allergies you have. • All medicines you are taking, including vitamins, herbs, eye drops, creams, and over-the-counter medicines. • Previous problems

  • Ostomy Essay

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    the abdominal wall. A stoma, which is attached to the skin, is formed by stitching the mucosa to the skin. There are different types of ostomy procedures performed such as an ileostomy and a colostomy. Ostomy surgery is vital for patients to perform fecal elimination. Ostomy Care An ostomy is a surgically formed opening from the inside of the body to the outside of the body. In this procedure, the intestinal mucosa is brought out to the abdominal wall. The stoma is attached to the skin

  • Nursing Simulation Experience Summary

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    colostomy bag and patient teaching, it was a fascinating learning experience. I was able to demonstrate stoma and skin care, checked the stoma color, and measured the stoma size. I also asked the patient if they have pain or abdominal discomfort. While demonstrating I was teaching patient how to clean stoma, healthy stoma appearance (pink or red), report immediately to healthcare providers if the stoma turns brown or dusky, and to use appropriate cleaning agent such as soap and

  • The Process of Photosynthesis

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    “Sunlight plays a much larger role in our sustenance than we may expect all the food we eat and all the fossil fuel we use is a product of photosynthesis, which is the process that converts energy in sunlight to chemical forms of energy that can be used by biological systems” (Vermaas). This quote shows that photosynthesis is the most essential part of the exchange between humans and plants because it produces all the resources we need. When we sit down to eat fruit or vegetables, we usually don’t

  • What Attracts Me to the Nursing Profession

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    My desire to do a course in Adult nursing was first established when I started my job as a Carer with a private health care company that provides services for elderly people, people with learning, physical disabilities, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s disease and Multiple sclerosis. During this time I enjoyed caring for service users and developing professional relationships with them and making a difference to their lives which is the key aspect that attracts me to the nursing profession. During my job

  • The Veda Or Holy Speech

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    all but the word ‘piti’ (translated as feast or drink in noun sense) is still there: अ॒भि त्वा॑ पू॒र्वपी॑तय॒ इन्द्र॒ स्तोमे॑भिरा॒यवः॑। स॒मी॒ची॒नास॑ ऋ॒भवः॒ सम॑स्वरन्रु॒द्रा गृ॑णन्त॒ पूर्व्य॑म्॥ O Indra! Men urge you with hymns (stomas) for first favour/acceptance (of stomas); Rta-serving Ribhus laud you as it behoves; Austere Rudras (hymn-chanters) laud you as the Primeval Man. Moreover, if Brahman is called as Pavamana Soma, the Vedas too are so called. The Atharva Veda (XIX.71) calls the mother

  • Startling Anti-smoking Advertisement

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    Anti-Smoking Campaign’s Startling Advertisements A child who has lost his mother in a busy airport is a scenario that most audiences pay attention to. It’s thrilling in a way- will the protagonist find his mother? This video commercial is one that leads the way in the anti-smoking campaign. A young boy is walking alongside with his parental and the next minute is alone. Looking around trying to locate her, the effort is unsuccessful. Unaware what to do next, he cries and cries (See Figure 1). A

  • Reflection Of Clinical Practice

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    respect the confidentiality. Description On the second week of my placement, I was asked to bed-bath an 85 year male old patient in my bay, in the ward and get him ready for breakfast. This patient had, had a bowel surgery and as a result he had a stoma bag on. This patient was diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) IN 2010, but his condition had grown worse over the years. IBD mainly refers to Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohns disease (CD). However, this patient had Crohns disease. I was

  • Crohn's Disease Essay

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    OVERVIEW: CROHN’S DISEASE Could you imagine not feeling good, day to day? Could you imagine not being able to eat what you want to eat because it will cause your stomach to flare up? Or even to keep running back and forth to the bathroom? Living with Crohn’s disease has those effects on the people who are living with it. According to Medicine Net, “Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease, primarily involving the small and large intestine, but which can affect other parts of the digestive

  • Case Study: Prognosis And Treatment

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    TREATMENT: The prognosis and treatment options depend on the following: • The stage of the cancer. • Whether the cancer has blocked or made a hole in the colon. • Whether there is any cancer cells left after surgery. • Whether the cancer has recurred. • The patient’s general health. Six types of standard treatment are used: Surgery: Surgery is the most common treatment for all stages of colon cancer. Cancer cells may be removed by one of the below procedures: • Local excision: This is done when the

  • Transpiration Essay

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    Transpiration is the loss of water vapour from the leaves of plants; a process that begins when water is carried from the roots of a plant to small pores on the underside of leaves, where the majority of it is changed to water vapour and released into the atmosphere (United States Geological Survey (USGS), 2014). Transpiration has three major roles in the life of a plant. The first is to transport water and other essential minerals around the plant. Plants use xylem vessels, which are vertically

  • Colostomy Care Education Materials Analysis

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    directly affect the client’s ability to care for their illness and ongoing recovery (Smith, 2012). Within their health library, the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) provides patient education materials for ostomy care, including “Care of Stoma,” “Colostomy Care,” “Ileostomy Care,” “Managing Your Urostomy,” and ”Ostomy Nutrition

  • Photosynthesis Essay

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    THE FACTOR AFFECTİNG THE RATE OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS: LIGHT WAVELENGHT İpek Kâhya 10B No:55 1 CONTENTS Autotrophs chemoautotrophs photoautotrophs Photosynthesis Factors affecting the rate of photosynthesis Environmental Genetic Lab report Introduction Purpose Materials Experimental set-up Procedure Analysis 2 Autotrophs, can build organic compounds from simple molecules such as water and carbon dioxide and their type of feeding is called autotrophic nutrition. While they are building complex

  • Nasogastric Tube Observation

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    administering the tube feedings and medications via enteral feeding tube are: aspiration, clogged tube, nasal erosion with nasogastric or nasointestinal tubes, diarrhea and other GI symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, distention. Unplanned extubation, and stoma infection. (Taylor 2014) The steps to prevent those potential complications for are: -Aspiration: ○ Use appropriate measures to check tube placement ○ Elevate head of bed at least 45 degrees during feeding and for 1 hour afterward. ○ Give small, frequent

  • Rhetorical Analysis Terrie Commercial

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    healthy teenager with her speaking about what each photo is showing. It is obvious before you even see Terrie that she is sick and that something is going on with her voice. The video then switches to Terrie in a hospital bed speaking through her stoma which she has had since her Laryngectomy, which is the removal of part of her voice box. Terrie says that it "breaks her heart to see teenagers smoking now" and then the commercial flashes to a black screen

  • Colon Cancer Research Paper

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    Colon Cancer Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes a person is diagnosed and every nine minutes someone dies. People with a first-degree relative such as a parent, sibling, or child who has colon cancer are between two to three times more the risk of developing the cancer than those without a family history. The five- year survival rate for colon cancer found at a local stage is 90%. The five- year survival rate for colon cancer at the

  • The Carbon Cycle

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    Intro There are lots of natural processes constantly happening all around us, these processes are often linked by passing one type of atom to the next process which passes the same atom to the next one and so on. This ‘passing of the atom’ along a chain of processes is called a cycle, the series of processes in which the carbon atom goes through is called the carbon cycle. Each Carbon is the fourth most affluent element in the universe and is an important part of most molecules that make up most