Integrating Global Infectious Disease Monitoring and Risk Assessment in Real-Time
Would you rather help a dying 5-year-old, or a dying 14-year-old?
Okay, this is not a real situation, I just have to get some survey results for my English soapbox speech. Let’s say that there are two children dying of a deadly disease. They both have the exact same thing, and they are both in the same amount of danger. Here’s the catch: you can only help one of them at a time. Would you rather help the 5-year-old, or the 14-year-old? If you absolutely had to choose one, which would it be?
i would have to say the 14 year old only reason the 14 year olds immune system is alot stronger better chances for servivle
Know the Glow – Benjamin’s Webber’s Story – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
As some risk is associated with nursing, so one should have complete knowledge about, what nursing is? If you or one of your friends has decided to join the nursing profession then you should be conscious about the risks involved with this field. Nurses have to work in hospitals or clinics where they may have to take care of patients who are suffering from some infectious disease. In this profession of nursing which is based on caring someone, gaining practical and scientific knowledge, are the main and undistributed parts of the nursing profession.
One should consciously weigh the disadvantages and advantages before joining BSN program. If one is conscious about opportunities associated with this course he will see the broader and brighter part of this course. As numbers of people get enrolled in nursing course, it will decrease the workload over nurses presently working in numbers of hospitals; number of older people getting nursing care will grow quickly. For Example, the employment in hospitals are growing slowly as compared to other health care firms due to which work load on presently working employees is more and facilities provided by hospital becomes limited, therefore for the admission of new patient, the old patient has to be discharged as soon as possible. Because of less employment, hospitals also have to face financial pressure which in return increases the financial pressure on patient.
As the nursing field is continuously changing with change in technology and diseases, therefore one should be conscious about the basic trends associates with this profession to choose right path for future career in nursing. For example a nurse working in trauma or emergency department of hospital has to deal with patients that are on high risk of losing life.
The support and help of senior and experienced nurses enables you to practice nursing at initial stage. Working with experienced health care team will teach how to deal with ambulatory, serious patient and also teach to develop home environment and care for patient.
To avoid any risk in the field of nursing, one should gain good nursing education from any reputed institute, which is necessary to avoid any hazardous effect of nursing. But, the data available shows that count of registered nurses is decreasing. This decrease in count of registered nurses quality of nursing has also decreased. The education provided by each nursing school is actually based on the knowledge which is necessary to ensure that local community will get good and safe nursing. Nursing schools provide all basic education and level of knowledge that one good nurse should have. After completion of academic course, the experience and practical education gain by any nurse help them to become better and good in her profession.
Numbers of good career options are included by the profession of nursing. Only thing is to join a reputed and good nursing school. The specialists are categorized according to type of treatment, condition, disease, type of body system or organ with which nurses are particularly dealing. The main motto of nursing is to serve needy persons and also help them get cured by caring.
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Nursing
is a profession focused on assisting individuals, families, and communities in attaining, maintaining, and recovering optimal health and functioning.
Vocational Nursing at American Career College
The naturally occurring flu virus in the birds causes the Bird Flu in the avians. This disease is also termed as the Avian influenza. Usually the wild birds are the carriers of this deadly virus. Unbelievable but true, they themselves remain unaffected by them. This virus in turn spreads to the other domesticated birds like the chickens, turkeys and ducks, who are the ones that get affected. The virus after developing further in their body causes sickness and sometimes even death in the infected birds.
The symptoms after the infection of the flu virus ranges widely. The infected bird might suffer from some mild symptoms like low rate of egg production and even ruffled feathers. And the symptoms can be as severe as failure of the various organs of the bird resulting in the death of the bird within 48 hours of viral infection.
Humans are generally not infected by this virus. But still there have been several reported cases of human infection. A human can encounter this virus only if he is directly or indirectly in contact with the infected domesticated birds. Once a human being is infected he will show symptoms like high fever, sore throat, muscle cramps and cough. These are all the common symptoms that you come across in a flu. In the severe form of the disease, symptoms like Pneumonia, eye infections and various acute respiratory disorders can be seen. All the symptoms depend on the strain of virus with which the person is infected.
But these symptoms are not the final verdict on the confirmation of an infection by the virus. This is because all the symptoms that have been discussed above are the common symptoms for a typical flu and the various other viral infections. So in order to diagnose the viral presence properly, you need to have some pathological tests done. Within the first few days of the appearance of any of the symptoms, take a little swab of your nose or the throat to a laboratory for the required tests. In some cases a blood test may also be needed to be done.
There are many flu viruses that infect the birds and the humans. But only the H5N1 virus is the most deadly of them all, killing many at one go.
There is a general perception among the people that eating egg or chicken products can infect them with the virus. But this is not true. The bird flu virus is destroyed, if present in food product if they are properly cooked. Proper cooking also kills the other viruses and bacterias present in the food products.
Avian bird flu is not very contagious among the human. But if you remain in very close proximity with an infected person, there are chances that the virus passes on to you. The biggest concern with the bird flu virus is that, they mutate. Their mutation can be the only reason for it to take a shape of a pandemic.
Currently no vaccine is available for avian bird flu. There are only some preventive measures that you can follow to protect from this virus. Of them the most important is the maintenance of proper personal hygiene.
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