Diet therapy For a 50-year-old woman who experienced her first MI And is being discharged home....
To prepare for the live classroom session and your written submission, use your chapter readings and course materials. The focus for this live classroom is a discussion about diet therapy for a 58 year old woman who experienced her first MI and is being discharged home. She currently works full time and is divorced. She lives in an apartment and has no family in the surrounding community. To prepare for the live classroom session and your written submission, use your...
To prepare for the live classroom session and your written submission, use your chapter readings and course materials. The focus for this live classroom is a discussion about diet therapy for a 58 year old woman who experienced her first MI and is being discharged home. She currently works full time and is divorced. She lives in an apartment and has no family in the surrounding community.To prepare for the live classroom session and your written submission, use your chapter...
To prepare for the live classroom session and your written submission, use your chapter readings and course materials. The focus for this live classroom is a discussion about diet therapy for a 58 year old woman who experienced her first MI and is being discharged home. She currently works full time and is divorced. She lives in an apartment and has no family in the surrounding community.To prepare for the live classroom session and your written submission, use your chapter...
Mrs. A. is an 84-year-old woman who was recently discharged from the hospital with a diagnosis that includes an exacerbation of congestive heart failure (CHF). She also has diabetes and hypertension. Mrs. A. was discharged from the hospital on multiple medications and lives alone. Home care services were initiated with skilled nursing care visits, some home health aide support, and orders to include daily tele-monitoring of her vital signs. The telehealth device will remotely monitor Mrs. A.’s blood pressure, heart...
Mrs. A. is an 84-year-old woman who was recently discharged from the hospital with a diagnosis that includes an exacerbation of congestive heart failure (CHF). She also has diabetes and hypertension. Mrs. A. was discharged from the hospital on multiple medications and lives alone. Home care services were initiated with skilled nursing care visits, some home health aide support, and orders to include daily tele-monitoring of her vital signs. The telehealth device will remotely monitor Mrs. A.’s blood pressure, heart...
L.S. is a 56-year-old woman who was recently diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia. She has tried diet therapy and exercise, but her total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels remain elevated. M.S. is unable to take HMG–CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) because of a familial history of allergy and rhabdomyolysis. M.S. is prescribed the bile acid sequestrant (Questran). The patient asks, “How do bile acid sequestrants treat hypercholesterolemia and lower total cholesterol?” How will the nurse respond? What will the nurse teach L.S. about...
Mrs. A. is an 84-year-old woman who was recently discharged from the hospital with a diagnosis that includes an exacerbation of congestive heart failure (CHF). She also has diabetes and hypertension. Mrs. A. was discharged from the hospital on multiple medications and lives alone. Home care services were initiated with skilled nursing care visits, some home health aide support, and orders to include daily tele-monitoring of her vital signs. The telehealth device will remotely monitor Mrs. A.’s blood pressure, heart...
Elizabeth, a 68-year-old woman, has experienced relatively good health for most of her lifetime. A year and a half ago, she suffered a bout of pneumonia, with a very difficult recovery. She continued to “feel sick,” and had no appetite. Weight loss and decreased energy levels ensued. Her primary care provider admitted her to the hospital for further tests, which revealed a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (although she had never been a smoker), and pulmonary aspergillosis. She...
Sarah, a 50-year-old G2P1011 woman, presents to the office with increasing hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, and insomnia over the past 4 months. She indicates that she has made some dietary changes, specifically decreasing the intake of spicy foods and hot tea; however, they seem to have little effect on her symptoms. Her last menstrual period (LMP) was 14 months ago. She is also experiencing some constipation, dry skin, and thinning hair. Her mother experienced menopause at about age...
Erin is a 28-year-old professional woman who is 5 feet 8 inches tall and vigilantly maintains her weight at 118 pounds by following a lacto-ovo (non-fat milk and egg whites only) vegetarian diet that supplies approximately 1200 calories a day. With her understanding that protein should provide between 10 and 35 percent of her daily calories, she reasons that her daily intake of 40 grams of protein from milk, eggs, legumes, and nuts is adequate for her needs. She is...