Hookworms
Learn about hookworms in this nursing study guide. Get to know the assessment, diagnosis, nursing interventions, and nursing care management in this hookworms guide.
anemia
Thalassemia
The term thalassemia is applied to a variety of inherited blood disorders characterized by deficiencies in the rate of production of specific globin chains in hemoglobin.
Blood Anatomy and Physiology
Blood is the “river of life” that surges within us. It transports everything that must be carried from one place to another within the body- nutrients, wastes (headed for elimination from the body) and body heat through blood vessels. Long before modern medicine, blood was viewed as magical, because when it drained from the body, life departed as well.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease of unknown origin. Here’s the nursing care management for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle cell anemia is a severe hemolytic anemia that results from inheritance of the sickle hemoglobin gene.