Gastrointestinal System and Bowel Elimination

2025-06-17T15:05:34-04:00

As nursing assistants, your responsibility of taking care of your patients/residents will incorporate many body systems.  This part of learning is just to understand the basics and be observant to any changes in your patient or residents’ health.  Reporting any changes to your team leaders so that your patients will get the proper care to maintain health and well-being. The gastrointestinal tract also known as the GI tract, digestive tract or the alimentary canal.  Is the main passageway of the digestive system.  Leads from the mouth to the anus.  It is the second largest body system.  The cardiovascular system is [...]

Gastrointestinal System and Bowel Elimination2025-06-17T15:05:34-04:00

Urinary System and Elimination

2025-06-16T17:15:39-04:00

As nursing assistants, your responsibility of taking care of your patients/residents will incorporate many body systems. This part of learning is just to understand the basics and be observant to any changes in your patient or residents’ health. Reporting any changes to your team leaders so that your patients will get the proper care to maintain health and well-being. The genitourinary system includes the kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra and the associated organ, the prostate gland. Your kidneys are vital organs that perform essential functions by filtering waste and excess fluid from the blood where urine is produced as a byproduct. They [...]

Urinary System and Elimination2025-06-16T17:15:39-04:00

Human Development and Needs

2025-06-05T11:40:28-04:00

As we already know we are born into this world through miracles of childbirth.  Our development is the process of growth and change that takes place between our birth and that of maturity.  Referring to our physical, cognitive and psychological development throughout our human lifespan.  As we grow, we all follow a predictable pattern of growth that can be followed through the different stages of development.  The first stage is that of infancy and childhood. The ages from birth to adolescence.  The infancy stage which is 0-2 years of age is the foundation for our growth and bounding.  In this [...]

Human Development and Needs2025-06-05T11:40:28-04:00
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