NURSING
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You are admitting a 19-year old female college student to the hospital for fevers. Using the patient information provided, choose a culture unfamiliar to you and describe what would be important to remember while you interview this patient. Discuss the health care support systems available in your community for someone of this culture. If no support systems are available in your community, identify a national resource.
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Management and control of fever to Laotians requires one to understand what their beliefs are on the causes of fever. The culture believes that fever is as a result of soul loss, seasonal change, hard work and probably intrusion of the body by foreign particles. The beliefs are that any of these reasons could cause fever (Mayxay et al., 2013). It would be important for a medical officer to remember all these possibilities in mind while examining the patient. Interviewing the…
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