Career: Developmental Disability Nurse

Developmental Disability Nurse

Nurses helps patients with a mental or developmental disability like Down Syndrome, autism, and etc. They help them eat and perform basic body functions, teach them to move on their own and to assist them with language and their communication skills. These nurses can also educate patients families about the disability and provides support. 

Training/ Education Needed

• Licensed Practical Nurse Certification (LPN)
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Passing National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)

Salary

An earned certification of an RN degree can earn between $50,000-$60,000 per year, while LPN can earn between $34,000-$44,000.

Reference

DiscoveringNursing.com 

Tissue Disease

Systemic lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

SymptomsSymptoms can change over time, but some common symptoms are : 

• severe fatigue 
• joint pain
• joint swelling 
• headaches 
• a rash on the cheek and nose, known as a "butterfly rash"
• hair loss
• anemia 
• blood clotting problems
• fingers turn white/blue, tingling when cold, or called as Raynaud's phenomenon

Some symptoms depend on parts of the body, like the digestive tract, the heart, or the skin that the disease is attacking. 

Treatment for SLE 
There are no cure for SLE, but there are treatments to ease the symptoms. Depending on where the symptoms affects your body, treatments may include:

• anti-inflammatory medication for joint pains and stiffness
• steroid creams for rashes
• corticosteriods to minimize the immune response
• antimalarial drugs for skin and joints
• disease to modify drugs or target immune system

Doctors recommend to eat certain food and to also avoid certain foods, and also to minimize the stress that can help to reduce triggering symptoms. 

Prognosis
The best way to start after the symptoms develop is treatment. It is important to tell your doctor if you develop any symptoms that concerns you. Working with a trained counselor or support group to relieve stress, maintain a positive health and to manage your illness. 

Reference 
HealthLine.com 

Is Henrietta Lacks courageous?

Henrietta is courageous because she has to face all her problems on her own. When finding out that she has a knot in her womb she has to go to the doctor to get treated. She had to face all the problems to herself that she has some kind of diseases. She's a strong woman that has the face the fact that she could die, but even that she still cares for her daughter that caught her disease and has to be in a hospital. She feels sorry for her because its her fault that she has to suffer with this because of her.
"...but Sadie always figured Henrietta kept it secret because she was afraid the doctor would take out her womb and make her stop having children."(Skloot 14) Henrietta seems to be the kind of person that would keep a lot of thoughts and feeling to herself and to carry the burden herself. She faced the problem directly after finding a knot inside her womb. "You better take me to the doctor. I'm bleedin and it ain't my time." (Skloot 15) She told her husband to take her to the hospital when she knew that something was not right with her body. I think she is brave for facing the problem, when back in the time there wasn't as much of the new technologies and studies as there was before, which meant that there was probably no good medicine or treatment that could have helped her. I think that she wants to face the fact that she has a problem and she wants to get it over with to also stop the pain. 

Chapter 3 Questions 3,7,15

3. What functional abilities do all cells exhibit?

Functional abilities that cells have is that they can metabolize, digest food, reproduce, dispose of waste, grow, move, and react. For example white blood cells wander freely throughout the body tissues and protect the body by destroying harmful bacteria and substances. Some cells make chemicals or hormones to stabilizes the body needs and wants. We need to digest food to get energy and to reproduce to have a offspring. The body needs to react to have the sense of change. We need to grow to develop our bodies and grow up to a full person. 

7. Name the cellular organelles and explain the function of each

Each cellular organelle have different functions to maintain the cell. The nucleus is like a control center or the headquarter, that contains instructions like building a whole body. The nuclear membrane controls movement of materials in and out of the nucleus.  The nucleus contains one or more small dark staining round bodies of nucleoli. The chromatin are formed by loose network of bumpy threads, combined with DNA with protein. Then the chromatin forms rod-like bodies of chromosomes. The cell membrane separates the cell contents from the environment. Centrioles are for cellular division and cellular reproduction. the chloroplast creates glucose, that uses energy from the sun to make food for the plant. Lysosomes breaks down larger food molecules into smaller molecules. The vacuole stores water, waste, and food. The mitochondria breaks down sugar molecules into energy. The endoplasmic reticulum carries materials through the cell. The ribosomes produces proteins. The cytoplasm supports and protects the cell organelles. The cell wall supports and protects the cell and allows H2O and CO2 to pass into the cell. Each cellular organelles contribute to function the cell properly. 

15. Why can an organs cells be permanently damaged if it is amitotic?

An organ can be permanently damaged if the cell is amitoic because the cell is capable of going through mitosis. Any cell can die that cannot be replaces with the remaining of the cell division. When an organ is damaged with a disease or injury, its leads to the cell dying and it cannot be repaired by division of the remaining to replace those that are gone. So organs that are damaged cannot be replaced.