Home environment

For most patients, drugs will be prescribed after discharge to be taken at home. Because the home is not as controlled an environment as a health care facility, the nurse should assess the patient s home environment carefully to ensure complete safety. It is important to keep in mind the following when making a home safety assessment ... 

Educating the Patient and Family The nurse evaluates the patient s ability to understand the therapeutic drug regimen, ability to care for himself or herself in the home environment, and ability to comply with the prescribed drug therapy. If any type of assistance is needed, the nurse provides a referral to the discharge planning coordinator or social worker. 

Mr. Harris, age 72 years, is a widower who has lived alone since his wife died 5 years ago. He has been prescribed warfarin to take at home after his dismissal from the hospital. Determine which questions concerning the home environment would be important to ask Mr. Harris to prepare him to care for himself and prevent any complications associated with the warfarin. 

Budney AJ, Hughes JR, Moore BA, et al Marijuana abstinence effects in marijuana smokers maintained in their home environment. Arch Gen Psychiatry 58 917-924, 2001... 

Turning and repositioning the patient at least every 2 hours can reduce skin pressure and prevent pressure sores. However, because this level of care is unattainable in most hospital and nursing-home environments, multitudes of pressure-reducing mattresses have been manufactured. Although these can help to decrease pressure on susceptible areas, they do not negate the need for position changes.37,42... 

Up to the present, there has been no systematic study of radon or radon daughters in Japanese homes. We have, therefore, measured the distribution of radon concentrations in houses to determine the factors that influence them in Japan. For this end, long-term measurements of radon concentrations in the home environment were undertaken as a joint-study of five reserch institutions. These preliminary observations are for 5 areas of Japan for which results are available. 

Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care (Philips DAP) is one of the product divisions of Royal Philips Electronics, alongside Consumer Electronics, Lighting and Medical Systems. In this article we will focus on sensors that are needed within the DAP division. Philips DAP has four Business Units, each with its own specific field of interest Shaving Grooming, Body Beauty Health, Food Beverage and Home Environment Care. 

Care home versus hospital and own homes environment for rehabilitation older people... 

Brooks-Gunn, J., Klebanov, P. K. (1996). Ethnic differences in children s intelligence test scores Role of economic deprivation, home environment, and maternal characteristics. Child Development, 67, 396-408. 

The reason the product did not go down without a light, therefore, is not because chemical-using citizens could not manage their home environments without it, but instead because companies were defending their markets. It was not consumers that created controversy, but rather corporate entities and their allies. More than this, the conduits of consumer information and corporate advocacy for these products were many and subtle (letters to the editor for example), and did not simply take the form of direct advertising. 

Settled dust Preliminary results on indoor and car dust show that levels of OPERs in dust collected in public buildings and cars are higher than the levels in dust collected from home environments [61, 68, 69]. There is also a shift in the OPER profile levels of TPP and TDC/PP increase moderately in the office dust, but a remarkable rise in TDC/PP levels is observed in car dust samples. Table 3 gives an overview of the sum of analyzed OPERs in the countries and the most dominant OPEs in the analyzed samples. Some of the aryl OPERs namely BDPP, DBPP, EHDPP were so far not detected in dust samples. There seems to be a region-specific consumption of OPERs as higher levels of, e.g., TPP and TDCiPP were observed in house dust from the USA and New Zealand ([15], [297]). 

Smith, G. J. and Spear, N. E. (1978). Effects of the home environment on withholding behaviors and conditioning in infant and neonatal rats. Science 202,327-329. 

Site has information on radon in the home environment as well as tobacco and asthma. 

This young man s resistance is as telling as the eloquence of others. It underscores the significance of their parents in their lives and draws attention to their deep-seated anxieties over their parents drug problems and its profound impact on them and their home environment. It is to these that attention next turns. 

Avol, E. L., W. C. Navidi, and S. D. Colome, Modeling Ozone Levels in and around Southern California Homes, Environ. Sci. Technol., 32, 463-468 (1998). 

Chaotic home environments, particularly in which parents abuse substances or suffer from mental illnesses... 

An important complication that is specific to human developmental toxicity studies is the necessity to control for confounding factors that influence human development, such as parental intelligence, quality of home environment, nutritional factors and socioeconomic status (Bellinger et al., 1992 Bellinger, 1995). These may influence the outcomes from the newborn period to adulthood. In addition, assessment methods must take into consideration the time (days, months or years) that may intervene between exposure/insult and the expression of toxicity at a much later age. 

Seifert, B., Ullrich, D. and Nagel, R. (1989) Seasonal variation of concentrations of volatile organic compounds in selected german homes. Environment International, 15, 397-408. 

It may be possible to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map biomonitoring results to determine whether there is a spatial pattern in exposure concentrations. This could be overlaid with GIS maps of environmental data (for example, air or water pollution or distribution of waste sites) to determine whether biomonitoring results correspond to specific environmental sources. However, mapping techniques are generally not useful for sporadic, localized sources such as food or consumer products. In such cases, survey questionnaires and sampling of the home environment are of more direct use in understanding exposure sources. 

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