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Natural Gas Safety Tips to Minimize Gas-Related Dangers & Accidents

Many residential and business premises use natural gas to power appliances, such as stoves, dryers, furnaces, and water heaters. Natural gas is ranked as the purest fossil fuel worldwide as it only produces water vapor, carbon dioxide, and fewer nitrogen oxide components.

Though natural gas is essential, it can be hazardous if not used properly. However, familiarizing yourself with these natural gas safety tips, can help you evade the risks and accidents associated with it.

This energy source is highly flammable, and any leaks at home can spark a fire or poison your body. Therefore, homeowners must learn basic first aid to respond faster to such emergencies.

This article will help you discover several ways to use at-home natural gas safely. It will also explain how to detect gas leaks, the dos and don’ts, and the most appropriate steps to prevent them.

NANDA-I, NIC and NOC in Anxiety Reduction and Control

Anxiety Disorder is a prevalent condition among Americans and an essential part of First Aid training for anxiety and BLS for Healthcare Providers.

Still, nurses face clinical deadlock situations where the judgment of data is challenging and varied. This need inspired the development of a common language to help nurses and medical practitioners diagnose patients better and come up with the proper treatment or outcomes.

NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC are the three elements in medicine that resulted from those efforts. These elements are standardized nursing languages common in nursing literature.

The American Nurses Association accepts the three standardized languages, namely;

1. Diagnoses given by NANDA International (NANDA-I),
2. Interventions by the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC),
3. The outcomes of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC).

These are broad taxonomies that spell out terms for patient problems, interventions, and outcomes. According to a 2011 study, the implementation of NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC or NNN has improved nursing data efficiency.

To better understand NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC, we require a general patient scenario to understand these elements.

In this post, our patient scenario is anxiety. First, we will discuss the general public understanding of stress and then look at NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC definitions and their steps to dealing with anxiety.

Facts about Hot Water Heaters & Basic first aid for Electric shock

Water and electricity don’t mix like gin and nuns, which explains why you must be cautious when handling DIY projects like fixing a hot water heater or responding to an emergency.

While DIY is okay for some home problems, others are risky or require an expert to ensure proper fixing and a long-standing solution. But whether to hire an electrician to fix your hot water heater or go DIY is a personal decision.

Nevertheless, always be cautious when working on electrical appliances that rely on both power and water. And as an extra precaution, learn basic first aid for electric shock.

Your safety is priority number one because water can worsen the chances of surviving an electric shock.

For instance, electric shock drowning is a US-coined term used to describe death when a swimmer is electrocuted or exposed to electricity in the water.

Sometimes, the shock itself can be fatal because it paralyzes the victim’s diaphragm, while in other cases, it electrocutes the swimmer causing them to drown. Its primary cause is faulty electrical wiring that leaks electric waves into the water.

Tips Recover from a Hurricane 

A report by FEMA shows that 40 percent of micro-businesses close up after natural calamities. This is a wake-up call for companies to prepare with firewalls like the right type of insurance for natural disasters.

According to attorney Brandon J. Clapp of Swift Currie’s Insurance Coverage, “micro-businesses hardly recover from a hurricane because most of them lack adequate capital to recoup losses due to natural calamities.”

Plus, most of these young companies do not have the resources to re-establish themselves after a disaster. Damages and losses from natural disasters can be detrimental to small business owners who still rely on small loans.

He adds that a 2013 study by The American Sustainable Business Council discovered that small companies lost around $3000 per day, each day they closed operations after a natural disaster.

How to Set New Year Health Goals

Everybody has their 2021 resolutions, but most of us forget to include health concerns when planning for a new year. Yet health and general wellness should be priority number one for anyone looking to achieve all other goals.

According to a Dec. 2020 poll by Finder.com, nearly half of Americans have health-based new year health goals to chase in 2021 (making it the leading category among others like money, family, love and career).

Researchers found health as a primary concern for 43.53% of males and 47.45% of females. But how many of us achieve our yearly health goals?

Another poll posted in the Journal of Clinical Psychology found that of the Americans that set a 2020 resolution, 35 percent achieved all their objectives while 49 percent met some of their goals. Only 16 percent did not work towards their resolutions.

Choosing reasonable goals, adequate planning and undying persistence is the secret to setting and meeting your health resolutions. Below are some steps to set workable goals.

Why Bystanders Must Understand the Chain of Survival

The Chain of Survival is a 5-step course of action rescuers or paramedics take to enhance a victim’s survival during sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Upon the occurrence of SCA, time becomes a crucial factor. Each second counts and rescuers must take immediate action to save a life.

Scientifically, the human brain lacks a reserve of oxygenated blood like other body organs. And without the continuous supply of blood, brain damage can quickly occur within the shortest time possible.To save more SCA victims, passersby must recognize the symptoms and administer prompt medical care.

But identifying emergencies and taking quick steps is only the first move in a 5-step survival chain.

Buying the Best Full Face Snorkel Mask for Beginners

Snorkeling is an enthralling experience these days compared to the past, thank goodness! Long gone are the days when you wasted all your fun-time wiping your goggles and puffing while irately blowing water off your mouth-piece.

Again, those who didn’t like the idea of a wet face even with goggles can now submerge and keep dry with the latest full face masks. And even with your fully covered face, breathing will be as effortless as if you were on dry land.

While some of the best full face snorkel mask experts are working to make your swimming even better, there are still a few hitches, here and there, in many existing snorkeling masks. But with our list here, you are sure to make the most of your time in the sea.

This guide will lead you through some of the top-rated full face masks. It’s a compilation of masks that have been remodeled to do away with most of the problems you faced in the old school goggles. What’s more, they are pocket-friendly, and next time you schedule a snorkeling trip, you might want to try one of these.

But first, let’s go through the benefits of buying a snorkel mask.

What is Agonal Breathing?

A person is said to have agonal breathing when he/she has difficulty breathing or produces a gasping sound. Such breathing is usually an indication that someone is suffering from a severe medical condition like sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) or stroke.

Gasping respiration isn’t proper breathing; instead, it’s a result of the brainstem reflex. It occurs when the heart fails to aid the circulation of oxygenated blood. Other times, it happens when the lungs stop supplying enough oxygenated blood.

Anyone who experiences gasping respiration should seek immediate medical intervention, whether or not it’s due to a medical emergency.

Heartburn during Pregnancy Cause Discomfort and Irritation.

The most common complaint among ladies during their third trimester of pregnancy is a pain in the gut. This awful experience typically occurs after eating, and a severe burning sensation usually accompanies the heartburn.

The heartburn is mostly predominant in the third trimester because of the compression force exerted by the developing fetus.

Although  the experience can be an unpleasant, moms shouldn’t panic because there are several effective ways to avoid heartburn.

What Causes Heartburn Pain during Pregnancy

The term heartburn basically refers to a burning sensation that occurs behind the breast and chest area and rises up the gullet. More specifically, the burning sensation arises because the valve between the esophagus and the stomach has loosened. Thus, the acids in the stomach rise to the gut.

What’s DNR?

DNR means Do Not Resuscitate. A DNR is a legal note carried by a patient, barring doctors from resuscitating.  A DNR order can either be written or oral, depending on the country.

Without a DNR order, healthcare providers will immediately begin CPR procedures on a patient in case of an emergency. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation involves mouth to mouth or machine breathing and chest compressions to restore the function of the heart in case their heart or breathing has stopped.

DNR orders are prepared before an emergency, and it gives instructions on whether to receive CPR or not during an emergency. They are written under the direction of the patient or the patient’s family, after consultation with a physician.