Post Nasal Drip (or PND). Mucus draining down the back of the throat over the back of the tongue where the bad breath bacteria live. They feed off the proteins in mucus and create strong odors. If you still have your tonsils, you may be harboring a higher number of the bacteria in the crevices of your tonsils.
Our Professional Practice Model, adapted from Hoffart and Woods (1996)1, contains the values, structures, and processes that support registered nurse control of the delivery of nursing care and the environment in which care is delivered. The center of the model is the patient and family.
promoting physical and emotional comfort; involving the personâs family and friends, as appropriate. This model of nursing care contrasts with a more frequent approach called âpatient-centredâ nursing. This focuses on the person as a patient, emphasising medical diagnosis and the identification of nursing problems. Personal needs may be acknowledged but only in as much as they relate to overall medical and nursing needs. In practice, this means that medical and nursing care needs take priority over other personal and, perhaps undeclared, needs of the person receiving care.