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INFO: Full form for NHSA is Northern Health Science Alliance in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for RATL is Ramaiah Advanced Testing Laboratory in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for RATL is Raytheon Analysis Test Laboratory in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NHSA is Nursing Health Systems Administration in Medical category
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NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly funded healthcare system in Scotland, and one of the four systems which make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates fourteen territorial NHS boards across Scotland, seven special non-geographic health boards and NHS Health Scotland.

At the founding of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, three separate institutions were created in Scotland, England and Wales and Northern Ireland. The NHS in Scotland was accountable to the Secretary of State for Scotland rather than the Secretary of State for Health as in England and Wales. Prior to 1948, a publicly funded healthcare system, the Highlands and Islands Medical Service, had been established in Scotland in 1913, recognising the geographical and demographic challenges of delivering healthcare in that region.

Following Scottish devolution in 1999, health and social care policy and funding became devolved to the Scottish Parliament. It is currently administered through the Health and Social Care Directorates of the Scottish Government.

The current Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care is Humza Yousaf, and the head of staff is the director-general health and social care and chief executive of NHS Scotland, Caroline Lamb.

INFO: Full form for NHS SB is NHS South Birmingham in Medical category

INFO: Full form for NHCS is National Hospital Care Survey in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for RICER is Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation, Referral in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for RFD(S) is reference dose(s) in Medical category

INFO: Full form for NOSH is National Occupational Safety and Health in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NOSCA is Nurses Observation Scale Cognitive Abilities in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NHCS is National Health Care Surveys in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NHCS is Nash Health Care Systems in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NIBSC is National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (UK) in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for OPTA is Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Associates in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for OPTC is Occult Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for MUPT is Marquette University Physical Therapy in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for LPSI is Lubbock Plastic Surgery Institute in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for Matty is Maternity [U.K.] in Medical category

A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician's orders (e.g., medication administration). Nursing diagnoses are developed based on data obtained during the nursing assessment. An problem-based nursing diagnosis presents a problem response present at time of assessment. Risk diagnoses represent vulnerabilities to potential problems, and health promotion diagnoses identify areas which can be enhanced to improve health. Whereas a medical diagnosis identifies a disorder, a nursing diagnosis identifies the unique ways in which individuals respond to health or life processes or crises. The nursing diagnostic process is unique among others. A nursing diagnosis integrates patient involvement, when possible, throughout the process. NANDA International (NANDA-I) is body of professionals that develops, researches and refines an official taxonomy of nursing diagnosis.

All nurses must be familiar with the steps of the nursing process in order to gain the most efficiency from their positions. In order to correctly diagnose, the nurse must make quick and accurate inferences from patient data during assessment, based on knowledge of the nursing discipline and concepts of concern to nurses.

INFO: Full form for SCTU is Stem Cell Transplant Unit in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for IBS-M is Mixed Irritable bowel syndrome in Medical category

INFO: Full form for MBBL is Multiple Benign Breast Lesions in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for LNHA is LARA Nursing Home Administrator in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for RNFL is Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for LNLE is Laboratory for Natural Language Engineering in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for LNHA is Louisiana Nursing Home Association in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for LNHA is Licensed Nursing Home Administrator in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for SLAPs is superior labrum anterior-posterior tear(s) in Medical category

INFO: Full form for LNMB is Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for LNMT is Lymph Node Metastasis Tumor in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for HVH is Heart of Virginia Healthcare in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for LNMC is Liaqat National Medical College in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NEBOSH is National Examination Board for Occupational Safety and Health in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NEBOSH is National Examination Board in Occupational Safety Health in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NEBOSH is National Examination Board Occupational Safety Health in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NSAIA(s) is non-steroidal anti-Inflammatory agent(s) in Medical category

INFO: Full form for ISULL is Iowa State University Limnology Laboratory in Medical category

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are members of a drug class that reduces pain, decreases fever, prevents blood clots, and in higher doses, decreases inflammation. Side effects depend on the specific drug but largely include an increased risk of gastrointestinal ulcers and bleeds, heart attack, and kidney disease.

The term nonsteroidal distinguishes these drugs from steroids, which while having a similar eicosanoid-depressing, anti-inflammatory action, have a broad range of other effects. First used in 1960, the term served to distance these medications from steroids, which were particularly stigmatised at the time due to the connotations with anabolic steroid abuse.

NSAIDs work by inhibiting the activity of cyclooxygenase enzymes (COX-1 or COX-2). In cells, these enzymes are involved in the synthesis of key biological mediators, namely prostaglandins, which are involved in inflammation, and thromboxanes, which are involved in blood clotting.

There are two types of NSAIDs available: non-selective and COX-2 selective. Most NSAIDs are non-selective and inhibit the activity of both COX-1 and COX-2. These NSAIDs, while reducing inflammation, also inhibit platelet aggregation and increase the risk of gastrointestinal ulcers/bleeds. COX-2 selective inhibitors have fewer gastrointestinal side effects but promote thrombosis and some of these agents substantially increase the risk of heart attack. As a result, certain older COX-2 selective inhibitors are no longer used due to the high risk of undiagnosed vascular disease. These differential effects are due to the different roles and tissue localisations of each COX isoenzyme. By inhibiting physiological COX activity, all NSAIDs increase the risk of kidney disease and through a related mechanism, heart attack. In addition, NSAIDs can blunt the production of erythropoietin resulting in anaemia, since haemoglobin needs this hormone to be produced.

The most prominent NSAIDs are aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen, all available over the counter (OTC) in most countries. Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is generally not considered an NSAID because it has only minor anti-inflammatory activity. Paracetamol treats pain mainly by blocking COX-2 and inhibiting endocannabinoid reuptake almost exclusively within the brain, but not much in the rest of the body.

INFO: Full form for NSAI is Non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for IDST is Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for IDSU is interdepartmental support unit in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for JSCN is Japanese Society of Child Neurology in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for JSCN is Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NTTRL is National Tissue Typing and Reference Laboratory in Medical category
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The Hudson River Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie, New York was a building and a psychiatric facility for adults operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health. It was closed in January 2012, and patients were moved to Rockland Psychiatric Center.

It was located at 10 Ross Circle, in Poughkeepsie, not far from the defunct Hudson River State Hospital. The property continues to serve as an Office of Mental Health field office.

INFO: Full form for HRPC is Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for NTTRL is National Tissue Typing Reference Laboratory in Medical category
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INFO: Full form for LDSA is Laboratory of Demographic and Social Analyses in Medical category
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