Sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell are all known most commonly as the five senses (Peate & Jones, 2014). People uses these five senses on an everyday basis to perceive the world presented before them. The five senses allows people to see what’s before them, admire beauty, detect potential threats, feel, and listen. Some of these senses such as hearing and sight work together (Peate & Jones, 2014). In some cases people are not given the privilege, that others take for granted, or no longer have the privilege of one or many of these senses due to disease processes or trauma. Worldwide, glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness (Peate & Jones, 2014). Glaucoma is a condition that causes optic nerve damage to the eye due to an increase …show more content…
This increased pressure can occur because of poor circulation of eye fluids (Peate & Jones, 2014). Over time this condition can continue to worsen and cause permanent vision loss if gone untreated (Peate & Jones, 2014). Nurses with patients suffering from glaucoma should provide patients with accurate information about their condition as well as teach patients about the condition, treatments and promote patient safety.
Glaucoma is has several types which include congenital and acquired (Peate & Jones, 2014). Congenital glaucoma is present at birth (Peate & Jones, 2014). Whereas acquired glaucoma is not present at birth and is caused by medications, surgery, inflammation, or other processes (Glaucoma for Children, 2014). Glaucoma is then divided into two sub-groups called open-angle and closed-angle (Peate & Jones, 2014). The first sub-group, open-angle, is the most common of the two (Peate & Jones, 2014). In open-angle glaucoma patients do not notice a change in vision due to the fact that vision loss with this type
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Glaucoma can occur in any age patient, therefore yearly screenings is necessary for all ages (Understanding and Living with Glaucoma , 2012). Patients who are at a higher risk for glaucoma include patients of African and Asian decent, patients over the age of 60 years, patients who are very myopic, or nearsighted, and patients who excessively use steroids (Understanding and Living with Glaucoma , 2012). There are two types of screenings for glaucoma (Understanding and Living with Glaucoma , 2012). They are tonometry and ophthalmoscopy (Understanding and Living with Glaucoma , 2012). In order to measure the intraocular pressure, IOP, the health care provider will use tonometry (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2013). Eye drops are used to numb the eye so that a tonometer can be used to measure the inner pressure within the eyen (Understanding and Living with Glaucoma , 2012). The normal range for patients with normal eye pressure ranges from 10-21 mm Hg (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2013). Patients with open-angle glaucoma have a pressure of 22 mm Hg, and with closed-angle the pressure reading is 30 mm Hg or higher (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2013). During ophthalmoscopy, eye drops are also used, but to dilate the pupil (Understanding and Living with Glaucoma , 2012). The health care provider can then examine the optic nerve for damage due to glaucoma (Understanding and Living with
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Vision loss from glaucoma is permanent but can be prevented with early detection and treatment. Since the symptoms of the disease are usually unnoticeable, regular eye examination are important especially for persons over the age of 35 and those in high risk group.
Glaucoma is a disease of the eye and it is fluid pressure within the eye rises and if the eye is left untreated the patient might lose vision or maybe even blind. But this disease is generally affects both eyes but although one of their eyes may have more severe signs or symptoms then the other eye. When you have glaucoma there are small spaces in the front of the eye and they are called anterior chamber. There is clear liquid that flows in and out of the anterior chamber and the fluid nourishes and bathes nearby the tissues. And if the patient has glaucoma the fluid dose not drain like it should drain but the fluid drains out of the eye. And this may lead to fluid build up and pressure inside the rises of the eye. Unless the pressure is brought down and controlled and the optic nerves and some of the other parts of the eye might become damaged leading to ...
During my childhood I was diagnosed as having poor eyesight and was prescribed glasses to assist with my vision correction. I realize how blessed I am to have had that as an option. I was always in awe of the environment and creatures who inhabited the various areas of nature. The sense of vision is very important and without the ability to see an individual would be missing out on many colorful life experiences. Blindness, which is the lack of the ability to see is a very dark and challenging disability. Without one’s eyes, everyday activities such a walking, reading, eating and identifying people can be a struggle. It has been proven that the brain will adapt to the loss by giving itself a makeover. If one sense is lost,
Christian Jarrett explains that having 5 senses is a myth. Just by defining the word “sense” we can tell that five is inaccurate. If a sense is a way for the brain to receive information about the world and the body, then we will agree that there are more than five. If senses were differentiated depending on the type of receptors, then that will multiply the number of senses even more. So five senses actually makes no sense.
Hearing and vision are two very valuable factors in a human’s life. Nonetheless we could still survive without one or even both. I personally enjoy having both. I value them the most when I see how big my baby nephew is getting and when I hear him babbling and laughing with me. I also value my hearing and vision when I am taking a road trip with my friends and we are listening to music. Hearing and vision are two very important factors to me and I am very glad I have both and get to experience the best of both.
Robert, a 65 year-old male, has trouble reading fine detail, especially out of his central vision. He complains that his vision is blurred and that it is harder to see while operating a motor vehicle. In addition, sometimes objects appear wavy or crooked, which impairs his vision. His worst symptoms were that he occasionally lost the ability to distinguish between the features of familiar faces and he had a localized blind spot. Robert is not alone; many people suffer from symptoms related to loss and distortion of the visual field. He suffers from macular degeneration, the leading cause of decreased vision loss in the United States, especially for people over the age of 50 (Philippi, 2000).
Without the combined use of perception, emotion, logic, and language, my ability to pursue knowledge and gain an understanding of the world around me is limited. For me, measuring the success of the pursuit of knowledge is based on the fact that I am able to comprehend knowledge from multiple viewpoints, and not be restricted to a certain way of thinking. In Maslow’s quote, being only restricted to one tool, or way of knowing, is an issue for me to pursue knowledge because of the restrictions and barriers that exist when my focus is only on one way of knowing. In the case of sense perception, I am incapable of processing knowledge when other ways of knowing are neglected. Through this, I propose the following knowledge issue: To what extent is perception a restrictive factor on an individual’s ability to comprehend and pursue knowledge? Because the use of perception is so interlocked with other ways of knowing, such as emotion and logic, the problem exists in the fact that perception is a tool that is dependent on other tools.
Fluid circulating inside the front portion of the eye is produced by a structure called the ciliary body, which is located behind the iris. This fluid moves through the opening of the pupil, passes into the space between the iris and the cornea, and drains out of the eye through a tissue called the angle. With glaucoma, the passing of fluid through the angle is either reduced or suddenly stops, and amounts of fluid inside the eye increase. This high fluid pressure hurts the nerve fibers and the eye's optic nerve and causes blind spots. It may lead to blindness in some cases.
Home is experienced in a multitude of ways using our senses. Impressions of our past and present homes materialize from a familiar smell, sight, feeling, taste or sound. We all live in a multi-sensory environment, where we can use one or more of our senses on a daily basis to absorb our surroundings. However, it is easily arguable that although each sense can conjure up a memory, or imprint a grasp of where we live or lived, certain senses are stronger with the recollection or the feelings we have of our home. If we live in the same home as other people, some of us will associate a certain smell to the home, while others will not; or a sound, etc., that I would not associate with that home. I will be pursuing the reasons why we absorb our environments
When people hear the word “deaf” many times they think of their grandparents or other elders who have lost their ability to hear due to old age. However today for every 1,000 children, at least 1 is considered to be deaf or heard of hearing (Honig, 177.) Deafness is a disability that is easily overlooked and misunderstood because it is not a disability that is easily observed. Helen Keller once said that, “Blindness cuts people off from things. Deafness cuts people off from people.” When a person is blind or need glasses society easily recognizes that in some cases special accommodati...
As humans, we interact with the world around us in five main discernible ways: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling. Appropriately, they are known together as the five senses, five clearly distinguishable ways we could familiarize ourselves with an environment or recognize a new situation which we have not encountered before. As discussed in class, they help the brain perceive the world around us in a way where we can understand and react to everything which is happening around us. It is not just humans who have these abilities either, as almost all animals rely on at least one sharpened sense to help them avoid danger on a day to day basis and survive in whatever environment they live in. While none of our sensory abilities may be the strongest ones individually compared to certain ones in certain other animals, what makes humans unique as a species is that we possess an ability to input the information all of
The way that each individual interprets, retrieves, and responds to the information in the world that surrounds you is known as perception. It is a personal way of creating opinions about others and ourselves in everyday life and being able to recognize it under various conditions. Each person’s perceptions are used as a kind of filter that every piece of information has to pass through before it determines the effect that it has or will have on the person from the stimulus. It is convincing to believe that we create multiple perceptions about different situations and objects each day. Perceptions reflect our opinions in many ways. The quality of a person’s perceptions is very important and can affect the response that is given through different situations. Perception is often deceived as reality. “Through perception, people process information inputs into responses involving feelings and action.” (Schermerhorn, et al.; p. 3). Perception can be influenced by a person’s personality, values, or experiences which, in turn, can play little role in reality. People make sense of the world that they perceive because the visual system makes practical explanations of the information that the eyes pick up.
Perception is defined as the awareness of the world through the use of the five senses, but the concept of perception is often used to isolate one person’s point of view, so how reliable can perception be if no one person’s is exactly the same? The word perception itself is riddled with different, well, perceptions of its meaning. When some hear the word they might automatically think of it as something innately flawed, that can easily be fooled by illusions, while others may think of its usefulness when avoiding scalding a hand on a hot stove. I am here to agree with both and to argue that perception is something necessary and helpful, and something that should be scrutinized for its flaws. By looking at perception as a way of knowing in the
In the United States right now, 1 in 5 Americans have a disability of some kind. Today I wish to inform you on the dangers that many people who have a disability face and a specific kind of disability. Disabilities come in a variety of ways, affecting people’s eyesight, hearing, and motor skills. However, today I would like to go over an increasing issue in today’s world, and that is deafness. Like any no communicable disease, people who are deaf have to like a completely changed world then you or I live in.