Bed Case Studies Samples For Students

Abstract

This paper answers four questions. In addition, through a case study, the paper illustrates considerations made in order to prioritize care given to hospitalized patients. A case study is given of six patients with various complications and care needs. The paper points out that those with airway problems are usually considered first for care delivery before other patients with other conditions. This is because airway problems pose more acute danger than other conditions. In this case, the paper gives a case study of patients with various complications and how the complications are managed. In addition, the paper, through another case study, ...

Make-a-Bed is a furniture manufacturer and distributor with plants in three U.S. states. To save on money, the company President decided to hire an independent contractor to streamline its manufacturing processes. John Engineer was thus hired to study the company’s systems and processes and was told that he should come up with recommendations on how to do the consolidation within one year. As part of the expectations, he was supposed to report to the president his progress on a monthly basis, should handle all meeting schedules and travel arrangements, was expected to turn in work equivalent to 20 hours per ...

Summary

The short story entitled “Monsters” by Anna Quindlen was told from the narrator’s point of view, possibly the author, on the symbolism of monsters under the bed for children. The literary discourse started with the alleged arrival of the monster under the bed, as acknowledged from the perspective of the narrator’s son and relayed through a small dialogue. A trip down memory lane was initially presented remembering the narrator’s childhood experience and depiction of a similar monster. Subsequent discussion provided reflective points that rationalize how parents should address the matter in terms of strategies that would effectively justify a ...

A Case Study on Shouldice Hospital Limited: Practical Marketing Solutions

Critical problems/issues
Shouldice Hospital Limited, a Canadian hospital specializing in hernia operations is considering whether and how to expand capacity and reach of its services while maintaining the quality of service delivered.

The hospital also faces the paradox of change given the current manager is 6o years old.

Assumptions
Increasing capacity of the facility will increase the profitability of the firm because they will be able to serve many customers.

Increasing capacity will help in reducing waiting lines because currently, there are no operations scheduled during weekends.

Expanding the capacity of by beds by 50 percent would enable the organization schedule the operating rooms more heavily.
If not well implemented, increasing capacity could compromise the quality of service offered by the hospital.
It is assumed that the hospital is ...

Menopause is a common stage of life; this is a period whereby a woman experience differences on her periods as they gradually stop. Some of symptoms which can be revealed include changes on estrogen and even progesterone (Jeremy, 2005).
Researchers and other professionals call this period menopausal transition. Normally, symptoms can be seen even before the last menstrual period. A woman is supposed to admit she has menopause after a full year without experiencing menstrual period.
Scientifically, women experience menstrual period up to the age of 51. However, others experience menopause even before fifty’s. Moreover, there are women who still ...

Psychology Case Study

Location: Home
Since the beginning of this year, my little sister who is in elementary school fifth grade has been avoiding her duty of making her room tidy before going to school. She will just wake up and leave her bed unmade and her clothes scattered on the floor. My mother had assigned me the responsibility of ensuring my sister’s room is tidy before we leave in the morning for school or any other day’s activity. This has bothered me for sometime as I had previously tried to teach my sister how to make her bed ...

Overview

The current case once again brings to light the countless flaws in the prevailing Indian healthcare system that is plagued by shoddy practices, including unavailability of proper infrastructure, along with the callousness and disenchantment of the medical practitioners and the staff in general both towards the medical profession and the patients, that manifests itself into decreased morale and increased turnover and absenteeism rates amongst them. With the needle this time pointing towards SR Hospital, a middle-class government hospital in Kerala (India), the case tries to briefly talk about the current financially debilitating state of the medical establishment, which again is ...

Introduction

Sub- capital fracture of the femoral neck is a common injury among the ageing population and is regarded as “unsolvable fractures”. This is a growing health concern in every country as the healthcare expenditure is very high. The surgical options, especially for elderly population, highly depend on the patient’s profile, their preference and the experience of the surgeon . Mrs. Pollard, 75- year- old, sustained a left sub- capital fractured neck of femur. Due to her age and her other complications such as hypertension and Type- 2 diabetes, a total hip replacement might be a better surgical option as ...

Executive Summary

Implementations of care paths will/may help cut healthcare costs. This report argues that the adoption of the care path approach is necessary to ensure MGH's costs are sustainable, but to ensure success, a phased approach to implementation approach, stakeholder engagement, constant, communication, and use of formal change management models will help.

Summary of the Case

As one of the largest hospitals in the country and a pioneer of open-heart surgery, MGH its ability to rein the costs of one of the most expensive procedures would serve as an important guide for the rest of the industry. Its costs are higher than its competitors ...

On

The Oakes hotel is a popular hotel of Canada that has recently revamped its structure and paraphernalia with outstanding refurbishment. The Oakes hotel offers a combination of best comforts and traditions to meet the towering standards of other Grand hotels and competitors. The hotel management proudly presents newly refurbished top class Falls-view suites and rooms, equipped with modern lodging and catering facilities, as an added feature. The elegant, modern steel and glass building highlighted with a newly made 21-storey tower and two top class elevators. The high-speed glass enclosed design elevators provide a modern enchanting look to the customers. The lobby area ...

Part 1

A: When working in the home and community, the best practice and current sector approaches to working with clients include:
using person-centred practice,
working in a consumer-directed care model, and
understanding the potential for empowerment versus disempowerment when supporting clients.

The care worker integrates these contexts into their support work on all levels.

Complete the table below by describing each approach and giving an example of how you might integrate this in your support work with a client:
B. Case Study. Read this case study and then answer the questions below.

Complete the table outlining:

Two areas where Mrs. Brady and Justin could target in a CDC package
What could be arranged for each area of ...

Introduction

In May 2012, English couple Mick and Mairead Philpott made the headlines for surviving a fire that killed their six children and destroyed their house in the Allenton area (BBC News, 2013). After publicly claiming to be lucky for surviving the fire, the Philpotts won the sympathy of people who felt sorry for them for losing six of their children and most of their properties. However, after a month of investigation, the Philpotts were accused of committing arson and murder, and by 2013, they were convicted of manslaughter for deliberately starting a fire that killed all six of their ...

Acute abdominal ache can be grouped in multiple procedures. The most regular procedure is by splitting the sources into two major categories; nonsurgical pain versus surgical, and extra abdominal versus intra-abdominal causes. A range of conditions, which vary from self-limited and benign ailment to surgical crises, might generate acute abdominal ache. An optimal tactic to detect the rationale for abdominal ache should depend on the probability of complaints, disease, and other aspects of laboratory tests, patient history, imaging studies, and findings on bodily examination (Adams, 2013). The biliary ailment is the top course for acute gastric surgery amid the ...

Introduction

Osteoarthritis of the knee also known as the degenerative arthritis is a major and growing problem for the elder population all over the globe. Approximately, 27 million individuals have been reported to suffer from osteoarthritis by the Arthritis Foundation in United States (US). Women have been more commonly reported to suffer from osteoarthritis as compared to men. The prevalence of developing arthritis has been found to increase after the age of 45 . Although, mostly elderly population are most affected yet there are few evidences of young people suffering from it. Osteoarthritis is also commonly defined as wear- and- tear ...

The crash of Air France 447 is considered the biggest disaster ever to hit Air France and Airbus since the beginning of their venture into this industry. All of the 228 passengers and crew of the flight were killed in this accident (Palmer, 2013). Due to the delay in the recovery of the black box from the ocean bed, the investigations and final report, published by BEA, took nearly three years for completion (Jonathan, 2011). The final investigation revealed that the accident occurred due to the inconsistent data indicated by the FMC (Flight Management Computer System) regarding the fluid ...

Diagnosis

Goals
Interventions
Assess area and intensity of Mrs. Laure’s pain together with the changes in the pains characteristics hourly
Elevate neck and leg slightly using either a pillow or bed adjustments
Discuss the pain and places it is felt putting into perspective why and how it is felt. Acknowledge the presence of the said sensations as Mrs. Larue’s real pain.
Instruct Mrs. Larue on the appropriate use of appropriate use of patient-controlled analgesia not forgetting effective pain management measures.

Issue PRN medications in a prescribed manner for breakthrough pain, employing opioid and nonopiod medicine.

Assess symmetry, the degree of Mrs. Larue mobility and strength.

Advice for effective isometric exercises when required

Monitor pain as it can limit mobility and ...

Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

Cardiac arrhythmias often require immediate medical care that may include resuscitation (Ray, 2004). The diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias can be challenging particularly in situations whereby the patient is asymptomatic and ECG findings are normal between symptomatic episodes (Cruickshank, 2008). Distinguishing between supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia is also a challenge (Australian Resuscitation Council, 2008). Cardiac arrhythmia should be suspected in patients with a history of syncope, near syncope, palpitations, and/or chest pain (Cruickshank, 2008). This paper will justify why monomophic ventricular tachycardia is the most likely diagnosis of a male patient who collapsed abruptly and has hypotension (BP 63/38), tachycardia ( ...

Fairytales play an important role in the formation of personality in childhood. Knowing this, most parents read stories to their children. In fact, every fairy tale has a moral lesson that is presented in the form of a narrative. And children, by reading stories, automatically learn certain truths. However, some fairy tales might be more than instructive stories. Sometimes they can have quite ambiguous subtext. This paper analyzes the fairy tale "Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault. Probably everyone used to read this story as a child. It seemed that everything is clear in it. This paper presents a ...

Background

This case examines the political reasons and bargaining that goes into a decision to build a prison. There are many factors that go into play before the decision is made and many are political because of the money and employment capabilities that prisons bring to the community.

Key Issues

One of the issues is the logistics of the facility. The original plans called for the building on a federally protected watershed. The need though was multifold for the economic boast that a prison would bring to this rural area. So attempts to redistrict this area would be possible.

The numbers of women in prison were growing and in the state the other prisons were overcrowded.

A third component ...

Fairytales play an important role in the formation of personality in childhood. Knowing this, most parents read stories to their children. In fact, every fairy tale has a moral lesson that is presented in the form of a narrative. And children, by reading stories, automatically learn certain truths. However, some fairy tales might be more than instructive stories. Sometimes they can have quite ambiguous subtext. This paper analyzes the fairy tale "Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault. Probably everyone used to read this story as a child. It seemed that everything is clear in it. This paper presents a ...

Initial Patient Assessment

Overview
The patient is 67-year-old Mrs. Finch.

She lives with her husband in their marital home.

Recently, she suffered a CVA and had been in the hospital’s rehabilitation ward recovering from her latest episode.
Before her CVA, Mrs. Finch had a healthy and active lifestyle.

However, her condition has brought with it numerous other complications including a chest infection.

She is also having difficulty staying mobile due to residual weakness on her left side.
She has had a dark wound on her heel for about a week now. This wound keeps deteriorating into the present wound.
A series of CVA specific issues such as limited mobility, the risk for infection and reduced nutrition hinders Mrs. Finch’s capacity to heal.
Wound ...

In April 2002, three hospitals combined to establish the King Edgar Hospitals NHS Trust with the objective of enhancing the services and decreasing duplication. The Trust was under a tremendous pressure to reduce waiting lists and sorting out of other managerial issues such as delays in discharges, inaccurate admissions of patients to wards, poor relationships with social services, high number of patient complaints. In response to this situation, the Executive Director of Nursing, Tracey Burns, was appointed to take the lead .

Team Work

Burns in concert with three assistant Directors of Nursing formed four groups that targeted a varied aspect of ...

Introduction

Aeolian processes occur in environments such as deserts, agricultural fields, and coastal regions. The features of such environments include a nonexistent or sparse vegetation cover, strong winds, and a supply of fine sediments. In Egypt, the increase in human population has led to the lateral spread of human settlements from the Nile’s flood plains to various locations in the western desert land. Such areas include the Kharga Oasis, where the government has initiated land reclamation projects for agriculture and human settlements. However, the developmental plans have missed the issue of natural hazards such as dune movements. Hence, the success of such ...

Rail construction is a sequence of steps that takes laborious amounts of time in each step and finally results in a wonderful and safe system for transport for many decades to come that requires minimal maintenance over that period. The first step in the construction process is the approval for new line itself. This is typically the responsibility of the government to do it. Once a approval is given for rail connectivity between two points then the role of engineering kicks in.
The first step in the process is the alignment. Alignment is nothing but the path in which the track ...

Question One: Why Nations fail - so close yet so different

Different nations from around the world are endowed with different resources, which they harness to build their economies. These resources influence not only their economies but also the political significance of the state. More fundamentally, they affect the culture and values of governance that characterize public finance and governance. It is vital that corporate finance should be administered in tandem with democratic principles of governance. Unfortunately, corporate governance has been stained with vices such as nepotism, corruption, official lethargy and incompetence. Governance in economic and political institutions is directly correlated with the level of democratic maturity of a nation. Furthermore, ...

Pediatric Case Study

Part I. Cultural and Family Assessment

Culture and family are oftentimes neglected during patient assessment, especially when the person is viewed only in terms of disease, causes and treatment. However, providing holistic care that encompasses all aspects of the patient’s life has the potential to improve patient outcomes. In nursing theory, Callista Roy and Madeleine Leininger refer to culture as a belief system, a worldview through which the patient perceives health, care, nursing and the world in general (George, 2011). It is transmitted from one generation to the next through interaction in social institutions such as the family, school and ...

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Introduction and Background

In the past 60 years, India has crossed major milestones in healthcare such as greater life expectancy, decrease in infant death rate, wiping out leprosy and eliminating small pox. Regardless of the progress, India’s healthcare demonstrates crude inequalities. At one end of the spectrum is the rise in medical tourism, pulling in more than 2 lac global patients in 2006. At the other end, curable diseases like diarrhoea and malnutrition, particularly of children below 3 years, are continually predominant. Likewise, in comparison to South Asian countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia and China, vaccinations in India are still ...

Sandra is a 35 year old single female living in San Antonio. She has a 16 year old daughter. During her last annual exam her blood pressure is 142/92, height is 5 foot 2 inches, weight is 273 pounds, body fat 58%. She is also borderline diabetic. In general, she is alert, oriented, cooperative and in no apparent distress. She reported a decrease in her energy level, particularly in the afternoons.
She has started to become depressed about her weight. When she was younger she was active and liked to run, but now she states that her knees and joints hurt ...

Criminal Profile Paper on Andrea Yates

The Crime

On June 20th 2001, a mother of five did the unthinkable and killed her five children within one hour (O'Malley, 2004). The woman, Andrea Yates confessed to drowning her four sons and one daughter in the bathtub within the family’s house. The crime shocked American society and brought a lot of consideration to the psychological health of mothers and possible risks it presented for the family (Ewing, 2008).

On the morning of the crime, Russell Yates Andrea’s husband left his wife alone in the house with the children. This was a routine he had started a few weeks prior ...

Introduction

People face difficult situations in their daily lives and therefore, counseling is important to assist these people go through life smoothly. Among the many difficult situations, that people experience is domestic violence. Domestic violence affects not only the partners involved but also their children and society (Dutton, 2006). The partners may not notice the harm they cause their children when involved in violence but it actually affects children psychologically. When clients of domestic violence appear in counseling sessions, a counselor needs to observe the necessary legal and ethical issues in dealing with the situation. The counselor may experience several challenges ...