Essays on Patient

The phases of crisis refer to the stages in which one undergoes when a crisis occurs. A crisis is a sudden occurrence that happens to a person or that which a person finds him or herself in unexpectedly in which one experience sudden changes whether positive or negative and those which one cannot deal with alone. This could be like loss of a loved one or being involved in an assault of a natural calamity and so forth (Caplan, 34).

It is important in crisis intervention that one has knowledge of the event that precipitated the crises and the nature of the client especially ...

Application: The Ethics and Legalities of Medication Error Disclosure

When making an unintentional error in prescribing a drug to a patient, and considering the ethics of disclosure and nondisclosure, there are many implications that can come as a result of such an action. From an ethical standpoint, the ANA Code of Ethics is quite clear; in the case of an error, “nurses are expected to follow institutional guidelines in reporting errors committed or observed to the appropriate supervisory personnel” (2010). From a legal standpoint, errors are equally maligned; in the state of Texas, the Texas Board of Nursing states their belief that “protection of the public is not enhanced by the reporting ...

The meaning of brief varies among therapists, but there is one common aspect: it is a blanket term that incorporates a variety of psychotherapies. Some therapists focus on the current patient observable behavioral interaction, and aim to change the going system (Molnar & Shazer, 1987). This approach was engineered in response to situational limitations, as well as, patient needs (Molnar & Shazer, 1987). In practice, brief therapy has short versions of conventional and family therapies. The underpinnings of conventional and family therapies are employed but are brief. This approach is exceptionally useful if the desired therapy is unavailable or beyond the reach of ...

Trust and mutual understanding between the healthcare professional and the patient can be developed by following the important features of empathy such as listening and communication. Healthcare requires that the professionals understand the considerations and emotional state of the patients. To ensure that the problems of the patients are understood the providers must convey their understanding back to the patients. Some factors of listening that relate to empathy are paraphrasing, responding with positive body language, and finally, summarizing the facts collected by the patient. The information provided by the patients would be related to their illness and the way ...

Presenting complaints: This is a presentation of a 14 year old female known as Mary X. who presented with a right side abdominal pain of 6 hours duration (started since 10am). Reason for admission/ History of presenting complaints: Mary’s abdominal pain begins near the belly button with tenderness around the central abdomen. This pain with a dull consistency at onset later increased in severity as it moves towards the right lower abdominal region. The pathophysiology that is associated with this condition is that which is caused by the fecalith blocking the appendix in about 50-80 percent of cases while in the ...

Networking is an important aspect in any entity using computers. Proper networking is essential to enable sharing of resources in an organization. This may include internet connection, files and management information systems. In a healthcare facility CPU networking is essential to ensure concurrence and smooth management of patients and doctors. A patient entering the hospital is received at the reception and his general details into the computer systems. Once the patient details are entered the patient is issued with a reference number and advised to proceed to physician room. The physician enter the patients reference number and access his details such ...

Continuous Improvement Projects in Hospitals: A Systematic Literature Review

The continuous improvement projects i.e., CIP, are the short term systematic mechanisms based on team work in order to reduce the variations and eliminate the waste from the systems and processes without any investment of capital in the organization. CIPs play a significant role in the hospitals, by addressing major issues in the hospital such as the efficiency of the internal process, quality of the healthcare delivery, service cost, coordination, and communication. The hospitals that are implementing CIPs are obtaining remarkable results, but as a matter of fact they lack the ability of sustaining the CIPs. Reference analysis and the content ...

Woodrow, the author of the article aimed to provide the readers with a better understanding of fundamentals behind w intrapleural chest drains. Woodrow p 49, shared that the article main purpose is to describe the intrapleural chest systems. It also gave the readers basic tips on providing safe nursing health care in relation to the chest drains and the type of damages the tool can assess. The device is significant because it addresses the need to lessen the burden caused by abnormal fluid and air found in between pleura that may increase the risk of respiratory problems and will lead to ...

Ascano-Martin, F. (2008). Shift Report And SBAR. Nurse Educator, 33(5), 190-191. In this article the reference guides for adult learning to be employed by nurses in the service are outlined. These guidelines are emphasized on as being extremely strict and thus the adherence of nurses to these guidelines is of the utmost importance. In this particular article, the guidelines entail nurses building a personal relationship with the adult in question in order to ensure that optimum service is offered by the nurse to the patient. This personal relationship will also endear the nurse to the patient in question ...

The history of pathology testing is dated back to the 3rd century BC, when Greek scholars such as Herophilos and Eriasistratus began systematically examining dead bodies. At the beginning of the first century AD, several Greek, Roman and Arabian physicists made significant developments in the understanding of the pathology of tumors. In the 18th century, Giovanni Morgangi correlated the symptoms of his patients with the pathological evaluations o the autopsies. The discovery of the circulation of blood by William Harvey and the emergence of microsby is regarded as the foundation of modern pathology. The 19th and 20th centuries experienced ...

Introduction

John and Jeff Bulllock are 2nd and 3rd generation medical device executives, respectively. Together, they have been in and out of hundreds of hospitals and thousands of clinics. Over the 40 plus years they have been in the industry, they have been observant of and listened to the medical staff expressing their needs. Out of these necessities, many patents, creations, and the development of new medical devices have come. Most recently, they have witnessed and been told about a growing problem with hospital bed sheets. As they see it, there are three major problems that hospitals face in regards ...

Virtual Reality used in Treatment of Phobia

Virtual Reality in the treatment of phobias offers a new form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that involves systemic exposure to feared situations through a human-computer interaction. Research from renowned psychologists reveals that Virtual Reality is more successful compared to the traditional form of exposure therapy. After the diagnostic interview is conducted, and the psychologist establishes the service would be beneficial to the situation, the patient is placed in a computer generated three-dimensional world and guided through the selected environment. Duke University School of Medicine (2012) states that computer graphics and other display input technologies are integrated to give the patient a sense of reality. ...

The use of the appliance remover is also advantageous for this treatment method. This is because it is used with spring of uprighting to provide the movement of the third molars' mandibular. However, elastic chain that is placed between occlusal surface wire of the third molar mandibular and upper jaw's posterior area mini screw, systematically transverses the plane leading to the tipping of the buccal of the impacted molars’ crown, subsequently tipping of lingual of impacted molars’ root and the extrusion of the tooth’s vertical plane (Park, Bae and Kyung). Finally, the orthodontic treatment is an advantageous treatment ...

Patience is a virtue. This is a very famous quotation which one often hears. But is there really value to patience? Waiting and patience go together. Waiting will always be a part of one’s’ life; therefore, it is necessary for one to learn the value of patience. Waiting can be as simple as waiting for the traffic light to turn green or lining up in the grocery or simply waiting for your plane to take-off. Children enthusiastically wait for their birthdays and Christmas. They count the days until they can open their gifts on these special occasions. For students, waiting may ...

An investigation into whether polypharmacy in hospice and palliative care patient population can be reduced, thereby affecting quality of life

Introduction Polypharmacy simply refers to the use of several medications by patients. Sometime patients are prescribed several medications than what is clinically allowed or a patient may be given too many pills of drugs despite being clinically indicated. In addition, sometimes the drugs given to patients may not be evidence based but their use is only based on the speculations. Polypharmacy has been described to have a lot adverse effect on patients despite the patients being on medication. Instead of improving the quality of life, polypharmacy may sometimes prove to be adverse on patients. Common consequences of polypharmacy include negative ...

Intensive Care Unit- ICU

Introduction As I walk to work, I often get to wonder how busy the intensive care unit gets. I have worked as a critical care nurse, for the last six years, in the intensive care unit. The acuity of the patients is unpredictable. Patients get admitted with a variety of medical conditions.

An ICU patient faces life-threatening injuries or illnesses that require critical care. It requires a specialized team of health care professionals to provide the treatments and care needed for such patients in the ICU. The team of healthcare professionals in the ICU includes; doctors, residents, interns, APRN's, nurses, respiratory ...

Hilger RA, Richly H, Grubert M, Kredtke S, Thyssen D, Eberhardt W, et al,. Pharmacokinetics of Sorafenib in Patients with Renal Impairment Undergoing Hemodialysis. Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther.; 2009: 47(1); 61-64.

This study was focusing on the use of Sorafenib for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. It is a molecular inhibitor of a variety of tyrosine protein kinases and Raf kinases. Sorafenib is an oral inhibitor that inhibits the activity of threonine kinases. It has been approved in many countries including United States for the treatment of advanced renal cancer and primary liver ...

Unequal reimbursement to Nursing Practitioners (NP) compared to physicians.

I would like to address the state and federal health officials over the unequal reimbursement to Nursing Practitioners (NP) compared to physicians. The present situation is that NP are reimbursed up to 15% less for provision of primary care services while physicians get 100% of the total cost incurred. This is despite the fact that there is no clear justification for this kind of discrimination. NPs provide the same quality services, and in cases which require personal communication, even better care than physicians. The healthcare reimbursement system should be changed to promote equality and fairness among all primary healthcare ...

Influence on Behavioral Family Therapy- B.F Skinner's

Techniques used in Behavioral Therapy - Keeping of records - Implosion - Desensitization - Extinction - On task - Premack principle - Modeling

Basic Behavioral Concepts

- Learning Theory

Behavior modification

- Situations where its applicable - Use of Reinforcements

Contributions of Behavioral Therapy

- Benefit - Limitations Key areas that behavioral scientists take an interest in because of Skinner’s influence include the way people act, what people learn and their outcome of their behavior. Behavioral scientists follow certain steps when conducting therapy to a family under stress.

Steps involved in Behavioral Therapy

The first stage involves preliminary assessment and description of the ...

Denise, Lemke(2007) Sympathetic Storming After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Critical Care Nurse 2007;27;30-37 Brain injury is very common in traumatically injured people. They sometimes require sedation and intubation to reduce the brains workload. They could be restless and agitated in association with signs and symptoms like posturing, tachycardia, fever, diaphoresis, hypertension, papillary dilatation, tachypnea and hyperthermia. This is referred to as sympathetic storming. It is seen in about 1/3rd of comatose patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Sympathetic storming could occur within a day post injury and could last up to weeks afterwards. It is thought ...

Clinical information system (CIS) is a computerized information system that captures and organizes data for further effective and efficient decision making (Shortliffe & Cimino 2006). It stores medical information which includes a patient health history, a record of healthcare delivery and makes it available to physicians and medical care team to aid in administering treatment and access patient`s critical information. CIS helps provide better health services over other information systems through easy access of a patient data, sharing of information in a timely manner, efficient and effective health care delivery process through monitoring and evaluating services offered. However, there are several limitations associated ...

Integrating Networks:

Integrating Networks:

As we are presented with a multi-domain Windows NT based network where there are two Primary Domain Controllers (PDC) and these are located along with two Backup Domain Controllers (BDC) under what is referred to as the Administration domain, we assume that we are dealing with the Multiple Master Domain Model. To this regard, WATCH has split their Administration domain into two domains as only one domain is possible per PDC in a Windows NT network. The case study also documents that there are several other domains. Assuming domain in this context continues to refer to a Windows NT ...

Introduction

The primary goal of any surgery is to prevent infections to the patients. It is thus important for medical personnel to ensure the operating room is sterile and clear of any micro-organisms (Couture et al., 14). This paper will briefly discuss principle of aseptic and sterile techniques. The paper relate the practices of these principle with the movie, scrubs season one.

As mentioned earlier, maintaining a sterile environment in the operating room is the main priority for surgeons. This is important because any activities relating to aseptic and aseptic techniques have a direct effect on the success of the surgical team. ...

In the case study examined, the patient was vomiting intermittently in postoperative care while receiving Morphine intravenously. The patient’s nurse Pamela is not responsible or trained for prescribing medication, so she decides to seek advice from a senior nurse. The senior nurse Jane orders Pamela to cease the Morphine administration and changes the protocol to 10mgs of Metoclopramide. While Pamela stops the Morphine administration, she refuses to administer Metoclopramide without a prescription. Despite the warnings against administering regulated medication, Jane proceeds to act on her decision and administers the Metoclopramide intravenously, which causes the patient to respond with an allergic ...

Protection of health information is important. HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the privacy of individuals. Individuals must consent to have their health information disclosed to other people. Health care providers can share and discuss health information of an individual if he/she does not object. Sharing of information only happens in cases where the person receiving the information needs to know for payment or needs to know about the care of the patient. If the patient is unconscious, the health care provider of the patient can share the information to a family member ('Health Information Privacy', 2014). Nursing workplace is field that ...

An ethical dilemma is any circumstance in which direct moral values are put in conflict in deciding which path of action is correct or incorrect (Pozgar, 2011). Ethical decision-making procedures, however, provide a useful framework in which to understand the conflicts, evaluate the alternatives and decide on the best course of action to take in the specific situation confronting the decision maker. Indeed, while employing a method of ethical decision-making to an ethical dilemma may not provide all the answers but it should help clarify the issues enough so that a means of resolution will be obvious or easier to see.

Gather the facts needed to identify the problem

The ...

Medicine is a life long commitment to learning and care of others. Dedication, stamina, and perseverance are all qualities that a good physician must possess. The one element of a good clinician that cannot be acquired or learned per se is experience. Experience enables the practitioner to quickly make a determination regarding some particular malady, whether it is differentiating between something physical or psychiatric, or acute disease or chronic process.

The PAVERS program at the department of emergency medicine will allow me to see patient care first hand and thus acquire experience that I otherwise would not have. Patient advocacy will teach ...

Discussion

Patient care centered towards providing healthier relationship offers better outcomes to the patients as well as the health care providers. I believe that the patients have all the rights to know about their health information and it’s the duty of the health care provider to communicate with the patient. I understand that the patients are more comfortable with the female physicians as this gender is inclined towards emotions as they try to build a positive partnership with the patients. I cannot be completely sure that all health care providers follow the rules of a healthy communication as some of them ...

Dear Dr. ,

I would like to take the time to publicly thank Dr. Resnick for his mentorship and transition of his Littleton orthodontic practice. He has been practicing in Litton since 1994, creating beautiful lifetime smiles and has given me the honor and the privilege of continuing serving the Littleton orthodontic community for years to come.

I will be very excited and honored to continue the excellent care of your patient’s orthodontic needs, and, please be sure that your current and future patients, their families and staff members will continue to receive quality orthodontic treatment with outstanding service at ...

Definition and Importance of Magnet status

Magnet status refers to hospitals, which have well qualified nurse executives in a decentralized environment, with organizational structures that put emphasis on open and participatory management (Marquis and Huston, 2009). According to Barker (2005), a hospital with a magnet status normally has a high quality and satisfied nursing workforce in competitive markets. Magnet status is important as it enhances patient care and ensures the deliverance of high quality service, which is attributed to the strong leadership practices and qualified nursing team. Additionally, a magnet status is important as it attracts the best the professions in the medical field and ensures the maintenance of highest standards ...

Introduction

Hildegard E. Peplau was an American nurse who developed the interpersonal relations theory of nursing. Her specialty was mental health nursing and her theory revolutionized nursing practice by emphasizing on the need for a partnership between the nurse and the patient instead of a situation where a patient receives health care services passively. Patient participation is the foundation of patient centered care which is one of the dimensions of quality in modern health care setting. Peplau’s interpersonal relations theory is a midrange nursing theory which bridges grand nursing theories to day-to-day nursing practice. This essay evaluates Peplau’s interpersonal relations theory with ...

A fall is defined as “an unexpected event in which the participant comes to rest on the ground, floor, or lower level, not as a result of a major intrinsic event” (Currie, 2008, p.3). Falls are the top cause of injuries sustained by older adults. In nursing homes, it is estimated that between 100 and 200 falls occur each year with about 25% of cases needing medical treatment such as for wounds and fractures (Gallagher, 2011). Falls are largely preventable and create an unnecessary increase in the cost of health care.

Moreover, value-based purchasing entitles nursing homes to incentives based ...

SWOT Analysis for Electronic Medical Record in Texas District Hospital

Electrical Medical Record is a digital version of a record that contains a full history of a patient from one practice. It is used for it makes it easier to track patient’s data over time. Peer review of health to health service was conducted to enable perform a SWOT analysis about possible integration of Electrical Medical Records and results are as presented.

Strengths

It’s a proven method. The methodology has been approved to be functional in different health institutions which build trust on clients for ease of access to their records. This saves them time. Accurate and reliable data, EMR will reduce chances of ...

My patient is a seventy five year old African American man with Geriatric condition. Geriatric is a condition that affects elderly people. The medication administered to such individuals is called Geriatric medicine. It is also called family medicine or internal medicine. This medicine helps to promote the prevention of disabilities and diseases in older adults (Kagan, 2010). The physician who administers geriatric medicine to the patient is called a geriatric physician or a geriatrician. In other words, Geriatrics is the ‘care of elderly or aged individuals’.

As said above, my patient is a seventy-five old African American male. His name is Caleb Rama. ...

The process of evaluation is used to monitor the program and its operations. The experts use it in home health nursing. They also use it to assess the design and implementation of the project according to the plan.

The journal highlights various factors that are put into consideration when customer and family education programs are designed. They include: time, frequency, and personal preference. Client goals are considered in the program. Evaluation is necessary to determine a patient’s condition. Home health nursing requires evaluation process to ensure that the expected outcomes are achieved (Revel &McCurry, 2010).

The process ...

Abstract

Technological inventions in the healthcare sector are ever-growing. Healthcare providers are always looking for advanced technologies that will help in the efficient and effective delivery of healthcare. There are numerous technology-based healthcare solutions, and most are striving to reduce the common face-to-face practitioner-patient interactions. There are numerous benefits of this such technologies, as well as a host of limitations. Technology has modernized healthcare delivery because modern technologies help empower patients to be in charge of their health, and this in turn minimizes doctor consultations (Katz, Nissan and Moyer 2004). Technologies such as telemedicine, internet, robotics and telecoms have revolutionized the ...

Introduction

The nursing profession has experienced unendurable nursing shortage over the last years. Shortage of nurse does not only compromise the quality of patients’ health care but also has detrimental effects on the nurses themselves due to high patient-to –nurse ratios. For instance, the shortage of nurses leads to job burnout due to increased workloads and frustrations among the nursing staff. In addition, nursing the shortage leads to increased workloads and longer working hours that are the main cause of job dissatisfaction that eventually increases the turnover of nurse (Wyte-Lake et al., 2013). The purpose of this paper is to ...

Euthanasia, widely known as mercy killing, has been a topic of debate globally. The word ‘euthanasia’ is made by the combination of two Greek words eu (well) and thanatos (death). The terms euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide or terminal sedation are sometimes used inter-changeably to define a condition wherein a lethal injection is given to patients who are extremely ill. This intentional killing is for the beneficence of pain and suffering of the patient. The ethics and legality of euthanasia have been questioned in many countries and only a few have approved it. It is a complex and challenging issue in the field of medical care ...

Question 1

President Clinton made a strategic miscalculation in health reforms and at the end experienced disappointments. The republicans, moderate democrats, the American Medical Association and the Health Insurance Association of America backtracked from a policy that they had agreed to support (Clinton & Clinton, 1993). The health reform suggested for implementation of universal care coverage that failed terribly remained a dream that never came true. Clinton failed to consider the matters of interest groups as he made a blunder of becoming a partisan in the health reform. The president planned to empower his leadership by public opinions and tried to play the politics of health, which ...

The risk of death by patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) stems not only from their critical illness but also from nasocomial infection. Among the critically ill patients, pneumonia is one of the most common nasocomial infections, affecting 27% of the patients (Cai, 2011). Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) as it is commonly referred occur 48 hours or more after admission and endotracheal intubation (mechanical ventilation) of the patient (Drakulovic, 1999). The frequency of nasocomial pneumonia varies among the types of ICUs with high incidences of VAP mortality reported in children’s pediatric intensive care unit ( ...

Introduction

The vast changes in modern and complex health care settings lead to face several challenges by nursing leadership (Reinhard & Hassmiller, 2012). To acquire dynamic roles the nurse leaders need more skills of management to carry out their professional performances. These nurse leaders are also responsible to provide a vision which will motivate the junior staffs and other employees that may help in survival of health care organizations and can achieve high potentials and increased quality in patient care (Spencer et al. 2009). Working in trans-cultural health are requires more skills and effectual communication among all departments and sectors in health ...

A hospital administrator is tasked with the day to day running of the hospital (Sharma and Goyal, 2013). This means that the administrator bears responsibility for any breach of law that may occur during the discharge of their duties. The administrator must thus be aware of any legal requirements that relate to the hospital. One of the key laws to be aware of is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). From a general perspective, the law prevents ‘dumping’ of patients out of emergency departments (Pozgar, 2012).

Dumping essentially means transferring patients to another hospital either because ...

Data security for network and health information systems makes patients’ information private. Unauthorized people should not access patients’ information. Kaiser introduced an internet patient portal. This portal was subjected to greater insecurity. People accessed patients’ data. Sometimes, the portal would mix the patient’s information. This was an element of concern to the organization. Breaching internet security occurs when unauthorized persons access data online (Wager, 2013).They can edit it. Others can cause communication to be ineffective.

The e-mail security breach was very serious. The portal was at great insecurity. It concatenated patients’ information. Programmers wrote a flawed script ...

A considerable number of General Practitioners, surgeons and other practicing medical specialists occasionally misdiagnose medical conditions causing devastating effect on patients’ lives. Many times that ends fatally with death. The question we have to answer is could that bring murder charges against physicians whose patients die. The answer is positive because practically this is a murder and murder is a crime. The most significant element of an act to be qualified as a crime is the guilt. In the Criminal law guilt is the psychical attitude of the intruder towards the crime. We distinguish two types of guilt: direct – when the perpetrator ...

Scenario

Marjorie Stevens, an eighty-six year old single mom, decided to move into a large, well-equipped aged care facility (ACF). Her recent stay in respite care resulted from a fall, which led to a hip fracture. While Marjorie’s family has moved some of her belongings to the ACF, she requires an ambulance to transport her from the respite center to the ACF. Something upset Marjorie during the ambulance ride to the facility. Upon her arrival at the ACF, the Health Service Manager of the facility calls for a case meeting to plan Marjorie’s care.

Players

Respite Care to ACF This section ...

Hospital gowns are never intended to make a fashion statement. They are more intended for comfort, along with saving and protecting the dignity of the patient from unnecessary exposure. Hospital gowns need to be seen from different perspectives, which will also allow ease of access to the patient, while treating the patient and performing bedside procedures.

Typical hospital gowns can be made from a mix of cotton polyester blend or just pure cotton fiber. There is also an option of flannel material for enhancing the patient’s comfort during winter months. Hospital gowns can be designed either on unisex format ...

Nursing is a profession like any other that has issues and problems that make the nursing department not to be able to give its maximum in terms of performance. The main problem that this paper is going to look at is related to staffing of the department of nursing. One of the main problems is that most of the hospitals are understaffed. This usually affects the hospitals’ as health care facilities and it also affects the patients themselves. It is important to look into this problem and also come up with solutions to it because it improves patients’ safety. We ...

The use of nurse case managers has been done extensively at different levels of care. Carondelet Saint Mary’s Hospital located in Arizona had a project that exemplified the role of a nurse case manager, especially in acute care. In this project, nurse case managers formed partnerships with high-risk patients in acute care. Through these partnerships, the nurse case managers help to reduce the length of stay in hospital. Through collaborations with the physicians in acute care, nurse case managers help reduce the number of clinical services, the number of be days and the length of ...

Medical Office receptionist

- A Medical Office receptionist forms a very vital element of an elevated functioning healthcare team. Medical Office receptionists are usually considered to be the foremost row of communication amid patients and doctors – may be over phone, online or in person. These professionals are responsible for efficient and smooth management of the activities or patients, doctors and nurses with the sole purpose of ensuring an attention on concerned care on time.

- Medical Office receptionists may provide answer to questions, give wide-ranging information or may even ...

Introduction

Spinal hydatid disease is a rare form of hydatid disease caused by the larval form of Echinococcus granulosus (Baysefer et al., 297). Dogs are primarily the definitive hosts of E. granulosus with man and sheep serving as intermediary hosts. Hence, the disease is prevalent in sheep-rearing communities (Emara & Elhameed, 12). Hydatid disease in man begins with ingestion of ova-contaminated water or food. The egg hatches in the intestines and the larvae migrate into the lungs and liver via the portal venous system. According to Prabhakar et al. (426), osseous hydatid disease is a rare secondary disease with an incidence of 0.5-2%. ...

Nursing sensitive-outcomes refers to any results that come due to the effects caused by nurses while undertaking the day to day activities in ensuring that patient safety. It is the duty of clinicians ensures that they adhere to the code of ethics, although some circumstance results in undesired outcome. In addition, the said outcomes are due to the introduction of the Centers for Medicare Service and Medicaid (CMS). There are several sensitive-outcomes including; failure to rescue, Central Venous Line infections, and pressure ulcers (Wilson et al. 2013).

Failure to rescue; In the United States of America, most of ...

Implementation of TPS (Toyota production System) into VMMC (Virginia Mason Medical Center)

The Toyota production system is also known as lean manufacturing. Toyota has applied such a system to reduce the time of making their products and at the same time ensure safer products (Robeznieks 1). Application of such a system in healthcare in Virginia Mason requires that any issue that an employee comes across that is likely to harm a patient is reported immediately. Consequently, it allows further actions to be taken to stop any additional harm to the patient (Furman and Caplan 1). Subsequently, this represents an approach of trying to achieve zero defects used in the production process. As such, using a ...

Question 1

When not handled well, conflict can stifle team work efforts and multidisciplinary collaboration, an element that is very essential in the delivery of patient centered care. Although Rubenfeld & Scheffer (2010) argue that conflict can have adverse effects on patient care, conflict can also be handled differently in order to yield positive results and promote collaboration and interdisciplinary team work. Nelson, King & Brodine (2008) argue that conflicts between nurses and physicians at time arise because of differences in opinions with regards to the requirements for patient care. The enduring hierarchical relations between nurses and ...

Pros and Cons of Continuing education and training for Nurses

Introduction

There are many pros and cons of continuing nursing education. By educating nurses, we are protecting the public from harm. Nurses meet the need of employers, practitioners by displaying certain knowledge and skills. It demonstrates an individual’s dedication to a lifelong career. It also provides a person with confidence and a sense of pride and accomplishment.

There are many pros of continuing education in terms of knowledge and attitude. There are many medical breakthroughs daily, new diseases and health care innovations as well. The patients would be poorly served if the nurses were not aware of the latest ...

The profession of nursing requires dedication, compassion, and a commitment to learning. The Accelerated Nursing Program at the Lienhard School of Nursing at Pace University will allow me to engage in the scientific inquiry that I relish, while at the same time preparing me for the challenge of helping difficult patients recover from their illnesses and injuries. My passion for learning started while I was still an undergraduate student at SUNY Stony Brook, and I had the opportunity to work as a Library Assistant where I learned how to acquire the most up to date and relevant information while assisting other ...

Slide 2 – Introduction

Trauma in pregnancy is one of the key contributors to maternal and fetal mortality. The potential impediments include maternal injury or death, internal hemorrhage, shock, direct fetal injury, intrauterine fetal demise, uterine rupture and abruptio placentae. The leading causes of obstetric trauma are motor vehicle accidents, assaults, falls, gunshots, and ensuing injuries. Ensuing injuries are classified as pelvic fractures, or penetrating trauma, and blunt abdominal trauma. The assessments and managements aspects of obstetric trauma are distinctive to pregnancy, while initial evaluation and resuscitation is always being directed maternally. If maternal stability is established, then vigilant evaluation of fetal well-being ...

Introduction

It is an integral part of communication in healthcare to transfer critical information and the responsibility of the patient from one health care provider to another. Such transfer points are called handoff. “An effective handoff supports the transition of critical information and continuity of care and treatment.” These handoffs have been found to be particularly hazardous, and particularly involve missing, incomplete, or inaccurate information and are also associated with adverse events. According to , medication errors are a major cause of injury to hospital patients, and it has been found that more than half of all the hospital medication errors ...

5A. Niche Clientele is a portion of the market that an organization identifies as having some special features and determines that it is worth marketing to that portion of the market. The organizations tend to use niche clientele most often are those in the private sector-such organizations are owned and run by individuals. Considering a micro-finance: the questions usually asked in this case is: who will be their clientele with specific features and how will knowing their clientele help the organization? Such small finance corporation will often target people with low income or middle income level people. Understanding the specific income ...

Continuing nursing education is necessary for all nurses. It is often associated with better patient outcomes. It enables the nurses to convert evidence from research into practice with relative ease. Continuing nursing education can be quite a costly venture because the nurses often need to travel to the venue of a workshop or a seminar at the expense of the hospital. It is also time consuming given that the nurses have to stop attending to the patients and dedicate considerable amount of time to studying.

Impact of continuing nursing education

Evaluations have been carried out through interviews and surveys in order to evaluate the impact of continuing ...

Statement of the Problem

Surgical treatment happens for a number of people with infections that require operations. However, a various people suffer infections after these operations. For this reason, many researchers have investigated infections that are associated with operations. Surgical infections are diverse and complicated which explains the significance of examining the subject from a critical point of view. The sophisticated biology of the human anatomy is the major problem behind the infections associated with operations hence the need to research into the problem.

Some people develop surgical infections due to poor surgical operations; however, others may develop complications because of genetic problems like inherited ...