A sentinel event is a serious, unexpected or life-threatening event that occurs in a health care setting. Sentinel events are typically associated with preventable harm to patients and can result in significant negative outcomes, including death. Nurses play a vital role in the prevention of sentinel events. By understanding the root causes of these events … Read more
As a Nursing student, I was recently assigned to read and critique a Systematic Research Review (SRR). I have never done this type of assignment before, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. After reading the SRR, I found it to be a well-written and informative piece of research. However, there are some areas that … Read more
With the advancement of new technologies, the nursing profession is always evolving and growing in complexity. The new level of responsibility puts nurses to the test in addressing a variety of complex situations in healthcare, particularly their duty to safeguard patients’ rights and dignity as well as their safety. To be a nurse is not … Read more
Patient safety is very important to the healthcare provider, healthcare facility or organization. One area that continues to be a safety issue is mislabeled or unlabeled specimens. Mislabeled specimens happen for a variety of reasons but regardless of the reason the outcome can be devastating to the patient, family, provider and institution (Intermec, 2010). Mislabeled … Read more
Death. A permanent cessation of all vital functions: the end of life (Dorland). What does death feel like? Nobody knows. At least, nobody wants to know. And of course, nobody wants to think about it. It must be painful, right? Well, maybe thinking about it is a good idea. Why should anyone have to go … Read more
Evidence-based practice is an important step in the current health care evolution. Model guided practice change provides clinical effectiveness with the best available research information, which affect positive patient outcomes. “EBP is a problem-solving approach to clinical decision making that integrates the best evidence from well-designed studies with a clinician`s expertise along with the patient`s … Read more
Across the healthcare system there are universal themes that can be applied to several fields of medicine, such as ambition to make a difference, maintaining effective communication, and overcoming obstacles that one encounters throughout his/her career. Six University of West Florida students procured six individual healthcare providers and performed semi-structured interviews with the professionals in … Read more
Typically, when people think about growing old, they think about spending their weekends with the grandkids, going to church on a bright and sunny Sunday morning or even going to the lake for the day and fishing. Nobody really, truly thinks about what life is like when you can no longer take care of yourself. … Read more
This paper examines numerous published articles that speak about the benefits of oxygen therapy, its medical uses, and its palliative values. This paper discusses two differing possibilities in oxygen application, and various conditions that can be managed with oxygen (Sharifipour, 2011). This study will also explain tracheostomy use, when it is indicated, and how it … Read more
The goal of this brief review is to investigate potential applicability of electrical stimulation modalities to early mobility treatment of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA or “stroke”). Rehabilitation clinicians working in the acute neurological settings see a diversity of diagnoses, a majority of which is stroke. Orders to treat patients post stroke prioritize early mobility focusing on … Read more
Nursing Implications For individuals that are in the pre listing stage of liver transplants one main aspect to address is educating the patient and the family. One of the main nursing interventions is teaching patients and their family the importance of abstinence from both alcohol and tobacco if it is used. The continued use of … Read more
Each nurse on CIU can have a patient load of up to 4 patients during the shift. However, there is one situation where the nurse could potentially have a patient load of only two patients and that is if one of the patients is receiving a certain IV drip that requires closer patient monitoring. I … Read more
Everywhere you go and in everything you do, professionalism comes in to account in some way or another. Professionalism can be looked at as a strict adherence to courtesy, honesty and responsibility when dealing with individuals or other companies in the business environment. When it comes to the career of nursing, professionalism is taken to … Read more
Motor learning can be related to many different fields of Kinesiology, but specifically, motor learning has a great impact in the field of Physical Therapy. In the field of Physical Therapy, patients that come in to receive treatment usually suffer from an injury, physical disability, or disease that has caused them to have a difficult … Read more
Domain 3: Nursing practice and Decision-making What? My abilities to nursing practice and decision making are identified by appendix 1 (the self-review). Also, these abilities are supported by appendix 3 (nursing skill sheet) and appendix4 (the leadership self-assessment tool) Decision-making is an integral part of nursing practice and the decisions nurses make affect patient care, … Read more
The purpose of the article below is to provide how different human factors affect personal support workers within patient homes. It examines the biopsychosocial factors that may impact performance of the individual in the occupation. As the environment for personal support workers varies depending on the client demands, the factors are plenty with various consequences. … Read more
The implementation plan or any change will be directed towards the infection control department, the nursing staff, upper management, and with the nurse manager of the facility. The project will take time involving the nurse manager in the initial steps and planning. A presentation in the form of a verbal presentation with visual aid posters … Read more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, exposes the story of Henrietta Lacks; a black woman not only under privileged but also under medical research without her nor her family’s consent. Skloot’s approach to the Lacks family in researching and writing the novel is unethical and can be analyzed as well as supported … Read more
Going in to this interview, I was not certain what to expect at all. I had prepared a few questions and anticipated it lasting maybe ten to fifteen minutes at the most. However, my mental image of the interview did not remotely match up to what actually occurred. My interviewee was Dr. Hal B. Woodall, … Read more
Introduction Vision is a vital role in medical imaging and the visual ability of the radiologist interpreting the image is largely overlooked (Halpenny et al. 2012). To understand how vision plays a role in radiography, psychophysics is studied to understand the relationship between the physical stimulus and sensation experienced by a person (Lu et al. … Read more
In this discussion, I utilized the 7 steps of the Ethical Model for Ethical Decision Making as outlined in McGonigle and Mastrian (2015) to analyze the case study. Ethical Dilemma Examined with conflicting Values: The case manager was given a message by the physician which was to simply contact the family and have they come … Read more
Electronic Health Records was developed around the 1960’s and 70’s. An Electronic Health Record is a digital collection of patient health information compiled at one or more meetings in any care delivery settings. A patient’s health record includes their vital signs, past medical history, demographics, their laboratory data, immunizations, progress notes, problems and medication. EHR … Read more
The purpose of this review was to outline and evaluate pain assessment techniques and tools commonly used in the postoperative recovery room to assist in pain management. Problem Identification and Evidence Pain after surgery is stressful to patients and is a major problem in post anesthesia care unit (PACU). Recent data suggest 80 percent of … Read more
In terms of medical professionals, Pharmacy Technicians’ roles have been developing at a fast pace since the very start of the occupation. “As the physician’s role changed from distributing drugs to diagnosing disease and performing surgery, the role of the pharmacist emerged. The first pharmacy school opened in 1821 at the college of pharmacy and … Read more
Comorbidity can be defined most generally as the co-occurrence of two or more mental or physical disorders together. This is one of the critical issues while examining the patient and became an important topic of research to understand the effects in detail. Comorbid indicates existence of different medical conditions within the patient which might be … Read more
2 years back, Mrs. Cooper and her late husband had moved into the house next to Elizabeth’s. Being a friendly suburban housewife with a loving husband and two sons, the 36 years old housewife would always offer helps to make them feel welcomed. The husband, Mr. Cooper was a really friendly and an easy going … Read more
EHR is a new and improve digital version of a patient’s physical paper chart. EHRs is a patient-centered system that makes information available via the computer system, and most of all, it is secure, safe and can only be used by authorized users. Even though EHR involves medical treatment and patient medical history, the system … Read more