Misdiagnosis In Nursing
Hypothesis: If a patient has more access to his/her health documents, then chances of misdiagnosis decreases.
In the following article written by the U.S. department of Labor, it provided informative material about the profession of nursing. The department of labor (2015) informed specifically on a nurse’s duties, environment, pay outlook, and educational requirements (p. 1). Within the amount of information there was also specific details such as statistics for the career. The passage also delivered what specific skills a nurse must obtain in order to work in this profession. The department of labor’s focused on describing a nurse’s day to day activities and what educational requirements are needed to become one. The article was organized …show more content…
She works in the Main Duke Hospital located in Durham, N.C. Due to her specialty, she spends the greatest amount of time working with infants and children up to adolescence. In the beginning of the interview, she was asked about how she became a registered nurse and the duties behind being one. These answers helped to understand how one medical professional can play either a positive or negative part when it comes to diagnose a patient. She explained how nurses do most hands-on work with patients and how close they must work with the physicians. The other questions were based on the topic of misdiagnosis in the medical field. Each question varied, but she provided many personal experiences for her answers. Towards the end, she concluded with how misdiagnosis can be solved and how it created effects on the patients in …show more content…
It permitted me to verify his sources which showed me that all his information was accurate and reliable. All the information taken from QuantiaMD is specifically from and for physicians to help them restructure the way medicine is practiced for today’s modern times (MacDonald, 2011, p. 12). With more than 12,000 members, it provided the expert’s thinking and various data that showed their understanding of such issues. This allowed me to get in the mind of physicians and understand how these errors can be made. All the information was presented in forms of pie charts and graphs. I will use certain data collected from physicians in my discussion and results to discuss how misdiagnosis is an increasing issue in the medical field today. I will also introduce statistics based on this survey to further support my
In the following article written by the U.S. department of Labor, it provided informative material about the profession of nursing. The department of labor (2015) informed specifically on a nurse’s duties, environment, pay outlook, and educational requirements (p. 1). Within the amount of information there was also specific details such as statistics for the career. The passage also delivered what specific skills a nurse must obtain in order to work in this profession. The department of labor’s focused on describing a nurse’s day to day activities and what educational requirements are needed to become one. The article was organized …show more content…
She works in the Main Duke Hospital located in Durham, N.C. Due to her specialty, she spends the greatest amount of time working with infants and children up to adolescence. In the beginning of the interview, she was asked about how she became a registered nurse and the duties behind being one. These answers helped to understand how one medical professional can play either a positive or negative part when it comes to diagnose a patient. She explained how nurses do most hands-on work with patients and how close they must work with the physicians. The other questions were based on the topic of misdiagnosis in the medical field. Each question varied, but she provided many personal experiences for her answers. Towards the end, she concluded with how misdiagnosis can be solved and how it created effects on the patients in …show more content…
It permitted me to verify his sources which showed me that all his information was accurate and reliable. All the information taken from QuantiaMD is specifically from and for physicians to help them restructure the way medicine is practiced for today’s modern times (MacDonald, 2011, p. 12). With more than 12,000 members, it provided the expert’s thinking and various data that showed their understanding of such issues. This allowed me to get in the mind of physicians and understand how these errors can be made. All the information was presented in forms of pie charts and graphs. I will use certain data collected from physicians in my discussion and results to discuss how misdiagnosis is an increasing issue in the medical field today. I will also introduce statistics based on this survey to further support my