Impact Restraints have on Children in Residential In-Patient Treatment 1. Introduction There have been many concerns regarding the use of physical restraint among children in residential and psychiatric in-patient treatment facilities. Many have debated the use of physical restraints among children as being dangerous‚ causing trauma or re-traumatizing a child‚ unethical‚ and taking away the legal rights of children. They have argued that the potential dangers within the practice of
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Patient safety culture plays an important role for the whole health care team. It has been an aspect for the quality of health care delivery. The complexnature of critical care increases the opportunity formedical errors (Stockwell &Slonim 2006). Patient safety culture is based on the health care team’s commitment to caring‚ their competencies‚ attitude throughout the care and how proficient they are on caring a patient. Upon ensuring the patient’s safety culture‚ it is also considered as prevention
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Sundus Siddiqui HSC 3211: Case study #3 11/18/12 1) In light of the new results‚ discuss the increased importance for Patient X to start a diet‚ quit smoking and increase physical activity in line with his doctor’s recommendations. It is very important for Patient X to start a diet‚ quit smoking‚ and increase physical activity. This patient has a history of hypertension‚ for which he is already on medication. To reduce blood pressure‚ it is essential to follow a diet that is low on salt intake
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SZT Task 3C Western Governors University Air Quality and Patient Care According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency‚ or EPA‚ states “Information from clinical‚ epidemiological‚ and animal studies summarized above indicates that exposure to ambient ozone is a risk factor for triggering acute and chronic health effects. These include chest discomfort‚ cough‚ and shortness of breath and increases in daily mortality and hospital admissions for respiratory disease in the general population
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A case study of a professional cyclist with a fractured clavicle. The aim of the following case study is to describe the structure and function of the musculoskeletal system using a 20 year old professional cyclist who sustained a fractured clavicle during a race. The author will discuss the effects of the injury on the normal functions of the systems of the body‚ and the impact on his physical‚ psychological and social well-being. The author will also summarise the pathological changes that occurred
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As the patient-therapist interaction is a collaborative effort of both participants‚ in the above conversation the therapist used an interrogative mode to know about the severity of pain while giving the treatment (Thornborrow‚ 2002). The intention may be to modulate the treatment according to the response from the patient side and the answer expected would have to be yes or no on the basis of the given form of the question. But‚ the patient utterance was not a direct answer. Instead of that‚ the
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court or the family/guardians of the patient? 2. The Facts: a. Clinical: A 67-year-old white male was reported to have an IQ of 10 and the mental age of approximately 2 years and 8 months‚ but was otherwise in good health‚ strong‚ and well built. He does not communicate verbally‚ but instead he uses grunts and gestures. The patient was diagnosed with acute myeloblastic monocytic leukemia‚ and his physician proposed chemotherapy. With chemotherapy‚ the patient had a remission chance of 30-50 percent
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Role of Nursing to Mitigate Uninsured Patients As a nursing profession‚ the American Nurses Association is advocating for a single-system payer to reduce inefficiency‚ simplification of rules for the health care reform that will provide a universal coverage‚ and curtail the increase cost of administration‚ as originally proposed by the Institute of Medicine in 2004 (Lopez‚ 2011; Groves‚ 2014). Nurses can stand together to petition the lawmakers in Texas to expand the current programs for Medicaid
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This paper will describe the Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) which is affiliated with Carson Tahoe Hospital (CTH). Long Term Acute Care hospitals were essentially non-existent in 1979. Now‚ there are over 450 facilities nationwide that are licensed as LTACS (McDaniel‚ n.d.). The discharge plan I will be describing is for a 66-yr-old female who was admitted to (CTH) for revision of a chronic enterocutaneous fistula which was draining from her abdomen through a very large open wound. This fistula
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on diabetic ketoacidosis Page 60 Guidelines on how to write a practice profile Promoting positive approaches to dementia care in nursing NS562 Hoe J‚ Thompson R (2010) Promoting positive approaches to dementia care in nursing. Nursing Standard. 25‚ 4‚ 47-56. Date of acceptance: July 27 2010. Summary This article provides an overview of factors relevant to dementia care today. The number of people experiencing dementia is increasing and dementia is at the forefront of health policy. The evidence
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