Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field Dana Cook Nova Southeastern University Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field It is estimated that 1 in 10 patients will experience a nosocomial infection (Biddle‚ 2009). With this staggering fact‚ patient safety and infection prevention is at the forefront of healthcare. Many changes have occurred in this area since the 1840s. This is when Semmelweis‚ a Viennese obstetrician‚ made
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Identity Crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient Lerzan Gültekin Atılım University in Ankara‚ Turkey lerzan_gultekin@atilim.edu.tr Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze identity crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient from a postcolonial perspective through the concept of nationalism and national identity‚ emphasizing cultural‚ psychological and physical displacement due to colonization‚ travelling‚ exploration and space / place (cartography)‚ referring to the theories
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Patient Teaching: Importance of Repositioning Sean Crayton University of Toledo College of Nursing Patient Teaching: Importance of Repositioning Assessment of Patients Learning Needs M.C. is an elderly male who was admitted and treated for a fall and hip fracture. He had surgery‚ is bed ridden but is soon to be released. He and his family need proper teaching on the importance of reposition as to avoid obtaining pressure ulcers during his limitations to extensive bed rest and staying off
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Psychosocial Factors and Patient Education 09 Oct 11 Zahava Ohana Homework Week Two (1) Give examples of psychosocial factors that affect the health care professional and the effect those factors could have on the patient education; Patient’s background. For example‚ that patient came from a background that does not believe on any medicines. They go to a “voodoo doctor” for some spiritual interventions and they are content on that. Because they are not too well educated or maybe it is
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Watson: A Caring Moment Christie M. Ishman RN NUR/403 Theories and Models of Nursing Practice April 4‚ 2011 Stephanie Merck‚ APRN‚ MS‚ CS Background of theory The caring theorist‚ Jean Watson‚ first developed her theory and published the philosophy and science of caring in 1979 (Current Nursing‚ 2011). She describes nursing as a process of caring not curing‚ and that it is effectively practiced and demonstrated interpersonally only. Her theory also “suggests that caring is a different
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Dying of a Broken Heart 5.1 million people across America have congestive heart failure and almost half of those people will die within 5 years of diagnosis. Heart failure is a weakness of the heart that leads to the buildup of fluid in the lungs and surrounding body tissues. This decline in cardiac productivity leads to the blood not being able to circulate from the body and lungs back to the heart‚ causing fluid to leak from capillary blood vessels. Heart failure is most commonly caused by
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errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession‚ while nursing is being embraced by its caring attitude toward the patient‚ safety should be our number one priority. This research article is very important to the nursing profession‚ in part because it addresses one of the most significant issues of the profession‚ which is patient safety. According to the Nurse’s Practice environment article‚ Flynn‚ Liang‚ Dickson‚ Xie‚ & Suh (2012) RNs are well positioned to serve as patient safety
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Kristen Swanson’s theory of caring is similar to Watson’s theory of caring‚ except I believe that she defines the theory in a simpler and clearer fashion. Swanson uses five processes instead of Watson’s ten carative factors. However‚ I believe that she simplifies the theory by grouping Watson’s factors together. Swanson’s five factors include: “Knowing‚ Being With‚ Doing For‚ Enabling‚ and Maintaining Belief.” For example under the first process of “Knowing”‚ Swanson grouped Watson’s carative factors
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Bride burning: An example of violence against women Imagine the horror of being forcefully tied down‚ drenching in kerosene oil and being set on fire alive. It would not be a surprise if the mere thought of it is already disturbing to you. How much more so would it be that this bitter fate is truly faced by many married women in India not at the hands of some psychos or strangers‚ but by their own so-called beloved husbands and or in-laws? A young woman is either being burnt alive‚ beaten to death
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THE DYING PERSON’S BILL OF RIGHTS 1. I have the right to be treated as a living human being until I die. 2. I have the right to maintain a sense of hopefulness‚ however‚ changing its focus may be. 3. I have the right to be cared for by those who can maintain a sense of hopefulness‚ however changing this might be. 4. I have the right to express my feelings and emotions about my approaching death in my own way. 5. I have the right to participate in decisions concerning my
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