“Nursing Care Plan for Mechanically Ventilated Patient” Alexandra Diaz ITT Technical Institute NU270 NURSING CARE PLAN Assessment: Mechanically ventilated patient requiring sedation as evidenced by patient’s increased agitation. Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective Airway Clearance r/t presence of artificial airway. Planning/Interventions: • Auscultate lung sounds bilaterally q1 to 4 hours. “Breath
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of this assignment is to demonstrate how Peplau’s concept of the nurse-patient relationship can be used to influence an incident in practise. I have chosen to focus on the nurse-patient relationship‚ as I am in the early stages of my adult nurse training and I feel it would be beneficial to understand this relationship more accurately. The first part of this assignment defines a concept and briefly outlines the nurse-patient relationship as a concept. The second part focusses and outlines Peplau’s
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Furrow et al. (2013) noted the physician-patient relationship is primarily an implied contract because a written contract is not standard practice for delivery of health care. According to O’Connor (2010)‚ the basis for medical negligence for physicians‚ is the physician-patient relationship‚ which can become a contractual relationship if all elements of a contract are present including an offer‚ an acceptance‚ and consideration. For example‚ when a patient contacts a doctor’s office for an evaluation
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Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Improving Process through Technology Introduction: Doctors are famous for sloppy scribbling -- and handwritten prescriptions lead to thousands of medication errors each year. Electronics to the rescue: most hospitals that switched to computerized physician order entry systems saw a 66 percent drop in prescription errors. Illegible handwriting and transcription errors are responsible for as much as 61 percent of medication errors in hospitals. A simple
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December 2009 Civil Right and Civil Liberties Civil liberties and civil rights are fundamental for everyday living. In today’s society both of these terms have different prospective; civil rights are considered to be natural rights. In other words‚ civil rights means that people have the right to be treated the same regardless of their race‚ gender‚ or religion. Even thought civil rights are guaranteed by law‚ this prospective took many years to be achieved. For example‚ after the Civil War African
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DIVERSITY IN PATIENT CARE Diversity in Patient Care Cami Meadows Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion June 17th‚ 2006 Diversity in Patient Care The field of nursing is complex with a considerable amount of knowledge needed to provide quality of care for patients. With that in mind‚ understanding each individual can contribute to optimal care. In any hospital‚ a variety of
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Are Thoreau’s Ideas About “Civil Disobedience” Outdated Today? “Civil disobedience” is an intentional and non-violent disobedience of law by an individual who believes that a certain law is unjust and who is willing to accept the penalty for breaking that law to bring about change and public awareness. When Henry David Thoreau wrote “On The Duty of Civil Disobedience” in 1849‚ he advocated that democracy in America could only be improved by individual activism and civil disobedience to unjust laws
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PATIENT AS CONSUMER INTRODUCTION: It is the duty of the government to provide the fundamental right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution1. Therefore‚ it is the duty of the state to provide to all citizens adequate and proper medical services. The consumer protection Act 1986 was enacted ‘to provide for better protection of the interests of the consumers’– the consumers of goods and services as defined under the Act. The Consumer protection tries to help consumer
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that people don’t take the time to search to see if there is a record of that patient or not. Because of this then the health system ends up with doubles of the same patient. It is important to identify duplicates so that the same patient doesn’t have two separate records. Failure to correctly identify an individual in the master patient index may result in one or more integrity problems. Several problems can arise if patient information is not located. For example these may include billing errors‚ performance
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bed bathing a patient/client in a hospital setting. I will be reflecting on a personal experience‚ experience during a seven week placement on a diabetic ward. I have decided to use a reflective cycle which is an adaptation from Gibbs ’ (1988) model.This reflection has provided a systematic approach to my learning and to my nursing practice. Within this essay I intend to discuss approaches to assessing‚ planning‚ implementing and evaluating care. Heron (1977) refers to the process of reflecting
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