For my clinical experience today I shadowed an RN‚ at the Ashe County Health Department. The RN was participating in the flu clinic today. She administered many flu vaccinations. Most of the individuals that came in today for the clinic were over the age of 65 and were given the high dose flu vaccination. The RN also worked with a Spanish interpreter during several visits throughout the day. She would first assess a Spanish speaking individual’s ability to speak English‚ then if deemed necessary
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Financial Analysis Project Throughout the last decade‚ Amazon has become one of the most sustainable companies within its industry. One of the major reasons that Amazon has been able to achieve a long term competitive advantage is by offering superior pricing power‚ capitalizing on a large market share and creating a well-known brand name. Through these achievements Amazon has been able to produce long term advantages that have made it difficult for other companies to duplicate
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ARTICLE CRITIQUE : RESEARCH A CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ISSUE NURSING ROLE Impact of an Electronic Medication Administration Record on Medication Administration Efficiency and Errors JEFFERY MCCOMAS‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CNS MICHELLE RINGEN‚DNP‚ RN‚ CNS-BC SON CHAE KIM‚ PhD‚ RN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIN: Computers‚ Informatics‚ Nursing & Vol. 32‚ No. 12‚ 589–595 & Copyright B 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott
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Detection of Clinical Change in Condition Nursing Clinical Objective Assessment and Recognition using SBAR communication Initiative‚ and Immediate Activation of RRT/EMT. Patient and family can also alert the rapid response team if indicated. Rapid Response Team Responsibilities Clinical Indicators for Activating RRT. Complications. Research shows that unexpected cardiopulmonary arrest and deaths in hospitals are preceded by a 6 ½ hours of warning signs‚ subtle changes‚ and signs of clinical instability
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Historical Background ORIENTATION TO THE COURSE STATUS OF IV THERAPY IN THE PHILIPPINES HISTORY OF IV THERAPY IN THE PHILIPPINES Philosophy * Envisions itself to be a cohesive‚ pro-active‚ professional association‚ committed to excellence in nursing. * Believes that safe and quality nursing care to patients is the primary responsibility of nurses. * Believes that those who practice I.V. therapy nursing are only those R.N.s who are adequately trained and have completed the training requirements
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The major thing that stands out is all the assessment and other factors that are taken into consideration before diagnosing an intellectual disability. There is a lot more to this process than simply determining their IQ score or giving them the WISC IV assessment. The thing that surprised me is that with these students they main mode of direct instruction is coming from paraprofessionals. As someone who once held this role‚ it never really dawned on me. Now that I consider all the social skills that
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faculty by which the brain stores and recollects information from an individual’s past experience. According to the article‚ “Memory‚” by Hopkins‚ he implied throughout the article that there are variations of memory impairments that trigger mankind‚ which has to do with biological disorders or age-related impairments. One of the biological disorders that he indicates in the featured article is Alzheimer’s disease‚ which frequently is the most common procedure of insanity. Hopkins (2007) study found
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Accident Analysis and Prevention 39 (2007) 491–499 Errors and violations in relation to motorcyclists’ crash risk Mark A. Elliott a‚∗ ‚ Christopher J. Baughan b ‚ Barry F. Sexton b a Department of Psychology‚ University of Strathclyde‚ United Kingdom b Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)‚ United Kingdom Received 28 July 2006; received in revised form 25 August 2006; accepted 30 August 2006 Abstract This study was conducted to: (a) develop a questionnaire that reliably measures the behaviour
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An instance‚ in which I used the nursing process‚ stood as my clinical experience of caring for a 72-year-old female diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia. This patient regularly acquired pneumonia‚ and with her body becoming more frail and susceptible to disease‚ she found herself in the hospital. Upon entering the patient’s room‚ I encountered an older woman slumping in her bed‚ looking restless‚ and using her accessory muscles to try to get appropriate respirations. Recognizing that the patient was
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This clinical has been a highly beneficial experience for me in my nursing career. I learned a variety of skills and have learned about myself as a nurse as well. By working with my assigned mother I learned both what my strengths and weakness are. One strength I encountered was my ability to work with the mother and all her visitors with ease. I was able to communicate effectively between all parties without making an awkward atmosphere or without losing my focus on the patient’s care. One weakness
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