• I have thoroughly enjoyed reading personal experiences with “difficult “ patients that my colleagues have encountered‚ as well as great ideas on approaching such patients. • I’d like to share with you a “difficult” patient with borderline personality disorder‚ whose care I was involved with during my mental health rotation. • X was a lady in her mid twenties‚ who presented to ED after slashing both her wrists following an altercation with her partner. During the interview she was quite angry with
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Holistic patient assessment is utilised as a part of nursing to inform the nursing procedure and provide the fundamentals of patient care. Patient assessment is a essential skill used by nurses which provides the foundation for both on going and already existing patient care (Sonya Wallace ref) In this essay I will be discussing the importance of holistic assessment in registered nursing and the importance of each holistic health aspects. Through holistic evaluation‚ the collection of objective and
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Jarrett in respect to the care of a patient during a night shift from 30th September 2011 to 1st October 2011. RN Jarrett was rostered as the Hospital in Charge [HIC] and Nurse in Charge [NIC] of a general ward. The patient first presented to Ballina District Hospital emergency department [ED] at 1428 hours on 30th September 2011 with increasing shortness of breath [SOB]‚ muscular aches and pains and a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD]. The patient was triaged as category three and
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Importance of Patient Confidentiality Unit 9 Final Project CM107 Health care professionals have a duty to maintain confidentiality for their patients. Health professionals may not disclose any patient information revealed by a patient or discovered by a physician in connection with the treatment of a patient. Patients put all of their trust into healthcare professionals and it is their job to protect patients’ private information. Consequences will be made if patient confidentiality
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Patient advocacy is a big part of nursing. According to How To Be An Advocate‚ (2009) advocacy is defined as “one that pleads the cause of another‚ one that defends or maintains a cause or proposal‚ or one that supports or promotes the interest of another” (pg. 2). Nurses are the forefront as advocates for our patients. It is our duty as nurses to stand up for our patients and ensure that they are receiving the care they should and support their decisions holistically. Nurses have the most
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Communication and Information Technology http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Communication-And-Information-Technology/39149 Communication and Information Technology HCS/320 Cheryl Workman Communication and Information Technology Health care communication and information technology provides health care providers with a way to improve and manage the quality of the delivery of health care information. Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is one type of communication and information technology
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What is the communication? I assume like in Fiske’s opinion it is a process‚ which is at a simplest level including the following components: communicators‚ message‚ channel‚ noise‚ feedback and context. (Fiske‚ 1982) The main issues addressed in this essay are the following: a) what is the impact or use of communication skills in health and social care‚ b) how influence the communication process in health and social care and c) exploration of the use of information and communication technology (ICT)
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The Patient Safety Movement Florida Institute of Technology According to patientsafetymovement.org (2013)‚ over 200‚000 patients die each year due to preventable causes. This is more than the number of deaths from lung‚ breast and prostate cancer combined. With such a high number of patients at risk of preventable death‚ the idea of patient safety moved to the forefront of medical discussions in the early 1990’s with the release of the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err is Human. The
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that can be applied to several fields of medicine‚ such as ambition to make a difference‚ maintaining effective communication‚ and overcoming obstacles that one encounters throughout his/her career. Six University of West Florida students procured six individual healthcare providers and performed semi-structured interviews with the professionals in order to gain insight into the patient-provider relationship. Five of us interviewed providers in the field of nursing‚ while one us interviewed a provider
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Patient Centred Approach. DOCTORS AND SOCIETY Patient empowerment—a patient-centred approach to improve care Introduction Health care managers in different parts of the world are facing similar challenges of increasing demand for health services‚ pressure to improve the quality of service for patients‚ to create more responsive organisations‚ and to contain costs. This paper examines the patient empowerment concept and how this important concept can be translated to improve the delivery of
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