demands for "futile" treatment? "Futile" treatment is when there is no medical benefit from the treatment they are receiving‚ and that there will be no improvement if they are in a permanent vegetative state. Although the concept of medical futility dates back in the Ancient Greek days with physician Hippocrates‚ it has only recently (in the past 40 years) become a controversial topic. The issue of medical futility is important because it deals with many issues such as patient-physician relationship
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Confidentiality and making patients feel confident in giving us their information. Confidentiality is taken advantage of every day by healthcare professionals. HIPAA states that healthcare professionals should not give information such as date of birth‚ patient name‚ or social security number. What about talking to your significant other or best friend about a patient you examined today with an ominous skin malady? You apprehend it every day in the healthcare field. Nurses talking to one another
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Patient Educational Plan Nur/427 Monday‚ March 29‚ 2010 Sara Gerrie‚ MSN Introduction Prolonged and chronic ethanol (ETOH) use has devastating effects on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. ETOH is easily absorbed from the intestine and diffuses quickly throughout the body. The bulk of the ETOH is metabolized in the liver. ETOH abuse produces functional and structural changes in the GI tract‚ such as in the stomach‚ small intestine‚ liver‚ and pancreas (Geokas‚ Lieber‚ French‚ & Halsted 1981)
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Preventing Patient Falls in Inpatient Hospital Settings Introduction For the most part‚ hospitals are places where one comes for healing and it is place where our clients should feel safe and away from harm. Nurses have an important role as a patient advocate and are to provide all clients with safe‚ compassionate‚ and quality care at all times. Nonetheless‚ the hospital can also be a dangerous place for inpatients. It is a foreign environment to clients and there may be alterations in their
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This critique is about an article on patient fall in an acute care hospital setting and why and what are the leading causes to these fall incident. The definition of a fall is described as any event in which the patients are found on the floor; it could be an observed or unobserved fall. There are various types of equipments and special devices to prevent falls; however‚ many falls still take place‚ and it is a serious problem in hospitals. Protection of Human participants: This research involves
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Learning how we develop to become who we are is a hard concept to understand and its something that we may not ever be able to understand completely. Why is it that even if a brother and sister are raised in the same household and taught the exact same things in the exact same ways‚ that they develop differently. One may develop and learn their abilities fast and become a brilliant student during high school‚ but the other is barely passing and struggling to develop his skills. Many psychologists
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For patient abandonment to occur‚ the nurse must: a) Have first accepted the patient assignment‚ thus establishing a nurse-patient relationship‚ and then b) Severed that nurse-patient relationship without giving reasonable notice to the appropriate person (e.g.‚ supervisor‚ patient) so that arrangements can be made for continuation of nursing care by others. A nurse-patient relationship begins when the responsibility for nursing care of a patient is accepted by the nurse or certified nursing
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Breast Cancer Treatment Breast cancer is turning to be one of the top killer women in the world. This kind of cancerous tumor is attacking breast tissue of woman. A disease in which abnormal cells in the breast divide and multiply in an uncontrolled fashion. The cells can invade nearby tissue and can spread through the bloodstream and lymphatic system to others part of the body and start to kill the organ one by one. By giving a breast cancer treatment will decrease the number of population
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Case Presentation A 4 year old boy presents to the Pediatrician’s office with pain and swelling of multiple large joints. He first developed pain over his right elbow‚ then right knee and both shoulders. The pain progressed‚ became associated with low grade fever and his mother also noticed swelling of the affected joints. By the end of day 2‚ the boy refused to bear weight and had to be carried to the clinic. The patient has also been having multiple episodes of watery‚ non-bloody diarrhea for
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Today‚ one of my patients presented to the ED with a 3cm laceration on his right hand that was three days old. He also reported a pain level of 7/10. First‚ my nurse preceptor and I had the patient wash his hands with soap and water to remove the dirt and bacteria from the wound. Thereafter‚ we sprayed wound cleanser to the wound and rinsed it with normal saline to further aide in removing debris and decreasing bacterial counts. After‚ I dried the wound edges with a sterile gauze. This is done in
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