As a student nursing performing clinicals in both short-term and long-term care facilities‚ I have noticed a few differences among the two. To begin with‚ long term care does not have “patients”‚ they have “residents”. In long-term care facilities they have residents who live there‚ where as acute care has “patients” because they only stay for a short period of time. In fact‚ discharge planning starts upon admission when entering in a hospital‚ especially for the elderly because the longer the elderly
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Acute Chest Syndrome And Sickle Cell Disease In The Pediatric Patient. Sickle Cell Disease: Is a generic disease that affects hemoglobin‚ oxygen transport in the body and patient quality of life. This disease is most common in African American‚ Hispanic‚ Greek and Arabs. Note: Sickle Cell is inherited from both parents. Sickle cell is a blood disease in wish the red blood cells that are responsible for carry oxygen from the lungs to other part of the body are behaving in an abnormal way because
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Nursing care study In this assignment I will document and reflect on the care that I gave to one of the patients I was looking after while on clinical placement. I will be referring to the patient as ‘Mr x’ for confidentiality reasons. ‘Mr x’ was 69 years old. He initially presented with left sided unilateral weakness‚ expressive and receptive dysphasia‚ slurred speech and he suffered from nocturnal incontinence. He had been transferred from A&E to the ward. He had a provisional
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How are the health care workforce and health care delivery affected by generational differences? Millions of generations have worked so hard to contribute to some of the challenges within the workforce. Every generation has inner deep values formulated by the era in which they were born and some life experiences. The work ethics‚ perceptions of others and communication styles are the inner deep values that affect experiences at work. According to research‚ the workforce transitioned from a two generation
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Medicare Part A Medicare Part A covers inpatient hospitalizations‚ skilled nursing facilities‚ hospice and home health care. The hospital‚ skilled nursing facility and home health care has to be a Medicare-certified facility and service. Based on Medicare Part A‚ Mrs. Zwick’s inpatient hospital stay of 5 days would be fully covered‚ according to Providence Life Services (2012) after the first $1‚068. The skilled nursing home will be partially covered‚ only the first 10 days will be fully covered
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provide effective nursing care. ------------------------------------------------- Exact Word Count: 2058 ------------------------------------------------- This essay will explore how the knowledge of stress might enable the nurse to provide effective nursing care. A definition of stress fall’s into three categories‚ stress as a stimulus‚ stress as a response‚ stress as interaction between an organism and
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Article Summary: The article discusses the two classification of goals for home care: therapeutic goals‚ and compensatory goals and the potential of integrating the two goals to reform home care goals. The tasks and responsibility for each program varies housekeeping to nursing/medical care to care management. Therapeutic goals are “measurable improvement on parameters of physical‚ psychological‚ or social functioning.” Compensatory goals are designed to “provide services to compensate for functional
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NURSING THEORIES RELATED TO A HOME ENVIRONMENT Abstract This paper explores six published articles containing information about three nursing theories and how to integrate them into improving care and how they will work symbolically to provide better care for the elderly population at home. The three theories will address a patient’s personal home environment‚ nurse-patient relationship‚ and the emotional needs of elderly patients‚ while identifying how the three theories are similar
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The Nursing Home: A Nice Place for the Elderly A.) Security 1.)Curfews 2.)Lost faculties (No need to drive) 3.)Away from con-artists B.) Activities 1.)Entertainment/Songs (Brownies example) 2.)Activities/Crafts (Beta Club example) 3.)People of similar age C.)Health Care 1.)Takes stress off of the family 2.)Help with prescriptions and medicine 3.)In case of emergency... The Nursing Home: A Haven for the Elderly Today’s nursing homes are excellent environments for our elderly
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NHS and Community Care Act 1990 The Act states that it is a duty for local authorities to assess people for social care and support to ensure that they get the services they are entitled to. Individuals have their needs and circumstances assessed and the results determine whether or not care or social services will be provided. If it is deemed that services are required‚ those services must be provided by law - services cannot be withdrawn at a later date if resources become limited. Local authorities
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