CARE PLAN Patient details: Jean is 86 year old female with heart problems‚ chronic back pain‚ Alzheimer’s‚ suicide attempts and continual thoughts of suicide and depression. Activities of daily living | Assessed needs | Support and care provided | Outcome of plan | Maintaining a safe environment | Jean has had three overdoses of painkillers and been going out and forgetting where she lives and is no longer able to live on her own. | To ensure Jean’s safety she has been referred for psychiatric
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The primary focus of hospice care is to promote comfort and dignity at the end of life (Torphy‚ Burke‚ & Golub‚ 2012). In hospice care‚ it is one of the nurse’s job to ensure that the patient gets adequate pain relief. However‚ this can be difficult to implement in an outpatient setting. In the scenario provided‚ the patient’s family is preventing the patient from being medicated properly. This issue of family control over the patient’s medication can lead to a couple of possible negative situations
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From the ward you are practicing in choose an operation that was done to patient for whom you have given nursing care. From your experience describe the indications and purpose for this operation and the salient post-operative nursing care. Arthritis is one of the leading causes of femoral fractures especially in the elderly. It may also be caused by trauma or injury‚ starting from simple falls to more extensive such as a fall from height. Indeed‚ a femoral fracture affects hip movement as it
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The buyers entered this market at a right time and maybe to late but based on the technology jump they are making it was perfect time. Inly problem being is health care plan act passed by Obama is hurting profits due to not getting the insurance money that they get from the past but are getting the minimum pay from the act. This has hurt hospitals‚ ER‚ and even private doctors. The act is great for the patience but for the business it hurt you lose money when you are saving lives and can’t pay for
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Review: Elder Abuse in the Latino Community After reading the article‚ Elder Abuse and Neglect in Latino Families‚ I have a much better understanding of what elder abuse really means. When I think about the word abuse‚ the first representation that comes to mind is a violent beating of some sort and not so much mental abuse. This article mainly focuses on the mental abuse that many elderly Latinos go through each day. After reading this article I have a much better understanding of what elder abuse
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INFANT CARE NUR703 SEMESTER 2 ASSIGNMENT 1 Natalie Kerrigan 11 Kepler Street Wulguru Qld 4811 Phone: 07 47290587 Email: kerro20@bigpond.com The role of the General Practice (GP) in the community has developed and can be the first point of contact for medical assistance. This has enabled the nurse in General practice to expand their role‚ becoming more involved in the primary care of the patient and their families. Families today are becoming smaller and are usually separated from
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder a Hunters in the Snow Peter Soloway ARH 205 6/7/2005 Hunters in the Snow‚ sometimes called The Return of the Hunters[1]‚ is part of a series of landscapes painted on wooden panels and themed around characteristic periods of the year. The series was finished in 1565 by Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder‚ probably for Antwerp merchant Nicholas Jongelinck‚ who we know entrusted it to the town of Antwerp in February of 1566.[2]
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about this organization and some potential problems that we may want to fix with our project. The biggest problem we found from our experience at the gala and researching Higher Ground‚ was that there was one person in the company doing all the work.
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and if you ask me‚ there wouldn’t be a day as good as this for a long time. So‚ naturally I was inside doing absolutely nothing. Well‚ I was playing video games by myself‚ but I doubt half of you count that as actually doing something. I was playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. A sprawling fantasy world where you can go on epic quests to stop evil. Or steal people’s horses‚ if that’s your thing. In real life‚ I’m simply a nerd who has nothing better to do than write stories that nobody will ever actually
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result of lifting heavy batteries approximately 75 pounds. As per OMNI entry‚ the patient is status post two lumbar surgeries and spinal cord stimulator implant. He was deemed to have reached Maximum Medical Improvement on 09/15/2009. Future medical care includes office visits‚ medications‚ physical therapy‚ testing‚ and possible removal of L3-4 pedicle screw. Per medical report dated 10/04/16‚ the patient’s mediations are helpful without adverse effects. He reported 50% relief with the use of spinal
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