for things such as illness and injuries that require immediate attention but are usually not serious enough to require the patient to take a trip to the emergency room. Urgent is a word meaning to take immediate action‚ and was derived from the Latin word “urgentem”. The first urgent care facility was established in the 1970s when a few emergency medicine physicians came together and decided that the time had come to respond to a public need for easy and convenient access to medical care that was
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Reflective Account simulation Date of event 9.9.14 If this was a lesson‚ what were the objectives? Number of pupils 19 Responding to emergency situations Year group EYFS Simulation Briefly describe the situation I am working along side the teacher in forest school when a child becomes breathless and distressed. Refs (must be three numbers) Write about what you did and said. Relate it to the standards. During a forest school session one of the pupils becomes breathless and distressed‚ we
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CU1514 Paediatric Emergency First Aid 20 pages 1.1 Identify the responsibilities of a paediatric first aider. I should aim to preserve life‚ prevent the condition worsening‚ and promote recovery. Responsibility Description -Remain calm at all times Appear confident and reassuring -Conduct a scene survey Assess the situation without Endangering my own life. -Conduct a primary survey Identify and assess the extent of the Illness‚ injury or condition of the casualty
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it didn’t and instead of that‚ she become even more ill. Her husband become even more worried and without her agreement‚ took her to the hospital to check what’s wrong with her. When they arrived to the hospital‚ they immediately put her in the emergency room. After the examination the doctor told the husband that she got a serious infection and there’s nothing they could do because this infection went all over her body. Every day his wife was feeling weaker and weaker and the doctors tried to do
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Aim I am going to compare and contrast 3 pain assessment tools‚ which would be appropriate for use in our clinical area‚ using current literature‚ benchmarks and practice guidelines. If pain is what the person tell he is (McCaffery M‚ Pasero‚ 1999) therefore pain assessment tools should be based on the patient’s own perception of their pain and its severity. But sometimes it ’s difficult to express the pain that we feel into words. Pain assessment tools have two main categories: multi-dimensional
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the nature of mental pain and anguish. Dickinson illustrates a formless‚ internal entity that is unable to be revealed to others through mere outward signs and manifestations. She sets up the speaker within a uniform and synchronized external reality that becomes complicated by the temporally nonuniform experience of pain. Dickinson uses images and metaphors to expand or contract the operations of the speaker’s mind and consciousness to portray how the speaker deals with pain. She breaks away from
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Subjective: Pt states “my pain is still at 8/10‚ is my medication working?” Objective: 1. DX-UTI & possible urosepsis‚ Hip Fracture and fall during not a candidate for surgery‚ CHF 2.Buck’s traction applied 3. Assessment: Limited mobility‚ SOB‚ confusion‚ does not want to get out of bed due to pain & fear of falling‚ 4. Meds: Hydrocodone 7.5 mg/acetaminophen 325mg 1 to 2 tab PO‚ PRN for pain Tylenol 650 mg 2 PO‚ PRN for pain |
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is a term used to describe the interconnected maze of nerves that carry the painful stimulus to all the different areas of the brain such as the central cortex‚ thalamus and limbic system that are involved in perceiving‚ reacting to and regulating pain. (Keefe‚ Abernethy & Campbell 2005‚ Melzack 2005‚ 2001‚ 1999‚ Moseley 2003) Essentially three different areas of information feed into the neuromatrix. 1. Sensory information from our physical body (skin‚ muscle‚ organs etc). 2. Cognitive
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ages‚ older adults with chronic pain are increasing dramatically. Research has found that 50 percent of the elderly who live on their own and 75-85 percent of the elderly in care facilities suffer from chronic pain (NIH Medline Plus‚ 2011). Nonetheless‚ most elders with chronic pain do not receive adequate treatment. Elder people often believe that pain is inevitable as a natural process of getting old. Society also imposes the belief that unable to endure the pain is a sign of being weak and old;
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Neck pain Neck pain can be caused by many conditions. Here I mainly talk about nonspecific neck pain. Nonspecific neck pain is the most common type of neck pain. Acute neck pain is a sudden-onset pain in the neck. It is often due to neck muscle strains‚ muscle spasm or tendon or ligament sprain. This can be caused by poor posture‚ sleep in an awkward position‚ carrying heavy loads‚ stay in one position for a prolonged period of time for example‚ working on desk‚ or driving for long period of time
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