Patient Education Project The digestive system is a very complex but efficient system that allows the intake and disposal of material that allows the body to perform routine daily activities. The digestive system allows the intake of food and water to be broken down to be used for energy. The digestive system is made up of the mouth‚ esophagus‚ stomach‚ small and large intestines‚ colon and the rectum. A Potential life-threatening disease of the digestive system is color-rectal cancer. Color-rectal
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Patients’ internet use and its effects on the healthcare professional-patient relationship The use of Internet plays an increasingly important role on receiving health information. About 50% of the people who were able to access to the Internet in the US sought health information during 1997(Eng et al‚ 1998‚ as cited in Cline and Haynes‚2001). The prevalence of searching health information from the internet by the patients has‚ without doubt‚ affected the healthcare professional-patient relationship
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Furrow et al. (2013) noted the physician-patient relationship is primarily an implied contract because a written contract is not standard practice for delivery of health care. According to O’Connor (2010)‚ the basis for medical negligence for physicians‚ is the physician-patient relationship‚ which can become a contractual relationship if all elements of a contract are present including an offer‚ an acceptance‚ and consideration. For example‚ when a patient contacts a doctor’s office for an evaluation
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REASON FOR VISIT What brought you to the clinic or hospital? ____________________________________________________________
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presumed that taking medical history and performing physical assessment on standardized patients during simulation would be easy tasks to complete. I have been exposed to a similar simulation before and have first-hand experience and knowledge about history and physical assessment. I learned a great deal about my interaction with the standardized patients‚ which could reflect my connection with my real patients at work. After watching all the simulation videos‚ I was surprisingly impressed
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Decision Making January 20th 2011 How Ethics Affects Nursing Practice In the nursing profession we have a respect for our patients but obtaining trust and maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s information has been established from years ago starting with the Oath of Hippocratic. The patient’s confidentiality includes protecting any information the patient divulges to medical personal‚ and not disclosing or sharing the information to others. If trust is betrayed‚ the patient’s would
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We need to know a lot about patients with visual impairment so we can give them the best dental care that they deserve. “More than 20 million Americans report having loss of vision including trouble seeing‚ even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Two percent of people with severe visual impairments are under 18 years of age. The majority of those who are blind lose vision after age 20.”(Mahoney‚2008) Limitations of sight cover a large spectrum from people with slight vision problems to people
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Patient independence The level of Independence varies for different patient because everybody has got their different experiences at some point. Everyone will require care at some points during which one loses the independence due to inability to do things that one would otherwise be able to do. In 2006‚ the Government White Paper which was issued emphasises the importance of independence – It was called Our Health‚ Our Care‚ Our Say – it explains what they should expect from healthcare professionals
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Once Patient Y was placed in a labor room‚ treatment began immediately. As mentioned previously‚ the fetal heart rate decreased rapidly. During this time the nurse and physician performed several treatments in order to try and raise the fetal heart rate. First‚ the nurse applied 10L of oxygen via nasal cannula to the patient. Then‚ the nurse opened the Lactated Ringers wide so that they would enter the patient faster. Finally‚ the nurse changed the patient’s position from left sided to right sided
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symptomatic relief of pain based on patients’ self-reporting‚ rather than the clinical investigation of the causes. This new treatment regimen led to an exponential increase in opioid prescriptions from the prescriber’s aggressive treatment of pain. As a result‚ from 2000 to 2010 the number of opioid prescriptions increased from 164 million to more than 234 million‚ and between 1999 and 2014 there was a fourfold increase in opioid deaths (Dart et al. 2015). This has been termed the opioid epidemic and
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