Patient Falls and Prevention in Health Care Patient falls are a significant representation of adverse events in health care organizations worldwide. There are several common risk factors intrinsic to patients‚ which include reduced vision‚ musculoskeletal disease‚ altered mental state‚ history of falls‚ and other chronic diseases. Health care organizations are expected to focus on those intrinsic factors as well as the extrinsic‚ which are those present in their patient’s environment. For example
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nurse needs to prioritize the patient specific needs to prevent fall prevention in acute care settings. The article indicates that further study needed to find out successful outcome and identify the effective strategies. Abreu et al. (2012) article indicates that fall prevention is difficult‚ but it is important for the nurse to monitor the patient and understand the guidelines to prevent fall. The article also represents that health professionals also needs more guidelines and training to recognize
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One of the most common and disabling psychological disorders encountered within mental health and general medical settings is that of an anxiety disorder (Dattilio & Kendall 2000). Research has indicated that people with learning disabilities are more prevalent to psychological disorders than the general population (Hassiotis et al 2000) consequently it could be hypothesised that prevalence rates of anxiety disorders are similar if not greater within the learning disabled population. Professional
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Prevention Programs Papers: What type of drug prevention program is used to address the needs of the population? I am interviewing my local priest. I decided to interview him because I remember when I was in high school‚ I did volunteer work with him as a youth coordinator. The organization is called “YES”‚ they vary from many subjects and programs and prevention of drugs and alcohol is one of them. Father Miguel explained to me that the program educates not only the teens that are experimenting
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In this essay I will be discussing the difference in nursing practice regarding manual handling and how it has evolved over the years. Extensive amounts of thought‚ new equipment and procedures have gone into the present manual handling practices. Many injuries have occurred over the years due to lifting‚ twisting and bending the wrong way. There are constant improvements being made to assist workers with manual handling and avoid further injuries. In past nurses had minimal aids to assist them
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behavior of entities‚ groups or professions (Wilkins 2007). Nurses as professionals make autonomous decisions on how they will care for patients. But they are still held accountable to their profession as a whole as regards these autonomous decisions. A nurse’s deportment has been vastly scrutinized from the start. The famous Florence Nightingale pledge in 1893 included the vow to “abstain from anything deleterious and mischievous… or harmful drug.” The profession evolved into a very complex arena
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Sofia Sanchez HCS 245 24 Jun 11 Diabetes Prevention The rate of diabetes has doubled in the United States in the last decade. If you thought diabetes was a disease that only older people needed to worry about‚ you should think again. About 90 percent of the new cases of diabetes are the type 2 variety‚ which is the form of diabetes linked to obesity. There are many ways you can cut your risk‚ by up to half‚ by being a little proactive. Individuals do need to stay close to their ideal
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The Psychologist: Women earning doctoral degrees in psychology outnumber men three to one. The gender disparity in psychology is part of a larger academic trend: Women are increasingly outnumbering men throughout higher education‚ including doctoral programs. According to a September report from the Council of Graduate Schools‚ women earned more doctoral degrees than men for the first time in 2009. But the gender imbalance is especially pronounced in psychology. In developmental and child psychology
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year of life and then the second prior to when a child starts school. Due to more current outbreaks of the mumps a third booster has been introduced as a control measure‚ but only in select cases. According to the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in 2013 there was 584 cases reported‚ 2014- 1‚223‚ 2015- 1‚057 and in 2016 forty-five states have reported cases with five of them having over a hundred cases‚ all totaling 2‚345 as of current date. In my opinion‚ a significant
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educationalists have been attempting to establish nursing as an academic discipline Nurse education is rapidly moving away from a single scientific or technical colleges of nursing into institutes of higher education. In this paper I had the privilege to discuss how Nursing has evolved from being an occupation to being a profession and an academic discipline. According to the Collins English Dictionary‚ An occupation isa person’s regular work or profession; job or principal activity‚ any activity on which
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