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    Institutional Pharmacy Setting 1 Institutional Pharmacy Setting Axia College of University of Phoenix Leonalda Cruz Institutional Pharmacy Setting 2 An institutional pharmacy provides an array of services for residents of nursing homes‚ hospitals‚ hospice care‚ and other long term facilities. In this particular setting‚ the pharmacist will take responsibility for the medication that the patients’ need and ensures that patients’ medications are appropriate‚ effective‚ safe‚ and they are used correctly

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    America in 1967 (Glick‚ 1991). On December 1st 1991‚ the Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA) came into effect (Glick‚ 1991). This is a federal law that requires all hospitals‚ nursing facilities‚ home health agencies‚ home health care providers‚ and hospices to provide patients with written information about advance directives (Glick‚ 1991). As Glick (1991) states‚ the PSDA was an amendment to federal Medicare and Medicaid laws‚ with the idea that it would impact how people plan for their future healthcare

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    Kellerhear (1984) emphasized the need to standardize the environment‚ hence the reason of denial is due to the healthcare staff. Nurses that is lacking of confidence in the communication skills warrant further evaluation (Tan et al.‚ 2006). Following the ‘hospice movement’‚ Singapore has increase the numbers of staff to be trained in palliative care (Lien Foundation‚ 2015). To ensure that patients will have a quality and without symptoms towards their final journey. Implication for the family members; the

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    Individual Analysis As a registered nurse practicing in the state of California I am responsible for practicing within my states legal regulations and nursing scope of practice. My concern for the welfare of the sick and injured allows me to practice ethical provisions of nursing. These are required if I am to carry out competent and effective nursing care. Nursing encompasses the prevention of illness‚ the alleviation of suffering‚ and the protection‚ promotion‚ and restoration of health in the

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    17th century St. Louise de Merillac Sisters of Charity • 1633 - The founding of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity‚ Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Merillac. The community would not remain in a convent‚ but would nurse the poor in their homes‚ "having no monastery but the homes of the sick‚ their cell a hired room‚ their chapel the parish church‚ their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital." [1] • 1640 - The Sisters assume charge

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    Physician-Assisted Suicide The question about physician-assisted suicide in many societies around the world remains difficult‚ except some European countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands‚ and some states in USA - Oregon‚ Washington and Montana where this former restriction was legalized. Nowadays‚ other countries and the rest of states in the U.S. facing dilemma rather to leave PAS illegal‚ or change existing law into legal practice. In “Introduction” of the book Ethical Issues in Modern

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    Employment Post Held Speciality Speciality Clinical Nurse Specialist Personal/Work Email Address m.boyle@stjh.org.uk Palliative Care NMC PIN (if registered nurse‚ midwife or health visitor) 83k0528s Name of Hospital/Practice St Joseph’s Hospice NMC PIN Expiry Date D D/M2011 Y Y Y 01 01 M/Y

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    not be as good because doctors would just use euthanasia to just get them out of the way. But many patients who feel that they have no purpose in life or are a burden to their families can just lead them to wanting to take the easy way out. The hospice cares for the patients and their families a lot too.There is also an addition to these arguments because

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    well as a guide. Is it possible to view death as a natural process and for it to become accepted as a part of life verses something that is feared? In her book‚ “Sacred Passages”‚ Margaret Coberly‚ a registered nurse with a special interest in hospice‚ lays out: “The lack of information and fear that has been generated by our cultural inclination to deny death can be reduced by an open minded study”. It is natural for people to fear what they do not understand. For many it is the fear of what

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    left lobes and there was no oxygen exchange heard during physical. The patient received several liters of fluid before admission to hospice and he had told an ER nurse that his breathing felt worse. Going through this patient’s medicine use history showed that a rather large dose of Lasix was given and he was discharged right after. The patient was admitted to hospice at 1130am and passed away at four pm. With a BSN maybe I would have been better at assessing the patient and able to reverse some of

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