Collaborative Practice Collaboration is defined by Webster (1988) as working together in some undertaking. The collaboration of many healthcare disciplines is essential to meet the needs of patients in today’s medical arena. As a neonatal intensive care nurse‚ I see on a daily basis how vital it is for these individual disciplines to link together around a common subject‚ the patient. This paper will showcase collaborative practice by identifying the healthcare and social services groups which
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With my latest setback‚ I felt like my life was at an all time low. I didn’t realize the old cliché‚ "Things could always be worse‚" was about to take on new meaning. One day after classes‚ I came home and discovered the shoe shop was closed in the middle of the afternoon. Feeling something was wrong‚ I rushed to our apartment and found my father in severe respiratory distress. He was wheezing and gasping for air. His skin had turned blue‚ and he was too weak to talk. I had never seen my father
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failure (cardiogenic pulmonary edema‚ CPE) or overhydrating.”( Arif‚ S. K.‚ Verheij‚ J.‚ Groeneveld‚ J. A.‚ & Raijmakers‚ P. G. (2002). Hypoproteinemia as a marker of acute respiratory distress syndrome in critically ill patients with pulmonary edema. Intensive Care Medicine‚
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though these new products are uniquely targeted to address the user’s key concerns of precision‚ reliability‚ and safety. Two important indications are the recent disappointing rollouts of the respiratory product‚ CPU-1‚ and the infant care product‚ Intensive Care Incubator (ICI). These state of the art technologies provide valuable patient information and clinical efficiencies‚ but the sales force is unable to gain traction with the clinical staff for purchases despite price and technical advantages
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feeling always ticked me to know further about this. The thought of inventing something that can help thousands of people always fascinated me. Later I came to know that this concealed thought of mine‚ has actually a name‚ which is Human-Computer Interaction. Though I did not have the formal knowledge about this field until I attended the HCI course in my undergraduate program‚ now when I think about it‚ I find that I was always subconsciously intrigued by this‚ throughout my undergraduate life. As
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Vocab: 2.1 Mass: Measure of amount of matter in an object Volume: Measure of space occupied by object Extensive property: property that depends on amount of matter in a sample i.e.: mass and volume Intensive property: Property that depends on the type of matter in a sample(not amount) i.e.: type of basketball (leather; inside‚ rubber; outside) Substance: Matter that has a uniform and definite composition Physical property: Quality or condition of a substance that can be observed without
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dressing‚ helps to prevent pressure ulcers in the intensive care unit (ICU) population. A pressure ulcer in the ICU can be life threatening. The PICO(T) question for this evidence-based research project was‚ “ In adult intensive care unit patients‚ does the application of sacral mepilex‚ or like dressing‚ to the lower back/ coccyx/sacral area‚ lead to a decreased incident of pressure ulcer formation in the coccyx/sacral area throughout the patient’s intensive care unit stay?” A literature search using the
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patient population that is presented. Currently in Western Pennsylvania‚ there is a rising number maternal substance abuse during pregnancy. This epidemic in turn creates a different type of population in infants than other areas of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)‚ with specific healthcare needs. One area that is lacking synergy is the care of this rising patient population of infants suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). This creates a gap between nursing education and clinical
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72 hours after endotracheal intubation‚ is the most common and fatal nosocomial infection of intensive care. Risk factors include both impaired host immunity and the introduction of an endotracheal tube‚ which contributes to the development of VAP in the critically ill patient. VAP is associated with increased mortality and morbidity‚ increased duration of mechanical ventilation‚ prolonged intensive care unit and hospital stay‚ and increased cost of hospitalisation. Both the Centers for Disease
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may happen over a period of many years. End of life care on a paediatric intensive care unit has undergone enormous change in recent years. In most western countries today the death of a child is a rare phenomenon but when it does occur it is often after a period of intensive and complex medical interventions (Matthews et al 2006). Improving the quality of end of life care has become a national priority (Paediatric Intensive Care Society 2002). Each year‚ many children die in PICU often following
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