This is the case of a patient who got admitted without proper evaluation to our psychiatric floor. She is a 18-year-old young female patient admitted with a suicide plan to our unit. Patient went to see her PCP for her routine checkup and‚ she was slightly anxious and told the PCP that she thought about suicide. Her PCP filed petition and did her first certification to admit her to psychiatric floor. Patient was explained that she will be seeing a psychiatrist for assessment and send her over to
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Discuss three patient safety issues that are present in the scenario. 1) Sara signed off medications on the MAR but she did not actually witness the patient taking the prescribed medications. 2) Sara left the medications unattended at the bedside. This is a careless practice. She should have carried them back to the nurse’s station and reattempted to administer the meds after the patient finished bathing. 3) Unexpected change in the patient’s vital signs. The scenario reports there has been
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Case: Patients like me‚ 23.09.2013 1.Why do patients join PLM? Patients like me(PLM) is a social network which covers different diseases. Members get access to a large database of information about other people who has the same illness as them selves. They also have access to forums‚ which lets them communicate with other patients as well. This enables patients to get information about their disease and gain new insight‚ the possibility to ask for practical advice‚ which doctors do not know about
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Question 1 Activity Based Service Cost for the TFC business Activity | Total Activity Cost (’000) | Activity Driver | Usage | Actual Cost | Storage | $ 1‚550 | Number of Cartons | 350‚000 | $ 4.43 | Requisition Handling | $ 1‚801 | Number of Requisition | 310‚000 | $ 5.81 | Basic Warehouse stock selection | $ 761 | Number of Requisition × 2.5 lines | 775‚000 | $
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Caucasian female presented to the office with complaints of vaginal discharge of white‚ itchy‚ fishy odor that is fierce after sex for about 1.5 weeks. The patient states‚ the young man is her first relationship for a year. J.M states they sometimes use a condom‚ and she experiences pain during sexual intercourse at times. Assessment V/S: BP-110/73 Left Arm‚ P-76 Rate and Rhythm‚ R-20‚ T-97.9 Orally‚ Wt-125lbs‚ White vaginal discharge is contributed to STI. The patient had a bimanual examination of
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effective patient-centered care even in the presence of cultural conflict (Campinha-Bacote‚ 2011). As a future nurse educator‚ my role will encompass assisting students to provide patients culturally competent care “... even when the patient’s health beliefs‚ practices‚ and values are in direct conflict ...” with that of the student or medical team to achieve positive patient outcomes (para. 1). Two concepts discovered are that patient-centered care and cultural competency aim to provide patients high-quality
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DOI: 2/5/2003. Patient is a 71-year-old female teacher who injured her back when she fell after trying to avoid stepping on a student. Patient was seen and diagnosed with disc degeneration of the lumbar spine‚ facet arthropathy status post blocks in the past which gave good relief. MRI of the lumbar spine dated 2/25/05 revealed no significant change compared with the study of 1/30/04. There is spondylolisthesis and spondylosis at L4-5 with facet degenerative changes and mild bilateral foraminal narrowing
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Clawson‚ James G. 2003 VDOT: Trying to Keep Virginia Moving. Darden Business Publishing Retrieved on July 13‚ 2010 from: http://it.darden.virginia.edu/XanEdu/VDOT/content/index.htm?speed=128 McNamara‚ C. (n.d.). What is Organization Development? Free Management Library. Retrieved July 14‚ 2010‚ from http://managementhelp.org/org_chng/od-field/OD_defn.htm Starker‚ D. (n.d.). Situational Leadership. University of Notre Dame. Retrieved July 14‚ 2010‚ from http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/styles/situational_leadership
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must look‚ listen and understand our patient needs‚ and make sure they are met. This makes life so much more easier. In this article we are going to explore communication in health care assessments. COMMUNICATIN TECHNIQUES 3 Case managers: How can they effectively promote patient-Physician engagement? Introduction: "Understanding a patients individual needs and perception of health
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Role of Nursing to Mitigate Uninsured Patients As a nursing profession‚ the American Nurses Association is advocating for a single-system payer to reduce inefficiency‚ simplification of rules for the health care reform that will provide a universal coverage‚ and curtail the increase cost of administration‚ as originally proposed by the Institute of Medicine in 2004 (Lopez‚ 2011; Groves‚ 2014). Nurses can stand together to petition the lawmakers in Texas to expand the current programs for Medicaid
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