Patient Hand-Offs in the Health Care Setting Patient hand offs in the medical field involves the exchange of critical information. It is the transfer of information‚ knowledge and responsibility for patient care from one healthcare professional to another (Foster-Hunt‚ Parush‚ Ellis‚ Thomas‚ and Rashotte‚ 2015). Ineffective hand-offs can result in putting the patient’s safety at risk‚ wrong treatment‚ incorrect diagnoses‚ and other negative outcomes that can negatively affect the patient. The goal
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Patients Like Me is a free data –sharing social network (1). This online community allows patients to communicate and share their health experiences‚ find others with similar conditions and exchange their medical research and clinical data. Patients Like Me is designed to help its members to quantify data about diseases through detailed questionnaires and survey tools (2). By creating this type of social network‚ the founders believed that information can change the outcome of the disease and help
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court or the family/guardians of the patient? 2. The Facts: a. Clinical: A 67-year-old white male was reported to have an IQ of 10 and the mental age of approximately 2 years and 8 months‚ but was otherwise in good health‚ strong‚ and well built. He does not communicate verbally‚ but instead he uses grunts and gestures. The patient was diagnosed with acute myeloblastic monocytic leukemia‚ and his physician proposed chemotherapy. With chemotherapy‚ the patient had a remission chance of 30-50 percent
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Patient John Doe was brought by the ambulance to the ER. The triage nurse performed the general assessment on the patient and came up with the following information: Personal History: 65 years old‚ married with two children. Medical history: Diabetes Mellitus‚ Anemia‚ Hemiplegia A. Diabetes Mellitus- a disorder in which blood sugar levels are abnormally high because your body is not producing enough insulin to meet its need. The production of insulin is made by the pancreas and helps lower blood
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Educating individuals about any topic comes with numerous challenges. The diverse patient population being taught creates a challenge in developing a tool that would suit them all. Time constraints in developing‚ implementing and evaluating the effects of the teaching tool on the individuals coupled with best practice changes makes this even harder. These individuals have differing knowledge about the subject matter and also have different learning styles so the material may only be applicable to
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Re: Patients Like Me: An Online Community of Patients Patients Like Me is an online community that allows patients to share information with other patients who suffer from similar diseases. The widespread request for a General Platform is under consideration because it can potentially reel in profit in term of knowledge for the online community and greater cash flow for the company. Background PLM is a community with over 80‚000 members who share information with and learn from other patients with
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Lithium levels‚ Drug screens‚ Pregnancy test‚ etc.) Date/Test Result Interpretation Nursing Implications 06/21/17 Drug Test Negative The patient does not have levels of drug in her system. The patient does not have concentrations of drug in the urine sample below the designed cut- off levels. A negative drug test result does not always mean there are no drugs present in the person being tested‚ it means there are not
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letting a person’s sex unfairly become a factor when deciding who receives a job‚ promotion‚ or other employment benefit. It most often affects women who feel they have been unfairly discriminated against in favor of a man. But there have also been cases where males have claimed that reverse discrimination has occurred—that is‚ the woman received unfairly favorable treatment at the expense of the man. Court rulings handed down through the years have determined that a company’s responsibility not
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Objection 1: The argument is invalid because patient autonomy is the ability to have control over what medical procedures are consented to and decided upon‚ while informed consent is define as a patient’s right to be sufficiently informed about medical procedures‚ so the patient is able to make intelligent decisions based on comprehensive data. The author can respond to this: Donating the patient organs and consent is full authority to proceed upon a person’s death. However; there are a large discussion
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retention‚ storage‚ and use of medical records. State and federal statutory and regulatory enactments for Patients Rights ◦ Patients each have rights through both state and federal laws ◦ Each Patient has rights ◦ Health Care organizations have a Patient Bill of Rights Current Principles for patient Consent and Implications ◦ Informed Consent Laws Patient signs agreement Patient is informed
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