• I have thoroughly enjoyed reading personal experiences with “difficult “ patients that my colleagues have encountered‚ as well as great ideas on approaching such patients. • I’d like to share with you a “difficult” patient with borderline personality disorder‚ whose care I was involved with during my mental health rotation. • X was a lady in her mid twenties‚ who presented to ED after slashing both her wrists following an altercation with her partner. During the interview she was quite angry with
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I recently admitted a 59 year old male with suicidal ideation. As I was assessing my patient‚ he told me that he was a type 2 diabetic who checks his bloodsugars with meals and uses Insulin for coverage. He was concerned that his readings at home have been elevated and has not had an appetite for the last two days. I used the glucometer to check his chemstick which was 285. I called the admitting doctor and the Hospitalist to report my findings and the result of the bloodsugar. As a nursing
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of this assignment is to demonstrate how Peplau’s concept of the nurse-patient relationship can be used to influence an incident in practise. I have chosen to focus on the nurse-patient relationship‚ as I am in the early stages of my adult nurse training and I feel it would be beneficial to understand this relationship more accurately. The first part of this assignment defines a concept and briefly outlines the nurse-patient relationship as a concept. The second part focusses and outlines Peplau’s
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Research Presented to College of Information & Engineering of Mary The Queen College of Quezon City. “Patient Monitoring System” Produced for: B.A.B. DIAGNOSTIC CENTER #7-D BF Road‚ Barangay Holy Spirit‚ Diliman Quezon City Produced by: October 2013 INTRODUCTION Patient Monitoring System is not new in health care. The first primitive patient monitoring system started with the work done by Santorio in 1625 that was measuring of body temperature and
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I think patient dehumanization happens because it is hard for the doctor or nurses to see someone suffering. Perhaps it is lack of compassion from patient from patient‚ but I believe that since doctors deal with pain all the time they don’t want to immerse themselves in others pain. I know from personal experience that unless I am feeling the pain for myself it is hard to be sympathetic. My sister has migraines and headaches all the time and all I can say is I am sorry; however‚ when I have a headache
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Pain management comparison in orthopaedics- patient controlled analgesia vs. femoral nerve blocks Picot question In adult patients with total hip or knee replacements‚ how effective is patient controlled analgesia pain management compared to femoral nerve block in controlling post operative pain within the first 24 hours after surgery? Importance to the science of nursing Major knee or total hip surgery is associated with severe postoperative pain
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The Care Transitions Intervention was developed to help improve patient quality and safety during significant transitions in care. 3. Hospital at Home - Hospital at Home relies on the ability to bring diagnostic and therapeutic care technologies and providers into the home setting. While the physician visits daily‚ the RN serves as the coordinator of care‚ patient education‚ and ancillary services. 4. Planetree Patient Centered Care - The holistic care model encourages healing in all
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Patient education is a vital part of patient-centered nursing care. To promote learning and better health‚ the nurse utilizes the nursing process which includes: assessment‚ diagnosis‚ planning‚ implementation and evaluation (Potter‚ Perry‚ Stockert & Hall‚ 2013‚ p. 206). First‚ a thorough assessment of the patient’s learning needs‚ readiness to learn‚ and any barriers to learning needs to be completed. With this information‚ a nursing diagnosis and goals can be established and a plan can be developed
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In the article‚ Patient Safety and Patient Safety Culture: Foundations of Excellent Health Care Delivery‚ by Ulrich and Kear (2014)‚ patient safety issues are identified and ways to improve these safety issues are also discussed. “Patient safety forms the foundation of healthcare delivery […] ensuring patient safety requires the ongoing‚ focused efforts of every member of the healthcare team” (Ulrich & Kear‚ 2014). In 1999‚ a report was released regarding the number of medical errors and injures/deaths
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The Patient Recording System will modernize the existing system by changing methods of data collection and replacing manual data input of paper records with a fully automated electronic data capture. The data... The system supplies future data requirements of the Fire Service Emergency Cover (FSEC) project‚ Fire Control‚ fundamental research and development. Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) will also be able to use this better quality data for their own purposes. The IRS will provide
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