nurse‚ a nurse practitioner‚ and a unit secretary. A staff nurse is in outpatient is responsible of admitting patients‚ making preparations which includes both patients and the equipments that are necessary‚ they assist physicians with many bedside procedures‚ and are responsible of recovering patients. A nurse staff is also responsible of checking charts and orders‚ monitoring patients and troubleshooting to make sure that there’s no errors. A charge nurse is registered nursed who is responsible
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“Providing Culture-Sensitive Healthcare to Hispanic/Latino Patients” A Hispanic patient with a high fever may resist cold compress because their theory of “hot” and “cold” imbalance. They use hot things to cure cold and cold thing to cure the body being “hot”. For instance within the American medical field we use heat foe hot. If you’re running a fever things that makes you sweat it out are better. So the difficulties that the Hispanic patient will bring is simply not following the physician’s orders
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overcoming obstacles that one encounters throughout his/her career. Six University of West Florida students procured six individual healthcare providers and performed semi-structured interviews with the professionals in order to gain insight into the patient-provider relationship. Five of us interviewed providers in the field of nursing‚ while one us interviewed a provider in the field of pharmacology. Within the domain of Nursing‚ our professionals included: a lead RN in the field of cardiovascular/thoracic
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physical‚ functional and social health of elderly patients after acute hospital admission. The clinic examined 25 patients over the trial period and delivered interprofessional clinical education opportunity for 18 volunteer students from a combination of fully trained students in a variety of health care facilities such as
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is to provide insight of my experiences in working with Nicole Jackson during my tenure with Kaiser Permanente/Healthspan of Ohio. Working as a Patient Service Representative requires the soft skills of being compassionate and attentive to the patient/customers’ needs. The hard skills required a high degree of financial accountability‚ efficient patient processing and proficiency on the computer. Nicole mastered all of these. I was Nicole’s supervisor for approximately XX years and during that
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In 2012‚ I realized my life was not the life that I wanted to be living. I was unhappily married‚ severely overweight with several health ailments and not the kind of mother I wanted to be to my daughter. It was then when I came to the realization only I had the power to change my direction in life. On December 31‚ 2012 I underwent weight loss surgery and had a Lap-Band placed. Now‚ if one thing I have come to realize in life is that people are going to judge you no matter how hard you try and
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TUH. Upon review of current institutional policies it was discovered that Curos disinfecting port protectors were being used on "All patients‚ All lines‚ All the time" (AAA) in order to prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). Further research into proper maintenance and care of IV’s and CDC guidelines in order to meet 2016 National Patient Safety Goals ( NPSG) revealed that current practices may not
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Decision Making January 20th 2011 How Ethics Affects Nursing Practice In the nursing profession we have a respect for our patients but obtaining trust and maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s information has been established from years ago starting with the Oath of Hippocratic. The patient’s confidentiality includes protecting any information the patient divulges to medical personal‚ and not disclosing or sharing the information to others. If trust is betrayed‚ the patient’s would
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MRSA The patient safety problem of interest to me that I have chosen to talk about is MRSA. “MRSA” stands for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. Staphylococcus Aureus or “Staph Aureus” for short. ( SARI‚ 2007). MRSA is transferred from person to person through a bacteria (germs). Many people carry this germ. It is estimated that one in three people are carriers of this germ (CDC Gov 2013) but it is not always harmful - these people would have it on their skin or in their nose‚ but
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Before a patient or doctor can go into surgery‚ there are many steps you must go through first. Both patient and doctors must put on a clean gown‚ scrub cap or hairnet‚ and specially for the doctor‚ scrub in. This is an important task to do‚ the insure bacteria does not spread. When a patient prepares for their surgery‚ there are informed to start weeks or days prior. Normally it begins with the patient to stop taking a blood thinning pain medicine (if they use it) such as Advil to prevent your
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