The terminally ill have many options. They have the Right to Try‚ which means the patients get the chance to try drugs not passed by federal testing. They also have the option of palliative care. Palliative care is patient and family centered care that focuses on easing suffering. Hospice is the palliative care given near the end of life. If their condition is very poor‚ they could choose acute medical care‚ which is palliative care in an acute setting. With acute care comes long term care. Palliative
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Cultural Awareness: Nursing Care of Iraqi Patients” is an article explaining cultural differences that are broadly scattered affecting military nurses care for Iraqi patients. Shortly after this issue developed‚ a study was constructed in means to find barriers between Iraqi patients and their nurses. By utilizing topical examination strategies‚ the data was analyzed and results showed significant cultural variations in communication‚ diet‚ and reference to orientation and dependency. Furthermore
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Observation of Patients Florence Nightingale is said to be one of the major influences in nursing throughout history and today. In 1898‚ she wrote Notes on Nursing What it is‚ and What it is Not. Her ‘notes’ on nursing outline many of the nursing practices used and implemented in today’s practices. Observation in patient’s is a key element in being able to give proper care and gathering the proper data‚ as well as being able to properly assess and monitor the patient to enable them to make
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Justice Statistics. The amount of prisoners continues to grow as the years come. As the numbers grow‚ the amount of mentally ill individuals instituted in prisons grows as well. As much as 50% of the US prison population is diagnosed with some sort of mental illness (Long). Though they might be difficult to handle‚ the courts must maintain a balance of keeping the mentally ill properly treated while also ensuring the public’s safety. According to the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ they are
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deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill was entitled: “Victimization of the Mentally Ill: An Unintended Consequence of Deinstitutionalization”. According to this article‚ one issue the deinstitutionalization brought about that affected communities was the increased number of displaced‚ homeless‚ mentally ill patients. Because so many of these patients are left untreated‚ they are unable to cope in a normal society‚ often causing these deinstitutionalized patients to become part of the legal system
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope
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throughout modern times. The 13 century in the history of psychopathology it’s known by the time when asylums began to emerge. (Roberts‚ A. 1981/Birth of the City London Bedlam) In the above developments there weren’t specific places for the mentally ill‚ because in most cases they were pursued and punished. That’s why in this century another paradigm comes in and changes the way people saw the mentally disable. By this time people know and have an idea that the illness is located in the human body
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Nurse-patient Ratio Is this legislative effective to support a positive nursing work environment? To provide safe and efficient patient care‚ the staffing ratios has been mandated. In 1999‚ California developed into the first state to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. The California legislature passed Assembly Bill ( AB 394) after years of comprehensive press for political action enforced by the nursing representative unions‚ including the California Nurses Association (CNA)
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Electronic Nursing Documentation as a Strategy to Improve Quality of Patient Care Nursing documentation is of utmost importance to nurses in the delivery of quality patient care. Prior to the advent of electronic nursing documentation‚ nurses used the paper based system to document patients’ information. Electronic nursing documentation brought with it some benefits ranging from easy retrieval of patients’ information using the copy-and-paste feature (which allows nurses to copy previously documented
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Societal values of every society is sustained by the organs of the society.interestinly‚the most important organ is the goverment.so goverment is the most important organ reponsible in maintaining societal values.We are all living in a democratic world today and like democracy is clearly define as "the goverment of the people by the people and for the people"‚this means the goverment is the peolple that make up the society. Now‚a society that has failed in all sense of the word‚is not without
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