Running head: Tracer Summary 1 Patient 453355 Tracer at Nightingale Community Hospital Patient Tracer Summary 2 Patient 453355 Tracer at Nightingale Community Hospital To provide an accurate assessment of the systems and processes for the delivery of care‚ treatment‚ and services at the Nightingale Community Hospital‚ weekly patient chart reviews of patient medical cases is performed using The Joint Commission tracer methodology for a thorough review of current services and possible
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Case Study Analysis - Patients Falls Case Study Analysis - Patients Falls Quality management departments collect and analyze data to ensure quality care that is safe and effective for patients. Positive outcomes are crucial for success‚ and are measured objectively to monitor‚ and revise improvement programs implemented. Regulatory and accreditation agencies set the standards for patient safety defining quality indicators that health care organizations measure‚ and evaluate to
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A1. Tracer Evaluation: The patient is a 67year old female that was re-admitted for a surgical infection following an abdominal hysterectomy. She was admitted to the facility seven days ago followed by a surgical procedure which was completed five days prior to this report. Patient is scheduled to be discharged with home health and IV antibiotics. This patient was selected for audit. Review of the chart shows that the patient’s H&P was completed on day 3 of the admission. Joint Commission hospital
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Preventing Patient Falls in Inpatient Hospital Settings Introduction For the most part‚ hospitals are places where one comes for healing and it is place where our clients should feel safe and away from harm. Nurses have an important role as a patient advocate and are to provide all clients with safe‚ compassionate‚ and quality care at all times. Nonetheless‚ the hospital can also be a dangerous place for inpatients. It is a foreign environment to clients and there may be alterations in their
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The nursing shortage impacts the world in a prodigious way. The nursing shortage has an adverse impact on patient care‚ as well as on nurses. The causes of the nursing shortage are multi-faceted and there is no single measure that influences the declining issues. The most concerning issue of the nursing shortage is the decline in patient care‚ and positive outcome (Buchan‚ 2010). The research question in this study is the following: How does the nursing shortage affect quality of patient care
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nurse‚ I know that nursing is all about the compassion you show to patients. In order to be a good nurse‚ one has to understand both the physical and emotional needs of their patients. A good nurse allows their ethics to guide their nursing. My vision of nursing will not only encompass the care I give to patients‚ but also the care I provide for the community in which I live. Nursing is rooted in public service and the desire to help others. I hope that my philosophy of nursing will incorporate my
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man burnt beyond recognition‚ meet in the last moments of the Second World War. The identity of the patient is the heart of the story as he tells his memories of a doomed love affair in the North African desert. Love and passion are set against the devastation of war in this inspired novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. It is a novel of revelation‚ and just as the identity of the English patient is slowly revealed as the novel progresses‚ so are the inner selves and spiritual identities of the
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This essay will reflect upon an incident in practice when I administered a drug to a child. I will use Gibbs reflective model (Gibbs 1988)(see appendix 1). This model of reflection will be applied to the essay to facilitate critical thought and relating theory to practice where the model allows. Discussion on the incident will include the knowledge underpinning practice and the evidence base for the administration of the drug. A conclusion to the essay will then be given which will discuss my knowledge
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technology deteriorating our ability to think for ourselves. Indisputably‚ in this era we rely on technology to solve a problem than we perform it by ourselves and this tendency makes us lazier‚ challenging our ability to become ingenious. Nevertheless‚ it’s not completely true at all‚ if we ask a question to ourselves that‚ "who are the creator this technology?"‚ then it clarifies most of the vagueness of the controversy. Thus‚ I generally disagree with the opinion that technology deteriorating the ability
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How confident are U.S. hospitals‚ nursing homes‚ and physicians’ offices that their staff would appropriately deny patient information to an unknown caller? Too often‚ unauthorized people succeed in extracting protected information from health care providers. Invasion of privacy also affects noncelebrities‚ when anyone seeks health information the patient has not chosen to share. More often‚ though‚ scam artists seek patients’ billing information for financial gain. The patient’s insurance identifier
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