the way that LPNs just don’t work at nursing homes‚ they also work in Hospitals‚ Doctor Offices‚ Medical Offices‚ and Home Health Care. LPNs are able to choose their work schedules which meet their needs‚ so you have time for your family and kids. My grandmother was also an LPN‚ she was my role at that time when I was young‚ so I always wanted to follow in her footsteps and that’s another thing that made me interested in this career. I learned from my research from the Senior Project that LPNs are
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Geriatric Nursing Paper Geriatric Nursing Paper The student was able to spend four hours during two different occasions with Thelma (alias) at her home. Thelma was a 72 year old female. She had many medical diagnoses’s‚ some of which include: osteoarthritis‚ diabetes‚ hyponatremia‚ and hearing loss. The student was lucky enough to perform an assessment of Thelma’s functional‚ environmental and psychosocial status during an interview type of process. The tools that were used to perform theses
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Case Study: Jill’s Medication Case Study Questions: 1. Identify the lapses in care that occurred throughout the case and led to Jill’s medication crisis. Which of these lapses occurred as a result of an individual-level (provider) failure? Which were system-level failures? Throughout the Jill’s experience‚ there was many lapses between the health care team in regards to filling her prescription. First‚ Dr. Smith‚ the referred neurologist declined Jill’s medical records‚ as if they were of no importance
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of medicine is the disguising of medication on food and drink. The practice of administering covert medication is controversial. In mentally capable patients it is a breach of autonomy and likely to constitute assault. For people who lack capacity (either permanently or temporarily)‚ the question is whether the best interest of the individual is justification enough for covert practices. Within my practice area‚ there is a client who occasionally gets his medication covertly. When client needs ’as
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Nursing Accountability to Implement Change Based on the Evidence for Practice Grand Canyon University: NRS 437V August 28‚ 2011 Introduction In this paper‚ I will review and implement recommendations based on the findings of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) regarding the training of hospital staff to respond to a mass casualty incident (MCI). I will give examples and situations that can affect the effectiveness of proper training and responses
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Medical Errors Medical errors are avoidable negative effects of care‚ which can be harmful to a patient. These errors can vary from giving the wrong treatment to a disease‚ injury‚ syndrome‚ behavior‚ or infection a patient might have. Nurses play one of the most important roles in the avoidance of occurring medical errors. By doing their job correctly they can prevent the errors from happening and potentially hurting or killing a patient. Decimal errors‚ trailing zero errors and abbreviation errors
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IOM Future of Nursing Nurses are in an ideal position to propagate changing within the health care workforce‚ with three millions nurses to effectuate change‚ and the objectives within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) providing the largest overhaul within medical care since the inception of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) in 1965 (Institute of Medicine [IOM]‚ 2010). The intent of this paper is to discuss the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report regarding the future of nursing as it pertains
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With reference to research discuss two errors in attributions. (22 marks) The Attribution Theory is a concept of social psychology that makes reference to how individuals feel the need to provide ‘cause to the events around us’. Fritz Heider first proposed the theory ‘The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958)‚ which was later developed by others such as Harold Kelley and Bernard Weiner. The developed definition of this theory refers to the role of our minds in relation to our social behaviour
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lead to these occurrences. Medication Chart Audit Errors in the medication chart Actions and strategies to ensure ongoing safe administration 1. Incompleteness of the medication chart. The printed name of the prescriber and indication were not written. Ask the physician to tell you the name of the drug‚ the correct dosage‚ and what the drug is used for. 2. The patient’s medication allergies were incorrectly transcribed in the medications chart. If there was medication that was given to the patient
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Please refer to the text or simply ask me for help if you need more explanation of the common errors described here. Punctuation Problems When you have a series of items‚ you must use a comma before the ‘and’ or the ‘or.’ When you use ‘however’ within a sentence‚ you must have a comma on either side of the word. Or‚ you could have no commas at all. But‚ you cannot use just one comma unless ‘However’ is the first word in the sentence. Introductory subordinate clauses need a comma to set them off
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