The Hippocratic Oath is important because it keeps all of the patients health information secure. As a result of the Hippocratic Oath patients are able to trust doctors to keep their reason for seeking help confidential and will do no harm. A violation of HIPAA can be verbal or electronic. An example of a electronic violation of the Hippocratic oath is when you are on your computer looking at a patients files. In the middle of looking through the files you get called because you are needed in another
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Annotated Bibliography‚ National Patient Safety Goals – Hospital Denise Moe N300 Summer 2011 California State University‚ San Marcos ’Spread ’ remains challenge in patient safety improvement. (2011‚ May). Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement‚ 18(5)‚ 49-52. Purpose Patient safety is a top priority in health care‚ especially in a hospital setting. If errors are made in regards to patient safety‚ they could have dangerous consequences. Patients trust that specific systems are
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Angana: In your own estimation‚ how many patients visit the clinic in a week? Ms. Distajo: We have more or less 90 patients per week. Angana: What are the process done by the patients by the time they entered the clinic? Ms. Distajo: By the time they entered the clinic‚ the patients is asked initially what is the purpose and what test they wanted to be done. Yasay: What is the complete information you asked from the patients? Ms. Distajo: The patient had to feel up the forms given to them by
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study involves the dilemma of removing the patient from harm but still obtaining their consent. With mandatory elder abuse reporting‚ nurses may be more keenly focused on the issue and are obligated to report it. The challenge involves the ethical principle of beneficence‚ defined as to “do good” (Butts & Rich‚ 2013‚ p. 446) for the patient. Health care professionals want to provide adequate care and reporting suspected abuse can help remove the patient from harm and stop the abuse from occurring
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Discuss three patient safety issues that are present in the scenario. 1) Sara signed off medications on the MAR but she did not actually witness the patient taking the prescribed medications. 2) Sara left the medications unattended at the bedside. This is a careless practice. She should have carried them back to the nurse’s station and reattempted to administer the meds after the patient finished bathing. 3) Unexpected change in the patient’s vital signs. The scenario reports there has been
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Mrs Mary Martins is an eight four year old lady who was admitted to a local community hospital after falling at home while going to the toilet in the early hours of the morning. Mrs Martins had sustained a chipped bone in her left foot‚ had no plaster cast in situ and was non weight bearing. Mrs Martins lives alone in her own bungalow; her husband had died 4 years earlier. She has a son and daughter who both live in the south of England and a granddaughter who lives close by. The granddaughter
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Alexandra Delgado Reflection #1 Patient Care 2403 Sensitivity! What is sensitivity? Sensitivity is the quality or condition of being sensitive. In patient care to what degree is our sensitivity. This week at clinical I got to experience my first Trauma One. I live in Evanston‚ Wyoming so being involved in a Trauma case is very rare but not unusual. The ER called over to inform us of a trauma and that we needed to be over right away. Once we got there with the portable‚ RN’s and doctors
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Dementia is a term used to describe a series of symptoms of what a person is experiencing. This is difficult diagnosis not just for the patient‚ but also for their families. It is also tough for the caregivers because they have to go through additional training to learn how to properly care for patients with dementia. After a person is diagnosed with dementia their physicians than setting up a treatment plan. However‚ there are no medications as of today‚ that will cure
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Critically evaluate the extent to which patient-practitioner communication influences patient responses to the adoption of one health behaviour. Patients diagnosed with chronic conditions such as hypertension need to adhere to health behaviours and lifestyle changes such as stopping smoking‚ eating healthily‚ taking more exercise‚ reducing sodium
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In-patient and out-patient rehabilitation: Which option suits you best? When you make up your mind to get help for an addiction problem‚ the first thing you will need to do is to decide between in-patient or out-patient treatment options. It will be important to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of each option before you make up your mind. In-patient rehab treatment is one of the most common options today. In this type of treatment‚ the person checks into a treatment facility and lives
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