administered to pediatric patients and how these methods would differ in an adult patient. According to Lippincott’s Nursing Center‚ the age related differences in drug disposition‚ metabolism‚ excretion‚ and pharmacodynamics effects‚ coupled with the special pharmacologic considerations of the ill child‚ could make the pediatric patient a pharmacotherapeutic challenge. Health care professionals must understand the differences between the pediatric patient and the adult patient. For example‚ a health
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Patient Hand-Offs in the Health Care Setting Patient hand offs in the medical field involves the exchange of critical information. It is the transfer of information‚ knowledge and responsibility for patient care from one healthcare professional to another (Foster-Hunt‚ Parush‚ Ellis‚ Thomas‚ and Rashotte‚ 2015). Ineffective hand-offs can result in putting the patient’s safety at risk‚ wrong treatment‚ incorrect diagnoses‚ and other negative outcomes that can negatively affect the patient. The goal
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The Patient Self-Determination Act is a federal law that allows all individuals to make choices regarding their life and death. Each state has some different regulations on this‚ but generally‚ individuals can create a living will so their health will be handled the way they want if they are unable to verbalized or come to a decision when approaching death. He or she could also have a durable power of attorney who the individual entrusts to make health decisions in his or her best interest. Examples
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Overview of the Patient Centered Medical Home project piloted by Geisinger Health System in Danville‚ Pennsylvania Date: October of 2010 Goal: Create value (defined as outcomes relative to input costs)‚ measure innovation returns‚ and receive market rewards. Requirements: a multidimensional transformation of primary care practice with intensive case management and a payer partnership. Coordinating Primary Care/Team Effort: “patient Centered Medical Home” Geisinger calls it “Personal
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This article is about caring for pediatric patients who are suicidal. I believe in coincided with what we have recently been learning about during our clinical experience. I was also interested in this article because I had worked in pediatrics for six years prior to working in a rehab/nursing home setting. After reading this article‚ I learned ways to carefully screen the pediatric patient‚ how to do an assessment and how some families act and what measures of support they need during their families
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tool to assess for the critically ill patients Airway‚ breathing‚ circulation‚ disability & elimination. (RCUK‚ 2005). It is a systematic approach that can assess the severity of the critically ill patient‚ assess and treat life threatening conditions and have rapid intervention when needed (Grindrod‚ 2012). During the Assessment I introduced myself to Mrs Jones to remained respectful‚ non-discrimitive and ensuring the comfort and dignity of my patient‚ to which I pulled the curtains (NMC
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Patients Like Me is a free data –sharing social network (1). This online community allows patients to communicate and share their health experiences‚ find others with similar conditions and exchange their medical research and clinical data. Patients Like Me is designed to help its members to quantify data about diseases through detailed questionnaires and survey tools (2). By creating this type of social network‚ the founders believed that information can change the outcome of the disease and help
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similar names are another common source of error‚ such as the pain medication Celebrex and the antidepressant Celexa‚ or the tranquilizer Zyprexa and the antihistamine Zyrtec. These medication errors are very painful for doctors‚ as well as the patients. Nobody wants to
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practice since we are patient advocates.The advancement of cultural competence in the nursing practice primarily need nurses have the recognition of the that there are other beliefs systems that in our our society. Most often‚ the nurse practices of patients may look odd and incomprehensible but with conscious effort made to know about these diverse lifestyles ‚ beliefs‚ language‚ religion‚ likes and dislikes of the population we serve the nurse will achieve success in the best patient outcome. All healthcare
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This semester I am currently working with Patient Voices Network with another one of my colleagues. Patient Voices Network is a network that works by connecting interested volunteers that are a variety of different age groups and giving them a voice in health care. Health care partners are the facilities that can utilize these volunteers for their projects. The focus of the last student group to work on this project was to identify barriers to volunteering and engage the college population. Our focus
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