nurse working in a multicultural county with a large percentage of the population not speaking English‚ I encounter everyday reckless faces of patients and families that can communicate theirs needs in time of misfortune. I am fortunate enough to be bilingual and to experience the ultimate satisfaction of communicate with the Spanish-only speaking patients in their own language. I have been able to see reckless painful and distressed
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DOI: 6/10/1988. Patient is a 72-year-old male heavy equipment operator who injured his lower back when he slipped from a scraper and fell 10 feet to the ground. He is post 4 lumbar spine surgeries. Based on the medical report dated 12/14/15‚ the patient presents with severe lower back pain‚ which radiates to the left ankle and right calf. The patient describes the pain as an ache‚ deep‚ piercing‚ shooting and stabbing. The patient reports his pain without medications at 10/10 and with medications
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Understanding the Patient Intake Process University of Phoenix Medical Insurance describes the intake process using a decision tree model (pg. 79‚ Figure 3.1‚ Valerius‚ Bayes‚ Newby‚ & Blochowiak‚ 2014). The tree leads administration personnel through a list of questions to determine if the patient is a new patient or an established patient. The first problem with this process is that some of the new patients are patients that have been seen at the practice. If an established patient has an appointment
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BABY DUMPING...WHO SHOULD BE BLAME?? Baby dumping? What more can we say about this. Almost every day the news about baby dumping fill the space in newspapers. For me it is a worst behaviour and the people who do this same like an animal. Even animal also have a feeling of love toward their child. Where is their feeling when doing this annoying action? Did they do not have feel pity for the innocent baby? Their own flesh and blood so‚ who should be blamed when this happen? The couple? Parents
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Beverly M. Ford Hourly Rounding: A Strategy to Improve Patient Satisfaction Scores P atient satisfaction is an important phenomenon in the health care industry. Health care organizations continually seek innovative approaches to boost patient satisfaction scores. Several studies uncovered nursing behaviors essential to patient satisfaction. Patients value the nurse-patient relationship‚ as well as time spent with them‚ continuity of care‚ trust‚ compassion‚ respect‚ safety‚ understandable
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of baby dumping reported recently and it has raised concern among the authorities. Lately‚ there have been reports of baby dumpings in a number of places. According to a Bernama report‚ three babies were found each in Kelantan‚ Malacca and Kuala Lumpur last week and a baby girl with the umbilical cord still intact was found in Kota Damansara over the weekend. The Star reported that one 29-year-old man and 26-year-old unemployed woman were detained last Friday by police for dumping a newborn
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we delivery is very important not just to the patient‚ but also the nurse. When we care for patients it is important to make the patients the priority and make their clinical experience a good one. A nurse usually develops their plan of care to satisfy the patients needs‚ so we call that patient-centered care. Dabney and Tzeng (2013) describes patient-centered care as a therapeutic relationship that occurs among health care providers and the patients that are receiving health care services‚ that
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What is the term of baby dumping for you? The dumping refers to discarding or leaving alone a child younger than 12 months of age in public or private setting with the intent to dispose of the child. I think parents should be blamed because parents nowadays have spent less time with their children‚ they do not know there who their children friend and parents do not show a good attitude to their children. Firstly‚ parents spend less time with their children nowadays is one
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effective communication with patients in a healthcare setting Introduction This paper will address the importance of communicating effectively in a healthcare setting. It is extremely important that physicians and all medical staff communicate with patients. Communication is how medical staff‚ physicians and patients find out vital information. The medical staff learns information about the patient and the reason for the visit. The physician learns more about the patient through conversation and
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striving to serve as many patients as possible with the best of their abilities. But as the years rolled by‚ the number of patients has grown and various medical cases arise that the manual method of managing patient’s records. In this study‚ we hope to developed a application that will minimize all paper works and manual records keeping‚ therefore allowing doctors and staff ease in keeping track of patients‚ reducing patients’ waiting time and increasing the number of patients served a system that is
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