• I have thoroughly enjoyed reading personal experiences with “difficult “ patients that my colleagues have encountered‚ as well as great ideas on approaching such patients. • I’d like to share with you a “difficult” patient with borderline personality disorder‚ whose care I was involved with during my mental health rotation. • X was a lady in her mid twenties‚ who presented to ED after slashing both her wrists following an altercation with her partner. During the interview she was quite angry with
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Patient Self-Determination Act HCR/210 September 24‚ 2010 Vivian Rice Patient Self-Determination Act The effect of the Patient Self-Determination Act on health care delivery is that it gives the patient the chance to choose how or if they will be kept alive in case of terminal illness or during a risky procedure. The patient will put in writing how they want to be kept alive and what measures to use to keep them alive in the case there is not a “reasonable hope of recovery” (Thomson Delmar
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Dana-Farber has placed patient safety as a core of their mission and vision. As well as implementing technology and new programs‚ they are involving clinicians‚ pharmacists‚ patients and family members in their processes of eliminating medication dosing errors. The Patient/Family Relations Program and the Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFAC) have assisted in the inclusion of patients and family members. Dana-Farber identifies patients as members of the healthcare team. Patients are asked to speak
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Nurse scans his/her ID badge Scans barcode on patient wristband Vital signs are taken Data verified and saved into the EMR/EHR. “No longer are vital signs written on paper towels or on the pant leg of [nurses’] scrubs‚ but automatically transcribed directly into PowerChart.” - Michele Thoman‚ Chief Nursing Of cerner‚ NCH Healthcare SystemSpeeds up workflow for caregivers; Reduction in time spent completing documentation of nursing tasks Patients are able to identify healthcare provider Healthcare
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Name: ____Anne Bratkiewicz__________________________________ Matching 1. ICD-9 2. CPT 3. HCPCS 4. V Codes 5. E Codes 6. Main Term 7. AMA 8. CMS 9. NCD 10. LCD _8____ Codes that explain the reason for the visit when patient is not ill. __10___ Local Coverage Policy such as WPS‚ BCBS _5____ Codes used to describe circumstances around an injury‚ burn/fall. __2___ Translates written documentation of office visit‚ procedures‚ lab‚ and x-ray into numbers ___1__ Coding system
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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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A Remote Patient Monitoring System for Congestive Heart Failure Myung-kyung Suh & Chien-An Chen & Jonathan Woodbridge & Michael Kai Tu & Jung In Kim & Ani Nahapetian &Lorraine S. Evangelista & Majid Sarrafzadeh Received: 17 January 2011 /Accepted: 3 May 2011 # Springer Science+Business Media‚ LLC 2011 Abstract Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a leading cause of death in the United States affecting approximately 670‚000 individuals. Due to the prevalence of CHF related issues‚ it is prudent
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Implementation | Evaluation | Name & Sign | | -Wheezing breath sounds- Unproductive cough- Prolonged expiration-Patients verbalizes difficulty in breathing | Ineffective airway clearance related to airway congestion | To restore normal airway clearance within 30 minutes * Breath sound will be normal * Expiration phase of breathing will be normal and effortless * Patient will verbalize ease in breathing. | To administer Salbutamol 5 mg by nebulizer To assess patient’s chest for normal breath
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医生：你是在哪个饭馆吃的？ 病人：在我们学校南边的那家小饭馆。 医生：是吗？……哎，糟糕了！ 病人：医生，您怎么了？ 医生：我的肚子也疼起来了，昨天晚上我也是在那家饭馆吃的晚饭。 Questions: (True/False) ( F ) 1.The patient and the doctor meet in a restaurant.医生和病人在一家饭馆见面。 ( T ) 2. The patient has a stomachache. 病人的肚子疼。 ( T ) 3. Neither the doctor nor the patient had dinner at home yesterday.医生和病人昨天都没在家吃晚饭。 ( T ) 4. The doctor urges the patient to take medicine as soon as possible.医生让病人赶快吃药。 ( F ) 5. The doctor always dines at expensive restaurants.医生只在贵的饭馆吃饭。 Multiple
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1. What is the potential impact of the copy/paste functionality on the integrity of the data and information contained in an EHR? The copy/paste function opens the possibility for fraud‚ medical error and risk for malpractice claims. Fraud could occur when a copy/paste function is used and than an insurance company is billed for the procedure/services 2 or 3 times. When in reality the procedure/service was only completed once. Medical error can occur with the copy/paste function‚ when
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