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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A Patients Bill Of Rights 1. The patient has the right to considerate care. I do agree with this right‚ because every patient wants to feel safe. No patient deserves to be neglected when going into a healthcare facility. Negligence is often an intentional action that occurs when a physician performs or fails to perform an action towards a patient is. Every patient is entitled to a physician that will be considerate and respectful to them. If a patient is neglected by a physician a law suit would
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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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Language differences is a big issue between medical personnel and patients who one or both are using second language when they have a conversation‚ although communication is able to lead people express and exchange experiences with each other. Australia is a multi-cultural and immigrated country‚ so the number of people who immigrants to Australia is increasing‚ and also‚ more and more individuals are willing to seek a better health care for themselves (Meuter‚ Gallois‚ Segalowitz‚ Ryder‚ & Hocking
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Patient autonomy is universally known as self-governance. This furthermore means a patient’s informed decision based on the information divulged by a doctor to the patient. The proper definition of an informed decision can only be made if all the information known by the practitioner is laid out on the table. A basic human right that is given is autonomy. Within the medical world‚ there are three models of disclosure of information which include: the professional standard‚ reasonable patient standard
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is essential. By ensuring patients notes stay in the designated shelfs helps maintain confidentiality‚ so that they cannot get into the wrong hands. The use of padlocked bins is effective in disposing of confidential information. It is important to bring awareness and remind health care professionals to dispose of information‚ to ensure it does not get into the wrong hands. Sharing information should be on a need to know basis. It should only be shared with the patients themselves or other health
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