(Gladys) with dementia but has mental capacity. She receives care and assistance in her home‚ she has a cleaner who comes in to clean once a week‚ a neighbour who makes her dinner (Gladys pays for it) and a granddaughter who is her advocate. She has mobility difficulties but can walk short distances with a trolley/Zimmer frame. She spent 5 weeks in the hospital receiving treatment for a urinary tract infection (UTI) and was appointed a care manager after her discharge. Gladys has over £25‚000 and receives
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Writing Assignment #7 Tiara Diaz ITT Technical Institute/Breckinridge School of Nursing NUR 270 Jennifer Kyte APRN‚ MSN May 7th‚ 2012 The plan of care for a patient with esophagogastric balloon tamponade tubes is formulated around the primary nursing diagnosis of ineffective airway clearance related to aspiration of blood (Ackley‚ B.‚ Ladwig‚ G.‚ 2011) Bleeding often stop spontaneously‚ but if it does not‚ a Sengstaken-Blakemore or Minnesota tube is inserted to provide constant
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How does a health care worker use empathy when establishing communication with the client in a health care setting? Good communication with the patient is a key concept within health care. The ability to motivate the client and help him overcome his circumstance is essential. To have supportive communication with a patient the nurse needs to be problem orientated‚ empathetic‚ have audience awareness‚ be a good listener and so much more. Good communication is as important before and after
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Patients that have Medicaid have poorer access to care and poorer health results than patients with private insurance. In this case‚ privately health insured patients are able to discover more opportunistic treatment options‚ swifter medical care and are able to access more primary or preventative care. Medicaid patients have a difficult time accessing health care from medical facilities due to the poor reimbursement for provided
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Financial Consumer Protection-Existing and Proposed as per FSLRC- Priyanka Singla‚ MIB‚ DSE Abstract Financial consumer protection is one thing that everybody is vouching for. The laws pertaining to financial consumer protection were made in 1930s. So the time has come to pay a some attention to the old laws and modify them taking into account the problems and grievances of financial consumers of today’s era. This paper is an analysis of existing financial consumer protection and the proposed structure
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Caring for Dementia Patients Rodrick Williams English 122 Professor Susan Turner – Colon Caring for Dementia Patient It can be very difficult caring for a patient with dementia. Most caregivers are unaware of the problems‚ they must face. A family member attempting to care for a loved one without training will eventually turn to a Nursing Home that has experienced staff in the care of dementia patients. Although many families feel a sense
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REVIEW ARTICLES ANESTHETIC CARE OF THE PATIENT WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA AMIR BALUCH*‚ SUNIL MAHBUBANI**‚ FAHAD AL-FADHLI***‚ ALAN KAYE**** AND ELIZABETH A.M. FROST***** Introduction Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an insidious‚ progressive disease1 that is significantly under diagnosed in the general population. It carries increased risk of difficult intubation preoperatively2 and increased risk of postoperative respiratory depression and airway collapse leading to hypoxia and possibly
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Emotional abuse may include not giving a child opportunities to express their views‚ deliberately silencing them or ’making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature inappropriate expectations being imposed on a child‚ over protection and limitation of exploration and learning‚ or preventing the child from taking part in normal social interaction. It may involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another person. It may involve serious bullying (including cyberbullying)‚
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Ruff (1995) stated that the criminal liability of producers‚ distributors and suppliers of unsafe products is covered under Part II of the Consumer Protection Act of 1987‚ which has mandated a general safety requirement. The producer‚ distributor or supplier of unsafe products incur criminal liability for failure to exercise due diligence. The law is strict but the criminal liability can be dispensed with after showing that they exercised due diligence and have reasonable grounds to believe that
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an individual alleges that they are being abused If suspicions arose that an individual being cared for was being abused or if the individual made an allegation that they were being abused‚ there are several actions that must be taken as a “duty of care” to that individual. These are as follows: Listen to the individual; do not encourage them to say anything either minimizing the allegation or exaggerating the allegation. Avoid leading questions. Do not judge the individual making the allegation Record
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