Patient Interaction A full medical history and examination was taken from this patient suffering from recurrent acute exacerbations of COPD and heart failure. This 79 year old female has suffered with what she describes as a bad chest for over ten years frequently experiencing dyspnoea and chest infections. She recalls suffering many exacerbations and put this down to experiencing asthma attacks. The patient admitted she had smoked 10 cigarettes a day for 64 years- a 32 pack year history. She
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IntroductionIn this assignment I will be exploring the legal‚ professional and ethical issues involved in bed bathing a patient/client in a hospital setting. I will be reflecting on a personal experience‚ experience during a seven week placement on a diabetic ward. I have decided to use a reflective cycle which is an adaptation from Gibbs ’ (1988) model.This reflection has provided a systematic approach to my learning and to my nursing practice. Within this essay I intend to discuss approaches to
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acute crisis situation whereby Maria becomes overwhelmed by the desire to end her life and emotional pain. Maria will then attempt to self-lacerate to reduce her distress or overdose on over the counter or prescribed medication. One of the crisis plans that would prevent her from inflicting harm to self is by encouraging her to call a clinician or duty worker during business hours or call the Triage after business hours for phone coaching to de-escalate her current acute emotional state. As Maria
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One of the most serious pieces of patient care is the handoff. This is the point of time when crucial evidence on the patient’s care is transferred to the patient’s new care provider. Significant outcomes from current and appropriate studies on patient safety and clinical handoffs are concise and studied. After concisely revising process management the purpose of this paper is to discuss how these disciplines can be combined to further improve patient safety in handoff. After Analyzing root cause
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Patient Education Project The purpose of this paper is to develop a plan to teach a specific target group of clients regarding the risk of skin cancer and the impact that skin cancer has on one ’s health. Included in the discussion will be the assessment of what the patient needs to know‚ readiness to learn‚ and educational methods to be used. Skin Cancer Skin cancer‚ which is caused from ultraviolet rays‚ is extremely prevalent‚ with over a million cases occurring annually
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information that can be used diagnosed‚ or can affect the treatment he receives. Student nurses should make sure they are maintaining patient confidentiality while at placement or when using as an example/case study (Siviter‚ 2013). This is because although they are not professionals yet‚ they should still have the same legal and ethical responsibilities and accountability as a registered nurse (Nursing and midwifery council competence‚ 2010). Students should always ask patients for consent to use them
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1”Hello… (Establishing eye contact while approaching in a friendly manner) 1. “Hello...my name is Debra a student nurse at SPC (Establishing eye contact while approaching in a friendly manner) 1. Greeting the patient: It is necessary in order to have an appropriate start for the conversation. 1. I had the feeling that he wanted to talk with someone 2. “I was just writing some things in my journal‚ and I became so sad and emotional and I don’t know why.” He dropped his hands from his face and
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“Providing Culture-Sensitive Healthcare to Hispanic/Latino Patients” A Hispanic patient with a high fever may resist cold compress because their theory of “hot” and “cold” imbalance. They use hot things to cure cold and cold thing to cure the body being “hot”. For instance within the American medical field we use heat foe hot. If you’re running a fever things that makes you sweat it out are better. So the difficulties that the Hispanic patient will bring is simply not following the physician’s orders
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model for patients or clients. 1. Nurses less concern on humanisers care of patient feeling and emotion. Example: A nurses treating patient too strict and focus on doctor’s order until they forgot about patient emotional and spiritual. 2. The patient often labels as bed number or diagnosis rather than treated as individuals. Example: Patient Mr. X admit with the history of the psychological problem for three years. When the nurses passing report called the Mr. X as PSY patient. 3. Nurses
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Holistic patient assessment is utilised as a part of nursing to inform the nursing procedure and provide the fundamentals of patient care. Patient assessment is a essential skill used by nurses which provides the foundation for both on going and already existing patient care (Sonya Wallace ref) In this essay I will be discussing the importance of holistic assessment in registered nursing and the importance of each holistic health aspects. Through holistic evaluation‚ the collection of objective and
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