Impact the Nurse-patient ratio has on workloads Betty Jo Ayers Fayetteville State University Dr. D. Jefferys Nursing 300- Group 1 Project Introduction: The nurse-patient ratio has been a debatable problem for many years. It has been found that it is key in ensuring patient safety‚ protecting the nurses and ensuring overall quality of health care service. Background Information: There are four main reasons nurses are experiencing higher workloads
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Dealing with Difficult Patients Over the past 15-20 years there have been changes in patient physician relationships and changes in the workloads given to nurses and other staff. Before‚ the doctor was always considered an authoritative source of information and treatment; patients had little dissatisfaction. Nurses were able to give more personalized attention. Now‚ with advertising‚ internet and self help groups patients are relying less on their doctor’s knowledge and
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Intervention Paper: Treatment Paradigm of Elderly Trauma Patients N569 Darren J Hunt‚ RN College of Nursing University of New Mexico Abstract As the population of our world grows older on average‚ the question of how to care for them becomes increasingly complex. With the longer life expectancy there exists a kind of Achilles heal regarding elderly trauma patients and the response to treatment for life-threatening injuries. The older trauma patient is often times a victim of slow trauma (occurring
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Master Patient Index i Master Patient Index Master Patient Index 1 Master Patient Index (MPI) and the Primary Key are important parts of a health care organizations database. They help in the retrieval and organization of data in an organizations data base. The Master Patient Index (MPI) is an electronic medical database that holds information on every patient registered at a health care organization (TechTarget‚ 2011). The information that is contained in the patient record is things
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The patient interviewed is a 72 year old Caucasian male. He was in the grocery business for 40 plus years and served in the Vietnam War in 1967-1968.The patient has suffered from back pain for many years‚ part due to war related injuries and part due to many years of heavy lifting in the grocery business. The patient is considered 100% disabled by the VA health care system. This pain has also increased pain in other regions of the body such as the neck and knees. When asked to rate pain using the
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In the article‚ Patient Safety and Patient Safety Culture: Foundations of Excellent Health Care Delivery‚ by Ulrich and Kear (2014)‚ patient safety issues are identified and ways to improve these safety issues are also discussed. “Patient safety forms the foundation of healthcare delivery […] ensuring patient safety requires the ongoing‚ focused efforts of every member of the healthcare team” (Ulrich & Kear‚ 2014). In 1999‚ a report was released regarding the number of medical errors and injures/deaths
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compassionate is to understand what our patients are going through and then provide the best care that we can to benefit them. I really liked how Steven put in it that “it allows for medical care that isn’t superficial‚ but rather focuses on care for the patient that goes beyond the medical care.” Any health care provider can just focus on the signs and symptoms of a patient and treat them more as number than as an individual. This could lead to the patient having resentment towards the healthcare
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Medical errors is a reason for at least 34‚000 deaths yearly in the United States. These losses mainly result from method errors‚ or the failure to deliver suggested treatments for patients with convinced medicinal circumstances. With through health costs valued at $19 billion yearly‚ these faults levy a considerable problem on both the medical care system and people as a complete. Technology (IT) systems such as electronic Medical records and physician computerized order record hold the possible
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affects of a brutal war. First we have Almasy the lead character and the main protagonist‚ he is Hungarian by birth‚ but has been raised and educated in England and thus his habits and mannerisms are English and so he is referred to as the English patient. Almasy works in the deserts of Africa far from the forces of civilization. There he creates for himself his own world without borders‚ a place where a person’s identity/nationality is not at all important. He forgets that at times of war the nationality
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Dementia is mean‚ mind stealing disease that affects many elderly patients in different ways. It begins with forgetting small things like where you put your car keys‚ and escalates into forgetting yourself and your family. Many can function well with dementia for a period of time‚ but then generally have to transition into receiving help from family caregivers and/or nursing facilities such as nursing homes or assisted living. Dementia can turn a normal thinking person into an irrational person who
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