Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) has many responsibilities. They are responsible for not only managing‚ but also monitoring a patient’s pain level and vital functions during procedures. Nurse anesthetists have been around since the year 1956‚ providing anesthesia care to patients in the United States for more than 100 years. According to the 1999 report‚ anesthesia care is 50 times safer than it was in the early 1980’s ("Become a CRNA." )
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It is hard to believe a little flea could kill almost 20 million people in Western Europe. The Bubonic‚ or “Black Plague”‚ began in China in 1334. The bacillus‚ Yersinia pestis‚ existed in all forms of the plague and caused it. The disease was carried in the bellies of fleas that attached to rats. The Black Death subsided in the Russian Steppe in 1351. Bad hygienic conditions in Europe helped the epidemic spread. European lifestyle also changed greatly during and after the disease. As the Black Plague
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“Some patients recover‚ because they believe in doctors” this quote comes from one of the most famous ancient Greek doctors‚ Hippocrates. When we look at the ancient Greeks life it’s mainly focused around the Gods but in medicine the doctors‚ like Hippocrates‚ tried to figure out natural reasons as to why someone got ill. Certainly not every person trusted doctors because many still turned to the Gods to try to fix their illness. After researching about ancient Greek doctors people can realize that
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‘common practices’‚ now seem to us to be bizarre. One of the most common practices that had been used even as recently as the late 1800s was a practice called bloodletting. Bloodletting was a practice that was also called what we know now to be Phlebotomy. It was the draining of blood done by a barber‚ not a doctor‚ and the barber would use a lancet to cut the
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Nursing Informatics Interprofessional Proposal Project Introduction and Assessment Patient safety is very important to the healthcare provider‚ healthcare facility or organization. One area that continues to be a safety issue is mislabeled or unlabeled specimens. Mislabeled specimens happen for a variety of reasons but regardless of the reason the outcome can be devastating to the patient‚ family‚ provider and institution (Intermec‚ 2010). Mislabeled specimens are not intentional and providers
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My name is ------ and I’m currently 36 years old. I will be summarizing my life and expounding on how the knowledge of classical and contemporary adult development theory affected my views on being a successful college student and in shaping my personal‚ academic‚ and professional goals. My life successes and goals are continuously being shaped and molded as a potter shapes clay into ware; smoothing surfaces to perfection. I was born and raised in Edward‚ NC. I am the oldest of three. I was raised
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Marketing Plan Phase I MKT/421 Marketing April 3‚ 2013 F.G. Pringle Marketing Plan Phase I What new product or service should Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. consider adding to their already expansive offering? This article will discuss the proposition of adding express clinics to Wal-Mart stores. This article will include an overview of the Wal-Mart’s the organization‚ a description of the new the service‚ express clinics‚ and an explanation of the importance of marketing to Wal-Mart’s success
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Additional Duties of the Phlebotomist Chapter 16 Additional Duties of the Phlebotomist providing instructions and materials for specimen collection Collecting throat and nasopharyngeal swabs Performing sweat electrolyte collection Assisting physicians in bone marrow aspiration Interviewing blood donors Blood donor collection Transporting/receiving non-blood samples Delivery of samples to appropriate sections/shipment to reference lab Use of laboratory information system Patient Instruction
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There is a severe problem on the night shift and there have been complaints about the delays in the turn-around time of the specimens from the operating room. On the night shift‚ there is one specimen accessioner and one supervisor and a person in each of different departments. There are hematology-coagulation‚ chemistry‚ blood bank and microbiology-immunology. In the healthcare system‚ turn-around time is a crucial factor in running the laboratory. Turn-around time can affect the treatment of the
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I will reflect on an incident that occurred during my shift to develop positive attitude towards nursing informatics. In this reflection‚ I am going to use Gibbs (1988) Reflective cycle. This model is a recognized framework for my reflection. Gibbs (1988) consist of six stages to complete one cycle which is able to improve my nursing informatics and learning from the experience for better practice in future. The cycle starts with description of the situation‚ analysis of the feelings‚ evaluation
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