overcoming obstacles that one encounters throughout his/her career. Six University of West Florida students procured six individual healthcare providers and performed semi-structured interviews with the professionals in order to gain insight into the patient-provider relationship. Five of us interviewed providers in the field of nursing‚ while one us interviewed a provider in the field of pharmacology. Within the domain of Nursing‚ our professionals included: a lead RN in the field of cardiovascular/thoracic
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physical‚ functional and social health of elderly patients after acute hospital admission. The clinic examined 25 patients over the trial period and delivered interprofessional clinical education opportunity for 18 volunteer students from a combination of fully trained students in a variety of health care facilities such as
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is to provide insight of my experiences in working with Nicole Jackson during my tenure with Kaiser Permanente/Healthspan of Ohio. Working as a Patient Service Representative requires the soft skills of being compassionate and attentive to the patient/customers’ needs. The hard skills required a high degree of financial accountability‚ efficient patient processing and proficiency on the computer. Nicole mastered all of these. I was Nicole’s supervisor for approximately XX years and during that
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In 2012‚ I realized my life was not the life that I wanted to be living. I was unhappily married‚ severely overweight with several health ailments and not the kind of mother I wanted to be to my daughter. It was then when I came to the realization only I had the power to change my direction in life. On December 31‚ 2012 I underwent weight loss surgery and had a Lap-Band placed. Now‚ if one thing I have come to realize in life is that people are going to judge you no matter how hard you try and
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TUH. Upon review of current institutional policies it was discovered that Curos disinfecting port protectors were being used on "All patients‚ All lines‚ All the time" (AAA) in order to prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). Further research into proper maintenance and care of IV’s and CDC guidelines in order to meet 2016 National Patient Safety Goals ( NPSG) revealed that current practices may not
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Decision Making January 20th 2011 How Ethics Affects Nursing Practice In the nursing profession we have a respect for our patients but obtaining trust and maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s information has been established from years ago starting with the Oath of Hippocratic. The patient’s confidentiality includes protecting any information the patient divulges to medical personal‚ and not disclosing or sharing the information to others. If trust is betrayed‚ the patient’s would
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MRSA The patient safety problem of interest to me that I have chosen to talk about is MRSA. “MRSA” stands for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. Staphylococcus Aureus or “Staph Aureus” for short. ( SARI‚ 2007). MRSA is transferred from person to person through a bacteria (germs). Many people carry this germ. It is estimated that one in three people are carriers of this germ (CDC Gov 2013) but it is not always harmful - these people would have it on their skin or in their nose‚ but
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A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman is a poem written in free verse. It has two stanzas with five lines. The poem’s theme is showing how someone or Whitman‚ he could be referring to himself‚ tries to find their way in a huge and unending world. People will throw their threads looking for somewhere to anchor down and live‚ just like the spider in the poem. The promontory and the area around it and the spider symbolize just how big the world is around us. It can be difficult for us to settle
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STAGE 2 FOOD AND HOSPITALITY INVESTIGATION HYPOTHESIS: how have other cultures affected what we eat when we eat out? Contents Introduction- page 2 Scope of the study-page 2 Focus Question 1 Focus Question 2 Focus Question 3 Introduction What we eat nowadays is heavily affected by social context and what we eat by ourselves and when were with others‚ usually when we eat with others we head out to the town to find a restaurant or bar. But if we were to compare what it would be like going
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QBQ By John G. Miller IQ- Incorrect questions These are the questions that often pop into our minds first and tend to be negative. They point fingers and are not helpful in resolving problems. "Who dropped the ball?" "Why didn’t they take core of that?" QBQ- Better‚ more accountable questions. These are the questions that are often behind the IQs. You may have to really think to get these questions to the fore front of your mind. "What can I do to make sure you can get that done next
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