errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession‚ while nursing is being embraced in its caring attitude toward the patient‚ patient safety should be our number one priority. This article is very important to the nursing profession in part because it addresses one of the most significant issues of the profession‚ which is patient safety. According to the Nurse’s Practice environment article Flynn‚ Liang‚ Dickson‚ Xie‚ & Suh (2012) RNs are well positioned to serve as patient safety
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I recently admitted a 59 year old male with suicidal ideation. As I was assessing my patient‚ he told me that he was a type 2 diabetic who checks his bloodsugars with meals and uses Insulin for coverage. He was concerned that his readings at home have been elevated and has not had an appetite for the last two days. I used the glucometer to check his chemstick which was 285. I called the admitting doctor and the Hospitalist to report my findings and the result of the bloodsugar. As a nursing
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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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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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below: Patient Background – Formerly referred to as the Care History Section‚ Patient Background provides the objective information on a patient’s previous care and/or social history. Care Recommendations – Care Considerations and care coordination information that is applicable to the ED setting. This section was previously called the ED Care Guidelines. EDIE Insight or PreManage Insight- A real-time notification that includes background‚ visit history and care recommendations for a patient. This
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1. Provide an overview of the problem and briefly describe the methodology the study. The study was aiming to find if the patients’ perception to their physicians’ attentiveness this affect the relation between the physician’s recommendations regarding the diet and the exercises and the obese patients’ general health status. The study was recruited an ethnic group (from three ethnic groups: Caucasians‚ Hispanics‚ and African Americans) from 48 contiguous United States who were surveyed by telephone
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Patient and Family Involvement to Ethical Issue on Care Decision Making Purpose: Decision making is a crucial element in the field of medicine and health care. The physician has to determine what is wrong with the patient and recommend treatment‚ while the patient has to decide whether or not to seek medical care‚ and go along with the treatment recommended by the physician. Patients have both rights and responsibilities when it comes to their health and the health care services
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of educating our patients as an RT is critical to the quality‚ self management and independence of our patients. A patient who has COPD is often using home care services and my role is to prepare them by educating what they can do for themselves‚ to ensure they are receiving the most out of their treatment plan. Moreover‚ this means understanding their disease‚ what to expect‚ and how to assist the medication to get the best results. An example of this is to educate the patient on when to cough
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I think patient dehumanization happens because it is hard for the doctor or nurses to see someone suffering. Perhaps it is lack of compassion from patient from patient‚ but I believe that since doctors deal with pain all the time they don’t want to immerse themselves in others pain. I know from personal experience that unless I am feeling the pain for myself it is hard to be sympathetic. My sister has migraines and headaches all the time and all I can say is I am sorry; however‚ when I have a headache
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CASE STUDY – INFORMING PANASONIC 1. From the information supplied in the case‚ identify three information needs of Panasonic as an organization and explain why this information would be important to managerial decision – making at the company. Three information needs of Panasonic • Has the ability to create‚ store‚ share and analyze data about products‚ customers and suppliers in ways that were not even feasible just a few decades ago. • It had developed numerous duplicative‚ inconsistent and
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