DISCHARGE SUMMARY Patient name: Emma Parker Hospial No: 11259 Admitted: 09/25/13 Discharged: 10/01/13 Consultations: Carol Dodd‚ M.D‚ Orthopedics Saul Thompson‚ M.D.‚ Cardiology Procedure: Open reduction‚ internal fixation of right hip. Complication: Elevated cardiac enzymes postop. Admitting Diagnosis: Acute intertrochanteric fracture of right hip. ENTERING STATEMENT: This 69-year-old black female patient was brought to the ER after she sustain an injury to her
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In this excerpt of “Dave Barry Does Japan” Dave Barry shows the lack of care American tourists have for the culture and country they are visiting and satirizes stereotypes of both American and Japanese people through his use of repetition‚ anecdote‚ and self-deprecating humor. Dave Barry uses repetition throughout his story to add focus to specific ideas. An example of this is in the beginning of the story when he repeats his overexaggerated versions of the Japanese word for thank you‚ to satirize
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Nursing care delivery is defined as the way task allocation‚ responsibility‚ and authority are organized to achieve patient care.There are four well-defined and widely used traditional nursing care delivery system and each systems types is as follows‚ functional nursing‚ team nursing‚ primary nursing and patient-centered care nursing. I am currently on a gen- surge ward‚ while there I have observed that they are using the team nursing care model. Team nursing is a care model that uses a group of
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Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is an issue that started in the 1980’s and continues to remain a current hot topic within the nursing practice. Governor Jerry Brown recently signed an assisted suicide bill into law (Lovett & Pérez-Peña‚ 2015). PAS will be in effect ninety days after its ruling on the floor. The governor stated that if he were battling a terminal illness accompanied by pain he would be comforted by the option and wouldn’t want to deny that to anyone. As with any issue‚ there has
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COMMUNICATION IN NURSING PRACTICE. In order to fully discuss effective communication in nursing practice‚ one first should define communication. As stated in the business directory‚ communication is “ the two way process of reaching mutual understanding‚ in which participants not only exchange (encode – decode) information but create and share meaning. “ (www.thebusinessdirectory.com : Nov 25th). Or as in the free dictionary‚ “The exchange of thoughts‚ messages or information by
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the process of reflection I will use De Bono ’s Six Thinking Hats (1985) methodology of thinking. Although‚ traditionally‚ this method is used in business and management‚ I feel that it is applicable to nursing as it has enabled me to dissect my thinking. De Bono suggests that we need to practice deliberate thinking as opposed to reactive thinking if we really want to progress ideas and reach sensible conclusions (1985). It was with this in mind that he devised the six thinking hats. The six thinking
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Contrast two reflective practice models: - The two reflective practice models I have chosen to compare are Kolb1 and Brookfield2. Reflective practice is intended to help the teacher evolve and develop. It is an essential aspect of continuing professional development and is seen as a fundamental process in improving the quality of teaching3. Although teachers have done this for years the models formalise the process and put a structure on it. However‚ it is a subjective rather than an objective
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Hall of Roids? Barry Bonds is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game. However‚ after a court trial against his trainer‚ it was proven that Barry Bonds had used steroids during training throughout his baseball career. Now his record of 73 home runs in a season has a big asterisk next to it (Bunning). Yet‚ Barry Bonds and many other athletes are still inducted into their sports’ Hall of Fame even though they used steroids. Athletes who used steroids should
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Mary Parker Follett Facts: Known for: pioneering ideas introducing human psychology and human relations into industrial management Occupation:social worker‚ management theory writer and speaker Dates: 1868-1933 Mary Parker Follett Biography: Modern management theory owes a lot to a nearly-forgotten woman writer‚ Mary Parker Follett. Mary Parker Follett was born in Quincy‚ Massachusetts. She studied at the Thayer Academy‚ Braintree‚ Massachusetts‚ where she credited one of her teachers with
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personal and professional lives. In nursing‚ nurses will be faced with all sorts of issues and situations however the way every nurse deals with a problem that arises will be different based on the values they have and moral standpoint that they decide to take. In this essay however‚ I will be looking at the value of life‚ individual freedom or autonomy and justice or fairness and how these values are important to me as well as how they are relevant to nursing practice. My first value is the value of
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