LWS101‚ Semester 1 2011 Assessment No. 2: Problem Solving Exercise Solomon Tuigamala was a resident of Morton’s Crossing Nursing Home. He had grown increasingly unsteady on his feet and in January of 2011 fell as he walked to the dining room for dinner. Kaye Black‚ a registered nurse on duty at the facility‚ observed his fall. She took a photo of him with her phone as he lay sprawled on the ground. She then moved to help him up and noticed he was dazed. She was in a rush to get the residents
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Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain Karen DeLawder Chamberlain College of Nursing NR305: Health Assessment Spring 2011 Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain Introduction Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain is an article published in the Nursing Standard Journal in the June 2006 issue‚ written by Elaine Cole‚ Antonia Lynch‚ and Helen Cugnoni. This article gives an in depth look at common diagnosis associated with abdominal pain. With each
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their family. Many clients are unable to tend to the daily chores like house work due to the treatments received for their disease. This issue causes the patient to be stressed and feeling depressed because they are unable to attend to the needs of the home. The children also feel that their environment has changed lack of normalcy. This has caused problem for the family’s well-being. This is a complex problem and one that exists within the community and the organization. The organization I work for does
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3N Clinical Nursing Care Plan NURS 2230 Lakehead University October 2‚ 2014 I declare that this paper is my original work. Excepting where I have cited my own previous work‚ this paper in its entirety‚ or any portion thereof‚ has not been submitted to meet the requirements of any other credit course. Student Signature: ____________________________________ Date: ____________________ Patient History In the context of this paper‚ the patient will be referred to as
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“Siobhan‚ we’re late!” When my mother called me‚ I was already running across the road to the reddish‚ brick-walled building that jutted out from the street corner. At the beginning of December‚ my mother had wanted me to volunteer at a nursing home. Instead of relaxing on the couch‚ I’ll be spending most of my winter break entertaining and keeping the elderly occupied. However‚ today I wanted to play the piano‚ instead of my usual BINGO game with the Smith’s. The Rosemary Heights Senior Village
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Workplace Violence Suffered by Nursing Workers at XYZ Hospital Violence is a major cause of both mortality and morbidity. The World Health Organization (WHO)‚ the International Council of Nurses (ICN)‚ public services international and the international labor organization have campaigned for nurses to come together and fight workplace violence (International Council of Nurses 2001‚ p.3). Nurses and health care workers are more exposed to workplace violence. According to the Bureau of
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Failure to follow nursing standards of care is one of the six major causes of nursing malpractice. These standards may be part of a state nurse practice act‚ the hospital procedure and policies‚ a job descriptions‚ or recommendations of a professional national nursing organization (Reising‚ 2007). Examples in general nursing include (Reising‚ 2012): • Failure to follow proper safety protocols established by the health care facility • Failure to give certain medications in a timely and reasonable
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Compare and Contrast 2 artworks ‘Music In the Tulieries’ And ‘Dance at le Moulin de la Galette’ Music in the Tuileries Garden depicts a fashionable Parisian crowd socialising in the the Tuileries garden as they enjoy the music played by a band‚ Manet has not included the musicians in the painting. The scene is crowded and the composition of people occupies more than half of the canvas. Manet has attempted to capture the hustle-bustle of the modern life of people living during the era. He has
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referred to a neurologist as an outpatient. Idiopathic seizures account for 70% of unprovoked seizures in children (Sharieff & Hendry‚ 2011). This essay will explore the current practice and guidelines of seizure management on an acute ward in Starhship children’s hospital. These practices and guidelines will be examined and critiqued‚ and also evaluated from the child and their family’s perspective. Seizures are defined by Huff & Fountain (2011) and Blumstein & Friedman (2007) as unpredictable
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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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