Clinical Experience Assignment # 2 Virender Kaur California State University‚ Bakersfield Clinical Experience Assignment # 2 An issue that I encountered during one of my clinical rotations at Bakersfield Heart Hospital was a leadership and patient advocacy issue. On the last day of my clinical‚ my preceptor and I were assigned to triage. We saw one patient who came in with shortness of breath and high blood pressure‚ and another one who came in with headache. So‚ after doing the initial
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CHAPTER 1 PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND 1.1 INRODUCTION Hospitals are very important institutions for the economic and social well-being of society. Their curative and rehabilitative functions enable them to restore individuals to being productive members of society and for those individuals to enjoy the benefits that can be derived from it. The success of hospitals in their mission is therefore important. This success is highly dependent on the hospitals’ managerial capability. An understanding
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Hospital History • Overview • Pennsylvania Hospital (1751) – Oldest voluntary hospital • Focus on sick‚ poor‚ homeless • Not a focus of care for physicians – Primary care in home/office • Mental illness – First mental hospital in 1772 1 Hospital History (cont.) • Growth of urban areas – Growth of hospitals – Focus on research‚ teaching‚ medical schools • Major discoveries – Anesthesia • Ether • Antibiotics • Sulfa Drugs‚ penicillin (decreased infection rates and mortality)
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On the 1st of October‚ we had started our clinical teaching in Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (PPUKM). I felt excited because I like to hand on the patient and I can gain experience through clinical teaching. On the first day of clinical teaching‚ I was under En Taib’s supervision. He orientated us around the Occupational Therapy department and briefly introduced the staff and rooms in the department. Due to the presence of the patients‚ En Taib decided to bring us to ward round
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recent nosocomial infections that occurred within the past year. In your report‚ categorize the different parameters (i.e.‚ person‚ time‚ place‚ ethnicity‚ and gender) used in the compilation of data into the information summative. The Good Health Hospital records of 2013 have indicated that was an E-Coli O157:H7infection spread among the patients in the Tampa Bay area.” The E coli can be ingested from contaminated foods and cause bloody diarrhea and create a form of kidney failure ( Friis‚ Sellers
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Clinical supervision according to Machado & Botnarescue (2011‚ p. 56)‚ “was initially promoted to improve instructional practices by providing supervisors with a structured and cooperative approach”. I am struggling as to what to say to Ms. Jones based upon her performance. Since my evaluations are short and sweet with little needing improving‚ I find it hard to be on the other end of an evaluation. First‚ I would sit down and provide Ms. Jones with the checklist that we were given and go down
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Clinical characteristics of schizophrenia | Issues in the diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia | Delusions: which are bizarre beliefs that appear realistic to a person with schizophrenia‚ but they are not real. They can sometimes be paranoid delusions Experiences of control: the person with schizophrenia may believe they are under the control of different group’s e.g. alien invasion. Hallucination: are bizarre‚ unreal perceptions of the environment that are usually auditory
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Over the course of this year I believe I still have some growing to do in the clinical setting. One of my weaknesses I have is lacking confidence in myself. Many times I doubt myself when I know I shouldn’t. For example‚ many times during post conference or even on the floor the clinical instructor may ask a question about a procedure or medication‚ instead of answering the question myself I will let someone else answer. A lot of times I know the answer the instructor is looking for‚ but I won’t
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Memorial Hospital Introduction Pate Memorial Hospital is a 600 bed‚ debt free ‚ not-for profit ‚ one of the six general hospital located on the southern periphery of a major western city. It is financially stronger than most of the metropolitan-based hospitals in the United States and has the highest overall occupancy rate among the six general hospitals. Industrial Analysis of Hospital and Ambulatory health care services There’s a dramatic transformation in Health care and hospital industry
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Introduction Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a proprietary hospital management company. The company has been following an acquisitive strategy by taking over hospital companies and not-for-profit hospitals. The firm is also considering expanding into new health service areas like home health care and outpatient surgery. The company is at a crossroads with regard to its financial goals; HCA currently faces the likelihood of adverse changes to the Medicare/Medicaid policy which could strain
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