CARE PLAN Patient details: Jean is 86 year old female with heart problems‚ chronic back pain‚ Alzheimer’s‚ suicide attempts and continual thoughts of suicide and depression. Activities of daily living | Assessed needs | Support and care provided | Outcome of plan | Maintaining a safe environment | Jean has had three overdoses of painkillers and been going out and forgetting where she lives and is no longer able to live on her own. | To ensure Jean’s safety she has been referred for psychiatric
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expensive health care. In Michigan‚ a state study found that in a single year (2009) health care for inmates ages 55 to 59 cost more than four times more than for those aged 20 to 24. In Georgia‚ caring for prisoners ages 65 or older costs about $8‚565 per inmate each year. The average annual health-care cost for Georgian prisoners under 65? $961 per inmate. So‚ what’s a state to do? According to experts interviewed by Pew‚ states are trying to rein in costs by providing remote health care‚ outsourcing
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Jeffrey B. Viernes 1550 Wilder Ave #A1102 Honolulu‚ HI 96822 (808) 634-5291 nursejbv21@yahoo.com Sutter Health Attn: Human Resources Department Dr. Hiring Manager‚ I am writing in response to an announcement recently posted on the Sutter Health employment opportunities web site. As you can see in my resume‚ I currently hold an Associate Degree in Nursing and graduated last May 2013 from Kauai Community College‚ School of Nursing. I passed all exams including my final exam with flying colors
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1. The term health promotion is defined as: a planned action to help others improve their health. It involves political‚ educational‚ environmental‚ actions that support individuals‚ groups‚ and communities. The overall goal of health promoters is to improve the quality of life for everyone. They believe that quality of life and health status are linked‚ and if health status improves quality of life improves as well. Health promotion first started in the late 19th century to help prevent deaths
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The primary focus of hospice care is to promote comfort and dignity at the end of life (Torphy‚ Burke‚ & Golub‚ 2012). In hospice care‚ it is one of the nurse’s job to ensure that the patient gets adequate pain relief. However‚ this can be difficult to implement in an outpatient setting. In the scenario provided‚ the patient’s family is preventing the patient from being medicated properly. This issue of family control over the patient’s medication can lead to a couple of possible negative situations
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Introduction The purpose of this research paper is to evaluate Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI)‚ a common complication of hospital care and one of the top leading causes of death in the United States. The paper will explore the current issues of HAI‚ the problem examined‚ the significance‚ and what methods are currently being implemented to reduce the problem. Problem Background The challenge that many hospital facilities are facing is how to avoid HAIs while treating patients for medical
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leading causes of death in America. Impact of Affordable Care Act of 2010 The Affordable Care Act is a health care reform law‚ which was made to make healthcare affordable and available to more people. “An estimated 30 million Americans were expected to gain health insurance through the Affordable Care Act” (HERITAGE) causing many people who suffer from chronic diseases to now have coverage for their medical needs. The Affordable Care Act helped with getting people properly diagnosed with their
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OPENING CASE: The Globalization of Health Care. QUESTION 1: What are the facilitating developments that have allowed health care to start globalizing? There are many factors that have allowed health care to start globalizing such as the high cost of medical care and health insurance in the United State‚: advances in the communication technologies permit the information to be shared almost immediately from place to place: hospitals whit a very high quality are emerging in places like India
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Health and Social Care Assignment UNIT 2 - PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW In this assignment‚ you will investigate standards that influence adult social care practice. You will look at examples of these standards and how they affect the role of social care workers. Personal development and reflective practice are important for social care workers‚ and you will be completing tasks that cover these concepts. You will look at the different ways that this is done‚ how you
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delivers care to patients but it is far from being perfect. Though much of it is in its early stages it already shows potential on how it can improve patient treatment
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