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    Asthma and Patient

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    Nursing management for a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease begins with assessment; gathering information from the patient including detailed medical history‚ present symptoms and evaluate findings of diagnostic tests. Symptoms vary with each patient‚ but may include chronic cough‚ clubbing of the fingers‚ chest tightness‚ weight loss‚ cyanosis‚ difficulty breathing with a higher rate of respirations and difficulty sleeping (Weber‚ 2008). It is common for patients suffering from difficulty

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    Patient Safety

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    UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MASTERS IN HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (MHA) PATIENT SAFETY Individual Assignment 1 SUBMITTED BY: Regan Ramkissoon PS57095 April 12th 2013 Patient Safety Assignment Background SUMMARY OF INCIDENT On Friday 27th January 2012‚ a young mother was trying to get her ailing twenty one month old baby to the hospital. The child was an outpatient of the San Fernando General Hospital as he had three holes in his heart and an enlarged liver. Earlier that

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    Patient Confidentiality

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    Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient confidentiality is a fundamental practice in healthcare and it is integral part of healthcare ethical standards (Purtilo & Dougherty‚ 2010). According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics “the nurse has a duty to maintain confidentiality of all patient information” (Nursing world‚ p.6). Also‚ when a patient confidentiality

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    The English Patient

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    Identity Crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient Lerzan Gültekin Atılım University in Ankara‚ Turkey lerzan_gultekin@atilim.edu.tr Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze identity crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient from a postcolonial perspective through the concept of nationalism and national identity‚ emphasizing cultural‚ psychological and physical displacement due to colonization‚ travelling‚ exploration and space / place (cartography)‚ referring to the theories

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    Patient Repositioning

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    - Law and Management in Occupational Health and Safety Patients in the Perioperative environment are often required to be repositioned on the operating table and most of these patients have had a regional or general anaesthetic‚ making it impossible for them (the patient) to assist staff in that repositioning. The added risk in any repositioning is loss or damage to the patients’ airway‚ and maintaining the patients’ musculoskeletal alignment‚ so as to not cause any damage to nerves

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    patient summation

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    Overview Patient is a 83 year-old female‚ presented to the ED on 7/2/13 with complaints of chest pain caused by what family believed to be aspiration pneumonia‚ also with worsening stage 4 sacral wound. Patient has a past medical history of a subdural hematoma secondary to a fall from a ladder‚ IDDM‚ bleeding gastric ulcer‚ and aspiration pneumonia. EKG and cardiac enzymes were ordered in the ED‚ EKG was unremarkable with a normal sinus rate and rhythm‚ enzymes within acceptable range. Patient sacral

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    Patient Falls

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    Patient falls are an increasing concern within the healthcare system and contribute to costly treatments and lengthy hospital stays. The purpose of this article is to examine how nursing education impacts patient falls centered on evidenced-based research. Overall‚ evidence supports that nursing education can have effectively decrease falls among patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Task 1: Evidence-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research Research guides decisions and changes we make

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    Patient Advocacy

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    Patient advocacy requires nurses to support and protect their patients. Nurses often find themselves in ethically questionable situations that conflict with their personal and professional morals. Sometimes‚ speaking out for the patient requires them to demonstrate moral courage—for instance‚ in the face of conflicting loyalties‚ in highly charged conflict situations‚ or when the patient’s rights are being violated. This article provides an overview of moral courage‚ defines important terms‚ examines

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    Patient Safety

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    errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession‚ while nursing is being embraced by its caring attitude toward the patient‚ safety should be our number one priority. This research 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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    Patient Advocacy

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    Patient Advocacy: How it affects the delivery of patient care Geneva Heath NR 451: Capstone Course Melanie Gawlik July 7‚ 2011 Introduction There tends to be a major direct affect that patient advocacy has on the delivery of health care. For a patient to be able to address their health care needs‚ their rights to health care‚ and making sure that they are being treated fairly are important issues and it only seems right for these patient ’s to have a voice other than their own in order

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