structure and culture of Palmetto Health, an acute care hospital located in Columbia, South Carolina. The focus will be on the medical-surgical unit. The paper will review the type of organizational structure and how communication is affected by the social and cultural aspects of this hospital. Also discussed is how Palmetto Health provides client-centered care to accomplish their mission statement, “To be remembered by each patient as providing the care and compassion we want for our families and
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Falling and Mobility Grand Canyon University NRS 433V Falling and Mobility Individuals with stroke are at risk for falls. Patient safety and their general wellbeing in all areas of health care setting is worldwide concern. The major cause of medical hurdle following acute stroke are falls, and it constitutes a significant health concern throughout the post stroke lifetime. Age, chronic disease or sudden disability like stroke puts the elderly people at risk. However, stroke survivors are at greater
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and job opportunities. Not only that it provided close services for the patients, they no longer had to make a seventy mile drive to have a specific service done, it was now done locally. With a great staff and some state of the art equipment this makes this hospital one the best in the area. They even have a website where you can find the many different service they offer on www.trmchealth.org. Besides emergency care, Orangeburg Regional Medical Center provides a large range of services to
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Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Vicki Denson Health Promotion The Healthy People 2010 report designates nursing as one of the prime proponents of health promotion. Nurses are the largest single group of health care providers in the United States with an estimated 2.6 million registered nurses practicing (ANA) throughout the country. As the largest field of health care providers nurses will have a huge affect on health promotion and health education through community, hospital
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Changing the System Abstract The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in March of 2010 by President Obama, these set of new laws and regulations is designed to provide ethical changes to a fragmented health care system. Cultural bias and social stigmatism have hampered the acceptance of such sweeping changes to the American health care system. Culturally some Americans feel they are handing over their health care choices to government control, socially some Americans believe that the government
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Practice) July 22, 2012 Abstract For patients that have indwelling catheters, with the evidence-based practice and standards of care, UTI’s does still continue to be an ongoing problem today. In one of the large hospitals in my area had recently developed a poster and video approach with special focus on alternatives to urinary catheterization, removing catheters early, and the reinforcement of sterile technique prior insertion and foley catheter care were used to educate nursing staff and improve
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changes occurred in U.S health care delivery. Our current healthcare trends demand nurses to take more active role in the health care decisions in hospital setting, long term care setting and in community healthcare setting. Since “nursing is based upon a body of knowledge that is always changing with new discoveries and innovation” Potter and Perry (2005), nursing profession is compelled to grow from being just a traditional bedside nurse. IOM’s future of nursing report which is released in 2010 calls
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Case Study Three CC: Jose Santa Cruz (JS) is a 68 y/o Native American male and retired construction worker. JS no longer works at this time, except to watch his grandchildren occasionally. ID: 68 y/o Native American Male, retired construction worker. CC: Rt knee pain x many years; epigastric burning with food x 2 weeks with dark stools. HPI: Pt c/o previous history rt knee pain for many years. He also c/o epigastric burning over past 2 weeks, and newly noted dark stools with no other prior
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being put at risk due to the number of nurse to patient ratios (Welton 1). A low nurse to patient ratio will cause a lack of care for the patients. Nurses will have to take on more patients then they are capable of which will affect the health of the patient and the nurse. John M. Welton, an RN (Registered Nurse), said that “the safety of patients is directly related to the size and experience of the nursing staff” (Welton 1). A high nurse to patient ratio can be on the costly side for the hospitals
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knowledge to treat patients in an efficient and creative method. Studies and personal skills have shown that nurses with baccalaureate level has smaller amount of errors, enhanced organization, critical thinking, increase in clinical skill and lower death rates than with nurses who have an associate degree level. Nursing practice mainly concentrates on the health promotion, disease prevention, early detection of changes in the health , timely treatment of the human response to acute and chronic illness
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