Lowering Nurse Staffing Ratios The growing need of more nurses in hospitals is becoming an issue in hospitals all over America. The patient’s safety is 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
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Well healthcare everyone needs it because life is unexpected.Its like a pillow to cushion a hard fall.But maybe sometimes it can be overpriced or there arent enough pillows to go around for everyone at that exact moment.Like you fell your hurt but maybe the other guy fell face first.Now he is priority over you because you were able to get up however he wasnt so lucky.I mean you both pay but its all about the severity of the injury.but in the uk you have a higher chance of being brought in for check
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of fluid overload. This patient was very compliant with her health and she showed wiliness to learn. I was able to teach her about the signs and symptoms of fluid overload as well as educating her on the medications she was prescribed while in the hospital. Core Competency: Professional identity 5. Describe an instance where you protected patient rights. I had a patient that suffered from arterial fibrillation and acute kidney failure. She refused all her medications expect for her cardiac medication
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III. Reflective Thinking: While reflecting on the event described above address the following questions: These questions are designed to help you do some honest and focused reflection on the incident, its significance, what you learned, and how it can be used in the future. 1. What did you think at the time of the experience? This week I cared for a donor patient. At first, I did not know what to think as the care and interventions were completed to preserve the organs versus the body
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In the face of the dictator, Doctor Spivey managed to stand firm against the Nurse’s oppression. This evident several times in the book when Doctor Spivey speaks out and presents ideas that conflicts with the ideologies of the Nurse. “McMurphy and I (Doctor Spivey) wondered what would be the attitude of some of the men toward a carnival here on the ward?” (97). Doctor Spivey clearly knows the Nurse’s agenda and is constantly oppressed by the Nurse. However, he chooses this moment to speak out and
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In the United States the national standard for emergency response time is eight minutes. This means that in 90% of all cases, an ambulance should arrive on the scene within eight minutes of being dispatched. However in many cases ambulances are stuck waiting only blocks from the scene of an accident until police can arrive and secure the area. This is mainly for the safety of the paramedics but often is detrimental to the patient. One of the proposed solutions is to allow paramedics to carry firearms
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For my outreach project I used my job at Kindred Healthcare Nursing Home as an STNA. In my position I spend my whole twelve hour shift taking care of the residents. The normal age range for my residents range from late seventies to late nineties, but you always have special cases. I cannot state any names in my paper because of HIPAA and out of respect to protect the residents information. I had started this job in May and had to quit in September due to distance, but with be going back in the summer
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In this case study I will be discussing about the anatomy, injury, treatment, and return to play (RTP) protocol for sacral fracture injuries. In order, to better understand why symptoms and restrictions happen with sacral fractures it is important to know the anatomy of the sacral vertebrae’s. Once we know the anatomy, it is most probably that the injury comes with a neurological problem. This problem can be managed and treated through the right modalities and rehabilitation exercises that this injury
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Thinking about past jobs, you can see common tasks between them. When I think back to the time I worked at Happy Hour verse my job now at the hospital on the medical (fifth) floor. I recognize similar characteristics. Although Happy Hour and the hospital operate in distinctly different ways, their functions overlap when it comes to daily responsibilities. The staff members at Happy Hour vary compared to Memorial Health Care Center. The former usually consists of eight employees, whereas, the latter
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Lipsitz S, Benoit A, Chang F, Meltzer S, Tsurikova R, Zuyov L, Middleton B. Fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial PubMed.gov 2010 Quantitative Cluster randomized study 4 urban United States hospitals in units that received typical care (4 units and 5104 patients) or the intervention of a fall prevention tool kit (4 units and 5160 patients). Patient fall rates in US hospitals was the focus of study. The primary outcome was patient falls per 1000 patient-days, adjusted for site
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