On the 26th of May, I had the opportunity to observe a nurse working on the pediatric unit at the Sanford hospital. While there, I learned that patients come in all sorts of sizes, ages, and developmental levels. I also learned that families can be a true member of the care team, and also be more than just company for the patient. The biggest surprise was that all the cares and skills needed for working with adults could be altered just a tiny bit to fit the needs of smaller patients. 2. Patients
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Considering the case at hand the situation is really a difficult and complicated one. The doctor has two options left with him. He can either wrongfully use the organs of the pizza delivery guy to save the lives of his five patients or he can just let the pizza delivery guy leave after delivering the pizza without causing any harm to him and thereby, letting his patient stay in the critical condition. This situation calls for an ethical analysis and in this regard the ethical theories of Kant and
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Nipple and Areola Reduction Dr. Farbod Esmailian M.D., is a double board certified plastic surgeon in Orange County who frequently performs cosmetic breast enhancement procedures at his state-of-the-art facility in Los Alamitos. Dr. Esmailian dedication to helping people achieve their goals is evident in that he offers his patients personalized and compassionate care. At his facility in Orange County, Dr. Esmailian performs nipple and areola reduction for women (and men) who are unhappy with the
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10/27/16 1800 Patient was sitting in the wheelchair and eating supper at dinner room and talking to tablemates very social. Regular diet. Left hand hold and use silverware without difficulty. Right hand was shaking when holding the spoon due paralysis on the right side. Drank two glasses of milk and 1 cup of coffee. Patient reported reasoned to came to this facility because needs physical therapy to recovery from the fall at home. Pt complains she has a lot of pain rating to 7 at leg and tired due
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Macintyre and colleagues (MacIntyre et al., 2013) (Appendix 3) conducted another clinical trial that was also a cluster randomized clinical trial. For this trial, the investigators randomized 1669 health care workers at 68 Chinese emergency departments and respiratory wards by clusters into three groups: A group that wore surgical masks at all times, a second group wore N5 respirators while performing high-risk procedures and the third group wore N95 respirators at all times. Similar to the previous
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In many cases emergency medical services have been the fault of evidence contamination either at the scene of the alleged crime or improper handling of a victims clothing during medical care. The contamination by EMS providers is not intentional, but merely overlooking the obvious and not paying attention to detail. Whenever two objects come in contact with each other, each will be altered or changed in some way (Maniscalco & Christen, 2011). Some examples that Maniscalco & Christen (2011) describe
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Post-tracheostomy tube management has traditionally been managed by the surgery service. However, it has been questioned whether or not an advanced practitioner is able to safely change a TT. Therefore this retrospective study was completed to assess the SLP’s success with changing TT in the acute care setting with physician support as needed. Our retrospective study revealed 107 TT change procedures that were initiated under the supervision of a SLP. A total of 106 (99%) of the referrals successfully
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Participants were 61 non-smoking adults with current asthma (61.9% female; 54.8% African American; Mage = 34.72, SD = 13.58). Participants were included in the study if they: (1) were between the ages of 18 and 65; (2) met biochemical cutoff values for being a nonsmoker, indexed by an expired carbon monoxide level of (-- removed HTML --) 4 on the Asthma Screening Questionnaire, which is indicative of an asthma diagnosis (Shin et al., 2010). In terms of the racial composition of the sample, 54.8%
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In the given case, Linda who is the Vice President of Patient Care in University Medical Center decided to give the only new available position to imaging department. Cheryl who is the director of nursing department is upset with this decision as Cheryl feels that the position should have been allotted to her department. 1) This confrontation happened due to one-way communication from Linda’s side which did not allow directors to give their feedback (Rosenbaum, Peron & Moller, 2016). Linda who
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One-day last week I was faced with a challenging situation at work. Usually at 3:00 p.m. we have two nursing assistants. This day however, it was just me scheduled. I had twenty patients to take to the bathroom, set up for dinner, take blood glucoses, and much more. This is a very difficult task for one to take on. I would not wish this on my worst enemy. I had only received report on five patients for the first half of the day. At 3 p.m. is when I took on twenty patients. I was about to become
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