A patient‘s understanding of their medication and their use is an important factor in Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Patient Satisfactory Experience (HCAHPS) and is also driving patient safety and quality. Improving patient safety and quality about the use of medications, especially after hospital discharge, is a national concern. The discharge and the period immediately following can be a vulnerable time for patients putting them at increased risk for medication error and non-adherence
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The American Association of Critical Care Nurses is an organization created to promote quality and safety in a critical care setting along with promoting the latest evidence-based practice in critical care. The association offers many articles for health care providers to utilize to ensure safe and quality care to patients. For example, the AACN provides articles that involve encouraging bedside report, implementing mock codes into effect to prepare the staff in the event of a real emergency, safe
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arrival and going to his room, I found his room was empty. I waited to speak with a nurse and was told at 3:30 am Mr. Jackson said he felt like he was having another stroke. He was sent to the hospital for treatment. I spoke with Mrs. Jackson several times. Mr. Jackson was not sent back to the original hospital that cared for him after his auto accident. I spoke with the case manager from St. Joseph Howell. Mr. Jackson was diagnosed with A-fib and confusion. The repeat CT scan that was done of the brain
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The quantitative study “REFINE (Reducing Falls in In-patieNt Elderly) using bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio-pagers in acute hospital care: a randomized controlled trial” set out to research how effective pressure sensitive bed and chair alarms are at preventing falls. The researchers’ motivation to perform this study was to challenge the effectiveness of this new technology in preventing falls. This paper will analyze the quality and efficacy of this study and ultimately find
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The way a patient is transferred and positioned for a particular procedure or during rest is known as positioning the patient. Every health professional is duty-bound to protect his patients from any possible harm. One of the ways to provide this protection is in a correct position to avoid different problems associated with poor positioning. Proper positioning reduces the risk of pressure-related damage to nerves, muscle, skin, and joints.1 When the patient is misplaced for an extended period of
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family and of the workplace environment. At home, she was pressured by her husband to take on extra overtime to supplement and augment the family income. Thus, in spite of feeling that her skills were not current, Jackie signed on with her previous hospital to be on the flexible staffing pool (Badzek, et al., 1998). As expected, “Jackie did find the work extremely stressful. She rarely had the same unit and patient assignment” (Badzek, et al., 1998). With the mounting stress imposed by the conditions
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I would knock on the door enter the room, and greed while introducing myself to the patient and the family. I would wash my hands and provide a privacy. Then I would ask Daniel for his first and last name, and date of birth. I would ask Daniel if he is allergic to anything and if he doesn’t seem to be fully awake to answer the questions, then I would ask the family. I would let Daniel and his family know that I have looked at Daniel’s blood pressure and temperature and would like to recheck his
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This is a 78-year-old patient who apparently had a severe lower back pain one week prior to arrival here in the emergency room while bending over she felt a crack in her back. In the subsequent week she had difficulty ambulating and started to have severe pain. She was unable to walk even on flat ground without assistance. She was unable to get up from a chair as well. The pain was intense and therefore she came to the emergency room on January 26, 2018. She has a prior medical history of vertigo
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America, there is development of Outpatient surgical care in recent years. The Ambulatory Surgical Centers have separated as specialized branches from major hospitals. In 1983, there were as many as 240 such specialized centers (Winter, 2003) and the number increased to 5,174 in 2008 (Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, 2009). The traditional hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPD’s) are facing challenges and competition from the specialized ambulatory surgical centers (ASC). A description of such
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Code Blue “Skin warm, dry, and intact. Skin turgor good. Blanchable redness to buttocks…” I typed sitting at my desk, charting my last skin assessment of the night. Only 10 minutes left until midnight and I could officially clock out. The building was quiet – all the residents sound asleep in their beds. All of a sudden, the door leading to the hallway connecting another building opened, slamming into the wall. “WE NEED YOU IN HOUSE 3!” yelled Makayla; a nursing assistant from house three. She was
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