Physician Assistants work in offices of physicians, hospitals (state, local, private), outpatient care centers, government, and educational services (state, local, private). Work of a physician assistant can be overwhelming and stressful at times. Physician assistants are always doing something and always on their feet, making rounds and evaluating patients. During surgeries, physician assistants stand for an extended period of time. When working in hospitals, physician assistants will be on call to come
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In the article “This Doctor Knows Exactly How You Feel,” Erika Hayasaki introduces mirror-touch synesthesia, and how patients implement this disorder in their life. Hayasaki explains what is mirror-touch synesthesia, its cause and how the patients deal with this rare medical condition in the article. Hayasaki writes about Joel Salinas, a doctor in Harvard Neurology Residency Program, is a patient of mirror-touch synesthesia. Hayasaki further talks about Salinas’ symptoms as when he sees the person
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The Elijah Heart Center (EHC) is a hospital located in New York that specializes in cardiac care. At the current time, it is facing a potential shortfall in working capital. It is the responsibility of the chief financial officer (CFO) to understand the reasons for this shortfall and how to avoid a great loss for the institution. In the current simulation, three phases were given to help understand the role of a CFO, and attempt to make the necessary decisions to help the institution become financially
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Additionally, physician assistants are wanted and needed by many hospitals and clinics. The physician assistant profession was created in the mid 1960s due to the shortage of doctors in the United States and the post World War II baby boom, also the profession was created to improve and expand healthcare. According to the Pace University, Dr. Eugene Stead selected Navy corpsmen who had received some medical training during their military service and in Vietnam. In 1965, he organized the first physician
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It is with pleasure that I want to recommend Jaiwoo Liam Chung for your psychiatric residency program. I met Jaiwoo in his elective rotation in psychiatry at Augusta University. In the recent days that I had working with him, I was immediately impressed with his enthusiasm, commitment, and hard work with us. During his rotation as a fourth-year medical student he was exempted from any call duties specially in the weekends, nevertheless, he took it upon himself to participate in weekend duties. I
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former student named Todd Freeman. Todd was questioned and his response was “I didn’t think she would do it.” Jamie was taken to the emergency room as soon as the paramedics arrived. The school chef was informed about Jamie’s index finger and how the hospital was able the save her finger up to the knuckle. Jamie’s story “I was making homemade soup and needed to blend some of the vegetables to put into the soup. Todd was standing next to me cutting some of the vegetables I needed for the soup, he then
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The quality improvement project I chose to critique focused on decreasing the occurrence of postoperative surgical site infections following a cesarean delivery. This project was initiated in August 2014 at the hospital in which I am employed. It was started in response to our elevated number of surgical site infections. The rates of surgical infections had been slowly increasing over the previous year but stayed below our benchmark of 1 out of every 100 procedures. When our infection rate rose
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I am currently working full time as a RN/ Clinical Care Coordinator at the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center. My work consists of following up on abnormal lab results, tracking patients with diabetes, hypertension, and any other comorbidities. I also work on various grants that provide preventive services to the underserved population. During extended hours at the medical center I also serve as the nurse manager. Besides being a RN, I am a mother to a wonderful, intelligent eleven year old girl and
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when the contract will be effective and terminated, and the number of years the contract will be extended if needed. I provided a contractor statement of work which explained the services that will be provided to patients, the steps, and the state hospital terms and conditions. To evaluate the performance of assignments completed, the interlocal contract must include a section, which explains the way performance was measured. Evaluating performance is important because NTSH must ensure that contractors
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The Foot that Almost Cost me a Leg The hospital was strangely dull in color with a consistent shade of white. It smelled of IV fluid and somewhat salty. While laying in the bed all I could feel was the pain in my left foot. Previously that night I had surgery on it for a Staff Infection. The hospital room made me feel tired and bored being surrounded with nothing in that room. With the IV tube in my arm to keep me hydrated, I had a salty taste in my mouth, but honestly I had no clue what it
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