certified nursing assistant will re-take her vitals and will begin the patient registration process. While Mrs. Brown has never been to this hospital, she does carry a flash drive that contains her electronic health record on her key ring, this flash drive was given to her by her doctor. Since the flash drive was given to her by her doctor it will be safe for the hospital to look at the files. The nursing assistant gets the flash drive from Mrs. Brown and puts it into her portable computer. She is then able
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On 06/16/18 at 1900, I was receiving report on A. Mondragon from Leigh. She stated that the TPN was running out, so she dropped the rate from 23 mL/hr to 3 mL/hr and added Normal Saline to the TPN bag. This caught me off guard, especially since the new TPN and Lipids were sitting at the bedside. She stated the patient should still be receiving the TPN and that she just put the Normal Saline behind it, so it would run the remainder of the TPN to the patient. As soon as report was complete, I quickly
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the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). However, these laws pertain to hospitals with emergency departments; stating that anyone in need of lifesaving treatment regardless of nationality or ability to pay, will be stabilized. Additionally, hospitals that do receive these patients and stabilize them will reimbursed by the federal government.
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Professor and class, I work with a spectacular community of nurses in a large teaching hospital in Jacksonville, Florida in the operating room. We are the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. As OR nurses we care for a complex patient population and use technologically advanced skills that enhance safe delivery of care for our patients. We work as part of an interdisciplinary team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and technologists to bring about positive outcomes
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Memorial Hospital is earning less income compared to Eastside Medical Center and U.S. Median. For instance, Harris’s inpatient revenue is 30.5 percent while that of Eastside Medical Center and U.S. Median hospital is 61.9 and 46.2 percent respectively. This is despite the fact that Harris hospital has the largest market share. Its market share percent is 65.5 while that of Eastside Medical Center and U.S. Median hospital is 34.5 and 57.4 respectively. The observation that Harris hospital can enhance
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At approximately 0125 on the morning of 8/22/2017 Shift Supervisor Riddle responded to a call for assistance from S/O Royce. Royce was sitting with a 3-81 in bed 8. Upon arrival Riddle passed the mother of the patient who seemed to be very agiatated at the amount of security that had arrived for Royce's call for assistance, seeming to think security were going to attack her son. Riddle approached bed 8 and learned that the patient had pulled his IV out of his arm. S/O Odom entered bed 8 and began
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When a stranger rushed in to help, his first request was to hand him a gun so Don could kill commit suicide. He did not see a value for life in his current impairments. The stranger refused and had called for an ambulance. When Don arrived to the hospital, he requested not to get medical
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In the case of Ms. E we learned that she was admitted into the hospital after a traumatic car accident, noticeably, she was given a CT scan for her abdominal pain and it was discovered that she has spots that may be cancerous. However, since she was coming in from an accident she was put in a trauma bay which may have furthered her growing agitation and need for attendance. Previously, we have learned about racism in the medical system and this may have attributed to her frustrations and fears of
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Marie Oliver of York Risk Services Group Insurance Company referred this file for medical case management. Instructions were given to meet with Mr. Jones and assist with coordination of appropriate and related medical care, and identify needs to facilitate recovery. Ms. Oliver would like me to obtain prior medical records from Mr. Jones primary care physician Dr. Wetzel. INTERVIEW SETTING On 2/15/18 I met Mr. Jones at the office of Dr. Vakhariya. Mr. Jones was driven to the appointment by his
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A case study done by Kyle E. Miller, who is a graduate of medical education at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, the study was done to a male weightlifter who ended up rupturing his bicep. This whole accident came about when the male was lifting weights and he was doing bicep curls when all of a sudden he felt a snap. Right away he did not do anything but then went to a clinic about three days after the accident and the doctors found out that he had ruptured the long head of the bicep brachii. The
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