Preparing rooms ready for surgery, setting up tools on the table and knowing which ones are which, We all know this isn't a common thing everyone does. With this profession, you are facing multiple challenges a day, as in saving lives and helping people become more healthier. This profession are companied by multiple nurses and a physicians, working as a team to make a difference in lives. They are much like us, we work in teams in life and do as much as we can until we've achieved what we're working
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Introduction Dermatomyositis is an acquired muscle disease. Dermatomyositis causes muscle weakness. It usually affects muscles that are closest to the trunk of your body. It can lead to difficulty rising from a sitting position, climbing stairs, lifting objects, or reaching overhead. The muscle weakness is usually accompanied by pain and swelling. What are the causes? The cause of this condition is not known. What increases the risk? Females are more often affected than males. What are the signs
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result in the death of the patient. When such an incident occurs, the hospital will be most affected because of its reputation. Since the healthcare practitioners do not want such an occurrence to happen, they always dedicate themselves to working extra hours despite the fatigue (Joyce et al., 2010). Furthermore, sometimes the hospitals give healthcare practitioners increased expectations to deliver. This is in most cases when a hospital is operating on a low budget and would like to maximize its profits
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The evaluation of quality in healthcare has a long history. The beginnings of monitoring healthcare quality can be traced back to a surgeon, E. A. Codman from Massachusetts General Hospital in the early twentieth century who advocated for systemic performance assessments of the care he provided to his own patients (Kongstvedt, 2013). The Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and the application of computers in healthcare in the 1970 led to the large scale ability to analyze data (Kongstvedt, 2013)
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A pressure ulcer is a wound or sore caused when an area of skin and the tissues below are damaged due to an occlusion of the blood supply (Neilson, 2014). If the lack of blood supply is prolonged the tissue will continue to degrade. This progression is categorized into the four stages of pressure ulcers. I will begin by giving an overview of each stage, and then comparing and contrasting the stages. I will finish with two unconventional options of wound treatment derived from folk medicine. Stage
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Surgical Services encompasses a broad spectrum of departments; PATT, Pre-op, Intra-Op, PACU, Phase II, Anesthesia and Endoscopy. As you can imagine there is a varying degree of importance to all of the above mentioned departments regarding education. As the Clinical Educator for Surgical Services, it is my sole responsibly to ensure the correct educational plans and competency based education is assigned and completed in an efficient manner. Previously in Surgical Services, new staff onboarding
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Hinsdale Hospital intercom. Though you can tell the nurse or doctor on the other end has a calm voice, the slight heavy breathing and panting from the pressure of keeping someone alive can also be felt. I greet people in their darkest and most desperate times volunteering in the Surgical Waiting Room at Hinsdale Hospital. In fact, it is the stressful environment of the hospital where I had one of my proudest moments. On a hot June day, I followed my typical routine driving to the hospital ready for
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Quality Improvement: How healthcare technology and evidence based practice can increase the safety of patients in the hospital setting The interest in this topic is because safety issues remain a big concern in our society today. There are many sentinel events that could be either reduced or avoided by improving technology. For example, 47 wrong-patients, wrong site, wrong procedure were reported in 2016 (The Joint Commission, 2016). Many national efforts have been worked out to improve patients’
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significant issue in healthcare. Around 700,000 to 100,000 people in the U.S. suffer from falls in a hospital setting (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013). Obviously, this is problematic because falls can exacerbate the patient’s condition. It can cause unwanted outcomes like pain, fractures, head injuries, or in a worst-case scenario, even death. Preferred Practice Falls in a hospital setting are preventable. Successful implementation of universal precautions is a big part of preventing
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Hospice looks after people who have been determined to have a terminal sickness and who have been given a therapeutic visualization of a half year or less to live if the illness runs its normal course. Currently, the considerable greater part of hospice confirmations (80%) is for people beyond 65 years old, despite the fact that hospice care can be appropriate for individuals of any age. Over the previous decade, enlistment in hospice has developed substantially (Wright - 2015). Hospice Care In
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