To ease some of the client’s anxiety, the nurse could educate the client about the disease process using appropriate terminology.…
In this situation there is a conflict between patient comfort and the type of treatment ordered. Family education was a big part of resolving this…
On 10/13/2015, CM met with the client for Bi-Weekly ILP Review. Social Support Update: In the meeting client was alert, and satisfactorily groomed. She maintains eyes contact. She appeared in good health. She was in no acute distress.…
In addition, she expressed interest in learning coping strategies to prevent another hospitalization, and/or similar episode from occurring in the future. I. Behavioral Observations/MSE Felicia arrived to the intake on time, was well dressed, well groomed, and demonstrated sufficient eye contact, body posture,…
In this session Maria is very nervous because she had not taken her meds. She looks very shaky and her paper is very disjointed. Follow up by greeting the tutee is one part the other is that she mentions that she is very nervous and the she had not taken her meds. By making a restatement and asking her what does she needs help with clarifies that she seeking help for her paper and reinstates that she have to focus on her session. Making and empathetic statement reinforce her to feel more confident and make her take the session with more relax.…
I attended the Cosmopolitan (“Cosmo”) group of Alcoholics Anonymous, held on Friday, August 25th at 1900. Cosmo is located at the corner of Hawthorne Road and Durwood Road in Little Rock, Arkansas. The focus of the group is on alcohol addiction. However, it was a newcomer night, so the chair asked the members to speak about something that many newcomers face – fear. The group was able to speak on their experiences of the fear that comes with beginning sobriety, and one newcomer that responded said that it made him feel better to hear that he wasn’t alone in being afraid of becoming sober.…
Right when the patients walk in, you have to be able to comfort them with your smile and happiness. If they walk in and you don’t even give them a smile and just kind of grunt and walk away, they aren’t going to feel very welcome and probably won’t come back next time. So you have to be willing to be happy and nice all the time and that’s just part of the…
The client is called into the clinician’s office and asked to take a seat. While sitting at the desk moving and preparing paperwork the counselor starts introducing himself. The clinician should get up and meet the client in the waiting room and shake the clients hand with a greeting. It’s important for the clinician to be at the same level and to look the client in the eyes on the…
Volunteering as a Health Scholar at Riverside Community Hospital has given me any opportunities to go above and beyond for patients. During my rotation as a Patient Experience Ambassador, I was able to go into each room on the Telemetry floor and make sure each patient was as comfortable as possible while being able to talk to and get to know a few of them. One specific patient, however, seemed to be having a bad time but would never ask for anything because he did not want to bother the staff. I took this opportunity to make sure he was comfortable by checking with him every 30 minutes to see if I could help him adjust in the bed, could get him something to drink and even just talk to him. Eventually he did ask me for a newspaper and I searched…
Throughout each hospital department, I met numerous caring nurses and dedicated doctors, devoted to helping their patients recover. There are numerous lessons I’ve learned, but one of the first ones I discovered was the significance of patience with your patients. My nurse mentioned to me that patients in hospitals often experience a lack of control over their environment and their medical condition. Because of this, they feel the need to find some source of control. This needed control takes different forms for various patients.…
In order to understand and assess how to interact with a patient and create a caring and healing environment an interview was conducted and will be analyzed in this paper. For the sake of anonymity we will address the patient with the pseudonym, Alyssa. Alyssa graduated from culinary school in New York almost two years ago. This being said, Alyssa loves to cook and therefore owns many high-grade kitchen tools such as knives. One day while preparing dinner for herself and her two roommates, for the purpose of this paper they were named Lauren and Molly, Alyssa returned to the kitchen area to clean up.…
The work in a long-term care (LTC) centers is the one that should deal with the emotional interaction between a patient and a nurse. The majority of patients are elderly or people with numerous afflictions and diagnoses. Long-term care nursing is a specialty that involves helping patients who need extended care, as they deal with chronic illnesses and disabilities. These nurses have a wide range of responsibilities in such simple activities as feeding, dressing, toileting and bathing, as well as providing medical care in vital sign check, intravenous therapy, enteral tube feedings, change different catheters, respiratory therapy, and medication administration.…
When I took over the care of the patient the nurse already brought the patient in the bathroom and she was already sitting on a shower chair. I introduced myself to the patient and asked her if she needs my assistance. Behind my mind, I was assessing her if she was capable of doing it by herself and…
The purpose of this paper is to apply theoretical frameworks relevant to the nurse-patient relationship. This paper will explore Peplau’s Theory on Interpersonal Relationships, Henderson’s Principles and Practice of Nursing, Dorothea Orem’s Theory of Self-Care and Imogene King’s Theory of Goal Attainment. Upon completion of this discussion, Imogene King’s theory will be discussed in depth, including tenets of the theory, application, and evaluation. Background…
Maturational Crisis Maturational crisis has to do with the expectable transitions people experience as they move from one stage of human development to another. Maturational crisis are crisis in response to facing a new developmental phase (Gorman 2008). For example, a teenager calls the clinic because she just finds out she is pregnant. As always, the first step is to assess the teenage girl. Identify three factors to determine the development of a crisis.…