Lia’s seizure disorder along with cultural and language barriers ended with Lia not receiving the care she rightfully deserved. Firstly, Arthur Klienman suggests that ‘compliance’ should not be used. Compliance suggests cooperation, and “it’s a lousy term.” He states that colloquy will work better for the Lia Lee’s parents and medical personel, which is a conversational exchange.…
He has showed signs of decreasing consciousness overnight. The scenario takes place on Wednesday at 0645. During this scenario, students will have the opportunity to manage and implement nursing interventions for a pediatric patient experiencing a seizure. Phase 1: T = 98.6 F (37 C) BP = 90/50 P = 120 RR = rate irregular,…
However, this was very hard for the Lee’s to communicate with the doctors. When the doctors would check Lia’s blood levels to see if the prescription was being given they would find that it was not and the doctors did not like that whatsoever, the Lee’s thought that Lia was feeling better and the medicine should not be administered anymore, but the doctors strongly believe that it should. This made the Doctors very upset and contacted the Child Protective services to take their daughter away and be put in a Foster home where her meds could be properly administered. This was a very sad time for the Lee’s and in order to get their daughter back, they had to agree to comply with the medication but they would not pass the trials because they thought that their daughter was doing fine. It was not until Lia had a big seizure that left her in a vegetative state that she was able to go home.…
During my assessment, her mother explained she is prone to seizures. Knowing this fact, along with her state of unconsciousness, I rested her head on a tube to prevent possible injury. Within minutes, the woman went into a seizure and luckily emergency medical service arrived on the scene to take over. Like all incidents at the waterpark, these incidents required a holistic understanding of how each guest is unique and all factors, from heath to mental condition, play an important factor in our treatment…
In "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", Rebecca Skloot provides an informational insider on the life of Henrietta Lacks- pointing out the ethical issues in Henrietta's operative. Henrietta, a woman who unknowingly had her tissue cells removed from her cervix by scientists were being used in wide-spread research. After reading "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", I started researching and came upon an article titled "Patient Safety: The Ethical Imperative". I began making connections that demonstrated and explained the problems that were present in the novel and in the article; however, many people want to argue that what is believed to be "unethical" isn't actually wrong.…
Fremgen, she describes a case study, "The case of Janet K. and Epilepsy". Janet was a 27-year-old nursing graduate. From a very young age, she was diagnosed with epilepsy. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder which causes seizures (Mayo Clinic, 2017). As a result of her diagnosis, she suffered from seizures.…
Therefore, she recently went to her medical doctor, who prescribed some sleeping medications. One week prior to her appointment, she had a seizure. The etiology is unknown, but the doctor at the hospital recommended an…
Lena St. Clair invites her mother to stay with her and her husband Harold’s house. Her mother Ying-ying St. Clair sees the faults and instability in her daughter’s marriage no matter how hard Lena tries to hide them. Lena has her mom stay in the guest bedroom at their house. Next to the bed is a shaky table that looks as if it would collapse at any moment and on top of this unstable table is a fragile vase. Lena keeps the table because Harold made it in his student days and insists it stay there.…
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the relationship between the Hmong culture and the American culture; in particular the differences in medicine. Medicine has been a difficult subject to understand and master; moreover it becomes almost impossible if the person was raised in an entirely different culture than that of western medicine. This book discusses what it was like from both sides; the Hmong and those of the western doctors what it is like to deal with each other when it involves a common interest. That common interest being Lia Lee, an epileptic Hmong child. Both of the parties cared for Lia Lee; however their cultural differences were enough to distract from the real goal.…
Diagnostic Essay In the days that followed the deadly Paris attacks in the fall of 2015 Texas Governor Greg Abbott decided on his own volition to respond to the events that had occurred by sending an informative letter to the president of the United States as a means to publicly announce to the Obama Administration to hold back any executive decision to accept more immigrants. As governor he would petition any migration of Syrian refugees to the state of Texas because it would be dangerous to public safety as well as an insecurity challenge of intelligence for federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation.…
On Lia’s first visit to MCMC, there were no translators, so there was no way the Lee family can tell the resident that Lia just had a seizure. The resident just noticed a cough and a congested chest which lead to an x-ray taken, this lead to the diagnosis of “early bronchopneumonia”. Due to the language barrier, the resident wouldn't have known that the congestion was due to her seizure and ultimately the first misdiagnosis of Lia’s…
Since Beauchamp and Childress wrote The Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1977, patient autonomy, justice, non-maleficence and beneficence have been accepted as the four major medical principles (Murgic, 2015). In my opinion, autonomy is the hardest principle to implement especially in end-of-life care. I am reflecting on the Charlie Gard case where a healthy baby boy was born and it was soon discovered he had a rare genetic mutation that affected his brain, his musculature and most other major organs. The health care team reviewed the potential outcomes for this baby and decided that the best option was to allow him to “die with dignity”, remove life support and not pursue any untested experimental treatment. This could have been the end…
In this assignment, I will use the Gibbs reflective cycle (1998) to reflect on the situation that taken place during my clinical placement to help me to improve and utilise my skills and knowledge from that experienced. • Describe what happened I was assigned in Surgical Ward at Westmead Hospital for two weeks. I was endorsed to one of the Registered Nurses to be my mentor. I was told by my mentor nurse to help her to shower one of her patients.…
Loneliness, self-pity, difficult emotions-these are excellent reasons for an addict to smoke dope in the first place. Now these reasons do not even matter anymore. The circumstances that got you started on your addiction no longer exist. You just keep doing what you are doing because you cannot stop. Life has gone on without you being present.…
The main topic of this movie, "first Do No Harm" was that the doctor should always put the patient first and have their best interest. This applies whether the solution be, using drugs and surgeries, or trying other things to keep them more safe. Sometimes the drugs can do more harm than help, and in Robbie's case, the harm came into play. Robbie was having seizures, which means something was going on, incorrectly, in the brain (which is part of the nervous system).…