Ultrasound Technologist Ultrasound Technologist are people who use high-frequency sound waves to create images of soft tissue in a patient’s body. Doctors and Physicians use these images to diagnose abnormalities and diseases in a patient. They also use these images for women's who are pregnant, to make sure the baby and the mother are both healthy. These people are also known to be as diagnostic medical sonographers. Their average annual salary is $63,630, and their hourly wages goes by $30.5They usually need a minimum of 2-4 years of training to become certified for employment.…
SHOCK Salve Aguilar West Coast University Pathophysiology Dr. Isabelle Tardif July 17, 2015 Abstract The case identifies the type of shock that CC encountered right after his traumatic accident. He was experiencing hypovolemic shock as evidenced by low blood pressure and increased heart rate.…
Saint Anthony College of Nursing-Rockford, IL N401 Nursing Care of the Adult with Complex Health Deviations Clinical Journal Outline All sections on the journal must be written in complete sentences with appropriate punctuation. Goal and Evaluation (this should be the same goal that you wrote on your prep sheet) Goal Day #1 Evaluate the role of a critical care nurse caring for a patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome.…
An APRN’s scope of practice is “created and enforced at the state level”, which leads to differing scopes throughout the United States (Hansen-Turton, Wade, & McClellan, 2007). Depending on where you live, your scope could be vastly different. Traditionally, the majority of APRN’s are governed by their state board of nursing and physicians are governed by the American Medical Association. The dissimilarities in the governing bodies lead to a difference in the standard of care they are held accountable to.…
The Problem of Alarm Fatigue Introduction: Enter any emergency room or hospital floor, and you will most likely find yourself accompanied with the sounds of beeps, chimes, and dings. Sounds are from the multitude of medical monitors and equipment being used to protect and keep patients alive. Alarms can be categorized as either physiological or technical. Physiological alarms are caused by a vital sign or patient conditions which has been deemed abnormal by the equipment or hospital. Technical alarms occur when there is something on the equipment that needs attention such as a defective part or a low battery.…
There are many different ways medical technology has progressed over the last one hundred years in Canada. The discovery of insulin helped doctors save many lives. The invention of the electron microscope changed the way scientists were able to view many different things including very small organisms. The invention of the external pacemaker saved many lives back in 1950, one of the inventors needed his own invention to save his life for some time. The discovery of the Cystic Fibrosis also helped with the progression in medical technology because doctors were able to learn so much more about the disease and how it works.…
Time Comparison For the 3D-CAM and CAM-ICU, they required similar amount of time to deliver the tools, with “delirious and/or demented patients taking about two minutes longer than normal patients (median of 5 vs. 3 minutes)” (Kurczmarska et al, 2016, p. 301). However, Kuczmarska et al. (2016) found that the CAM-ICU took longer to administer.…
My grandfather’s arrhythmia caused the defibrillator to correct every time my grandfather’s heart beat too fast, too slow, or irregularly. This lead to the defibrillator being in use several times in the same hour, every hour, for several days. It was very…
Visiting the doctor is a task that no one looks forward to, but everyone does. This time during a doctor visit the nurse asks to draw blood. The nurse says “we will send the blood to the lab; it’s routine, we will call when the results come in.” One week later there is a call from the doctor who solemnly says he would like to meet with them in person. Upon arriving at the office the doctor says “I am sorry, but the results indicate terminal cancer.”…
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has been a heavily debated topic for more than 100 years. Critics and supporters, both have very strong opinions on the topic. Physician-assisted suicide, formerly known as active or voluntary euthanasia, is defined as purposely committing suicide with the aid of a physician (Fecio McDougall 1). The act is usually performed through a lethal dose of medication. The medication may be administered by the individual or someone other than the physician; however, the physician provides the patient with the means necessary to carry out the act (“Right to Die”).…
The R.I.P Program In regards to the R.I.P system my position would be against it. For instance, using technology to determine outcomes of a person’s wellbeing, is insane in my opinion because doctors are depriving a human being from treatment, because a computer program helped them make that “informed decision”. The reason as to why I am position against the system is because a computer can interpret something incorrectly, causing a doctor to make a misguided decision about the need for a patient to be helped. But because technology is making decisions for the doctor, or as stated in the article it does not make the decision but it helps the doctors make more informed decisions (Para.2), a patient will not be administered the care they may need.…
Part 1: Discuss the necessity of understanding the interaction of the CPT procedural codes and the ICD diagnostic codes. Let’s start with the CPT (Current Procedural Terminologies) codes. These (usually) five digit codes are used for reimbursement of medical services and for procedures performed so the facility will get paid by the insurance company (if there is one involved). CPT works hand-in-hand with the ICD-10 diagnostic codes (can be up to seven digits long) which are specific numbers to describe why the patient was seen- diseases, accidents (where and why they happened), pregnancy and possible complications, etc. ICD-10 has a code for practically anything that causes the body harm.…
The objective of this essay is to discuss with reference to published literature “ICU diaries are frequently promoted as being beneficial for the patients’ psychological recovery from critical illness”. Intensive care unit (ICU) is an environment where often the most fragile patients are, and where they receive treatment. During their sometimes prolonged stay in ICU, patients often experience strong physical and psychological stress, including critical life threatening illness, terror, lack of privacy, noises, pain, sedation, sleep deprivation, delirium and the unnatural ICU environment (Ullman and all, 2014). These experiences impact on a patient’s recovery from critical illness and may result in both physical and psychological disorders (Ullman…
• Client will explain actions and precautions to take for cardiac disease Short - Term Expected Outcomes: Client will be free of chest pain, hemodynamic parameters will be within normal limits and…
Situational Analysis Product Description The owlet baby monitor is a small wireless adjustable sock that can fit any size baby foot. The purpose of the sock monitor is to monitor the heart rate and the oxygen levels of the infant while the baby sleeps to prevent signs sudden infant death syndrome. The sock communicates by sending live vital signs about the baby to a base station or smart phone. When the baby vital sign falls below a certain rate the device alerts the base station or the app with an alarm.…