Ebonie Sydnor A# 23 August/22/2014 Mrs.Higueros Period#3 Health Article #1 Title: Camps take Cystic Fibrosis Patients Surfing. Posted: Aug 17, 2014 By Krysta Fauria.…
The North Dakota Board of Nursing consists of regulations, guidelines, and expectancies to provide astonishing client care. The Board reviews the updates and information to successfully care for clients’ individual needs resulting in care that is expected and deserved. Regulatory agency “The boards protect the public by ensuring that standards of nursing practice are met and nurses are competent in their practice”. Mission “The mission of the North Dakota Board of Nursing is to assure North Dakota citizens quality nursing care through the regulation of standards for nursing education, licensure and practice” Programs and activities…
Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited disease of the secretory glands, glands that make up mucus and sweat. It is also known as mucoviscidosis, that affects mostly the lungs but also the pancreas, liver, kidneys and intestine. Long term issues include difficulty breathing and coughing up sputum as a result of frequent lung infections. A defect in the CFTR gene causes cystic fibrosis. This gene makes a protein that controls the movement of salt and water in and out of your body's cells.…
Cystic Fibrosis Throughout my examination of the current studies and information of individuals affected by Cystic Fibrosis, I have highlighted the importance of lung transplants needed for these patients especially if this is their only option left. They are given to patients depending on their position on the transplant list but bias remains that the lungs won’t be “put to good use” in Cystic Fibrosis patients. Research indicates that there’s a 67 percent survival rate with lung transplant and over half of that percentage live up to ten years (Science Daily Cystic Fibrosis, 2015). In this case, lung transplants not only prolong their lives with family and loved ones, but they also improve the quality of life.…
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disorder that prevents how a person’s body make mucus and sweat. It also affects how a person’s lungs and digestive system works. Cystic Fibrosis causes mucus to become very thick, and sweat to be saltier than usual. Thick mucus can make it very hard to breath and can block pancreas, which will make it difficult to digest food properly. Offspring inherits this disease from their parents this illness is common among white people.…
Unit 5 : Working In Partnership Working as a carer within a nursing home involves me as I must aim to meet the needs of those availing of this service. Through this I must work closely with the service user, professionals and organisations involved, sharing information and working in partnership as the main basis of care practice. This assignment will give an overview of each learning outcome in addition to providing information on working in partnership as a whole as well as its importance within health & social care.…
Concepts of Interprofessional Collaboration The concepts of interprofessional collaboration were made to help us all work together through associations to solve compound health complications. Significant ideas with the relationships, that nurses use every day, include sharing information or education, working together in partnerships, authority (who is in charge?), and being able to be accountable independently or in a group. They also utilize the diversity in the patient population and professional people that we work with. Although, there are no strong associations to how the groups work, all are different, but all have a patient focused atmosphere (D 'Amour, et al., 2005) to reduce risk factors for certain populations and to deliver services…
Abnormal Anatomy and Physiology: In cystic fibrosis the CFTR gene does not produce the chloride pump protein, so water cannot move into the mucus making it very thick and sticky. This abnormally thick mucus builds up in passageways causing obstructions and harboring bacteria that cause infections, especially in the lungs and the pancreas. In the lungs this thick mucus leads to difficulty breathing and because of the bacteria that gets trapped and stuck in the mucus that lines the lungs people with cystic fibrosis suffer from bacterial infections of the lungs. Eventually, with recurring infections and mucus buildup cystic fibrosis will cause permanent lung damage.…
The Disease with No Cure Approximately 30,00 people on the united states have Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis is a lung disease that limits your ability to breathe overtime. There is no cure but, the disease can be controlled with treatments and a management team. In CF a gene causes a thick buildup of mucus that blocks the airways. Today the life expectancy for people with CF who live past child hood is 37 years.…
To diagnose patients with cystic fibrosis, one or more of many available tests can be used. The most common tests are the ‘heel prick tests’, ‘sweat tests’ and ‘carrier testing’. The heel prick test is used to try to detects many various conditions with one of them being cystic fibrosis. This test has been made compulsory for all newborn babies since 1986. Although this is one of the most used methods to detect not only cystic fibrosis but also other conditions, it is not always able to detect everything.…
Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication Communication is key to any health-care professionals in giving the best possible care to any client. Health-professionals such as nurses cannot afford any communication errors, especially dealing with someone else’s life. During the resident care conference for our group went according to plan. The group adopted a supportive communication technique based on mutual respect and that everyone has the right to express and share ideas and information, aim’s communication at solving the problem while creating multiple ways in solving the problem (Beebe, Beebe, Redmond, Geerinck, & Salem-Wiseman, 2015). The conference started when the health-care team acknowledges the presence of the daughter and the client and…
The reason a team has come together is due to the billing department everything has been out of order. The team plays a role in problem solving and beneficial to the success of an effective communication in the health care environment. Today the billing department has not just turned in things incomplete, but the billing department has not been making the deadline, and the doctors started to receive the payments for the medical claims. The billing department will get on track, by submitting the claims in a timely matter.…
In today’s ever-competitive healthcare market, patient safety, and quality of care is one of the top factors of an organizations survival. Quality improvement (QI) and safety have become a major component of our larger healthcare organization, because they value our patients, employees, and families, but why are we not following in their footsteps? A particular new idea that would be useful in a smaller unit is an action board, which allows anyone to write down a particular quality or safety problem (Steelman, 2014). In addition, the use of Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR), which can assist with identifying the problem, examining evidence, and determining if a solution will be applied in order to improve communication handoff (Eberhardt, 2014). Both of these solutions are cost effective, and would not take very much training to implement on the units and throughout the organization.…
For my third community experience, I will be with Tara Belle, a RN Care Coordinator for Women’s Health at the Mayo Clinic Thunderbird Family Medicine from 1300-1600. Two specific goals I retain for tomorrow’s community experience include: Enhancing my communication skills and learning about the job description of an RN Care Coordinator. Related to communication skills, I want to focus my attention on both the verbal and nonverbal communication skills of the female population, connected to health care, as my experience will be directly related to women’s health. Because cervical cancer and endometriosis run in my family, and I was diagnosed with PCOS last year, I do retain some familiarity with women’s health, but not in detail. Upon doing a…
Effective communication is necessary in order to obtain goals and have positive outcomes. According to Gombert, Jahn, and Rivera-Rodriquez (2012), good listening skills are a characteristic of effective communication and “effective teams have excellent communication and listening skills”. Unfortunately due to time constraints providers or nursing staff do not have to luxury of spending vast amounts of times with patients. In my current position I do have the ability to spend extra time with patients and I have learned so much just by listening to their concerns and problems.…