Kathleen Evans is a mother of five she is married to Barry and they are a grandmother and grandfather of twenty including two great grandchildren. Kathleen comes from a small town Windale in Lake Macquarie. In the 1990’s she was diagnosed with a carcinoma in her right lung. When her x-rays and scans had been taken her GP sent her to a heart, lung surgeon.…
Thank you for referring Cinzia Canturi, a 40-year-old lady who is currently not working, but previously was working in an office and a clothing warehouse. Cinzia is a non-smoker and keeps no pets. She does not take any regular medications but will use Advil, Voltaren and paracetamol on a prn basis for migraines. Around a month ago, Cinzia developed a dry cough with a tickle in the throat. A couple of days later, she started to notice a choking and the sensation of her throat closing over.…
Nurse Hearings On November 16th the whole class drove to Jeff city to view nurse hearings. It was a scary that on that day several people could be losing their nursing license over actions that they took. The first case consisted of an RN who tested positive for morphine without a prescription.…
DOI: 01/24/2012. Patient is a 34-year-old female certified nursing assistant who incurred a work-related injury to her low back when she reached down to adjust wheelchair brakes and he felt low back pain. Patient is diagnosed with lumbar spine sprain with radiculopathy, right knee lateral meniscal tear, cervical spine sprain, right shoulder sprain, and right wrist and hand sprain. She is status post right knee arthroscopic sub-total lateral meniscectomy, chondroplasty of lateral femoral condyle, limited synovectomy, and diagnostic arthroscopy with placement of pain pump and application of Bledsoe brace on 05/17/13.…
The patient appeared to be emotional and upset as she detailed about Nurse Melissa and Jennifer at laughing at her about her need for a dose increase since her dose was dropped previously due to the paitent's AWOL as her dose was decrease of 10% of 130mgs. The patient expressed that she felt humiliated and Nurse Aileen intervene to help the patient as the patient says, "She is always nice to the clients." The patient requested to file a grievance against two nurses as to how she was treated. This writer informs the patient that her request was submitted to Nursing on the 15th of May and will immediately address it with the APRN about the status. This writer then made it comment," It could be probably because of the order that was entered on…
According to the American Nurses Association. American Holistic Nurses Association (2016) the organization is the definitive voice for holistic nursing, and promotes the education of nurses, other healthcare professionals, and the public in all aspects of holistic caring and healing. American Nurses Association .American Holistic Nurses Association efforts resulted in the recognition of holistic nursing as an “official nursing specialty” by the American Nurses Association.…
MP is a 26-year old male who presented with complaints of abdominal pain and requested a physical examination. Height: 5’11”. Weight: 280#. BMI: 39.1. Past medical history includes: untreated hypertension; one suicide attempt via self-inflicted gunshot wound; multiple reconstructive surgeries scars to anterior chest, neck, and face. Social history includes: 10 pack-years smoker; remote history of intravenous drug abuse; alcoholism.…
Describe a situation related to patient advocacy. A couple years ago while working on a telemetry floor as a unit secretary, I came across a patient’s chart who had orders to be NPO after midnight for an EGD procedure the next day. As a part of my job, I made sure to input "NPO" orders into the computer. The very next day after the patient’s procedure was over she came back to the unit with new orders, but dietary orders were missing.…
The case study outline is designed to promote one approach to investigate public health problems. There are seven steps in the outline and the order of these steps may vary from situation to situation and country to country. However applying this systemic approach is essential to ensure that steps are not missed. First step is detecting the problem; this step includes identifying an outbreak that could or does have a significant impact on a certain population. There needs to be a substantial impact to justify the resources and money to be spent on investigation.…
According to Tomajan (2012) advocacy is, “The ability to successfully support a cause or interest on one’s own behalf or that of another requires a set of skills that include problem solving, communication, influence, and collaboration” (para. 7). Throughout my nursing career I have always stood for the patients’ rights, and maintaining the morals and values of the nursing profession. Whenever I find any issues or situations that affect patients or my collegues, I report the concern to the right people in the chain of command in the workplace to solve the problem. There many communication tools that could be used as a medium for effective communication. ” The SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Response) technique has been adopted by many…
As a nursing student being an activist has many positive sides to it. Firstly, activists will thrive in placements due to their ability to problem solve. I will be able to look at a situation and actively work to find a solution, this could be through trial and error or through other means, usually without considering the consequences. This means that I will also be able to learn from my mistakes or even gain valuable experiences that my fellow learners could potentially miss out on. However, being an activist in nursing will make it much harder to resist new situations where potentially my skills will be challenged to a risky extreme.…
Pain management is one of many nursing responsibilities that unwraps further assessment and intervention. In light on this, being pain advocates can help reduce pain and the negative perceptions, patients have about pain control. The importance of being a pain advocate is as important as managing a patient’s blood pressure before it gets worse. As a result and as nurses, it is necessary to become pain advocates at all times, including for patients with cognitive and physical limitations. For nurses, pain advocacy is a huge concern as this can tell us that something is wrong and needs further assessment.…
There are many ways that health professionals can influence health policy . One is through the use of media. According to Mason (2016), media can promote health in three ways: public education, social marketing and media advocacy (Mason, 2016 p. 127)). Media advocacy is the strategic use of media to apply pressure to advance a social or public policy initiative (Mason et al., 2016, Dorfman & Krasnow, 2014, Wallack and Dorfman, 1996).…
Nurses in the US are currently more than 3 million strong and are the largest segment of licensed professionals working in the healthcare industry. Nurses are everywhere- in schools, in hospitals, in clinics, in academic settings, in public health, in the private business sector, on boards and in legislatures. And nurses are the most trusted profession by the general public. What would it take for Nursing to generate and sustain the political will to be the profession that intervenes on the behalf of all vulnerable children? How do nurses move a social justice agenda forward?…
As a nurse, the ways to impact public health have been done time and time again. One of the most awe-inspiring examples is Florence Nightingale. Her implementation of better sanitation and nutrition during the Crimean War can be directly correlated to our high life expectancy today. Arguably, Nightingale had the most important contribution to public health as we now know it. Patient advocacy through education is also a trend in health care that helps patient’s become more autonomous which should be one of the main goals of a nurse.…