Layla Micheli Monica Malt LVN 121 11/17/2017 What were the Contributing Factors to the problems in this Case? Describe them by category below. Equipment (design, availability and maintenance) The Pyxis machine is designed to calculate patient medications and doses accurately and should have alerted the nurse when the dosage was too high for a pediatric patient.…
Katelyn Stetzel is a pleasure to work with and supervise. I have enjoyed this opportunity watch Katelyn grow from a new employee to great investigator with the agency in such a short period of time. Although Katelyn is new to the agency, she is very willing to learn. She seeks out opportunities in which to educate herself in child protective services. She lends herself and her knowledge to new employees and seasoned employee.…
’s failure in taking medications, boosts satisfaction rates among those making appointments, and less accusations of the doctors not performing the correct patient-centered care (Martin & Williams, et al). The clients will be more likely to open up about their health concerns if they believe that their healthcare provider acknowledges their concerns and expresses an understanding of them. The Greater Good site expresses that it could even prevent physicians from feeling as if they cannot do their job at the best of their ability, which could mean that understanding the patients is beneficial on both sides. Empathy from…
Medical Assistants are responsible for scheduling a patient for appointment. A patient may call to schedule an appointment, so the medical assistant must collect information including name, address, date of birth, home and cell numbers. Sanderson (2017) states, “When a patient phones the offices for an appointment, the appointment can be scheduled in Office Hours before the patient information is entered in Medisoft. In these instances, it is possible to enter an appointment before a chart number has been assigned to the patient, by entering the patient’s name in the field right of the chart field” (p. 102). The patient may also be asked for the reason of the visit.…
Do you recommend journaling to your patients? If not, why not? I have not talked with my patients about journaling, I have, on the other hand, stressed the importance have putting a folder together that would include medication’s they take, and updating the list the first day of the month, also to include any surgeries, procedures along with a list of any thing they may have been diagnosed with. I work in the ER, and I can’t tell you how many people I see who have no idea the names of the medications they are on and why they are taking them. Some times a family member will come with the patient to the ER, the patient is unable to speak, and when I ask them some simple questions like, “ what surgeries have they had in the past?”, they have…
Nursing standpoint in a challenging clinical situation Nurses face challenging situation that they look back and wish they could have approached the situation differently. In this paper, I will discuss a situation I faced in clinical, the actions I took and the analysis of how I could have approached it differently by applying nursing standpoints illustrated in Doane and Varcoe, How to Nurse book. My clinical situation In my first week of clinical practice, I was assigned a patient who was diagnosed with delirium due to alcohol abuse. The patient also had aphasia and right sided weakness due to stroke.…
Vanessa Ambtman-Smith, or “superwoman” as her husband calls her, has defied odds. From overcoming homelessness, mental health issues, and addiction, to becoming one of the leading advocates for racism as a social determinant of health in Canada, Ambtman-Smith strives to create an equal healthcare system for all Canadians. Ambtman-Smith, an Indigenous woman herself, says the experiences and injustices she has faced in her life time, encourage her every day to keep fighting for what she so strongly believes in. “It drives my passion for what I do.…
I do not feel that even an established patient should be able to call their physician and ask them to call in a prescription refill. When a physician writes out the patient's prescriptions and refills, they will write enough of a supply to get the patient through to the next office visit. The supply includes the first prescription with a refill or two following making a renew cycle of 3, 6, 9, or 12 months. Once a physician that calls in a prescription without the patient coming in for an office visit they are accepting responsibility for the action and any resulting consequences. These consequences may include, any new symptoms developed that might require diagnostic investigation, medications interfering with new drugs that the patient…
Pharmacist hold the key to all the drugs sought by dealers and addicts. The problem is there is a constant struggle for retail pharmacist dealing with patients who go to a great extent to get their hands on these drugs. Pharmacist must determine whether the patient is there with the intent of feeding their addiction, or the purpose of reselling the drug or if the patient is there for a legitimate reason. It is not always easy to spot because a prescription is just a piece of paper. Doctors don't use a special type of paper when writing a prescription a lot of times with little effort an ordinary person can produce a spot on duplicate.…
“The healthcare team, composed of these professionals with the addition of healthcare administrator, often must decide on critical issues relating to patient’s needs” (Fremgen, 2015, pp .4). This assumption, in my point of view, what the medical receptionist was unethical and should have not held Jeanette symptom for several hours before sending the message and the receptionist should’ve been more attentive and put patients’ needs at the highest, who is in critical and life-threatening…
National Patient Safety Goals: Help Avoid Mistakes with your Medicines Many people assume the role of their medication responsibility to their health care providers, while it is a combined duty of the patient as well (The Joint Commission,2016). In avoiding medication errors in healthcare The Joint Commission has created guidelines to further educate the importance of understanding one’s medications. Patients are given understanding on how to avoid mistakes while in the hospital, at the pharmacist and working with physicians. This paper will discuss The Joint Commissions brochure on “Help avoid mistakes with your medicines” summarizing their guidelines and if the brochure was effective for patients.…
They are neither familiar with the facility nor with the health care protocol, which puts lot of pressure on working staffs and patients. Sometimes, patients don’t receive basic care due to the inadequate…
Introduction Reflection is a process which involves thoroughly examining one’s experiences. It is an essential attribute within the field of nursing which can contribute to the development of practice by enriching clinical knowledge (Caldwell & Grobbel, 2013). Throughout this paper, I will be reflecting on an event that took place during my clinical placement at St. Joseph’s Hospital where I experienced complications with a patient adhering to her medication regimen. This incident provided an opportunity for self-reflection that encourages growth in my future practice, ultimately improving my care towards patients. Look Back/Elaborate During my second semester working on the general medicine unit, I was assigned to care for a patient…
While at work the past two weeks I observed a recurring conflict. Two weeks ago a patient presented to the Medical Surgical nurses states with a Demographic face sheet and told me he was there for fluids. I kindly asked the man if he knew where he was suppose to go and he told me “last week when I was back in outpatient infusion area, they told me I would be out here today”. I said it would be one moment because I needed to make sure this is where he was supposed to be and if he was supposed to be here I needed to obtain the order so that I would know what I was so give him. He said “you need to give me 3 bags of fluids”.…
On October 13th, I shadowed pharmacist, Dr. Diana Tow at a Walmart Super Center in Fort Worth, Texas. My shadowing began early that morning and ended around noon. This was my first time behind the pharmacy viewing a practicing community pharmacist. Many of her tasks for the day included immunizations, reviewing medications orders, counseling patients, and when orders became backed up she aided the pharmacy technician when available.…