Patience Essay

Hebert, Moore and Rooney (2011) also wrote that it is the nurses’ responsibility to converse with the dying patient regarding their beliefs and rituals so that patients preserve dignity when they die. It is also vital to grasp the legal and ethical considerations as death approaches. This is when nurses have to communicate with the patient to create an advance care directive for his or her upcoming health care choices when he or she is in terminal condition. The expectation is that nurses…

Treatment According to the position statement on LPR by the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, treatment for LPR should be more aggressive and of longer duration than treatment for GERD (Koufman, Aviv, Casiano, & Shaw, 2002, as cited in Rees, 2008). This is due to the extensive amount of time necessary to repair the mucosal damage caused by LPR, which usually requires between two and six months with pharmacologic treatment. When determining a course of treatment for your…

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. When I took over the care of the patient the…

In a patient-centered care environment, clinical decisions are guided by the patient’s preferences, needs and values (Wolfe, 2001). In our hospital, some patients and family members have asked about the possibility of bringing family pets in to visit. Nurses will sometimes secretly allow these visits during less crowded visitation times such as evenings and weekends. However, as our hospital becomes more patient centered, and the requests quite possibly become more frequent, the need for an…

Windows Windowless rooms have been seen to cause a negative effect on the health of carious patients. In this regards, various studies have shown that lack of widows in intensive care units increases the levels of depression and anxiety as compared to facilities wind a windows provision (Keep et al., 1980). In addition, the lack of windows has been observed to increase the rates of sensory deprivation due to the repetitive sound of respirators. Additionally, the presence of windows help in…

Workload is the amount of work someone or something has to perform. Nurses have to get a certain amount of time to get their work done. Nonetheless, what would happen if nurses have a heavy workload and do not have the necessary time to perform it? It will be a total disaster because nurses would not perform well in their work. Nurses all over the world have too big of a workload. Lack of sufficient professional preparation and imbalance on their tasks increases the workload, and nurses,…

Nurses have always comforted patients with caring demeanors. However, a small, additional commitment of time results in vastly improved patient experiences. During patient visits, communication and uninterrupted attention play a critical role in making clients feel comfortable. The final key to improved service interactions, states medical executives, is ongoing and specialized education. Patient Sentiment in the Current Caregiving Setting A Health Science Journal research study recently…

I have worked as a Medical Assistant at a cardiologist office from 2014 to now. I work with the doctor’s in our office by getting patients ready for them when they arrive and making sure we have all information on the patient before they get here. The tasks I most enjoy on my job are rooming the patients, drawing blood, and educating patients. I enjoy rooming patients because it gives me an opportunity to meet and talk to new people. I enjoy interacting with the patients more than sitting…

Picking a job can be quite hard and confusing. It takes a lot of thinking and preparing for a job and what you would like to be. Going into a job one must know the skills it needs to have, if you don't know how to work with the career then maybe you should rethink a different career. Looking over the payment and how good they have been rated is also a good thing to look into. A good job that makes good payment and that also helps people is a Physical Therapist. Looking at jobs, a good job is…

Communication. There is a lack of communication between the doctor, patient, nurses, and scheduler. This is an area the staff really struggles with in the Radiology department. The doctor’s nurse will call over to schedule a CT or MRI, the preauthorization that is required will not be done yet and the examination gets scheduled. The nurse states that the preauthorization is getting worked on it and then it will be faxed over. When the patient gets to the department there isn't a preauthorization…