Broadmoor Hospital

Anne Raver proposes her stance of the effects of nature on hospital patients. Raver’s purpose for this article is to show the importance of gardens in or around hospitals, and to provoke action for more hospitals to provide patients with this kind of scenery. While the gardens do not necessarily heal the patients, she claims it has positive effects on many people suffering from an illness. The targeted audience in this article would be hospital patients or anyone interested in the works of…

Practical Bioethics defines bioethics as “the application of ethics to the field of medicine and healthcare”. An elderly Australian native John Collingsworth – a stage one cancer patient, is being treated under the care of Dr. Bain at the Rand Memorial Hospital located in Freeport, Grand Bahama. Mr. Collingsworth also has no living relatives residing with him in Grand Bahama and have lost most – if not all – contact with his other living relatives. Dr. Bain has been an oncologist for over 15…

One of the major disadvantages of curtain walls is the need for regular maintenance. In order to keep out moisture and wind, a sealant must be applied to the perimeter, and this sealant must be replaced every 10 years or so. Another major disadvantage of curtain walls is the cost and time required to install them. Curtain walls utilizing the stick system, for example, require a great deal of time to assemble, and their performance depends on the quality of the installation. Unitized curtain…

A cultural encounter is the act of directly interacting with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds (Honner & Hoppi, 2004). There are two goals of cultural encounters. One goal is to generate a wide variety of responses to promote verbal and nonverbal communication accurately and appropriately in each culturally different context. The second goal is to continuously interact with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds which assists in validating, modifying existing values, beliefs,…

At St. Michael’s Hospital, the mission statement is supported by how the hospital performs, and reflects caring for a patient’s well being in “physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.” (http://www.stmichaelshospital.com/about/mission.php) This is reflected in the content of the website in multiple categories. For example, there is a section dedicated to the policy documents detailing advance care planning. This section provides an explanation regarding advanced care options for…

Conceptual and Theoretical Framework For the purpose of the program evaluation, the CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health will be used as the conceptual framework for the proposed project. The CDC’s framework for program evaluation in public health provides a guide for performing a program evaluation that assists evaluators in both gathering accurate data and making appropriate conclusions from the evidence (USDHHS & CDC, 2011). Under the framework four standards and six…

had never even met a surgeon until meeting Dr. Ross. While I sat in the wheelchair, confused and in the worst pain I had ever been in, I remember the look of fear on my mother’s face. Then Dr. Ross told me “I’ll see you in the OR” as I left for my hospital room. When I was brought into the OR I remember looking around,…

The Apple Watch and healthcare marketing might sound incongruous when you envision the common uses for Apple 's latest invention. Yet, as with all mobile devices, it 's the perfect device to capture patient attention as consumers use smartphones and tablets to find quick information. Perhaps you 've heard skeptics say that wearables will stay relegated to monitoring our heart rates or blood pressure while doing cardio exercise. Nobody said it should stop there, and the potential for wearables in…

Kercsmar (2008) notes that for asthma management to be effective, more emphasis must also be put on asthma self-management patient education. There are key underlying features in this kind of education relating to asthma including basic knowledge about asthma, symptom recognition, trigger identification, knowledge and understanding of optimal controls, use and purpose of devices and asthma medication, and utilization of asthma action plan, which must all be incorporated in the education process.…

We can find articles through journals online or in Chamberlain library at the moment.Working in the emergency department as RN, is not an easy job. Everyday is a learning experience. ED is one of the place in the hospital where code gray (security is called) happens a lot. The staff in the ED are the first one who gets expose to different diseases. It has been my observation that we have been assisting procedure for lumbar tapping to rule out meningitis, sometimes as staffs we don’t protect…