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often find themselves receiving treatment in a lengthy hospital stay. There is a high chance of an error occurring when patients are being transitioned back into the community because it is hard for the hospital clinician to obtain all of the medical history necessary to properly treat the patient at hand. This creates a large problem because if some of the health history is not known, re-hospitalizations may occur, which is something hospital clinicians try to avoid at all costs. Quality…

The biggest reason she chose this profession was to help people. When she was a child, she was born with aortic stenosis. Therefore, she was in and out of hospitals all her life growing up. She ended up having to have two heart surgeries. Kelly remembers her second surgery that she had at the age of 14. It was at Egleston, Children’s Hospital in Atlanta in 1991. She had to have her aortic valve replaced with a mechanical one. She was in ICU for one week. She grew close to the nurses and decided…

I originally began my pursuit of medicine because of my interest in the sciences. As I explored various fields from psychology to public health, I found myself drawn to working with local hospitals. Following a few months of volunteering at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, my first experience witnessing the birth of a child significantly impacted my decision to pursue medicine. It was a quiet Thursday night, but the Labor and Delivery unit was bright. Working with the nurse to prepare for an…

performance, and a general attitude of discontent among staff members. In order to be successful in his administrative duties, Dr. Behr must find methods to address and remedy the difficulties which are hampering the operations at Koeberg District Hospital. This paper will discuss the problems he is facing, identify and explain the components of job design which…

Fink’s Five Nights at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a piece of realistic fiction that depicts both the events that took place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Hospital, formerly known as Baptist Hospital. In the hospital and its disastrous conditions, staff face difficulty in evacuating patients because of the lack of preparation and infrastructure for such a disaster. Ultimately, the doctors deem some patients unlikely to survive evacuation,…

WIC Impact Reflection I. Date, time, place, setting. Purpose, focus of care This clinical took place on November 21st at the WIC clinic in Rock Valley, Iowa. The purpose of this clinic is to create partnerships with women, infants, and children in the community with the goal of meeting their individual nutritional needs. There were a variety of services offered at this clinic including a general check-up, dental screening, iron level screening, nutritional education and checkup, and other…

Healing Children: A surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine (Newman 2017) is an inspiring novel written by a pediatric surgeon, Dr. Kurt Newman. Dr. Newman shares stories about brave children whom he has helped overcome the struggles they have had to face at such young ages. He highlights the importance of pediatric care and how teamwork is the secret recipe for how children will get better. Each story Dr. Newman tells has a different meaning and lesson that he learned…

Television, Audio & Technology – Hurting or Helping Literacy? Summary The article TV, Audio & Technology – Hurting or Helping Literacy by Jim Trelease is article about Dr. Ben Carson, who is a very successful doctor who was one of the finest Brain surgeons in the world. At the age of 33 John Hopkins University named him head of pediatric neurosurgery. This article talks about how Dr. Ben Carson was raised by his mother in a “fatherless inner-city home” (Trelease, n.d.)by a mother who had no more…

What’s really pathetic is the lack of understanding and ownership people who don’t have a mental health issue have, and have absolutely no regard for taking ownership of the way they interfere with another person’s life! In order to change the way it affects us, we need to change ourselves and how we view the things that we think and do, that are and are not beneficial for us. When it comes to your medication not taking it or not taking it correctly and not informing your doctor when you have…

got another good kidney. If the donor never has any problems with their kidney but a loved one starts having issues, they can use the voucher on them. This way the donor saved a life and either themself or loved one is saved in the process. A few hospital have adopted this practice, the donors do not get paid but in the long run it is a great help. Both sources talk about how many people need a transplant or are on the transplant list. The article says the 13 people die a day waiting for a…