Dialysis

Can a Nurse Be Worked to Death? A December 2014 article in the American Journal of Nursing, written by Roxanne Nelson raises the question of liability in a court case. Elizabeth Jasper, a Registered Nurse was killed in a car crash while driving home from working a twelve hour shift. Her family believes that her death was the result of her being overworked. Elizabeth’s husband, Jim Jasper, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where his wife worked. He believed and stated…

What I mean by that is that they have had similar experiences in the past. For example, I was a volunteer for a hospital (due to HIPPA laws I will not say what hospital this is or the name of the patient) and I volunteered in Dialysis. One day, a patient suffered a myocardial infraction (heart attack) and the nurses quickly went to help the patient and to try to revive him. After this happened, they took a break and they talked about on how one of the nurses was the queen of code…

preventable infections that a patient obtains while receiving treatment for another infection or surgical condition. These types of infections can occur in a variety of clinical care settings such as acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, dialysis facilities, outpatient care, and long-term care facilities. HAIs can be caused by the use of medical devices such as catheters, central lines, or ventilators, and by surgical procedures. In fact, 1 out of every 25 hospitalized patients…

Ambulatory care or outpatient care is short-term care institutions, such as dialysis clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, offices of physicians, etc. In 2007, there were 1.2 million ambulatory patient visits to office-based physicians (Goldsteen & Goldsteen, 2013, p. 56). Ambulatory care is usually where an individual goes for a…

A prosthetic device in substitution of a heart that is usually used to create more time of life until a transplant can be performed, also known as an artificial heart. An artificial heart creates more time to a heart transplant but it can also be a permanent substitution of the biological one. An artificial heart is very hard to receive, a patient must seriously be ill or about to die before it can even be considered. It is a very costly procedure and the whole transplant itself is very…

With healthcare being such a rapidly moving field it is important that we, as aspiring medical professionals, understand what is progressing in our profession. Within the blink of an eye healthcare changes; doctors, professors, phds, are coming up new theories, journals and studies daily. It is our job as current students in this field to do our best to further understand these journals studies, etc.and the writing that is involved in our field. Why you may ask? There are arguably an infinite…

could take anywhere from a couple weeks or even a couple of years to recover. Long term effects are rare. Nevertheless chronic kidney disease and failure is seen in a small number of adults. If she develops kidney failure, her kidneys would require dialysis or a kidney transplant. For about a year Susan should attend regular checkups with a nephrologist until all signs of post streptococcal glomerulonephritis are cleared. In these visits her all of her previous symptoms need to be followed up…

economical person needs an organ, they cannot afford one on the black market as they sell the organs for an extremely high price compared to what the broker had paid the poor person for their organs. Iran addresses this important issue by having 302 dialysis units, 25 transplant…

Medical History: A 72--year-old African American male with a history of CKD stage 5 in the setting of longstanding hypertension, possible polycystic kidney disease, BPH, obesity, who presents for evaluation for candidacy for a kidney transplant. The patient has been evaluated recently at Shands Hospital for kidney transplant, but his evaluation was not completed due to obesity and possible cardiac problems. Renal History: The patient has longstanding history of chronic kidney disease in the…

After thinking and doing research, I have finally narrowed it down to the career I would like to pursue, and that happens to be registered nursing. Nursing has so many benefits and it is something that I see myself doing. I love to take care of the elderly and the sick. Even though it will require hard work, when it comes to saving lives and giving smiles, it is very rewarding. When I was a child, I would always watch medical shows and play dress up with my mother’s work uniforms. I would also…