Do not resuscitate

After a fun day turned tragic, the parents of 13-year old Trenton McKinley faced an agonizing reality. After suffering a severe brain injury, being clinically dead for 15-mintues and brain-dead for even longer, Trenton’s parents were given the worst news possible a parent could ever receive, their precious child would not recover. Doctors told Trenton’s parents that he had suffered seven separate skull fractures due to an unfortunate dune buggy accident and would likely never be the same. What…

creature is shunned by society, and he is refused any sort of happiness, the creature is the true victim of the novel. The creature has no intent of violence until it is shown to him by the human race. After being thrown into the world with no idea what to do, the creation naturally looks for a shelter. The small shack that he claims as his temporary home is connected to…

late and it is time to go to sleep. ¬ I have decided that if I eat extremely healthy throughout the weekdays and set a goal for only one or two cheat meals on the weekends, then I do not have to exercise during the week or at least not as much. ¬ When I do not have homework, work, or have something else to do, I like to do things for myself like…

once taboo practices by closing the gap between fiction and reality. Victor, who was, “capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter,” was seen with God like quality in his day, whereas in the present day it is commonplace for ER doctors to resuscitate lifeless patients with electric paddles (Shelley, 38). Oddly enough, these surgeons bestow life to the dead and no one bats an eye, but Victor Frankenstein does it and everyone loses their minds. The controversy subsists in the idea that…

Their primary job is to “resuscitate or stabilize patients and get them into the proper emergency departments” (“Emergency Physician: Job Description”). Because of this there are no set specific job tasks, as an individual in this career you are expected to be prepared for anything…

When the time comes when I can no longer safely live at home, I would want to live in a facility that is person-centered and has adapted to the Green House culture in which patients live. Person-centered facilities offer individualized care plan based off of the needs, and preferences, in how often the patient bathes, when they eat their meals and in selecting staff members with whom the patient feels comfortable in providing care to them (Hooyman, Kawamoto, & Kiyak, 2016). Person-centered…

client what their code status should be. Normally a healthy person with minor procedures or illnesses are considered a Full Code, meaning the medical professional is to do everything possible to save the clients life during a time of crisis. Clients who are terminally ill, or many elderly patients are DNR, meaning Do Not Resuscitate which directs the healthcare professionals to let life end in the natural order and not to perform any measure that would sustain that patient’s life. Many times a…

The discussion of the challenges and benefits of DNR, living will and durable power of attorney as concerning individuals, family members, and medical professionals have many views. “The letters DNR standing for Do Not Resuscitate, DNR signifies that rather than administering any and every procedure that might possibly keep a patient alive, not extraordinary means are to be taken.”(Feldman, 2014, pp 608). The living will is a legal document that designates the medical treatments a person does or…

set is not the easiest task, that’s why when I began looking into nursing I had a lot that I did not understand. One question I asked was, what do registered nurse 's do that licensed practical nurse 's can 't? A good friend of mine said “In a lot of situations licensed practical nurse 's get asked to just as many tasks registered nurse 's are suppose to do because of the shortage of registered nurse 's anymore. ” In the medical field, Licensed practical nurses are very important. Buffering…

more often from common mistakes that are preventable and nothing is done to solve it. Gibson and Singh (2003) mentioned, “hospitals and other health care facilities do not look to find the causes of medical errors and change the policies and practices that cause them” (p. 10). That is why many patients and their family members do not trust the health care professionals. It is our…