Elderly care

assistant performs many important tasks for people who are unable to care for themselves. According to the article, “Everything You Want To Know About Being A CNA” published by nursingassistants.net, a certified nursing assistant is a person that works under a nurse and provides care to residents who cannot provide their own cares alone. They provide assistance with bathing, toileting, eating, dressing, transferring, and oral care. According to Linda Whitenton and Marty Walker authors of Exam…

This essay will discuss how communication plays a vital role within the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in a hospital based setting. Furthermore it will show how team working along with collaboration contributed and at times hindered the overall outcome of the chosen experience. Pseudonyms will be used throughout this essay. Healthcare professionals have a duty of confidence towards service users. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have clear guidelines within the Code of Conduct (2008), this…

awareness of advance care planning. My preceptor, who is also the director of nursing stated their facility had been going through a recent transition phase. Instead of being a primary long-term care unit, the patient acuity had changed and the nursing care was evolving to more med-surg based. As a result advance care planning was on the forefront due to end of life care no longer being eminent with their patients. Furthermore, the facility did not have a protocol or policy on advance care…

any of the three basic childcare needs, namely care for preschool children, out-of-school care for schoolchildren and back-up care. Advice and referral services, for example, can help parents to find care for babies, for children after school or for a child whose usual career is sick. Similarly, workplace arrangements with community facilities can help workers access daycare for babies, holiday camps for school children or babysitters for back-up care. In some workplaces, these solutions can…

well and doing no harm whatsoever. Beneficence is more lenient than non-maleficence. According to Vaughn, “a health care professional violates the principle if he or she deliberately perform an action that harms a patient.” Another violation of this principle is subjecting patients to unnecessary risk is wrong even if no damage is done. In non-maleficence, physicians must use due care to treat their patients.…

State Government Performs for Health Care Kathryn Moultrie Week 4 Saint Joseph’s College Maine Activities State Government Performs for Health Care The government plays an important role in the quality of the U. S. health care system. Regulatory healthcare power is shared among federal and state governments. States governments have a leading governing role of regulating constituents in their jurisdiction (Niles, 2018). Some of the main constituents in the health care industry are; providers,…

specializes in critical care. She originally started advocating for APRNs as a graduate student and eventually became the president of the Texas Nurse Practitioners (TNP) association from 2008-2010 (A. Mitchell, personal communication, October 10, 2016). Currently, Alison Mitchell is the APRN representative for TNP and continues to pursue her passion for health policy by being an active member in legislative and interim committees. In our interview, we discussed accessibility of care for women…

Having to stay for days in a hospital and being away from their loved ones makes them feel lonely and having to see different strange faces everyday coming in and out of their rooms makes it much worse. One particular patient in the scenarios was an elderly woman diagnosed with COPD. In the scenario, the patient frequently shows up in the emergency department exhibiting difficulty in breathing. The nurse observed the patient to be frequenting the ED. As she assessed the patient and reviewed her…

In this weeks discussion, we discuss the benefits of long-term care; how it differs from that of needs for the elderly, veterans, children, and what role does rehabilitation play for those in need of long-term care. Long term care is not just for the elderly. Veterans returning from combat missions are often in need of long-term care. In some instances veterans are often exposed to chemicals and other warfare that may cause terminal illness and injuries that require the veteran have the…

Long-term care is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and nonmedical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who can not care for themselves for long periods of time. There are many problems with todays long-term care and most of them are in cost, long-term insurance, and quality of care that is being given. More and more of the population is having to be put into some form of long-term care either because of age or because of a disability, this means that even…