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Summary At just thirty seven years old, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor was at the prime of her life. A Harvard-trained neuroanatomist and a national spokesperson for mental illness, she was a well accomplished individual in the brain community. However, all of that seemed to slip away on the morning of December 10, 1996 when Jill experienced a stroke. Jill had woken up to a sharp pain behind her left eye and felt detached from her normal cognitive functions. Her verbal thoughts (or “brain chatter”)…

On November 14th, 2016 I went back to acute care at Moses Cone. My job for the day was to be the Medication Nurse. So when we were getting report from the leaders, I was assigned 4 patients. Going into the clinical day, I was sort of nervous just because I did not know what the day was going to be like and also because I had not been in the hospital setting, let alone an acute floor, in three weeks. So I brushed up on how clinical and reminded myself of important things that I like to do…

Joint Commission accreditation is desirable for long-term care organizations as a way to improve the facility’s performance and establish its dedication to safety, and quality. Nursing Exams can assist long-term care facilities in becoming accredited with the Joint Commission. The Joint Commission’s Survey Process A long-term care facility is required to submit to an on-site survey to become accredited. The Joint Commission repeats this survey every three years. The commission's survey process…

On April 7th, 2017, I was assigned to Medical-surgical unit of Arlington Memorial Hospital. My goals were to follow the registered nurse and learn specific activities performed by her. My nurse had 6 patients that day so she was very busy. I had one of her patient who came to the unit with Acute Kidney Injury, fecal impaction and HIV. I looked at the patient’s lab values she had severe anemia and her BP value was on stage of hypertension. My nurse asked me to stay on the room and monitor her for…

Reading your post was a pleasure; in it you discussed the importance of dignity, respect and compassion in the nursing field, as well as the role nurses play in providing hospice care. Hospice care is provided to patients during their last six months of life and focuses on care that is palliative, meaning emphasis is placed on relieving symptoms such as pain and stress. An important principle of hospice care centers on respecting the needs, and values of patients (Matzo & Sherman, 2015). This…

Doctors can't ignore politics. Our patients' lives are at stake: 22 August 2017 This article talks about how professionals, such as doctors, have an obligation to speak up in order to protect their patients and their rights. Earlier in the beginning of the year, Congress made a bill that would discriminate and strip 23 million patients of their health insurance. This bill will allow insurances to discriminate any patients with preexisting conditions, eliminate other health benefits, and…

An extensive search was made of the scientific literature published from 1988 to 1998 for studies on low-back problems among health personnel. The focus on the last 10 years was chosen because of the rapidly changing work situation at hospitals, nursing homes, and other types of nursing institutions. Low back pain is caused by multiple factors, generally categorized into physical, psychosocial and lifestyle factors (Habibi&Pourabdian, 2010). Psychosocial factors at work have been shown to play…

Physical Assessment Journal Article summary Perfomring a physical assessment is a vital part of the assessment process. A physical assessment provides a starting point for the next nursing process step. Over the years physical assessments have become a major role in nursing practice. Although physical assessments are a new concept to the nursing profession, they plays a crucial role in the nursing process. According to Duff, Gardiner, and Barnes (2007), the need for nurses to perform accurate…

Telemedicine and telehealth are innovative practices in which technology is used to diagnose, treat, assess, monitor, communicate and educate patients (Furrow, Greaney, Johnson, Stoltzfus Jost, & Schwartz, 2015). These practices are considered cutting edge as the technology didn’t exist to provide such services in the past, even just a few years ago. Telemedicine and telehealth are controversial as they have risks of liability not seen in traditional face-to-face medicine, challenges exist in…

one of the cruelest blows dealt by nature, something that anyone who has ever seen a loved one suffer though it can surely testify to. Dementia is a crushingly progressive disease that can be brought on by a multitude of factors including injury or illness; it can also (in very rare cases) be hereditary. Dementia is a disease that effects about 1% of the population (the majority of which are over the age of 64) of the UK and as such dementia care is an increasingly important sector of the…