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Mr. S’ main health issue would have to be social isolation. Although he is making some improvement in being more social with the case manager and student nurse; he still has no social support from family or friends, and this leads him to have trouble in social functioning, role functioning, self-care and finding a place to live. Nursing Hypothesis Social Isolation can be detrimental to a person’s health. One interesting finding points out that social isolation can have just as much of an impact…

Honesty is key in medical situations, but can it be beneficial to withhold the truth? Most patients expect the truth, but there are cases when it may seem to be more beneficial to disclose information. Understandably, it is normally quite hard for patients to receive the truth. Delivery of truth is important, but there is not much else to do. Could it be better to withhold the truth in certain situations, such as people who may not be able to handle it, a dying patient, or even requests to not…

Will the veterans at the VA Outpatient clinic have fewer medication errors with the implementation of a barcode medication administration system, compared to not using barcode the medication system, which will result in decreased medication error rate over a period of a year. This is the question that will be presented in this research proposal. Medication errors occur daily and are steadily on a rise. According to Seibert (2014), adverse drug event has risen to 450, 000 annually from…

that there should be a minimum of nurses to patients This is designed with the aim of addressing the growing concerns that there has been harm on patients through inadequate staffing, thereby paving way to increase in complexity and severity of the illness during the care (American Nurses Association, 2014) Search Criteria/Results Search Criteria The research conducted ensured that extensive research was carried out on numerous databases such as PubMed, CINAHL and in different areas that…

A patient discharge plan that is individualized is essential. In this discussion, I will review two learning objectives that I would include in the discharge plan for “Tina”, our Shadow Health digital patient. One learning objective I would focus on is signs and symptoms of hypo- and hyperglycemia and what to do if one of these situations occurs. Tina is going home on insulin and did not have this prior to admission. Managing her diabetes is going to need to be a priority. I would use…

Learning to Think Like a Nurse Nurses are constantly exposed to many patients with different presentations of signs and symptoms. Some similar and others varying from those typical to a certain diagnosis. It is very easy to jump the gun and assume that a patient has a certain diagnosis due to their subjective and objective presentation along with lab results. The Quality in Australian Healthcare Study found that, “cognitive failure was a factor in fifty-seven percent of adverse clinical events”…

There are a variety of different aspects which can play a role within a certain nation or cultures take on patient autonomy. Informing a patient of their true cancer diagnosis is a fairly recent practice. However currently it is legally required in the United States for physician- patient communication to be characterized by a accent on patient autonomy. However Japan holds a very distinct religious and cultural past. The aim of this study is to compare the outlook toward ethical decision making…

Policies & Procedures in Nursing Administration Scenario: You are a nurse manager of a medical-surgical unit. You have been informed by one of your staff that another employee has been emailing and Facebooking with a currently hospitalized patient. You talked to the patient. The patient showed you “pictures” the other staff member has sent to them. What would you do first? Since breaches of patient privacy and confidentially are serious, I would first reach out to legal or corporate…

When I was sixteen I had my first surgery, an ACL repair. Going through the process of determining what my injury was, deciding on a plan to repair the injury, and going through the recovery process exposed me to many different types of medical professionals. My doctor was incredibly caring and attentive. He carefully explained how the surgery would be performed and happily answered any questions I had. He helped to calm my nerves by assuring me that he had performed the surgery many times and…

Introduction Norma James has a history of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, atrial fibrillation and a past stroke. Ms. James came in to the clinic today with complaints of shortness of breath. A nursing student is working with me today. She currently is learning how to complete focused histories as well as patent assessments in her assessment class. Together we will take Ms. James’s history, complete an assessment, document our findings, develop a plan of care and education plan for her.…