Gold Coast Hospital

The Apple Watch and healthcare marketing might sound incongruous when you envision the common uses for Apple 's latest invention. Yet, as with all mobile devices, it 's the perfect device to capture patient attention as consumers use smartphones and tablets to find quick information. Perhaps you 've heard skeptics say that wearables will stay relegated to monitoring our heart rates or blood pressure while doing cardio exercise. Nobody said it should stop there, and the potential for wearables in…

Kercsmar (2008) notes that for asthma management to be effective, more emphasis must also be put on asthma self-management patient education. There are key underlying features in this kind of education relating to asthma including basic knowledge about asthma, symptom recognition, trigger identification, knowledge and understanding of optimal controls, use and purpose of devices and asthma medication, and utilization of asthma action plan, which must all be incorporated in the education process.…

We can find articles through journals online or in Chamberlain library at the moment.Working in the emergency department as RN, is not an easy job. Everyday is a learning experience. ED is one of the place in the hospital where code gray (security is called) happens a lot. The staff in the ED are the first one who gets expose to different diseases. It has been my observation that we have been assisting procedure for lumbar tapping to rule out meningitis, sometimes as staffs we don’t protect…

often find themselves receiving treatment in a lengthy hospital stay. There is a high chance of an error occurring when patients are being transitioned back into the community because it is hard for the hospital clinician to obtain all of the medical history necessary to properly treat the patient at hand. This creates a large problem because if some of the health history is not known, re-hospitalizations may occur, which is something hospital clinicians try to avoid at all costs. Quality…

The biggest reason she chose this profession was to help people. When she was a child, she was born with aortic stenosis. Therefore, she was in and out of hospitals all her life growing up. She ended up having to have two heart surgeries. Kelly remembers her second surgery that she had at the age of 14. It was at Egleston, Children’s Hospital in Atlanta in 1991. She had to have her aortic valve replaced with a mechanical one. She was in ICU for one week. She grew close to the nurses and decided…

I originally began my pursuit of medicine because of my interest in the sciences. As I explored various fields from psychology to public health, I found myself drawn to working with local hospitals. Following a few months of volunteering at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, my first experience witnessing the birth of a child significantly impacted my decision to pursue medicine. It was a quiet Thursday night, but the Labor and Delivery unit was bright. Working with the nurse to prepare for an…

performance, and a general attitude of discontent among staff members. In order to be successful in his administrative duties, Dr. Behr must find methods to address and remedy the difficulties which are hampering the operations at Koeberg District Hospital. This paper will discuss the problems he is facing, identify and explain the components of job design which…

Fink’s Five Nights at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a piece of realistic fiction that depicts both the events that took place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Hospital, formerly known as Baptist Hospital. In the hospital and its disastrous conditions, staff face difficulty in evacuating patients because of the lack of preparation and infrastructure for such a disaster. Ultimately, the doctors deem some patients unlikely to survive evacuation,…

WIC Impact Reflection I. Date, time, place, setting. Purpose, focus of care This clinical took place on November 21st at the WIC clinic in Rock Valley, Iowa. The purpose of this clinic is to create partnerships with women, infants, and children in the community with the goal of meeting their individual nutritional needs. There were a variety of services offered at this clinic including a general check-up, dental screening, iron level screening, nutritional education and checkup, and other…

Healing Children: A surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine (Newman 2017) is an inspiring novel written by a pediatric surgeon, Dr. Kurt Newman. Dr. Newman shares stories about brave children whom he has helped overcome the struggles they have had to face at such young ages. He highlights the importance of pediatric care and how teamwork is the secret recipe for how children will get better. Each story Dr. Newman tells has a different meaning and lesson that he learned…