Gold Coast Hospital

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Home Is Where The Heart Is I look in the mirror and trace my finger down the scar across my chest. A tingling sensation runs through me at the remembrance of that memory. I close my eyes and take a deep breath to accept the events of the past few days. *** I ran towards the corner of the tortuous room and huddled up in a ball. My mother reached down for the metal rod, fright overcame me. From the corner of my eye, I saw my father, sitting there watching, never thinking of defending me.…

Dexmedetomidine versus Granisetron for the management of post spinal shivering Abstract Background: Shivering is one of the most stressful complications for patient and surgeon during spinal anesthesia. In this prospective, randomized, double blinded study we compared the efficacy of Dexmedetomidine versus Granisetron for control of post spinal shivering. Methods: study was conducted on 120 patients, ASA I-III, of either sex, aged 18–60 years, scheduled for elective lower abdominal and lower…

sometimes patients may refuse. Hence, negotiation is needed but we have to respect their final choice. As Dr. Schrader is the executive medical director additionally, he is responsible for the quality, resources and risk management of the whole hospital. As for the approach to patient care, we should be observant to patients’ facial expression or body languages, comforting…

bacteria into these central lines. “In the United States, from 250,000 to 500,000 CLABSIs are estimated to occur every year, which result in a rate from 10% to 30% of mortality” (Perin, Erdmann, Higashi, & Sasso, 2016). Currently, one third of all hospital acquired…

On October 19th and 20th, I spent my clinical days shadowing two different nurses on the 3rd Pavilion at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital. The purpose of the transitional week is for the nursing student to experience what it 's like to be a registered nurse and how to prioritize patient care. Ordinarily nursing students only have one patient 's care to mainly focus on, where as nurses on this particular floor have four to five patients. Following an RN lets the nursing students see how a nurse meets…

Pearson. Mackelprang, Qiu, and Rivara (2015) stated homeless young people who seek hospital care demonstrate a high rate of ED visits and hospital readmissions, with unique predictors of utilization associated with sex and housing status. Lin et al. (2015) stated homeless individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder significantly experience…

toileting. When Lauren assess her patients she primarily uses the Barthel Index or the cognition test, ACLS when evaluating them. Although Lauren focuses the majority of her work in a geriatric setting, she has done work in a Long Term Acute Care Hospital, outpatient clinic and even in a school setting a few…

Henrietta Lacks is a poor, middle school dropout, mother of five, African American woman who is forced to drive miles upon miles to get to Hopkins Hospital that provided free medical treatment (Skloot 33). During this point in history, all hospitals were segregated, and if any blacks wanted medical treatment they had to travel further for treatment. Also, African Americans were put in a bad economic spot, and most did not have the money for adequate…

One of The most embarrassing moments of my life up to this point, and I don’t embarrass easily, happened when my son was four. Just before he was diagnosed with ADHD. We were sitting in the clinic’s waiting room, waiting for one of his Ped’s appointments. It was during winter, and I had a stroller, his diaper bag and him to carry. The waiting room was so full; all the chairs had been taken and people were standing around waiting to be called. There were children running around and into people,…