Grady Memorial Hospital

A woman named Beth Jasper was a nurse at The Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nurses were constantly understaffed forcing them to work twelve hours shifts and even more undocumented hours. On March 16, 2013 Jasper completed her twelve- hour shift and began to drive home when she crashed into a tree and died at the scene. It is believed that she fell asleep while driving home. Her husband said she had been complaining of feeling overworked and exhausted prior to her accident. She continued to…

Buyannemekh Munkhbat MIE 657 Case Study 7, 8 Event Horizon Summary Michael Colombini, only 6 years of age, had a brain surgery for his benign tumor. Although his brain surgery was successful, he died in accident at the hospital. When Michael was having MRI scan after the surgery at Westchester Medical Center, he was in sedated state. Therefore, he needed to have supplementary oxygen piped to him while the scans were under way. Since no object containing iron or anything magnetic is allowed in…

When doctors make mistakes is an article which was written by Atul Gawande. The main point why Gawande wrote his article was because he wanted to bring out the real picture of what the medical officers are doing. He wanted to expose how medicine is disturbing and strange business since it is surprising and messy. He wanted to show the public that all doctors do mistakes when undergoing their day-to-day activities but these mistakes are usually unavoidable. Through this, he was trying to bring…

top of an unfamiliar bed. That experience-it feels like a dream to me now-but I clearly remember the white ceiling without the shadow and nose stinging because of the smell of medicine. I was in one of the rooms in the psychiatric ward of some hospital. I was covered in bandages all over my body (even my face and my head), and pain ran through my whole body-my back, my stomach, my neck-every single place. It felt like a countless needle was piercing my body. That kind of pain. I understood…

My first week of this summer program didn’t go as well as I expected. I felt scared and unfamiliar to this new environment. On the second day, I couldn’t stop throwing up. My head was in immense pain. I went to the health center with one of my mentors to talk to the Physician Assistant. She gave me a quick checkup, a list of foods I should eat, and pills for my head. I went to my Social Justice class for the last ten minutes. When I entered the class, everyone was sitting in a circle. Even…

recommends and refers you to a medical or paramedical professional. For example someone goes to visit the GP and to see the doctor about their pain on their knees. The doctor takes basic test and if it’s severe then the doctor may ‘refer’ them to a hospital to get X-ray scans and seek more complex help that he/she cannot offer. Third party referrals- Third party referrals refers to a person who are told to see a doctor or some sort of care…

My CI was a good person and really expose me to a lot of things such as going through patient’s chat to read the reason for their hospital admission and OT goals. She also explain how she bill for 1 unit for 2 units service if she co treating with the PT. There are good forms of communications between the OT/L and the COTA in the sense that CI discussed the area COTA needed to address…

I am writting personally to request a cosideration for exemption from the requirement of the earned baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college for admission to the physician assistant (PA) program. I understand that the Physician Assistant program is highly competitive program, and that the fact of earning a baccalaureate from a regional institution is only one important indicator to determine a student’s potential for succes at a graduate level. However, there is always an…

Nouf Alzahrani 3/4/2016 Shadowing Experience I arrived at Radiation Therapy Department at 8:15 AM and Bicklein introduced me to the staff. Moreover, Bicklein showed me the department and explained the uses of each machine. Then, I shadowed Sally until 2:15 PM. I believed that this shadowing experience was a positive experience because I observed educated people who have a good hand on experience and they were willing to answer my questions. The place was divided into many rooms: physicist…

and operates over 30 facilities in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and we continue to be in acquisition mode. Medicalodges is located in Holton, Kansas and is a 70 bed facility. Approximately 60 -70 % of Medicalodges residents comes to us from a hospital setting, followed by assisting living facilities, or directly from home where a spouse or sibling could no longer take care of them. We provide short term stays that can range from 2 weeks to 30 days as well as long term care. However, we do…