Grady Memorial Hospital

family is in Hawaii the bombing of Pearl Harbor happens. The next day, Amber and her mother decide to go a local hospital to help out with all of the new patients that are coming in.…

In How Doctors Think by Jermone Groopman, Groopman takes an in depth look at the clinical problems in health care such as misdiagnosing and inappropriate treatment given based on poor communication, and cognitive errors. As a trained physician Groopman, saw there was a problem in listening to the patient closely and observing their symptoms carefully. There is a huge disconnect between doctors and patients which forces doctors to deal with the task of having to determine the patients diagnoses…

apnea, a brother with asthma and another brother born into a NICU unit this field became my choice of study. Respiratory Therapists work in a variety of settings from hospitals, clinics, and pediatrics working with patients of all ages to sleep centers or even in a patient's home. They can work in many different areas of the hospital as well as varying departments, each of which consists of their own responsibilities regarding patients and procedures. They provide the lead care in dealing with…

disease, acute or chronic are a significant part of hospital readmission rates. Overall, patients with one respiratory disease process pneumonia, can account for 38.5 percent of hospital readmissions. (Dharmarajan et al., 2013) The needs of discharged patients are not being met up to 81% of patients needing assistance with basic functional needs failed to receive home care referrals and consequently 64% of these patients reported that no one at the hospital had talked to them about “managing at…

the patient not to be able to receive the oxygen he needs to breathe. The result can cause major health issues, including death. The device is used on people of all ages, including children, to provide continuous breathing support. It is used in hospitals and other medical facilities. Any health care provider that uses the AVEA ventilator will be impacted by this recall, as well as patients who are using the device for assistance with…

According to the article, Registered nurses ranked fifth of all occupations resulting in a musculoskeletal injury and Nursing assistants reported 25,010 cases, the highest for any occupation (ANA, 2013). Why is this? Construction workers or manufactory workers deal with heavier equipment and are in usually more dangerous situations than healthcare workers are. Two high risk tasks One high risks task I can think of would be transferring patients. Are the licensed staff looking at the patients…

Accident and recovery[edit] On September 15, 2001, at the age of 15, Clapp was hit by a train. He had become drunk at a ceremony commemorating victims of the September 11 attacks. Clapp has no recollection of passing out on a railroad track near his home in Arroyo Grande, California.[5] His blood alcohol content was found to be .229.[6] He was hit by a freight train travelling at high speed. His injuries required the amputation of both his legs above his knees and his right arm slightly below…

takes care of the care giver? In, “We grieve too: One Inpatient Oncology Unit’s Interventions for Recognizing and Combating Compassion Fatigue”, this very question is addressed. The setting of this article is at the Lancaster General Hospital Oncology ward. The hospital houses 540 beds and is magnet-designated. Their employment turnover rate went from 5.5 % in 2009 and increased to 12.1% in 2010(Fetter, 2012) this was due to their inpatient nurses experiencing an epidemic of emotional…

In Perri Klass's "She's Your Basic LOL in NAD” she explains how difficult it is for someone to learn the professional jargon of the medical world. While the jargon may be difficult to comprehend at first it is a beneficial tactic to use. She goes on to explain that she learned to love the so called “language” and it became very easy to use once learned. Professional jargon is beneficial because it allows the nurse or doctor to write notes quickly, it allows a rather effective way for medical…

This article is about Lorin Madsen, who contracted Necrotizing fasciitis after she fell in a parking lot and skinned her arm. It discussed how many people were had to be amputated or worse killed due to this, because there was no real way to cure this infection. It usually treated with surgical excision and antibiotics, but the death rate is still to 70%. After many attempts on Lori Madsen to cure the infection her situation started to become worse until she was introduced to Dr. John Crew. He…