Home care

through all care settings. I complete medication reconciliations on all two day post- discharge calls I make and the number of medication discrepancies I come across is astonishing. Most recently, I called a patient that was discharged from a skilled nursing facility with an illegibly, hand written medication list. This was a heart failure patient who had been started…

that direction. When she looked at the health care administration major, she noticed that most of the pre-nursing courses she had taken coincided with the courses needed for the healthcare administrator major. For that major, students get to participate in an internship as a student…

Within our family we each take the part of several functional roles. For myself, the primary role is the parental role in which I provide my children with guidance, support, and expectations to raise them to the best of my ability. This role allows me to share my values and beliefs with my children, teach them responsibility, and model for them appropriate behaviors. Furthermore, the parental role requires me to be a scheduler, transporter, and a tutored for my children. Through this role I make…

cared for in the home by family, friends and the community. Additional support and guidance on daily challenges is also available from community nurses. Medical care is available from general practitioners who work with neurologists and psychiatrists to balance medication needs when behaviors exhibited by the individual become difficult to manage as the disease progresses. Once the disease has progressed to the point where caregivers are unable to continue, they are placed in care homes.…

we was proved lunch all the adult volunteers made homemade food and ordered pizza since there was so many people working together it looked like an all you could eat buffet. We all said thank you and our goodbyes after that because it was time to go home. We got an email afterwards saying we vaccinated over 500 people in our small scale vaccination drive and we felt very proud to be able to help make that happen. Mercer county does this flu vaccination drive to see how many people they can…

parent’s death (Vankin, 2010). The fourteen chapters in the graphic memoir discussed topics that most people fear and deny, the aging process. Farmers’ father Lars and stepmother Rachel experience dementia, hoarding, depression, lack of medical care, nursing home issues, and death. I am a little perplexed why Farmer created the avatar Laura representing herself as the daughter in the graphic memoir when the story is about parents. Is Farmer reflecting on her experience as a caretaker or…

about which Assisted Living Facility is right for them. An Assisted Living Facility is defined as a place where older people that do not need to live in nursing homes go to live that need some sort of care. These individuals are still independent and self-sufficient but need some sort of care assistance. It a place they can call home and live comfortably. Couples may move in together in a small apartment and enjoy the comforts of not having to worry about everyday stresses as mowing the lawn…

important to know if the patient has a support system that helps him. 7) Do you have a typical exercise regimen that you follow such as walking? This will provide information on whether the client gets any exercise in their daily lives outside of the home and daily chores. 8) Would you say that your activity level has changed in the last year? This question will tell the nurse if the patient’s activity level has changed due to the passing of his wife without directly mentioning it the patient in…

house. We eventually had kids. We have three kids: Jan, Miroslav, and Nuno. It was my job to take care of them and raise them while Blazh did his work…

comfort and care to the sick. I noticed during my interactions with some of the sick especially the aged how comforting and healing could come through empathy, helpful hand and friendly interactions. I built a strong relationships with some of the patients, collected their phone numbers and used to call them to check on them. There are two of these people I still call to check on them even now that I am in the United States. Eager to pursuing my nursing career, I enrolled in the Home Health Aid…