Hospital accreditation

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…

It was interesting with how the 2009 documentary “Atitlan in Bloom” makes a suggestion that there is only a small fraction of what we believed to know about the Mayan calendar, how in many locations such as southern Mexico and northern Guatemala give hints of how there could possibly more than we were originally led to believe. In the beginning of the film, we first learn of a small lake community in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala (a population of an estimated 13,000 residents) containing…

CHIEF COMPLAINT: Left elbow pain. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: Makayla is a very pleasant 4-year-old right-hand dominant female who presented to the emergency department yesterday after sustaining a fall while playing with another young family member. She fell onto an outstretched left arm and had pain in and around the left elbow. She was seen in the emergency department, where clinical and radiographic evaluations demonstrated the presences of a fracture through the left proximal ulna.…

Parent Medical Clinic Acquires Specialty Medical Clinic Policies for the New Clinic Strategy for a successful start of a new clinic is based on quickly crating name or high profile and recognition with the community through, promotional events, public speaking, networking and print advertising. These marketing tools will help in developing the organization followed with sales strategy that relies on a pleasant and accessible location. Employees must be highly motivated, well trained and…

barrier. The curtain symbolizes a physical barrier. This physical barrier separates her speaking Bengali from the rest of English speaking America. There is also a language barrier hinted in the piece when Ashoke talks to Ashima in Bengali in the hospital. The barrier is presented because only Ashima could understand what her husband told her, while the doctor couldn’t. 2. "I'm saying I don't want to raise…

6-month period. Patients experienced less back pain, vascular complications (like DVT), urinary discomfort, and they had an overall better well-being perception. By shortening the length of stay, we decrease the risk of hospital acquired infections, delirium, and many other hospital acquired issues. Along with physical effects, not ambulating also has psychological effects such as anxiety an depressive mood. Social outcomes such as quality of life were also a component to early ambulation…

able to walk, but sometimes the achilles tendon is just too short and they have to perform surgery. When I was six months old I was brought to a hospital called Shriners in Massachusetts and the hospital performed the surgery on me for free. When the surgery was finished I had to stay in the hospital for nine days while my feet healed. After I left the hospital I still had to wear my casts for another two months. My feet caused me to have a late start to walking. I didn’t start walking until I…

I feel that the preoperative briefing that took place before the patient arrived is what allowed the team to work so well in this emergency case, all of the details that was known about the patient was shared to the entire theatre team, with enough time to be able to prepare and collect all the appropriate equipment that was needed but also equipment that was possibile needed so that all avenues of care was covered and prepared. Bethune (2011) stated that teamwork, communication, and efficiency…