Hospital departments

the hospital for care. They typically operate in teams with one person serving as an emergency vehicle operator while the other continues to provide life-saving emergency care to the patient en route to a medical facility. The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians describes four categories of emergency medical practitioners:…

Employment and Pre-Conditional offer of employment questionnaire on May 17, 2018, he was terminated on 2/10/2017 from Banner University Medical Center while in probationary status. His Supervisor felt the position was not a good fit for him. One department complained about not being responsive enough,…

During the last two weeks at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the Emergency Department I have had a taste of the fast and the effective pace of the Emergency Department. Learning from my field educator: Amanda May, I have been exposed to a range of scenarios which include: Bipolar disorder, abortion, child protection, domestic violence, homelessness and post traumatic stress disorder. In doing so, throughout the two weeks I have picked up on four common themes: Homelessness, Child Protection,…

I once had an encounter at work with an elderly foreign woman at the hospital. As I was introducing myself to an emergency department patient to bring them to radiology, this elderly woman nonchalantly walks into the patient’s room. I assume she is a friend of the patient, but I quickly learn that the patient has no idea who this elderly woman is and is asking her to leave. All the while, the elderly woman is speaking to us indiscernibly due to her heavy accent. So I excuse myself from the…

According to the Health Service Executive’s National Clinical Guideline No. 6 (2014), Sepsis is “the clinical syndrome defined by the presence of both infection and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)”. Each hospital should have its own sepsis protocol, however it should meet the standards expected by the guidelines set nationally. “Sepsis is common and is a time dependent medical emergency”, HSE’s National Clinical Guideline No. 6 (2014). According to this national guideline,…

a.m., the Fayetteville Police Department received a 911 caller about a shooting that occurred in the area of Cliffdale Road and Prestige Blvd, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28314. The caller advised someone was in his vehicle shot and he was going to the Hospital. 2. At approximately 1:52 a.m., A silver Acura with North Carolina Registration EJT1785 pulled into the Emergency Room Entrance of Cape Fear Valley Hospital. Officers from the Fayetteville Police Department made contact with the driver…

having state and federal officials can reduce the burden on emergency department by expanding patient access to private health insurance, separating emergency services planning from hospital planning, promoting private-sector alternatives for urgent care, and freeing hospitals to specialize in nonemergency medical care, (O’Shea, 2007). By implementing a policy with these rules it’s a huge advantage to have the emergency department and rescue in functional standing. Lastly, a reform made by the…

My current clinical assignment is at St. Joseph’s Candler Hospital from 8:00am to 4:00pm in the main department. Technically, I have completed my second week at clinic, and overall it went very well. I completed one successful competency within the first week of my assignment. The competency was of a portable clavicle performed on a two-week-old infant. The purpose of the exam was to detect any fractures in the clavicles from the birth procedure. The exam included two views of bilateral…

demonstrated in the introduction and the problem was identified: Consistent catheter care was not being provided to patients with indwelling urinary catheters at the hospital where the study was performed. This was leading to the hospital having a higher-than-average number of patients contracting a…

the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), that rewards acute care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care provided. Hospitals are rewarded based on three district measures; the first is the quality of care provided to Medicare patients, the second is how closely clinical best practices are followed and the third is how well patient care experiences were during their hospitalization. Hospitals are no longer paid based on quantity but because of the incentive payments…