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Essay A Paternalism is a situation which the decisions or actions of someone are made by another person, in attempts to keep their safety or best interest at hand. (Vaughn, 2013, p. 71). As a Registered Nurse I have seen instances of medical paternalism, such as a mental health patient deemed as a harm to themselves and/or to society. Patients in this situation are “pink slipped”, allowing the physicians caring for them to make all necessary medical decisions to aid in their treatment back to…

Introduction: Individuals should seek appropriate and timely medical attention to facilitate early intervention and management of any acute illness or chronic disease (Jin, Sklar, Oh, & Li, 2008). Participation and compliance with prescribed medical treatment is often crucial in preventing further complications and has proven to significantly affect prognosis and best outcomes (Dang, Giordano, & Kim, 2011). After implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the question still persists: What…

The focus of this assignment is to look at and analyse the mental health and illness aspects of people in our community. Using a case study of a mental health presentation, explore the research and critical thinking related to the assessment and pre-hospital management of mental health patients. Exploring the pathophysiology, signs and symptoms of several mental health illness and critically evaluate the pre-hospital assessment and management and compare this to best paramedic practice.…

Opportunities for Improvement for PCS Using Lean Management and Six Sigma Principles: Throughout the year’s healthcare organizations have increasingly used the Lean Six Sigma principles to improve operating efficiency in their organization to better deliver care to the patients (Poksinska, Fialkowska-Filipek & Engström, 2017). The Lean Six Sigma was originally used in manufacturing businesses as a strategy for improvement by increasing performance that inheres to better customer satisfaction…

American patient, Jay was extremely hesitant since that was the first patient he got to see. He even stated, “I don’t know a heck of a lot now inter-clinically, about what to do and when to do it.” He also said that, “the patient treated him more or less like a doctor but you are going to fumble and are going to be hesitant. You’re sort of afraid…

placing his mom in a day program; however, he is feeling apprehensive about it. Alzheimer’s is a slow progressing disease that has no cure that progressively decreases ones impairment. Cognitive changes that can be expected with Alzheimer’s, like Henry’s mom, can be loss of memory, they often show forgetfulness in things that they have done, where things are placed, and even names of people. Disorientation, they often get lost, or are unable to keep track…

Ethical dilemmas commonly faced in the nursing profession arises when nurses are at crossroads with moral ideologies and competing demands of miscellaneous parties—that is, the client’s desires, the physician’s orders, the family’s demands, bureaucracy of the hospital, the law, and the nurse’s physical and emotional limitations (Chambliss, 1996, p. 93). One common ethical issue encountered in clinical settings is the interjection of advance directives to the nurse’s innate duty to care.…

I can still remember those words, ‘When you are a clinician, you are saving a life, but when you are a public health personnel, you are saving thousands of life at a time’, delivered by my professor at the orientation class of undergraduate community medicine course. That introductory speech was so motivating that I thought for a while, should I be in the ‘thousands life saver’ group? But that speech alone was not sufficient to grow my interest in public health. Day by day I was feeling the…

A Day in the Life of a Traveling Health Care Worker, Cameroon Reflection 2 1. Who is the narrator of the case study and why is she holding the meeting? The name of the narrator is Christy Ngam and she is a traveling health care worker employed by the Cameroonian government to teach people about family planning. She holding the meeting because, it is used by travel Cameroonian government health care worker, and her job is to provide education on family planning for those living in remote and…

I feel like this is a big problem with the practice in this day. A lot of times I see the nurses I spent the time with spent more time on the phone or computer than the time they take to do the task they needed for the patient. I was also always hearing stories about how even after the nurse would see her last patient she would go home and spend hours on filing claims and documentation like recertifications. I feel like this is a major thing affecting patient care…