Johns Hopkins Hospital

I was very excited to come to Spartanburg Surgery Center because I want to be an OR nurse. I started out in PACU and learned a lot about what they look for in patients who have just come out of surgery. The PACU nurse monitor their patient for an average of 30 minutes. During this time they take vital signs every 5 minutes, monitor the patient’s level of consciousness, their color, and any other adverse effect. Before the patient can leave PACU they must receive a score of at least 8 out of 10.…

Richard Lanning is working at a Behavioral hospital with volunteer patients to assist involuntary patients. But coping on the job is not possible for him as he is suffering from seizure disorder. He is constantly fighting against this disease until he won the battle. It is really in a tough situation to live life on a daily basis with the fear that he could have a seizure anywhere, at any time, in front of anyone. No matter how well adjusted or how well he is trying to control the stress, he…

The first aim for improvement listed in the article was Safety, this is also probably the most important when it comes to saving patients’ lives and coincide the most with the Joint Commission’s safety goals. The “safe” aim for improvement is to avoid injuries from care (Wolfe 2001). This can be done by making sure to identify patients correctly using two identifiers. It can also be done by using medicines safely. Medication safety is improved by using the three checks when administering…

early hours, pill-popped, and attracted a string of unhealthy and abusive relationships. In short, I completely abused my mind and body, believing it was the only way to pay my rent, travel, and make friends. This abuse eventually landed me in the hospital where I was told, point blank, that I would die unless I changed my ways and fast. That process of changing took several…

In response to our many telephone conversations and email communication, please accept this letter as my formal demand for settlement in the above mentioned matter. As requested, I have calculated the lifetime costs for eyeglasses, contact lenses, contact lens supplies, and travel to and from appointments. You will find these totals at the end of this letter. This is with MMC paying for all medical costs, supplying my prescription eye drops, and any additional travel relating to my eye injury as…

Research Paper In 800 BC plastic surgery first started as a reconstruction correction surgery. The word plastic in plastic surgery came from the Greek word plastikos which define to mold or to shape. The person who invented these techniques was a Roman scholar, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, who had recorded surgical techniques, including plastic surgery, in the first century AD. The first plastic surgery ever done was in 1977. That time it wasn’t a well known thing because very little…

Cindy, I liked how you wrote out the workflow to show how the patient moves within the PATA department during their appointment. The California Healthcare Foundation (2011) recommends process mapping, a visual representation of all the steps in a workflow, as a tool to help with detecting where processes intersect and where inefficiencies occur. Additionally, the movement of the patient could also have been diagramed out on the floor plan provided by McCarty, Gallien, and Levi (2012) to…

Avi Weisfogel has started a GoFundMe campaign to benefit Operation Smile. This is an organization that performs free surgeries for children who suffer from facial deformities, such as cleft palate and cleft lip. The goal has been set at $2,000. Avi has stated that Operation Smile gives children hope. Operation Smile was started back in 1982. Ever since then, 220,000 free surgical procedures have been performed on children with facial deformities. The organization also helps local medical…

Basis department, and primary care teams. The interventions are 1) notifying primary care teams with 72 hours of Non-VA care notification regarding Veterans’ admission to ensure adequate post-hospitalization follow-up 2) scanning the Veterans’ Non-VA hospital discharge summaries & medical records into VA’s Computerized Patient Record System within 24 hours of receiving the record from Non-VA facilities. Data regarding the Veterans’ admission diagnoses, Non-VA facilities’ admission dates, dates…

however it was difficult to monitor infection and control practices. Since the number of people in the aging population greater than 65 is increasing more people are requiring the use of long-term nursing facilities as well as home health agonies. Hospital beds has on the decline, at the same time long term care setting continue to increase (Moro, Gagliotti, 2013). The challenge long –term care facilities continue to face are infections and antimicrobial resistance. Patients of LTCFs, are more…