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room because her eye was ten times worse and the left side of her head hurt. After a few checkups the doctors were able to diagnose her condition. The fact that she had to get surgery twice depressed her. Due to the fact that my aunt is someone who cares a lot about her appearance she felt odd with one eye looking grey and another brown. Oftentimes people would ask her why her eyes were different colors. My aunt is someone I love dearly and look up to, seeing her have to go through that pain…

did my clinical at a nursing home. There, I observed many opportunities for learning and growth in long-term care. With the permission of my instructor, I explored around and had a little time to communicate with the senior citizens. I continued to make observations and found that communicating with the elderly presents difficulties that impact the CNA’s ability to implement routine care. Communication barriers can create stress and tension between CNAs and senior patients. These barriers are…

Healthcare-Associated Infections definition Healthcare-Associated infections are patients’ infections that happen when the patients are receiving treatments in a health care setting for health issues either medical or surgical condition. There are many places where healthcare-associated infections can happen such as hospital’s inpatient care, outpatient clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, nursing homes, end-stage renal disease facilities, and rehabilitation centers (Health.gov, 2016). Types of…

drops in your eye to make the eye numb and to make it easier to see what part of the eye is injured. If the glue was inhaled into your airway, your throat and airway may need to be examined with a long thin instrument called a bronchoscope. Your health care provider may also order a chest X-ray to find out where the glue is in the airways. TREATMENT Treatment for this condition depends on the part of the body affected by the superglue. If your skin is stuck together: A solution may be used…

In How Doctors Think by Jermone Groopman, Groopman takes an in depth look at the clinical problems in health care such as misdiagnosing and inappropriate treatment given based on poor communication, and cognitive errors. As a trained physician Groopman, saw there was a problem in listening to the patient closely and observing their symptoms carefully. There is a huge disconnect between doctors and patients which forces doctors to deal with the task of having to determine the patients diagnoses…

over its competitors as the preferred treatment facility for service members in the NCR. This is so because it is the only exclusive military treatment facility in the NCR that can cater for all their healthcare need whether it is routine or specialty care in one…

Underserved communities are the group of people who has been treated unequally because they have insufficient funds to cover their expenses, they have medical problems, or they have been discriminated against. According to the American Journal of Managed Care, underserved community include, “. . . [E]conomically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, the uninsured, low-income children, the elderly, the homeless, those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and those with other chronic…

Patient safety remains one of the most critical and enforced points in the healthcare system today. Patient safety can be defined as the prevention and avoidance of errors or injuries in the process of providing care. Some major patient safety problems recently found include, but are not limited to, medication errors, the spread of infection and even inaccurate documentation. Nursing is always changing and has always focused on maintaining patient safety and integrating new concepts of keeping…

Developmental Age: Growth and Development According to Erickson’s developmental theory, patient is in Middle adulthood in the Generativity vs. Stagnation stage. Erikson argued that when adults focus too exclusively on the dependence of their children, they may forget about the importance of their own dependence on the next generation (Jensen, 2014, p.166). During this stage adults suffer from changes in their physical state such as andropause and some of the health concerns at this point are…

told me all about AMed* hospice, the entire team a patient has and my adaptive role as a volunteer. Besides learning everyone’s role, the most important pieces of information I was given pertained to the status of my patients. Because it’s Hospice care, all persons enrolled must be diagnosed as having less than 6 months to live. My supervisor informed me that we have some who have lived over a year and some die the same day they get enrolled. I learned the signs of death over weeks, days and got…