Nail care

many operational procedures would be too dangerous for a nurse anesthetist to perform. The anesthesiologist is an important part of preoperative procedures and the operating room. An anesthesiologist is a doctor that specializes in anesthesia care, critical care medicine, and pain management(American Society of Anesthesiologists). These doctors also possess the knowledge to understand and treat the human body . This expertise however, is required to have fourteen years of education and over…

health-care worker, caregiver or person involved in direct or indirect patient care needs to be concerned about hand hygiene and should be able to perform it correctly and at the right time. WHY? • Thousands of people die every day around the world from infections acquired while receiving health care. • Hands are the main pathways of germ transmission during health care. • Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measure to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and…

particular stood out to me the most is when one of my patients gladly offered me her dinner as a “thank you” for my assistance. The day started out pretty normal, I took my patient’s vital signs, assessed for her LOC and performed a hair, skin and nails assessment. After performing all those assessment, I asked if she needed anything else, and she said “Yes I would like to go the bathroom. Would you help me up?”. I asked one of my colleagues to help me transfer her, as she is a 2x person…

The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate the ability of a nurse to provide safe and individualised nursing care to Margaret Evans as per the given fictional clinical scenario. She was 45 years old, a single mother and had been working hard to meet the needs of the family. She had a history of smoking. She presented symptoms of cold and cough for more than 72 hours. The symptoms became worse, as she struggled to breathe and was unable to stand on her feet. Therefore, she was rushed to the…

observe and use it when the individual educes his/her own methods. Although it may take more time for an individual to do any particular tasks, avoiding over dependence on the caregiver or other staff or other persons is one of the main goals of the care assistant jobs. There is a reason to believe the individual undergoes a deep loss of self-confidence when it is about the individual’s dependence on other person’s assistance to keeping clean their body parts, skin, hair, mouth, etc. I keep this…

In order to understand and assess how to interact with a patient and create a caring and healing environment an interview was conducted and will be analyzed in this paper. For the sake of anonymity we will address the patient with the pseudonym, Alyssa. Alyssa graduated from culinary school in New York almost two years ago. This being said, Alyssa loves to cook and therefore owns many high-grade kitchen tools such as knives. One day while preparing dinner for herself and her two roommates, for…

to his past in Africa. The narrator tells that those two places not are very alike; in the hospitals in England, most people die surrounded by family and a syringe pumping heroin in to their veins, unlike in Africa where he used to smell the sweet nail-varnish odor of starvation and other smells of human suffering. When he describes the hospital in Africa he describes very negatively “There might be a protracted labour or difficult caesarean in progress and I would scrub up and work in thick…

provide the essential and efficient service care to the patient. A methodological approach is used to get the comprehensive information about the patient, firstly by obtaining the chief complaint and secondly by taking out all the complaints and problems he/she suffered from. Questions related to the patients - Patient Name: - Date: - Last, First MI (Preferred Name) - Gender:…

Thus, it alerts healthcare professionals and allow early detection of hypoxaemia in patients that requires prompt treatment. PO has become an essential tool that widely used in monitoring patients’ clinical conditions in intensive care, perioperative care, emergency care, acute and sub-acute healthcare environments (World Health Organization, 2016). A recent study has confirmed that use of PO is associated with substantial reduced incidence of hypoxaemia in preoperative period (as cited in…

involved. Finally the paper will argue how the nurse’s attitude and behaviour can be changed such that the patient will be receiving both safe and adequate care. Body 1 (300ish) The video, Crossing Professional Boundaries as a Registered Nurse in Australia (Donovan, H, 2015), revolves around Nickie an extremely unprofessional nurse and her care, or lack thereof for patient Ashleigh. The negligence Nickie shows throughout the clip shows not only unprofessional practice but also endangers the…