will prepare you for employment in one of these venues: * Hospitals * Long--Term Care * Nursing Home * Physician's Office - general practitioners, pediatricians, chiropractors, and dozens of specialists * In-Home care * Senior Living With the aging population, insurance companies are beginning to cover more preventive care procedures. Medical commerce is gearing up for preventive care as opposed to treatment care. New healthcare businesses are popping up, hired by employers of every type of…
Lindsey is a 33yo, G5 P3013, who is currently 18 weeks 0 days as dated by a 17 week scan. She has a history of opiate abuse but is currently in a Subutex clinic on 8 mg b.i.d. This is weaned down from 2 ½ tab daily. She does want to wean slowly throughout the pregnancy. She had no PNC until one week ago when she presented to the emergency room for significant vaginal bleeding. At that time they told her she was in the process of a miscarriage. She had some bright red bleeding throughout the…
collaboration between these disciplines is becoming more common. With collaboration and with increasing complexities of the patient 's medical conditions, communication between these healthcare disciplines is crucial for the effective delivery of medical care for the patient. Weller, Boyd, and Cummin (2014) points out, "With increasing complexity and even more specialization of skills, the current healthcare environment…
Patient Advocacy The nurse management issue I observed most on the Labor and Delivery unit at Mercy hospital was nursing advocacy and patient rights. There were many situations where nurses advocated for patients or for their fellow colleagues. During one evening I observed an Obstetrics physician and nurse advocating for a patient to receive a local anesthesia instead general, because the antepartum patient 24 weeks 4 days, gravid 1 para 0, in preterm labor. Prior to advocating to the…
allowed to care for her husband ADL's. Subsequently the caregivers failed to follow up on the care the father was receiving from his dementia wife.…
practice and presentation of the key elements of the selected theory Self Care Theory of Nursing Dorothea Orem’s Self Care theory of nursing is made up of three specific ideas. The three ideas are the theory of self-care, the self-care deficit theory, and the theory of nursing systems (Peterson, Bredow 2013). Several of the major ideas within the theory include that people distinct individuals are responsible for their own care. The person’s own base of knowledge is very important when it…
or understand, one another, even in unfortunate situations. Beauchamp and Childress state that “sympathy enables us to enter into, however imperfectly, the thoughts and feelings of another being (Beauchamp & Childress, 2009, p. 92).” The Cultural Care Theory describes how cultural elements influence the way look at and go through health, illness, and treatments. “Cultural humility is a process of inquisitiveness, self-reflection, critiquing, and lifelong learning (Fahlberg, 2016).” Cultural…
baby boomers grow older and are no longer able to care for themselves, the need for a nursing home will increase. Not only is oral care in a nursing home a problem, several reputable authors have labeled it as “deplorable.” Regardless of the legislation declaring that residents receive oral care, there has not yet been a system put in to place to monitor this. There have been many reports in the US describing how horrific “the delivery of oral care is, including lack of toothbrushes and other…
America. By 2030, it is expected that older population will represent almost 20% of the total population in the U.S. (Ortman, Velkoff, & Hogan, 2014). There is an increasing preference among the older adults for aging in place versus living in a nursing home or move in with a family member (Lamm, 2015). Farber, Shinkle, Lynott, Fox-Grage, and Harrell (2011) reported that almost 90% of older adults aged 65 year or above wants to age in place because they want to grow old and continue to live in…
When developing a care plan for Mr. Brownlee, it was crucial to not only incorporate the nurse’s knowledge of numerous methods of diabetes and stress management, but also to combine Mr. Brownlee’s opinions and beliefs in regards to the goals he would like to meet during this health journey. These goals included checking blood glucose levels twice daily, finding more time for physical activity, healthy meal planning, avoiding unhealthy snacking, and implementing coping methods to assist with…