Palliative care

are a variety of floors and services offered at UMC, ranging from ED, obstetrics, med-surg units, psychiatric services, intensive care units, and trauma units. 6 West is a medical intensive care unit (MICU). University of Louisville has several ICU’s in the hospital with a variety of specialties, however the MICU is unique. The MICU takes all patients who require ICU care, but don’t fit another…

What is health to a patient with cancer? In order to examine and understand the role of nurses within healthcare and what brings them to be described as ‘healthcare professionals’, a definition of ‘health’ must first be established. There is no universally agreed definition of health (Waugh et al. 2008); possibly the most widely used definition comes from The World Health Organisation (WHO) (1948); they defined health as “being the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not…

Having recently completed the largest expansion projects in its history, Summerlin Hospital Medical Center now includes pediatric care services to their Pediatric Care Unit (PCU), advanced cardiac and surgical procedures such as open heart and robotic surgery services. The expansion also included the addition of a six-story tower that contains 173 additional private patient rooms, an expanded emergency…

Doctor @ Home Conflict: EI Competencies of Manager: An Analysis I am hereby trying to make analysis of an interaction that i closely observed at my work place. Context of the Situation: Doctor @ Home is a service that the management of Callhealth was always skeptical about. The base model of CallHealth is to provide healthcare leveraging the advances in Information Technology and Telemedicine. The business model included many verticals aiming at providing everything about health @ the comfort of…

death and dying are not dissimilar to Western but have unique aspects and it is important that nursing professionals are aware of and understand the process and cultural aspects of death in Aboriginal culture in order to provide culturally sensitive care to the patient as well as their family and community. The purpose of this essay is to explore some of the practices involved in Indigenous Australian death and dying in order to encourage awareness and understanding. It will discuss the decision…

In nursing there are a lot of aspects that are taken into consideration. One of the big ones happens to be end of life care. EOLC is seen all around the world, in which the nurse must work with the patient and their family as a unit and care for them as they enter this part of their lives. The nurse must prepare them spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically for what is going to happen. There are other areas in nursing that through research can help create a new opportunity for nursing…

foundation of knowledge core to provision of health care to the patient. In the recent past, practicing nurses have been trained to ensure that they listen, involve and inform the patient about their progress in the care they get in what is now known as patient-centered care. The patient-centered care according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) relates to provision of health care to a patient in a respectful way in a manner that shows that the care responds to patient’s needs, values and…

Teaching Clinical Ethics Using a Case Study: Family Presence During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Ainslie T. Nibert Crit Care Nurse 2005;25:38-44 © 2005 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Published online http://www.cconline.org Personal use only. For copyright permission information: http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/cgi/external_ref?link_type=PERMISSIONDIRECT Subscription Information http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/subscriptions/ Information for authors…

patients. In the case of Mrs. Bernardi, the two nurses should not talk aggressively regarding care plan in front of her. Eventually, it will make a bad impression on Mrs. Bernardi and her family and they would not trust on the care that is processing by nurses. They would ask more question and would not confident about the care plan. However, in spite of talking aggressively, nurses should be assertive to change care plan for Mrs. Bernardi. However, it is very helpful to being assertive in the…

Figure 11: MRI-LINAC at Sunnybrook Canada (Ref 12) Photo of the project during setup and installation (Ref 15) First patient (Utrecht): The first clinical application was very simple case which is the palliative treatment of spinal bone metastases. This allowed to test the geometrical accuracy of the system on real patients. The vertebra is easily visualized on the integrated megavoltage imaging system and allows for accurate comparison of field co-ordinates with MRI co-ordinates.…