Patience

Critical care is a component of acute care, and it aims to treat patients who require high or constant levels of monitoring and support. These patients are often in life threatening positions, and are cared for in Critical Care Units (CCUs). Patients who enter critical care can be split into two groups, planned and unplanned admissions. A planned admission may be a patient undergoing an intricate elective surgery who requires one to one monitoring peri-operatively. Unplanned admissions can be…

Not So Delirious The moment my volunteer supervisor assigned me to the Delirium Prevention Program I thought my semester was going to be filled with numerous encounters of elderly and crazy patients especially since being delirious being in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication. This state of mind is characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. I hoped that volunteering would give me a chance to understand what the hospital…

Strategies to Minimize Falls in the Hospital Fall in acute care setting is being an ongoing problem. Many people come to the hospital for one thing but ended up staying a lot longer than expected because of a preventable fall. Most insurance will not pay for other problems that the patient acquired while receiving care in a hospital. Therefore, the hospital has to spend thousands of dollars for fall related injuries. The fall prevention program has been used by many other hospitals throughout…

Balance of Power Is pertinent to note that FMHN is different to mainstream mental health settings. Some of the most confronting issues were violence, hostile attitude and behaviour posed when working with forensic patient. At times, some clinicians/nurses have found it too threatening to discuss their own responses to a patient’s crime with other staff members, and have remained silent. The patients’ crimes had a significant impact on the ongoing development of the therapeutic relationships…

Have you ever wondered what it was like for the employees of a ConvenientCare Center? While searching for job Shadows, I was given an opportunity to job shadow at one of those centers. I was excited to see how they function compared to a normal doctor’s office. My boyfriend's mother is a nurse practitioner. Although she could not provide me with an interview, she did help me to set up a job shadow through her work. Donna Shaffer helped me to get my first job shadow, through the Heritage…

their behaviors. When patients are admitted to WBI they get an evaluation by an advanced practice practitioner or psychiatrist with a follow up brief assessment by a psychiatrist. During the admission process all patients are assessed for an increased risk of aggression. In treating aggression it is important to keep all people safe; other patients, staff and the patient who is aggressive. WBI has a policy to use hands on only if the patient is at immediate risk of harming themselves or…

On Thursday, October 26th, it was very disappointed not being able to assist to my last rotation at First Choice. For these last two rotation it was a very enriching experience to work with patient at this location. It was nice to feel what it is like to see a patient in a real life setting, where you do not have to report to the instructor continuously, and fill out all the paper work we have to do as student at Lincoln College of New England. From this experience I take the importance of…

My personnel strengths during this clinical experience included my ability accept help when I feel like I am struggling. I am so grateful that we are learning to pitch and support each other. My biggest limitation for this clinical experience was that I am still struggling with time management and organization. This week I had 2 patients and I felt in control until something went wrong with my first patient and I had to spend more time in that patients room than I had planned. I had a hard…

Throughout this paper I will explore and analyze various reasons as to why the 28-year-old patient has the right to refuse the PEG feeding tube surgery along with further medical treatment. Although this refusal has lead her medical team to feel guilty, proper information and respect of autonomy must triumph over personal emotions. One may argue that the doctors in her team took an oath to do no harm, however prolonging her suffering and overriding her wishes is a form of harm to the patient.…

Venipuncture procedure Vennisa Arredondo Brookline College June 13, 2017 Venipuncture procedure Today I will be discussing how I would take the proper steps in a simple venipuncture. I will be discussing the supplies I will be using. And discuss proper introduction. First before anything I will go over the patients chart to check if there have ever been any issues with the patient during any blood draws and I will also make sure to take the patients age and if necessary if the patient has…