Patient

Current patient information is vital to proper diagnosis and treatment. The advances in maintaining essential information for healthcare has greatly improved over the last several years. The computer technology that has been developed to not only store but also update a patient’s information has greatly benefitted patients to assure the most accurate information is readily available to their health care provider. While I feel information sharing has great impact on patient care, it can also be…

Today, customizing patient care is paramount to the patient themselves when it works for the patient. However there are times in which the standard of care for a certain treatment is the way to go while at other times the treatments may have to customize for a certain group or a certain culture of people because of their general make-up. Due to the blessings and the miracle of modern medications, the standards of medical practice has prevailed more times than not. But even at its best, there…

Religious and cultural factors are important considerations in appropriating patient care. Faith and spirituality form the basis of meaning and purpose of life for many people. Differing factions have special and oftentimes very specific requirements. For example; Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and Muslims express cultural concerns about modesty regarding treatment by someone of the opposite sex (Ehman, 2012). Another example would include the fact that Jehovah’s Witness does not believe in the…

A patient navigator can be an asset to a health care clinic. Their job focusses on providing the ins and outs of the health care setting. They apply knowledge that helps patients to navigate the healthcare system and receive the timely care they require. When patient navigators started being utilized in clinics and hospitals, they were solely used for cancer care. Now that is has been shown that patient navigators are a vital part of the healthcare team, they are being used to help patients with…

Boarding Patients in the Emergency Department When you think of circumstances within the hospital that can put patients at an increased risk for adverse effects, boarding in the emergency department (ED) is typically not one of them. Boarding patients within the ED is holding patients who have been admitted as in-patients but they do not have a bed available to them on the floor. This is a common practice. It is also a practice that increases risks for patients and alternatives should be…

D-The patient AWOL yesterday due to the need of going to the hospital. The patient provided this writer of her discharge summary from St. Francis as the patient was diagnosed with Fibroids and a fever. The patient is prescribed with ibuprofen. This writer informed the patient that she will not be dosed immediately as any hospitalization will have to address with the clinic's TEAM and the patient has to be medically assessed. The patient is willing to comply with the term. Please note, the…

student had the assignment to assess a patient on a critical care unit. This assessment was done using the Synergy Model, which concludes with the assessment results. The Synergy Model was created by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) because all patients have needs, no matter the severity of their health state. The more critical the patient, the more care they require from their healthcare team. The Synergy Model helps to match the patient to the competencies of the nurse.…

DOI: 5/28/2012. Patient is a 64-year-old female home attendant who sustained injury when a client put her motorized wheelchair in reverse and it ran over her right foot, pushing her up against the wall. Per OMNI, she underwent a right knee arthroscopy with partial medial and lateral meniscectomy, chondroplasty, synovectomy and joint debridement on 03/18/13. Based on the progress report dated 03/03/16, the patient is currently on PT 1-2 times per week. He complains of on and off lower…

Accounting for Patient Preferences/Individuality, Setting and Clinical Expertise The main point of providing options to patients it for their individual preferences. Sometimes in when patients are taken from their homes and places in to hospital or nursing homes they lose their independence (cite). This loss of independence can cause depression or anxiety (cite). This might be able to be changed if nurse can provide patients with options that are individual to them. By giving a patients a…

before office hours. This training will be spread out over two mornings before the clinic opens to patients. There will be no overtime and we will be providing breakfast for the staff. This training will be conducted by Nancy Drew and will include use of the STEADI assessment tool, The Get Up and Go test, and the 4 Stage Balance test, as well as training the patient care coordinator to included patient questionnaires and to ensure that it is filled out correctly and documented in each patient’s…