Patient

The patient that I was able to spend time with had a long list of comorbidities, some of which include, type 2 diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and coronary artery disease. However, the patient had very poor adherence to the treatment recommendations for these diagnoses. Once diagnosed with heart issues, the patient did not attend any appointments at the hearts doctors and eventually presented back to the emergency department for heart complications. The patient also…

physician you treat all kinds of patients each and every day. Some of those patients are an absolute joy, and some are… rather challenging. Here are the 10 most common types of patients and ways you can manage them effectively. 1. The Needy Patient Not only do you need to treat their physical ailment, you need to treat their emotions with kid gloves. They are super apologetic when they come in to see you, expressing their knowledge that you have more important patients to see. Though it can get…

It is not necessarily all patient safety issues are attributed to failure to communicate between physicians, nurses, and other disciplines. For example, in the hospital where a nurse gives a wrong medication to a patient, this cannot be attributed to the failure in communication. This example is the nurse mistake for not checking the five rights of administering medication. However, a patient safety is compromised when staff failed to communicate properly with each other. Failure in…

providers and patients is the cornerstone of high quality, patient centered care. A caring attitude to the patient’s psychosocial/emotional needs is an important aspect of the patient experience and one that receives the greatest emphasis in the literature. Patient centered care is associated with higher rates of patient satisfaction, adherence to treatment and psychological and physical functioning. The impact of communication is likely to be influenced by contexts, settings , patient…

The primary ethical issues to consider in this case are to keep the patient alive or to remove them from life-support. This is a more difficult case, then it sounds as the health care professionals have to choose between what the patient, who may have brain damage says, which is no, I want to be on life support. Or going by the words of two close friends and a doctor that has known the patient for 7 years, who both say the patient isn’t able to consciously make this decision because of her brain…

Quality Improvement and Patient Safety The Institute of Medicine has released a report to transform U.S. health system by emphasizing the six aims of improvement for the hospital setting. These six aims are safety, teamwork and collaboration, patient centered care, evidence based practice, quality improvement, and informatics (Cherry and Jacob, 2014). Safety can be implemented through minimizing risks factors. For example, patient with fall risk can be on eye sight and provide to wear a…

Patient flow is the progression of patients from the time they enter the office for a visit until they exit the system by exiting the office after a visit. Some of the events that take place during a visit includes, checking the patient in, collecting payment for services, rooming the patient, examining the patient, prescribing medications, ordering test, and checking the patient out at the end of the visit. Some steps occur no matter what system the office uses, whether it is a paper-based…

These included topics like communication between the physician assistant and his patients and also between his co workers. The PA whom I shadowed showed good communication for most of the time. An example where his non-verbal communication lacked was when he was with a patient there were times when he would be looking at his computer and typing while the patient was explaining their problems instead of looking at the patient. Overall, his verbal communication was excellent. There was a time when…

In fact, hospitals are slow to implement change, their patient flows are inefficient, and they need to increase patient and employee satisfaction and revenue while decreasing costs and waiting times (Parr 2010). With respect to the cost of care, the speed of service, crowding, and patient safety, the need for continuous improvement processes in emergency departments is now commonly recognised, since competition between hospitals has increased ("Hospital-based emergency care; at the breaking…

Advocacy Patient advocacy is a board area in health care with areas of concern with advocacy for carers, patients and survivors. A patient advocate can be an organization, or an individual who is concerned with different group of disorders. The meaning of patient advocacy and advocate can mean single advocates issuing services that companies can provide, and spread out to independent patients. Patient advocates can work for institutions and they are responsible for the care of the patient.…