Penetrating trauma

All staff working with sharps has a duty of care to ensure that sharps are used safely and disposed of safely, in a way that will not place co-workers or patients at risk of receiving a sharp injury (Work Health and Safety Act, 2011, p 26). So what are sharps? Sharps are a medical term used to describe equipment with sharp points or edges that can puncture or cut skin. Examples of sharps include needles that are hollow and are used to inject medication in through the skin, syringes used to inject medication into the body or withdrawing fluid from the body, lancets, auto injectors such as insulin pens and infusion sets (Fda, 2015). Working with sharps poses a risk to the staff member as well as the patient. This is because an unintentional sharps injury, which causes a wound to the person where the sharp has punctured the skin and the possibility of cross contamination, this will cause the person in question considerable anxiety because of the fear of contracting diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and C as well as other diseases such as tetanus (Koutoukidis et al, 2013, p 376). As an Enrolled Nurse working in a clinical area safe handling practices of sharps and disposal of sharps will reduce the risk of a sharps injury. Each work place in health industry will have a policy on sharps and safe disposal, as an Infection Control Representative the Enrolled Nurse has the responsibility to educate and provide training to new and old staff on these policies.…

Blunt Trauma Wounds Outline Overview of blunt trauma wounds Types of blunt trauma wounds: Brief explanations of type and wound dating methods • Abrasions • Contusions • Lacerations • Fractures of the skeletal system Overview Wounds are injuries that result in skin breakage or any other body tissues. In this perspective, wounds may be classified based on the type of object that causes the wound. A blunt force may cause an open or closed wound. Blunt trauma or non-penetrating trauma refers to…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Have you been through some traumatic event in your life and sometimes continue to dwell on the event? If you do this could be the cause of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This effects many thousands of people throughout the United States and the world. People who have greater risks for PTSD are first responders and Military personnel. According to the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, for every ten men, six of them will experience one…

With the long-term deployment of United States military forces in several regions of the world, has led to new challenges for military members and their families. The constant deployment of a parent or a spouse to a combat zone has developed a challenge not seen in over a decade. Deployment is defined as any assignment away from the service member’s home, whether it is overseas or within the United States, or during peacetime or wartime. The effects of wartime deployments go past the average…

Client Identification: Peter Sheridan is a 46 year old, straight, married male that is employed as an insurance agent for a local insurance company where he once reside. He attended and finished high school and college in the United States of America. His family composition is composed of Thomas, who is 14 and on the report was shown a girl named Miranda or Megan, who is deceased at age of 1 year and 5 months I assumed. He is not the biological father of these two children. Their mother and…

this can also vary from individual to individual. Military spouses are not the same once their service member comes home either. Just as their spouse has changed so have they. Maybe they were once dependant on their spouse for certain things when they were home. In their absence, they have learned to cope and deal without them. This is also another factor in social effects, people change. Sometimes we change so much, we aren’t even the same person. The same can be said for children,…

Generally speaking, most people associate Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with military personnel and war veterans. However, more and more frequently, traumatic stress syndromes are associated with extraordinary traumas such as travel accidents (plane, car, train, etc.), workplace accidents, violent crimes, and witnessing violence or horrifying incidents. My mom is not a veteran and is diagnosed with PTSD based on early violence in her life and I’ve seen, first hand, how this trauma has…

The Vietnam War The Vietnam war was the first war that the United States of America lost. This war was one of the bloodiest that the United States had fought since the civil war. A total of around fifty-eight thousand Americans were killed, three hundred fifty thousand were wounded, and two thousand were captured as Prisoners of War. The Vietnam War was utterly devastating for our troops and potentially for our country. Robert J.McMahon states in his book, Major Problems in the History of the…

Nasiri Khoozani, E., & Hadzic, M. stated, that the idea of stress in psychology describes the organism’s adjusting physiological, cognitive and behavioral reactions to difficult, and unsafe environments. There are so many different types of stress that it is difficult to put the findings and issues together because there are so many different meanings to all of these types of stress. For example, there is work stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, school stress, family stress, etc. All of…

There is no age, sex, or time limit in which someone can get PTSD. Second, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is accompanied by several symptoms. I’m going to categorize the symptoms into three different categories. The first category consists of re-experiencing symptoms. When a person has PTSD, they will have flashbacks of the event that caused the disorder. In their mind, the traumatic incident will replay itself over and over again. During flashbacks, it is very likely that a person will…