Rebecca Nurse

Leadership and management are an integral part of every nurse’s job, from staff nurse through to those in official executive roles. Management responsibilities such as organising, planning, delivering and evaluating care are activities that a nurse will enagage with every single day while at work. With an ever-limited and aging workforce, a decrease in available resources, a more acutely ill patient population and a profound period of change within the National Health Service (NHS) today’s…

LOOK BACK As the Pathotherapeutics course reaches its end with only one test left to pass, I, however, feel very uncertain whether I succeeded in this course or not. The material covered in the course was not new or difficult to understand, in fact, I believe, I took very similar course during my Practical Nursing program. I did learn some new treatment options for disease and refreshed my previous knowledge; I generally satisfied with my progression in the course; however, the unknown mark for…

Introduction I currently work as a self-harm practitioner in a multidisciplinary community team which provides treatment for people who self-harm and have diagnoses of personality disorder. In my current role I have opportunities to work therapeutically with patients both on an individual basis and in groups. I enjoy being part of this multidisciplinary team and participating in the experiential group. Coupled with knowledge of theoretical concepts and frameworks I feel that this has greatly…

Pearce and Nair (2015) agreed that blood pressure is the pressure exerted by blood within the blood vessel. The systolic blood pressure is when the heart contracts and diastolic when the heart relaxes (Timby 2009, p 199). In addition to this, Miller ( 2010, p 4 - 5) states normal systolic blood pressure is 120 mmHg and diastolic 80 mmHg. I placed the cuff above patient's right anti-cubital fossa when I realized I was not supporting her arm; therefore, I made her comfortable by placing a pillow…

A 2 month-old female patient underwent surgery for left eyeball enucleation due to a household accident and was referred to Araçatuba Dental School for rehabilitation with ocular prosthesis. The anophthalmic socket of the patient were examined, and an atresic cavity was observed (Fig. 1), requiring gradual increase with an acrylic expander. For this, the anophthalmic socket impression was obtained using dense silicon (Express; 3M ESPE, St. Paul, Minn, USA). The mold was inserted into a flask…

Day 2 I discussed my treatment activities with my CI at the end of the first day. I chose to educate my 33 years old female patient who had a history of BKA, Diaebeted, and came in for R Metatarsal amputation on transfer because I heard she just had her surgery done and also went for dialysis. I knew she can’t do much with moving around due to other things going on with her. I also did UE exercise in preparation for functional mobility of propelling her W/C. Likewise, she was educated on dynamic…

Becoming a paramedic has been a passion of mine since observing the calm and competent professionalism of a team of paramedics attending to my father. The Ambulance Service to me is a prestigious group of people who excel at demonstrating care, compassion and commitment to their service users. The role of a paramedic is continuously developing to maintain a high standard of pre-hospital care, the use of the HCPC Standards of Proficiency helps all paramedics achieve excellent levels of care and…

Ivy Meredith is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) at Bridgepointe Health Campus. She deals with death from time to time as a part of her job. During this devastating time, she must prepare the death certificate and call for the funeral services to come get the body. While she waits for the funeral service, she will do a physical assessment of the patient’s condition. She will notify their family and physician of the death. She will also document the findings of her assessment and notification in…

Nouf Alzahrani 3/4/2016 Shadowing Experience I arrived at Radiation Therapy Department at 8:15 AM and Bicklein introduced me to the staff. Moreover, Bicklein showed me the department and explained the uses of each machine. Then, I shadowed Sally until 2:15 PM. I believed that this shadowing experience was a positive experience because I observed educated people who have a good hand on experience and they were willing to answer my questions. The place was divided into many rooms: physicist…

Q: Tell me about your organization. Blair Wagner: Medicalodges is a skilled nursing facility. In 1998 Medicalodges employees acquired the company making it the first long-term care facility to be 100% employee owned in the U.S. Medicalodges owns and operates over 30 facilities in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and we continue to be in acquisition mode. Medicalodges is located in Holton, Kansas and is a 70 bed facility. Approximately 60 -70 % of Medicalodges residents comes to us from a…