The English Patient

Health care today is ever changing and keeping up with the demands of technology and our society. An estimated 10,000 baby boomers are retiring each day and this trend is expected to continue. With this surge from the baby boomers comes increase need in the health care communities and how keep the doors open on a lower reimbursement rate from Medicare. Leaders in health care have been preparing for this surge and the environmental culture change for employees. There has been an increase of…

Acute care service is a level of health care in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness, for conditions that are the result of disease or trauma, and during recovery from surgery. Acute care services are usually delivered by a team of health care professionals from a range of medical and surgical specialties using technical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and medical supplies. The acute care settings include but are not limited to the emergency department, intensive care…

choice in how they will die it diminishes the emotional toll that dying can put on a patient and their family. The very emotional toll that terminal patients go through and the feelings of becoming a burden can be significant. They can have fear of being in acute or chronic pain with their particular disease or worry about becoming baffled and not capable of making their own choices anymore. Terminal patients also are concerned with being reliant on outside care services (Ohnsorge, 2014, p.…

emotional, experience for both the patient and the caregiver. There has become increasing awareness of this issue, which is evident in the amount of hospital readmissions of hospice patients. Researchers addressed this issue with an article titled “Rehospitalization of Older Adults Discharged to Home Hospice Care,” (Goldenheim et al., 2014). The article focuses on readmission within 30 days for adults over the age of 65. Goldenheim et al. stated that 20% of hospice patients are readmitted…

Careers in healthcare requires many people in different occupations to work together effectively to deliver safe and reliable care. The overall goal of these activities is to promote teamwork in the healthcare to provide high quality of care to patients and to improve the motivation, communication, and morale of healthcare professional. There are three main types of team building activities: communication, problem solving, and trust building. These activities will work on team building skills…

The time spent between a patient and provider is indicated by provider started and provider completed on the timesheet. There is also an area labeled resident start and completed that may demonstrate when a resident or other staff not previously mentioned would make contact with a patient. Excel as well as a time and date web page was utilized to analyze the time of each area which included NP for new patient and FU for follow-up for the particular provider and day. To differentiate between…

diligence I am for involving in medical research and having patient care experiences. My career destination to be a medical doctor is waiting ahead of me. My persuasion of becoming a doctor has sparked from my losses of family members. My determination became perseverant after I shadowed doctors and assisted patients in hospital. During the years of pursuing to become a doctor, I realized it is nothing more than a pure pleasure to comfort patients and make their days better. Acknowledge of…

delivery of quality and safe patient care. Three essential leadership skills a Registered Nurse requires to be able to deliver effective quality and safe patient care include effective communication, patient centred care and continuous professional development. This will be shown throughout this essay by reflecting upon personal reflections, interviews from Dr Lucy Cuddihy and journal articles. Dr Lucy Cuddihy explains nursing leadership as something that can empower patients and staff, can help…

Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is defined as a suicide that has been facilitated by a physician who is aware and provides the patient with means and information to conduct the suicide.1 Currently, there are only five states in the United States that allow PAS either through the mandate of law or through the mandate of court ruling.2 Despite being legal in Washington, reports have been stated that PAS program is rarely used.3 If such, what is the purpose of legalizing PAS then? Hence, my…

Population The patient population that will be focused on in this assessment is an adult surgical unit. This surgical unit has 30 beds. The surgical unit provides care to a wide variety of patients that include general surgical patients to trauma patients. Half of the unit is designated for general surgical patient care, and the other half is for surgical intermediate patient care. On the general surgical side, the nurse ratio is 5 patients to 1 nurse. On the surgical intermediate side of the…