The English Patient

selecting a brochure as the communication medium will be provided. The paper will begin by highlighting the purpose and objectives of the brochure. Brochure Purpose The brochure was developed with the intentions of providing families of critically ill patient with a guideline for open visitation within the Critical Care Unit (CCU) at Guelph General Hospital (GGH). Providing families with visitation guidelines clarifies family member’s visitation rights, and…

people. I have had a long journey that has led me to this exiting point in my career which has included full time work and full time school, learning English language and adjusting to a new culture. This journey has made me who I am now; a very dedicated health care provider caring for patients, striving to provide quality care and being the patients’ advocate at all times. I am extremely interested in learning new things, because life for me is a learning process and I thrive every day to…

(Table 1) (Hussein, & Abou Hashish, 2016). More than that, a study was done about the Work-Related Injuries, and Abuse Histories shows, that 62 % of nurses are experiencing verbal or emotional abuse from a patient and 44% from a colleague. It shows that, 32% of nurses reported physical abuse by a patient, whereas only 1.4% reported physical abuse by a colleague. 34 % reported a personal history of emotional or verbal abuse and 10% a history of physical abuse (Figure 2) (Tucker, Harris, Pipe, &…

medical personnel and their Hispanic patients due to cultural differences. I learned how we can significantly eliminate these barriers through experience and gaining more knowledge about their culture. Relating to this, the patient finds a way to adapt and cope with these attempts. Their coping and our efforts to make the patient feel more comfortable all play essential roles in the efficiency and thoroughness of a Hispanic patient’s doctor visit. The first patient that we interacted with was a…

Multiculturalism is important in nursing because healthcare providers like us are faced with greater proportion of patients from various ethnic groups. Galanti explained that the United States hospitals are trying to achieve the objective of having a diverse staff, serving diversified population. Since the United States is well known for the modern technologies when it comes to healthcare, people from various countries with different cultural backgrounds come here to seek medical treatment.…

Szasz and Hollender (1956) correlated the physician- patient relationship in activity –passivity model with the relationship between an infant and a parent and guidance co –operated model correlated with a parent and an adolescent child model. That is in activity- passivity model the physician took decision for the patient, who is completely inactive and in guidance co-operative physician will tell the patient what to do and later the patient will comply or obey. Here in this study the…

providing the treatment needed, but to consider the whole patient. As a nurse treatment, should not just include treating the physical body but a holistic approach. Using a holistic approach will improve the wellbeing of a patient. Although many nurses are busy, it would be more beneficial to the patients if a nurse took a moment to consider how the emotions the patient is facing. Caring can also include thinking about the well being of a patient only. In the nursing setting it can be difficult…

First provide health care and must be offered quality care to all patients. Another solution is excluding the language barrier by employing interpreters because is communication is fundamental for example having a translator during the process would make everything much simpler and easier and the patient would leave happy. For example In Chapter five Bernardo one of the people Holmes wrote about. Bernardo was suffering from chronic,…

encethpathcy and alchloc abuse. Patient was in Rapu for two days. In the first day of hospitalization, nurse stated Mr. A attended to push nurse during the care. Patient was altered but no verbal response to staffs and not follow nurse's instruction, and vital sight was stable. Mr A was NBM with IV fluids admission moreover IDC was inserted due to flight transfer and he was on cardiac monitor for pvc. The recent…

teaching students to excel in the delivery of primary care. When I worked at Jumpstart, most of my students, in addition to living in a low-income area, spoke English as their second language. I improved their oral language skills and phonological awareness within a social environment. Accommodating linguistic differences inspires me to heal patients as well as motivate them to become independent agents of their health. My goal, as a primary care physician, would be to improve the dissemination…