The Way Home

no longer have to waste time talking to the multidisciplinary team members about the patient’s status. But now, new technology has made this impossible takes possible. I will provide and explore the need for implementing a change in the nursing homes facilities from paper documentation to digital charting throughout the paper. Also, I will explore the solution and propose for implementing the change. The nursing…

Dingers For Days “It’s a great night for baseball, the sun is going down, there is a slight breeze but it’s not strong enough to affect what the baseball is going to do. It’s the bottom of the 9th, the TIgers are down by one and Carter Ace is up to bat. He’s got two strikes on him and the next pitch is thrown and it looks like there’s heat behind it…..CRACK! It's going, going, going, and it's gone! Carter Ace hits the game winning dinger. The L.A Tigers win the championship game in regionals,…

A major role of practicing healthcare professionals in today’s society is their moral and ethical approaches to a patient’s overall care. In this specific case, Martha Rogers, an 85-year-old gerontology patient, was admitted to a psychiatric unit of the hospital due to confusion and increasing irritability. Following evaluation, healthcare providers found she was dehydrated which may have caused some of the symptoms that she was undergoing; Mrs. Rogers, however, became calm and cooperative with…

postpartum care. Midwives give prenatal care; prenatal means before birth-.,so giving prenatal care is to give care to women during pregnancy. During the prenatal period, midwives must determine an EDD (estimated date of delivery). There are two ways to determine the EDD: Naegele’s Rule and Nichol’s Rule. The EDD is just an…

feelings etc. to someone else.” (Merriam- Webster, 2015) Volunteering at Mountain Care Facility has provided me with a real world perspective into how communication can be expressed through many modalities. Learning and making real- life connections goes way beyond just sitting in a classroom discussing and studying it, learning really happens when you see communication occurring and fully experiencing it first hand. Communication is something we as a society take for granted, and spending time…

Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…

scholarships stems from the perfect platform it provides to pursuing the interest I developed in Nursing whilst in Senior High School. During my Senior High School days in Ghana, my class visited the sick in some hospitals and upon seeing their agony and the way some nurses were maltreating some of the patience, I said to myself, I will become a nurse to offer comfort and care to the sick. I noticed during my interactions with some of the sick especially the aged how comforting and healing…

There are many ways a you can help your loved ones from beyond the grave. Planning ahead for death and the process of dying will reduce stress and leave time for loved ones to grieve. Allowing someone the rights to make healthcare decisions on your behalf is a legal written document called Durable power of attorney health care. This person is able to speak for you in situations where you are unable. For example, if a person is in coma or too ill to understand or speak for themselves, then they…

Music is something that everyone in the world can relate to. All cultures, races, and religions listen to music. The main way that people listen to music now is through their phones or with their computers. Anytime there is a social event, there is music playing in the back ground with the use of speakers. Speakers are the technology used today for most of your music needs because they can be connected to any type of phone. There is nothing worse than when you are at a party and suddenly there…

Popculture Portrays Children As Being Carefree When I was growing up, I remember being reckless, and not having a care in the world. I didn’t care about getting hurt or getting in trouble because I did not know many dangers of the world. I would do whatever my older brother and his friends told me to do. I would always end up getting hurt if they told me to do something such as them swinging me back and forth by my hands and…