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In hospitalized patients, call light systems have become the most effective form of communication with their healthcare providers. An active device such as the call light, is supposed to be a critical component of patient safety as well as satisfying the patient’s request. In researching articles, many problems were described in how the patient’s perception of effective communication with healthcare workers played a vital role in the patient’s use of call lights. Other articles researched had…

1. What CHPCA guiding principles did you see enacted? • GP1. Family focused – when Lee takes over providing Marvin, her father, with care after Bessie was not successful at finding a bone marrow donor. • GP4. Accessible – Bessie and Lee were able to provide their father with at home care. • GP7. Knowledge-Based – upon realization that Bessie was sick with leukemia, her physician, Dr. Wally suggested that she take chemotherapy treatments to manage its metastatic behaviours. 2. What CHPCA…

complications with a patient adhering to her medication regimen. This incident provided an opportunity for self-reflection that encourages growth in my future practice, ultimately improving my care towards patients. Look Back/Elaborate During my second semester working on the general medicine unit, I was assigned to care for a patient…

and/or interprofessional team to work together to achieve optimum health for an individual you are caring for. At Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services we deal with many participants working with individuals in the home and in the community. A large amount of our patients have mental health and/or developmental disabilities and require or have a large team working together. An individual may have a case manager, guardian, home provider, PCP, neurologist, cardiologist, gastroenterologist,…

enhancing patient care and adequate outcomes. Staffing levels continue to intensify daily especially now that the baby boomers age and the demand for healthcare services grow. This paper will discuss the legal responsibilities of both nurses and hospital administration when poor nurse to patient ratios are cause for serious medication errors. Many ethical issues arise when the dangers of understaffing cause unsafe working conditions for nurse’s and compromise the patient care they…

saved the health care industry 3-6,000 lives and approximately $414 million in ICU's in 2009 alone. To this day, many hospitals are now reporting zero CLABSI's. This has been accomplished by best practice recommendations made by the CDC, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, to implement a "bundle" approach to prevent CLABSI. The IHI defines a "bundle" as a group of evidence-based interventions for patient care that improves care…

Allen, D. (2001). Review article: Nursing and sociology: An uneasy marriage? Sociology of Health and Illness, 23(3), 386-396. Retrieved from http://0-proquest.com.sultan.tnstate.edu/docview/60401206?accountid=14275 In this article the author spends a lot of time explaining how nursing and sociology go hand in hand. The article tells how nurses in hospitals and doctors’ offices need to approach their patients a certain way and how they nurse-patient relationships are viewed. In the article, it…

Case Study #3 (10 marks) A paralyzed comatose client who was the victim of a hit-and-run driver is maintained on a respirator and TPN. The neurologists agree that the client will never live a “normal life.” Prolonged management/support/care will exhaust the family’s financial and emotional resources. The family consists of a husband, who is an engineer, and two high school-aged children who are exceptionally bright and who plan to enter university after high school. The family has asked the…

patient care possible. It would be great to get a patient’s, vital signs, heart monitoring, lab values and other diagnostics on one screen, rather than looking at multiple things. Bedside sonogram machine These sonogram machines are the new “stethoscope”. With the help of these sonogram machines, one can not only auscultate the various body parts but can also look and can see the various pressures within the body. This is a unique piece of equipment, which can give health care providers more…

medication education. The project’s impact will be evaluated through the comparison of pre-project and post-project patient satisfaction scores in the medication communication category as reported on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)…