They will be taken into account as much as possible throughout your hospital stay. Make sure your doctor, your family and your care team know your wishes. Understanding who should make decisions when you cannot. If you have signed a health care enter the hospital, you sign a general consent to treatment. In some cases, such as surgery or experimental treatment, you may be asked to confirm in writing that you understand what is planned and agree to it.
This helps reduce the chances of providing unnecessary treatments or tests on a patient, and helps in diagnosis of a patient. You will also find encounter notes that are filled out by the physician, nurses and/or medical provider. These notes on this form help the physician, nurses, and medical providers to keep up to date on the last treatments, visits, and medications that were previously received. In these records you will also find consent and directives forms. These forms are for the patient to sign stating they acknowledge their rights under HIPPA and the Medicare acts.
Now looking for a suitable position with an ambitious and reputable employer. WORK EXPERIENCE Personal care Local Hospital – Coventry Risk management HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT June 2008 - Present Working under the supervision and with guidance from qualified nursing staff to provide high quality nursing care to a group of patients. Providing care for the benefit of the patients comfort and well being during their stay in hospital. PROFESSIONAL NISSC registered First Aid Certificate Duties: Delivering care as delegated by the qualified nurse & other staff. Providing care to patients under the direct supervision of Registered Staff.
• Assisted intubation procedures, response to high risk deliveries and C-sections, and displayed appropriate medical documentation • Answered questions and informed patients’ families of medical standings of patients using the correct medical terminology Medical Assistant- Naval Medical Center San Diego| Dec 2011- Current * Schedule patients for health care appointments * Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs. * Turn or reposition bedridden
To avoid misunderstandings, close contact with the multidisciplinary and primary health care teams should be maintained. Discharge planning in practice Discharge planning at The Royal Marsden Hospital is carried out by clinical nurse specialists for community liaison. They aim to provide a holistic service that meets the needs of patients with cancer in both the hospital and the community. The extensive treatment that many oncology patients receive often makes them quite ill and they may need a 'trial' discharge to assess whether they can manage at home. Patients and carers are consulted throughout the discharge planning process.
Assessment is a systematic process using a rational method of planning to identify a patient’s health and any actual or potential problems that need to be met and to provide interventions to meet those needs. (Berman et al, 2010) A comprehensive assessment establishes a database of information relating to the patient including visual observations during initial interview including, skin condition, cloths, hair, hygiene, demeanor and presence of pain etc. During the interview the nurse should gather family history and both subjective and objective data to establish baseline data as a reference point and an indicator to the effectiveness of interventions. (Berman et al, 2010) Subjective data is what the patient thinks, feels and believes and can also be referred to as the symptoms including itching, pain and worry or anxiety. Objective data is measured during the physical examination; it can be seen, heard, smelt, felt, observed, tested or measured against an excepted standard, including: skin color, bowel sounds, blood pressure, temperature, level of pain, urine analysis etc.
There are two careers in which I find interesting, Obstetric Nursing and Forensic Nursing. Obstetric Nursing An Obstetric Nurse (OB nurse) has many responsibilities when it comes to taking care of a mother and child. An OB nurse helps doctors with the care of pregnant mothers before and after birth. OB nurses usually help with preparing the delivery room, prepping the patients, preparing instruments, caring for a baby immediately after birth, explaining after birth care to new parents, and keeping track of family members and partners who are present before and after the birth. To become an OB nurse there is certain training that you must go through.
Ensure the continuous evaluation of the quality of care given and regular reassessment of the needs and support of the service users in consultation with the service user, their relatives and the care team and to achieve planned goals. 4. To maintain accurate written documentation as instructed by the Home Manager and as defined by the Care Standards Act 2000. 5. Ensure effective communication is maintained with health care professionals and the Social Services Case Managers.
However in most cases, the nurse will be responsible for the daily care of a patient. Including administering medication, setting IVs, giving shots, updating patient records, providing emotional support, patient education, basic diagnostics, and other patient procedures. (RN job descriptions) The purpose of a doctor is to make people well-conditioned. When people get ill, doctors figure out why. They examine people, listen to them talk about their health problems, and do tests to figure out what is wrong.
A. Advance Quality Patient Care Patient quality of care can be advanced throughout the hospital by active participation of staff with the use of nursing-sensitive indicators. It can be accomplished by educating staff of what nursing sensitive indicators are, how they help improve the quality of care, and how they impact nursing care. For example, pressure ulcer incidence is one of the indicators, and it involves the amount of ulcers that develop during patient hospital stay (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.). The staff should know that it is an indicator and needs to be reported to the appropriate personnel so that it can be tracked.