The following case study is on a 26 year-old male whom is a paraplegic and has developed one pressure ulcer on each buttock whom was looked after by the writer on November 26th, 2012. Client Demographics P.L. is a 26 year-old male that was admitted to the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC) in Prince George, British Columbia. In 2008, he was shot in the neck, and was rushed to UHNBC. He was then transferred to Vancouver to undergo emergency surgery.
RTT1 Task 1 Carmen Miranda-Maze Western Governors University RTT1 TASK 1 In this scenario several hospital employees provide care for a 72 year-old male retired rabbi patient. The patient was admitted with a broken hip, he is restrained and during his stay he was given the wrong meal tray. Nursing-sensitive indicators such as pressure ulcers and patient satisfaction will be addressed. These indicators can be addressed and measured by the hospital through collecting data pertaining to pressure ulcer prevention and Press Ganey scores for patient satisfaction. The ethical issue of the wrong food tray will be addressed by using the appropriate referrals and resources.
4. A 68-year-old male presents to the office complaining of pronounced weakness on the right side of his body and slurred speech for the past 24 hours. Based on the examination, the physician orders an MRI to investigate a possible transient ischemic attack (TIA). The range of codes that would be used for this patient would be Codes 390-459 because the treating physician ordered and MRI to rule out a transient ischemic attack. These codes are for Diseases of the Circulatory System 5.
Jackie Bright Hesi Pt Review: metabolic acidosis. A 20-year-old man hospitalized with Crohn's disease You are a nurse in a large medical center, on a medical-surgical unit. Jackie Bright, 20 years old, has been a patient for the past two days. Jackie has Crohn's disease and for the past week has experienced nausea, anorexia, abdominal pain, and severe, bloody diarrhea. He was severely dehydrated, anemic, and malnourished on admission.
My artery was 95% blocked and I was in the hospital for a week (VA does everything slow) so I could get a stent put insert to open the artery. The artery that was blocked was called a “widow maker”; because once the artery closes you just drop dead. During the week I was in the hospital I was also
He had been on the waiting list for a liver since he was born. After waiting 24 years on the waiting list he died a slow and horrible death that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. His skin was bright yellow like he was glowing, and so were his eyes. He was in agonizing pain, and had to go through dialysis to filter his blood. I have seen what the effects of not having enough organs in surplus for the people that actually need them.
Nichole Feitz 9/18/2012 "Embedded: Reader Response" "Embedded" is the story of a man named Barry Corbet who was left paralyzed after an accidental helicopter crash in 1968. In the story he describes what it's like to be paralyzed and have to spend his time in a nursing home. After years of using his arms and shoulders as one would use their hips and legs, Corbet is required to undergo a partial shoulder replacement. After several attempts to change his fate, Corbet is forced to face the inevitable and spends his recovery time in a nursing home. While in the home Corbet intensely describes how deprived and vulnerable one can become when all independence is lost and freedom is stripped from their enabled bodies.
Corporal Capelli finds his body and saves his life. Hale wakes up from a medically-induced coma in a field camp in Cocodrie, Louisiana and finds that it is six weeks later; the Chimera have overwhelmed the American defenses, killing over 80 million people, and forcing the 3 million remaining survivors to America's last stronghold in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Even worse, Hale also discovers that because he went so long without the inhibitor, his body had succumbed to the virus, and he has only 3
"It's all in a day's work..." is a frequent response. However, clinical depression is common especially for people who play a role in high profile rescue efforts. A few examples include Robert O’Donnel of the Midland Fire Rescue, Texas who pulled 18 month old Jessica out of a deep well. O'Donnel never recovered from that incident. He became an alcoholic, lost his job, his family and in 1995, about seven years later, he committed suicide with a shotgun (Lunsford, 2002, Babinek, 1997).
I am thankful to be RWJF scholar. The experience that captured my desire to become a nurse happened in 2010 on the campus of East Carolina University. I was sitting outside the campus student center when a middle age man collapsed, right there, in front of me. I immediately responded and effectively performed CPR until the EMS team arrived 15 minutes later. It took between five and seven minutes for the man to regain pulse and respiration.