Assign appropriate E/M codes for the following five cases: • Initial consultation is performed for a 78-year-old woman with unexplained weight loss, abdominal pain, and rectal bleeding. A comprehensive history and examination is performed. This patient is a new patient and it is necessary to get the patients health and family history. Since the patient is a new patient she needs a comprehensive amount of data. It is very important to get the history to figure out what may be causing these symptoms.
WGU Accreditation Audit RAFT Task 2: Root Cause Analysis of a sentinel event A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of a sentinel event is completed to immediately investigate and respond to possible inductions involving the death or injury of a patient. (Joint commission, 2013). Purpose of this report - To execute a Root Cause Analysis for a Sentinel Event occurrence at Nightingale Hospital. Sentinel Event - Child Abduction Date of Issue/Incident – Thursday September 14, at 12:30 PM Background of Issue/Incident - A three year old female patient was brought to Nightingale Hospital by her mother for an outpatient surgical procedure. The mother asked the pre-op nurse how long the procedure would take, because she had to tend to another child and would need to leave for a short while.
Running head: SENTINEL EVENT ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS 1 Sentinel Event Root Cause Analysis Kalleen Campbell Accreditation Audit Task 2 April 20, 2013 SENTINEL EVENT ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS 2 SENTINEL EVENT ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS 1. Identification of Process This report was received regarding an event that requires investigation: The pre-op nurse told the mother that once Tina went to the OR, her surgery would take about 45 minutes and then she would go to recovery and she would be there at least one hour. The mother told the nurse that once Tina went to the OR, she needed to run a quick errand involving an older sibling and would return in time to pick her up once she got out of recovery. The mother gave the pre-op nurse her cell phone number with instructions to contact her if Tina got out of surgery sooner than expected. Tina’s mother returned to pick her approximately 2 ½ hours later and found that Tina was discharged 30 minutes earlier.
A cross sectional study was conducted at the Outpatient Department of Ziauddin Medical University, Kemari Campus, from June 2008 to December 2008 to obtain information about the cause of early termination in breast feeding. Mothers of children age range birth to two years attending the outpatient department of pediatrics participated in the study by filling out a
You are looking at her electronic medical record and note she has missed several of her quarterly MD appointments. You ask her why she’s missed her appointments lately and she states: “I know all about my disease and the drug therapy” a. Mary’s phenytoin level is 8.5 mcg/ml. What does this mean? How may this level have occurred? b.
Gina knew that prenatal care should start before getting pregnant, but she did not know the medical system in the U.S.A. Therefore, she only went to see a doctor after eight weeks into her pregnancy. Gina visited her obstetrics and gynecology doctor once a month until the 8th month, around the 32nd week. After 32 weeks, the doctor asked her to visit every two weeks. She visited her doctor every week after the 36th week until the labor.
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
She has attempted two outpatient treatment programs, the first of which was voluntary and the second referred by Child Protective Services. She did not complete the program that was referred to her and as a result, she is under strict guidelines upon seeing her children. Janet has also been admitted into one court-ordered inpatient program for ninety days, of which she also did not complete. The end result was that her probation was terminated with the following out of her sentence of six months in Pinerras County Jail. Janet had since been released and had re-offended after a period of only a few months.
New Grads’ Program in Nursing Summary of the Article I chose the article, “Nurse residency program empowers new grads,” written by a Registered Nurse, Taylor Keasler, about the orientation program for new grad nurses in University of Tennessee Medical Center that she had participated on. According to Taylor, the goal of the program is to bring together the new grad nurses form different schools, with varying degrees and backgrounds into a group that will provide a solid foundation to be able to successfully incorporate knowledge and skills into the nursing field (Keasler, 2013). She elaborated the components of the program such as medical-surgical orientation guidebook, Basic Knowledge Assessment Tool (BKAT); medical-surgical,
The instruction in pelvic floor exercises provided to women during pregnancy or following delivery Linda Mason, Sheila Glenn, Irene Walton and Carol Hughes Objectives: to examine the instruction in pelvic £oor exercises given to women during pregnancy or following delivery, to assess the quality of any instruction provided, and to consider these in light of the women’s views about the service. Design: a postal questionnaire was sent to a sample of women when they reached 34 weeks of pregnancy and a second at 8 weeks postpartum. A sub-sample of women who reported symptoms of stress incontinence at 8 weeks postpartum were interviewed about the instruction in pelvic £oor exercises that they received during their pregnancy, or in the puerperium. Participants: of the 918 women who were sent the ¢rst questionnaire, 717 returned it completed (78%). Five-hundred-and-seventy-two of 894 women (64%) completed the second questionnaire.